Road to Phandalin

anyone here with better wisdom?

Otrov

Otrov stops at the entrance with others, hands on her thighs, panting and sobbing - a terrible dread flexing its muscle all around her chest. She looks back into the cave and then back at Dain. “He’s gonna be alright, isn’t he? Dain?  Margey?  We’re gonna get him back, right?  Right?”  She falls to her knees.  At Dain’s words she nods, still sobbing. “He’s right, we can’t stay here: it’s like we’ve been watched or set up the whole time. Someone has been stalking us.”  With that, Otrov’s face darkens and she looks around more carefully but as quickly as she can -  for tracks for clues - anything about what happened to the mule. 
Survival - 17 
She turns to Margret and Dain - “Do you or your pets sense anything nearby? That thing found the forge but it seems to like playing with us - maybe we can be more wary...”

You don’t see much of a struggle, just a spot where the mule fall down while tied up. You see several small oval marks in the dirt. You think it may have been a big arachnid. The odd thing is you don’t see any drag marks neither on the ground nor in the surounding bushes. It looks like the attacker and the mule vanished into thin air.

Margret

"Maybe the dragon got it afterwards, do you know this area Zurzg? You were all over the place when we came here" 

Zurzg blinks one eye after the other, looks to the ground for a few seconds, and then looks back up shaking his head to the side. "Zurzg was curious. So, Zurzg looked around. Zurzg... was hungry too if remember right. So, look for food." He cocks his head to the side and asks simply, "Zurzg hunts now?"

"Yeah hunt for us a hole to hide in Zurzg. We've been in battle and need to rest"

With that thought she checks the nearby trees but goes into Marco's senses knowing he sees and hears things better than her

Perception 23 only for a second

A voice inside her head says Look up and she has her bow in hand "Guys look up I think the mule and it killer is upwards in the trees"

Gundren looks around nervously: “I think we should move, carefully.”

(Marco also sees no further signs of the attacker beside right next to where the victim vanished, nothing in the trees, bushes or on the ground. No broken twigs, cobwebs or tracks. Just a handfull tracks f a single large spider right where the mule dropped to the ground.)

Otrov

She follows Margrets suggestion and looks around in the surrounding foliage...[do I need to roll again?  Would assume she would look all around for signs of tracks and signs]

Anyone proficient in nature or arcana, roll me a skill-check please.

Dain arcana: 19 Guidance: 4

phase spider 

Margret sends Marco aloft Stealth 11 she watches to make sure he hides himself well(if not forgetit)  and he looks for a place for their desperate party to hide (Hopefully with the same perception check earlier)

She says to Otrov "remember to smack me if trouble happens" and she goes into the Owls senses

Zurzg stops whatever trundling off he intended to do at Margret's earlier behest and looked to the tree in response to the warning. After a solid half a minute staring at it, he then looks to the others and just calmly as can be asks, "Zurzg still go look for new cave? New safe place? Or Zurzg go knock down tree?" Whatever the request made by anyone, even the most apparently dangerous one, he just casually goes about doing that thing.

Cave Hunting(if still on table): 10.

(If not, but a check is needed, replace the bonus with the appropriate number. Otherwise, ignore the roll altogether if Zurzg is just hanging out for now.)

"Well, I think we might have a phase spider round here somewhere." Dain says with a sigh, not overly surprised, as their luck has just been bad all the way through this. "Let's get away, and hope it doesn't have a way to follow us."

Zurzg folds his arms across his chest and boldly nods at Dain's point. "Many legs not good for running, Zurzg think. We go fast it never catch up." He said. "Zurzg think its good idea it take Mule. Now it even slower." In spite of all of that, the goblin looks and waits for Margret to stop worging out before scrabbling around at the head of the pack to find a safe place for all to rest.

You retreat into another of the adjuring canjons and with Zurzg and Gundren you find an easily to defend cave that doesn’t goes to deep. You set up without a fire and organise a sentry rotation before you go to rest.

(You take a long rest and feel free to add if you do anything else before hand. You get a lvl up in the morning after the rest as well.)

Otrov

Otrov hauls back and smacks Margret's behind, "Phase spider, Dain thinks.  We're moving to a cave."  Otrov smiles and bounces away, catching up to the others.

"I can take first watch!" she says to everyone.  Her thoughts drift to Nobody walking into and being enveloped by the unnatural darkness.  She pays extra attention to things that could be spiders and thinks of a million ways to kill drow elves.  She wakes up refreshed and alert, a notion of revenge in her mind...

"Eep!" She looks at Otrov after jolted out of her familiars senses, well she did ask for it. "Err Phase spider? Ok right, I'm glad you're looking out for me" she says with more than two pink cheeks she follows with her weapons at ready.

Happy to get some rest she dreamt of being surrounded by the flames of the flameskull her spell keeping it at bay and the skull that she tried to do a ruse with and coughing after inhaling some of the dust from the flameskulls redeath. Then, Flashes of her teacher tapping his foot while her arms were stretched forward thumbs touching fingers the Gnome saying "No, no that's all wrong! its like this" the gnome doing the same thing a cone of fire leaped from the gnome to the haybale catching it on fire the Gnome looked at her and shaked his head it was time they parted ways 

least she caught on to a summoning spell and a few other minor spells he bid her adue. Margret watched the funny little fellow with gratitude as they parted ways her familiar Marco at the time a tiny bat hanging in her hair   

When it was her time to watch she did it without the light spell if anyone could see her blue grey eyes now have tiny flecks of purple

Her thoughts were they should of left the guardian alone and wonders how they can rescue two people from the clutches of an evil monster

Later she looks around at their motley crew after eating breakfast of hard tack

"Well?"