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 ==== Summary ====
+They started this session just after having killed a giant spider in the entry chamber leading into the tunnels. They started checking the bodies in the web sacks hanging around the chamber. Most were identified as xvarts. There were also a couple of goblins and a few humans. The xvarts held a little coin but nothing else of interest. The goblins wore the wyvern patch and had a little coin but nothing else of interest. The humans included a mage, a fighter, and a priest of Phi. They searched the mage and found a nice staff, a scroll case with a fireball scroll within, a very nice jeweled dagger, and some coinage. The warrior had a very nice bastard sword and some coinage. The priest had a ring, a pouch with a couple of vials, and a bag of holding with a single 500gps ruby inside.
+The party made its way southwest down the tunnel finding more xvart victims along the way. They ran into another giant spider and finished it off. They searched more bodies, all xvarts, and made their way southwest again. They came to a split where they ran into three more giant spiders. They fought them and killed them. These spiders were a little different as they had a multicolored underbelly which was odd. The first spiders they fought didn't have these. The party discovered them after moving through an area devoid of spiderwebs. Symon postulated that this may be a no-spider zone. The two different types of spiders remained divided by the gap.
+The party continued on and ran into another spider with a multicolored underbelly. They defeated it and moved on. The webbing was getting very bad and sticking to their feet. Eryn had to stop a few times to scrape the webbing from her boots as it was hindering her movement. They finally brought Xor up with the torch to burn away the webbing before they moved through any area. The party found a hobgoblin carrying orders. The orders were from Grish-ta-nak who ordered him to take his company and continue moving south. It was addressed to "Spinebreaker". He had nothing else of value but a little coinage. Across from him were some boards piled up. They were planks that Symon later determined were likely flooring.
+They continued on and found a human body that was unremarkable. He was likely a citizen of the nearby town. They also found an end to the tunnel in an alcove with no webbing inside. Exploring that, they found a hole in the ceiling leading into darkness. Eryn climbed the remnant of a ladder built into the wall there, up into the darkness. She used her infravision to see that she was in a small room. There was a door to the east. She moved to the door and opened it finding a much bigger room. There was a little light from the other side but before she could look further, she instinctively dodged a web that came out of the darkness. She tried to close the door to prevent any more attempts but she wasn't strong enough.
+Eryn moved back to the edge of the hole she had climbed up through and paused, watching for any activity from beyond the door. The door was suddenly ripped from its hinges and as it was, Eryn step off the edge and dropped through the hole landing near Xor. She announced, "Back up, look out, something is coming! Bigger and meaner spider!". She and Xor planted themselves, weapons drawn, and waited. Behind the group, just beyond Angelique, webbing fired in from above the tunnel and started forming a thick wall. It didn't stop until the wall was complete and the way out blocked. She told everyone what had happened. Symon thought to start burning it and figured it would take 15 to 20 minutes to burn it away. Meanwhile, a giant spider, fully multicolored, dropped through the hole and attacked.
+The first thing they noticed was the color of its exoskeleton. It was multicolored all over, its belly was pale. Its eyes were all different colors as well. They were blue, green, red, white, and black. Its first attack came just after all its eyes turned red. It was a cone of fire. Xor, Eryn, and Cal-El were caught in it. They fought it! With its next attack, all of the eyes turned black, and a cone of some sort of toxic gas spewed forth engulfing Xor, Eryn, and Cal-El again. They continued pressing the attack.  Angelique cast an aid spell on Cal-El and used her bow after that. Symon cast magic missile hitting it. Cal-El was blocked from getting into melee range with it and was forced to use ranged attacks.
+With the next attack from the spider, its eyes all turned white, and bitter cold frost issued forth. Xor, Eryn, Cal-El, and now Angelique took damage from this. After this attack, Angelique and Cal-El backed up to get further out of range from these attacks. Symon broke out his slingshot and missed. With the spider's next attack, the eyes all turned blue. Lightning shot forth hitting Xor, Symon, and barely missing Angelique. Symon collapsed from the damage. Xor was looking pretty bad. They continued hitting it while Angelique healed Symon for 1 point of damage and told him to remain quiet. The others pressed their assault hitting the spider some more. The spider's eyes turned red again and fire poured forth and hit Xor and Eryn. It was too much for Xor and he collapsed. Symon raised his head and cast a final magic missile which finished off the spider.
+They determined that the exoskeleton would be worth a lot. Eryn and Cal-El went back up through the hole and searched the building. It was full of the extra thick and sticky spiderwebs. Eryn made it to the outer door and opened it to find they were in a house near the northern entrance to Stonebridge. They moved back down to the tunnels and let the others know where they were. While they were in the house, Symon continued burning away the web wall that had formed behind them.
+They didn't know what special qualities the staff or the ring had. Symon would be weakened too much identifying them, so they'll have to wait on that. With the vials, they decided that Fred, Freddie, and Fredrick would be able to identify.
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