# Kaleidoscopic spiders (S18 - 14/07/2024) - to outside of the city - 2nd hour - shadow encounter - *fighting script* - Paracelsus exclaims his surprise to the sudden attack > oh... alright... - Quest ignores the exclamation and carries forward - caring shadow misses Paracelsus - Paracelsus is surprised and calls for help again > some help please ! - edgy and hopeful shadow misses - Quake - climbs on the roof - slaps caring shadow - giving it disadvantage to attack Quake - no damage - amiable shadow hits Paracelsus - draining strength again now at 7 - Baz - casts shield of faith on Paracelsus - moves to the shadows - stabs amicable shadow - Herton - moves to the shadows - kills amiable shadow - Quest - finally realizes what is happening - moves back around - blasts caring shadow off - Paracelsus - casts Pestilence on edgy and hopeful shadow - they don't have a reaction anymore - moves away - edgy shadow chases after Paracelsus and drains him - 4 strength left - hopeful shadow chases after Paracelsus and misses - Quake slaps to no avail hopeful shadow - Baz - moves after the shadows - kills edgy shadow - Herton - moves after the shadows - kills the last shadow - Paracelsus is sitting on the ground exhausted - Herton tries to remove the drain with a lesser restoration but it doesn't work - Paracelsus needs to take of some equipment so he can move out of the city - he hands his bags to various members of the party - Baz gets the doctor's bag - Herton gets the "samples" bag - the rest is given indiscriminately - 3rd hour nothing happens - outside of the city - party finds a way out of the city - party settles for a long rest - first watch - Baz - sees 3 travelers going into town - it's Veo, Sebastien and Pluto - Baz move to the middle of the road in front of them > going to the city in the middle of the night ? bold move... - Pluto is completely surprised - Pluto asks what Baz is doing here alone - Veo facepalms - Baz asks if they have tips t get to the other side of the wall into Queen's Park Garden - Veo asks why - Baz mention it is for a flower that a potion maker need to make a protection potion - Veo mentions a large number of gnolls at Temple Gate - Veo's group is here to see what the paladins are up to in the city - Baz mentions the party has some bad blood with them - Veo offers to share their findings once back - Veo mentions that the party should just move the camp a bit back to not be seen - Baz asks where to get tents - Veo just takes hers from Eckerman Mill - nothing else happens during the night - Paracelsus recovers his strength again - next day - Baz mentions the encounter to everyone - Paracelsus gives everyone the meds - party thinks about where to go - College Gate - not a lot known - closest gate - Shepherd's Gate - a bit further - guarded by the Hooded Lanterns - Ansom gave the Party the passphrase for the week > when the shadows dance, the lanterns light the way - go towards College Gate - if it is not good - continue down the wall if not safe an use Shepherd's Gate - to College gate - nothing happens on the way - College Gate - *desc* - very open place - acrid air - charred wood - graveyard of ruins - ash and dust on the ground and in the air - most building are rubble to the foundations - shimmering spiderwebs on the gate - Quake offers to knock on the door - party approaches the door closer - the webs are humming a low melodic vibration - peering through the webbed cracks the reality warps - in one the city is butling with a merchant street - in another a demonic scene with humans pleading for their life - in a third one Drakkenheim is overgrown and a ruin - Quake sees another vision - a harmonious society - glowing people - kaleidoscopic colors - looks very tempting it her - the vision fades - the ruins of Drakkenheim can be seen behind now - she feels the impulse to join the vibrant world - everyone but Baz looks at the webs - Quake fails the save - incapacitated - 6 psychic damage - ***REDACTED*** - goes still and collapses - Quest goes to her sister and shakes her awake - Quake is fine - after some discussion Quake tries to open the door - the door just opens - Paracelsus takes a closer look at the webs - fails the intelligence save - 20 psychic damage - falls unconscious - they are other worlds but also potential futures - ***REDACTED*** - Herton wakes up Paracelsus - Paracelsus starts scribbling what he saw while eating an entire ration - Herton tries to look what Paracelsus wrote - it is in Old Median - not a language that Herton understands - Herton garbs Paracelsus' should to get his attention ruining a page being written - Paracelsus looks at him tares the page, ignores him and continues writing - Lump looks inside - Lump sees a creature inside - it is a phase spider - Quest recognizes it - Paracelsus turns on the spectral lantern - *there are 4 spiders outside* - they are for now immobile - party starts to back away - Paracelsus gets is foot caught in a web - the phase spiders wake up - *fighting script* - Quake - pulls Quest away - slaps evil phase spider - Baz banes unflappable, belligerent and evil phase spider - neckbeard phase spider - moves through the wall - dashes to Paracelsus - untidy phase spider moves to the gate - unflappable phase spider - moves to Paracelsus - misses a bite attack thanks to bane - Quest - casts spirit guardian - unflappable and neckbeard fail - moves in the middle of teh spiders - impotent phase spider - goes to Paracelsus - misses a bite attack - Herton - moves to Paracelsus - quickens enhance ability strength - wrestles impotent phase spider into the spirit guardian - Paracelsus - blows a crushed vial