Session 30: Adventures of the Burnt Hand, Part 2


 * We go down into the temple and explore the first chamber.
 * White Spider breaks a lock, Benny tries to fix it and looks like it's not gonna budge.
 * We hear some movement in a side room. Agostina sets off a trap that would've been horribly level-draining into a living room area.
 * A big-ass celestial snake appears, White Spider murders it to death before it can do anything.
 * Someone casts fireball at Agostina. The melee kids and Rigel run in. They see a scraggly human casting a spell hiding in here, and he blasts them with Fireball again.
 * Benny sets up a flashbang in the room. Vesun runs in and heals the nearly-dead Agostina, who cuts up the mage. Merlin slices his arm most of the way off and he screams.
 * Carlos: "Rather than fiddling while the room burns…"
 * Rigel offers him an opportunity to surrender, he goes for a dagger and tries to stab himself but Rigel knocks it away. He asks "where's Benjamin", the guy doesn't respond because he's dying.
 * Vesun stops the bleeding but he passes out, so they move him to the bed, tie him up.
 * Rigel starts interrogating gently. The guy doesn't know who Ben is and says prisoners get put in room to south, that they went to cave.
 * "After she's done with them, that's where we put the prisoners." "Who?" "Her! Secatrix!" Says something about the "glory of Secatrix".
 * We argue about letting the guy go, eventually agreeing to let him get his things and leave. White Spider follows him and sees him stab himself in front of his trunk. She tries to save him but fails, finds a lot of fancy clothes and some incense.
 * Rigel asks for his 5 gold back. Benny goes and gets the incense.
 * The Hand goes to the room to the south and investigates.
 * Merlin nat 1s investigating the meat on the table and thinks it's all humanoid meat, then throws it on the floor.
 * The party heads through the rubble and into the cavern. It looks like it's been bored out. There are lots of humanoid forms piled up and wrapped with cocoons.
 * Three of the web mummies start shambling toward us. COMBAT!
 * Benny sets a Scorcher. White Spider moves up to stab one. Rigel shoots at it, not doing much. Agostina moves up and slashes, sees something moving out of the corner of her eye but can't tell what it is.
 * Vesun turns several of them - they stop moving and start shaking. Merlin chops one in half.
 * Benny sees the gigantic spider thing in the corner and shoots one of the mummies. They shamble away and the spider scuttles over to Agostina and shoots its fangs at her and tries to tug her toward it, but she manages to stay put. White Spider attacks the big spider. Rigel starts playing and makes everyone feel very courageous.
 * Agostina takes out her lance and cast Bull's Strength on Merlin. Vesun whacks the spider. Merlin cuts off one of its legs. Benny shoots the spider. It tries to grab Merlin and he rakes it with his axe and rips another leg off. White Spider cuts it up, and once it collapses, the corpses stop moving.
 * We see a pile of bodies in the corner. Vesun fine of the corpses has its throat slit; some of them are decades old. Seems like they've been killing people and robbing them, and dumping them here.
 * We go back up and check the other doors. White Spider checks one, unlocked but sickly sweet smell. She opens the door, sees massage tables with wells of water next to them… in the back is a huge plant - vines coated in goo. Agostina casts detect evil, plant doesn't seem to be evil (Vesun, though???).
 * Merlin opens the southern door. A bunch of lockers and benches with some yellowish ooze all over the ground. They don't know what it is. Merlin jumps across to look at the lockers. Rigel follows but doesn't make it, and it shoots a cloud of spores into the area. They both make their fort Saves. Rigel finds a ring.
 * They leave the room and Rigel starts feeling very sick and takes Con damage. Agostina makes him feel better (and she and Vesun give some healing ass slaps).
 * We check out the remaining room on this levels - it's an office. There's a journal listing small groups of people. We take it and head down the stairs.
 * The symbol there is associated with ancient dragon cults - Vesun recognizes it as very, very old.
 * Area to the left: very old stone beds. Vesun finds a bunch of platinum, chess set, detects magic - not magic but Rigel's ring is - transmutation.
 * There are crypts to the east. Magic lockbox - Spider finds 2 potions (abjuration), pearls, copper pyramid with runes on it. Notice that braziers were recently lit. Down a narrow hallway… "Oh crap, it's a maze."
 * "I'm checking around corners, I'm not just charging in" "Of course not, you're not the Ghost Sharks."
 * Agostina sees a golden mechanical scarab with a gem embedded on it. We decide to avoid it in the small room it's in so we turn around and Merlin leads the other way.
 * Merlin hears rattling. It's getting louder, sounds like a lot of bones hitting together. We get into position, Benny sets a flashbang, and Merlin peeks around the corner. Huge Serpentine skeleton… BONE NAGA. It's staring straight at him but doesn't react.