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Constitution Save: 19.
Malman meanwhile refrains from any clever tactics or sidebars once bound and covered in darkness. That went out the window largely the moment he entered the room, tearing up the distance to get the Spider; A bloody Drow! Nevermind the one rumored to roam the lands to the north doing goodly deeds. This one had already soiled his reputation the moment he messed with the Rockseeker brothers in this Mosshammer's view!
Being blinded and webbed did little to change that opinion. And soon, the words of foe and friend alike began to grow muffled to his ears. Not by any poison, for even transformed certain traits remained strong enough that he hardly even mattered to him. The last thing he heard loud and clear was Yue's bark before sinking into an almost primal rage.
Almost. Druidic training would yet keep him from striking friend, but blinded by the dark, he could only hope those nearby did not move around too much. For he only had memory to go off before straining the limits of his bindings to bite and tear enough of it to pieces for the claw to come down more soundly upon where the Spider at least had been last.
Bonus Action: Enter a RAGE!!!
Action: Reckless Multi-Attack to cancel out disadvantage. (though attacks remain at adv on him) Bite - Attack: 10 Damage: 7 piercing on web. (freeing himself) Claw - Attack: 7 Damage: 12 slashing on The Spider(aka Drow).
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Attack against drow Attack: 17 Damage: 10
Ba cast Sanctuary DC 13 wis save for anyone attacking me.
Rose remained still as the spider spoke, worried she had been caught. However it seemed the spider only knew someone was there, not who or how many and she was still invisible. She remained silent as she gauged the room trying to decide what to do next. Then she hears Cirrus mention the town under seige. Her heart sank but she knew there was nothing she could do for those people. She had to hope Gundren could mount a defense. Lark and Salazar were still there as far as she knew...hopefully they could stay strong and defend the town. Her mind came back to the task at hand, suddenly what seemed like a time crunch had gotten even worse. The drow needed to be dealt with so they could rush back to town. The map had to be reclaimed. She was hesitating on what to do when the answer was made for her as a bear charges into the room and a fight breaks out. Using her invisibility to her advantage Rose rushed to the drow, muttering a prayer to Selûne for protection.
She swings and the crunch of bone and cry of pain follow. As her invisibility breaks Rose smirks at her success. Out of the corner of her eye she sees the web incoming and ducks out of the way, then suddenly her vision just goes grey. Recognizing the spell, Rose smirks again. Focusing her magic to her amulet, Rose quickly mutters a spell under her breath to protect herself from the spiders who she feared could still sense her. Before getting close enough to whisper in the spiders ear You can't hhide in darkness, Ill drag your corpse back to the light if I have to. She then lines up her hammer to the Drows head and arcs her hammer back to swing like she was playing a not kid-friendly version of Teeball.
As Cirrus calls out once more, he only continues to confuse the charmed bear, while the other one seems to only just barely be listening inside the dark shell, both of them mostly confused by the fact of Why should big, strong, bugbear be afraid of getting hurt? but the charmed one eventually, using its memory of where it had been, walks backwards until it finds its way out of the dark bubble - If only for the sake of a friend. Then once out, walking over to help Cirrus out of the web with a dumb grin on its face.
The other one however, finally responds when Burgee pretends to be the Spider, and while not leaving the area, he does stop what he was intending to do, since he's not sure how the spider moved all the way over there, and why he was giving contradictory information... it was too much for the bugbears limited intelligence to handle.
Malman easily resists most of the effects of the spiders bite, initially tearing his way out of the webbing with force, before slashing out at the spider, nearly mauling him before he could get out of reach.
Rose after her prior flurry of action, smiles in the fact that darkness had no hold on her, whispering the final words the drow would ever hear. Her hammer cracks into his skull, ending his suffering, and she hears a thud as his body hits the floor. The bugbears both seeming stupored, though the charmed one was assisting Cirrus with his escape from the webbing and it taking several moments before tearing it off of him.
The other bugbear standing passively for a moment, before seeing the spider laying dead on the ground, and seeing most of the rest of the group now as the darkness spell fades from existence. The four spiders seeming to not care in the slightest whether the spider was alive or dead. if not for how persuasive Burgee and previously Cirrus had been, the Bugbear might have joined in the fray, but it seemed to back up, hands in the air, though not relinquishing it's weapon.
Gwen, finally able to act, takes aim at one of the spiders focusing Malman. Her attack chinking off its legs doing no damage. Giving Rose Binspiration.
The four spiders continuing to hiss and gnash. one of the spiders once more trying to web the little snack, however her protection made it choose to attempt to re-web the bear, but missing, the other spider however getting the bear-man re-stuck.
The other two spiders, diving on this (S1/2) both diving in a frenzy to incapacitate it.
Party is up. Cirrus is free of webbing. Malman is webbed again.
Rose looks at the Drows corpse, satisfied the job was nearly done. However seeing the spiders still causing problems Rose quickly looks over the corpse for anything useful. Unfortunately in her rushed state all she finds is the spiders staff and so Rose places her hammer down and grabs the staff to see what it could do. Turning on the nearest spider, Rose points the staff at it before realizing...she has no idea how to work this thing. What a shit idea Rose what were you thinking?! Just hit the damn thing with it! After mentally scolding herself Rose swings the staff to bludgeon the nearest spider. Regardless if she hits or not Rose would also draw further upon her God given magic and bring forth Selunes crescent axe, summoning it near the spider furthest from her and having immediately try to chop that sider in half.
