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<blockquote data-quote="Rybaer" data-source="post: 1122" data-attributes="member: 118"><p>Session #5.4 – The Mechanical Spider</p><p></p><p></p><p>While inspecting the barbed-wire spider web, Amblin placed a foot squarely on the intersection of two strands. It was taut and strong enough to hold his weight. Balance would be required to cross in this manner, but the intersections between the strands were close enough together that even if he fell he should be able to easily catch himself. While testing his weight, a bolt of blue energy coursed along the webbing from just around the other side of the central pedestal in a heartbeat and hit Amblin in the leg. It numbed him, but did not do any permanent damage. </p><p></p><p>It was about that time that Kisty, slowly working her way around the edge, spotted the source of the energy blast. What appeared to be a giant mechanical spider was perched on the far side of the pedestal, underneath the barbed wire web. The webbing obscured the view, but its ten-foot leg-span made it hard to miss.</p><p></p><p>Given their injuries and Rurik’s lack of spells remaining, they retreated back to the bridge to rest. Double watches were posted, but nothing appeared out of the fog to harass them. Once rested, they returned to the ring around the spider web where they discussed different strategies for trying to get across. They had no idea how dangerous the spider was, but they planned for the worst. What they finally settled on was something like this: Rurik would cast Sanctuary on himself, putting his faith in Moradin while crossing the pit. Once he reached the pedestal, he’d do what he could to fix the Dome’s controls and hope for the best. The others would work to support him or distract the spider as best they could in the meantime.</p><p></p><p>Plans sometimes go awry. Sometimes they never even get started. Sometimes half-orcs poke at things they shouldn’t…again.</p><p></p><p>Boaz, bored by all the planning, had wandered around the ring to the far side where he could get a better look at the motionless spider. The fighter tried poking his head just under the web to get a look. The spider remained motionless. Boaz then took out his sword and started tapping on the webbing with it. The spider reacted very quickly by firing a line of barbed wire directly at him. It narrowly missed the half-orc as he lurched backward. Intrigued by the fact that this spider could shoot barbed wire at a distance, he wanted to know more. So, crouched behind his shield so that most of his body was covered, he tried tapping on the web with his sword again. This time the spider didn’t miss. The barbed wire hit his shield straight on and stuck to it. Faster than he could move, the wire had wrapped around Boaz and his shield several times, lashing him helplessly to it. Then, the spider jerked back and pulled the bound fighter fully onto the webbing. Five bolts of blue energy later, the half-orc was unconscious.</p><p></p><p>The others, who had not been paying much attention to Boaz, were shocked when they saw their friend bound to his shield, lying on the web over the Pit, and being electrocuted into unconsciousness. Time to change plans on the fly, they decided. Amblin, with his incredible reflexes and sense of balance, decided to try to run across the webbing while the spider was still distracted with Boaz. He made it fully halfway before a bad step sent his leg between a few strands of webbing. Sharp barbs sliced his leg open and he was stuck in a bad way. The spider was quick to react and darted around the pedestal to get a couple shots of webbing off at the pinned monk. None of them connected, though, and </p><p>Amblin was able to pull himself out and reached the stone column at the center of the web without further harm. He laid flat so the spider would not have a good angle to hit him with webbing.</p><p></p><p>Meanwhile, Kisty was busy flinging sling stones at the spider as best she could to distract it away from Amblin. Nigel was helping Rurik hastily shed his armor so that he might more easily make it across the web to try to repair the device.</p><p></p><p>Amblin took a quick look at the small pedestal and at the pieces scattered about its top. It was a smooth stone cylinder about 1’ in diameter and 2’ tall. Set in the center was a large green gem. Around it in a circle were seven slots where smaller pedestals of varying heights sat…or rather would have been sitting if a large slice of the column hadn’t been cracked off. Three of the seven small pedestals were lying upon the ground next to Amblin. It was clear to the monk that the smaller pedestals were supposed to be placed around the circle in order from tallest to shortest. Upon three of the four remaining pedestals were polished stones of varying colors. One had no stone. Littering the ground among the fallen pedestals were four other polished stones. Green electricity was arcing from the larger stone in the center to each of the smaller pedestals in sequential order.