A Land In Need

[Gamer Girl]

The Dark Forest looms ahead of you all. The dirt road winds into the forest, quickly turning to the side and continuing to swerve through the woods. The forest is full of thick, black barked trees. The trees grow quite closely together, patriotically at the tops where all the tree branches weave together. This forms a thick canopy over the top of the forest blocking nearly all the sunlight inside the forest. The forest is quite dark and shadowy as a result of the thick tree cover.

Except for the single dirt road, the forest is full of very thick undergrowth. Various types of fern-like plants grow thickly between all the trees, plus you can easily see large amounts of thick thorns growing everywhere except the road. Dark green and brown vines cover most of the tree trunks and branches, further making the foliage dense.

A great many of the tree branches are covered in thick white spider webs....

[Medic!]

Harlin

Harlin's gut tells him something is fundamentally wrong with his surroundings. "Caution, friends, it seems this place has earned its name well. I don't like the looks of it one bit."

He glances nervously from bush to shadow to branch, seeing and hearing menace at every turn, but always just a fraction outside of his senses' range.

[Quakes]

Warren draws his rapier and looks carefully around him as they walk, with his torch in his other hand.

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Spot
(1d20+9)[12]
Listen
(1d20+8)[26]

[gallagher]

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spot: (1d20-1)[8]
listen: (1d20-1)[17]
know(nature): (1d20+2)[16]

I do not like the looks of those webs one bit

Brillon takes one potion of invisibility out of his haversack and gives it to the young dwarf, and tells her what it is. If trouble gets to be too much, she needs to drink the potion and run back to the village as fast as she can

[hoverfrog]

"I'm going to cast a defensive spell," Tuchon announces before casting Mage Armour on himself. With a six hour duration that should last the rest of the day. Once complete he reaches into his haversack and thinks of his wand of magic missiles. Moments later it appears ready to use.

[gallagher]

I think I will do the same, you never know what could be going on behind those webs.

In fact, I should also cast detect magic in case that picks something up.

I cast Magic Vestment and Detect Magic, so my AC is now 18.

[Gamer Girl]

The Dark Forest

[Gamer Girl]

Warren

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You don't see anything much more then the trees, plants and thorns.

There is a slight 'tick tick' like noise, just slightly heard above the gentile 'woosh' of the tree branches.

Brillon

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You don't see anything much more then the trees, plants and thorns.

There is a slight 'tick tick' like noise, just slightly heard above the gentile 'woosh' of the tree branches.

The webs sure look like normal enough spider webs, but considering the amount at least some must be webworms(larva moths). The two coexist in webs together as the spiders don't see them as food until they are moths. And lots of bugs, like flies eat the webworms and in turn often get caught in the spider webs.

Some of the webs look quite big for normal sized vermin though, so chances are there are some quite large ones in the woods.

The Dark Forest does not glow with any magical effect that you can see.

[gallagher]

Everyone be wary, I dont like the looks of the size of those webs. I am going to keep concentrating on my Detect Magic spell for a while and see if it picks up anything

[Medic!]

Harlin

Harlin fingers the hilt of his sword, then dismisses the idea of drawing it. "Better to do a thing, than live with the fear of it. Let's be off, friends."

[Gamer Girl]

The road into the Dark Forest quickly twists and turns through the tick woodlands. The winding road makes it impossible to see what is both behind and in front of you as the foliage is so thick on the sides of the road.

Only a couple dozen feet in, you come to the part of the road ahead that is covered with dull white bones. Several look like humanoid bones and you do see a couple skulls. The bones you see on the road are scattered and do not make a complete skeleton anywhere.

As you approach this area, you all feel a odd tingle in the air.
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Will Saves

Brillon

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You now detect moderate necromancy magic filling the area.

[Medic!]

Harlin

The hairs on Harlin's neck stand straight up as he's accosted by an unseen force. He can be heard mumbling quietly, "Walk in the light, blessed of light, banish the evil back to the night... repeatedly under his breath as a mantra against the fear rising in his belly.