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Roll to see if the Spider's really dead: 17
VM damage: 1
"thanks, buddy. If it's not too much trouble, I'd love it if you could fetch me any and all maps that the drow fellow might have been obsessing over. Do you think you could do that for your old buddy?"
I'd also like to maybe make a Perception check to see if there's any kind of subterfuge going on that the Black Spider has set up because that seemed way too easy.
I will also cast vicious mockery on either spider 3 or 4, whichever looks more healthy.
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(Only second one hit due to unarmored defense from being a barbarian. Which applies to wildshape forms, though usually isn't as powerful.)
Constitution Save: 18.
Even enraged Malman winds up taking a second to stare at the fresh new webbing, giving it a 'this again!?' look. Before promptly being dog piled by more spiders. The first to try finds his hide either more tougher than expected and only just scraps the hide without doing appreciable harm. The second finds a better purchase and almost overcomes the transformation.
Yet a few seconds later of wavering on the spot, Malman lets out a primal growl as he leaned down again to start tearing at the webbing about him. The moment he got a good paw free, he is swift in punishing his attacker with an almost backhand bear paw to leave it reeling. As it is recovering, the heavily breathing Druid focuses inwardly for those few precious seconds. Soon, a red moss grows over some of its wounds, stitching and healing it just enough to where he stood proud and strong on his hind legs ready to dish out more pain.
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Bonus Action: Expending spellslot for Combat Wild shape healing, getting back 3.
Action: Reckless Multi-Attack to cancel out disadvantage. (though attacks remain at adv on him) Bite - Attack: 9 Damage: 12 piercing on web. (freeing himself) Claw - Attack: 11 Damage: 9 slashing on Spider that successfully bit him.
Energy behind to surge up through Burgee as he calls out to the skies. He grabs the piece of driftwood and sends a bolt of lightning toward one of the spiders. (Attack: 6 Damage: 10)
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1-2 = Burgee, 3-4 = malman, 5-6 = rose 2
1 poison staff
Gwen @ spider Attack: 13 Damage: 12
Save @ Rose 2
Web recharge: 1 - 5 - 1
Webs @mal 14 @Gwen 10
Bite at mal Attack: 20 Damage: 7
Bite at gwen Attack: 12 Damage: 6
Gwen con save 4
Poison damage 10
Placing the hammer on the ground, in some random curiosity, Rose picks up the staff and swings it wildly after a few moments of hesitation, and contemplation. The staff smacks hard, breaking one of the spiders spindly legs, and for a moment, rose thinks she see's the flash of a spider with a humanoid-top half, like a centuar in a way, and the spider reels as venom pours through its veins, but just as it appeared, it vanished, ephemeral, and for a moment, Rose felt as though she were going to vomit but it passed without much incident.
Cirrus talks to the bugbear, and it thinks for a moment. Eh... me mostly guard door.. but maybe have paper draws on boss. Boss not likely to give to you. But can try... it was clear he didn't realize the boss was dead yet. The bugbear turns around to look and see's the drow lying on the ground, and freezes, taking a moment to understand what was happening, when the charm breaks from seeing the people he thought were allies standing over the corpse, then seeing the other bugbear, he puts his hands up as he backs up against the nearby pillar, surrendering. Cirrus can feel the string of manipulation fade.
Malman once more tears through the webbing before assaulting one of the spiders. It taking a severe amount of damage, but not faltering too much. All the while Burgee calls out to the skies, a heavy ionic field erupting from his finger tips as a bolt courses out but his aim is off, and it threads the needle between his targets legs and strikes Rose in the head, electricity surging through her head, hair and brain just after she finishes reeling from the effects of the staff. (to be clear she suffered no damage from the staff)
Gwen shouts out as she see's this, but realizes Rose will probably be OK, dropping her crossbow and drawing her rapier, charging in and stabbing at one of the spiders butts. Her rapier piercing it deeply enough that the spider reels, though not suffering much actual damage, it experiences extreme pain from the thrust.
Spider 1 see's Malman break free, and once more tries to entrap him, while spider 4 shoots it's web at Gwen for piercing its fleshy carapace. Malman once more finds himself in spider spew, while Gwens sword must have severely ****ed up the spiders ability to web, permanently preventing it from casting webs for the rest of this combat.
Spider 2 attempts to pierce Malmans hide while Spider 3 turns to face the new threat, having failed to pass over Roses spell. Gwen feels fangs sing deep and nearly crush her, but she pulls up the will to resist the worst of the venom, though she's clearly not looking great.
The sounds of footfalls grows closer, and Gwen says More are coming....
Party is up. Malman is webbed again, Gwen took more than half her HP in a single attack. The BB is no longer charmed but both have surrendered and removed themselves from the fight. More enemies are incoming.
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From what direction are the reinforcements coming? (Perception: 13)
Cast Healing Word on Gwen, healing her for 11 points.
He moves to A4 and casts thunderwave, spider 1 and 2 have to make a DC 13 CON save, or take 15 damage and be pushed 10 ft back, or half as much damage on a successful eve, and will not be moved.