</p><p></p><p>Fixing the controller seemed at once a straightforward and difficult affair. He figured the base pedestal would have to be fixed first just so the three smaller ones could be placed back into their positions. Then, he’d have to figure out which of the four remaining stones went where. That, he realized, might be very tricky. The stones were non-descript in shape and size. Colors were all earth tones: black, white, brown, gray, reds, and others in between. There was no clear order to them.</p><p></p><p>As Amblin related what he was seeing in the middle of the web to the others, still pressed as low as he could to stay out of the spider’s line of fire, Kisty remembered something. She stopped slinging stones and ran over to Boaz, jumping onto his back. Quickly, she stuffed her hand between lines of barbed wire and pulled from his backpack the jar of Sovereign Glue that had been stashed there. Before the mechanical spider even noticed her presence on the web, she had jumped back off. She handed the jar to Rurik as he finished removing his armor.</p><p></p><p>With Kisty heading back to take position near Boaz, Nigel went to the opposite side of the web and drew his bow. Rurik, halfway between the two, cast Sanctuary upon himself and hoped it would be enough to protect him from the spider as he climbed across it. Nigel and Kisty would do everything in their power to keep it distracted…just in case. Rurik only makes it two steps onto the web before he slips and falls through the webbing. He is easily able to catch himself, but is cut up and very exposed to the spider. The mechanical spider shifts its attention to the dwarf and even moves as if to launch a web at him, but hesitates and does not fire. With a silent prayer of thanks to Moradin, Rurik pulled himself back up to the top of the web and decided to crawl across the rest of the web, enduring the damage the barbs would do to his hands and knees.</p><p></p><p>In the meantime, Amblin tried placing each of the four loose stones upon the one small pedestal that was empty. Each time he tried, the central green gem gave him a nasty shock that caused the stone to be knocked off. He guessed that it might only be possible to place the loose stones once all the small pedestals were back in their proper location.</p><p></p><p>Kisty’s sling work, while doing little to damage the spider, is keeping its attention for a while until Nigel one-ups her. He climbed out onto the web a couple feet, crouching so that he could hold on with his hands. He started bouncing up and down to shake the web and get the spider’s attention. It worked. The spider came around the central pedestal and moved toward him. As Nigel tried to hop back off the web, his brilliant idea lost its luster. A fumble roll later, he slipped and fell almost all the way through the web. Before he could even begin to pull himself back up to safety, the spider nailed him with a barbed wire web. He was able to extract himself from most of the first volley of webbing, but as he tried to pull himself up he fumbled again. He started to free-fall toward the inky black fog just below the web. The only thing that prevented him from falling forever down into the unknown depths of the Pit was the last bit of barbed wire webbing still wrapped around his leg. As the wire pulled taut around his thigh, the barbs tore into his flesh, but it held. The spider followed up the first web with another one that firmly wrapped Nigel up. Bound in barbed wire, suspended upside down by a single strand of wire above a bottomless pit, and with a giant mechanical spider approaching him, Nigel was furious beyond words. Several zaps of its subduing electricity failed to have much effect on the elf as he had wisely cast Endure Elements: Electricity upon himself before venturing out onto the web. The spider did, however, bite him with a poison that sapped his strength.</p><p></p><p>While Nigel bravely sacrificed himself in the name of distraction, the dynamic duo of Rurik and Amblin weren’t exactly working miracles while trying to fix the Golden Dome’s controls. Amblin poured the Sovereign Glue on the broken chunk of pedestal that Rurik was holding while the dwarf had it lined up to reattach. Two really bad dex rolls later, Sovereign Glue was all over the chunk of stone as well as Rurik’s hands, and the broken piece ended up about half an inch too high once affixed to the base.