I haven't forgotten you :)  Just feeling a bit crappy ATM

With no response to Esmerelda, or Mattias' question, Jacqueline shrugs and applies the acid and alchemist's Fire to the second of the egg sacks.  Again there is a plume of acrid smoke, which swirls upwards before part of it detaches and coalesces into a coherent shape.  This time it is a young child, a girl, but with a massive wound across her head - a blow that would certainly have killed her.

The ghostly shape looks around, almost fearfully, before she too changes into the more traditional, 'white sheet', shape of a ghost or the incorporeal undead, then she disappears from view.
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"These were trapped souls." the tiefling stated rather emotionlessly, "So that creature traps the souls on their way to the afterlife?" she asked Esmeralda, looking to confirm her own conclusion.

Right, can we burn it all down? is there anything left?

If I recall from our last foray didn't we explore the whole place? We haven't found any creatures...

“Well this seems to confirm the soul fisher of us ne sort or the other for certain, the question though remains where is the creature?”

"A patient hunter will wait for its prey." Jackie cited an old saying. "We just wait until it comes back, when it does we can get rid of it." the tiefling suggested. The plan shouldn't have to be too complex, this was the creature's lair it had to return eventually.

I have assumed that you explored the final loop of the 'structure' -  and found it to be the same as all the rest.

Are you planning to wait, or try and destroy/burn the whole thing?

My suggestion is to wait for the beastie.

With a sigh the security agent accepts the charge. He snacks on nuts, dried fruit and popcorn in a pouch and waits and watches.

A bemused grin snuck upon the features of the tiefling as she watched Matt getting comfortable. "I see you came prepared." Jackie commented, eying his snacks.

"Pretty sure we are going to be facing an angry beastie when it returns for sure, do we want to see about reinforcements?"

Esmerelda checks her iron vials, knowing that her remedies are ready, should they be needed....


She notes his snacks..
"The military travels on it's stomach is what I heard.....Say did you ever serve in security before?"

As you stand around chatting, Mattias notices that part of the central column is starting to dissolve, and a spider, about the size of a dire rat, starts to crawl out.


New Map
You guys have initiative.
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"Drat!" the tiefling spat as the spider emerged. "Looks like an aous to me." she commented to nobody in particular while she drew her dagger and took a defensive stance.

ooc: Total defense AC+4. AC20/13/17
Jackie isn't much use in combat but can provide a flanking bonus or draw attacks to her.

Esmerelda had just loaded her crossbow waiting for the spider to appear



Today: Esmerelda Najeet rolled 4 using 1d6.  Damage . 07:29, Today: Esmerelda Najeet rolled 20 using 1d20+2.  Attack crossbow .

“The itsey bitsey spider fishing for souls…”

Mattias?

The guards quickly attacks with his ranseur at the creature

Sorry I was traveling

08:23, Today: Nether Security Agency rolled 7 using 2d4+2.  Damage .
08:23, Today: Nether Security Agency rolled 22 using 1d20+5.  Matthias ranseur

As the spider appears, Jackie takes a defensive stance, and Esmerelda shoots her crossbow at the creature, before it gets into combat, and the bolt sinks into its body, causing a greyish green ichor to leak out.  Mattias stabs at it with his ranseur, drawing more Ichor from the beast.

The spider scuttles across the floor and lunges at Matt’s leg, sinking it’s fangs through the chainmail links and into the security man’s leg.

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Mattias -  Fort Save DC 14 or lose 1 level  -

Mattias – Lightly Wounded   
Esmerelda - Uninjured
Jacqueline - Uninjured

Spider – wounded
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Esmerelda reloads her crossbow....

"If anyone gets bit, let me know I have my remedies on me just in case."

The tiefling grimaced when she saw Matt being bitten and decided to give up her defensive stance. Lounging forward with the oddly shaped dagger, she cut the everything but itsy-bitsy spider, albeit not deeply. Perhaps it would draw the attention away from the Netherworld guardian.

ooc: Attack spider with kukri
17:43, Today: Jaqueline rolled 2 using 1d6+1.  Damage .

17:43, Today: Jaqueline rolled 21 using 1d20+5.  Attack arachnid incl. Inspiration.

Ow! bite bite!

The bodyguard says - he turns his weapon to get a strike close up


18:34, Today: Nether Security Agency rolled 12,8 using d20+5,2d4+2.  matt attack!

Esmerelda hurriedly loads her crossbow, while Matt and Jackie slash at the spider-thing again.  Matt's blow goes wide, but Jackie manages to catch it by surprise, and her Kukri cuts deeper than she would have thought - or hit something vital.  Rather than leaking, the grey green ichor almost fountains from  the small slash, and the spider seems to shrink slightly.  It pulls it legs in, curls up into a ball, and gives its life up to Jackie's blade.

Well done guys.  Just a decision about the structure now.

"Huh!" Jackie lets out in surprise at the spider's unexpected demise. She looked at her blade as the green ichor dropped to the ground, threatening to drip on her boots. "That was... easier than I thought." the tiefling commented to nobody in particular. "Is it really dead?" she wondered out loud.

Looking at the others her eyes fell on Matt's wound from the spider bite "Are you alright?" the brunette asked, her brow furrowed in worry.

"Aye! after I softened it up for you!"

Esmerelda is snarky as she moves quickly to attend the man's leg...she releases the tension on her crossbow, and her hand on the iron flask of a remedy.....

she begins to access the man for signs of poisoning the wound and the man himself.....
"How do you feel?"

@Jackie :  I did promise it wouldn't be too hard.

However, we still need to resolve something from an earlier post ..

@Matt - "Mattias -  Fort Save DC 14 or lose 1 level"  -

Esmerelda administers a remedy for the poison...

OK even with a plus 20 to the roll, I managed to roll a 1.  I believe that means you have to make the DC 14 roll on your  own...I suppose I should always simply take 10 on that task......
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