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You can't drown someone with Create Water. If your lungs are containers than your bones are objects. Any Siege monster that attacks you deals double damage because it’s attacking your bones.
Rose shakes her head after being shocked. It didn't hurt but it was certainly shocking. Still, it helped her feel alive and raring to go. Seeing Gwen hurt and Malman surrounded she decides its time to go to her usual plan of attack. Presenting her holy symbol a sphere of twilight surrounds her and grants all her allies 3 temp Hp. She then mentally commands Selûnes axe to attack the most injured looking spider in the room.
(30ft sphere for twilight sanctuary centered on rose.)
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Unable to speak, and frankly too into the thick of things to care much about yet more foes to come, Malman rinses and repeats, tearing himself free yet again from webs, only to come crashing down with the claw upon whichever foe had harmed Gwen(presumed 4). Yue by this point has scampered her way into the room, and after sizing up the foes, turns about growling at the entryway in anticipation of any heard foes from there making there way yet there.
Bonus Action: Expending spellslot for Combat Wild shape healing, getting back 1.
Action: Reckless Multi-Attack to cancel out disadvantage. (though attacks remain at adv on him) Bite - Attack: 14 Damage: 11 piercing on web. (freeing himself) Claw - Attack: 25 Damage: 13 slashing on Spider1(if dead, Spider4).
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Thundersaves:
Spiders 12 - 21 - 16 - 11
Bugbear 1 17
Rose 17
Malman 22
Gwen 18
Burgee 18
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Gwen @ S4 Attack: 12 Damage: 5
Phantasmal Save: -3 Damage 2
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S1@malman Attack: 15 Damage: 9 dc 11 con or take half/full 6
S2 @ Cirrus Attack: 16 Damage: 4 dc 11 con or take half/full 15
S3 @ Malman Attack: 19 Damage: 6 dc 11 con or take half/full 8
The twilight sphere echoes out and fills pretty-much the entire room except the very corners of the corners. Granting everyone a 3 bonus HP pittance. But clearly disoriented from the shocking experience, when Rose tries to make the axe slice through spider parts, it misses entirely, not even scratching carapace. Malman once more finds himself covered in goo, and tears it off. Barely healing himself, before slashing at S4, causing it to reel, in pain but not fall. Gwen feels healing energy flow through her, on top of the aura, and most of her injuries seem to be closed, outside a few deep nicks here and there.
Two of the spiders manage to dig their leg-hooks into he stone floor while the other two are blown away. The bugbear is completely uneffected by anything more than dust in his eyes. Rose gets bodied into the pillar by the blast, taking full damage Plus an additional 2 bludgeoning damage.
Malman manages to resist the effects whether by sheer strength or the assistance of lingering webbing. Gwen, like the bugbear is completely unaffected, but Burgee too is sent flying against the wall, and grinding against it slightly before hitting the ground, taking 2 bludgeoning damage on top of the Thunderwaves.
Yue is out of range, luckily, but the sudden loud burst of sound nearly breaks her sensitive eardrums. The sound echoes through the cave, amplified as any noise is in such places, dust settling from the shaking roof to the floor, and likely alerting every creature within the mine. Cirrus can easily tell that the reinforcements that were originally coming are coming from the same place they were at but from an alternative path, based on the echoes of their footsteps.
Gwen, who was spared a tumble, see's that the flung spiders have moved slightly, and were likely to attack their closest targets, and looking at which one was likely the most hurt, in hopes of taking at-least one of the creatures out of consideration, stabs at s4, trying to finish it off before it attacked her, but her attack merely nicks its leg, doing nothing as the attack is deflected while the spider turns to face her.
Burgee, seeing that Gwen might be in trouble, quickly says to Rose Sorry about that Rose! It wasn't intentional! the first have sounding like a child, while the latter half sounded like a charlatan. Raising his hand out about to cast an electic spell himself, thinks better and instead casts Phantasmal Force on the spider, trying to muddle its mind and make it think it's on fire! The spider reels as it feels non-existant flames lick at it' eyes, and it begins thrashing wildly trying to get away from the flame.
Both bugbears remain still but it seems like seeing the tide turning is making them consider fighting... but for now they remain still.
Spider 1 , still close to Malman, bites at him once more.
Spider 2, turns to Cirrus angrily, as it bears its fangs at him, biting down at the genasi
Spider 3, still focusing on Malman bites at him now in a fury from the shockwave a moment ago.
Spider 4 continues to feel the flames lick at its eyes and wobbles towards the staircase continuing to try to get away.
Yue, makes it inside the door, just as the first group that heard the combat arrives... Two Bugbears and what appears to be another drow fill the What the... the drow says in shock, seeing Yue and the melee inside. he takes a moment, and through it all, he see's 'the' Spider, laying dead on the ground and his eyes go wide. Snapping his fingers at the two bugbears he says The master has fallen! And whatever that noise was is going to draw all the undead and every other abomination in the deeper halls. Let us get out of here before we become pinned inside. The mine has become a lost cause. And with the SPider dead, I am in charge now. As quickly as they had came, the three newcomers leave, running back down the hall, retreating. However not long after their footsteps fall silent, the sounds and wails of other creatures can be heard, though distantly. Cirrus' thunder-wave had echoed through nearly the entire complex, and whatever the spider hadn't killed between here and there, wsa now all likely beelining it in this direction.
