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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dr Simon" data-source="post: 4898682" data-attributes="member: 21938">Winter had missed the Old Vashti's funeral by several weeks, but he recognised her successor, referred to locally as the "Young" Vashti, as Aru Leng, the grand-niece of the Old Vashti and a long-term resident of the narvinda.Aru told Winter of another group of people gathered together by the Old Vashti's last will and testament, and sent on some kind of mystery trail set up by the old woman. Currently, these people were investigating missing livestock to the south of town, so Winter set off to find them.Beyond the outskirts of town he found a farm on the eaves of an ancient bamboo forest. The farmer regarded him strangely at first, muttering something aout "another one", but eventually told Winter that the people he was after ("a strange looking lot") had followed the trail of a creature that had been taking his livestock into Kumo Forest, meaning the bamboo.Winter was not, by nature, a tracker, but it wasn't too hard to follow the trail of a large group of people who had recently cut their way through tangled forest. And then the sounds of battle drew him on, over tumbled, moss-covered bamboo culms and old fallen stones to a crevasse rent through a cliff face. Within he found a web-choked ravine, and at the end, a strange battle in progress.Dominating all is a huge spider-creature, easily the size of a house, balanced on a massive web that swept down to the ground like a scramble net. One leg is severed, and it bleeds from other wounds. Instead of a spider's head, it has three pale mask-like human faces, joined by the eyes and eerily impassive. Smoke or dark mist seems to rise from its back, and as Winter watches an small smider, still about the size of a horse, casts a strand of web up to another web-net high above and begins to climb out of the smoke.Two comparitively tiny figures are stood upon the net, fighting the terrible spider-demon. One is a young Asharan man, wielding a scimitar with incredible elan. He seems to be fencing with one of the spider's legs, neither of them scoring a hit on the other. To his right is baboon in man's clothing, its arms wreathed in lightning. The baboon is doing better than the Asharan man, scorching the huge spider with a single touch of its lightning wreathed paws.In front of the net is a striking red-haired woman in a simple wrap-around dress. Another of the smaller spiders drops from above to land behind her, and she whirls around to face it. As she does so, a pair of fiery feathers manifest before her and slam into the spider, causing it to crumple into a ball. A third of the smaller giant spiders leaps from a lower web - Winter had not spotted it until it moved - and scuttles over to the woman. There is a flash of some kind of glowing shield around her, but the spider still manages to nip her with its mandibles before dropping back in a defensive posture.Finally, across to the left, a wild-looking albino girl, passingly similar to Winter would look if he never bathed or cut his hair, leaps from a cave opening and charges towards a big cat, what looks like a Fnoi tiger, lurking nearby. Thw white girl has unnaturally long claws or talons, and she rakes the tiger savagely.[sblock=OOC]Although that's from Winter's viewpoint, hopefully everyone can figure out what happened to them in that round (except Mystal Marr who is hidden from Winter's view. See below). At the moment, Annika is the only one able to see Winter, although she is threatened by a giant spider.Annika - Magic Missile on Spider #3, 5 damage, enough to kill it.Three Flowers - Balance check 15+1=16, success. Able to make 5 ft. step to reach Huge Spider but suffers and AoO, which misses. Three Flowers attack 3+5=8, also misses.Mystal Marr - Focussed Strike. Concentration 20+8 =28, +2d6 damage. Two attacks for Shadow Technique. Attack #1 9+3=12, fails to pierce carapace. Attack #2 16+3=19, success. Damage 1d4-1+2d6= 8 total.Growling Ape - Lightning touch attack 9+6=15, hit. Damage 1d6+3=6Spider #1 (only one left), charges Annika. Hits for 5 damage. Annika makes Fortitude save.White Girl charges Shakou. Claw attack hits for 5 damage plus poison, Shakou fails Fort save, suffers 6 Str damage.Winter can act in this round, followed by Shakou.Nearest to Winter are Annika and Spider #1. Then Huge Spider plus Three Flowers and Growling Ape adjacent (and Marr on top), finally Shakou and White Girl.  There is also the other smaller giant spider climbing higher into the webs.[/sblock]</blockquote>

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