</p><p></p><p>**** Pause in the action ****</p><p></p><p>As a DM, I’d like to point out that at this very moment, I don’t things have ever looked so grim for a group that was ever playing one of my games. It wasn’t grim in the sense of a fight going bad because the party got in over their heads…rather, it was more that everything they tried just went very badly. Two consecutive fumbles by Nigel on the web, a 3 and a 2 on the dex checks by Amblin and Rurik to reassemble the controls with the Sovereign Glue. Boaz already well out of the picture. It just didn’t look like things were going to be getting any better. They didn’t. At least, not before they got worse.</p><p></p><p>**** Resume action ****</p><p></p><p>So, to recap where our heroes are: Boaz is bound in barbed wire, lying unconscious on the web. Nigel is bound in barbed wire, hanging underneath the web and weakened severely. Amblin is cut up and “helping” reassemble the magic controls. Rurik’s hands are glued to the chunk of pedestal that he just failed to reattach in the right spot. Kisty is seriously weighing her options…stay and help or take her chances going back up and out of the Pit.</p><p></p><p>Did I mention that things were about to get worse? Well, neither of the guys in the middle noticed when the spider’s attention turned from the helpless Nigel back to them. A volley of barbed wire missed the back of Amblin’s head by mere inches. He threw himself flat on the ground while Rurik summoned the sheer force of will needed to rip his hands free of the pedestal. Peeved, he didn’t even bother to stop to heal himself. Instead, he cast a Sonic Burst at the spider, which failed its save and was stunned. Given that it was climbing upside down along the web, it stun caused it to lose its grip and it fell into the inky black depths. Finally, a victory!</p><p></p><p>No longer worried by the threat of the spider, Rurik and Amblin tried to replace the small pedestals into their grooves in the larger ones top. The poorly placed chunk, however, prevented them from standing upright very well. Rurik tried casting Mend and found that it succeeded in shifting the stone back to its proper location. “Should have tried that before screwing with that glue,” he thought to himself.</p><p></p><p>With all the small pedestals in place, they tried replacing the loose stones. However, no matter how they tried placing them, the green gem kept zapping them back off. A circular groove around the circumference clued them into one more mechanism of the strange controls. They rotated the inner plate a quarter turn counterclockwise and a cylindrical stone shield of sorts rose up out of the base and blocked the green gemstone from the smaller pedestals…</p><p></p><p>…And everything around them disappeared. Nigel and Boaz, no longer bound by barbed wire, plummeted nearly sixty feet and landed hard on the metal floor of the inside of the giant Golden Dome (which turned out to actually be a perfect sphere some 150’ in diameter once the power was turned off). Some distance off to the side, Digger the badger tumbled and rolled down toward the others. Rurik and Nigel were still standing next to the controls on a suspended platform in the very center of the sphere. Kisty, likewise, was standing on a circular catwalk around the controls. They noticed, disappointedly, that there was no door out of the sphere with the power turned off.</p><p></p><p>Nigel and Boaz were both still alive, but very injured and very unhappy. Digger was banged up, but not as badly. He was able to clue Amblin and Rurik into the nature of the loose stones that they sought to place back into their correct locations. He couldn’t recall exactly how it worked, but he thought it had something to do with the cycle of the day. Before trying it out, they pulled everyone up to the control platform and Rurik dispensed some healing to at least keep everyone from immediately bleeding to death.</p><p></p><p>Still not entirely sure which stones went where, they made their best guess and then moved the shield back down to turn the power on. They guessed wrong.</p><p></p><p>Thick clouds of dust borne on strong gales of wind assaulted them from all directions. Powerful discharges of static electricity injured several of them before they could get the shield back up and the power off.</p><p></p><p>Studying the stones again and debating their options, they settled upon another arrangement and turned the power back on. They were rewarded with a beautiful, idyllic landscape. Soft green grass, blue sky, gentle warm breeze, and chirping birds in the distance. What was an even more beautiful sight to the group, however, was the clearly marked exit in the side of a hill not a stone’s throw away. Together, they stumbled out of the Dome and proceeded directly to Shadykin’s underground lounge where they began the long process of resting and healing.