Duty Session 163: Spinner's Deep

After the efforts of many Adventurers to finally clear out the creatures from within the mines on the Isle of Beginnings, the Landers are finally able to return to their work. However, the first miners have reported an unusual room within the first levels of the mine.

The room seems to be the source of the previous infestation, but now shows a strange glowing arcane circle that refuses to allow them to pass. The Landers have reached out to the Hunter's Guild, seeking capable Adventurers to find out what lies beyond this strange device.

What is certain, is that the spiders in the mines now known as Spinner's End, had to have come from somewhere. Danger lies on the unknown path ahead. Are you brave enough to face it?

Difficulty:    Moderate
Rec. Party:    3+
Rewards:       2
World Rewards: None

Wisteria
Overworld - 7 - 0 - 0

    Wisteria as is in her nature, is hanging about the Hunters Guild, her steel tag out and an open party invite. She's calling out for anyone willing to go explore spider infested underground cities. The tall Albino girl is smiling brightly. "Anyone want to help me deal with spiders down in the Spinners Deep?"
Hisame
Overworld - 7 - 0 - 0

Hisame hesitates, overhearing the request for help. Turning on her heel, she'll hold her hand up and says cheerily, "I'm good for it. I won't even try to eat any of them." She pauses. Then mutters, "I think I made that joke last time. It's too obscure anyway." With a shake of her head, she grins, "I'm ready when you are. Got the group already?"
Setsuna
Overworld - 7 - 0 - 0


    Setsuna had been here looking for people to help him hunt down an undead warrior who can cast magic. It had been dead end after dead end, so when something comes up that can be a distraction. "I volunteer!" The man shouts before looking around, and then approaching Wisteria, "What is it I just volunteered for again?"
Merek
Overworld - 7 - 0 - 0

    Merek walks up to the party while he begins to adjust the dark attire which he wears, white-black along with the beltcape about the waist, pulling the hood up, "I will come with you, I still need a look at a few things back in that whole quest," the man notes, while he waves to the party.
Mizuki
Overworld - 7 - 0 - 0


    Mizuki is cat napping while Wis seeks out additional party members. As people approach, her ears twitch, and she uncurls and stands up, stretching. "Did you find anybody? Oh, good! I hope we don't get stuck down there again... Maybe it'll be different this time..."

    She looks to Setsuna. "Remember the spider-filled mines? Turns out they're connected to... someplace. So we're gonna go there and see if it's the same place every time."
Wisteria
Overworld - 7 - 0 - 0

    Wistera smiles "Ooh good, glad to have you all." she says with a laugh "Spiders, gotta deal with spiders. I hope everyone is good with their hands... it's terribly anoying. Anyone with a good voice tune up, if you know your enchantment get ready. Oooh and if you have any spells or potions for anti-venin I'd highly recommend having it to hand. I've been down here a few times and it's ... interesting."
Setsuna
Overworld - 7 - 0 - 0


    "Oh those mines, yeah I remember. I think I just finished picking the webbing out of my boots." Setsuna jokes before looking at the bottom of his boot to make sure and then looks on to the rest of the group as he listens to Wisteria warn about whats coming. " Of course if nothing else fire solves all problems. At least so I hear a lot of people say. " A particular doctor comes to mind.
Merek
Overworld - 7 - 0 - 0

    Merek nods a bit to Wisteria, while he seems to think about it, "Alright," he notes, "I will keep that in mind."
Wisteria
Overworld - 7 - 0 - 0

    Wisteria leads the way to the the mine and waves to a few of the miners as she heads down the slope into the deeper sections. Then through the winding paths to the first boss room. "Here's were the good times start. We just have to adjust the platform to teleport us all to the next area." she says.
Setsuna
Overworld - 7 - 0 - 0


    " Oh right the fun part where I get to play battery. " Setsuna approaches the teleporter and lays his hand on it, channeling a constant flow of magic into it. "Steady now..." he says to himself, as if he was trying to balance a house of cards or something. After a moment he looks up, " So I think I managed some power in if someone can manage the rest."
Hisame
Overworld - 7 - 0 - 0

Hisame pose tries to help out with clearing the runes, wanting to help out with her limited magic, not being one for singing and having a noted inability to read a map. Unfortunately, she's a bit slow abou tit and takes longer than she'd like to admit trying to track down the right runes. One might even catch her flipping through an ornate book trying to keep her notes in play. Not... that they helped here.
Merek
Overworld - 7 - 0 - 0

    Merek begins deciphering the general runes on the wall, "Alright, if we will arrange this to this, then we can," he begins making the patterns with hands, then he nods a little bit.
Mizuki
Overworld - 7 - 0 - 0


    "Looks the same so far..." Mizuki observes as they enter the mine. "Not that I remember the exact layout." Once they get to the former boss room, she starts messing with some of the symbols. "I believe last time the trick was to pick out the sequence like this..."
Wisteria
Overworld - 7 - 0 - 0

