Baux looks at the webs, then the rats.
Rubbing his beard, he says “Lot of webs, but they don’t seem that thick. Are ya thinking there’s some sort of monster made them? I figured it was just lots of little spiders and too much time.”
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Kruppe looks sadly at his prized fish, and then the webbing. Box and Kruppe will soon see if this creature is pescetarian!
He steps forward and tries to throw the halibut as far as he can!
It lands in the webbing at his feet.
"One or a lot, better they be busy eating rats we killed than us," he says just before Kruppe tosses a dead fish.
"Huh," he grunts and waits.
The halibut sends a tremor up and down the webs and something begins to stir in the northeast corner of the cavern!
Biltri
Kruppe
Baux
Dethor
???
Box and Kruppe will soon see if this creature is pescetarian!
Baux gives a baffled look. “Pescitarian? Is that some sort of weird bull creature?”
Then the fish hits the webbing and he sees something with too many legs stirring in the corner.
He raises his shield and comes up beside Kruppe with his war hammer at the ready.
It very well could be, but Kruppe hopes not! Bovine are well-known chargers, and valiant Kruppe is exposed here on the front line! As an ecclesiastic of the Starsong would opine, it would be unlucky indeed!
Nevertheless, Kruppe picks up his prized halibut. Its fail flops against Biltri 's arm and Kruppe apologizes with one of his sesquipedalian phrases.
With his free hand, Kruppe blows his nose with his handkerchief.
Biltri draws his axe back out of his belt and marches forward. Once in the middle of the cave, he raises his shield and prepares for the spider's assault.
Dethor's javelin hits the spider squarely in the abdomen and it chitters in anger!
The spider then moves down its web and tries to bite the nearest target, aka Biltri.
+ Giant Spider Venom!
Biltri Fort save needed
Kruppe
Baux
Dethor
Spider
Bold may act!
Biltri moves his shield in defense, catching the spider's fangs with a clang. One of the fangs punches through the edge of his shield and lodges in his arm.
"Ouch! Feisty one!" he shouts. "Stings, too."
He pushes the spider's weight back and hacks at it with his axe before raising his shield to protect himself again.
Baux raises his shield and moves up to the spider. He moves far enough so as to make it easy for Dethor to get into a flanking position on the other side.
Worried about the poison, he then provides Biltri a little divine guidance.
Kruppe is concerned about the poison too, and wondering how to make his Physical Boost spell better because six seconds is not enough!
He moves for a clear shot then points his halibut at the spider! Frost shoots out of the fish's open mouth!
–10-foot status to Speeds for 1 round if crit, which this was!
The watery blue ray freezes one of the spider's thing's eight eyes! Kruppe and his trusty hippoglossus will eradicate all pestilential arachnids!
Biltri swings twice with his axe, but both attacks miss.
Baux moves into position for a potential flank with Dethor and casts guidance on Biltri.
With the help of a halibut, Kruppe shoots a well aimed Ray of Frost that nearly kills the spider!
The spider squeals in pain, but lives!
Biltri
Kruppe
Baux
Dethor
Spider -14
Dethor is up!
Kruppe waves the halibut at the spider-guts splattered all over the place.
Kruppe wonders if, perhaps, that was excessive. Showy? Undoubtedly. Garish? Some may say so. More important to Kruppe are his comrades. He hopes Biltri can recover from his arthropodic malediction rapidly. For now, Kruppe can do nothing to minister, and so he will observe.
With incredible precision, Dethor skewers the spider, making it very dead.
Out of combat!
Inside the spider’s lair, Baux and Dethor find a wrapped-up bundle of bones and dried skin that looks like it was some sort of small, reptilian creature!
The reptilian creature has a few items of value: a non-magical shortsword with a small emerald in the pommel, and a healing potion that restores 1d8 Hit Points.
Kruppe would have expected another Brobdingnagian rattus (or two) wrapped in this deinopidae's silk. A chromatic tetrapod such as the common Kobold on the other hand would be quite odd indeed. Is.
“Excellent work, Dethor!”
Turning to Kruppe, he replies “A lone kobold, here? That does seem strange.”
He puts away his hammer and gets out his healing kit. “Let me see that bite. I want to make sure you are alright, Biltri.”
Shaking his head, he says “Will need to use magic on this wound. Do you want me to do it now, or wait?”
Kruppe would not mind harvesting chanterelles.
Kruppe harvests the mushrooms, which are edible but bitter, although nothing Kruppe's culinary skills can't overcome should he apply himself to the task.
After the web-infested cave, the passageway leading deeper underneath the streets of Otari appears to be mostly natural, but someone, or something, has worked to open the cavern and level out the floor, making the passage easy to travel.
A crude barricade made from old wooden planks and part of a barrel blocks the entrance to a side tunnel, while the main passage continues off into the gloom.
