Road to Phandalin

Otrov

Otrov looks up at the ceiling every so often, to see if anything is shining back at her. 
“Maybe we try to passage north? I don’t think we tried that last time.  I think Nobody said there was a jelly though.” Otrov whispers to Margey and Dain, as she wipes away the beginning of a tear...

Dain follows at the rear, keeping an eye out for trouble, and having Sabastian close by to help keep watch over the group.

Remembering the Dwarves words Phase Spider Margret whispers

"I don't really know how phase spiders work do you Dain? But I think we need to light a torch and burn the webs. Otrov and anybody who has it get some oil out we may need it if a spider comes along"

she goes to light a torch  to do so unless someone objects

She shrugs "If I'm wrong then I look like a fool"

Zurzg isn't gonna to object, but doesn't got much in the way of oil. He did have tinder and plenty of torches for some unexplained reason, and would help with setting webs on fire. "Zurzg think we may need go after it spread too much. Tall folk not gonna be able to breath much if smoke fill up place. Mmhmm."

She thinks for a second 

"Maybe it would be best that you throw the oil then I toss the torch to burn the webs"

(I'm not sure if you remember Lothar but Kai, Zurzg and Gundrum buried Gundrums brother so he's not just laying around)

Otrov

Otrov tries to find the body of the dead brother dwarf but to no avail (?). 
[OOC - hopefully we searched him - clues are at a premium!]
[where we found brother dearest, I believe there were two options - East and north.]
Otrov will head north to the ridge looking around for tracks in the area and spider eye reflections on the ceiling. How difficult is it to get up that northern embankment?

perception - 10

"Zurzg never given oil." He replied simply. "Only torches and weapons and shield and food and other stuff zurzg find on way. But Zurzg have no oil." He then just looks to Otrov, Dain, and the rest to see if they had any to spare. If not, he lights up a torch and starts burning the webs, starting from those towards the outermost edge.

(To callmeLothar: You and someone else searched him, and discovered the bite damage from a spider. And not from a Phase Spider, considering the body wasn't taken away.)

Otrov

She takes a flask of oil out and looks to Margret, “Ready? One, two, THREE!” And she splashed some of the oil up in the air where indicated....

 Then she’ll hide behind Margey: 15

You carefully burn your way through the tripwires made of spider-silk by burning them with torch and oil. When you enter the cavern where you discovered Lothars body, a gruesome picture awaits you, someone pried the stone grave open and decapitated the dead dwarf. His head is now hanging from a silver thread on display in the middle of the room. Next to him is a second head of another dwarf, you recognise quite a few similarities to Lothar and Gundren. A third empty thread (weighted by a small pebble) is hanging in wait.

Tears stream down the woman's cheeks whispering

"d, Don't touch its an obvious trap... Gods what fiends!"

she looks upwards following the strands length readying her bow

There is no enemy or obvious trap visible, just more webs spaning the ceiling, walls and floor. 

(not realy webs, single strands, more like tripwires) 

Dain is following at the rear of the group. He grimaces as he sees the dangling heads, they were clearly too late to rescue the second brother then. "This is a fool's mission now." He mutters. "The brothers are both dead, and we are going into a complex clearly readied for us, with forces we cannot stand against." He shakes his head, glancing to the others. "What now?" He speaks a bit louder so they can hear him. "Burning those webs will have announced our location, as will burning these others. What do you suggest now?"

Otrov

"Pfft.  Of course.  I say let's burn it all.  They're trying to scare us.  We need to be careful here though - those phase spider thingamabobs sound dangerous.  So those are phase spider webs?  They must be big to grab a mule!  I wonder what colour they are?"

Looking to Dain with a forlorn look on her face, she replies, "What about Nobody?  They know we're poking around and they got the drop on us before, maybe we can find a way to level it a bit?  I think the hardest thing will be not getting poisoned!  i mean, this guy IS called the Spider, right?  And those things were dark elves, right?  And there's some bugbears hoping around somewhere, right?  And you got all your spells back!  By the way, why don't bugbears have pincers or antennae or mandibles- you know, stuff like that?  Shouldn't we just call them humany bears?  Or two-legged bears?  I was a bit disappointed..."  

Otrov then stops whispering as she notices some pretty dirty vibes coming her way.  "Okay, okay, sorry.  Should I cut them down or shoot them or something?" she asks, pointing at the heads with The Prick.

"Honestly, I don't know,  but I'd rather not step on the strands of web like trip wires, you are the one that said there is a phase spider about"

Otrov

"Hoo, I wish I knew about them!  That was the wizard who told us!"  Otrov frowns, "I wish I were a wizard sometimes, so I could know stuff and have a flying friend to bring me stuff and scout for me, and look through it, and maybe have magical babies with other pets..."  She looks questioningly at the owners of familiars for a second...

Zurzg just looks unbothered by the whole situation. As if he'd seen plenty of horrifying scenes and had become at least somewhat numb to it all. So, with nothing left to burn, he looks to the others. "Nobody not dead. But, Nobody not important. Not know why not put his head there too. Maybe... they need something from last brother?" He jabs a thumb halfhazardly Gundren's way.

"Maybe think he's good enough bait. Zurzg not think so though. But choice need be made. Your choices to make. Zurzg just follow, and kill what he's asked to."

She looks again at the horrid scene

"Its best to leave that alone" 

She starts burning the webs around it leaving the area of the heads and stone intact and as she does so she askes Marco if he can see anything in the trench leading into the cave system

The trench itself is empty, but both exits are covered with webs, there are pebles hanging in those webs pulling on the strings. 

She gives an odd look at the pebbles

"Umm, Otrov anyway of making those pebbles higher? Keeping them taught? I can guess what they are for but you have more experience "

Otrov

The halfling will observe and try to discern the nature of the pebbles in n the webs - what they’re for and how to disable or work around them. 
Investigation - 7