Ptolus:ReqSum28
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November 07, 2009
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Upon the termination of the search outside through the happy hole made by the machinery, I returned, spent yet another Conviction Point and utilized Second Sight to determine what might have been used when to remove the pain in the ass from our field of attacky. Upon requests from Côr, I check the steam axe for magical endowment, but alas, it was under-endowed. Kekitat and Cheval ran off with Curm to get him 'healed' back at the Pale Tower.
I went through to assist Côr with the hunting and pecking for more and more stuff and shiny here in the warehouse, but nothing was obvious. While we waited for Kekitat and Cheval to return from the Pale Tower, I rested in one of the actual beds to recover some of the wasted fatigued from the earlier fight. Upon their return, we opted to approach the abandoned apt. building to try and interfere/terminate any secondary plotline that might be brewing there with or without The Surgeon.
Kekitat and Côr played with each other and the doorknob at the entry to the apt. building. Upon entry, they managed to upset some pile of slime from its resting place above the doorway and yet still managed to leap out of its loving embrace. I managed to burn off the slime, but only after Côr managed to investigate the cocoon in the corner and found small red insects climbing out at him. So he dropped the Chaos bomb on it, and managed to find out what they were for as a huge cloud of mechanized robots emerged for a couple of rounds. Upon investigating down the hall and the cocoon there, I determined it 'might' be a victim in the webbing, rather than an insect. Upon returning to discuss this option and 'handling' the housing itself, we were immediately set upon by drider-style folk that emerged from one of the doors. Côr was grabbed and bitten almost immediately. I managed to wound/daze them both from a fire spell. We dispatched them the next action sequence with more of my fire, more Ginsu-itat action and some other beat-upons. Côr, in the next room, examined what was the destruction of a wall. Upon examining he noted a swarm of centipedes, mostly as it charged him. Bringing it with him back to us all, they nom'ed up some cat flesh. And I turned the remains of the fire against them, and it popped nearly all of them, and dispersed them with the single application.
Upon opening the other door, Côr managed to unearth another swarm of centipedes which he then was able to remove without my fiery inspiration by using his coney goodness of crossbow assault. We continued to explore this insect laden house in our quest for The Shiny. From behind one of the walls in the room from which the original spidermen emerged, Kekitat and others heard discussion in a 'guttural' language. Côr then found a set of heavy leather saddlebags (3-70) with some seeming abandoned 'stuff' inside the bags. Côr then wandered up and opened up the cocoon slightly to reveal that a young woman (15ish) was inside the shell and was transforming to another spider hybrid critter. We then were able to find some 'Dretches' which posed progressively larger problems as one summoned two more to fight along side. We eventually got rid of them. In the room's locked adjoining room, after the Dretches were dispatched back to their realm, we found 4 humans and a half-elf. They were all residents of the apt. complex. They report that the housing was all overtaken rapidly 4 days ago by the creatures. Some of the residents were eaten immediately and some were put into the cocoons as well as just being locked up. Some of the invaders were humans wearing robes, some were the spider creatures. We discussed options about the Night of Dissolution, but then put the adventure on pause before continuing upstairs.
