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Round 1: Spiders, Busren, Ash, Korrik, Ess
Thousands of spiders now flow out of the fireplace. You can see the mass of spiders flowing out almost like black water as they squirm and scuttle out of the fireplace and towards the party. Ess sees them out of he corner of his eye and yells out "GOD DAMN!" as the first group swarms Ash and the second group swarm Kay. When I say swarm, the black water-like flow of spiders just surround their entire bodies and start biting everywhere!
Ash: Attack: 20 Damage: 5
Kay: Attack: 20 Damage: 7
Both of you feel hundreds of tiny fangs piercing everywhere, the small fangs getting through any clothing or armor and you feel the sharp pain everywhere. It stings like a mofo... but you don't feel any poison hitting your system.
Ben is up! Followed by Ash and Kay. Feel free to queue your turns if it makes sense to do so and I will process in the proper initiative order, of course.
Too carefully indeed. The rapier maybe swats some of the spiders off, but it doesn't do any damage to the black arachnid mass on Kay.
((Good point Rod. If there's a nat 1 rolled here, depending on the type of attack, I feel that attack will automatically hit the person who the swarm is on instead of the swarm. You have been warned. LOL))
Ash is up (with inspiration!) then Kay. No change to map.
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((Sorry! Been super busy at work! Am I still in time to annoy @spider by calling spiders insects??))
Ash sees the the black carpet of insects flowing out of the fireplace and simply can’t fathom what it is, or what’s going on. That is until the others start reacting and the spiders reach her and start biting! “Ouch! Oh hells!!... oh no!”.
She panics, but luckily she already has her daggers drawn, and instinctively starts trying to get the swarm off her and kill a few...
Bonus Action: Ash uses her Steady Aim trait to get advantage (and sneak attack)...
As a bonus action, you give yourself advantage on your next attack roll on the current turn. You can use this bonus action only if you haven’t moved during this turn, and after you use the bonus action, your speed is 0 until the end of the current turn.
Ash, you're able to flick off a good amount of spiders off your body, and you definitely kill a good amount in the process as well. Damn those daggers are sharp. The thing is, those arachnids are so small that the creepy crawly mass doesn't take as much damage in the end as say a torso would. (-6)
Korrik, you fumble around with your staff as the spiders nip you, and are able to smack a good number of them off (-5). Your swats and stomps just don't have the same effect. The spiders latch on and you aren't able to get any off.
Ess turns around completely and now sees Ash and Kay covered in the spiders. "GAAAAK! Oh oh.. Ok.... Ash... steady.... steady...." he is taking his longsword out as he is saying this. He raises it up in the air with two hands, and tries to bring it down directly beside Ash, so the blade cuts downward parallel to her body as close as he can to her body without cutting her.
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And Ess's sword takes a good chunk of spider off Ash's body! (-4) "Yeah! Got some of 'em!"
Next round: Spiders, Busren, Ash, Korrik, Ess
The spiders continue to nip away at Ash and Kay. Both groups of spiders are quite close to being half the size... which would mean less biting... but not yet.
Ash: Attack: 17 Damage: 6
Kay: Attack: 17 Damage: 9
Ben is up! Then Ash, then Korrik. No change to the map.
I don't want to mess up those rolls, so posting again. Ash, those spiders are covering your cat-face and are biting the hell out of it. It's straight out of a horror movie. It's horrific. I imagine you would be screaming now.
Korrik, the spiders don't seem to bother you in this moment.
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Ash is definitely screaming... ...until the spiders start going in her mouth!... and then she’s just freaking out and going berserk, spiting and spinning and slashing and jabbing...
She doesn’t even really notice Ess’s great sword swipe either! She is out of it!..
((Can I assume she gets sneak attack from an ally within 5ft? I think so))
Attack action: Attack: 15 Damage: 4
Bonus attack: Attack: 9 Damage: 2
((Omg I want to put the sneak attack on the crit so bad but she would have put it on the first one to hit!!))