</p><p></p><p></p><p>-Rybaer</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rybaer, post: 1122, member: 118"] Session #5.4 – The Mechanical Spider While inspecting the barbed-wire spider web, Amblin placed a foot squarely on the intersection of two strands. It was taut and strong enough to hold his weight. Balance would be required to cross in this manner, but the intersections between the strands were close enough together that even if he fell he should be able to easily catch himself. While testing his weight, a bolt of blue energy coursed along the webbing from just around the other side of the central pedestal in a heartbeat and hit Amblin in the leg. It numbed him, but did not do any permanent damage. It was about that time that Kisty, slowly working her way around the edge, spotted the source of the energy blast. What appeared to be a giant mechanical spider was perched on the far side of the pedestal, underneath the barbed wire web. The webbing obscured the view, but its ten-foot leg-span made it hard to miss. Given their injuries and Rurik’s lack of spells remaining, they retreated back to the bridge to rest. Double watches were posted, but nothing appeared out of the fog to harass them. Once rested, they returned to the ring around the spider web where they discussed different strategies for trying to get across. They had no idea how dangerous the spider was, but they planned for the worst. What they finally settled on was something like this: Rurik would cast Sanctuary on himself, putting his faith in Moradin while crossing the pit. Once he reached the pedestal, he’d do what he could to fix the Dome’s controls and hope for the best. The others would work to support him or distract the spider as best they could in the meantime. Plans sometimes go awry. Sometimes they never even get started. Sometimes half-orcs poke at things they shouldn’t…again. Boaz, bored by all the planning, had wandered around the ring to the far side where he could get a better look at the motionless spider. The fighter tried poking his head just under the web to get a look. The spider remained motionless. Boaz then took out his sword and started tapping on the webbing with it. The spider reacted very quickly by firing a line of barbed wire directly at him. It narrowly missed the half-orc as he lurched backward. Intrigued by the fact that this spider could shoot barbed wire at a distance, he wanted to know more. So, crouched behind his shield so that most of his body was covered, he tried tapping on the web with his sword again. This time the spider didn’t miss. The barbed wire hit his shield straight on and stuck to it. Faster than he could move, the wire had wrapped around Boaz and his shield several times, lashing him helplessly to it. Then, the spider jerked back and pulled the bound fighter fully onto the webbing. Five bolts of blue energy later, the half-orc was unconscious. The others, who had not been paying much attention to Boaz, were shocked when they saw their friend bound to his shield, lying on the web over the Pit, and being electrocuted into unconsciousness. Time to change plans on the fly, they decided. Amblin, with his incredible reflexes and sense of balance, decided to try to run across the webbing while the spider was still distracted with Boaz. He made it fully halfway before a bad step sent his leg between a few strands of webbing. Sharp barbs sliced his leg open and he was stuck in a bad way. The spider was quick to react and darted around the pedestal to get a couple shots of webbing off at the pinned monk. None of them connected, though, and Amblin was able to pull himself out and reached the stone column at the center of the web without further harm. He laid flat so the spider would not have a good angle to hit him with webbing. Meanwhile, Kisty was busy flinging sling stones at the spider as best she could to distract it away from Amblin. Nigel was helping Rurik hastily shed his armor so that he might more easily make it across the web to try to repair the device. Amblin took a quick look at the small pedestal and at the pieces scattered about its top. It was a smooth stone cylinder about 1’ in diameter and 2’ tall. Set in the center was a large green gem. Around it in a circle were seven slots where smaller pedestals of varying heights sat…or rather would have been sitting if a large slice of the column hadn’t been cracked off. Three of the seven small pedestals were lying upon the ground next to Amblin. It was clear to the monk that the smaller pedestals were supposed to be placed around the circle