Portal to D&D IC - Thundercracker

[Rizban]

You discover that you regain 1 point of ability damage for every two hours you spend in your starting area.

[Thundercracker]

You discover that you regain 1 point of ability damage for every two hours you spend in your starting area.

Arelyn waits until she’s fully healed, perhaps taking a short nap, then she eats up and returns to the venomous grove dungeon to try her hand at slaying one or two of those beasties.

[Rizban]

On the way back to the dungeon, you suddenly find yourself rolling for initiative.

(1d20+5)[19]
(1d20+1)[21]

[Rizban]

The surface of the water breaks with a loud splash!

Tongue - (1d20+3)[10] - Grapple - (1d20+3)[17]

[Thundercracker]

Arelyn’s eyes widened. Another giant frog!

She just barely avoided the tongue and backed up a few feet to drop a bat swarm right on top of the beastie.

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move 30’ if possible or 5’ step if I’m threatened.
Bat swarm: (1d6)[1] & bleeding 1
DC11 fort save or nauseated

[Rizban]

It takes a point of damage and submerges, clearly ready to give up on the fight after its ambush failed. Your bat swarm turns on you...

[Thundercracker]

Arelyn quickly summons a rat swarm for the bats to feast on.

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Bat swarm:(1d6)[4]
Rat swarm(1d6)[1]

Then she backs up 30’.

[Rizban]

The rats and bats fight for a bit, then the bats dissipate, leaving the rats to chase after you; however, assuming you continue to retreat, they can't reach you before also dissipating.

During all of this, the frog does not resurface.

[Thundercracker]

Arelyn retreats another 100’ once the swarms vanish and waits for an xp notification from the frog.

Assuming it dies she’ll continue on back towards the venomous grove dungeon at a hustle.

[Rizban]

You do, eventually, receive a notification.

Encounter Notice
Enemies Defeated: Experience Gained:	1 300

[Thundercracker]

Arelyn continues on to the venomous grove dungeon, descending down to the steps but stopping before the bottom to see if she can hear or see any critters.

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listen: (1d20)[6]
Spot:(1d20+4)[12]

[Rizban]

When you first step into the short hallway with the stairs leading down, you receive a notification.

You have entered the Venomous Grove Dungeon!
This ancient dungeon has been well known for generations. The Venomous Grove Dungeon is the first dungeon attempted by many adventurers who have just started their career and has long been managed by the local adventuring guilds.
You have previously entered this dungeon without clearing it 1 time(s). Maximum Progression: 0%
Warning! Rampant Monsters!
This dungeon has not been cleared in forty-seven [47] years, seven [7] months, and twelve [12] days!

You neither see nor hear any creatures in the dungeon from your location on the stairs.

[Thundercracker]

Arelyn steps into the dungeon and slowly approaches the door, trying to get line of sight on the monstrous spider inside. She knows it likes to hang out on the ceiling, so she’ll be sure to check there.

[Rizban]

The door, as before, is shut. You'll need to open it to gain access to the room beyond...

[Thundercracker]

The door, as before, is shut. You'll need to open it to gain access to the room beyond...

“Interesting, seems like the dungeon reset,” Arelyn thought.

She carefully cracked the door just the slightest bit to get line of sight on the ceiling where the spider was hiding earlier.

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put a bat swarm Directly on the spider this time.(1d6)[5]

After casting the swarm, Arelyn closed the door.

[Rizban]

As soon as you try to open the door, you are thrown backwards into the far wall as the spider tries to force its way through the door to attack you. You take (1d6)[3] nonlethal damage from the impact.

[Thundercracker]

As soon as you try to open the door, you are thrown backwards into the far wall as the spider tries to force its way through the door to attack you. You take [roll0] nonlethal damage from the impact.

Arelyn kept her mouth shut so as not to alert the centipedes down the hall. She pressed herself against the far wall
like before so the spider couldn’t get to her, and hit it with a bat swarm on its rear quarter. If she could take this thing down, it would be a sizable bounty for her xp total, and then she could hide behind the door while the swarms took down the centipedes. One thing at a time though...

Edit: keep the damage roll from above if possible, otherwise rolled in the discord thread for 1. DC 11 fort or nauseated, and 1 bleeding damage.

[Rizban]

You attempt to get an invocation off in the room beyond the door, but you can't quite manage to get line of effect through the spider blocking the door as it struggles in vain to grab you.

[Thundercracker]

Arelyn slides down the hallway, keeping close to the wall, until she can hit the spider with a bat swarm without hitting herself, then drops the swarm directly onto the spider.

[Rizban]

Keep in mind that the hallway is only 30 feet long to the far end, and the 10 foot wide doorway into the centipede room takes up the last 10 feet of space on your left. Between the corner for the stairs and the corner for the door to the centipede room, the wall is only about 10 feet long. If you go too far, the centipedes will know you're there.

Note that your map has updated.

[Thundercracker]

Arelyn, not wanting to risk activating the centipedes again, drops prone against the far wall and puts the bat swarm at the top of the huge spider, as far away from her as possible. She then hopes it will dissipate before attacking her...

[Rizban]

The spider takes (1d6)[6] damage from the bat swarm and screeches in pain.

(1d20+8)[13] vs nausea

The spider retreats, squeezing into the side tunnel and spraying webbing into the room in front of itself.

[Rizban]

The bat swarm is no more than 5 or 10 feet from you and at least 20 from the spider now, so... you take (1d6)[3] swarm damage as the bats swarm you.

[Thundercracker]

With nowhere to go, Arelyn tries to defend herself from her own swarm.

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fort saves: (2d20)[4][4](8)
Standard actions, take 10 to stop the bleeding ASAP, otherwise just cower on the ground.

Should be one more round of Swarm damage: (1d6)[6]
Edit so that’s 2 rounds of bleeding, for a total of 11 damage.

[Rizban]

The swarm dissipates, and you staunch your bleeding.

The spider remains hidden in the distant tunnel, though you can just see the tips of its legs as they try to push it further away.

[Thundercracker]

The swarm dissipates, and you staunch your bleeding.

The spider remains hidden in the distant tunnel, though you can just see the tips of its legs as they try to push it further away.

Arelyn decides to play it safe and let the bleeding take care of the spider. She stands where she is and waits 10 minutes for an xp notification.

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10 minutes is a hundred rounds and I really hope it doesn’t have over 106 hit points.

[Rizban]

After 10 minutes, you have received no messages.

[Thundercracker]

Arelyn eldritch blasts the webbing covering the doorway until its destroyed, keeping an eye and ear out for the monstrous spider. Assuming there’s no sign of it, she carefully steps into the doorway (just far enough to be able to close the door). If there’s nothing jumping out at her, she’ll detect magic in the room and take note of where the magical signatures are and ‘inspect them’ without leaving the doorway.

Then she’ll send a swarm of bats as far as she can down the hallway with the centipedes, and close the door.

[Rizban]

You can definitely still see the tips of the spider's legs emerging from the hallway to the right of the room. They don't seem to be moving at the moment.

On the northern wall opposite the door into the room is a 10 foot wide portcullis made of wood. It's closed, but you can clearly see another room on the other side.

[Thundercracker]

Arelyn decided to try and hit the spider a few times with an eldritch blast, to see if it’s still alive.

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ranged touch: (1d20+3)[7]
Damage: (1d6+1)[3]

ranged touch: (1d20+3)[21]
Damage: (1d6+1)[3]

ranged touch: (1d20+3)[21]
Damage: (1d6+1)[7]

ranged touch: (1d20+3)[13]
Damage: (1d6+1)[3]