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Miryam carefully makes her way down the rope, her eyes falling upon the walls and webbed corners of the chamber as she descends, reaching the wet, slimy floor of the cistern as the sounds of water dripping through the grate in the center of the room echo amongst the breathing of the pathfinders.
Jalil, seeing everyone safely down, pulls the rope up and then lowers his equipment down before going himself. His eyes adjust quickly to the lower light as Miryam's motes of light hover in the air casting light about the room. Unslinging his bow his gaze upon the one unusual body tangled in the webs that looks much different than the dire rat sized corpses. Jalil determines quite quickly that the corpse in the web is that of a bloodless derro.
Kayleigh is already off towards the north tunnel even as Jalil unshoulders his bow. She makes it several yards down the tunnel, sticking to the walkway on the east wall as the noxious fumes of the foul water from the center ditch grow stronger down the hall. The ditch is filled with sewage and other oddities that have been dumped to the sewers from above floating along the surface of the water.
Kayleigh is about halfway towards a junction in the sewer tunnel ahead when Evrand calls out a warning to the others still gathered in the square cistern "Giant spider! Up there in the corner!" he says pointing to the northwest corner of the chamber, high up in the corner.
The spider seems to have seen the group as well...
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Everyone roll initiative!
The spider is 20' off the ground in the northwest corner near the ceiling. Marked with the red dot on the updated map below. 5' squares on the map, if you move, please describe your path somewhat - that can be in the OOC section.
and a brief word on combat in PbP's I run...
Everyone roll initiative and then post your action for when your turn comes up. Keeping in mind that sometimes the situation changes slightly as combat moves forward in PbP. If some action will drastically effect your action it is fine to include an alternative in the OOC section of your post, but try to avoid too many if, then, else statements.
If some action taken by the enemy or other party member affects your action, I generally adjust your action as necessary to have it make sense while keeping the essence of what you wanted to do. These are typically small adjustments just to be sure you still get to do something without slowing the combat too much.
Also, when I post the GM post I sometimes craft the post outside of init order even though the actions all happened on your initiative. Slightly more narrative that way, though mechanically actions happened on your init. You'll see this more in multi-combatant scenarios.
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Jalil, seeing everyone safely down, pulls the rope up and then lowers his equipment down before going himself. His eyes adjust quickly to the lower light as Miryam's motes of light hover in the air casting light about the room. Unslinging his bow his gaze upon the one unusual body tangled in the webs that looks much different than the dire rat sized corpses. Jalil determines quite quickly that the corpse in the web is that of a bloodless derro.
Kayleigh is already off towards the north tunnel even as Jalil unshoulders his bow. She makes it several yards down the tunnel, sticking to the walkway on the east wall as the noxious fumes of the foul water from the center ditch grow stronger down the hall. The ditch is filled with sewage and other oddities that have been dumped to the sewers from above floating along the surface of the water.
Kayleigh is about halfway towards a junction in the sewer tunnel ahead when Evrand calls out a warning to the others still gathered in the square cistern "Giant spider! Up there in the corner!" he says pointing to the northwest corner of the chamber, high up in the corner.
The spider seems to have seen the group as well...
[sblock=OOC]
Everyone roll initiative!
The spider is 20' off the ground in the northwest corner near the ceiling. Marked with the red dot on the updated map below. 5' squares on the map, if you move, please describe your path somewhat - that can be in the OOC section.
and a brief word on combat in PbP's I run...
Everyone roll initiative and then post your action for when your turn comes up. Keeping in mind that sometimes the situation changes slightly as combat moves forward in PbP. If some action will drastically effect your action it is fine to include an alternative in the OOC section of your post, but try to avoid too many if, then, else statements.
If some action taken by the enemy or other party member affects your action, I generally adjust your action as necessary to have it make sense while keeping the essence of what you wanted to do. These are typically small adjustments just to be sure you still get to do something without slowing the combat too much.
Also, when I post the GM post I sometimes craft the post outside of init order even though the actions all happened on your initiative. Slightly more narrative that way, though mechanically actions happened on your init. You'll see this more in multi-combatant scenarios.
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