- Positive dinosaur
- Additional information is decided about the Bastion hirelings:
- Tanelia Yelmoira (recently graduated Transmutation Wizard) works in the Arcane Study
- Nym Ularan (recent history graduate from Moonveil Academy) work in the library.
- Alvyn and Carla Bronzebelch (a married gnome couple) work in Zemma's smithy
- Budurk (male half-orc) works in Zemma's workshop
- Nekaria (female tiefling) works in Zemma's workshop
- Rolamin Cedarflower (male forest elf) works in Zemma's workshop
- After a few days of activity at the house, people start showing up to greet the young Lady Ashera and bring present, like sacks of potatoes. Soliana does her best to take everything as gracefully as her mother would have. She also gets a brace of coneys and a lovely green dress sewn with golden thread that actually fits pretty well considering how tiny she is.
- It's only another day after that that the requests for help start coming in.
- Another day, a young elven woman comes to visit and she looks very sad. She thinks there's a creature in the woods east of town who ate her daughter. The young girl was playing near the woods with several other children, and only one boy came back. That poor boy will not go near the woods and is too scared to speak.
- Not long after this as well, an older gentleman comes to ask Soliana for help ridding the area of some bandits that assaulted his son on the road that leads north out of the village. She hands him the healing potion she conjured for the day to take home to his son.
- The next day before they can even leave the house to go hunting, there's a strong rapping on the door. There's a tall man standing there, who wants to complain about the local priest Father Powell. They want to build a new temple to Chislev, but the father is against it. He's a bit bombastic, and Niniel shoves him out the door so they can finish getting supplied up to go child-eating monster hunting.
- Within an hour of finally setting out, they arrive at the traditional area by the woods where children used to play. It is at this point that Zemma asks what they are looking for. Niniel asks why they didn't try talking to the kid. Soliana says, but the boy can't talk. Caleb says he could ask him in his head, so they turn around and head back to Lamara to find the boy.
- They get directions from a friendly lady to The Boy Who Lived's house. She also mentions that The Hunter went into the woods to look for the children, but he never came back either.
- They have to persuade the boy's (Thomas) father to let them speak to the child because he is only just starting to act more normally and the father doesn't want him re-traumatize. Soliana reminds the father that her parents
- Soliana sits next to him and holds his hands and gets his permission for Caleb to talk in his head so he doesn't have to talk out loud. She also gives his the labradorite stone she found on the island with the siren problems. She also tells him that he can go to the library to read books about rocks whenever he wants.
- Caleb connects with Thomas and learns that the children followed a path until the forest got dark and then there were too many legs, and little spiders were everything, and first it grabbed Beth and then it grabbed his other friend and then there were screams and then there were spiders everywhere and he ran. And there were screams.
- Thomas is trembling with the memories, so Soliana reminds him that he has his shiny new rock and he can go ask Nym the librarian to help him find all the best books about rocks and he was very brave to let Caleb talk to him in his head. They do let his father know about being allowed to visit the library and that they were off to the woods to deal with the spiders.
- They get back to the woods, and Zemma can easily see that there's a path and starts leading the way.
- When they get to the point where it's hard to know if they are still on a path, Caleb, Soliana, and Poetry realize that the forest is really very dark. The canopy is very thick, but that it also seems like it's dimmer than it should be. There's also a fog and mist rising off the ground as well.
- Poetry also realizes that something doesn't feel right and she realizes that she hasn't heard any ambient sounds in a while.
- Poetry and Niniel look around and don't really see many new growing things. Poetry uses her sense of Nature to figure out which direction feels worst.
- Up ahead they start to hear leaves rustling.
- Soliana casts Mage Armor on herself because she was so distracted this morning she forgot.
- Poetry casts Pass Without a Trace and they start sneaking towards the rustling sounds.
- Zemma takes point.
- What they see when they look ahead is a giant centipede. It is probably 42" tall and at least 15' long. The legs aren't legs but human arms with hands and a human face that comes to a point like a cone of a face.
- It locks eyes with Caleb.
NIGHTMARE CENTIPEDE BATTLE
- Nightmare Centipede moves up to Niniel and grabs her with one of its arm legs. Niniel is grappled. Then it bites her with its weird, pointy human face for 10 piercing and 2 poison dmg. Niniel is poisoned. Then it stabs her with a centipede pincer thingy for 12 slashing dmg and 2 poison dmg.
