Blacklock weaved his body to catch Argyri's blade, scraping off handfuls of spiders with its razor edge. He picked at the large one inside his belly-button hole, squashed a crispy pancake on his shoulderblade, and headbutted himself in the thigh as a stream of marching arachnids tickled a little too much...
"Focus!" He yelled, remembering what he had been told when he went down to the mines as a youth. "Disrupt individual swarms to break 'em up. Make 'em scatter, so focus on this group!"
Argyri gasps with relief as Blacklock and she finally drive off the spiders that were swarming all over her. "UUUGH!! Blacklock, you're a life saver." She spins aside and--nodding to Tarn--attacks the swarm that seems closest to being disrupted.
Kwin looks between the two remaining swarms, and tries to scorch the one that seems less... cohesive.
Sacred flame,, radiant damage unless it makes DC 14 reflex save.
Deusilla takes another swing at the swarm
Badger having moved near to Tarn to heal him starts attacking the swarm that is on Tarn.
Kwin looks between the two remaining swarms, and tries to scorch the one that seems less... cohesive.
Drusilla takes another swing at the swarm
Badger having moved near to Tarn to heal him starts attacking the swarm that is on Tarn.
Remember you are standing a lower deck hallway running along the keel with a door at each end (2) (3) of the hallway running along the keel; three more doors (4,5,6); the main mast running through the deck to the keel; and a wooden grate (7) covering the cargo hole in the middle of this deck's floor. The grate is badly rotted and covered in webs, and its unsafe nature is obvious.
"Fook...that was horrible." Tarn said, as he looked over the carnage. "I could really use a few minutes to rest and recharge. Don't think that I want to go into any other rooms unless I got me protection up. Fooking spiders..."
"If we could go longer that would be preferred as I have one spell left aside cantrips." Drusilla said as she sheaths her sword and resigns to resting.
Badger looks at the corpses of the spiders and keeps stabbing at even imagined twitches. "Well we can go back up an catch a breather again."
You regroup on the main deck and take a short rest.
After he finished bandaging himself, Tarn was still worse for wear, but he was combat effective again. ”We have to finish with this ship. We’ve bled too much to not get paid.”
Drusilla will let her mage armor lapse and shift her focus to more tactical cantrips.
Argyri rests, and flips back through one of her favorite pulp mags. Finally her nerves calm down a touch.
OK girl, you've got this!...but did it really HAVE to be spiders??
"Sounded like a lot of money. Might ask for a lot of blood."
"True, I will have to recast Mage armor on myself, but I should have re-allotted my cantrips to better fight these foes"Drusilla says as she looks herself over and then smiles.
"Though I haven't been hit very hard since then, just a few scraps and bruises" She says smiling.
Argyri raises an eyebrow at Blacklock but then goes to listen at the door, and check to see if it's locked or trapped.
As Argyri goes to the door, Kwin touches her shoulder. Blessings, he murmurs.
Casting guidance on Argyri if she wants to use it for one of the rolls.
Blacklock and Argyri move to the aft end of the hallway and listen at the door. They can hear some movement behind the door, scurrying like more spiders. Argyri cannot find a locking mechanism nor can she find any traps.
Tarn took a deep breath to steel himself. Spiders. It wasn't something which had ever scared him before. When you lived underground it was just something that was there. Little critters that made humans jump and scream. But these? These made him rethink all of that. He really, really didn't want to open the door. It took thinking about all of the gold waiting for them to make him do so.
"Movement. Scurrying. I'll open the door, and everyone who can waggle a finger to make magic, get ready to do so. Blast 'em, aye? Aye...let's do this."
Drusilla will recast Mage Armor. Once done she'll prep herself with Firebolt and aim at whatever comes out at them.
Argyri grits her teeth and clutches her rapier.
"I'm starting to reconsider burning this whole damned boat to a pile of floating cinders."
"I hear some folk get shook from wars and battle. Not sure I will ever look at spiders or fishnets with out shivering."
Tarn opens the door and everyone peers inside. The trunk of the mizzenmast pierces the center of these quarters. The floor to the port of the mizzenmast is covered with runes written in blood. A circle has been carved into the floor's wooden planks and spiderwebs cover the walls and ceiling. Two humanoid-sized bundles attached to the ceiling writhe as hundreds of tiny spiders swarm over them.
Behind the mizzenmast in front of the closed door opposite the door you just opened, fifteen feet away from your doorway, stands a half-orc in common clothes with a quarterstaff in his left hand and a flame encircling his right hand. On each side of the mizzenmast is another giant (Large-sized) spider, so you need to run along the perimeter of the room around either spider to get to the half-orc in from the far door. "Attack and you will be sacrificed to my mistress Lloth." The dark priest declares.
"Oh I got a gift for Lloth right here." Badger snaps his bow up and fires in a fluid motion.
Drusilla opens her mouth and begins to sing. She surrenders to the song as her blade comes out of its scabbard, intones with passion.
Drusilla will then fire off a powerful Arcane Phrase. As she does a blue light begins to form in the palm of her hand, mist begins to coalesce and then she points ending the phrase.
A small ray of blue light with a swirling vortex of crystalline mist rushes forth to strike at the nearest large spider.