in order from tallest to shortest. Upon three of the four remaining pedestals were polished stones of varying colors. One had no stone. Littering the ground among the fallen pedestals were four other polished stones. Green electricity was arcing from the larger stone in the center to each of the smaller pedestals in sequential order. Fixing the controller seemed at once a straightforward and difficult affair. He figured the base pedestal would have to be fixed first just so the three smaller ones could be placed back into their positions. Then, he’d have to figure out which of the four remaining stones went where. That, he realized, might be very tricky. The stones were non-descript in shape and size. Colors were all earth tones: black, white, brown, gray, reds, and others in between. There was no clear order to them. As Amblin related what he was seeing in the middle of the web to the others, still pressed as low as he could to stay out of the spider’s line of fire, Kisty remembered something. She stopped slinging stones and ran over to Boaz, jumping onto his back. Quickly, she stuffed her hand between lines of barbed wire and pulled from his backpack the jar of Sovereign Glue that had been stashed there. Before the mechanical spider even noticed her presence on the web, she had jumped back off. She handed the jar to Rurik as he finished removing his armor. With Kisty heading back to take position near Boaz, Nigel went to the opposite side of the web and drew his bow. Rurik, halfway between the two, cast Sanctuary upon himself and hoped it would be enough to protect him from the spider as he climbed across it. Nigel and Kisty would do everything in their power to keep it distracted…just in case. Rurik only makes it two steps onto the web before he slips and falls through the webbing. He is easily able to catch himself, but is cut up and very exposed to the spider. The mechanical spider shifts its attention to the dwarf and even moves as if to launch a web at him, but hesitates and does not fire. With a silent prayer of thanks to Moradin, Rurik pulled himself back up to the top of the web and decided to crawl across the rest of the web, enduring the damage the barbs would do to his hands and knees. In the meantime, Amblin tried placing each of the four loose stones upon the one small pedestal that was empty. Each time he tried, the central green gem gave him a nasty shock that caused the stone to be knocked off. He guessed that it might only be possible to place the loose stones once all the small pedestals were back in their proper location. Kisty’s sling work, while doing little to damage the spider, is keeping its attention for a while until Nigel one-ups her. He climbed out onto the web a couple feet, crouching so that he could hold on with his hands. He started bouncing up and down to shake the web and get the spider’s attention. It worked. The spider came around the central pedestal and moved toward him. As Nigel tried to hop back off the web, his brilliant idea lost its luster. A fumble roll later, he slipped and fell almost all the way through the web. Before he could even begin to pull himself back up to safety, the spider nailed him with a barbed wire web. He was able to extract himself from most of the first volley of webbing, but as he tried to pull himself up he fumbled again. He started to free-fall toward the inky black fog just below the web. The only thing that prevented him from falling forever down into the unknown depths of the Pit was the last bit of barbed wire webbing still wrapped around his leg. As the wire pulled taut around his thigh, the barbs tore into his flesh, but it held. The spider followed up the first web with another one that firmly wrapped Nigel up. Bound in barbed wire, suspended upside down by a single strand of wire above a bottomless pit, and with a giant mechanical spider approaching him, Nigel was furious beyond words. Several zaps of its subduing electricity failed to have much effect on the elf as he had wisely cast Endure Elements: Electricity upon himself before venturing out onto the web. The spider did, however, bite him with a poison that sapped his strength. While Nigel bravely sacrificed himself in the name of distraction, the dynamic duo of Rurik and Amblin weren’t exactly working miracles while trying to fix the Golden Dome’s controls. Amblin poured the Sovereign Glue on the broken chunk of pedestal that Rurik was holding while the dwarf had it lined up to reattach. Two really bad dex rolls later, Sovereign Glue was all over the chunk of stone as well as Rurik’s hands, and the broken piece ended up about half an inch too high once affixed to the base. **** Pause in the action **** As a DM, I’d like to point out that