Ash, your daggers cut hundreds of spiders, their blood (not even going to try and guess what color given Spiderwranger here, hahaha!) going all over the place as you peel the mass of spiders off. You see the clump of them all over you is much smaller now... (-7)
Korrik, you swat and swipe but the pain is too intense for you to really be able to focus on what you're doing.
"Hold still! One.... two....."Ess says as he brings his sword up over his head again with two hands trying again to slice parallel down Ashs body...
Attack: 8 Damage: 10
He is off balance this time and his sword hits the wooden floor.
Ash can't take it anymore. The mass of spiders still left on her body take her over and start eating her face. (sorry, Spiderwrangler... they would never do that! hahaha). She falls to the ground with the spiders all over her face, likely eating now into her still face as she lay unconscious.
Kay, the ones biting you don't seem to bother you again in this moment.
Ben is up! Then Ash makes her death save, then Korrik is up.
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((Clearish! It's called hemolymph! It's also how they extend their legs, they only have muscles to pull them in, so can pressurize them to straighten them, like turning on a fire hose.))
Round 1: Spiders, Busren, Ash, Korrik, Ess
Thousands of spiders now flow out of the fireplace. You can see the mass of spiders flowing out almost like black water as they squirm and scuttle out of the fireplace and towards the party. Ess sees them out of he corner of his eye and yells out "GOD DAMN!" as the first group swarms Ash and the second group swarm Kay. When I say swarm, the black water-like flow of spiders just surround their entire bodies and start biting everywhere!
Ash: Attack: 20 Damage: 5
Kay: Attack: 20 Damage: 7
Both of you feel hundreds of tiny fangs piercing everywhere, the small fangs getting through any clothing or armor and you feel the sharp pain everywhere. It stings like a mofo... but you don't feel any poison hitting your system.
Ben is up! Followed by Ash and Kay. Feel free to queue your turns if it makes sense to do so and I will process in the proper initiative order, of course.
Map is updated.
Ben is stunned at first at the sheer number number of spiders mumbling,
"Well, spork. That is substantially more than I expect."
He quickly pulls out his rapier and carefully tries to kill as many in the cloud of spiders on Kay as he can, maybe too carefully.
Attack: 17 Damage: 3
He starts humming a worried tune granting bardic inspiration to Ash.
Too carefully indeed. The rapier maybe swats some of the spiders off, but it doesn't do any damage to the black arachnid mass on Kay.
((Good point Rod. If there's a nat 1 rolled here, depending on the type of attack, I feel that attack will automatically hit the person who the swarm is on instead of the swarm. You have been warned. LOL))
Ash is up (with inspiration!) then Kay. No change to map.
Kay brings his staff down on the swarm, then tries knocking them off him in a flailing flurry of swatting and stomping.
"AHHHH! OH FORK, I'M AWAKE, I'M AWAKE!"
Kay realizes that he did not in fact, nod off, and that he is being swarmed by loads and loads of spiders.
Staff Attack: 13 Damage: 11
Flurry of Swats Attack: 8 Damage: 6
Flurry of Stomps Attack: 8 Damage: 4
DM: Forged in Chaos, Spiders of the Abyss, The Sundered Way, Champions of the Citadel
Active Characters:
Breldo, Halfling Ranger | Kathryn, Wood Elf Rogue/Ranger | Kroshav, Dragonborn Paladin | T'laren Farsiel, Wood Elf Fighter | Trill, Kenku Bard | Val "Janellae", Mark of Shadow Elf Warlock
((We gotta step up our game or these spiders are gonna eat us!))
((Says the guy not being munched on. :D ))
DM: Forged in Chaos, Spiders of the Abyss, The Sundered Way, Champions of the Citadel
Active Characters:
Breldo, Halfling Ranger | Kathryn, Wood Elf Rogue/Ranger | Kroshav, Dragonborn Paladin | T'laren Farsiel, Wood Elf Fighter | Trill, Kenku Bard | Val "Janellae", Mark of Shadow Elf Warlock
((If Kay goes down it ain't going to be pretty for Ben!))