Gwen, wails at this realization, turning to face Rose R-Rose.... she says, falling to her knees... finally succumbing to her arachnophobia once more, We need to.. run.... I've kept myself strong in the face of t-these spiders.... but.. I .. I can't... her breathing becoming more rapid... We need to hide.... before whatever .. that was... gets here.... I.. I can't keep fighting back my fear anymore... And this ******* brought the en... en... entire p-p-p-p-place down on us! WE NEED TO RUN BEFORE WE'RE TRAPPED!
About 80% of the monsters/creatures/etc in the dungeon have been alerted by Cirrus' spell, it will take them all various amounts of time to actually reach you, but its effectively a swarm. The spiders, except #4, are unlikely to just let you leave. There are two exits to this room. You should all decide whether or not you wish to stay here and fight, or if you wish to flee, and where. Luckily not every creature here is on "The Spider"s side, and that is likely to delay some of them but others have a clear path. There are about 32 enemies total within the complex, including the ones you've already fought. So to clarify, there are 22 enemies you have yet to see in any capacity.
(So Burgee was caught in the Thunderwave because this place is echoing? I can’t see any other explanation. Man... Sorry about this, guys. I ******* hate thunderwave. It has never helped. Unbelievable. I keep tricking myself into thinking “this’ll be the time it comes in handy! There’s no way it could turn out worse than last time!“ Yet here we are!)
(by the way, there are caltrops on E4, so unless Spider4 is crawling on the walls or the ceiling, it has to must succeed on a DC 15 Dexterity saving throw or stop moving this turn and take 1 piercing damage. Taking this damage reduces the creature's walking speed by 10 feet until the creature regains at least 1 hit point. A creature moving through the area at half speed doesn't need to make the save. Same goes for any monsters that come from that doorway)
When the severity of the matter is made apparent, a miserable expression forms on Cirrus’ face. This man looks ready to die right now. “...****...” he whispers softly. Just as he was beginning to convince himself that he was brought here for a greater purpose by Selune, this utter screw up, this moment of signing the death warrant for his allies, brought all of his previous thoughts about his existence being a curse, his life as a waking blight upon Faerunn and any of its inhabitants, rushing back to the forefront of his mind. “everyone after the new leader!” Cirrus charges after the drow.
if the drow was wearing any kind of metal that cirrus could see (let’s hope armor, but earrings, finger rings, weapons, or arcane foci will do), he will cast heat metal on it.
the drow immediately take 2d8 fire damage (unless it’s a weapon that he’s not holding. I will maybe have to decide later if he is not holding a weapon if I wtill want to cast it. I have work in the morning so I will probably never get around to it.)
if the object is just something he is holding, Then he has to make a dc13 con save. If he fails, he must drop it immediately. If he succeeds, he doesn’t have to drop it, but he will suffer disadvantage on all attack rolls and ability checks.
If there is no metal on the drow’s person, I will try to make him levitate. Dc13 con save go float 20 in the air. in any case I still want to chase after the drow. (I might have to refine some of this in the morning)
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You can't drown someone with Create Water. If your lungs are containers than your bones are objects. Any Siege monster that attacks you deals double damage because it’s attacking your bones.
(So Burgee was caught in the Thunderwave because this place is echoing? I can’t see any other explanation. Man... Sorry about this, guys. I ******* hate thunderwave. It has never helped. Unbelievable. I keep tricking myself into thinking “this’ll be the time it comes in handy! There’s no way it could turn out worse than last time!“ Yet here we are!)
No, thunderwave is a 15 foot cube centered on you. So you're the eye of a bomb. And it only doesn't effect you outside of certain things like a sorcerers Careful Spell. So that means 3 tiles out from you in every direction. it's meant to be an "oh shit, I'm surrounded by enemies" spell
And oops, forgot about caltrops, 4
Ok so the spider is stopped on top of e4, effectively blocking that exit.
I thought “15ft. Cube” meant each face was three squares wide. So it’s a 3x3 square with me in the center.
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You can't drown someone with Create Water. If your lungs are containers than your bones are objects. Any Siege monster that attacks you deals double damage because it’s attacking your bones.
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Investigation? 12
Perception is its that instead. 16
Hearing what this new drown shouted Rose quickly looks to the spiders corpse to try and find the map. Regardless if she finds it or not she uses Selûnes sanctuary to calm Gwens mind and rid her fears and approaches her, putting the two spiders between them. Gwen honey, I love you. Words can't express how much I love you. I need you to be brave and get Burgee and Cirrus out of here. If Rose found the map she'd place it in Gwens hand. Go back to Gundren, bring him back here. Malman and myself will by you time. I'll be right behind you I promise. Rose will wait just long enough for a response before Kissing Gwen and yell for her Cirrus and Burgee to get out of the cave, going back the way they came. She turns to face the spiders hoping to protect the others so they can get a head start.
Constitution Save: 19.
Malman meanwhile refrains from any clever tactics or sidebars once bound and covered in darkness. That went out the window largely the moment he entered the room, tearing up the distance to get the Spider; A bloody Drow! Nevermind the one rumored to roam the lands to the north doing goodly deeds. This one had already soiled his reputation the moment he messed with the Rockseeker brothers in this Mosshammer's view!