    Wisteria pulls her book out. "Wait... hmm... doesn't look like the paterns match." she sighs "Gonna have to try all new combinations." she says and looks to Mizuki and shakes her head "Really.. my notes are so not matching." then looks to Merek. She shrugs. "And... we end up in the collapsing tunnel... the patern we found last time was SO Much better than this." she says shaking her head. "Okay... anyone got anything? I at least prepped some for this, I listened to Golden." she grins and chuckles.
Merek
Overworld - 7 - 0 - 0

    Merek looks to the place, and nods a bit while he begins to assist with construction, "Well, that's true," he notes then along to Wisteria.
Hisame
Overworld - 7 - 0 - 0

Hisame tries to help out with the metalwork, working on getting the kit in place. The metal she was able to find, didn't want to cooperate and starts to buckle and bend almost immediately.
Mizuki
Overworld - 7 - 0 - 0


    "Yeah, it's not the exact same puzzle, but it's the same principle, see..." Mizuki tries to help Wis along. Only for them to end up in the collapsing tunnel. "Oh great, this again..." she squats low, then stands tall, making an upward sweeping gesture with her hands as she uses earth magic to form support pillars from the ground to hold up the ceiling. "Not this time! I'm not getting trapped down here again!" She looks suitably satisfied with that. "Ha!"
Setsuna
Overworld - 7 - 0 - 0


    Setsuna kneels and touches the ground, " I call upon the spirit of those who have mined their life away. I give you back your dust and ash, come back and continue your work." Out of the dirt rise several skeletons with bone pickaxes and shovels going to work on the tunnel. Looking at the party he comments, " Don't let these guys slouch, they will absolutely take twice their lunch break if you let them."
Wisteria
Overworld - 7 - 0 - 0

    Wisteria nods at the walls. "One thing I learned working with Golden... always shore up the sides." she says and flicks her fingers through several arcane sigils "Thorn Bind Hostage." she intones as vines grow from the floor to climb up the walls and dig into the ceiling. Binding a large amount of loose earth. "There we go." she says aprovingly as they start working on the tunnel. "Nothing like a good summon to get things done." she says with a laugh. Once the tunnel is stable she leads the way on. Coming into the room where adventurers fall back she nods to the wounded one. When he asks for help she nods "Potion shortage is really a pain in this dungeon." she says "I at least have a spell that should help." she sighs "But I haven't actually TRIED casting this inverted before." she grins sheepishly.
Merek
Overworld - 7 - 0 - 0

    Merek looks to that Adventurer, while he takes a moment to walk to him, then he begins to shift a little bit of his light magic to begin healing the man, while he nods a bit to Wisteria, "We have what we need!"
Hisame
Overworld - 7 - 0 - 0

Hisame isn't the best of healers, bluntly. She's usually on the other side of alchemy and potion making. However, she does have a bit of experience with antidotes by proxy! "Easy there." she offers, trying to use her limited magic to draw the poison away.
Setsuna
Overworld - 7 - 0 - 0


    Setsuna dismisses his summon when the work was done as he looks at the overs , "Good job everyone. Next we should take our little construction crew and put a pool in at one of the starting towns. I don't know how we will add the water, or the chlorine...maybe we turn it into one of those skate parks." The human runs his mouth as they walk, it was how he kills time in dungeons. Coming across the man in need of medicine Setsuna begins to scramble to look for things. "I'm sorry I don't think...no wait. Ah Ha. " He produces an antidote , which he must of gotten from Prophylaxis or something and hands it to the man. "Drink up, it will do you well."
Mizuki
Overworld - 7 - 0 - 0


    Mizuki nods at Wis's words, adjusting her earth magic. Then she follows on. "It's... different this time. The tunnel wasn't so long, before..." And there's a convenient rest room? "This is definitely new..." and it looks like they're not the only party here! "Oh man, that sucks. Let me see if I have any of Uta's potions left..." She opens up her inventory and scrolls through. "...Dammit... I'm sorry... I guess we need to farm the culvert for more mats again..."
Wisteria
Overworld - 7 - 0 - 0

    Wisteria tries to work out how to reverse poison with her poiston wave arts... but it's just not somethign she's practiced enough to make work properly. Once they have the adventurer back on their feet she points back. "We have the tunnel propped up, just ignore the skeletons and teleport back out." she smiles

    Heading further into the tunnels she looks around as the jungle foliage appears she shakes her head "It's the poisoned land... don't touch the liquids, avoid the glowing plants, and if you have to fight a spider... don't let it bite you... they are nasty."
Setsuna
Overworld - 7 - 0 - 0


