[WotMK: Hexcrawl] Session Thirty-Four
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dorchadas
Dramatis Personae:
Father James checked the door and didn't find anything, and they opened it to find a short corridor leading to a large tapestry of a landscape, a view of the Great Bridge and the Narrow Sea from high in the air. Carefully checking behind it, they found a pipe entrance, and they considered going through it until Elaphe pointed out that the tapestry might be a map of the destination, a hundreds of yards in the air above the Narrow Sea. Father James carefully untied the wire that kept the tapestry tied to the ceiling and they folded it up and left it on the floor, to be taken with them when they left.
With Hundred Wings scouting ahead, they passed through several more corridors, past a trap that shot needles from the ceiling in repeating steams by having Father James use his wind arms to scoop up Shining Star and everyone else jumping. As they walked, the air began to feel heavier and more oppressive, almost like the air before a storm, and they rounded a corner and found a pile of bodies. Two mycon, an amanita, and a mandragora, strangely shrunken and drained in appearance, much more so than would have been done by a vampire. The party carefully approached the bodies, mindful of their experience with the walking dead, but they were just corpses. There was nothing unusual about the area where they were lying, either, and eventually the group continued onward until they stood in front of another door. The air was almost palpably heavy here, and Elaphe's fur stood on end, and they put their heads together to consult their various scraps of lore. Piecing together what they knew, Shining Star, Father James, and Willow recalled stories of "lightning spiders" that lived in Predecessor ruins and hunted for prey, and for a moment the party looked at the loot they had already gained and considered calling it good enough. But eventually greed won out, and Elaphe instructed his bob-omb to wait by the door and explode if anything dangerous moved, and then they all backed up and Father James pushed open the door with his wind arms. Then several things happened at once.
When the door opened, the party heard a clacking sound of something moving over a stone and a warbling screech. Then a blobby, floating jellyfish-like creature with several claws on its lower end flew out the door into the corridor. It immediately began moving toward the party, dodging an arrow Amos fired at it, and then the bob-omb went off, blowing it into the wall and sending it slumped to the floor trailing ooze. Amos put another arrow into it, its claws clacked, and then it stopped moving.
Then another one, along with two similar-looking creatures with spider legs, burst out of the door.
Father James was in front, and the flying souldrinker moved straight toward him, dodging the sling bullet he fired and latching onto him. Shining Star wove chains of light arund one of the spiders as Elaphe drew out a crystal and handed it to Willow, and Amos took aim at a spider and fired, but it skittered sideways and he missed. Elaphe stepped forward as the spiders attacked both him and Willow, but the pair managed to parry their clacking jaws. As Amos fired an arrow into the souldrinker on Father James and as it wounds began healing, Willow crushed the crystal and felt Essence flowing in his body, and...
...we stopped, because there was a lot of trap-searching and description in going down those corridors and looking for traps that took up much of the time. The curtain incident from the last session is still strong in their minds, so they're being extremely cautious. Not that I blame them, since I got the template for this from an OSR random dungeon generator.
Next time, they (probably) take the loot they have and escape!
- Shining Star, mandragora sorcerer-priestess of Nyahré.
- Father James, human disciple of the pidgit-folk.
- Hundred Wings, Father James' familiar spirit bound into the bodies of dozens of ravens.
- Willow, human treesinger raised in Taira.
- Amos Burnham, a human from Earth.
- Elaphe, a chuzan junior member of the Black Rose.
Father James checked the door and didn't find anything, and they opened it to find a short corridor leading to a large tapestry of a landscape, a view of the Great Bridge and the Narrow Sea from high in the air. Carefully checking behind it, they found a pipe entrance, and they considered going through it until Elaphe pointed out that the tapestry might be a map of the destination, a hundreds of yards in the air above the Narrow Sea. Father James carefully untied the wire that kept the tapestry tied to the ceiling and they folded it up and left it on the floor, to be taken with them when they left.
With Hundred Wings scouting ahead, they passed through several more corridors, past a trap that shot needles from the ceiling in repeating steams by having Father James use his wind arms to scoop up Shining Star and everyone else jumping. As they walked, the air began to feel heavier and more oppressive, almost like the air before a storm, and they rounded a corner and found a pile of bodies. Two mycon, an amanita, and a mandragora, strangely shrunken and drained in appearance, much more so than would have been done by a vampire. The party carefully approached the bodies, mindful of their experience with the walking dead, but they were just corpses. There was nothing unusual about the area where they were lying, either, and eventually the group continued onward until they stood in front of another door. The air was almost palpably heavy here, and Elaphe's fur stood on end, and they put their heads together to consult their various scraps of lore. Piecing together what they knew, Shining Star, Father James, and Willow recalled stories of "lightning spiders" that lived in Predecessor ruins and hunted for prey, and for a moment the party looked at the loot they had already gained and considered calling it good enough. But eventually greed won out, and Elaphe instructed his bob-omb to wait by the door and explode if anything dangerous moved, and then they all backed up and Father James pushed open the door with his wind arms. Then several things happened at once.
When the door opened, the party heard a clacking sound of something moving over a stone and a warbling screech. Then a blobby, floating jellyfish-like creature with several claws on its lower end flew out the door into the corridor. It immediately began moving toward the party, dodging an arrow Amos fired at it, and then the bob-omb went off, blowing it into the wall and sending it slumped to the floor trailing ooze. Amos put another arrow into it, its claws clacked, and then it stopped moving.
Then another one, along with two similar-looking creatures with spider legs, burst out of the door.
Father James was in front, and the flying souldrinker moved straight toward him, dodging the sling bullet he fired and latching onto him. Shining Star wove chains of light arund one of the spiders as Elaphe drew out a crystal and handed it to Willow, and Amos took aim at a spider and fired, but it skittered sideways and he missed. Elaphe stepped forward as the spiders attacked both him and Willow, but the pair managed to parry their clacking jaws. As Amos fired an arrow into the souldrinker on Father James and as it wounds began healing, Willow crushed the crystal and felt Essence flowing in his body, and...
...we stopped, because there was a lot of trap-searching and description in going down those corridors and looking for traps that took up much of the time. The curtain incident from the last session is still strong in their minds, so they're being extremely cautious. Not that I blame them, since I got the template for this from an OSR random dungeon generator.
Next time, they (probably) take the loot they have and escape!
