Bless (DC 19 Spellcraft) and Consecrate (DC 20 Spellcraft) CL 1
As a servant of Erastil, you can use the Spellcraft skill untrained (as if the book was a scroll), with a +2 bonus and your Wisdom modifier (as it's Divine magic)
Selene points in the direction of small cabin hidden not far off nestled amoung the trees and under growth. "Perhaps the scream came from that cabin over there. I think there is smoke spilling from the window."
Selene begins making her way toward the cabin as she is oft to do.
"oh my someone may be in trouble!"
Essa hauls off after Selene, with Roguk in tow.
You come nearer the cabin. It's a one story wooden house, build on the flank of a small hill.
The door is closed, but a big window is open on the side.
Tane, who walks quietly toward the small house, tries to see something inside...
There's a fire starting.
And he thinks he sees something, behind an upturned table, but he's unsure of what it may be
Selene hurries to extinguish the fire with a her create water magic spell. That is only if the for starting appears to be accidental, or non malicious, and if one of the others doesn't beat her to the chase.
"Careful, there might be goblins..." Enev gets closer with the others, hands on the hilt of the sword ready for anything.
Mayla had been studying the playing of the light across the grass with Essa's words caught her attention. Looking around and up at Roguk before the scream caught her attention.
Once the cabin was pointed out she would run there with the others. Seeing the smoke she didn't hesitate to try to open the door to see if who screamed was inside and if they needed help.
Tane steps on a branch that snaps loudly just as he sees the fire. He decides to abandon stealth and shouts back to the team about what he sees. He shouts, "Hey! Are you ok in there?"
He tries the door to see if its locked.
Tane throws his shoulder into the door and tries to open it.
Malya and Tane rush to the door, and Tane opens it easily.
The room inside is quite simple, with wooden furniture. There's a chimney, and an upturned cooking pot, which spilled part of its content.
A burning log has rolled out of the chimney, and put fire to a carpet.
Tane enters the room, sword in hand, walking toward the table which was knocked over
The young warrior has done only three steps into the room, when something sticky falls onto him
Malya sees,crouched on the ceiling, a big spider, big as a man. It turns its ugly head towards the wizard, its mandible clicking,dripping with an unhealthy liquor
Tane struggles against the web but is unable to break free.
He attempts to swing his weapon to cut himself free but is unable to get a good position and misses the webbing entirely. He screams out in frustration, "Gah! I'm stuck in some sticky stuff and there is a huge spider on the ceiling!"
Tane is now Entangled in the webs
Selene moves past the entrance and Tane to extinguish the fire before it gets out of hand. She waves her hand to conjure up and pour water over the flame.
As the group approaches the cabin cautiously, Essa peers in a window. After Tane enters and gets tangled in a web and calls out about a huge spider, she will vault through a window.
Essa will run across the room and vault up off a chair or furniture to gain some height and do a flying leap to swing at the spider.
Looks like only about a foot of extra height.
Essa height+reach 8' + chair height 2' plus jump height 1' plus large club length 4-5'? (15-16'? DM can tell if Essa can attack spider or not )
If possible:
Roguk can follow her in (has 5 ranks in acrobatics) but probably has no way to affect the spider, so he will thump his chest menacingly or throw some furniture around.
"I can't reach that..." Enev takes a peek of what is happening inside the cabin, he will let his larger teammates to handle it and he will try to help Tane.
Selene dashes into the room, and start casting a spell on the burning carpet.
Malya sees she has the full attention of the spider, and that she has not much time to decide what she will do before the arachnid attacks...
Mayla tries to identify just what type of spider this is as she draws her dagger and throws it at the creature making sure to keep its attention on her and moves away from the group to one side.
Malya's dagger hits the spider in its belly, and some ichor drops on the floor, not far from the blonde wizard
"I'll help you Tane.." Enev tries to cut the web but having a gigantic spider above his head distracts him and he can quite cut it,
"Don't move Tane, and tell me if the spider attacks me"
Near the window, Takeshi is nocking an arrow on his bow, ready to shoot at the spider at first opportunity, when he sees Essa waiting to jump in the fray through the same window.
