Personae dramatis
Felcanis, elf cleric
Honsou, larcenous bowman
Quid occurrit
That morning, it's raining heavily. Grignok finds a trail to track the spiders. "Aye, they are coming from the east, but a bit south as well."
After a couple of hours, the rain starts to let up. The gang sees a tree that seems to be giving off a green glow coming from inside; it looks like a hollow tree about a yard wide. Mateo checks out the tree, and when his face is less than a foot from the tree, a rattlesnake springs out and tries to bite him! It misses his face and gets its fangs stuck on the armor on his shoulder, letting him back away. The snake hisses and rattles its tail, and the heroes back away and realize that the spiders are way too big to go inside this tree, so they keep going deeper into the woods.
A couple more hours later, a big branch falls from a tree onto them. Nobody gets away, but the branch doesn't hurt them too much and they can get it off. They keep following the spider tracks into the thickening woods.
After some more walking, they see a hill with a grove atop it. Honsou slowly makes his way up the hill, and sees that four trees look a little darker, its branches look twisted with few leaves, and each has a big scar on its trunk. In the middle of the trees is a hole that would be a tight fit for a man.
Honsou gets back and tells the others of what he saw. Grignok says that the trees look fine to him, and so he casts Plant Speech and walks up the hill. After walking a few feet, he tells the others that the trees say they're welcome to come up the hill and go into the hole, and that they haven't seen any spiders, but there are badgers down there. Mateo tells Grignok that they'll move on and to thank the trees.
When evening hits, Felcanis sets up camp in the thick woods. She heals everyone, and casts Watchdog, while Grignok casts Mystic Mist. In the middle of the night, Mateo hears rustling, and Felcanis wakes up. Mateo sees a spider bigger than a man poking around at the edge of the mist. The spider doesn't seem to know where it's going so it slowly moves around, giving them all time to wake up and get ready.
Honsou aims with his bow, while Mateo shoots it with his crossbow. The spider tries to move away, but the mist bewilders it. Grignok casts Beast Speech, and Felcanis casts Armor DR 2 on Mateo. All of this is moot when Honsou shoots it in the face, knocking it out.
Felcanis casts Minor Healing to heal it a little, and Grignok casts Beast Speech again. He asks the spider where it lairs, and it says that it lives nearby in then thick woods, towards the rising sun. With that, Mateo fires again, ending its life.
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