Hexblade's Lost Mine of Phandelver - Main Thread

Ethan swaps his Fire Caster to his other hand for a moment so he can activate his gauntlet.

The disc for his Eldritch Canon pops out of its slot on top and Ethan pulls it out and tosses it towards the ground beside him.

Before the disc makes it all the way, the magic within it flares to life and the magical substance that makes up the Canon, materialises.

The Eldritch Canon is already pointed in Spiders direction and it fires off its pulse of magical force with a whine and a womp.

"Keihäs!"

"Olet kirottu!"

Arvel hexes and blasts the Spider.

Round 1 resolution

As Krikket's arrow disrupts the Spider's spell Tarja was already on the move, her animal instincts getting her a jump on the action before anyone else.  The spider recovers from the sting of Krikket's poison in time to sidestep her charge, however, but is then struck by Arvel's blast.  He grins and starts to say "fine, if you insist on being my enemy..." but is then struck by Ethan's cannon walloping him with ample force damage.  He tumbles backwards and starts to recover when he is hit with Fae's mind spike.  With the hand not on his large black staff he clutches his head, winces in pain and groans a bit while trying to stay focused on keeping at least some space between himself, Tarja and the charging tiefling.  The agile drow does succeed in ducking Zeke's swing from his knees just before muttering a few angry words in what most in the party would not recognize but is Undercommon while raising his spider staff up just a bit. A new sphere of darkness envelops the Spider, Tarja, Zeke the goblin that came with him and the four large spiders.

***Tarja and Zeke can each take an attack of opportunity as their reactions if they so choose as the two hear him move away from them, rolling with disadvantage in the darkness.  Any future attacks in darkness will also be at Disadvantage.***

A haunting laughter is heard in the darkness a moment later and then the spider remarks "now you two are in MY domain!"  The voice sounds like it is directly ahead of you, although no longer within melee range.

The rest of the party witnesses the new, massive sphere of darkness appear and consume two of their party members and hear the Spider's taunts.  A second later the four large spiders come charging out of the darkness and attack the group.  One gets up close and personal with  Ethan (BS3) and tries to bite but cannot get past his heavy armaments.  Another (BS2) has more success as it rushes Arvel and bites into his arm causing 10 piercing damage.  The other spiders rush in to further surround the group but have yet to attack.

***Arvel must also make a DC11 CON save versus 9 poison damage, taking half (4) on a save. (Note that the 'Poisoned' condition does not come into play on this attack, just poison damage.)

Tarja and Zeke hear the goblin inside the darkness panic and start begging the spider for mercy.  Meanwhile Yeemik and his quieter buddy scream and retreat a bit, ducking in behind the rest of the party.  Yeemik yells "I think we're on the menu now!"  To nearby party members including Elra and Fae he yells "quick, weapons!"  "We can help!"

(If anyone in close proximity does decide to arm a goblin you can draw a weapon and drop it or toss it as a free action (but then cannot also draw/sheath more weapons yourself for the turn.))

(sorry, the spider #'s are kind of hard to read)

Elra backs away from the spiders, dropping her mace as she goes by to goblin 2. Once she's backed up 20 feet she looks at the spider that bit into Arvel and points at it, "Alakaʻi iā lākou!" she calls out, a bolt of radiant energy flies towards it.

Vincent swoops down talons extended to take a swipe at the spider that attacked Ethan, distracting him long enough to give Ethan a chance to hit before flying away

 Arvel is not looking so good. His golden eyes flash and a brief aura of fey magic surrounds him almost reflexively.

"BACK. OFF."

Attack: 15 Damage: 9 When she has the opportunity Tarja strikes out at the fleeing black spider. (Also, she does know undercommon!  Did he say anything interesting, or just angry mumbling?)

(Haha, I forgot she had that.  He just did his verbal component for his Darkness magic and ordered the spiders to attack you.  While I'm here I'll do the two Fey Presence saves for Arvel's benefit.  4  9  +0 mod for the spider's WIS.)

Hearing the Drow begin to retreat, Zeke swings out again with his glaive hoping this strike finds it's mark.

Ethan fends off the big spiders attack using his shield, before taking aim with his Fire Caster.

Just before he lets off a bolt of fire, Vincent swoops the big spider, causing it to be distracted as Ethan's bolt of fire shoots in its direction.

The Eldritch Canon beside Ethan turns, taking aim at the big spider to its left and lets off another vortex of force energy.

 (Oops, also forgot the bless! That opportunity attack in the previous post should also have an extra 3 to hit, since the OO attack was after Elra's turn?)

