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canyonwalkerI've really fallen behind on writing about the D&D game I'm running. We've played twice in the past week on a new adventure in the game... and I still haven't finished blogging the first adventure.
Recall the group was in the story I named The Collector's Menagerie.
Also known as Cursed Clue.
The group had cleared the main floor and basement of the eccentric old lord's city mansion. They were working their way through the top floor, having fought through giant spiders and giant spider webs.
I noted that at least one of the players was having an "Ick!" response to there being big spiders. That warmed the cockles of my DM's heart, as I knew there was one more spider still to go. The boss was a spider!
At the far end of the corridor the group heard faint calls for help from beyond a door left slightly ajar. They opened the door to find an opulent bedroom suite beyond. In the far corner of the room was an elderly man half-cocooned in spider webs.
The group entered, warily, suspecting a trap. The man claimed to be Lord Asano... but the group had already found the body they thought was Asano's laid out in repose in the crypt in the basement. They strongly suspected there was at least one more monster left to find, based on finding 8 vacant cages and only 6 kinds of monsters so far. Could "Asano" be another shapeshifter like the harpsichord-monster with a million eyes?
Otonio offered to free the old man after asking him a few questions first. He probed for, whether this was really Asano or a shape-shifter pretending to be him.
The man answered questions about Asano correctly. He pointed them to the magic device that controls the cages. It was under a pillow on his bed in the chamber. He even told them the command word, Securus, that would activate the talisman to return all creatures to their cage and lock them in.
But still the party was cagey about this being a trap. And they were right. It was a trap.
In conversing with "Asano" for a few rounds, Otonio noticed that the webs cocooning him from the chest down weren't right. They were an illusion. Asano was actually human-ish... with two extra arms!
Meanwhile Ryuu-Han was poking around the room and found a brass nameplate on the floor... a nameplate like the ones on the cages downstairs. This one read Aranea Pluriformis— Old Tongue for Spider of Several Forms.
The fight was on!
Fortunately for the party the Spider-Man was not the toughest monster. They might have been more fooled by its magically enhanced disguise if they hadn't found the other clues first. It might have gotten the drop on them, then, and been a tougher foe. But in a fair fight they quickly overwhelmed it. And by this point they were all pretty disgusted with large spiders, so they pulled no punches.
Recall the group was in the story I named The Collector's Menagerie.
Also known as Cursed Clue.
The group had cleared the main floor and basement of the eccentric old lord's city mansion. They were working their way through the top floor, having fought through giant spiders and giant spider webs.
I noted that at least one of the players was having an "Ick!" response to there being big spiders. That warmed the cockles of my DM's heart, as I knew there was one more spider still to go. The boss was a spider!
At the far end of the corridor the group heard faint calls for help from beyond a door left slightly ajar. They opened the door to find an opulent bedroom suite beyond. In the far corner of the room was an elderly man half-cocooned in spider webs.
The group entered, warily, suspecting a trap. The man claimed to be Lord Asano... but the group had already found the body they thought was Asano's laid out in repose in the crypt in the basement. They strongly suspected there was at least one more monster left to find, based on finding 8 vacant cages and only 6 kinds of monsters so far. Could "Asano" be another shapeshifter like the harpsichord-monster with a million eyes?
Otonio offered to free the old man after asking him a few questions first. He probed for, whether this was really Asano or a shape-shifter pretending to be him.
The man answered questions about Asano correctly. He pointed them to the magic device that controls the cages. It was under a pillow on his bed in the chamber. He even told them the command word, Securus, that would activate the talisman to return all creatures to their cage and lock them in.
But still the party was cagey about this being a trap. And they were right. It was a trap.
In conversing with "Asano" for a few rounds, Otonio noticed that the webs cocooning him from the chest down weren't right. They were an illusion. Asano was actually human-ish... with two extra arms!
Meanwhile Ryuu-Han was poking around the room and found a brass nameplate on the floor... a nameplate like the ones on the cages downstairs. This one read Aranea Pluriformis— Old Tongue for Spider of Several Forms.
The fight was on!
Fortunately for the party the Spider-Man was not the toughest monster. They might have been more fooled by its magically enhanced disguise if they hadn't found the other clues first. It might have gotten the drop on them, then, and been a tougher foe. But in a fair fight they quickly overwhelmed it. And by this point they were all pretty disgusted with large spiders, so they pulled no punches.
