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Message: <blockquote data-quote="doghead" data-source="post: 6383099" data-attributes="member: 8243">Day Six, around Midday, on the stairs of the Keep.Tristan takes position at the top of the steps, putting himself between the others and the spiders.Trickle's arrow strikes the nearest spider, knocking it back a step or two. [DAM 1] The other spiders continue their relentless approach. The spiders spread out, three heading to the bottom of the stairs while the others circle around and towards the walls on either side of the party.[sblock=OOC]Tristan's hold has not yet been spent, as the spiders were not close enough to attack yet. So 3 of 3 remaining.You have another 'round' before the spiders on the stairs get close enough to attack. The round after that the spiders will begin coming up over the sides of the stairs and down the walls.[/sblock]Through the doors, Khirynnax finds a hall some 50 by 30 paces. The floors are stone and sound solid enough. At the far end of the hall there is a raised section, a couple of steps higher than the rest. Four doors exit the hall, one on each of the walls to the left and the right, and two at the far end, one in the centre, one to the left. Running around the walls there is a balcony, although there are no steps up to it from the hall itself. There are a number of exits from the balcony leading back into the rest of the building. A section of the balcony along the right wall is partially burnt and collapsed. Scattered around the hall are the remains of some furniture - a couple of long tables, some benches, some iron brasiers. If its not smashed and broken, it lies scattered around the edges of the hall. A couple of dusty tapestries lie on the floor at at the foot of the walls. There is some evidence of fire, scorching of the walls and dirty smoke marks. Someone has set up at least one camp fire inside the hall using bits of furniture as fuel.Everything is dusty, covered with a dark sooty grim. There are almost no cobwebs, big or small. Khirynnax finds the first dead giant spider in the hall. The bodies are old, dry and dusty. There is no evidence of any visible wounds. Looking more closely, Khirynnax begins to notice lots of little spiders corpses, regular spiders, all dead without any signs of violence. He finds another giant spider, suspended from its webs underneath the balcony some fifteen feet up. It, like the first, is a old and desiccated and free of any obvious wounds.Khirynnax hears, ever so faintly, the sound of a child crying. The temperature in the hall drops noticeably. [sblock= Khirynnax]1) What happened here recently? You are not the first visitors. There has been at several attempts to camp here. The lie of the table and a couple of benches suggest a defensive perimeter. There are no bodies except the spider bodies which have been there for at least some years.  2) What should I be on the lookout for? Something that can kill without leaving a mark and  reach 15 feet into the air.3) What here is not what it appears to be? The living no longer claim this castle, but the dead do.[/sblock]</blockquote>

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