Iados was not present for the beginning of this session, which wasn't a problem since he had been dragged off by the spiders in the previous session. We'll get right to the recap.
After having opened the Chamber of Cleansing, the party found themselves immediately assaulted by the poisonous gas and the showers of acid. They entered the chamber and found their health quickly in great jeopardy as the gas tore through their health reserves. Two party members were dropped in the chamber, and they only survived through learning that the gas would not affect them if they crawled. Even after making it to the other side of the chamber and deactivating the deadly traps, they were all bloodied or close to it.
The party took a short rest and headed through the door to find Iados wrapped in a cocoon. They freed him, and were then found by Lazlow "Laz" Dirgwyn - the man they had been sent to find. He had discovered some sort of dark power which had imbued him with the responsibility of being a caretaker for an adolescent tomb spider, a horrifying beast known for reanimating the dead to serve as walking cocoons for its young. Everything seemed to fall against the party in this encounter - the tomb spider, the most dangerous of their foes, critically succeeded on its initiative roll and locked down the party's movement out of the tight corner they were in. Dice rolls worked against the party the entire fight, and in the end they were all taken down with the tomb spider, Laz, a spider swarm, and an egg sac zombie still standing on the monsters' side.
In the face of their first "official" TPK (the party was given a semi-mulligan on the Sir Cairnstone encounter due to the encounter being designed as perhaps too difficult), the party looks to be setting up to re-roll their characters. The next few posts on this thread will cover that process, such as the posting of new backstories and tracking of who's going to play what. Stay tuned!
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