Wine Cellars: Isle of the Spider Bride Part II

 Isle of the Spider Bride part II                                                                                                                        12/16/2023

ruins of the Aranea

The Players:

Joe P.: Ch-Nuk Narris, Runner / Sleek the chameleon,  Apprentice

Josh: Sliish, Scholar/Mage

Steven: Rook the Cutpurse

Deborah: Fallyswaggle Pinkledunk, Faerie (halfling)

Selina: Damora Vut, Dwarf Axe-Maiden

Leaving the safety of the Aranea territory, the party hikes over the mountainous terrain into the next valley. Spirits are high and the hope they will find some treasures are the talk amongst the group.

Sliish: The chances of us dishcovering more ruins should increase as we venture deeper into the heart of the island!

Rook: As long gold fever doesn't overcome our common sense, remember our original goal was only to return Jade to her people. Anything we find now is a bonus.

Sliish: Yesh, of course. But these few crude gold coins we found already, and that shtone wall back at the native village hint at shecrets beyond mere physical wealth, there's a poshible hidden trove of knowledge here.... shomewhere, jusht waiting to be found.

The first day in the jungle valley brings a close call with a large retile-like creature with a huge bony-club like tail. Fallyswaggle attempted to communicate with it but failed, as the creature seemed to be under a strange influence.

Later that day the party come upon a ravaged grove of native fruit trees. It is determined the creature had eaten a bunch of these and suffered a period of intoxication from them. A half dozen are harvested and brought along.

The second day finds the group encounter a group of native snake-men and thier zombie thralls! The party is able to parley and are soon disarmed and find themselves being escorted towards the central plateau of the island. 

It is quickly surmised that the reptiles intend to turn the party into sacrifices to their diety "SHAMM-SHUKK" a Red Dragon that lives in the volcano at the top of the plateau. As the group prepares to fight for their lives a violent tremor shakes the island!! In the ensuing chaos Sleek is killed by falling into a volcanic vent that opened in the ground. The snake-men are slain and the party decide to head back to the coast and withdraw from the island for now. 

Trying to make good time and push on after dark, the party runs afoul of a mated pair of sabre-tooth tigers on the hunt!! Largo, one of the crewman is killed and Sliish is badly mauled before the creatures are slain.

The group spend two days with the Aranea before meeting Captain Laine. 

Sailing back to the mainland the party decide to mount a new expedition Yonn-Varg.

The end.....