Hi i'm Olma, Flynn, March, Ceallach, Shraya

and i'm your DM Ethan welcome to Venture Forth

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so

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previously you guys had ventured deep

within the shadow timberland

you guys had followed a series of

glowing trees that uh shraya had

identified as

sort of these protection trees um

venturing into the forest you guys saw

the shadows

that have been creeping out over the

river that you guys were riding

are now creeping out towards you guys on

the ground and

the branches of the trees seem to be

reaching out at you guys like

limbs you guys notice that these glowing

trees though

radiated an energy in about a 20-foot

radius

that kept these shadows at bay and this

allowed you to hop

sort of from uh from tree to tree uh

going deeper into the forest until you

guys eventually found a commune

a commune full of elves that was living

there

seemingly just very frightened and

terrorized by these shadows that have

been creeping in

shraya was welcomed home by

one of his uh good friends there

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you guys were all uh sort of

investigating

exactly what was going on and found out

that um

a couple days ago just seemingly

spontaneously these shadows began

terrorizing people

you guys found a an elven man by the

name of alethar

shaking on the ground he was one of the

only people who has ever returned from

the shadows in these last couple days

trying to to shake him out of whatever

ailed him

the the fever that was ailing him you

guys were unable to speak with him

you guys uh sort of investigated a

little bit more what was going on

with farlane who was uh shreya's friend

and uh you guys decided that

it would probably be best to go out into

the forest

with uh the sunlight above you in the

morning

so you guys all went to bed uh some of

you guys taking watch

and on kellock's watch he was able to

uh cast a spell that temporarily seemed

to uh dispel whatever ailed

this man that was laying on the ground

um

the the man alethar very violently

was shaken awake and told tales of going

into the forest

chasing these goblins and seeing visions

of a red wolf

before losing all memory and not knowing

exactly how he came back into camp

you guys awoke uh shraya also having

visions that night of a red wolf

um and you guys sort of uh debated what

exactly you guys were gonna do

so with the early morning light uh

greeting you guys and

the warmth of the day sort of uh taking

over this commune

you look to the north and you see those

those couple of trees

that uh that's glow has been diminished

by

the shadows and you look to the south

comparatively to where the trees are are

still

vibrant and glowing and raiding

radiating this protective energy

so looking at these trees to the north

what would you guys like to do

um flynn would just uh after

running over helping out the uh alethar

um realizing that he's kind of just back

in his normal state and whenever he was

thinking he wasn't as serious as i

thought so he'll just kind of help him

get back off of his side i think because

he said he fell and he'll kind of help

him sit back up in that corner kind of

make sure the blanket's on him and then

just return to the party and

kind of um all right i guess he seems

fine

for the moment do do we feel like we're

ready to go out and check out the wards

and maybe go to the north and find out

where these

goblins are uh

yes i think as as long as we have some

sense of what we're headed into

we know there's some dangerous

red wolf uh spirit out there um

i'm not so versed in aldoria's teachings

uh but i know she's uh

a being in nature and this being a

forest and all

uh i am curious to know if there's some

kind of relationship here with this red

wolf and

eldoria and uh what would appear

if i'm not mistaken to be

a a an ebb in her power

to protect this forest from the shadows

uh a dm um would

would flynn maybe have any knowledge of

this

red wolf does that spark any ideas of

his research on wolves before does he

know if there's like a variant of this

type of wolf does that

anything like that uh yeah make a nature

check for me sure

let's see what my bone-ness is it's two

ten total ten in total

um nothing really sparks anything in

your memory

of a red wolf okay

that's it i just wanna know if he maybe

knew that

try you said you were uh uh

fated to come to this commune is there

some reason that you felt that way

ever since i last left the distant lands

from where i came i've been searching

for

for a mythical land that i'd only been

told about in stories

a place where beings and nature live in

harmony as one and the same

first i thought this place was the place

i was looking for but then as the

shadows encroached

i realized that perhaps this was a place

that needed to be healed

first but i had no ability or

skill to combat the sort of shadows that

that seemed to be creeping in

i do believe it is my task to to help

heal this land

and perhaps some of

the skills and visions that i've

cultivated in my life up until this

point might help me

along with all of you revive this land

and

bring it back to the light as someone of

the light yourself i

have nothing but respect for your ways

and your

healing powers

um i i tend to think that we are all

fated

to find who we're meant to find and to

be where we're meant to be

more generally well then what of this

red wolf what does this have to do with

your

your fated path do you know of this wolf

as this

you recall anything about it there was a

time

seemingly in a past life where i ended

up

running with a pack of wolves in my

native land

however i i was told i was no longer

welcome among their ranks

and it is that trajectory that has lent

me here

i do not know from where this particular

wolf comes or

that particular kind of coloring on the

wolf and there's something strange about

the wolf in

in its figure there is a chance i might

be able to communicate

with this red wolf just a chance

if it is friend but that is

that is leaving a lot up to chance i was

not getting

i was not getting very friendly

sentiments from this wolf when i saw him

in the vision

right well we have a monster hunter with

us and

a bird who can speak to wolves so i feel

very uh

equipped uh

is there anything we need to prepare

between the two of you

well from my experience with wolves

they like to hunt in packs and they like

to try and bring

pick off stragglers so maybe

stick together maybe we do that rope

thing we've been doing so we can't get

put away

i know you weren't a fan of it but

[ __ ] rope thing

it saves your life it's worth it yeah

sure

fair enough i also don't like fire if i

remember correctly

but i don't really think we're going to

be having much of that it seemed like

when i

held your oar that was glowing near the

shadows

it dimmed as i held it so it looks like

the trees are the only thing really

giving us light out here um

maybe once when we're under a tree maybe

fire can be used as a deterrent for

these wolves or this red wolf i don't

other than that i think it's going to be

kind of just we uh play it by ear

you know that's sensible

that sounds good um yeah i mean there's

definitely some aversion to the light if

uh our friend alathar is any indication

uh but the shadows being all consuming

as they are i don't know

uh what aid uh light magic will have

for us

well march do you want to lead

i thought you'd never ask

red wolves shadows

so excited as we uh make our way out

uh i would like to sort of take um

alethar's hand and just

just place it against the stone wall to

just try and like

remind him where he is

i'll follow you march

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um all right let's go i'm gonna be very

uh

outwardly trying to to display this yes

let's do this i'm here but inwardly just

still again not the biggest fan of this

idea

of shadows and things we can't see

okay northward right northward

onward doe i think is how the expression

goes

so we're going north right or

on is onward a direction not a cardinal

direction

okay north oh i get it just like

just like forward

yeah i get it in the general north

direction

yes so you guys

are uh walking north towards the edge of

the

the forest there um just outside of the

commune

um you guys uh

begin to cross the threshold into the

forest and you look out

and you see that the trees that

were connecting you guys to get into the

commune extend

again northward it's sort of this this

line

that goes straight through the commune

as you guys begin to move through the

forest

you notice at this point that the the

glow from the trees is greatly

diminished here

and the path from tree to tree

there's going to be some shadows in

between so

as you guys walk forward um what is your

marching order gonna be

just just um as a point of clarity

because it's

there's light out it's not as shadowy as

when we first

like the shadows aren't as deep as when

we first arrived

right okay correct yes um the sunlight

is sort of

um uh pushing back some of the shadows

but the diminished light from the trees

is

is still not able to keep back the

shadows right

um for the order do we want to do i

think march said she was leading right

and then try as

this is his area so maybe him up front

as well

that make sense yeah

and then i'll just take the back again

and whoever wants to be in the middle

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i will be in the middle i'll stay in the

middle i'll be right behind march

i'll um i'll pull out my rope i'll hand

it to march and then i'll kind of walk

down the line

and kind of hand a piece like i like

hold it out

here you go here you go you go i'll get

to okay look

here you go buddy take it i will take it

i will

just take it and just tie it to my belt

or just like loop it loosely around my

mouth not even not a boy

and i'll just kind of stand behind him

and start i'll tie to my belt

start walking all the group

uh okay as it gets darker uh as i notice

it get

darker and darker uh i grab my staff

uh and pulse it against the ground a few

times

and toward the top of it from the

crystal at the top

a couple of like tiny little electrical

currents start

gathering and concentrating near the

very tip of the crystal

and uh right at the very top this subtle

like

you know small little flame just forms

right above the staff

okay nice cool um

as we're walking along hey

flynn is now is now when you wanted to

have that bonding talk

yeah um see how it kind of feels kind of

feels weird to do it right now right

i'm standing

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yeah yeah it's weird um

i don't know maybe you just bond

as you go and you can't schedule them

i'll have to write that down no by all

means

carry on carry on bonding

yeah i mean it is kind of helping with

the creepiness of this place

um you've all you've already uh employed

a a very

beautiful metaphoric thing by actually

binding us together with a rope you may

as well

i'm glad you see the resemblance there

what i'm trying to do it really

you know you're quick you're really

you're really tying us together

huh hey um

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i'm gonna just kind of just give a quick

