Moonshae Mysteries (IC)

[Ezeze]

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I'm not sure where we are on the map, but the Construct takes point with Hannah right behind him. Ideally, she'd like Balenor right behind her where she can keep an eye on him.

[only1doug]

A long, stone table dominates the center of this chamber, and bright bits of gold wink from within the dust that covers the floor.

There are voids in the dust pattern, as if a body had been lying on the table and the dust on the floor shows markings of where several items have been scooped up.

The crumpled form of a dead goblin lies in a corner of this room, Dandelion witnessed it being slain by the mummy and the disturbances in the dust pattern bear witness to the same.

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The living goblin fled down the narrow side tunnel to the east.

[Archmage1]

We head down the tunnel, as described by Chain, trying to find the goblin.

[only1doug]

At the end of this hallway is a small chamber whose wooden door lies on the floor. The smell of dust pervades the air, and the sound of thunder is muted here. Numerous body-shaped lumps are visible through the doorway, each wrapped carefully in layers of grey thread like woven mummies.

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The last goblin is not in view.

[NekoIncardine]

Eilly quietly prepared her bow, but didn't take a shot... Yet.

"After this... Starting to think we should scoot back towards town. If nothing else can, I can get us healed once we're there."

[Archmage1]

Balenor murmurs to the others.
"Spiders. Big ones. Anyone got a light?"

[Battlechaser]

Yuck, spiders. I hate spiders. They give me the creeps. Liandra answered. I can light them up. The halflings hand started to shine with bright flames and then she lobbed them at the webs, hoping to ignite them.

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ranged touch attack (1d20+4)[10]
Damage (half fire, half divine] (1d6)[2]

[NekoIncardine]

Eillyassa responded by quietly raising her bow.

"I have flint and steel, but if we've been noticed, no way I'll have the time to do anything with that."

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READY ACTION: Shoot the first more-than-two-legged thing to come into sight!

Note that Eilly's low-light vision may let her spot it sooner than others.

[Ezeze]

Hannah watches carefully for any sign of movement, sword in one hand and shield in the other.

(ooc: Quick reminder, Hannah's got Darkvision.)

[only1doug]

Liandra's launches a bolt of fire at the silk wrapped forms but it is intercepted on route by a fine web that covered the doorway.

The web bursts into flames, spreading out from the point of interception in an amazingly pretty pattern, the fire spreads out of sight to the ceiling of the room beyond.

An Angry Chittering shows that something didn't appreciate its home being burnt and a series of thuds sound as several giant spiders drop to the ground to get away from the fire.

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Medium sized spider 1
fire damage (1d4)[4]
Falling Damage (1d6)[6]
Jump check (DC15 to negate falling damage)(1d20)[13]
+11 Slashing damage from Hannah

Medium sized spider 2
fire damage (1d4)[3]
Falling Damage (1d6)[6]
Jump check (DC15 to negate falling damage)(1d20)[7]
+6 holy fire damage from Liandra

Medium sized spider 3
fire damage (1d4)[2]
Falling Damage (1d6)[2]
Jump check (DC15 to negate falling damage)(1d20)[19]
+6 Arrow damage from Eilly.
+9 Slashing damage from Balenor

Medium sized spider 4 (still alive)
fire damage (1d4)[3]
Falling Damage (1d6)[3]
Jump check (DC15 to negate falling damage)(1d20)[4]
+2 holy fire from Liandra.

[Archmage1]

Balenor, his pale, bloodless face sweating in the corridor, once more raises his sword, hoping that the spiders would not come for him, but ready for them if they do.
"Hah! Told you that they were giant spiders!"

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readied action to attack if one of them gets within 5 feet.

[Battlechaser]

The halfling fires another ray at the spider she can see.

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that would be spider 2
Ranged touch attack (1d20+4)[23]
Damage (half fire, half divine) (1d6)[6]

[only1doug]

the spider is struck by a ray of holy fire then curls into a ball, twitching and burning.

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spider 2 is an ex-spider.

[Ezeze]

Hannah holds her ground, ready to strike if any of the spiders come near her.

[only1doug]

Eillyassa shoots at the exposed Spider, her shaft sinking deep and launching the spider into a run towards her.