Being blinded and webbed did little to change that opinion. And soon, the words of foe and friend alike began to grow muffled to his ears. Not by any poison, for even transformed certain traits remained strong enough that he hardly even mattered to him. The last thing he heard loud and clear was Yue's bark before sinking into an almost primal rage.
Almost. Druidic training would yet keep him from striking friend, but blinded by the dark, he could only hope those nearby did not move around too much. For he only had memory to go off before straining the limits of his bindings to bite and tear enough of it to pieces for the claw to come down more soundly upon where the Spider at least had been last.
Bonus Action: Enter a RAGE!!!
Action: Reckless Multi-Attack to cancel out disadvantage. (though attacks remain at adv on him)
Bite - Attack: 10 Damage: 7 piercing on web. (freeing himself)
Claw - Attack: 7 Damage: 12 slashing on The Spider(aka Drow).
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Drozo - [Hobgoblin]Cleric - Blood Domain (Call of the Netherdeep)
Attack against drow Attack: 17 Damage: 10
Ba cast Sanctuary DC 13 wis save for anyone attacking me.
Rose remained still as the spider spoke, worried she had been caught. However it seemed the spider only knew someone was there, not who or how many and she was still invisible. She remained silent as she gauged the room trying to decide what to do next. Then she hears Cirrus mention the town under seige. Her heart sank but she knew there was nothing she could do for those people. She had to hope Gundren could mount a defense. Lark and Salazar were still there as far as she knew...hopefully they could stay strong and defend the town. Her mind came back to the task at hand, suddenly what seemed like a time crunch had gotten even worse. The drow needed to be dealt with so they could rush back to town. The map had to be reclaimed. She was hesitating on what to do when the answer was made for her as a bear charges into the room and a fight breaks out. Using her invisibility to her advantage Rose rushed to the drow, muttering a prayer to Selûne for protection.
She swings and the crunch of bone and cry of pain follow. As her invisibility breaks Rose smirks at her success. Out of the corner of her eye she sees the web incoming and ducks out of the way, then suddenly her vision just goes grey. Recognizing the spell, Rose smirks again. Focusing her magic to her amulet, Rose quickly mutters a spell under her breath to protect herself from the spiders who she feared could still sense her. Before getting close enough to whisper in the spiders ear You can't hhide in darkness, Ill drag your corpse back to the light if I have to. She then lines up her hammer to the Drows head and arcs her hammer back to swing like she was playing a not kid-friendly version of Teeball.
9
Web Recharge: 2 - 1 - 4
Spider Web @ Rose Save: 9
Web at Malman 15 8
Bites: Attack: 23 Damage: 10 / Attack: 12 Damage: 4
2 DC 12 con saves
Poison damage: 11 / 6
Gwen @ S4 Attack: 11 Damage: 11
As Cirrus calls out once more, he only continues to confuse the charmed bear, while the other one seems to only just barely be listening inside the dark shell, both of them mostly confused by the fact of Why should big, strong, bugbear be afraid of getting hurt? but the charmed one eventually, using its memory of where it had been, walks backwards until it finds its way out of the dark bubble - If only for the sake of a friend. Then once out, walking over to help Cirrus out of the web with a dumb grin on its face.
The other one however, finally responds when Burgee pretends to be the Spider, and while not leaving the area, he does stop what he was intending to do, since he's not sure how the spider moved all the way over there, and why he was giving contradictory information... it was too much for the bugbears limited intelligence to handle.
Malman easily resists most of the effects of the spiders bite, initially tearing his way out of the webbing with force, before slashing out at the spider, nearly mauling him before he could get out of reach.
Rose after her prior flurry of action, smiles in the fact that darkness had no hold on her, whispering the final words the drow would ever hear. Her hammer cracks into his skull, ending his suffering, and she hears a thud as his body hits the floor. The bugbears both seeming stupored, though the charmed one was assisting Cirrus with his escape from the webbing and it taking several moments before tearing it off of him.
The other bugbear standing passively for a moment, before seeing the spider laying dead on the ground, and seeing most of the rest of the group now as the darkness spell fades from existence. The four spiders seeming to not care in the slightest whether the spider was alive or dead. if not for how persuasive Burgee and previously Cirrus had been, the Bugbear might have joined in the fray, but it seemed to back up, hands in the air, though not relinquishing it's weapon.
Gwen, finally able to act, takes aim at one of the spiders focusing Malman. Her attack chinking off its legs doing no damage. Giving Rose Binspiration.
The four spiders continuing to hiss and gnash. one of the spiders once more trying to web the little snack, however her protection made it choose to attempt to re-web the bear, but missing, the other spider however getting the bear-man re-stuck.
The other two spiders, diving on this (S1/2) both diving in a frenzy to incapacitate it.
Party is up. Cirrus is free of webbing. Malman is webbed again.
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Smash da spider: Attack: 21 Damage: 9
Holy Axeamoly: Attack: 9 Damage: 7
Rose looks at the Drows corpse, satisfied the job was nearly done. However seeing the spiders still causing problems Rose quickly looks over the corpse for anything useful. Unfortunately in her rushed state all she finds is the spiders staff and so Rose places her hammer down and grabs the staff to see what it could do. Turning on the nearest spider, Rose points the staff at it before realizing...she has no idea how to work this thing. What a shit idea Rose what were you thinking?! Just hit the damn thing with it! After mentally scolding herself Rose swings the staff to bludgeon the nearest spider. Regardless if she hits or not Rose would also draw further upon her God given magic and bring forth Selunes crescent axe, summoning it near the spider furthest from her and having immediately try to chop that sider in half.