Baux, Kruppe, and Biltri hear a faint clattering noise coming from somewhere beyond the barricade. The area is totally unlit, but with darkvision you can all see the tunnel beyond the barricade opens up into a larger room ahead, with a large rectangular object in the middle.
"Eh. All bleeding stops eventually," Biltri remarks. "But if we're going to run into more kobolds, maybe I should do something about it sooner."
He eyes the barricade with a dwarf's eye. "Might try to take it apart. What do you think's down that way?" he asks pointing at the continuing tunnel.
"Something that knows tools. I could smash this with my hammer if'n you don't mind the noise..." He gestures towards the barracade with his war hammer.
Kruppe likes puzzles. It would be a pleasure to carefully take it apart.
“Sounds better than my method, Kruppe and Delthor. Go ahead.”
After enough time has passed, Baux checks Biltri’s wounds again.
Dethor stealthily and quietly takes part the barricade!
"Alright. Let me take the front," Biltri says and trundles back to the barricade.
Beyond the barricade, an old cavern corridor winds down into the earth, ending in an ancient burial vault lit by a strange torch with a blue flame.
Alcoves line the walls, each one containing a rotten wooden coffin, while the center of the room has a raised platform holding a stone sarcophagus.
The lids to the coffins slide aside as soon as you enter!
Dethor
Kruppe
Biltri
Baux
Skeleton 1
Skeleton 2
Skeleton 3
Skeleton 4
Zombie
Bold may act!
Baux tries to recall what he knows of such creatures. While he is pondering that, he gets his shield into position so he is ready to defend himself.
"Ah! Yes! These are worth the effort!" Biltri shouts as the coffin lids slide back. His eyes gleam with excitement and he grins ferally as he rushes into the middle and takes a swing at the fleshier of the rising dead. "Come and get me, skinny bones!" he shouts as he takes another swing at the rising zombie.
Kruppe blows his nose and accidentally brushes the hanky against Biltri's axe. The moist silk transfers Kruppian magic to the blade, and it now glows with potency!
Kruppe then moves back from the frightening undead. His voice shakes. Kruppe is an excellent manager; in universities the world over, it is taught that the most talented leaders watch from the back lines so as to view the whole field like a chessboard, so as to better command the field. Knowledge is power. Thus, Kruppe will wait where it is safe, here in the tunnel.
"Sounds good, Kruppe!" Biltri shouts back once the academic dwarf finishes his soliloquy. "More for me!"
Baux isn't sure about the zombie, but he recalls that skeletons are immune to mental effects, and are resistant to piercing and slashing damage.
Kruppe makes Biltri's axe magical!
Biltri's first swing slashes the zombie and does even more damage than expected (-16 hp instead of -11!) His second swing then shreds the zombie to pieces! (An additional -16 hp of damage!)
Dethor
Kruppe
Biltri
Baux
Skeleton 1
Skeleton 2
Skeleton 3
Skeleton 4
Zombie (Destroyed!)
Bold may act!
"Great work, Biltri! Gonna warn ya though, hard ta cut or puncture skeleton bones. Might want ta switch ta a bashing weapon!" He hefts his own war hammer as he says this.
Dethor's first attack misses skeleton #4, but the second attack hits! It doesn't look as though all of the damage went through, but it is enough for the skeleton to crumble!.
Zombie #1 shambles around the sarcophagus and tries to claw at Biltri!
Zombie #2 shambles toward Baux and attempts to claw him twice!
Zombie #3 moves toward Dethor and tries to claw twice!
Dethor
Kruppe
Biltri
Baux
Skeleton 1
Skeleton 2
Skeleton 3
Back to the top of the round!
"Hey! I'm fighting you!" Biltri steps between the skeletons and sweeps his battle axe toward two of the skeletons.
Baux raises his shield and then swings at the nearby skeleton with his war hammer.
"Time to break things up!"
Biltri swings and misses both skeletons #1 and #2.
But Baux swings and smashes skeleton #2 to pieces with his warhammer!
Dethor
Kruppe
Biltri
Baux
Skeleton 1
Skeleton 2
Skeleton 3
Dethor and Kruppe are up!
Kruppe basks in the destruction his Magic Weapon has wrought.
The joys of strategy.
He blasts a ray of frost at the nearest skeleton (#1) (probably has cover).
–10-foot status to Speeds for 1 round if crit
Dethor tumbles through, but his attack misses.
Kruppe blasts skeleton #1 with a ray of frost, but it seems to resist the cold damage!
Skeleton #1 tries to claw Dethor!
Skeleton #3 tries to claw Biltri!
Dethor
Kruppe
Biltri
Baux
Skeleton 1
Skeleton 3
Dethor and Kruppe are up!
Blast! Tactics dictate Kruppe should have prepared more than one type of deadly cantrip, but his expansive brain is already brimming with other spells! No option but for Brave Kruppe to step to the front lines.
–10-foot status to Speeds for 1 round if crit