Chapter 5: Blingdenstone

Dustin, as you search around, you notice that everything was likely immaculately cleaned up until a few months ago. There is a even layer of dust over all surfaces. A few light cobwebs run from the pillars to the ceiling in this room. As you look at the various sarcophagi, you notice they are all carved with the likeness of deep gnomes and all have names etched into adamantine plates that it looks like the reliefs are holding in their hands. None of the tops seem to be disturbed here, everything is as it should be. While everything was gray and bleak before, with the only light being provided by the palely bioluminescent mushrooms in their niches in the walls. When Cemos ignites the mace, about 20 feet around you glows with an eerie, pallid green light.

As your group moves up and to the western room, the skittering sound gets slightly louder and then stops as you move through the door. Cemos, as you move through the doorway and look to the left and right, the flickering green of your light reveals a bunch of gleaming, glassy eyes and the hulking bodies of three massive white and blue spiders lurking in the room beyond. In the far right corner, what appears to be just a large dark mass suddenly starts writhing! From what you can see, there are thousands of tiny spiders all swarming around. Most of this part of the tomb is covered in thick, sticky webbing!

The big spider to your right, gnashes it's pincers and climbs up from the web onto the ceiling, watching you from a new upside down angle. The swarm in the furthest corner just sits writhing in a crawling huddled mass.

Georges draws his sword and waits for more instruction while Eldreth gives a derisive snort from the previous room and continues inspecting the tomb.


Combat! Bold below can act now.
Big Spider 1
Swarm 1
Georges
Eldreth
Dustin
Heartboiler
Stool
Cemos
Bildaweer
Big Spider 2
Big Spider 3
Swarm 2

Stool slips through the crowd, drawing his weapons as he goes the opposite way of Heartboiler, looking to take on the threat to the south. However, as he tries to move through the webbing, he quickly finds himself tangled, and the webs pull on his arms, rendering his strikes weak!

Bildaweer's conflagration explodes into the room, bathing everything in a flickering orange light. A sudden screaming sound erupts from the mounds of spiders, as every ounce of liquid in their crunchy little bodies is rapidly heated to the boiling point. En masse, the thousands of tiny buggers fall to the ground, leaving a carpet of charred husks underfoot. The webbing in the room sparks into a bonfire, continuing to light the space brightly.

Dustin's shot jams into the joint of one of the spider's legs, causing it to chitter in pain.

Heartboiler strides into the mass of sticky webbing and swings Cloudstrike in a large sweeping arc. As it connects with the hanging spider's legs, she cleaves right through three of them, sending them to the sticky morass as they twitched their last. As the sword connects, the low roll of thunder echoes out from the blade, shaking the webbing and sending a rain of dust off the walls as a small cloud appears over the spider's head, dousing it with a brief torrent of rain!

The spiders two and three pop out of view!

The spider by Heartboiler dashes forward, and bites at the restrained goliath! However, its lack of legs have taken a large toll, and it misses, miserably. With a clack of pincers, it too pops out of view.

Georges moves up behind Heartboiler and tries to pull her free! With a mighty pull and a pop, Heartboiler is ripped free of the sticky webbing.

Eldreth mutters under her breath in dwarvish.Combat! Bold below can act now.
Big Spider 1 (invisible)
Georges
Eldreth
Dustin
Heartboiler
Stool
Cemos
Bildaweer
Big Spider 2 (invisible)
Big Spider 3 (invisible)