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Re: The Ninth Adventure
Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2022 2:06 pm
by kipper
"Maybe, but why would it be worth looking for it?" Dame Simonetta replies to Dougal.
We've been stymied in our hunt for the spiders, it seems they have retreated and are not coming back out just now. We have a few options I can think of:
1) Make our way through the spider cavern, not burning any more webs
2) ditto, but continue burning webs as we go
3) return back to the previous room and try a different direction.
Re: The Ninth Adventure
Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2022 2:23 pm
by mushgnome
Ouch! Did you try peeing on the wasp stings? (Or maybe that's for jellyfish, I forget.)
Re: The Ninth Adventure
Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2022 3:09 pm
by mushgnome
kipper wrote: ↑Wed Aug 31, 2022 2:06 pm
1) Make our way through the spider cavern...
If the party decides on this suggestion (to further explore the spider cavern), and given that the space is much larger than the 30' radius of torchlight, what would be your plan? Stick together, or split up the party to cover a wider search area? Do you go straight forward into the middle of the room? Or do you stay close to the wall and try to explore the perimeter? If so, clockwise or counterclockwise?
Re: The Ninth Adventure
Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2022 6:20 pm
by mgtremaine
mushgnome wrote: ↑Wed Aug 31, 2022 2:23 pm
Ouch! Did you try peeing on the wasp stings? (Or maybe that's for jellyfish, I forget.)
Wasp stings on the ear and you want him to pee on it....
Re: The Ninth Adventure
Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2022 7:04 pm
by rredmond
I vote we continue to check out Spider Cavern, while looking up, without burning webs, together (no splitting up) while looking for creepy crawler's lair.
Isn't there an old Guys & Dolls joke about cider in your ear? Peeing in your own ear would be impressive, if icky.
Re: The Ninth Adventure
Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2022 9:34 pm
by dtspurrier
bilfur will go with the majority
Re: The Ninth Adventure
Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2022 11:27 pm
by Bastet1002
"Yes," says Robur. "Let's try to keep burning them."
This is in response to someone making a "pee" reference in Guys & Dolls above. So, if you will excuse me for a few infantile 'tasteful' Hobbit jokes:
'I see,' says the blind bobbit Took peeing into the wind,
'it’s all coming back to me now.'
'Frodo, did you hear my new joke about pee?'
'No, Gandalf.'
'Well, thank the Shire no one leaked it! Ha ha ha!"
'You know Pippin and Merry,' said a very aged Bilbo. 'Happiness after second-breakfasts is like peeing in your pants....
I haven't experienced it since I was a wee one of twenty-eight! Ha ha ha ha!'
Ok, but seriously... I don't think any of this will help with bee stings... and especially not venomous spider bites. Proceed with caution but burn burn burn!
Re: The Ninth Adventure
Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2022 2:35 pm
by kipper
Dame Simonetta agrees with
Robur and wants to continue burning as we proceed.
I would vote for: stick together, stay close to a wall, move counter-clockwise.
Re: The Ninth Adventure
Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2022 3:11 pm
by mushgnome
lol at the jokes, @Bastet1002!
Re: The Ninth Adventure
Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2022 3:14 pm
by mushgnome
The flare of light from the burning web pushes back the shadows. Let's pull back the camera and reveal a larger section of the map.
To the north is a vast, yawning, cavernous space.
To the west is a rough, natural rock outcropping, towering out of sight into the shadows above. It is filthy with giant spider webs. The webs are thick as cables and look almost like the rigging of a ship's mast, with the crow's nest lost in the fog.
To the south is a rocky up-slope. (You're not sure how far up it goes.) The rock is smooth and hard, not rough and gravely like the slope on dungeon level 1.
