"Bah! Boost me up," Nuveril demands impatiently. "If it came through the roof, it probably flew; we should be looking for tracks up there."
"Bah! Boost me up," Nuveril demands impatiently. "If it came through the roof, it probably flew; we should be looking for tracks up there."
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"Don't worry, we don't need to light the monastery on fire to bring him out." Reaching into his belt pouches, Arjun withdraws a vial, shakes it, and tosses it through the hole.
"Bah! Boost me up," Nuveril demands impatiently. "If it came through the roof, it probably flew; we should be looking for tracks up there."
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This section has a peaked tile roof. You can see a seperate higher roof section for the nave to your west. To the north west you see the chapel roof, a dome. There are holes of various sizes in each of these. Looking north you can see the chapter house (stirge room), a protruding rectangular section with its own flat roof about ten feet higher than where you currently stand. To the east you can see the partially collapsed tower. It would have perhaps been about fifty feet high originally but about thirty five feet remains.
"Don't worry, we don't need to light the monastery on fire to bring him out." Reaching into his belt pouches, Arjun withdraws a vial, shakes it, and tosses it through the hole.
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The room opposite from the kitchen was obviously once a mess hall. Three long wooden tables and dozens of chairs are in shambles, mostly rotted away with the passage of years although one of the tables and a few of the chairs seem useable. Light shines through several large holes in the ceiling, illuminating a closed door on the east wall which leads to the room the pugs and hyena emerged from. The south wall is stained from infrequent [rain].
"I believe this requires more investigation." Arjun steps back and allows the more perceptive and stealthy in the party to go forward.
Khalid follow Nurveril up onto the roof to see what might be up there.
Climb:1d20 + 0
Perception:1d20 + 7
Track:1d20 + 7
You climb up and see the same thing Nuveril does. The two of you up there together is a little precarious but you take care to spread your weight as much as possible and stand on the wall sections rather than the unsupported roof.
You find a tuft of what looks like coarse black hair hanging from one of the jagged edges surrounding one of the holes in the ceiling but cannot locate any other signs of a creature passing on the roof.
Meanwhile Grall circles the monastery looking for clues.
"It must fly in!" Nuveril exclaims, frustrated. "But even then, it ought to leave some trace where it lands ... unless it's that witch's demon lover coming back for the rest of us."
Neither Nuveril or Khalid find anything else where they are.
Khalid you can't make out anything definite about the hairs.
Grall meanwhile is about half way through a check of the eastern wall of the monastery without any success so far.
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With some care, Nuveril clambers across the roof toward the chapter house.
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She makes it safely, easily finding handholds in the blocks of stone making up the top half of the room and is soon standing on top of the chapter house roof. The roof itself here is intact and seems pretty solid and aside from a comanding view of the surrounding hills and Kelmarane to the north she spots nothing out of the usual.
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Nuveril climbs down to the main roof level with ease and then makes her way west to the base of the nave roof. The going here seems much more precarious, the nave roof like the nave itself is in poor repair. The pitched roof is fairly steep.
"Nuveril, have you seen anything of note yet? I don't mind coming up there with you, but would rather not if there is no need...I'm not as skilled of a climber as you are."
"Have you found anything?", Linah calls out the explorers through the hole in the ceiling.
Nuveril navigates the difficult conditions with ease, moving quickly and purposefully up the roof plane until she stands on the peak, along with the top of the chapel, the highest point of the roof.
She sees several holes, corresponding with what she would expect from the ground but nothing else.
You climb down to the main building roof.
The left section is the lowest (and now only) chamber in what was once a 40-foot-tall tower. Most of the wooden floors and the old ladder that used to comprise the tower jumble the floor here in a collapsed
mess or ruble about ten feet high. The roof of the tower has partly collapsed leaving gaping sections open to the sky but it is difficult to see much in the mess of remaining beams and fallen building.
Nuveril makes her way over to the tower and starts to climb. She is about six feet into it when a section she was using as a handhold comes away in her hand and she falls fbackwards to the main roof.
She lands on her back, winded but uninjured.
By now Grall has completed his circuit without result.