Roll to see if the Spider's really dead: 17
VM damage: 1
"thanks, buddy. If it's not too much trouble, I'd love it if you could fetch me any and all maps that the drow fellow might have been obsessing over. Do you think you could do that for your old buddy?"
I'd also like to maybe make a Perception check to see if there's any kind of subterfuge going on that the Black Spider has set up because that seemed way too easy.
I will also cast vicious mockery on either spider 3 or 4, whichever looks more healthy.
You can't drown someone with Create Water. If your lungs are containers than your bones are objects. Any Siege monster that attacks you deals double damage because it’s attacking your bones.
(Only second one hit due to unarmored defense from being a barbarian. Which applies to wildshape forms, though usually isn't as powerful.)
Constitution Save: 18.
Even enraged Malman winds up taking a second to stare at the fresh new webbing, giving it a 'this again!?' look. Before promptly being dog piled by more spiders. The first to try finds his hide either more tougher than expected and only just scraps the hide without doing appreciable harm. The second finds a better purchase and almost overcomes the transformation.
Yet a few seconds later of wavering on the spot, Malman lets out a primal growl as he leaned down again to start tearing at the webbing about him. The moment he got a good paw free, he is swift in punishing his attacker with an almost backhand bear paw to leave it reeling. As it is recovering, the heavily breathing Druid focuses inwardly for those few precious seconds. Soon, a red moss grows over some of its wounds, stitching and healing it just enough to where he stood proud and strong on his hind legs ready to dish out more pain.
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Bonus Action: Expending spellslot for Combat Wild shape healing, getting back 3.
Action: Reckless Multi-Attack to cancel out disadvantage. (though attacks remain at adv on him)
Bite - Attack: 9 Damage: 12 piercing on web. (freeing himself)
Claw - Attack: 11 Damage: 9 slashing on Spider that successfully bit him.
Goyo - [Tortle]Druid/Warlock - Circle of Sea/Celestial (Libretalia)
Drozo - [Hobgoblin]Cleric - Blood Domain (Call of the Netherdeep)
(Will bot for burgee as soon as I wake up)
Occassional Dungeon Master.
Energy behind to surge up through Burgee as he calls out to the skies. He grabs the piece of driftwood and sends a bolt of lightning toward one of the spiders. (Attack: 6 Damage: 10)
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Other personalities... Burgee , The Colorless Knight, Fiorello, RW Goodbarrel, Dred, Evrik - Out of the Abyss & Dungeon of the Mad Mage
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1-2 = Burgee, 3-4 = malman, 5-6 = rose 2
1 poison staff
Gwen @ spider Attack: 13 Damage: 12
Save @ Rose 2
Web recharge: 1 - 5 - 1
Webs @mal 14 @Gwen 10
Bite at mal Attack: 20 Damage: 7
Bite at gwen Attack: 12 Damage: 6
Gwen con save 4
Poison damage 10
Placing the hammer on the ground, in some random curiosity, Rose picks up the staff and swings it wildly after a few moments of hesitation, and contemplation. The staff smacks hard, breaking one of the spiders spindly legs, and for a moment, rose thinks she see's the flash of a spider with a humanoid-top half, like a centuar in a way, and the spider reels as venom pours through its veins, but just as it appeared, it vanished, ephemeral, and for a moment, Rose felt as though she were going to vomit but it passed without much incident.
Cirrus talks to the bugbear, and it thinks for a moment. Eh... me mostly guard door.. but maybe have paper draws on boss. Boss not likely to give to you. But can try... it was clear he didn't realize the boss was dead yet. The bugbear turns around to look and see's the drow lying on the ground, and freezes, taking a moment to understand what was happening, when the charm breaks from seeing the people he thought were allies standing over the corpse, then seeing the other bugbear, he puts his hands up as he backs up against the nearby pillar, surrendering. Cirrus can feel the string of manipulation fade.
Malman once more tears through the webbing before assaulting one of the spiders. It taking a severe amount of damage, but not faltering too much. All the while Burgee calls out to the skies, a heavy ionic field erupting from his finger tips as a bolt courses out but his aim is off, and it threads the needle between his targets legs and strikes Rose in the head, electricity surging through her head, hair and brain just after she finishes reeling from the effects of the staff. (to be clear she suffered no damage from the staff)
Gwen shouts out as she see's this, but realizes Rose will probably be OK, dropping her crossbow and drawing her rapier, charging in and stabbing at one of the spiders butts. Her rapier piercing it deeply enough that the spider reels, though not suffering much actual damage, it experiences extreme pain from the thrust.
Spider 1 see's Malman break free, and once more tries to entrap him, while spider 4 shoots it's web at Gwen for piercing its fleshy carapace. Malman once more finds himself in spider spew, while Gwens sword must have severely ****ed up the spiders ability to web, permanently preventing it from casting webs for the rest of this combat.
Spider 2 attempts to pierce Malmans hide while Spider 3 turns to face the new threat, having failed to pass over Roses spell. Gwen feels fangs sing deep and nearly crush her, but she pulls up the will to resist the worst of the venom, though she's clearly not looking great.
