Marines, we are Leaving!
17 & 24 January 2007-
This will have to be the condensed version, since I don't remember exactly where the first week ended and the second week left off.
Having reached the throne room, we had discovered another wounded wasp/demon/thing/whatever, looming menacingly over another one of the weird almost-spiders. We blasted it from range with everything we had, and killed it dead in a hail of arrows, crossbow bolts, a throwing axe, lightning, and a fireball (best to just nuke it from orbit, we all agreed). When we investigated, we discovered that the almost-spider was still alive; and when we healed it, it revealed that it was the queen of the nest, and that they were a race of intelligent, shapeshifting were-spiders, who often took human form and who had lived with the humans in the village for some time. It ends up that they were basically friendly, but that they were stranded from another plane, where the wasp/demons were designed by some of their enemies to kill them. She swore us to secrecy on their true natures, and paid us handsomely for the favor.
We had gathered our treasure, and were headed back to town when we were jumped by a group of human thugs who had been awaiting our return. We had a bad few rounds at first, since they gimped our two scouts, and put our bard out of business; but there were some truly glorious moments, too, like when eBill pulled off a Legolas-like point-blank shot, and put an arrow in the eye of his attacker for maximum damage.
After questioning the survivor (it's truly amazing what answers you can get when you threaten to feed captives to giant spiders- ick!), we discovered that the mayor of the town had sent us to the spider-hole in the hopes that we would kill off the spiders so that he could get their treasure. We also discovered that he had sent the wasp/demons into the spider hole by using some sort of bug-controlling talisman.
We returned to town, and when he appeared and started to accuse us of killing off his henchmen (guilty as charged), our mage caused an illusionary wasp/demon to attack him. In front of a gathering crowd of onlookers, he whipped out his talisman and commanded the illusion to "attack them," a bad idea. Our illusionist had the faux-critter fly off and attack the villagers, instead, panicking them. As it turned out, he couldn't even correct his mistake, because he was immediately mobbed by giant spiders, and nastily killed on the spot. We found out later that the bug-controlling talisman has the unfortunate side-effect of enraging arachnids, which is what had called them to the village in the first place. His sending of the wasp/demons into the spider hole had sent the spiders raging into the town; hence the initial crisis. Our killing of his subordinate thugs was neatly sidestepped by his obviously evil nature and his karmic demise.
We decided to declare an end to major hostilities (and thus our complete victory) and then we sailed for the mainland, hoping to contend once again with bugs the size of- well- bugs.
This will have to be the condensed version, since I don't remember exactly where the first week ended and the second week left off.
Having reached the throne room, we had discovered another wounded wasp/demon/thing/whatever, looming menacingly over another one of the weird almost-spiders. We blasted it from range with everything we had, and killed it dead in a hail of arrows, crossbow bolts, a throwing axe, lightning, and a fireball (best to just nuke it from orbit, we all agreed). When we investigated, we discovered that the almost-spider was still alive; and when we healed it, it revealed that it was the queen of the nest, and that they were a race of intelligent, shapeshifting were-spiders, who often took human form and who had lived with the humans in the village for some time. It ends up that they were basically friendly, but that they were stranded from another plane, where the wasp/demons were designed by some of their enemies to kill them. She swore us to secrecy on their true natures, and paid us handsomely for the favor.
We had gathered our treasure, and were headed back to town when we were jumped by a group of human thugs who had been awaiting our return. We had a bad few rounds at first, since they gimped our two scouts, and put our bard out of business; but there were some truly glorious moments, too, like when eBill pulled off a Legolas-like point-blank shot, and put an arrow in the eye of his attacker for maximum damage.
After questioning the survivor (it's truly amazing what answers you can get when you threaten to feed captives to giant spiders- ick!), we discovered that the mayor of the town had sent us to the spider-hole in the hopes that we would kill off the spiders so that he could get their treasure. We also discovered that he had sent the wasp/demons into the spider hole by using some sort of bug-controlling talisman.
We returned to town, and when he appeared and started to accuse us of killing off his henchmen (guilty as charged), our mage caused an illusionary wasp/demon to attack him. In front of a gathering crowd of onlookers, he whipped out his talisman and commanded the illusion to "attack them," a bad idea. Our illusionist had the faux-critter fly off and attack the villagers, instead, panicking them. As it turned out, he couldn't even correct his mistake, because he was immediately mobbed by giant spiders, and nastily killed on the spot. We found out later that the bug-controlling talisman has the unfortunate side-effect of enraging arachnids, which is what had called them to the village in the first place. His sending of the wasp/demons into the spider hole had sent the spiders raging into the town; hence the initial crisis. Our killing of his subordinate thugs was neatly sidestepped by his obviously evil nature and his karmic demise.
We decided to declare an end to major hostilities (and thus our complete victory) and then we sailed for the mainland, hoping to contend once again with bugs the size of- well- bugs.
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