Grall returns to the rest of the group, frustration showing on his face.
The crrreature must be flying, did you find anything else? Is Nuverrril still up on the rrroof?
This is not good news forrr poorrr Dalkus. Even if we set a trrrap for this crrreatrrre herrre, therrre is little chance of finding its lairrr once we kill it.
"Whatever it is, it has obviously moved on. We should be wary, but there are other matters that demand our attention." Arjun starts to make his way back to Almah to discuss their progress in Kelmarane.
Nuveril picks herself up and brushes herself off before heading back toward Khalid. "Bah!" she says. "There could still be something in the ruins of the tower, but whatever it is doesn't leave tracks. We should go in from the bottom and look up, see what we can see. If we find nothing..." She shakes her head uncomfortably. "It could be the witch's evil spirit coming back for the rest of us; the accursed thing never left tracks."
Grall would accompany her...
Perception
Sajan perception
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Led by Nuveril, you regroup inside and head through your room and the mold encrusted door to the base of the ruined tower.
Grouping near the base of the pile so you have a sufficient angle you peer up into the shaft. Almost right away several of you spot strands of webbing, glistening from the thin trickle of light which suffuses down the shaft from the open air above. The lowest is about fifteen feet up the shaft.
You continue to look, trying to distinguish shapes in the mass of beams and other remnants of the structure. Khalid sees it first, about a half second ahead of Nuveril, Grall and Arjun, a large round black shape nestled up against the wall about twenty five feet up the shaft.
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Initiative
Grall
Nuveril
Linah
Khalid
Sajan
Arjun
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Ordered Initiative
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Linah
Nuveril
Arjun
Grall
Khalid
Sajan
A large globule of white webbing shoots down the shaft from the back shape aimed at Khalid but even flatfooted he is able to spin aside and the web strikes only the floor with a splooshing noise.
Linah jumps back as the web hits the ground beside Khalid's feet. As she begins to speak she can see Nuveril sprint towards the tower. The cleric quickly reaches out to the halfling woman and prays for Sarenrae to guide her.
Nuveril draws a javelin and flings it up the shaft of the tower.
Arjun lobs a frost bomb at the spider.
Attack
Damage
Linah steps behind Nuveril and places a blessing of guidance on her.
Nuveril's throw is a miss, the point of the javelin embedding itself in a protruding timber just to the side of the black shape.
Arjun's bomb is on target. The creature shrieks as icicles pierce its skin but does not appear to be slowed.
Fort save
Grall will move into the rubble a little so he can get a clear shot at the creature also drawing a Javelin, then start raging and hurl it at the monster!
In case it is needed:
Grall moves through the edge of the rubble and his throw seems to be a very near miss, the javelin deflecting off a piece of masonry just below the creature and falling to the ground.
Khalid's firebolt goes wide although it illuminates the length of the shaft and burns out a 6 inch wide gap in what seems like a mess of webs running across the tower. This in turn sets fire to several other sections of the web. The fire illuminates a great black spider with a red hourglass mark splashed across a grossly fat abdomen.
Sajan moves into firing position, pulling his crossbow off his back and triggering a shot at the spider. The bolt flies fairly close but the spider arches back and it misses.
Round 2
Ordered Initiative
Large Black Spider
Linah
Nuveril
Arjun
Grall
Khalid
Sajan
It's web now mostly aflame, the spider scuttles down the shaft with surprising speed and perches easily atop the debris pile with its eight legs.
It lunges at the closest foe, Grall, with fangs near the size of daggers. Grall tries to jerk back but isn't quite fast enough and he takes a serious bite to the arm.
hit
Khalid moves to get a line on the beast that is not impeded by his companions, and launches a firebolt.
Attack:1d20 + 4 vs. touch AC + 2 for cover
Damage:1d6 + 1
Linah watches horrified as the monstrous spider climbs down and sinks it's dagger like fangs into Grall's arm. She is left with no other choice than to move forward and try to ease the gnoll's pain.
Linah watches horrified as the monstrous spider climbs down and sinks it's dagger like fangs into Grall's arm. She is left with no other choice than to move forward and try to ease the gnoll's pain.
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