The sounds of footfalls grows closer, and Gwen says More are coming....
Party is up. Malman is webbed again, Gwen took more than half her HP in a single attack. The BB is no longer charmed but both have surrendered and removed themselves from the fight. More enemies are incoming.
Occassional Dungeon Master.
From what direction are the reinforcements coming? (Perception: 13)
Cast Healing Word on Gwen, healing her for 11 points.
He moves to A4 and casts thunderwave, spider 1 and 2 have to make a DC 13 CON save, or take 15 damage and be pushed 10 ft back, or half as much damage on a successful eve, and will not be moved.
You can't drown someone with Create Water. If your lungs are containers than your bones are objects. Any Siege monster that attacks you deals double damage because it’s attacking your bones.
(Will update the map asap)
Occassional Dungeon Master.
Occassional Dungeon Master.
Rose shakes her head after being shocked. It didn't hurt but it was certainly shocking. Still, it helped her feel alive and raring to go. Seeing Gwen hurt and Malman surrounded she decides its time to go to her usual plan of attack. Presenting her holy symbol a sphere of twilight surrounds her and grants all her allies 3 temp Hp. She then mentally commands Selûnes axe to attack the most injured looking spider in the room.
(30ft sphere for twilight sanctuary centered on rose.)
Attack against spider Attack: 7 Damage: 6
Unable to speak, and frankly too into the thick of things to care much about yet more foes to come, Malman rinses and repeats, tearing himself free yet again from webs, only to come crashing down with the claw upon whichever foe had harmed Gwen(presumed 4). Yue by this point has scampered her way into the room, and after sizing up the foes, turns about growling at the entryway in anticipation of any heard foes from there making there way yet there.
Bonus Action: Expending spellslot for Combat Wild shape healing, getting back 1.
Action: Reckless Multi-Attack to cancel out disadvantage. (though attacks remain at adv on him)
Bite - Attack: 14 Damage: 11 piercing on web. (freeing himself)
Claw - Attack: 25 Damage: 13 slashing on Spider1(if dead, Spider4).
Goyo - [Tortle]Druid/Warlock - Circle of Sea/Celestial (Libretalia)
Drozo - [Hobgoblin]Cleric - Blood Domain (Call of the Netherdeep)
Thundersaves:
Spiders 12 - 21 - 16 - 11
Bugbear 1 17
Rose 17
Malman 22
Gwen 18
Burgee 18
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Gwen @ S4 Attack: 12 Damage: 5
Phantasmal Save: -3 Damage 2
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S1@malman Attack: 15 Damage: 9 dc 11 con or take half/full 6
S2 @ Cirrus Attack: 16 Damage: 4 dc 11 con or take half/full 15
S3 @ Malman Attack: 19 Damage: 6 dc 11 con or take half/full 8
The twilight sphere echoes out and fills pretty-much the entire room except the very corners of the corners. Granting everyone a 3 bonus HP pittance. But clearly disoriented from the shocking experience, when Rose tries to make the axe slice through spider parts, it misses entirely, not even scratching carapace. Malman once more finds himself covered in goo, and tears it off. Barely healing himself, before slashing at S4, causing it to reel, in pain but not fall. Gwen feels healing energy flow through her, on top of the aura, and most of her injuries seem to be closed, outside a few deep nicks here and there.
Two of the spiders manage to dig their leg-hooks into he stone floor while the other two are blown away. The bugbear is completely uneffected by anything more than dust in his eyes. Rose gets bodied into the pillar by the blast, taking full damage Plus an additional 2 bludgeoning damage.
Malman manages to resist the effects whether by sheer strength or the assistance of lingering webbing. Gwen, like the bugbear is completely unaffected, but Burgee too is sent flying against the wall, and grinding against it slightly before hitting the ground, taking 2 bludgeoning damage on top of the Thunderwaves.
Yue is out of range, luckily, but the sudden loud burst of sound nearly breaks her sensitive eardrums. The sound echoes through the cave, amplified as any noise is in such places, dust settling from the shaking roof to the floor, and likely alerting every creature within the mine. Cirrus can easily tell that the reinforcements that were originally coming are coming from the same place they were at but from an alternative path, based on the echoes of their footsteps.
Gwen, who was spared a tumble, see's that the flung spiders have moved slightly, and were likely to attack their closest targets, and looking at which one was likely the most hurt, in hopes of taking at-least one of the creatures out of consideration, stabs at s4, trying to finish it off before it attacked her, but her attack merely nicks its leg, doing nothing as the attack is deflected while the spider turns to face her.
Burgee, seeing that Gwen might be in trouble, quickly says to Rose Sorry about that Rose! It wasn't intentional! the first have sounding like a child, while the latter half sounded like a charlatan. Raising his hand out about to cast an electic spell himself, thinks better and instead casts Phantasmal Force on the spider, trying to muddle its mind and make it think it's on fire! The spider reels as it feels non-existant flames lick at it' eyes, and it begins thrashing wildly trying to get away from the flame.
Both bugbears remain still but it seems like seeing the tide turning is making them consider fighting... but for now they remain still.
Spider 1 , still close to Malman, bites at him once more.
