Chapter 10: The City of Spiders

Aelfric takes a pair of ropes and sprints straight up the wall, quickly securing the ropes at the top. Deathwake and Mai'ngor begin climbing, but find that spiders are quickly rushing their positions. Seeing this, Seftan flies up into the air and uses his magics to slow the spiders down.

As the fighters reach the top, they join in defending the rope as the others climb up. After several frantic minutes, you are all exhausted and mildly injured, but safe once more. It appears that the spiders have no interest in leaving their homes.

Any prep before you head to meet the council?

You ready yourselves and Aelfric casts his spell to make it easier to move about. As you begin moving through the city, it seems much the same as other bustling metropolises you've experienced aside from a few notable things. First, there is very little light aside from the faerie fire on certain buildings and statues to draw attention to beautiful design work. Secondly, there are slaves everywhere moving about broken-spirited, and they traverse every race you can think of and a few you've never seen before. Lastly, on your two mile trek to the shores of Lake Donigarten, there are more spiders than you could ever have imagined; they range from the size of your fingernail all the way to the size of small wagons.

Despite a few tense situations where you almost draw the attention of the wrong individuals, you make it to the shores of the lake. Some distance out in the lake is a small island, which anyone familiar with the city would know is where a large herd of rothe (underdark cattle) are kept for food.

The arcane eye zips around the edge of the lake, watching for any issues that will stop you from achieving your goals. The way is nearly clear until you get near to the spot. Not too far from the north shore, you see two groups of drow in the middle of some sort of trade. Scattered about the area are hidden scouts from both sides. It will require quite a detour to get around their area and you may miss the appointed hour and have to wait another day for the meeting.