Tarn pointed at the spider Drussila targeted, “causing” the mist to coalesce into bands around its legs that continued to freeze it.
Seeing everyone focus their fire on one spider this time, Argyri follows suit.
Before she can talk herself out of it, Argyri leaps into the room and stabs for the massive spider's bulging eye.
Kwin readies his bow, nocks and arrow and looses it at one of the spiders.
To hit , damage .
"Oh I got a gift for Lloth right here." Badger snaps his bow up and fires in a fluid motion.
A small ray of blue light with a swirling vortex of crystalline mist rushes forth to strike at the nearest large spider.
Tarn pointed at the spider Drussila targeted, “causing” the mist to coalesce into bands around its legs that continued to freeze it.
Seeing everyone focus their fire on one spider this time, Argyri follows suit. Before she can talk herself out of it, Argyri leaps into the room and stabs for the massive spider's bulging eye.
Kwin readies his bow, nocks and arrow and looses it at one of the spiders.
Screaming at the arrow he took, the half-orc steps over his dead arachnid companion into melee with Argyri and shouts, "for Lloth!
The Starboard Giant Spider moves forward and attacks Tarn.
The giant Phase Spider called Roil slides out of the Ethereal plan behind Blacklock and tries to bite him.
Badger drops his bow and surges forward drawing his swords, dips behind Tarn and around the mast to behind Krell giving Argyri a hand taking down the orc.
Tarn grunted as the shockwave hit him. He backpeddled as the force of the spell nearly caused him to lose his footing. But he kept to his feet, steadied himself. This was fortunate, as the second giant spider sprung at him. He sidestepped the attack and brought his hammer up to meet the arachnid.
Drusilla's song seems to help buffet the ringing blast of Thunderous force that comes crashing at her. Thankfully the Elf Bladesinger continues singing as she lets the ringing in her ears subside and her incantation stream from her lips.
The musical resenece lets her conjure a bolt of pure fire and lets it streak directly at the priest hoping her aim is true.
Argyri braces herself against the thunder, but feels a bit of blood trickle from her left ear.
She stabs and slashes at the half-orc, relieved to have a humanoid foe for once.
Badger drops his bow and surges forward drawing his swords, dips behind Tarn and around the mast to behind Krell giving Argyri a hand taking down the orc.
Tarn grunted as the shockwave hit him. He backpeddled as the force of the spell nearly caused him to lose his footing. But he kept to his feet, steadied himself. This was fortunate, as the second giant spider sprung at him. He sidestepped the attack and brought his hammer up to meet the arachnid.
Blacklock jabbed the thing in the throat with his crutch, then just angrily punched it in the head.
Drusilla's song seems to help buffet the ringing blast of Thunderous force that comes crashing at her. Thankfully the Elf Bladesinger continues singing as she lets the ringing in her ears subside and her incantation stream from her lips. The musical resenece lets her conjure a bolt of pure fire and lets it streak directly at the priest who dies in a blaze of glory.
Argyri braces herself against the thunder, but feels a bit of blood trickle from her left ear. She stabs and slashes at the half-orc, relieved to have a humanoid foe for once giant spider killing it.
Kwin nocks another arrow and fires it at the phase spider, knowing that its terrible poison could still be a deadly threat.
Arrow at phase spider, to hit , damage .
Kwin nocks another arrow and fires it at the phase spider, knowing that its terrible poison could still be a deadly threat.
The Phase Spider tries to bite the fighter who evades his poisonous jaws. Then, it phases into the Ethereal Realm and moves the wall and deck.
With the giant spiders and head priest dead, the combat is done. You glimpses of the phase spider in the Ethereal Realm, but it doesn't attack. Might not be a good idea to rest with it on the prowl.
In a wooden box along the port wall, you find all the cultists' ceremonial objects and treasure. The box contains divine spell scrolls of gust of wind and protection from poison, a potion of heroism, a potion of water breathing, a cloak of protection, 507 gp, and 199 sp.
The head priest has a quarterstaff and common clothes.
Tarn grinned as he rummaged through the gold they had found. "Look at this. Look at this beauty!" He announced. "More gold than most men make in a year...nay..in half a decade!" He said, eyeing the gold. This alone makes the horrors of today worth it, aye? Lets catch our breath and then head for the grill in the hallway floor."[/b]
"You glimpses of the phase spider in the Ethereal Realm, but it doesn't attack. Might not be a good idea to rest with it on the prowl."
"We should find someplace else then this spider filled are to rest. However we should distribute the loot." Drusilla days as she points to Blacklock.
" You have been fighting the strange spider. Could you keep a look out for it temporarily while we get this stuff and move on?" She says helping Tarn.
After signaling to the dwarven sailors that you are still alive (because it's been several hours), you settle down in the priest's unholy shrine for a short rest.
About ten minutes into your rest, the phase spider arrives to take another bite out of Blacklock who thinks he is ready for it. The spider solidifies out of the wall from the Border Ethereal and tries to bite the kid.
Despite his best efforts, the spider chomps down on the kid.
Badger looks up and scrambles for weapons and readiness. "Spider is back." He moves in hacking.