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Session #8: "Wow. Is your farm under there, somewhere?."
(Session of RL May 15th, 2003)
The human girl Lissia took the adventurers off the main road, along a well-worn wagon trail. After 15 minutes of riding, the woods openned up in front of them, and they saw the Longwood farm.
The Longwoods were a prosperous and large farming family, and their buildings told the tale. Nearest to the adventurers stood three houses clustered around a well, one of the houses only newly finished. Behind these were a large enclosed chicken coop, a pig barn and sty, a few tool sheds, some out-buildings, a smokehouse, a farm kitchen, and at least two root cellars. And at the back stood the barn, a long two-storied structure with a steeply pitched roof and big double doors. It was quite a nice place.
...If it hadn't been covered with long, thick, spittle-colored spider webs. Webs stretched from building to building, flowing out of open windows and doors, stuck to eves and steps. The stuff almost completely obscured the chicken coop and pig barn, and partially covered two of the three houses. They could make out the shapes of pigs, chickens - even a dog - coccooned in various places around the farmyard.
"Wow," entoned Riva, his great axe at the ready. "And listen: it's too quiet. Nothing is stirring. I'm not sure how much 'saving' we'll be doing today...." His voice trailed off as he looked at Lissia. Tears began to well up in the girl's eyes. Riva tried to recover: "But we'll do plenty of spider splitting, I'll tell you that." He smiled weakly.
Thaile turned to the Longwood girl. "You'd be safest staying right here, with the horses," said Thaile. "The rest of us will carefully go through the farm....." Her voice trailed off as she saw Riva striding off towards one of the houses, while Garret and Rowan approached another. Teiran, mainwhile, was eyeing-up the third house with his loaded crossbow. "Or, I suppose, we could just split up and be ambushed one-at-a-time."
As if on cue, a swarm of tiny spiders lept at Garret and Rowan, out from a window of the house they approached. These were smaller than the one they had seen on the road; perhaps only a foot or two wide, with legs and mandibles out-stretched. Garret raised a cry and loosed his short sword from his scabbard. "They're going after Bavic! ....No, no, you ugly vermin! Attack me, not my dog!" Garret shouted.
Thaile shook her head. "Anyway, stay with the horses!" she shouted over her shoulder at Lissia as she hustled off to join the battle.
More of Session #8 to come!
(Session of RL May 15th, 2003)
The human girl Lissia took the adventurers off the main road, along a well-worn wagon trail. After 15 minutes of riding, the woods openned up in front of them, and they saw the Longwood farm.
The Longwoods were a prosperous and large farming family, and their buildings told the tale. Nearest to the adventurers stood three houses clustered around a well, one of the houses only newly finished. Behind these were a large enclosed chicken coop, a pig barn and sty, a few tool sheds, some out-buildings, a smokehouse, a farm kitchen, and at least two root cellars. And at the back stood the barn, a long two-storied structure with a steeply pitched roof and big double doors. It was quite a nice place.
...If it hadn't been covered with long, thick, spittle-colored spider webs. Webs stretched from building to building, flowing out of open windows and doors, stuck to eves and steps. The stuff almost completely obscured the chicken coop and pig barn, and partially covered two of the three houses. They could make out the shapes of pigs, chickens - even a dog - coccooned in various places around the farmyard.
"Wow," entoned Riva, his great axe at the ready. "And listen: it's too quiet. Nothing is stirring. I'm not sure how much 'saving' we'll be doing today...." His voice trailed off as he looked at Lissia. Tears began to well up in the girl's eyes. Riva tried to recover: "But we'll do plenty of spider splitting, I'll tell you that." He smiled weakly.
Thaile turned to the Longwood girl. "You'd be safest staying right here, with the horses," said Thaile. "The rest of us will carefully go through the farm....." Her voice trailed off as she saw Riva striding off towards one of the houses, while Garret and Rowan approached another. Teiran, mainwhile, was eyeing-up the third house with his loaded crossbow. "Or, I suppose, we could just split up and be ambushed one-at-a-time."
As if on cue, a swarm of tiny spiders lept at Garret and Rowan, out from a window of the house they approached. These were smaller than the one they had seen on the road; perhaps only a foot or two wide, with legs and mandibles out-stretched. Garret raised a cry and loosed his short sword from his scabbard. "They're going after Bavic! ....No, no, you ugly vermin! Attack me, not my dog!" Garret shouted.
Thaile shook her head. "Anyway, stay with the horses!" she shouted over her shoulder at Lissia as she hustled off to join the battle.
More of Session #8 to come!
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