- Soliana backs up a little bit (15' or so) then casts Grim's Mischief on the centipede, but the centipede saves.
- Poetry moves a little closer to the NC and summons Ember within 10' of it but farther than 10' from Niniel and then Ember misses with her Flame Seed.
- The NC makes a low rumbling sound and then suddenly the leaves all around start rustling and two spider swarms coalesce. One next to Soliana and the other next to Caleb.
- Spider Swarm 2 bites Soliana for 9 piercing dmg. Grim's Mischief fades as Soliana is surprised by this sudden attack.
- SpSw1 misses biting Caleb.
- Caleb Disengages from the SpSw and runs up to the NC and stabs it with his rapier for 13 piercing. As a reaction the NC turns its face to Caleb and vomits a 40' line of grossness so Caleb takes 34 poison dmg. (Caleb now has 2 HP.) Caleb runs away again since Disengage is for your whole turn.
- Zemma Rages into a scaled kitty cat with big claws. She runs up to the NC and claws it for 9 slashing dmg. Then she claws it again for 13 slashing dmg. She then rears back and claws it again for 18 slashing dmg.
- Niniel looks at the arm gripping her and says "Oww". She Misty Steps 30' away from the NC and casts Eldritch Blast at its butt.
- The NC attempts to grapple Zemma, but she is little and mighty then it moves up to Caleb and grabs him. It misses biting Zemma then pincers Caleb for 14 slashing dmg and Caleb is unconscious.
- Soliana casts Vortex Warp on Caleb's body moving him almost 90' away from the NC then Starlight Steps next to him and pulls out her pre-conjured Healing Elixir and pops the cork.
- Poetry casts Call Lightning and strikes the NC for 21 lightning dmg. Ember nails the NC with a Flame Seed for 17 fire dmg.
- SpSw2 moves up to Poetry and bites her for 10 piercing dmg.
- SpSw1 misses biting Poetry.
- Caleb fails a Death ST.
- Zemma claws the NC for 9 slashing dmg. Then again for another 9 slashing. Then again for 10 slashing dmg.
- Niniel moves around behind the NC and casts Lightning Bolt on it for 18 lightning dmg. In reaction to this, the NC turns its head toward Poetry and gets her and SpSw1 for 33 poison dmg. Most of the SpSw1 spiders are dissolved in the grossness. Poetry is very hurt. Niniel then summons a tentacle in the NC faces region and hits it for 5 cold dmg.
- The NC moves around to Poetry and grabs her with one of its 100 arm legs. It continues on to Niniel who manages to dodge the grapple. It bites Niniel for 16 piercing dmg and she is unconscious. It pincers Poetry for 12 slashing dmg. As it was leaving Zemma managed to claw it for 10 dmg.
- Soliana feeds her Healing Elixir to Caleb, and then she moves 25' to "hide" behind a small tree.
- Poetry fails a Death ST. Ember prepares to Dodge.
- SpSw2 moves toward Soliana
- SpSw1 moves to Zemma
- Caleb stands up. He moves 15' toward Soliana and throws a psychic knife at the NC for 9 psychic dmg. Then he Hides.
- Zemma moves up to the NC and then misses with her claws. Then she slashes it successfully for 12 slashing dmg then she really gets in there with some claws for 16 slashing dmg. With one slash she takes off at least four arm legs. It is dead! The Spider Swarms dissipate now that their friend .
- Niniel succeeds on the Death ST.
- Soliana attempts to stabilize Poetry, but fails.
- Poetry succeeds on a Death ST.
- Caleb moves and Dashes to Niniel and also fails to stabilize.
- Zemma moves up and knocks Soliana's fumbling hands out of the way and succeeds in stabilizing Poetry.
- Niniel succeeds on a Death ST.
- Soliana runs over to Niniel and fails to stabilize her.
- Caleb knocks Soliana's fumbling hands out of the way and properly stabilizes Niniel.
- Soliana is nearly inconsolable over her unconscious friends because she got them into this mess.
- Caleb and Zemma sees that the back of the NC has a red symbol that looks like a faceless-hooded head. (A bell with an oval in it, kind of.)
- Grim doesn't know what the creepy bug is or the symbol.
- A short rest is had.
- 2,000 XP ea. for 12,750 XP total ea.
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