((Sorry! Been super busy at work! Am I still in time to annoy @spider by calling spiders insects??))
Ash sees the the black carpet of insects flowing out of the fireplace and simply can’t fathom what it is, or what’s going on. That is until the others start reacting and the spiders reach her and start biting! “Ouch! Oh hells!!... oh no!”.
She panics, but luckily she already has her daggers drawn, and instinctively starts trying to get the swarm off her and kill a few...
Bonus Action: Ash uses her Steady Aim trait to get advantage (and sneak attack)...
As a bonus action, you give yourself advantage on your next attack roll on the current turn. You can use this bonus action only if you haven’t moved during this turn, and after you use the bonus action, your speed is 0 until the end of the current turn.
Attack action: Attack: 21 Damage: 4 (piercing damage) plus 6 sneak attack damage.
((Inspiration not yet spent))
GILLAIN OF ATHKATLA - Human Paladin - Into the Mists PHILLIP THE GRUNG - Grung Eldritch Knight - Tomb of Annihilation
ROBWIN WINDROBE - High Elf Wizard - Dragon of Icespire Peak EVE DARKSHORE - Tiefling Warlock - Rime of the Frost Maiden
ASH OF THE FIRE - Tabaxi Rogue - Ghosts of Marshswamp LIA STARBORN - Aasimar Bard - Out of the Abyss
Ash, you're able to flick off a good amount of spiders off your body, and you definitely kill a good amount in the process as well. Damn those daggers are sharp. The thing is, those arachnids are so small that the creepy crawly mass doesn't take as much damage in the end as say a torso would. (-6)
Korrik, you fumble around with your staff as the spiders nip you, and are able to smack a good number of them off (-5). Your swats and stomps just don't have the same effect. The spiders latch on and you aren't able to get any off.
Ess turns around completely and now sees Ash and Kay covered in the spiders. "GAAAAK! Oh oh.. Ok.... Ash... steady.... steady...." he is taking his longsword out as he is saying this. He raises it up in the air with two hands, and tries to bring it down directly beside Ash, so the blade cuts downward parallel to her body as close as he can to her body without cutting her.
Attack: 17 Damage: 8
-> I will continue this in a new post.
And Ess's sword takes a good chunk of spider off Ash's body! (-4) "Yeah! Got some of 'em!"
Next round: Spiders, Busren, Ash, Korrik, Ess
The spiders continue to nip away at Ash and Kay. Both groups of spiders are quite close to being half the size... which would mean less biting... but not yet.
Ash: Attack: 17 Damage: 6
Kay: Attack: 17 Damage: 9
Ben is up! Then Ash, then Korrik. No change to the map.
I don't want to mess up those rolls, so posting again. Ash, those spiders are covering your cat-face and are biting the hell out of it. It's straight out of a horror movie. It's horrific. I imagine you would be screaming now.
Korrik, the spiders don't seem to bother you in this moment.
Ben is up.
Korrik keeps swatting and stomping. "HALP!"
Staff Attack: 8 Damage: 5
Stomp Attack: 25 Damage: 6
DM: Forged in Chaos, Spiders of the Abyss, The Sundered Way, Champions of the Citadel
Active Characters:
Breldo, Halfling Ranger | Kathryn, Wood Elf Rogue/Ranger | Kroshav, Dragonborn Paladin | T'laren Farsiel, Wood Elf Fighter | Trill, Kenku Bard | Val "Janellae", Mark of Shadow Elf Warlock
Ben says,
"Your mother's were doing beatles!"
To the ones on Kay.
Damage: 2
(Dc 13 wisdom save)
"Just keep squishing! For the love of the gods just keep squishing!"
((LOL))
Spiders WIS: 14
They are too angry to care about the noise coming out of Ben's mouth.
Ash is up!
Ash is definitely screaming... ...until the spiders start going in her mouth!... and then she’s just freaking out and going berserk, spiting and spinning and slashing and jabbing...
She doesn’t even really notice Ess’s great sword swipe either! She is out of it!..
