Game Report - Dragonstone session 4

Our Dragonstone campaign continued tonight.

Finding themselves in a hidden laboratory, the party continued their investigations, uncovering a spellbook in a hidden drawer. Their search of the room complete, they backtracked through the house to explore the upper floor. Climbing a creaking set of stairs in the kitchen, the party entered the upper floor. A hallway led south past to doors, behind which were empty and unused rooms full of mold and dust. Skarsnik discovered a bundle of old and illegible documents in a wooden chest, but otherwise the contents of the rooms were worthless. At the end of the hallway they came upon a balcony hanging over the lower floor entrance hall.

Faced with the options of heading downstairs, exploring the east wing or exploring the west wing, the party first headed west, finding two further empty rooms with decaying contents. Deciding to search the east wing before heading into the attic or heading downstairs, Fredd boldly walked eastward. The balcony was weaker in spots than seemed apparent at first, and the heavy warforged promptly fell through the floorboards to the floor of the entry hall downstairs. Having suffered a few bruises, the warforged warlock climbed the stairs back up, only to find himself at the opposite end of a hole in the floor from his friends. Both Skarsnik and Vroom Vroom were easily able to cross the distance with a long jump, and the party headed into the first of three rooms in the upper east wing.

Seeing a reflective glint in the fireplace, Fredd forged ahead, only to be surprised by a mass of spiders swarming out of the fireplace. Vroom Vroom quickly came to assist him, but was soon overwhelmed by the swarm and bitten all over, falling unconscious. Meanwhile, Skarsnik, who had unleashed a thunderwave in order to incapacitate a number of the creatures, was attacked from behind by another swarm of spiders and was brought down as well. After taking out the first swarm with an eldritch blast Fredd moved to aid Skarsnik with a can of 1Up. Soon after, Vroom Vroom miraculously recovered from his wounds (via Vroom Vroom's player rolling a natural 20 on a death saving throw) and the party was able to defeat the second swarm.

Having first fallen down from a balcony (Fredd) and being bitten by scores of spiders (Vroom Vroom and Skarsnik), the party opted to pause and spend a short rest in the room. As the evening was getting late, we ended the session there, picking up in two weeks to explore the rest of the smuggler's house.