A Hard Time in Harrowdale: The Cavernous Cellar Caper

Abby rubbed her thin ankle, where the rat had bit her, and made an exaggeratedly sad face. "Ouch that really hurts. And it burns too." the girl mumbled as she walked behind the men. She still had her shortbow at the ready, but decided against spearheading the exploration effort.

[sblock] Fort save: 2-1=1 [sblock]

Cobwebs, Spiders, and Watery Caves

Evanar leads with Fayne close behind, heading more or less straight down the tunnel. The further you go in, the more spiders you notice among the cobwebs, and there are a few pale cave-crickets about. After about 30 feet, you find the floor more slanted, and water lies along the lower end of the floor over there. This far into the cave, the spiders you see in the cobwebs are about the size of your hands.....

It looks like the cave continues on from here, and expands a bit wider. Looks to be more water in the cave ahead.

[sblock=ooc]InvisibleCastle hates everyone. My own rolls om it for other games in recent weeks have been absolutely horrible, with two minor exceptions this week. Dunno why.

I'll move things along again in a day or two, with an updated map.[/sblock]

Fayne frowns. "I like not the look of these spiders, and they seem to be getting larger the further in we go."

*shudder* "lets hope our luck continues"

The calishite refrains from commenting, and follows quietly.

[sblock=ooc]Nah, they're still technically Fine-sized, just close to Diminutive, and they're not really a threat. If attacked, they'd probably just flee. You are here to exterminate the vermin infestation, though.[/sblock]

Fayne smashes the spiders where he can, with heavy boot and gauntleted hand. He wasn't that concerned about these smallish spiders in particular, but he didn't like the fact that they seemed to be getting bigger.

Spiders!

Evanar and Fayne lead the way into the cave, though Evanar is still fairly injured from the rats that swarmed him earlier. After heading into the cave some 30 or 40 feet, taking the path ahead rather than the side-path, Evanar spots two big spiders nearby! One hangs in a thick web up in a corner to Evanar's right, the other hangs in another thick web up in a corner to his left.

By this point, Evanar is standing in a bit of water, about ankle-deep, and the group can see that this part of the cave only goes on a little further, and the ground is sloped a bit downward, covered in a bit of water ahead. It looks like the water is coming through a crevice near the floor ahead, and flowing through another small crevice to Evanar's right.

The two spiders nearby cringe slightly as Fayne's magically-lit glaive passes near enough to shine bright light in the critters' many eyes, and then they chitter and starts snapping mandibles, waving forelegs angrily..... These spiders, unlike the smaller ones in the passageway, are easily the size of human children or adult halflings. They start to lunge at Evanar......!

[sblock=ooc]Apologies for the delay, EN World's been working terribly for me this week thanks to stupid GoogleAds crashing my browser, so I've only managed to post updates sporadically, and I always start with updating the games I'm in that are closest to the first page.

Please roll initiatives for a fight with these Small monstrous spiders. The spiders got initiatives of 21, 18, 16, and 9. If you beat the 21 Initiative, go ahead and post your round-1 action as well.

Map is attached. As usual, A= Abde'ragman, a= Abrielle, E= Evanar, and F= Fayne. The numbered s's are spiders the size of halflings. Spaces with both gray and blue are actually cave-wall, but with a long, thin crevice near the bottom of the wall, through which the water flows. Only spiders s2 and s3 are visible, while spiders s1 and s4 are out of view from the group's current position.[/sblock]