((Can I assume she gets sneak attack from an ally within 5ft? I think so))
Attack action: Attack: 15 Damage: 4
Bonus attack: Attack: 9 Damage: 2
((Omg I want to put the sneak attack on the crit so bad but she would have put it on the first one to hit!!))
Plus 5 sneak attack damage.
GILLAIN OF ATHKATLA - Human Paladin - Into the Mists PHILLIP THE GRUNG - Grung Eldritch Knight - Tomb of Annihilation
ROBWIN WINDROBE - High Elf Wizard - Dragon of Icespire Peak EVE DARKSHORE - Tiefling Warlock - Rime of the Frost Maiden
ASH OF THE FIRE - Tabaxi Rogue - Ghosts of Marshswamp LIA STARBORN - Aasimar Bard - Out of the Abyss
Ash, your daggers cut hundreds of spiders, their blood (not even going to try and guess what color given Spiderwranger here, hahaha!) going all over the place as you peel the mass of spiders off. You see the clump of them all over you is much smaller now... (-7)
Korrik, you swat and swipe but the pain is too intense for you to really be able to focus on what you're doing.
"Hold still! One.... two....." Ess says as he brings his sword up over his head again with two hands trying again to slice parallel down Ashs body...
Attack: 8 Damage: 10
He is off balance this time and his sword hits the wooden floor.
Next round: Spiders, Busren, Ash, Korrik, Ess
Bite bite bite!
Ash: Attack: 23 Damage: 15
Kay: Attack: 8 Damage: 9
Ash can't take it anymore. The mass of spiders still left on her body take her over and start eating her face. (sorry, Spiderwrangler... they would never do that! hahaha). She falls to the ground with the spiders all over her face, likely eating now into her still face as she lay unconscious.
Kay, the ones biting you don't seem to bother you again in this moment.
Ben is up! Then Ash makes her death save, then Korrik is up.
Ben is horrified, they are going to die to a bunch of bugs. Well, some of them are...
He looks over at Kay, who looks bad then at the downed Ash.
"They are just spiders! Get up and..."
Healing word: Squish!
Healing: 6
(On Ash)
Ash was slashing and stabbing until she was entirely overwhelmed. She fell to the floor unconscious with the spiders covering her...
... ...
And then from out of nowhere she’s back! ...She sits up choking and spitting bugs. “AAGHH!!.. NOOOO!!... Get these things off meeee!!........”.
She sees a glint of silver next to her and manages to grab up a dagger. She stands and slashes at the spiders again...
Attack action: Attack: 18 Damage: 6
She uses her bardic inspiration to add 3 to the attack roll...
((If that hits she adds 4 sneak attack damage))
Oh my oh my.... can Ash bonus-action-disengage and move behind Ben? ((like where she always seems to be these days!)).
GILLAIN OF ATHKATLA - Human Paladin - Into the Mists PHILLIP THE GRUNG - Grung Eldritch Knight - Tomb of Annihilation
ROBWIN WINDROBE - High Elf Wizard - Dragon of Icespire Peak EVE DARKSHORE - Tiefling Warlock - Rime of the Frost Maiden
ASH OF THE FIRE - Tabaxi Rogue - Ghosts of Marshswamp LIA STARBORN - Aasimar Bard - Out of the Abyss
((Clearish! It's called hemolymph! It's also how they extend their legs, they only have muscles to pull them in, so can pressurize them to straighten them, like turning on a fire hose.))
"Mother forking spooning ladles!"
Staff Attack: 23 Damage: 6
Stomp Attack: 19 Damage: 7
((That's a bit better...)
DM: Forged in Chaos, Spiders of the Abyss, The Sundered Way, Champions of the Citadel
Active Characters:
Breldo, Halfling Ranger | Kathryn, Wood Elf Rogue/Ranger | Kroshav, Dragonborn Paladin | T'laren Farsiel, Wood Elf Fighter | Trill, Kenku Bard | Val "Janellae", Mark of Shadow Elf Warlock