quick glance back to try and

think thank you for the light by the way

it is the least i can do in times like

this so you guys are are continuing

forward hopscotching

sort of from one tree's glow to the next

and you guys make it

six trees in seven trees in

and the glow begins to get smaller and

smaller from each tree

until you get to the eighth tree

and after that you don't see anything

you don't see any glow

anywhere um do we see any appearance of

a scuffle between like

goblins and elves do we see any anything

that would um

appear like maybe this is where that

occurred yeah like footprints or like

broken pieces of the trees or something

like that yeah um

yeah so flynn and oma you guys can

either make a

uh investigation or a survival check

um why don't i um

assist you okay and you go ahead and

roll twice

since you're the hunter of the year i

have a i have a decent survival

so um flynn will kind of like just think

about his

training and like kind of get down to

the ground kind of start looking around

um maybe maybe beck and schreia over

for the light because he can't really

see in the dark and just kind of like

look around and explore

the area i will roll with advantage

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um that is a 14 total

uh 14. you do see uh

three pairs of humanoid footprints um

right on the path that you guys are

going bleeding beyond

the light of the trees and into the

darkened forest

um hey shraya these look like maybe

something we should follow

do you see how they kind of go into the

darkness i think maybe

you just keep a light on it and just

keep keep charging along and following

it i can stay up here at the front and

help you keep an eye out for them if

you'd like

can i can i tell which

like how large these beings were

based on the based on the footprints

uh yeah humanoid um medium in size

um not exactly looking like your

footprints

shraya but um similar to that of kellik

yes i suggest we follow these onward

into the dark and scare just to clarify

into the dark and scary shadows right

that's that's what you're recommending

that's that's what we're all agreeing

that that's what we're gonna do

i think the way out of our troubles this

time is is through

so that's a yes okay okay

just clarifying i pull out another torch

and i um light it

dm has um tria's

uh beacon of light been diminishing

every time we entered the

the shout out every time we crossed

through

uh like the overlap or the lack of

overlap between the trees

yeah just for a brief moment um on that

overlap

uh shy's light has has very subtly

diminished gotcha

well uh hopefully those torches are of

some use or otherwise we'll be

couched in shadows for the length of it

yeah i'm gonna um look into my little

torchlight

and and breathe in the smoke that it's

up giving me and and run my hand kind of

close to it to feel the warmth and it um

doubles in size

of the amount of light it gives okay

i will reflexively touch my uh

my three rings on my necklace

as we approach the shadows

and as i'm up front i'm going to once

again

get that warhammer and also my shield

ready

and take a deep breath and take a step

into the dark

as i'm handling this fine as i see march

starting to like grab toward her weapons

i whisper something into the crystal

flame and suddenly

the staff becomes energized and uh

basically just prepping chile on the

staff

okay as each of you step through into

the shadow

one by one you look around and

immediately everything in your vision

becomes completely desaturated and

devoid of color

you guys can barely pick out the green

of the trees or the brown of the bark

on them and you

you feel just the core of your body drop

a couple degrees as this this cold

shiver runs up your spine

oma your torch or your light that has

been

um doubled now reduces back to its

normal size

and shraya your light diminishes by half

as well

so as you guys are looking around would

you like

guys like to continue moving forward um

as we do

um i will once again uh

call upon the eyes of the grave

and uh wave my hand over my eyes and

light it up with orange embers

okay um looking around now with uh eyes

of the grave

you get the same sense as you did before

these trees themselves are not undead

but they

are sort of coated in some sort of

undead

presence

and as you guys take a couple steps into

the shadows um

you sort of look around at the

desaturated colors around you

and you catch a glimpse back

at the path that you guys had taken with

the glowing trees and as you look back

you no longer see any trees glowing

you cannot differentiate between

what is shadow tree around you and what

is

the the trees that were glowing you no

longer see the path back to the commune

so you guys continue to head off into

the forest

um for a couple of minutes i'm going to

need each of you guys to make a wisdom

saving throw for me

got it let's see

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all right then mister

okay uh i got a 21. same

nice eight

um unnatural 20. oh nice

23. okay

kellock

you you are just you're restrained and

you are

tied down by these people you need to

get this rope off of you and you need to

get away

you need to get free you don't

necessarily want to is this uh

is this a charm effect because i do have

advantage against

being charmed yes

sweet

i was gonna say also it'd be really hard

for you to untie yourself when you

blooped it around your belly i still

blew it

yeah i love it that's a 10.

so carry on uh yeah so um

you don't need to get away you don't

need to get away from the people

you just need to not be tied to them you

can't you need to be free from this rope

i will uh as as

quietly and understated as i can uh

remove the loop left height of the rope

how i'll unbuckle

and rebuckle um

can i have uh everyone's passive

perceptions please yeah

just 12. that's 14. but i'm right behind

him i'm holding onto the rope with

right behind but my passive perception

is 12.

and what do you add again it's 10 plus

your wisdom or is it do you add your

perception

um it's your wisdom yeah 12.

12. a fourth

okay um nice uh kellik i'm gonna have

you roll a sleight of hand check

okay roll with the same dice

if he yeah so how we're gonna do this if

he beats

anyone they do not notice

12.

what was it it was a 12 a 12.

it's like an elephant so everybody but

shraya notices

reaches down and he begins to undo his

belt

um if i'm are we still in a single file

line so i'm behind him looking at him

seeing this

correct but none of us none of us know

that nobody sees it much

except for oh i'm sorry i got that wrong

um okay um okay oh that's right because

schrei is 14.

okay i'm sorry i got that completely

flipped um shraya

you uh you noticed just a very slight

tug on the rope behind you

um a little bit stronger than

what what the normal walking pace was um

and as you turn around you notice

that kellik is attempting to untie his

belt

okay look is everything all right

well why are you trying to break from

the pack

i'm not doing anything leave it bam just

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this this connection metaphor is

just saccharin i can't can't stand it i

just want to

just want to solve the problem ahead of

us that's all yes i

i know you're not a fan of being bound

like this but

do it for the small one

we're all playing our part here we're

all

becoming perfectly willing to play my

part i'm here i'm here with a group

alright i've come along

and i'm going to help but i just don't

want to be tied to you it's ridiculous

i mean if he really bothers you man i

guess you can it's just i want you to be

safe and i feel like if you're not

tethered down to us i understand that i

have a cool metaphor for it

but it's really just to keep you safe um

but if if you don't want to you don't

have to be

um just stay within my eyesight so if

you get like pulled in by a branch

i could come get you all right i'll be

fine

all right here give me the other end of

the rope i'll just tie it up tomorrow

i'm gonna um

i would like to try to stealthily hold

on to calyx robe at the back

okay um make a slight of hand check

oh be dead go ahead sorry

and kellick what's your passive

perception 16.

i have a really good sleight of hand i

actually have a question about passive

perception do you if i'm proficient in

perception do i add my proficiency to it

because like my perception's a plus four

but my wisdom modifier is a plus two

would it would i have a oh

maybe i think that's that's a good

question i don't think it

does okay then maybe i have a 14. either

way it's not a big deal

just for the future so i know what to

call because passive reception is

something i always forget

how to add up

one second give me i don't know on my

sheet i don't have it i don't have

perception

i also have advantage in perception and

i have a wisdom a plus four

so that's why i

yeah okay okay cool then i probably just

have 14. okay that's good to know for

like in the future

sure well you know either way no yeah

yeah

it yeah it has it okay here we go it's

working um my sleight of hand was a nine

not quite good enough caleb you notice

uh

oma trying to to keep you tied up i i

i'm just gonna hold i'm just holding

i'm not trying to tie him to anything

i'm just okay look you

you oma is trying to keep you bound to

them

um it's gonna be all right you don't

need to cling so much

yes i trust that this one is quite

strong with the light

uh i would say to both our

littler party members uh i think he can

handle himself

he he said he's been fighting darkness

all his life

almost fine fine if you want to hold my

hand you can hold my hand

i don't need to hold your hand okay all

right

it's trying to be helpful i just let go

and i just

like cross my arms

cool okay um as you guys continue on

into the forest the uh

the temperature begins to continually

drop it's not very dramatic you guys

don't

don't feel um like shivering cold but

but it's noticeable at this point

and pull my hood up

um okay as being at the front i'm gonna

slow my pace just

ever so slightly just almost to like a

shuffle

um as i notice that it's getting

slightly colder every time i shuffle

forward

okay so i'm gonna have

flynn and shraya you guys

um i'm gonna have you guys both make a

dexterity saving throw sure

oh okay

uh 21.

that's a 10. all right so

um flynn you look down and you see

um you notice it or just in time a vine

begins to

reach out towards your foot and try and

try and wrap itself around your ankle

shray you don't notice in time

as this vine makes its way around your

ankle and quickly wraps up around your

leg

and begins to pull you off into the

forest

you are you are attached to everyone

else

so except um except for

kellic yeah so as you were being pulled

off into the forest

um i'm gonna have uh some marches in

front

and who is directly behind shraya

i thought i thought it was um uh

calyx so if caleb's directly behind

schreyer wouldn't that mean that it's

only

me attached to shraya technically i

think it's all about

it it's all one rope okay i've just

removed myself

from the link got it got it so then that

would be oma so march and oma

um both of you guys make i guess i guess

my question is

on what side is kellik on is the kellogg

on the side that would feel it be tugged

or is he

on the other side of the rope now where

he wouldn't feel it you know what i'm

saying because his body potentially

could block

also i will roll to see

um he is on the side that's going to get

clotheslined by this

by this room so um yeah caleb you're in

the you're in the way of

of this thing um pulling so um march

and uh i'm gonna say caleb um make us uh

an

athletics check to see if you guys can

grab on to the the rope that is uh

pulling shray away

natural 20. oh nice 21.

