Valerian holds the rope as long as he can until the centipedes are almost him.

He lets out a small, undignified shriek and casts Levitation upon himself.

When he reaches the ceiling, he hurriedly walks with his hands to where the rest of the party is gathering, before the loathsome insects meet him up there.

Fiene puts his shoulder to the door, trying to force it.

Teodore watches this side of the pit for trouble as Derry pulls Devin from the pit.

The centipedes swarmed over Valerian, their mandibles biting and cutting into the mage's skin.

Devin was hauled out of the pit by Derry whilst Teodore now with lit torch illuminated the hallway. Kara began to prepare her magical spell. Fiene ran around the corner and putting his shoulder to the door it yielded.

The door beyond the door was thirty foot by thirty foot. Skeletal remains were sprawled upon the ground alongside blood stains.



OOC Valerian needs to make three more saves vs poison.

Declare your actions

DM, please check Private Messages.

Devin struggled to untie himself so that someone else could be pulled up.

"Gahhh! Get them off me!"
13:53, Today: Valerian rolled 6,9,5,14 using d20-1,d20-1,d20-1,d20-1 ((7,10,6,15)).

Derry watches the scene unfold before him, ready to pull the next pit-crosser up.

Kara targets the sleep spell on Valerian, since the centipedes are all on and about him.

If it succeeded in putting then all to sleep, she intends on going over and killing them with her dagger, then waking Valerian, as soon as she is able.


(ooc)
She rolled an 11 originally, but if you prefer that to be rerolled, she has an 8.

I realize what she is planning will take several rounds to accomplish, but if the centipedes are put to sleep, hopefully it will not be an issue.
This message was last edited by the player at 23:12, Fri 17 Sept 2021.

"The door is open!" Fiene calls back

Teodore keeps watching for danger.

The swarm of centipedes bite at Valerian as the mage sickened they went into a frenzy but any further attacks were stalled as Kara unleashed her magic. An enchanted slumber fell upon all the centipedes, Valerian, Holden, Fiene and even Kara herself.

OOC Following the ruling from last time, we used line of sight and a thirty foot radius as the limiting factors. So the four of them around the corner Teodore, Devin, Derry and Ermangard are not hit by the spell.

Day: 11. Time: 10:10am. Weather: Sunny, dry. Vision: Daylight. Movement: 20'

Lantern oil and torches
Fiene: 5 Turns - lit
Holden: 5 Turns - lit

“Zzzz.”

"What happened?" Devin asked as he struggled to his feet.  The pain radiating from the two bites was radiating outward, causing his whole body to ache.

Fiene sleeps.

Derry crosses the pit via the narrow ledge, such things being second nature, no part of his very nature, as a dwarf and surveys the soporific scene on the other side.

After he dispatches the crawlers one by one, he wakes the sleepers one by one, saving the new girl for last. If any of them needed more rest, it were she. For a spell, he considers her. Ah, the little lady comrade exhausted herself when she summoned forth the energy for her enchantment.
This message was last edited by the player at 15:39, Sat 18 Sept 2021.

The pit was crossed by Derry, the creepy crawlies were dispatched and the other adventurers awoken.

This expedition was a shambles, no question about that. One (or was it two?) of the party were nearly too sick to walk, and the magic lady was just about dead on her feet. Still, one or two things could be done before they turned back. That one-way door needed to be sorted out.

"I'm going to investigate the workings of that door. Then, I'll return and we'll return the way we came."

He once again crosses the pit by means of the ledge. At the other side, he asks Teodore to hold open the door, should it decide to close of its own volition. Prepared, he tries the ingress, making every possible note of its mysteries, engineering or otherwise. He does not cross the transom!

OOC Derry's the engineer, not the player, haha.

Awakened by Derry, Kara replied, "My thanks. I would have cast a bit farther out, but the light was not cooperative for precise targeting."

Yawning and stretching, she suggested to him about his plans, "Perhaps we should not worry about spiking or disabling the door at this time. For starters, something may lay beyond it we are not ready for," she indicated the two members who seems barely able to walk straight with their illness. "But more than that, it seems whatever success on disabling the door we have now will be repaired and have to be performed all over again. Fiene had said that the pit had been recovered, allowing it to surprise everyone again, and if you look closely to wehre Devin was examining earlier, it seems there are holes where someone at some point must have driven in spikes or something similar to make crossing easier, but they are now gone." she concluded.

"Perhaps it would be best to repair back to town until all have recovered, or if not town, at least out of the dungeon and to a camp in the woods, if one thinks the poison will burn its way out sooner."
This message was last edited by the player at 14:26, Mon 20 Sept 2021.

On the verge of assaying the mysterious door, Derry assures himself there will be another chance. Once again he crosses the pit by his chosen means. After he helps the others cross, he will lead the expedition back to the village.

Devin was amazed at how easily the dwarf crossed the pit in either direction.  Was he part spider or could anyone have done that?  Had they only known, they wouldn't have been stymied by the pit for so long!

Travel across the pit was slow for Derry but the dwarf took his time and came to no harm. Teodore and Ermangard managed the same but again slowly. Devin had to be lowered and again raised up the other side. The cleric's movements were very restricted by the sickening pain of the centipede bites. The heavily armoured and poisoned cleric made travel very slow. Holden's torch burnt out and their only light was Fiene's lantern. However the party successful climbed the stairs and came to the entrance to the dungeon.

As he was about to step through the threshold Teodore spied in the late morning sunlight a pewter holy symbol, twisted and bent as if crushed by a powerful hand, laid forgotten in a corner.

Day: 11. Time: 11:00am. Weather: Sunny, dry. Vision: Daylight. Movement: 20'

Lantern oil and torches
Fiene: 10 Turns - lit

Teodore poked at the ruined holy symbol with his sword. If no more nasty bugs emerged from nearby, he picked up the item and brushed some of the dirt off of it, tucking it into his pack.

"Take us to the southeast tower," Devin coughed as he's helped along.  "Sister Majken might be able to save us."

"She might also have something to say about that dusty thing," Derry encourages. Don't go in for religion myself, he omits.

"But what are you worrying about Devin? Bug poison won't kill you. It's the feeding that would. Teodore and I would not have let them begin chewing in earnest."

He says this convincingly enough.

"No more than a few exploratory bites," he says reassuringly.