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Will Save - (1d20+4)[19] (+2 if [Enchantment], if sleep, he's immune)

[Quakes]

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Warren was getting jumpy at the sight of the bones, and the presence of magic only reinforced this. Shaking himself, he draws his sword and prepares to be attacked.

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[hoverfrog]

Tuchon prepares for an imminent attack.

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Will save (1d20+5)[21]

[gallagher]

Friends, I feel the dark fingers of necromatic magic, be on guard for an attack. A new road brings us new evils to face.

Checks and stuff:

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will save: (1d20+8)[27]
spot: [roll] 1d20-1[/roll]
listen: (1d20-1)[0]
I cast Bulls Strength if nothing debilitates me from doing so, which is active for the next 6 minutes

[gallagher]

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my spot check messed up, mulligan: (1d20-1)[3]

[Gamer Girl]

You each feel some type of dark, cold magic effect pass through your bodies, for just a second....before it fades away into nothingness.

Warren

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You don't see anything but trees, webs and the Dark Forest.

Brillon

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You don't see or hear anything other then the Dark Forest.

[gallagher]

Have I been focusing on this aura long enough to detect its location of origin? If not, Brillon focuses for a moment longer to try and find the source of whatever happened.

[Gamer Girl]

Brillon

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The medium strength necromantic magic effect does not have a source and seems to come from the whole of the Dark Forest.

[Gamer Girl]

Several minutes and several sharp bends in the the Dark Forest (Putting the group a good 500 feet into the forest) a sharp clicking sound comes from above. And several skeletal shapes slowly drop from the webbing overhead.

Each looks vaguely like a spider, but is made from humanoid bones. Rib bones, spines, arm bones, leg bones and such all are stuck together to make spider-like shapes, with a single humanoid skull for a head. Each skeletal spider is quite large, about the size of a horse.

They descend slowly on web lines, five about 20 feet in front of the group, five directly over head, and five about 20 feet behind the group.

They are descending quite slowly as they click their bones together...

Everyone gets an action, if you wish to take one before initiative.

[hoverfrog]

"Undead or constructs?" Tuchon summons energy to blast the creatures, weaves it to split and then unleashes it against two of them.

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Initiative (1d20+3)[20]
Scorching Ray ranged touch attack (1d20+7)[16]
Damage (2d6)[9] Split Ray
Scorching Ray ranged touch attack (1d20+7)[12]
Damage (2d6)[12] Split Ray

What do we know about these monsters?
Knowledge Arcana (1d20+14)[19] in case they are constructs rather than undead

[Quakes]

Either way, they lack vulnerable areas for me to exploit. Warren swears under his breath, trying to find some way to be useful with a small pointy stick in his hands.

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attack if one comes in range
(1d20+10)[29]
damage
(1d6+1)[5]
i'm assuming sneak attack doesn't work against these things.

also the crit probably doesn't apply. boourns!

[Medic!]

Harlin

The half-elf slides his blade out of its scabard slowly and deliberately. "Stand close, stand ready, do not hesitate to send these tortured souls to their rest."

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Move action to draw his courtblade, Harlin is in Iron Guard's Glare stance (-4 atk penalty for any threatened foe who attacks anyone other than Harlin)
Initiative - (1d20)[17]
Granteds from the top down, skipping anything already granted:
(1d5)[3]
(1d4)[1]
(1d3)[3]

[gallagher]

Warren, can you see anything that could work as a staff or a club?

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Knowledge: Rel To see if they are undead and not constructs
(1d20+5)[13]

If I determine that they are: Turn Undead!
Turn check: (1d20+1)[5]
Turn result: (2d6+7)[16]
If I determine they are not undead: With a staff at hand already, activate my protection devotion ability to grant every ally within 30 feet gains a +3 sacred bonus to AC

Initiative: (1d20+2)[6]

[gallagher]

Also, if Brillon has the time, he slips Warren an invisibility potion so he can try to find an appropriate improvised weapon.

[GoddessSune]

Battle Time!

[Quakes]

Warren draws his sword with intent to provide flanking to his companions while looking around for some sort of club.

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[gallagher]

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can you tell me what happened concerning my actions in my previous posts?