21. okay a couple of really good rolls

um so you guys are able to

hold on and begin to pull shraya back

towards you guys

and um after a second or two the uh the

vine that's holding on to

his ankle snaps and you guys are able to

get him back towards you guys try are

you okay

same forces that came to me in the dream

seem to be manifesting themselves out

here in the

this darkened wood and i start to uh

you know thrash around a little bit my

wings kind of

instinctively flare out and i sort of

take off from the ground

not remembering that i'm still attached

to everyone

try it later

and then as i see everyone sort of like

lift in the rope a little bit i

remember myself and i say oh no right

right and i come back down to the forest

floor

try it it'll be all right that's that's

why we have this that's why we have this

rope you we got you we got you buddy and

as i'm talking and

i'm looking at traya saying that and i'm

like holding the rope back up

towards caleb but i'm looking at trial

while i'm saying that like hey

it'll be all right it'll be okay and

i'll kind of like nudge him with it

okay like with the with the rope

knowledge no such nudging

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after a few seconds like just drop it

all right let's keep going

okay as you guys continue on

you guys continue to experience the same

cold creeping energy that is now running

up the back of your neck

and at this point you can almost just

see your breath

it's getting to be just about that cold

and you look around

at the trees around you and the trees

themselves look like they're almost

shivering

in the cold um

can we still see the foot tracks that

we're tracking like we haven't lost

sight of them we're still following them

successfully

you guys are still following the

footsteps yes cool

after a couple more minutes you

guys are traveling and you see off sort

of

on your right and on your left the

beginnings of a spider web

no um

and this this isn't you know just like

normal everyday spiders these are

massive spider webs

um who does anyone have a torchlight i

can't remember somebody but a torch

i have a torch has a torch um and it is

a light it's just dimmed

it is dimmed yes it's actually just a

normal light it's it's providing as much

as any torch would provide because i had

doubled it and then it would juice by

half

and it is still essentially working like

there's still a flame right

the flame the flame itself has not been

reduced just the light

that it's giving um is being reduced

once it starts getting colder and

and flynn sees the spider webs he'll

kind of hold on again hold on guys let

me get one of those out too

and he'll just kind of set his back down

pull out a torch light it because he

sees the spider webs he sees

it's getting colder he'll just so now

flint has a torch out at the back of the

group and he's kind of like

all right good to go i will uh take the

the uh almost catch an ember that's

uh flying off of that torch and like

redirect it back into the torch

and uh and say uh hosting

light um on that torch as well uh

and so if it's uh uh

dimmed then it's i don't know it's 20

feet of

bright light and 20 feet of dimmed light

so i don't know how much that

helps or doesn't do anything but it's

worth trying

yes uh the light is reduced as soon as

you cast it the light sort of recedes

back into itself

um and is reduced to half of that

so seeing the spider webs off on your

right and your left

um they're not too dense but you guys

are able to keep moving forward

do they look like natural spider webs or

like shadowy

spiderwebs make a nature check could i

give her advantage on that

yes you can flynn also has his short

sword out

in one hand and where he has his shield

normally he has his torch for the moment

thanks

thanks for that advantage um here we go

that's an 18.

nice 18. um these

look like um pretty

pretty like i don't know with the

desaturated uh colors around you

it it is a little bit hard to tell um

but for the most part they seem to be

just normal large spider webs

got it just part of the darkness of the

forest it's not necessarily the shadowy

part of the energy of the forest cool

cool cool cool

so you guys are you guys continuing on

forward

yeah yep okay keep an eye i'm gonna

mention

guys keep an eye out um on the ground

for any webs it might they might catch

you

and something that i dealt with earlier

with shraya and it seems like they kind

of like try and trap us so just keep an

eye out where you're stepping

thanks okay and with that um i'm gonna

have everyone

make a

i'm gonna have everyone just make a

stealth check to see if you guys can uh

can uh maneuver this and everyone's

gonna be doing that at advantage because

uh flynn sort of told you guys what to

uh what to look out for natural 20.

for a 25 total

okay oh sorry you said it was a stealth

right okay

stealth yeah so damn typically i

actually have disadvantage on stealth

so you're saying i now have advantage so

i'll just roll once so just a

straight roll yes

that's a 14 for me 13

uh 21 for flynn okay

um you guys are walking through the

forest and you begin to notice these

spider webs on the ground

and all of you guys are able to sort of

tiptoe

and maneuver around them you see that

there's

now more and more spider webs as they

begin to get more and more dense

and it's not just once in every 10 trees

that have spider webs on them now it's

once in every five trees every other

tree

now it's every tree has these spider

webs on them

do we feel um i would like to check to

see if we feel like we're getting any

closer to like

some type of darkness whether we think

we're heading in the right direction

still

um yeah because we're following these

tracks but we don't really know we're

still we're going to retract

we don't really yeah um make a survival

check

can i help her with that since i've been

kind of helming the

survival can i like give her advantage

yeah sure okay

unless if you're helming it if you want

to just roll at advantage you said you

were looking oh yeah just take advantage

just go for it

it's cool um i rolled a 19 and a 20. um

okay so um that's another natural 20

for 22. oh wait survival

or nature which one am i doing survival

survival

also 22. yeah

nice okay um

you sort of like in the back of your

head you're starting to get

turned around you don't really know

which direction is which

you don't know if you're heading north

anymore but then you look down at the

footprints and

and you remember back and you know that

the footprints haven't deviated in their

course

and you sort of snap back into your mind

and you remember okay

we're still heading north and

you guys continue along following these

footprints

and then all of a sudden the footprints

stop

and you guys look up and you see within

the trees

three giant spiders hanging there

within their webs dormant it seems for

the moment

you guys have not stepped on any of

their webs and they have not noticed you

do they do they look shadowy is there

any kind of like

um i'll tug on i'm you know what i'm

gonna just tug

on on kellic he seems to be able to see

like

undead and and kind of um

creatures that we're looking for so i'm

going to tug on kelly's robe

yes i i see the spiders i know you see

the spiders

are they also affected by the

undead energy or you seem to be able to

see more than just

what we can see i don't see anything but

uh

i know someone who does and i cast eyes

of the grave

alma's just really confused russ is

really confused

completely i like look in pockets just

like i'm like is there somebody in your

pocket

um but as you as your eyes um begin to

glow you look up and

it's the same story as before the

spiders themselves are not

um undead but they're

wreaking in this undead sort of energy

that's that's just flowing

off of them um as if um

like they've been in contact with

something undead

yeah what what else can i see if i if i

take a quick glance

um the trees are the same um just as you

had discovered before

um and the members of your party are

not it's it's very subtle like the

members of your party are just beginning

to sort of

um uh be polluted with that that stench

of undead

yeah that's not good

it's so bad uh dm do we by chance see

dead bodies in any of these webs or

particularly in this

web do we see the bodies of the people

that were there

make a perception check for me and then

kind of while we're looking around flynn

will just briefly say

guys we have to make a decision pretty

soon these things probably aren't going

to sleep forever should we just attack

them and kill them while they're

sleeping or should we try and sneak away

well they're not the source of the

shadows they're just another

feature of it i'd rather not have them

ambush us when we walk away but

i don't know it's a worthy risk

that was 21. 21. um

you look up and you can see within the

webs

of these giant spiders um you can see

two sort of cocoon like bundles of webs

um about humanoid size

do i do dude hey guys does anyone know

if um

you can survive being wrapped up like

that

before being eaten i don't know

would anyone know that would anyone know

that would i have encountered spiders

could i like in my home my native land

could i

figure that out i guess you're from here

yeah you can make a nature tread

uh five

you don't know um you don't know anyone

who's been wrapped up like that and

survived so you you really have no

experience with it uh

what flynn um

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you don't really have a uh have a sense