and casts pestilence on neckbeard, unflappable and impotent phase spider - they all are dizzy and lose their reaction - moves away - belligerent phase spider - runs to Quest - misses with a bite - Quake punches impotent phase spider - Baz - stabs impotent phase spider and kills it - moves near Quest - tries to taunt some of them - neckbeard phase spider dies from the pestilence - untidy phase spider moves back through the wall - unflappable phase spider dies from the spirit guardians - Quest point blank eldritch and misses - Herton tries to wrestle evil phase spider but it dodges - Paracelsus poison needles belligerent phase spider it is unconscious - spirit guardian finishes the unconscious belligerent phase spider - evil phase spider bites Quest who drops the spirit guardian - Quake finishes evil phase spider - Baz - picks up the torch - throws the torch on the webs on the door - the kaleidoscopic visions start to fade - Quest moves towards the door - Herton - moves towards the door - fans the flames with control flames - the illusions now shatters - Paracelsus - moves to the door - inspects the phase spider cadavers - some are usable - asks to leave the last one alive to study and harvest - Baz - moves near Paracelsus - holds an attack - Quest - moves through the door - readies an eldritch blast - Herton - moves closer to the door - readies a gust - Paracelsus - moves inside - no spider is seen through the lantern - holds a needle - Quake - moves through the door - opens the other door - it nearly falls on Paracelsus - there is more webs and the city on the other side - Lump moves on the other side - Baz - lights up another torch - throws it on the webs - the spider is nowhere to be see - Paracelsus goes back to the dead phase spiders - starts harvesting for the poison - 1 leg - 1 bag of eyes - 2 fangs - might be used during downtime to craft a powerful poison - party goes through - inner city - *desc* - pocket of thicker haze - wrapping around all the buildings - very hard to see far here - party is worried about the sight - Paracelsus dons his plague doctor mask - party creates masks with some rags - Quest tries to blow the haze with her wings to no avail - it is a fluid that's why... - Baz throws a torch in it - it refracts the light - nothing more happens - not explosive - party moves in at a fast pace to minimize duration inside - 1st hour - Paracelsus and Quest - take 10 necrotic damage - both gain a level of contamination - *desc* - labyrinth of footpaths - flowerpots - buildings everywhere - the path comes across a garden - *desc* - lush and green garden - most vibrant grass seen for a long time - fluorescent purple flowers with yellow and green accents - at the end of the floral beds there are gardening gnome statues - party is not sure they are the eldritch lilly - Herton steps on the grass > don't step on the grass ! - Herton steps of it - there were multiple voice sources delayed - Quake asks the voices if there is a chance to pick the flowers - no answer - Quake mage hand plucks a flower - the purple leaf fall off and turns into dust - the flower is spiky and not the one we want - the voices boom again > Leave the flowers alone, get of the grass ! - *fighting script* - Quake - starts moving along the path - unassuming garden gnome - starts animating - swings recklessly as Quake and hits - Herton - moves to unassuming garden gnome - grabs it - Paracelsus throws a potion at Quake and casts Haste - dowdy garden gnome recklessly misses Herton - Quest blasts back dowdy garden gnome - Baz moves to unassuming garden gnome and stabs it - Jealous garden gnome recklessly attacks Herton - belligerent garden gnome recklessly attacks Quake but it misses due to haste - Quake hastly slashes twice at unassuming garden gnome - Herton suplexes unassuming garden gnome and punts him in a bush - Paracelsus needles jealous garden gnome - dowdy garden gnome swings at Herton who shields - Quest blasts back dowdy garden gnome again - Baz steady aims at jealous garden gnome - jealous garden gnome hits Baz - belligerent garden gnome misses Quest - Quest haste slashes belligerent garden gnome twice - unassuming garden gnome - runs back to Herton - recklessly headbuts Herton as a revenge for being thrown - Herton grabs unassuming garden gnome again - Paracelsus - needles unassuming garden gnome - asks Quake for feedback onthe haste "potion" - dowdy garden gnome ruins at Quest and hits her - Quest - drinks the greater healing potion Baz gave her - misty steps out - Baz - stabs jealous garden gnome - wails from the graves dowdy gnome - jealous garden gnome hits Baz with his hoe - belligerent garden gnome - gets away from Quake - Quake hits with he ropportunity attack - runs to Paracelsus - hits him - Paracelsus maintains haste - unassuming garden gnome fails to slip out of Herton's grasps - Herton throws unassuming garden gnome on jealous garden gnome killing him - Paracelsus - shocking grasps belligerent garden gnome - gets away - asks for backup - dowdy garden gnome - runs to Quest - crits her - Quest double taps and kills dowdy garden gnome - Baz - moves to Quest - cure wounds her - jealous garden gnome runs to Baz and hits him - belligerent garden gnome - runs to Paracelsus - Baz gets an attack on the way - downs Paracelsus - Quake seeing that experiences a sugar crash - Herton - moves to belligerent garden gnome - slashes at it - Quest double taps belligerent garden gnome - Baz - crits the last garden gnome to death - runs to Paracelsus - Quake - is no longer experiencing withdrawal - runs to Paracelsus - presents a potion - Herton grabs the potion and feeds it to Paracelsus