The Undying Dragons - Campaign Thread

((I think the ghost is just being ghosty and not liking its situation and things that remind it of that.))

Marrin will nod to Haguur,

"That was smart planning. Hurl some rocks if you can get them."

To the bugbear,

"Keep it up! If you make it out you'll be forgiven!"

She'll then call up to the spider Jan hit,

"Oh, look who thinks their sneaky."

VM: 1 (DC 14 wisdom save, disadvantage on next attack if fail, on success nothing!)

((Umm... he's shrieking for you to get back to work, I think?))

That would be Avaria's best guess at what's happening; the ghost went ghost-mode on her, but stopped short of violence.

Ethel's up.

Ethel smiles at the turn of events.  That’s one way to draw the spiders out.  

She claws a fist and raises it to who mouth, whispering dark spells.  She casts chill touch targeting the wounded spider (or one of the other two if that one is already slain).

Attack: 20 Damage: 6

The lead big spider gets hit first from the eldritch blast, then it chitters loudly at the chill touch, but seems to shake off the insults. It's visibly hurt, but still very much alive.

Haguur and the two orcs stand ready, not having anything in the way of a ranged weapon available.

The bugbear swats at the spiders crawling all over his body but only appears to succeed in moving them from one place to another.

Hammerdasher rushers forward to aid the bugbear, but he's not certain how to get at the spiders without hurting their victim further. He tries to catch a few.

Ula looks up into the webbing, sees the lead spider is still moving and casts her thoughts to her tsunamic god, bringing down a a radiant glow from above, seeking to catch the spider.

The radiant glows catches the giant spider full on and it plummets down to its death, landing, splat, next to the bugbear.

Hammerdasher is able to catch a couple of the small spiders, but that doesn't appear to help the bugbear any as he lets out another shriek.

The two visible giant spiders both spew webbing down at the group below.

Jan and Ula both find themselves hit by long stick strands of web and are restrained.

DC 12 Strength Check to break free.

The two large spiders continue down and get to the floor.

The party's back up.

Jan swears in Elvish.

"مجھے بھاڑ میں جاؤ."

She struggles against the webbing.

STR: 18

She backs away from the spiders that dropped down, unless they were right up on her.

(yeah, you're right - sorry I didn't read that correctly.)

Avaria glares at the ghost.  "Well, you don't have to be so rude about it."

She turns away from the ghost and heading back down the tunnel, she peers around the corner towards the dwarfs camp to see if the two orcs were still there.

Perception  9

Stealth  10

Marrin also moves back to the entrance if she can before calling to one of spiders,

"One down, two to go!"

vicious mockery : 4 [4 damage before the edit)(DC 14 wisdom save)

"I never did care for spiders," Ethel says quietly, apparently to herself.

She steps back a bit, no physical match for these things, and casts chill touch again, targeting the nearest spider.

Attack: 26 Damage: 3

"I've never tried spider meat, but does that affect the... edibility? I think Hagurr's boys were gonna give them a taste.", Jan whispers to Ethel as a necrotic hand grasps the spider.

The dwarf tugs at his ghostly beard and watches Avaria for a moment.

“Watch your disloyalty.” The dwarf says, but makes no attempt to follow.

As Avaria moves back to the central hub cavern she passed through earlier and then down the short passage to the old campsite she had found before, she hears the orcs before she sees them. They’re not making any attempt at being quiet, and they’re clearly rummaging through the campsite.

Avaria is able to get a little closer still without being seen.

The orcs have clearly ransacked the cavern and have a collected a pile of tools and supplies. One of them is in the processing of prying the pick axe loose; the one driven through the skull of one of the deceased and wedged in the wall.

The pick axe comes loose, but the skull shatters as it does.

Both orcs laugh at this.

At the feet of the other orc, Avaria can make out what looks to be a few hammers, a crowbar, a heavy warhammer, a warpick, and a collection of oil flasks, pits, rope, shovels, spikes waterskins, and a few other bags of items she’d need to open to examine further.'

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Meanwhile, back in the spider cavern, Jan breaks free of the webbing, strands of it still clinging to her now ragged clothing.

This time Marrin’s melodic barb causes the closest giant spider to twitch and wave its forearms madly about. It’s hard to tell with a spider, but the mockery seemed to sink home. Quickly after that, Ethel’s ghostly hand reaches out and grabs hold of one of those waving forearms and rot quickly spreads across the hairs of the spider.

Hammerdasher gets frustrated and smacks down at the spiders on the bugbear but misses the spiders completely and instead hits the bugbear square in the face.

“Hold still and I won’t do that again,” Hammerdasher shouts.

Ula, still wrapped in webbing, decides to beseech her god instead of trying to break free. She again summons a beam of radiance down from above, but before it can hit the giant spider, it tries to pull back from Ethel’s chilly hand and that causes it to dance away from Ula’s power.

Haguur swipes out quickly at the second giant spider but his blade gets caught up in the webbing along the walls and he misses.

The two orcs though, taking their lead from Haguur jump in and swing meaty fists at the same giant spider, both connecting solid blows, wounding but not slowing the big arachnid.

The lead giant spider presses on against the creature wrapped up in its webbing. Unfortunately, that creature is Ula. The large fangs sink deep into Ula’s neck. While the bite hurts, the rest of the group notices that it’s not the wound causing Ula so much trouble. She stiffens as poison races through her blood. Even her vaunted dwarven constitution can’t stop the toxin.
Ula collapses, unconscious in the web that still holds her.

The other giant spider focuses on one of the orcs that just punched it. It leaps forward, its fangs catching a meaty orc thigh. And just like Ula, the bite doesn’t look too bad but within seconds, the orc collapses, dead to the floor.

Meanwhile, the swarm of spiders crawling all over the bugbear keep biting him. The bugbear falls quiet then goes deathly still.

Haguur takes this all in and shouts out in orcish. You all hear a return shout from the orcs out in the next chamber.

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Party’s up.

Two of the giant spiders are still up and fighting. The swarm of small spiders is deciding whether to eat the bugbear or turn its attention to the bearded dwarf that keeps swatting at them. One giant spider is dead. The bugbear is dead. One of the orcs is dead. And Ula is on her way to joining them.

Avaria makes note of the orcs collection and wonders what their feelings are towards her and her party.  She figures that well armed... she doesn't want to find out.

She heads back to the pool of water she swam through to get back to the hobgoblin cavern.

Athletic rolls:

24

23

25

17

13

"Ula!"

Without proper spells, Ethel rages at her uselessness in this battle.  Heedless of the monstrous spider, she rushes to side of Ula, remembering that she and Avaria had been given potions.  She begins to tear at the webbing to try to get at her belt and pouches to look for something to heal her with.

[Roll?]

[Ula's not resisting so will say an action to find the vial, bonus action to get some of it into her (half potency) or full action to get all of it in]

Uncharacteristically near panic, Ethel draws forth the potion [Action] and pours some into Ula's mouth [BA], spilling some in the process.