Session #14

Sorry this post is a little late.

When we left off, the party had arrived at the lake. They had been instructed to raise a flag and wait for some of the older boys from Nadarr's island school to cross over with a boat to bring them across. But smoke is rising from the island, and a long time passes with no sign of the boat.


The party begins to come up with ideas about how to cross the lake. The monk decides to wade out into the lake and investigate some large lilly pads several yards off shore. Some of these lilly pads were large and solid enough to support the weight of a man standing on them. As the monk climbed around on the pads, she was attacked by a giant spider. (I used the stat block for the "Deathjump" spider from the monster manual for these, substituting the ability to walk freely on the floating weeds for the jumping abilities as presented in the book).

The monk had to fight on her own for 3 rounds as the rest of the party crossed in from the shore. During this time 3 more spiders appeared.

The party eventually overcame the spiders, but not without a struggle. Two party members were near death (including the cleric Perra, who rolled a 20 on his death save to rise up on his own). Tactically, it proved to be a good approach to stay in the water away from the weeds. The spiders had no way to defend themselves against missile attacks from parts of the lake where they could not travel.

After the battle the party returned to the shore to take an extended rest a small cabin there. Near morning the parties lookout (again the monk) noticed two figures crossing the lake in a canoe.

These figures turned out to be two older boys from the school. They tell the party that men dressed like pirates, and kobolds attacked the school. They kidnapped one of the boys, calling him "the chosen one". The boys said they tried to fight the pirates, but they had no answer for the kobolds' magic. Some local bullywugs attempted to help the school, but they were killed in the battle.

I awarded 200 XP for the night, including the combat against the spiders, and skill checks.