Spider 2, turns to Cirrus angrily, as it bears its fangs at him, biting down at the genasi
Spider 3, still focusing on Malman bites at him now in a fury from the shockwave a moment ago.
Spider 4 continues to feel the flames lick at its eyes and wobbles towards the staircase continuing to try to get away.
Yue, makes it inside the door, just as the first group that heard the combat arrives... Two Bugbears and what appears to be another drow fill the What the... the drow says in shock, seeing Yue and the melee inside. he takes a moment, and through it all, he see's 'the' Spider, laying dead on the ground and his eyes go wide. Snapping his fingers at the two bugbears he says The master has fallen! And whatever that noise was is going to draw all the undead and every other abomination in the deeper halls. Let us get out of here before we become pinned inside. The mine has become a lost cause. And with the SPider dead, I am in charge now. As quickly as they had came, the three newcomers leave, running back down the hall, retreating. However not long after their footsteps fall silent, the sounds and wails of other creatures can be heard, though distantly. Cirrus' thunder-wave had echoed through nearly the entire complex, and whatever the spider hadn't killed between here and there, wsa now all likely beelining it in this direction.
Gwen, wails at this realization, turning to face Rose R-Rose.... she says, falling to her knees... finally succumbing to her arachnophobia once more, We need to.. run.... I've kept myself strong in the face of t-these spiders.... but.. I .. I can't... her breathing becoming more rapid... We need to hide.... before whatever .. that was... gets here.... I.. I can't keep fighting back my fear anymore... And this ******* brought the en... en... entire p-p-p-p-place down on us! WE NEED TO RUN BEFORE WE'RE TRAPPED!
Occassional Dungeon Master.
About 80% of the monsters/creatures/etc in the dungeon have been alerted by Cirrus' spell, it will take them all various amounts of time to actually reach you, but its effectively a swarm. The spiders, except #4, are unlikely to just let you leave. There are two exits to this room. You should all decide whether or not you wish to stay here and fight, or if you wish to flee, and where. Luckily not every creature here is on "The Spider"s side, and that is likely to delay some of them but others have a clear path. There are about 32 enemies total within the complex, including the ones you've already fought. So to clarify, there are 22 enemies you have yet to see in any capacity.
Occassional Dungeon Master.
(So Burgee was caught in the Thunderwave because this place is echoing? I can’t see any other explanation. Man... Sorry about this, guys. I ******* hate thunderwave. It has never helped. Unbelievable. I keep tricking myself into thinking “this’ll be the time it comes in handy! There’s no way it could turn out worse than last time!“ Yet here we are!)
(by the way, there are caltrops on E4, so unless Spider4 is crawling on the walls or the ceiling, it has to must succeed on a DC 15 Dexterity saving throw or stop moving this turn and take 1 piercing damage. Taking this damage reduces the creature's walking speed by 10 feet until the creature regains at least 1 hit point. A creature moving through the area at half speed doesn't need to make the save. Same goes for any monsters that come from that doorway)
When the severity of the matter is made apparent, a miserable expression forms on Cirrus’ face. This man looks ready to die right now. “...****...” he whispers softly. Just as he was beginning to convince himself that he was brought here for a greater purpose by Selune, this utter screw up, this moment of signing the death warrant for his allies, brought all of his previous thoughts about his existence being a curse, his life as a waking blight upon Faerunn and any of its inhabitants, rushing back to the forefront of his mind.
“everyone after the new leader!” Cirrus charges after the drow.
if the drow was wearing any kind of metal that cirrus could see (let’s hope armor, but earrings, finger rings, weapons, or arcane foci will do), he will cast heat metal on it.
the drow immediately take 2d8 fire damage (unless it’s a weapon that he’s not holding. I will maybe have to decide later if he is not holding a weapon if I wtill want to cast it. I have work in the morning so I will probably never get around to it.)
if the object is just something he is holding, Then he has to make a dc13 con save. If he fails, he must drop it immediately. If he succeeds, he doesn’t have to drop it, but he will suffer disadvantage on all attack rolls and ability checks.
If there is no metal on the drow’s person, I will try to make him levitate. Dc13 con save go float 20 in the air.
in any case I still want to chase after the drow.
(I might have to refine some of this in the morning)
You can't drown someone with Create Water. If your lungs are containers than your bones are objects. Any Siege monster that attacks you deals double damage because it’s attacking your bones.
Occassional Dungeon Master.
I thought “15ft. Cube” meant each face was three squares wide. So it’s a 3x3 square with me in the center.
You can't drown someone with Create Water. If your lungs are containers than your bones are objects. Any Siege monster that attacks you deals double damage because it’s attacking your bones.
Investigation? 12
Perception is its that instead. 16
Hearing what this new drown shouted Rose quickly looks to the spiders corpse to try and find the map. Regardless if she finds it or not she uses Selûnes sanctuary to calm Gwens mind and rid her fears and approaches her, putting the two spiders between them. Gwen honey, I love you. Words can't express how much I love you. I need you to be brave and get Burgee and Cirrus out of here. If Rose found the map she'd place it in Gwens hand. Go back to Gundren, bring him back here. Malman and myself will by you time. I'll be right behind you I promise. Rose will wait just long enough for a response before Kissing Gwen and yell for her Cirrus and Burgee to get out of the cave, going back the way they came. She turns to face the spiders hoping to protect the others so they can get a head start.