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I've waited long enough, so here's the rolls:
attack (1d20+3)[17] (vs Spider 2)
damage (1d8)[6]

The remaining spiders run out of the room and down the corridor, taking to the walls and ceiling to get past the intrepid adventurers that would otherwise trap them within a burning room.

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attacks of opportunity from anyone with holding a melee weapon, held go for Balenor (which missed). then party to act in any order.

the spiders are now behind you, unless they die on top of you.

It seems the spiders left just in time, as a mass of burning webbing hits the floor, along with many hundreds of smaller spider bodies, all in an interesting crispy texture.

[Archmage1]

Balenor, prepared for the spiders to come by, tries to attack, but the first one misses, his injury, and the pain resulting from it, enough to make it very difficult to attack overhead. Still, he makes a second strike, hoping that it is a bit more lucky.

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(1d20+3)[20] atta
(2d6+3)[9] dam

[only1doug]

Hannah and Balenor both strike true and each one slays another spider.
Balenor's spider slides down his blade when it loses it's grip upon the wall. With a Flick of his wrist Balenor clears his blade from the corpse, controlling its fall so that it tumbles to the floor next to him.

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DC13 reflex save for Balenor: Pass and he can cleanly drop the spider to the ground with a smooth disengage, Fail and the spiders weight will trap the sword. Passed.

[Ezeze]

Hannah strikes out at the first spider to approach her, and again at the first spider to pass her.

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]Held Attack:
(1d20+5)[22]
(1d8+4)[11]

Attack of Opportunity:
(1d20+5)[13]
(1d8+4)[8]

(ooc: Going to wait to see the results of all the AoOs before I declare actions for this turn, if that is okay.)

[Battlechaser]

The halfling fired again at the remaining spider, hoping to kill it before it gets too far away.

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ranged touch attack (1d20+4)[13]
Damage half fire, half divine (1d6)[2]

[only1doug]

The burning beam hits the spider and it spins on the spot, chittering angrily.

ランチやけどしない素敵なくもない

[NekoIncardine]

... Leaving Eilly to shoot the blasted thing. "Stupid thing, get out of our way!"

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(1d20+8)[27] Attack
(1d8)[8] Damage
(1d2)[1] Arrow Loss Check
Arrow lost. 34 arrows remain.

[Ezeze]

Hannah squeezes past the other party members to once again place herself between them and the spider and holds her action to attack if it doubles back.

[only1doug]

Eilly's arrow sinks into the spiders eye and it drops lifelessly to the ground, Hannah commands it to get out of her way but it stubbornly stays dead.

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all spiders are now dead, now nothing stands between you and your loot.

[Archmage1]

Balenor shakes his head, his beard flying from the force of it.
"Spiders. Big ones. Nasty. At least the flames will have gotten their eggs."

He checks that the fires in the room have been burnt out.

[only1doug]

the remains of the corpses on the floor are still smouldering slightly but beyond that the fires are all out, the air in this unventilated side chamber is thick with smoke and hard to breathe.

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dried out corpses should burn well I think.

[Archmage1]

"Well... it looks like the fires out, but there is still a lot of smoke, but it can't clear. Should be safe enough for a short trip."

Matching actions to words, Balenor heads into the room.

[Ezeze]

Hannah moves into the room with Balenor, less heedful of the remaining flickering fires than he might be, and looks around.

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"search" - (1d20+3)[22]

[NekoIncardine]

Eilly sighed, pulling out the still-soaked towel and placing it over her mouth and nose as she started to go through the room, slowly watching for signs of trouble - or loot to stash for later splitting.

"Hopefully there's no more crap here and we can just wait out the rain, then get back to town. Some of the stuff we've found could be worth some decent money."

[only1doug]

The lumps in the chamber are the dead, mummified bodies of literally hundreds of rats, plus various humanoids.

The numerous weapons are rusted to uselessness and much of the clothing and armour is similarly tattered but 3 well made sets of chain mail and one breastplate have survived both the passage of time and the recent fire in amazingly good condition.

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nothing else in this room.

[NekoIncardine]

"... Well, it beats getting nothing I guess. But it doesn't seem like there's more here, either."