either except for just the one time that

we encountered them that's the only real

information i have okay gotcha yeah um

guys i mean

i don't know if they're alive or dead

but it might be worth it

i'd rather try and save them instead of

those men

say what was that if we can save the

remainder of yeah

i mean we're here to save the town and

that includes the people in it

i mean didn't didn't farland

say that we would bring them back yeah

yes he did he threw us all under a bus

and said that we were going to bring

everyone back and everything would be

fine and i did not appreciate

like i'm like very much so like

slightly

like getting a little bit like hyper and

almost like hysterical

extent um like said all these things and

i don't know what he's talking about

do you see these things and marge if

there's even the slightest chance that

those men are alive in those cocoons

then

we owe to them to try look look caleb i

know you're right

and we're gonna do it i understand that

i'm just saying i don't

like it as they're done with spiders

try can you cut them down is there a way

to get them without

alerting the spiders my talons are quite

sharp perhaps i can try to dig them out

of those cocoons

perhaps i can stealthily find my way up

there i'm not

sure um from what we see dm

the the the

human bodies or the bodies that are

wrapped up cocoon like

do they intersect multiple of the

spiders webs or just like

one that would be that would feel it

like like

my assumption is that the spiders would

feel any vibrations that's happening on

their web

um is all of the web scenes all of the

web seems interconnected

is it one big tree with just sort of

like a web

kind of uh inter connected

through the tree or how how how what

what's the

scale of what we're doing looking around

it's probably

a hundred trees within your vicinity

have some sort of interconnected web

oh man oh my god and we only see three

spiders

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how far away are these spiders because

they're in the air but roughly how far

away would they be

from us on the ground um they're just

about 25 feet up in the trees

okay i'm gonna flynn's gonna take his

short sword and put it back in its

sheath

um and i

um put his torch down carefully

and just pull out his short bow off his

shoulder knock an arrow

just kind of get ready for anything i

guess we can yeah we can prepare

ourselves

however i don't think it i don't think

it's a good idea for shraya to go up

there

when there's three spiders on his own i

do not want to be in a predicament where

she has some odd number of feet in there

and there's three of these suckers and

we're down here

yeah they can very easily just web him

up there if he cuts them then if it cuts

the

thread of it then there's no i mean

there's decent chance that it'll

wait okay we could try to use our

torches to burn the web

yeah i mean i still have one here try if

you want to use it you can just fly up

and we can maybe distract them while you

get the people free

so you're advocating for waking them up

is what you're saying

i don't i don't know if there's a way to

not do it and not wake them up it seems

like

you could try you could try to be really

really quiet and

and cut around them without waking them

up and and then we could just all

prepare ourselves

just get within range to take action if

they wake

well i i think what march was saying is

it if they do wake up

and they wet you up there we can't get

you we can't fly we can't get up there

also

how high up are they are the 25

25 feet yeah we can shoot arrows and

spells

in that range we just can't fly so right

and we can climb as well so we can get

decently it's not like

that they won't be able to just

instantly weren't they to start eating

them

quickly can we go back to when flynn

said that did you say you were

wrapped up by a spider yeah did i catch

that yeah shrine and i on our way

to cold crest we kind of ran into um

a few of these again i'm whispering all

this

and uh yeah one of them when i was

fighting it it just shot a bunch of webs

on me and it's kind of like i got stuck

luckily for shraya he was able to pull

me out of it um and we flew

flew up in the air and got away but i

mean i couldn't move

the only way that the only way to get

them down is is to have somebody go up

there and get them down

and and i don't think we can kill all

three spiders in the time

like try it out

i think by ourselves but also like don't

you think

uh sure i can try not to wake them up

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well i'm worried that he's gonna get

stuck up there and then they'll eat him

while we're stuck down here

right but if we're more of a three if we

can just make ourselves more of a threat

would they want to try to go up there

and then wake them up and distract them

no no no no try not to wake them up

troya how do you feel it this is the

most uh puts you out

more than any of us troy you can take me

with you

i would be more comfortable if i knew

that while i was up there it would be

easier for

everyone on the ground to attack them

i've never

i have an ability to paint if you will

light targets on the

backs of certain creatures i've just

never tried to

cast it on sleeping creatures before i

don't know if it would wake them up

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so your vote is to just uh take a take a

an aggressive approach and just try and

destroy the spiders before we

uh free the uh cocoons here's what i'll

do

and i and i hold my staff close to me

and as i do i murmur a few incantations

under my breath

into the crystal uh

and the crystal like starts to have a

whirling like crystalline uh like

like tiny little electrical bolts

starting to swirl in a sort of like mini

tornado around it

i will keep this prepared and should

they wake i will immediately thrust

these targets of light straight onto

them

so that it will be easier to hit them

from the ground

it would is there one spider closest to

the bodies

yeah so the bodies are um pretty close

to each other

and there's one spider directly next to

it and then about 15 feet over the other

two spiders are

okay located so i'm gonna um stand

over by i'm gonna stand really close to

one of the webs

ready to like thrust the the

um flame the torch that i have in my

hand

up to um the web

and um keep an eye also on on that

spider that's closest

okay sure i'll i'll be here

and and if if anything happens uh i'll

try to protect you

i do appreciate the show of support

young one

i will now i look up toward the

two bound cocoons set to work

and before i take off i unloop the rope

from being fastened to myself and sort

of in one

motion uh take my wings and

billow them so that i rush upward toward

the cocoons

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okay um shraya i'm gonna have you make

a uh sleight of hand check to see if you

can with your talons cut down

uh these these people is is it one for

just one cocoon or are you

like for it's gonna be one it's gonna be

one per cocoon okay

oh boy um dm i have a question yes

before our session zeros we talked about

potentially having advantage

um having one or having none advantage

but one um

inspiration six six die right

okay just just reminding us uh

an inspiration day okay

well let's see first one

i might need to use that uh inspiration

die

what's the what's the source of this

inspiration

from the dwarven from the dwarven tuna

yes okay

uh so yeah that that's not great i'm

gonna be adding

i'm gonna be adding a one to a six

that's a seven oh man

you're up there you're cutting down the

cocoon you're you're feeling great

you're like oh nothing's

nothing's gonna stop me here meanwhile

on the ground you guys see these

reverberations uh on the webs

all around you guys and the spiders

begin to

to to move their legs and and come to

life

and the one uh nearest shraya

near the bodies is going to lunge out

and attack

but before we do that i'm going to have

everyone roll initiative

can i get an arrow off before that

happens

you can get that arrow off in initiative

okay okay um so

ethan i had prepared to start lighting

the web on fire

i got it i got it yeah so yeah um what's

going to happen is they're going to

have the surprised condition on the

first round of combat

so i'm gonna roll initiative for these

guys

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and okay

uh can i get flynn's initiative 19 total

okay uh kellick nine

nine can i get marches

two two i thought she said

no no you may not basically

try four four

okay and oma sixteen

sixteen okay like what was yours

nine oh also no

no also no we're crushing it

okay so they have the surprise condition

as they're just waking up

uh first in combat is flynn what would

you like to do um

so paint the picture a little bit for me

is shraya still floating in the air

or is he clinged on to the web as he's

cutting

um he is flying he's sort of hovering in

the air

trying to cut them off from the air um

and so there's essentially like

a spider close to him and the other ones

are kind of farther away um

i could i either way i'd like what i'd

like to do is basically

light the web on fire so i was hoping i

could maybe

take since my torch is laying right next

to me could i like

take the arrow and just light it or is

that not really how that works

yeah you would need to have something

flammable on the edge of the arrow

it's 25. yes 25 feet up

um it might be stupid but i'm gonna

realize that it's waking up

realize that try's in danger and my

worst fears are coming to life that he's

gonna get

we're ebbed up there and eaten alive

while we watch from the below so i'm

gonna

drop my arrows and drop my bow grab my

torch and just throw it

uh trying to put it in between like the

spider and

shraya so it burns the web there and the

spider okay

okay um make an attack roll see how

accurate you are with this thing

what would you like me to add to torch

throw um

you're not gonna add anything great

that's just going to be a straight roll

all right guys here we go

lighting spiders on fire i'm going to

have my my inspiration

okay 13.