So he gallantly let her do her wild thing, singing a song of bravery instead
And in a tremendous feat of strength and daring agility... Essa jumps from a chair, high in the air, her massive club held with both hands, swinging it with all the force she can muster in her precarious position....
It seems the club, large as it be, won't be big enough to hit its target.
But it hits.
Hard.
Essa falls on the floor, her breath short, and the spiders half falls, half jumps near her, seeking revenge, biting the druidess.
"Oof you giant creepy crawly! Ouch"
Essa struggles and toughs it out as the thing sinks its fangs into her.
Tane struggles against the web once more, getting close to bursting it. He pushes with all of his strength but can't get himself into position to get leverage. If Enev could pull again, it might just be enough to pull him through.
Mayla steps forward and takes her staff and tries to beat on the spider and knock it off of Essa.
"Get off of her you eight legged monster. I don't mind spiders until they attack my friends."
Malya's staff hits the spider, who seems on the verge of dying. Essa's toned body seems to have shrugged off the poison.
Tane has nearly ripped off the web, and if Enev manages to help him, the warrior should be free very soon.
Selene's spell change the status of the carpet from burning to wet. There's only a few fumes now.
Enev helps Tane to free himself, "Ooof...ggrr..."
Selene moves to flank and strike the spider if possiblr after the fire is extinguished.
Takeshi continues singing, but even with his musical help, Selene comes short to hitting the spider
Selene, quick thinking (and some people say sometimes even quicker to act..), get on the side of the spider and hits it with her morningstar, crushing it.
The spider's many legs are still moving for a few seconds with the last spasms before death, and then stay still.
The wooden house is quiet now.
Takeshi is singing a song of a spider that tries to climb a waterpipe but is sent down by the rain, again and again. In the end, the spider gets crushed.
Need a clear shot, damn it!...
Mayla saw the spider go down and looks at Selene and nods.
"Okay, where is the person that screamed? Is the alright?" Looks around the room for the woman eventually spotting her with Selene's help and would hurry over to her.
Looking up at Selene, the healing arts not her forte in the slightest.
Tane breaks free of the web with Enev's help. He pats the halfing roughly on the back, "THANKS! and turns to look at the spider who is now slain.
Frowning, he nods to Malya. "I heard it too. When I first came in the spider was behind that table over there, maybe she's there?"
Selene grins wide at her part in the victory against the nightmarish arachnid, and then moves to aid the woman she saw cowering behind the table looking to see if she is injured or perhaps suffering from the spiders venom, waving her companions over.
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Selene babbles in her strange celestial tongue, but sympathy, concern, and inquiry echo in her tone, "Ego loquor ad te non multum nocent . Num aranea mordeant te ? Si nocere possit mederi cum divina potestas mihi ?" Selene's limited communication gives her pause as she looks to the others in hopes to interpret their expressions or body language until she can address the woman in a common, more familiar tongue.
"I am not great at telling if you are hurt. Did the spider bite you? If you are hurt may I heal you with the divine power I have?"
The woman is badly wounded and unconcious, having lost blood.
It's hard to say if she got poisoned too, but it's probable.
While looking at Selene, Tane taps his lips twice and his ears twice as he shakes his head no. He says, "If someone doesn't learn to speak whatever it is she saying, we should adopt some form of hand signals."
He takes a bent knee besides the woman and checks for her vitals.
He looks up to the group and says, "She's alive and stable, but she needs some healing. She's lost a lot of blood."
He thinks, "Uh how do you hand signal healing?
Tane points to Selene and holds out his hands palm to the floor and wiggles all of his fingers independently and points to the fallen woman. He then puts his hands under his head and mimes sleep with his eyes closed, slowly opening his eyes and head and standing up.
He nods to Selene as if this is all perfectly clear.
