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Madness at Gardmore Abbey - session 3

played: July 16

Outer Gardens

Skill Challege

Deathjump Spiders

Perhaps you can creep through and avoid activating the webs, either through some acrobatic contortions or sneaking. The webs might also be disabled by someone who was deft or knowledgeable in such things.

The spiders, sensing that they are assaulted, react with shocking and terrifying speed. All of them leap high into the tree canopy directly over you, then one by one they drop down from above, surrounding you and striking with their fangs

“You examine a creature that is cocooned in a web. It is dead – a skeleton – dressed in metal armour with shield and sword – all rusted beyond use. A knight or paladin, caught by the spiders long ago. The silver and blue dragon symbol on his breastplate has survived remarkably well considering the rest – perhaps due to its silver plating. You wipe off the black tarnish and see that it has been scratched, as if by a fingernail. A message – left perhaps by the man (judging by the size of the armour) as he was bound up and awaiting his grizzly fate. You can just make out the words, thought the writing fades near the end.

'I have failed my brothers – without me the chest will remain sealed and the brazier unlit – Bahamut forgive my weakness'.”