uh 13. okay so uh yeah you throw the

torch up and it lands directly

um in between the spider and the people

um it begins

uh burning the web around it sort of in

a in a

radial pattern um in a couple seconds it

might

burn away enough of the web so yeah

after that i'll pick my bow and arrow

back up

and then i'm just gonna i'll take a few

steps back

and then just uh yell over to alma and

just kind of say

light it up and that's my turn okay and

with that alma it is your turn

yeah um let's go

where so i'm imagining i was kind of

i mean i i got up close to

the web to try and be kind of in between

a couple like like um

one of the bigger intersections of where

the webbing is kind of combined so not

necessarily right by

one of the spiders or the other but kind

of in the center to to

let it spread yeah um and so what i'm

gonna do is i'm gonna take my flame

and run my hand over it and and just

like slowly like kind of like

put like um fan my hand out

over the flame and it extends

from just the fire that it is to five

feet

in an upward direction so in addition to

like where my torch touches

it's also gonna extend five feet up

along the web

okay okay so you're uh you're

sorry this is going off of the torch

that you have correct not the torch that

flynn threw yes okay

um so yeah you you light part of the

webbing on fire and

it extends five feet up um burning away

uh quite a bit of the web as you do is

it gonna continue to stay flammable

um it it seems to be lighting um as

the fire is touching it um so it seems

pretty flammable um but it's gonna

take some time for it to actually extend

anywhere is the torch that flynn through

stuck in the web now kind of like

staying there and burning it

yes for the moment of day yeah cool cool

cool cool okay cool

okay uh next up is kellik

um how far apart are each of the spiders

so one of the spiders that's next to the

two bodies

is about is about five feet away from

the bodies and five feet away from

shraya

um the other two are right next to each

other and 15 feet away

15 feet away from the other spider from

the other spot now i guess my question

can i get within 30 feet of each spider

is there an equidistant point that i

could

approach if i run up to the tree and uh

maybe begin to climb um i'm gonna say

sure yeah you would be able to get all

three within 30 feet

so i will yeah i'll uh since we're we're

going now

i will uh uh sprint up to the to the

to the tree uh and sort of

hoist myself onto like the one of the

lower branches

and i will look up and um

i will uh squeeze my bandaged hand as

hard as i can so that some of uh my own

blood

uh pulls in the center of it uh

and i will uh uh whisper

vow keeper blight our foes so that we

might survive this encounter

and say de billito and cast

bain on three spiders

okay and so they do a uh

save and throw uh charisma charisma

saving throw

okay um the spider that's near shraya

got a six

okay and the other two got a 17

and a 12. all right so the one with the

17 succeeds the other two fail

okay that was bane correct that's

correct so it's a d4

uh to any attack rolls or saving throws

uh made for as long as i hold

concentration

okay gotcha uh for and uh the

one minute and d4 subtraction not yes

yes no i've bumped the enemy

i've added poison to their powers

okay um next up shraya you are up uh

amongst the spiders and you see them

beginning to wake up

uh i grab my staff

in one hand i crane my neck over

realizing that they're

beginning to wake up and uh ferry fire

which i had prepped i'm going to

lower the staff toward and in a pulse uh

the this beam of light and uh

purple pink fire is just gonna emanate

from the tip of the crystal and

attempt to sheath the closest spider

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okay um what is that going to be from me

uh

that is going to be a dexterity saving

throw

dexterity saving throw that was a

natural 20.

oh did you sit was that the one that's

uh

passed or failed because or is he

blighted for that saving throw or

bained rather he is bane that is one of

the main ones

i forgot about that immediately so

that's going to be 18. that's going to

be an 18.

what what is it beating up from me so

what's your wisdom modifier that's a

plus four

so it's probably 14. yeah yeah okay yeah

that probably

even at that don't still passes doesn't

fairy fire get like an area doesn't it

can you get the other ones too

or is it like a special version i mean

yeah it's each object in a 20-foot cube

within

the or creature within the first one so

yeah i guess theoretically the other two

spiders would have to make next saving

throws too you would also be able to get

the other two spiders yeah

nice get them get them get them okay

come get them one of them is bane

so the one that is not baned gotten

eleven okay so that's

nice nice there we go there we go so now

he's got fairy fire

and the one the other one that is baned

uh

got a six oh great

so just so we're clear we've got one

spider that's close to shraya

that has bane one of them just as fairy

fire and one of them

both has bane and fairy fire thank you

so just so we're all clear on that

um support caster high five cool

um is that the end of your turn and that

means basically any attack role

uh against that very fired creature

uh has advantage as long as uh as long

as the person can see it

okay okay so we get advantage when we

attack

okay um if that's the end of your turn

next up is march

march what would you like to do an

attack is exactly what i would like to

do

um a little bit stressed and kind of

having this

i knew this would happen moment um

i am going to switch out my

warhammer for a javelin

and i would like to attempt to throw it

at the one closest

to shraya okay make that attack roll

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22. uh 22 definitely hits

yeah roll your damage

10.

nice

okay uh is that the end of your turn um

yes yes okay

next up is flynn yeah um

that was pretty awesome um so he sees

the two that are kind of

like lit up but he also still sees the

one that's like

still alive with a javelin in it now

that's about to probably bite down on

tria

how's the fire looking in these webs

does it look like that one might fall

pretty soon or or should i i don't know

should he attack it because it looks

like it's going to get him before the

fire

burns the web um the fire is burning

quite a bit of the web so

probably within the next couple seconds

here um he's not going to have enough

web to cling on to

unless um i'm going to

pick up my i already picked the short

put up so i'll knock an arrow

and i'm just going to hold my action

um to fire the arrow if

if if the spider either falls

then i'm gonna shoot a different one or

if the spider tries to attack tria i'm

gonna shoot that

okay and that's that's my turn

okay next up is oma

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um yes it is

i would like two

do any of the other spiders appear like

they're

leaning our way like the two ones that

are lit up do they look like they're

kind of starting to lean

towards us i guess we don't know yet

make an insight check

[Laughter]

i don't know you don't i don't

i mean i have a really good insight so i

guess that's an eight but

i don't know you don't know no um then

in that case

i'm going to um look at the one that has

a javelin in it

and um

no i'm not gonna do that i just want to

continue to burn the web away um like as

much as i can

so um i see my five additional feet of

burning flame has that spread at all

yeah it's spread about another foot or

so since your last turn okay i'm going

to

um stare deeply into the fire

and um

the one hand obviously still on my torch

in the other hand still reaching out

um i'm just going to feel the warmth of

it breathe in

and breathe out and like

kind of wincing say spread

continue to spray come on and um

i'm gonna cast fire bolts on it okay

nice um

so it's i mean you don't have to roll uh

to hit

it's there's there's webs everywhere

you're gonna hit something

so you can just uh roll your damage

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oh guys there's a one

one um it helps a little

i mean there's more fire now than there

was before um

but uh the the initial fire that you

would cast is really the driving force

and is beginning to spread

okay um is that the end of your turn yep

okay

uh next up we've got um one of the two

spiders that

is uh was sort of off by themselves

now fully awake is going to detach from

the web

and with a thud drop on the ground right

next to you guys

um it is going to lunge forward

and is this it's going to

this is the one that's baned or not pain

this is the one that's not banged

okay uh this one does have fairy fire on

it right uh what is fairy fire just so i

better understand um so you guys can see

as it drops to the ground

there's this slight uh golden outline

along the edge of the spider um it just

it really helps you like differentiate

and you can sort of see the contrast

between

the spider and the background so you can

just see where the spider is a little

bit better

cool um yeah so um this spider is going

to

it's gonna roll let's see um it's going

to attempt to web

up march so

that is gonna be a that's gonna be a 12

to hit

no thank god no no okay uh the web

shoots out and

shoots right past you over your shoulder

um

that is going to be uh yeah that's all

of his turn

so next up uh kellick

all right well i was gonna climb but i

guess there's one right here

awesome so uh i'm gonna turn around

and uh uh

i'm gonna take a melee attack at it uh

with my sickle

uh from behind like okay make that

attack rule

that does not hurt that is a five

that does not hit no i like to think

maybe i

i just grazed the the carapace with this

like wait even that advantage

oh right right he does have 35 oh nice

oh that's a 15 to hit

that here we go there you go fire fire

uh that is three damage

tree damage all right

i just okay stab it in the back of the

ab abdomen

with the with the pointy bit on the top

nice so your sickle dives deep

into uh the back of this uh giant spider

um is that the end of your turn uh that

will uh do

well hang on hang on a minute

yes okay uh next up is shraya

you are still up in the trees uh i'd

like to do

a quick can trip and

uh sort of touch the crystal of my staff

to my forehead

uh and sort of race down

uh cast chaleli on the on the staff

and sort of race down from above and try

to just drive the tip of my

staff into the spider that's uh just

landed on the ground

okay make an attack roll all righty

all right that's the first one's a 12.

second one is less than a 12.

so uh yeah you drive down and uh neither

of those make contact

um you're swinging and the uh the

spider's legs just allow it to dodge out

of the way

of those two attacks all right that's my

turn so i'm effectively landing

nice okay um next up uh the spider that

was nearest the bodies

is going to also detach and with a thud

land on the ground right next to you

guys

it is going to also attempt to

web someone up and that person is gonna

be

kellick so did um sorry

did um flynn have a have a held

yeah which one's dropping again uh

yeah so the one that uh you had a held

action against

is deciding to drop the one that was

like the closest to the bodies and try

yes okay um yeah i'll uh once it hits

the ground i'll just lose my arrow at it

okay make an attack roll sure and this

one doesn't have fairy fire right

just a straight roll uh correct

yeah yeah that's good uh

uh 17 hits yeah oh max damage baby 10

points of piercing damage

swoo

nice this is kind of hurting

yeah this one you landed that arrow

directly in between its eyes

um this one is not looking good um but

it

is going to attempt to uh still web up

kellick

so with the bane that is going to be

and 11 to hit 11 does not

okay again the web just shoots right

past you

okay uh the third spider is going to

attempt to web someone up

um that is going to be towards flynn

sure

and that is with the bane that is gonna

be

geez these banes are killing me yeah

that's gonna be a 13.