    Setsuna heeds the warning as he feels the thickiness of the webbing on his feet and begins to keep his eye peeled as the giant spiders with that unearthly shine. "Spirits of earth, sink there feet, drain their pools. " He bangs the end of his staff on the ground as the earth under the spiders turn to a gooey mud, while the poisons drain into the earth. "Hopefully that will slow them down till we are out of sight."
Merek
Overworld - 7 - 0 - 0

    Merek begins lifting up both of those hands while he chants, the magic of the Frost Shock beginning to shimmer along into the spiders as well as the pools, beginning to try with cleaning away that poison, while he nods a bit to the party.
Mizuki
Overworld - 7 - 0 - 0


    Mizuki nods at Wis's words about escape being open to the adventurer. "Or you could join us..." seems he's not up for that, though. Soon the tunnel widens out into the poison underground jungle. She nods, "This bit's the same... Let's try to just sneak past..."

    Gilligan cut to a herd(?) of spiders drinking at the watering hole all turning on the adventurers.

    "Aww, hell no." Mizuki raises her hands. "Still waters, break your silence and attack! FROST DIVER!" She swings her hands forward as... nothing happens.

    "Wait, shit. Strip away the ground with glistening blaaaagh shit!" Mizuki ends up tackled by a spider, drawing one of her daggers to stab at it and rake at it with her claws, "Get off me!"
Hisame
Overworld - 7 - 0 - 0

Hisame cracks her knuckles and begins pulling glowing vials from her packs. She shakes a few of them, sliding them from one hand to the other to retrieve others. She then prmptly throws them towards the spiders and water. Planning wholly to just poison the area. She then hesitates and says, "Uh, don't breathe in those fumes."
Wisteria
Overworld - 7 - 0 - 0

    Wisteria growls when her Mizukichi is jumped and she sends a wave of black crackling light into the spider with a slash of her sword. "I said don't get bit." she says sticking her tongue out at her friend.

    When they get into the area with dripping acid the albino looks around "Awww man... I swear I will see the other boss down here..." when she sees the boss room however she grins "Ooooh it's just the same room, different boss... hey spidey... I need some of that armor." she says fluffing out long ears growing. She gives her usual intimidating fighters grin, made all the more terrible by razor fangs in ragged uneven rows.
Mizuki
Overworld - 7 - 0 - 0


    Mizuki blinks up at Wis who just knocked the spider off her. Ears reddening a bit. "Well, I didn't get bit..." she stands up. "Thanks to you..."

    She stays a bit closer to her friend as they make their way through the rest of the jungle... to be confronted with a familiar boss room. "IS it a different boss? I thought it was also a drider before... more talkative last time though..." she begins to sneak around the room, waiting for the tanks to draw aggro so she can tear into the boss while it's distracted. Charging her daggers with dark element and executing her usual pounce-doublestab-rake combo before leaping away and waiting for her next chance. Lather, rinse, repeat!
Merek
Overworld - 7 - 0 - 0

    "Ah, that boss," Merek notes, then he nods a bit to the party. "Alright," he begins summoning the dark magic to assist him with assailing that enemy, and nods to the party.
Setsuna
Overworld - 7 - 0 - 0


    The human tries to distract the spiders as they move out of the room and into the boss room. " So same room, different management? " He asks Wisteria as he looks at the giant spider-man wanna be. "Damn spider man wanna be, such a menace. " However he doesn't get to continue his joneson impression as he has to quickly toss a shield up to deflect an incoming attack. "Is that all you got?" Setsuna tauns back trying to give others the opportunity to get in attacks.
Wisteria
Overworld - 7 - 0 - 0

    Wisteria grins "Last few times I've been down here it's been a giant phasing spider. Like the big armored one we fought in the first chamber Mizukichi.. just white and teleporty rather than black and armory." she draws her sword, which is encased in what is if possible and even blacker black light than she used in the posion field. "Tanks... tend to hate mind numbing curses." she says with a laugh as she starts her usual attack pattern, leaping from air rune to air rune in the mad pinball style. Her blade flashing out and setting the boss to herky jerky stops when she gets a solid strike in. Letting everyone else take advantage and really get good hits in.

    Once the boss falls she smiles "See... and now I have the last bit to finish my armor... only been gathering bits for it since what... the week after the black wave Mizukichi?" she says smiling at her friend. She kicks a rock at the level gate. "Stupid level gated material..." she sighs softly "Ah well.. we'll get there, then come back for more spiders." she chuckles.
Setsuna
Overworld - 7 - 0 - 0


     Setsuna sighs relief as the boss is defeated and then yawns. " One day we will have the levels to look into the next room, " gesturing to the path that the stone bounnces off. " Glad you got what you needed though, imagine having to farm this over and over until you could go into that room. " He smiles and then looks at the others , " So should we get out of here ?"
Merek
Overworld - 7 - 0 - 0

    Merek nods a bit to the party, while he thinks about it, "Alright, you all be well," he notes, while waving.