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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nail" data-source="post: 913167" data-attributes="member: 224">another daily update!...I'm offline for the weekend, so next update on monday! Session #8: "Old MacDonald had a farm,  Eeek!  Iiee!  Eeek!  Iiee!  Oww!"(Session of RL May 15th, 2003)As the adventurers moved along the road to Eaglesford, the forest around them thickened.  The last farm they had past was a mile behind them, and the spider attack a short time ago had put them on edge.  So perhaps it's was not surprising that this time they were able to spot the creature running toward them while it was still far away.  They drew their weapons in anticipation.It turned out to be a sturdy-looking human girl, not more than 17, dressed in torn and bloodied clothing.  She was running toward them, waving with one arm and yelling, while carrying a small bundle in her other arm.  A live chicken, it turned out."Oh my god oh my god oh my god oh my god....you've got to help me!" the girl sobbed.  As she ran up to the group they could see her shoulder and legs covered with scratches and wounds.  Her left foot and leg was swollen, with two prominent bite marks."Spider bites." Riva muttered darkly.  He absently touched his recent wounds.  Rowan carefully tended to the girl while she gave them her story.  Her name was Lissia Longwood, and she and her family had been attacked by spiders early this morning at their farm.  She had managed to shut herself in the chicken coop, and had waited in there until only an hour or so ago, when she had finally gotten up enough courage to make a break for it.  When she left, she said she had seen webs everywhere, and no sign of her folks or brothers or sisters."So, how many spiders were there?" asked Thaile."Oh, there were lots of them!  Forty or fifty, at least....and some of them were this big!" Lissia stretched her arms as wide as they could go, while the adventurers looked on in amazement.  "Some of them might have been even bigger than that!"Garret started to laugh, then choked it down to an amazed smile. "You said there were how many?  40 to 50?  Oh boy.  And you need us to help, and save your family and your farm?" The girl nodded emphatically, accidentally knocking off one of the bandages Rowan was wrapping her with. Lissia looked from face to face among the party.  "You're adventurers, right?  This is the sort of thing you can do, right?"Thaile smiled and shook her head. "We had trouble with just four spiders, only a few days ago.  And lots of trouble with just one, back there," Thaile pointed back up the road to Three Oaks. "But with that many....We're really in for it, aren't we?"  Thaile looked from Garret, to Tieran, and back to Garret again."Maybe," Riva responded, standing on the road.  "But I look at it this way."  Riva gave a test swing with his axe through the air in front of him.  "My great axe needs more spider-splitting practice."Lissia nodded and smiled at the dwarf in awed wonder.  Behind her, the rest of the party just shook their heads.An adventurer's work is never..... More of Session #8 to come: Riva gets the battle(s) he's always wanted!!</blockquote>

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