tails not hit okay and i don't have my

shield so my armor class is a little bit

lower so it could have

without the bane whenever the bane is

effective uh

it's like uh there's just there's like

dust particles like peeling away at

their eyes while they

uh try to spit their

web awesome nice okay um

then we have march yeah should yep

okay um so

i am going to seeing that this thing

just tried to shoot a web at me and

uh i am immediately going to come back

to my war hammer

and i assume this this sucker's right in

front of me correct

yes then i am going to attempt to

smack it okay make an attack roll

19. 19 hits yeah for sure

that gives um

10 points of bludgeoning

okay and this is towards uh the spider

that was already injured correct

uh yes this is the one that you threw

the javelin into

yes i believe that is it is it him yes

it is

okay then yes then i would like to

okay um you raise your warhammer up and

slam it down into this

thing's head and just like a watermelon

this thing

just completely the head disperses

everywhere let's go

as it is now dead nice

get out of here you stupid giant spider

i'm just gonna do that just like i hate

spiders oh spline yells out me too

[Laughter]

okay um then next up is flynn cool yells

out me too

and then um uh so one's down one's up

next to

uh kellick and one's still

up in the trees up in a tree how um

flynn wants to look at the fire

spreading

and realize that there's still people up

there potentially is it gonna catch them

on fire uh

probably in the next round or so yes

flynn will

turn to shraya and and yell out

uh shraya we have a problem and he'll

point up to

the fire and then he'll kind of like

hold out his hands

pull his short sword out and kind of

just say like

can you get me up there still holding a

short sword out looking up at the people

that may be burned soon and um

he'll hold his action to if if he gets

up there he'll hold his action to like

cut the

webs to free the people

okay uh so you're just waiting on triad

uh

yeah we gotta save them people so that's

my turn okay

uh next up is oma

yeah um

i'm gonna look at the spider in the tree

because it's still trying to throw webs

at people um

and i'm going to um

to once more deep breath in deep breath

out and throw

fireballs at him you know okay make an

attack roll

an advantage oof

16 uh 16 hits yeah cool

cool roll that damage light them up

max damage 10 points of fire damage

nice okay and that was the one still up

in the tree correct

yes it was okay

so the web might also be on fire um

yeah it looks like a couple of embers

have started up there but

um you're gonna have to see over the

next couple rounds if anything catches

um okay

next up we've got the

spider that has dropped down onto the

ground so it uh

is going to instead of a web attack it's

going to try and take a bite attack

at kellik so that is going to be

a natural one does that hit

let me let me check my armor class

really i'm sorry actually that's uh

that's going to be a negative two with

uh bane oh no this guy isn't paint this

guy's embarrassed

he hurts himself um yeah

um yeah and that's that's his i just

entered

one hip back as it bites at me

just shy of it where the crit fail it

like bites into the ground and its teeth

get

stuck

okay um and then with that uh

next up in the initiative um a

new spider uh having sensed the uh

the disturbances within the web uh comes

out from the trees

and uh is going to run out and shoot a

web

at march so

march does a

see does a 24 hit

absolutely not no what are you talking

about

okay so um just beyond the trees the

spider uh

crawls out and shoots uh its web at you

and it envelops you in this web um

you are restrained so um you are

now restrained within this web um unable

to move

so after that uh next up is kellik

all right so uh the one that just bites

me i'm going to

spit in his face and uh

roll damage

[Laughter]

and i will uh uh uh say uh

take this one forced val keeper and i

will cast uh

uh uh uh told the dead on it

exco okay and it has to make a uh

save and throw wisdom saving throw a

wisdom saving throw okay

that is gonna be and this is the one

that's right in front of you correct

correct okay

and 18 oh succeeds

uh

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i don't think it takes any if it

succeeds

yeah it does not take any damage

okay um next up is

shraya what would you like to hearing

flynn over in the corner with his arms

outstretched

i briefly glare at the spider that i

just missed

with my staff and i

i'm coming and i i whip my wings around

and i'm going to attempt to

whirl around the back of flynn and just

in one whoosh of my wings just sort of

carry him up toward the cocoons as fast

as i can

yeah okay

nice um so uh since you guys have

experience with this before

um you are able to carry flynn for up to

a minute without

uh having to roll for any sort of uh

athletics checks

so um yeah flynn you with uh schreiner

flying you up

you are able to make that attack yeah um

yeah i'll just look at i'll

look over the what's going on what's

been burned what's not been burned and

i'll just try and make the best cut

to try and see if i can do it does it

look like i can do it in one swing

so what exactly are you trying to cut um

i want to cut the people free

um

oh man so they fall

and not get burned but if they fall they

might take damage

[Music]

i'll start cutting um so then maybe

shraya can

finish and grab them so they don't fall

25 feet so i'll just try and start

cutting them out of the web um

if i can get all of them you said

there's a few but they're close together

if i can like maybe cut a few of them

and then maybe try i can like grab them

by

by the claws he can grab part of the web

so then he can just help lower it so it

doesn't smack to the ground it kind of

like falls like slowly to the ground

sure yeah um so roll your damage sure oh

just roll damage you want me to roll

to attack um uh

no just roll your damage okay um

i'm much better with a short sword oh

that

is ten points of piercing total okay

nice

um so you you start carving away um

shirai you've only

uh uh just brought

uh flynn up here but um already these

bodies are beginning to

to descend um not too fast uh but the

web is is still

just sort of holding them up um but

they're

descending very slowly um and

that is flynn's held action and then

yeah

as like a bonus i'll just kind of yell

to the group guys we're doing great keep

it up i almost got these guys out of

here

that's cool and then um that's that's

your action to grab

flynn um as it's uh sort of a grapple

action

and then it was your movement to bring

him up there so um do you have any bonus

actions

would you like to do yep nothing job

tria

teamwork okay

um next up is uh the spider that is up

in the tree

so it is uh

it is going to it's gonna do the old

classic it's gonna try and web someone

up

um this one is going towards oma

so alma that is gonna be

a that's a nat 20 minus one so that's a

19.

yeah that that hits yes

okay um and you are now enveloped in

this web as well and you are restrained

um can you can you describe the

restrained um

effects please yes i can

um i've got it right here

and march is restrained too right march

is also restrained

um so your speed is zero and um

attack rules against you have advantage

um and your attack roles have

disadvantage

so um you also have a disadvantage on

dexterity saving throws

but you can make a uh let me see what

the dc is on this

you can make a dc 12 strength check to

break out of the webbing can you burn

them

can i move my hands can i move my hands

is kind of what i want to know

yes you can you can you can sort of move

your hands in order to

cast but any attack roles are at

disadvantage got it

okay um yeah that's gonna be that

spider's turn

next up is march

yeah i hate all of this um so i would

like to

figure out a way if i can to bust myself

out of this

okay um that is going to be a strength

check

okay so for strength

where am i

[Music]

okay how do i do that you're just adding

your strength modifier

oh oh okay oh that was a very

dumb moment of me sorry

that is 16. uh 16 does it

so uh yeah you're able to uh

break yourself out of these webs get out

of them

just not

a fan of any of this

and then i just want to have my

warhammer um just

ready to go but that's

okay yeah that's uh that's your action

um okay back to the top of the order

flynn

ooh um man i don't want to have to hold

my action again but

i'm worried that if i finish cutting the

rest of this webbing that they will

because you said like as i'm cutting

it's starting to find like droop down

i'm assuming and like slowly yeah

they're beginning to droop down right

but if so if i were to finish the cut

they would then fall 25 feet it would be

a free fall um

so i would like does it look like i can

maybe potentially finish it depending on

the damage with my last

slice like is it almost at that point

where it's about to fall

it's pretty close yeah i'm gonna i'm

gonna hold my action and i'm just gonna

uh yell to try it um if you can grab

onto it

i can finish cutting the web and then we

can safely get these people down to the

ground

what do you say i'll do my best i'm

starting to

i'm starting to feel the strain of

having to hold

my friend up here yeah

yeah all we got to do is bring them down

slowly we don't want to take them up

let's do this and i'm just going to get

my

blade in there and like just kind of get

ready to cut the last bit of it whenever

it's dry

just turn so we can grab on okay um next

up is

oma yeah what happened to my torch when

i got restrained

i was holding on to it yeah you you can

still be holding on to it yeah

okay um just for visuals here where am i

restrained

um you're strained uh near the party

you're about uh

ten feet away from one of the spiders

that's on the ground

and you're almost directly underneath

the one that's up in the tree okay and

i'm guessing like are my knees

restrained or like my legs restrained

because if i if i have the torch still

and i have free movement of my arms

yes um you uh your legs are restrained

you cannot move anywhere

okay i'm gonna take a dagger out and um

cut my legs free

okay um make an attack roll

and that's going to be at disadvantage

that's a nine no a nine is not gonna do

it your

your dagger you try and plunge it in

there but it just keeps slipping

and it gets stuck in some parts um and

you're just not able to quite get a good

cut on it

okay okay is that the end of your turn

yes yeah okay

okay um next up the spider that is on

the ground

it's going to make a bite attack at

kellick

[Music]