Tarja pursues the fleeing black spider through the darkness, hoping to trample him and free them from this darkness. She can hear the sounds of fighting outside the sphere, but can't quite tell what's going on there. If someone called out to her she'd probably respond, but for now she keeps herself pointed at her drow target.

(Movement and action - charging after the Black Spider. Since he didn't take the Hide action, can I follow and hit him? Using my inspiration to cancel out the disadvantage. Remembering bless this time: Attack roll: 25 damage 9)

Eyes still black as onyx while holding her concentration on keeping the Spiders location, Fae would look to Yeemik, “Elra shows trust in you. So will I.” As a gesture of good faith, not only would the wizard provide him with a weapon, but she’d present him with his dagger. “I better not find this in any of our backs.” She’d emphasize, holding a firm grip on the dagger until he nods for her to let go. 

Fae was not ready to let the Spider hide in his shadows. She was intent on focusing on him as long as she could. The wizard would launch a barrage of missiles towards The Spider.

lvl 1 Magic Missile: 5 | 4 | 4

She will order Edgar to swoop in at The Spider, specifically targeting his staff or his hand on his staff. 

Zeke focuses his fury into the cold rage that fuels his battle trance (Rage) - the clarity washing over him as he lashes out with his glaive, sensing the dark wizard looming in the inky blackness.  As he swings out in the darkness the tiefling can feel the gathering power of the temple guardians swirling around him, adding their strength to his and boiling out to surround the Drow.  

Round 2 resolution

(Apologies Ixi, but you have to be able to see your target to use Magic Missile.  Going to have to ask you for a different action for Fae and Edgar.  Sorry, hate that part of the job!)

Tarja and Zeke are able to follow the Spider's evil laugh and make accurate strikes against him despite the darkness.  Tarja feels her hooves connect with the dark elf's chest and he snarls in pain.  Zeke feels his blade hit a magical barrier of some sort however, denying him the satisfaction of feeling his blade strike the spider.  In return the pair hear the Spider cackle right in front of them in the darkness and mutter a word Tarja understands to roughly translate to 'shatter'.  A sudden, painfully intense ringing noise explodes behind the two heroes, causing 18 thunder damage to each of them (half on a successful DC15 CON saving throw).

The spiders in front of Arvel actually both cower away from him just a bit instead of attacking. (Dodge action for them this turn as they cower, so Disadvantage to attack them for a round.)

Elra's blast goes wide and Ethan and his cannon continue to blast away but only manage to graze one of the spiders with a bit of fire.  In return the spiders both attack him but have even less success.  One goblin looks to pick up the mace, which would be awkwardly large and heavy for him, but then sees two daggers get dropped.  He and Yeemik each grab one and move up near Ethan, but their cautious attacks don't really even get past the many legs of the large spiders.

(OOC Lots of bad rolls on both sides in the large spider melee outside of the darkness, so kind of a quiet round damage wise.)

Elra changes her plans, sending Vincent flying to Arvel. When Vincent finds sound footing on Arvel's shoulder, Elra holds out her amulet and makes a motion like she's grasping onto his shoulder, calling out, "Hoʻohiʻi i nā Pūkini!" Arvel starts to feel his injuries close up as Vincent flies out of reach of the spiders.

Con save: 9

Tarja's body is wracked by the terrible vibrations, and she barely holds on to her animal form. She continues stomping at the Black Spider, determined not to let him out of her reach while she still has the strength. If he gets away, she'd never find him in the darkness again. Attack: 8 Damage: 7

 [edit] I *always* forget the dang bless... probably doesn't matter for either of those rolls though. Definitely can't do anything for the DC15 con save I rolled a 2 on, not gonna bother rolling it, and I guess I don't know the Spider's AC but I doubt an extra 1 helps that one.

Arvel stumbles back to join Fae and blasts one of the spiders.

Zeke roars in frustration as the magical barrier interposes itself between him and his quarry.  The sounds of battle rage around him, but he keeps himself focused on the biggest threat and moves towards the sounds of the drow in the darkness.

Fae will continue her barrage of missiles on the giant spiders  in front of her and Arvel.

Damage: 2 | 4 | 2

(Going to give in to the temptation to roll for Ethan to keep it moving since it's been 2 days since the last DM post.  Repeating his actions from the previous round.)

Ethan firebolt at BS3: 3 Bless + 15, Fire Damage 1

Cannon at BS1: 2 Bless + 9, Force Damage 11