Takeshi walks in, while stacking his bow away.
"My god, poor thing." he says while Tane is trying to signal to Selene, and conjures his healing magic.
"This should help, girl."
Tane sighs and says, "Yeah, that. Thanks."
Clearly still agitated from last night he then mutters under his breath, "I guess you don't mind showing up once all the hard work is done and you can swoop in to do the rescue."
The woman coughs some blood, and slowly comes back to consciousness
She's startled, and feebly tries to lift her axe
What.. Who? Jaen? The spider?
"Do we know if she is poisoned yet?"
Essa unpacks her healing kit and examines the wound, if necessary she begins pulling out some herbs and poultices.
Mayla hearing another name would get up and look around to see if there was another person here.
"I plan on learning it if she is willing to teach."
Essa uses the healing kit, treating the woman wounds, wiping them clean from the spider's venom.
The woman starts breathing more easily, even if she is still in pain.
Suddenly , she rises from the floor, and tries frantically to push and pull the now slightly burned and a little wet carpet- on which Essa and Takeshi still are- aside
Jaen? Jaen? Are you still there, my baby? Mommy is coming for you...
Calm down, we are here to help. Who is Jaen? Enev approaches the woman and tries to calm her down.
Mayla seeing the woman's desperate attempts helps her remove the carpet. "Her child I am guessing right ma'am?" She said looking for a possible hidden door or something underneath.
Essa will move and assist with the carpet and searching for a hidden compartment.
Tane walks over and completely dispatches the spider by shoving his sword through its head, making sure it will not wake again. Once done he will carry the beast outside while the others tend to the woman.
While Tane is disposing of the spider's body, the woman, helped by Essa, pushes aside the carpet, revealing a small trapdoor which she opens with unexpected strenght with tearfull eyes
Jaen is my little girl.. The spider entered by the window I foolishly left opened. I heard my baby scream from outside, and rushed in, with my husband's axe. I can't even remember taking the axe.... Jaen was already bitten, and I attacked the spider, telling her to go inside the cellar and to keep hidden until she hears nothing...
When the trapdoor is opened, you see a young girl, maybe 6 years old, all curled up and shivering, her face marred with tears. One of her small leg is bloodied, and her mother grows even paler
Come on Jaen, you're safe now.. the spider is dead.
The small girl hold her arms out, and her mother pulls her out from the small cellar. They both stay a few minutes together, clutching each other and sobbing
"Selene, can you see if the leg is ok?" is what Takeshi says, while closing the window.
"The girl has definately been bitten. I don't know anything about spider species, but anything that large is dangerous."
The bite isn't too deep, fortunately, but the poison, on such a small, weak and frail victim, could have been lethal.
Selene treats the venom with the healing kit, applying some unguent on the wound.
Both mother and daughter will need some rest to get their strenght back, but the worst has been avoided with your help. Still clutching Jaen, the woman says
I'm sorry, I didn't even ask the names of our saviors... I am Athragi, Athragi Vendt. My husband is away in the forest, cutting wood for the Guild. How could I ever repay my debt to you? You saved my baby girl!
"My name is Selene, The soon-to-be Light Bearer. Everyone else a soon to be Guardian of the Light."
Selene pauses respectfully a moment to allow the others to introduce themselves by name or as they see fit.
"Do not fret over repaying us, we were simply on our way to complete our trial of lighting the Lantern of Kassen at the Crypt of Everflame when fortune would had us find you without a moment to spare."
"I am Essa, from the Circle of the Moon. You may have heard of us."
Mayla bit back her comments for a moment.
'Way to work yourself up as being the important one Selene. Just have to say you are the one carrying the lantern. You are the one that practicallying pounced on it before anyone else could step forward. Have you ever heard of just saying we are all on the same quest.'
Looking at the woman she smiles gently.
"I am Mayla Vardigen and As it has been stated you don't have a debt to repay us. We were happy to assist and help you. Shall we stay with you until your husband returns?"