so that is going to be a 19 to hit

that hits

okay

that's gonna be six points of piercing

damage

as it lunges forward and sinks its teeth

into you all right

[Music]

okay um and then the other spider that

came out from the trees is now going to

attack

um it is going to attempt to web up

it's gonna attempt to web up march

and that's gonna be uh four so uh that's

that's definitely gonna miss

yeah definitely nice not that again

yeah i already played this game already

all right uh kellick it's your turn

right uh

uh for for the sake of argument is there

is there

can is there a way i can get to alma

without um

uh provoking an attack of opportunity or

is she betwixt

er could i get between her and the

spider if i just worked my way around it

yeah if you if you wanted to sort of

rotate as you were walking you would be

able to do that

without leaving the spider's uh attack

range

i'm gonna cast all the dead on it okay

i want to kill this bastard heck yeah

okay make an attack roll

uh it's a it's a saving throw of it oh

okay

uh i believe uh uh wisdom what

let me make sure wisdom

yes wisdom that is a nine

right it fails okay

oh nice uh that is six points of

necrotic damage

[Music]

nice

so as it's taking a bite out of me i'm

just like smacking it in the face

and from that smack comes this uh

like the dust particles that burn away

at the places at uh this is the one i

stabbed right

so from my from my hand yeah through its

body like from that wound it begins to

expand and

uh steam and blister

nice okay um next

um next up oma you look up into the webs

and uh you see that your fire is

beginning to spread

more and more and it has spread on uh

onto sort of one of these vital um

structural

parts of the web and uh it

the spider's weight at this point is

just too much on it and it's going to uh

drop to the ground does it take any

damage

it is gonna take see that's

this is the fairy fire baned one or this

is the new one

uh no this is the

the fairy fire and band one yes nice

because he's already got damage so

that's why i was curious

yeah okay so

oh i didn't roll to maintain

concentration by the way when i got

attacked so i should do that

oh yeah why don't you do that

[Music]

oh okay the spider apparently was not

expecting to fall at all because it took

max damage there yes

all right and it took 12 points of

bludgeoning damage as it

hits the ground huge

concentration is dc10 unless the damage

is more than ten right

is that that is correct okay yeah and i

then i succeeded we're good

still baned

okay uh next up is shraya

now all of the spiders are on the ground

you've got one that's just

uh fallen and you are holding flynn at

the moment uh i'd like to

as the bodies are sort of descending are

they descending

they're descending at about two feet

every ground

yeah whenever he i guess

grabs on to the webs i'll cut the last

of it

yeah as as long as i wouldn't start

moving until the point where i know that

the bodies are completely free of the

web above

so if if nothing else

i will say if you're holding on to flynn

you're not going to be able to hold on

to these descending bodies with my

lower talons with my feet

could you drop me onto the webs of the

people and i'll just hold on to it

and i can just cut it from there would

that be something we could do

because i'm only like 30 pounds you

could definitely try that

yeah i'm down drop me over to the webs

i'll grab onto it and then i'll use my

held action to cut it whenever you grab

the webbing

and we'll just all right together okay

would you have told me this or like

while we're

um i don't know if i would have told you

but i feel like maybe you would have

known that like

because you're you're holding me with

your claws you know that you probably

have to let go of me

to like grab the thing i don't know

it's it's like iffy or could we explain

that right now or would that be kind of

to i'm gonna say flynn you would not be

able to

jump out of shraya try his grasp

could he let go of me and then i'd have

to make like a chat or something

yeah i mean shraya if you wanted to let

go of him he would be able to

to fall directly onto yeah i'm gonna let

go of him

and then i'm going to descend a little

bit

uh and prepare to

mitigate any kind of rapid fall that i

might see

start to happen if like say a piece of

the web breaks too

fast or if one of the bodies starts like

leans over and goes over the side of

where they're attached i'm just gonna

prepare to to make any kind of catches

that i would need to

okay uh flynn make your uh we'll roll

your damage

okay yeah

uh eight eight piercing eight piercing

okay that is enough to uh slice through

the last bit of webbing um

shraya i'm going to have you make an

athletics check to see how uh

how slowly you can get these things to

descend right

[Music]

let's look at the minus one oh

ah that's a that's a five

[Music]

yeah that's a five okay um you're not

the

inspiration anymore right you are going

to

uh mitigate half of the damage hey

that's good um that they would have hit

on the ground so

um flynn you're also going to take this

damage because you're descending with

your bodies

um so you you only take two points of

bludgeoning damage as you hit the ground

okay cool

oh good job man good job

and you guys are now on the ground yeah

okay um next up

the uh the spider that dropped to the

ground

um due to oma's uh fire

is going to uh it's gonna turn tail and

run

it is very damaged so it's gonna try and

just try and get away it's gonna use its

full

um action and it's movement to just turn

around and run the opposite direction

you guys get an attack

did it fall close enough to us for us to

be able to is this a different one

it fell within five feet of alma so oma

if if you had anything that you wanted

to

swipe at it with you would definitely be

able to do that i have a dagger

that i took out yeah um is it stuck in

the webbing i don't really know

or do i you can make an attack roll it

would just be a disadvantage

sure yeah i'll throw a dagger at it okay

or swipe at it with a dagger

yeah go for it

13 13 does not hit 13 just misses

damn yeah that's 13.

okay

i'm sorry that is just going to be a

straight roll because this one is fairy

fire

so your disadvantage is negated so do

you remember what i think it was a 16

what the first roll was yeah that one

was a 16 and one was an eight so i think

it was a 16 plus five

gotcha um yeah then that in that case

that hits get him

killed okay second i have to

check i'm not sure what my dagger's

damage is

okay

um four points of uh piercing that was

exactly what you needed as

it turns to run uh you swipe at it with

your dagger and

it tenses up and then just goes limp as

uh

as your final swipe at it kills it

how many how many spiders are there now

on the ground level

or like now there's two left there's two

left all right

one is on the in the web and one is on

the ground

they're both the new one that emerged

right

oh that one's on the ground that one's

on the ground yeah is that

the one other one that's alive that's

the one that's in front of me is that

right

yes okay okay

next up is march you've got these two

spiders on the ground

near you what would you like to do how

close are they both to me they're both

within

five feet one's within five feet and the

other one is about ten feet away just

emerging from the trees

okay well the one within five feet i

want to war hammer it okay

do it

24. uh yeah 24 hits

actually it's 25 i can't do math i'm so

sorry

even more dim even more hit

this guy okay

oh wait no that's the wrong one sorry

sorry

[Music]

oh [ __ ] uh that is 12 points of

bludgeoning that's max damage

that's insane heck yeah

okay um yeah that

did not like that um okay is that the

end of your turn

um yeah

i just really want to kill the spiders

because i'm not a fan of them

so i'm just going to continue to sit

there with my hammer or my shield

next up top of the order flynn you are

now on the ground

yep it might be in the fight um

make a uh just make an

acrobatics check sure hold on one second

let's see

uh 14

you are not prone okay you landed on

your feet i'm gonna

i have my my sword sword in my one hand

so i'll just reach back grab my shield

and look at the one that newly emerged

that's kind of a little distance seeing

that the party's kind of handling the

one

that's kind of bloodied and messed up

i'm gonna run over to the new one and

intercept it before i can get to my

party

run up and just give it a stab okay make

an attack roll

um maybe maybe isn't that bad

13 uh 13 does not hit

okay well i'll still get him just misses

just like yelling like come on you

little [ __ ]

