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Exploring the temple ruin

Session 81
2022-11-24

During the 12 hours of wait inside the pocket dimension, Irdien offers to give her healing and translating earpiece to Sirona, but the cleric declines. Sirona also learns about Morbrant's completed mission to release his dead father from the Lichking's servitude. They share a prayer together.
Once Adrian finally opens the portal to let the group out, he looks exhausted. Sirona tries to offer solutions to help him feel better, but it turns out that the best medicine is a simple kiss.
They all move to the door from which they had previously heard the shuffling footsteps. The door is locked, and Adrian pulls out a crowbar to hand L, but Labrat kicks the door off its hinges instead.
On the other side, they find a basement entrance in complete darkness. Adrian throws a lit torch down the opening to shed some luminescence. Having the best eyes for the job, Irdien takes the lead down the stairs. She quickly spots Zombies, but they are trapped behind a grated door. There are several doors along the corridor, and when she puts he ear against one to listen, it suddenly bursts open, revealing a room of more zombies and a giant spider. Adrian quickly shoots an arrow while Arcus runs up to snap at it. That's all that's needed for Irdien to finish the spider with a precise gash from her dagger. She is rewarded alongside Arcus with a blue frost beam that hits her as one of the zombies in the newly uncovered room attacks. A similar sensation of confusion, like the one she felt at the Gernichora's lair, creeps into Irdien's mind. L rushes into the small exposed room and slices the closes zombie in half.
The other door opposite the one that has already turned into splinters starts to crack and give. Morbrant moves down into position, ready to attack, as the door suddenly freezes and crumbles. Quickly, he strikes at a second spider that tries to crawl out of the new room. The holy essence of his sword seems to cut even deeper into its body. From a turn in the corridor up ahead, a third spider suddenly appears and spits a web on Morbrant, trapping him in place.
Zack casts a spell sending a blast of force down the corridor, but the creatures do not seem affected. The wizard decides to run down and hide behind Morbrant's webbed form. He barely hunkers down before balls of frozen flames shoot out, hitting Irdien and Arcus. L managed to deflect a frozen javelin thrown at her by another zombie. Sirona has charged up a powerful spell and tries to pulverize the undead, but as she releases it, just like Zach's spell, it mostly fizzles out. She groans in annoyance as she places herself next to Irdien.
Adrian keeps firing arrows at the spider while Arcus tries to bite it. Irdien spins around. Still dazed, she attempts to stab Sirona, but the blade merely glances off the cleric's armour. The rogue backs away, still unable to shake the confusion. L and her opponent dodge each other's attacks, but she gets in a god hit with her lighting breath weapon that strikes both it and the zombie behind it.
Meanwhile, Morbrant, still trapped in the web, gets bitten by the spider, sending its venom into his veins. Unable to break free, he manages first to attack the close spider with his hammer and then raise his shield just in time to stop a vast cold fireball from almost wiping out his niece from existence. The third spider webs Irdien and Arcus while Zach summons another spell, sending a bolt of lightning throughout the vicinity, dispatching multiple enemies, hopefully, to their permanent graves. Labrat gets severely hurt by one of the remaining zombie's frost bites spells. Sirona sends a healing ball of ice to help her, which splits into shards and injures the two zombies fighting the Dragonspawn.