at this very moment, I don’t things have ever looked so grim for a group that was ever playing one of my games. It wasn’t grim in the sense of a fight going bad because the party got in over their heads…rather, it was more that everything they tried just went very badly. Two consecutive fumbles by Nigel on the web, a 3 and a 2 on the dex checks by Amblin and Rurik to reassemble the controls with the Sovereign Glue. Boaz already well out of the picture. It just didn’t look like things were going to be getting any better. They didn’t. At least, not before they got worse. **** Resume action **** So, to recap where our heroes are: Boaz is bound in barbed wire, lying unconscious on the web. Nigel is bound in barbed wire, hanging underneath the web and weakened severely. Amblin is cut up and “helping” reassemble the magic controls. Rurik’s hands are glued to the chunk of pedestal that he just failed to reattach in the right spot. Kisty is seriously weighing her options…stay and help or take her chances going back up and out of the Pit. Did I mention that things were about to get worse? Well, neither of the guys in the middle noticed when the spider’s attention turned from the helpless Nigel back to them. A volley of barbed wire missed the back of Amblin’s head by mere inches. He threw himself flat on the ground while Rurik summoned the sheer force of will needed to rip his hands free of the pedestal. Peeved, he didn’t even bother to stop to heal himself. Instead, he cast a Sonic Burst at the spider, which failed its save and was stunned. Given that it was climbing upside down along the web, it stun caused it to lose its grip and it fell into the inky black depths. Finally, a victory! No longer worried by the threat of the spider, Rurik and Amblin tried to replace the small pedestals into their grooves in the larger ones top. The poorly placed chunk, however, prevented them from standing upright very well. Rurik tried casting Mend and found that it succeeded in shifting the stone back to its proper location. “Should have tried that before screwing with that glue,” he thought to himself. With all the small pedestals in place, they tried replacing the loose stones. However, no matter how they tried placing them, the green gem kept zapping them back off. A circular groove around the circumference clued them into one more mechanism of the strange controls. They rotated the inner plate a quarter turn counterclockwise and a cylindrical stone shield of sorts rose up out of the base and blocked the green gemstone from the smaller pedestals… …And everything around them disappeared. Nigel and Boaz, no longer bound by barbed wire, plummeted nearly sixty feet and landed hard on the metal floor of the inside of the giant Golden Dome (which turned out to actually be a perfect sphere some 150’ in diameter once the power was turned off). Some distance off to the side, Digger the badger tumbled and rolled down toward the others. Rurik and Nigel were still standing next to the controls on a suspended platform in the very center of the sphere. Kisty, likewise, was standing on a circular catwalk around the controls. They noticed, disappointedly, that there was no door out of the sphere with the power turned off. Nigel and Boaz were both still alive, but very injured and very unhappy. Digger was banged up, but not as badly. He was able to clue Amblin and Rurik into the nature of the loose stones that they sought to place back into their correct locations. He couldn’t recall exactly how it worked, but he thought it had something to do with the cycle of the day. Before trying it out, they pulled everyone up to the control platform and Rurik dispensed some healing to at least keep everyone from immediately bleeding to death. Still not entirely sure which stones went where, they made their best guess and then moved the shield back down to turn the power on. They guessed wrong. Thick clouds of dust borne on strong gales of wind assaulted them from all directions. Powerful discharges of static electricity injured several of them before they could get the shield back up and the power off. Studying the stones again and debating their options, they settled upon another arrangement and turned the power back on. They were rewarded with a beautiful, idyllic landscape. Soft green grass, blue sky, gentle warm breeze, and chirping birds in the distance. What was an even more beautiful sight to the group, however, was the clearly marked exit in the side of a hill not a stone’s throw away. Together, they stumbled out of the Dome and proceeded directly to Shadykin’s underground lounge where they began the long process of resting and healing. -Rybaer [/QUOTE]
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