okay um oma

what would you like to do something

crazy

okay oh man no i'm not gonna do anything

yeah come on guys

no i meant crazy for myself i don't mean

crazy for like anybody else

um seeing as how much trouble i was

having cutting

the webbing free um i'm actually going

to

like

just like take my torch and put it as

close to my legs as i can and just burn

away the web

around my legs and like just kind of

like

knowing i'm probably gonna burn myself

okay um yeah okay so

make an attack rule for me um is it an

attack role like because i have a

disadvantage for attack roles but this

is more just putting it by my legs

so yeah so this is just gonna be a

straight rule okay

straight roll nothing added is a seven

a seven okay so um what is your

ac thirteen a thirteen okay so you are

able to

um set fire to the web without setting

fire to yourself

cool um so

let's see i could roll my damage

yeah what's the damage of a torch um

really good question i'm gonna say it's

it's a d6 a d6 okay that's what i'm

gonna rule

um so roll that d6

uh two two okay

um you it completely burns away any

restraints that

you still have like some spider web on

you it's still sort of that that

weird texture yeah but um you are now

free from the restraints nice i like

just kind of sigh um

okay and um i'm incredibly grateful i

that

that i didn't hurt myself

oh right um next up

is um the

one of the spiders that's on the ground

also very hurt

um it's gonna try and turn and run but

march

and kellick are both within uh melee

range of it so you guys are both going

to get opportunity attacks

if you would like still uh fairy fired

or is that

not this one uh this one is also fairy

fired yeah uh

so you both get that at advantage

so that for me is a uh

21 to hit yeah that hits

should i even bother i mean i did but

you should

yeah 19 hits both you guys can roll your

damage

oh [ __ ] 11. nice

i did two dudes

bludgeoning

very obviously march's attack that

killed it but kalec was also there to

sort of help

you're right bastard

really just kind of like half step you

just sort of like

yeah sort of just half stab it and then

uh march again with

a huge swing over her head um just

completely decimates this thing

uh with this crunch and then just a

smush

sound once it uh once it breaks past

that initial shell

um okay that's gonna be

uh that spider's turn his turn was to

die

um so uh next up seeing that uh

all of the other spiders are now dead

the last spider

is going to also run um i don't think it

was within melee range of anyone it was

uh ten feet away

so it is going to attack up to it

that's right i'm sorry i mean right next

to it i just took a l it only took a

little bit of damage

yes i'm just gonna let it run

okay as uh this last spider flees off

into the distance um we are now out of

combat

cali we brought the we brought the

bodies down can you take a look at them

and i'll run over and try and start

seeing if i can

cut them out of there go to where the

face might be and

cut it out

uh yeah i'll take i'll take a look see

what

what's going on uh with the bodies

that's uh yeah i get my my circle as

well like

i quickly wipe the spider blood

on the gown of me yeah and um

as you run up um and i'm like they're

kind of working on it as you arrive i'll

kind of just turn to you

and kind of like stop for a second put

my hand on your shoulder and just like

hey man

you did a really great job thank you

you you as well fun well done getting

the bodies keeping keeping the eyes on

the prize

as it were we're a pretty good team

yeah anyway let's get these guys out

let's go and and i'm gonna walk up to

the other body and say

i have a few uh weeds and herbs that

might be able to help revive one of them

may not bring them up to their full

strength but they might make them

conscious

and i sort of what if they're dead

well let's find out and i'll just start

cutting them away we got to make sure

they're getting oxygen for yeah first

things

yeah so i'm already going to cut around

i'm instinctually going to

uh go over to alma just to just sort of

you know in a way that looks like i'm

trying to be like stealthy about it just

like i just want to

look at her and make sure she's okay but

i'm clearly very obviously

going over to be like yo you okay oh

okay good you're fine all right

i'm a little sticky yeah that stuff was

not fun

i'll be okay no okay

yeah no you would no you're worried

you're fine you're fine you got you got

it at least you didn't disappear very

proud of you for now just disappearing

out of existence

yeah not this time no it's all good oh

good okay

let's see if these guys are uh alive

sleepy poisoned who knows you're a

little sticky too

yeah well i don't shower what's it

matter

what's more what's more coke and dirt

and residue gross

[Laughter]

so uh like and flynn

i don't know but it seems strange

so we're just cutting away as we're

cutting yeah

okay um you guys cut away and um as you

guys get around to sort of the head and

the face area

um you cut away and you see two uh

very obviously elven features um of

these of these faces

um if you guys want you can both make

medicine checks to determine the

the uh how these guys are doing can i

give him

advantage in rolling for myself yeah

it has been six to seven days

we'll see yeah i only have a plus two so

you probably have a better

bonus i'm also using my inspiration

so that's total

uh

uh 18 18 total 18 total

these guys are just on the brink of

death um

they're not dead no

but these guys maybe have a couple hours

left right are these all the bodies that

we've seen

or just the two or they're just the two

just two okay i'm gonna i'm gonna

i'm sorry are you guys telling us that

they're alive or i'm not going to say

we're going to immediately say i'm going

to pull up my uh medical kit

i've got a little bit of healing

supplies left that i can use and i'm

going to just like immediately turn to

try it and be like

try it whatever you got we're gonna need

it right away to keep these guys alive

i'm gonna walk over to them and and pull

out the um

potion i collected earlier and say um

i i have this yes

i i think it's probably necessary here

unless raya do you know

does your medicine have restorative

powers or is it just sort of a

uh uh an ease uh

i don't think what i currently have

and my supplies would be able to

actually restore strength only to

make conscious

[Music]

uh well it's worth a shot to see if

they're if they're

doing all right mentally because our

friend back at uh

baccature commune there was not even uh

it's barely able to stand

try it do you know these people do you

recognize them i look at their futures

and examine them closely

can i can that do i recognize any of

them

i threw them um yes you've re you

recognize them

just from seeing them in passing you

don't know them by name

they're definitely from the town so at

least there's that they're definitely

from the commune

yes we we should do everything we can to

help them

they're from they are of the mythical

beyond where the where the forest united

all these elves and

they're one in the same of this family

of elves we must get them back

[Music]

is dm is this a um

regular healing potion greater healing

potion 2d4 or

44. um this is uh just your standard

healing potion 2v4 plus 2. 2d4 plus 2.

what's the spell that so omar you give

that one to the one that uh

that uh um flynn just freed you know

that's eight points of healing cool nice

okay

and for mine of uh he gets i don't know

what his hit die are because that

affects this as well

uh he gets uh five uh hit points from my

from my

application on my uh healing kit uh plus

uh additional hp equal to his maximum

number of hit die

okay um so both of these guys you can uh

see as soon as you guys administer

um your uh your potions and and the

things to heal them

um immediately color begins to

flush back into their faces and uh they

begin to fill out a little bit more

and you can see um a breath come to each

of their chests

and um they they just sort of uh

stir a little bit in there in their

state

they are still unconscious

they're just they're very slowly coming

back to consciousness

i'm gonna start to pull out some of

rations from my bag

um and just kind of like prepare them so

that once once they kind of

are awakened i have my water skin and

i've got some rations to kind of

give them nourishment right away flynn

will

start working on getting the rest of the

webs off of their body so when they do

come to consciousness they're not still

half in a web

so like i'll just start like finalizing

that so we can potentially pull them out

now that we have them revived

okay

and with that you see one of them

begins to to awaken a little bit more

than the other one

um the one that oma gave the the healing

potion to

um is still a little bit more

unconscious sort of just

dipping in and out but the one that um

kellek helped out

um is their eyes are beginning to open

and

they're they try and sit up a little bit

caleb just size with relief

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all right hey there

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yeah you coming too hi um

yeah i'm still like pulling webbing off

of him

yeah just like cutting it and severing

it pulling it away as we go

and he starts to reach his arms around

and begins pulling the webbing away as

well

can you can you see straight i'll kind

of i'll uh cast a light uh cantrip

on on the tip of my finger and like wave

it between his eyes to see if he's

calibrated okay if he's doing

he's he sort of uh winces a little bit

just at the adjustment

that his eyes need for the light but um

eventually he begins to follow

the light does he seem to be feverish do

either of them or do they seem to have

any of the affliction that uh

that uh uh alathor had no um

he begins to it seems like they're

coming to consciousness just fine

no he's not afraid of the light that he

holds up to his eyes

no there was an initial adjustment just

because it's very dark around here but

um

beyond that no you both must be famished

and i reach

into the ground and i pull up like i

just

plunge my hand into the earth and

pull up some dirt and uh as i

as i do uh little like uh

vines start growing out of the dirt uh

and little like berries start sprouting

out of my hand and i

offer it to them

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i i see this and i look at the rations

in my hand

and look at his berries and i just

wrap up my rations and put them away

um yes so the one conscious elf um

reaches out and grabs one and

uh and pops the barrier into his mouth

and he looks at you guys and he looks

around

at the forest surrounding him and he

goes

oh so the darkness has spread

that's right we're out here trying to

figure out what's

what's going on and uh

we're lucky to come across you do you

remember anything

how you got here i

uh a little bit

it's a little bit foggy but i think

yeah we were we were chasing uh some

goblins

out here um

and uh we came across there was a larger

goblin camp

out here and um

we were taken prisoner for a little bit

but

we we were able to to break free and and

get out um only after a couple hours but

we wait

wait are you guys where did you guys

come from

the commune your house you guys came how

how

what how long has it been how long have

we been here

uh like six years or seven days

that was the last time anybody at the

commune saw we tried to stop him from

getting back alathar took something

we tried to stop him from getting back

tell me he did not make it back

no he's there now he's there now in your

temple

not looking so great what did he take

i don't know exactly what it was but oh

this is not good at all

we need to go now and that's where we're

going to end this session

we're going to call it right there

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