Save or Die: Outcasts: Episode 25

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==Synopsis==
The party travel the deadly mountain pass to the goblin village. The party's followers, except Stacy, are killed by the giant spiders in the mountain pass. The party arrive at the goblin village and receive the lodestones they were after. The party start to travel back and encounter some more spiders and a grimlock.
==Recap==
===Wasps in the night===
February 1, 1524. The party have made camp for the night. They are on a journey in the southern wilds on a way to a goblin village to obtain some lodestones for Magistrate Zerrah.
During this night at camp the party are attacked by .
Combat: Party vs Giant Wasps
 Arachis casts on himself. One wasp attacks Schnickelfritz II the horse. Grau casts on himself before turning into a bear. Auguste attacks the wasp attacking his horse. The camp followers defend themselves.
 Arachis casts on 2 wasps and fall asleep. Grau attacks a sleeping wasp. A giant wasp attacks Stacy. The other sleeping wasp flees the battle after being woken by the followers. Auguste kills the wasp that had attacked his horse. Auguste kills the wasp fighting Grau. A new wasp arrives to fight Grau.
 There is two giant wasp left, one is is attacking Stacy, the other fighting Grau. The party converge on the last wasps. Arachis casts on the one fighting Stacy.
Grau finishes off the wasp attacking him. The last wasp stings Auguste, paralysing him. One of the wasps that fled comes back into the fight. Arachis casts on the wasp that stung Auguste.
Arachis casts on the wasps. The last active wasp flees the battle.
 
The fight ends with Auguste paralyzed for a few hours due to the poison inside him.
Arachis studies the paralysed wasp but is unable to gather any poison from the wasp as he has no free containers. The wasp is then killed.
They party can hear more wasps in the distance. Arachis casts nearby. With that light not being enough, Arachis gets out a light-stone and sees the area is clear.
To discourage more wasps coming, Arachis and Grau cut the heads off the dead wasps and put the remains at the edge of the camp.
Grau turns back into a gnome and casts on Auguste. 
February 2, 1524. In the morning Auguste is able to move again. Their gnome guide, Clubie, says the mountain pass is still a day away. Arachis & Grau couldn't get any sleep so have no new spells.
Auguste eats several of the Grau made earlier.
The party break camp and travel onwards. The party arrive near the mountain pass later in the day and make camp. Auguste makes a precaution and gives a light stone to one of the camp followers to get out if ordered.
===Mountain Pass===
February 3, 1524. The party enter the mountain pass. Clubie says it'll take 2 days with the cart to get though the pass.
In the morning the party are ambushed by 9 . The spiders leap from on high at the party, biting everyone. Melvin is killed outright. Two spiders are killed by the party in the scuffle.
After everyone is bitten the spiders withdrawal to let the poison take effect. Auguste and Grau resist the poison but everyone else is poisoned.
Arachis casts on one of the waiting spiders, but it doesn't fall off. He then casts . Auguste fire shots at the withdrawn spiders with his bow, causing the spiders to withdrawal further away. Arachis casts and has the spectral hand go after a spider. The spiders withdrawal further away. Auguste kills the paralysed spider with bow shots.
Grau heals himself up by shapeshifting into his different forms, ending up as a bear at the end.
Arachis drinks a Potion. The poisoned camp followers ask Arachis for potions. Arachis says the potion won't help the followers and they will die. Arachis gives the bag of holding to Auguste, then goes into .
Auguste knows there are also 2 Potion in the bag. Auguste claims the only thing they all can do now is to pray to Martha, and gives out the rest of the . As the prayers occur Auguste gives one of the 2 potions to Stacy. Sirin takes the potion from Stacy before she can drink it. Sirin opens the bottle, but he dies before he can drink it, spilling it after he falls over dead.
Auguste gives the last potion to Stacy who is able to drink just in time, as all the other followers fall over dead. Schnickelfritz II (Auguste's horse) also dies from the poison.
The gnome guide, Clubie, is alive as they were hiding.
Auguste, Grau, Arachis, Stacy and Clubie continue traveling.
===Goblin Valley===
February 4, 1524. The party leave the Mountain Pass. Towards the end of the day they camp a little distance away from the goblin village.
In the night Auguste prays to Felumbra for the 6 souls of the followers who died in the mountain pass.
February 5, 1524. Before the party head into the goblin village, Arachis casts and to make himself appear more intimidating. Auguste thinks the Phantom Steed is the ghost of Schnickelfritz II.
: You make your way to the goblin Village and it's a sorry site. This has been a beautiful little valley, it's been nice the music's been nice but this Goblin Farm is gross. You can smell it before you can see it. It's cloistered in and amongst these trees and there's the smell of just like unwashed pig sty that emanates from this place. There's the buzzing of flies. As you approach you can see pig sty
after pig sty, and these dirty Goblin huts with thick mud brick walls and thatched roofs.''
The party enter the goblin village in the daylight. Various goblins come out to look at the party. The party go meet with the goblin leader.
Arachis casts so he can understand the goblin leader, but he is unable to speak goblin himself. He still needs Clubie to translate.
The goblin complains that Magistrate Zerah sent someone else recently to gather lodestones in the past year, but Arachis intimidates the goblins so they had more over. A bag full. This isn't as much as the party though they'd be gathering, as they brought a cart.
The party inspect the goblin mine, with Grau in gnome form is the only one who can fit, but Grau has no idea what a mine even is and isn't much help after the inspection. A goblin tells the party they mine iron, but also find loadstones.
Arachis tries to find which direction the last groups went so the party can loot the lodestones from them, but the goblins have no idea.
The party leave the goblin village.
===Other Mountain Pass===
The party decide to leave the valley take the more direct mountain pass on the way out. It will also skip over the dangerous hills. The is a chance the party will have to abandon their cart on this route.
February 6, 1524. The party kill an rabbit to lure out a carrion-feaster bird. Grau then casts to find out if the bird saw a group of 20 people 6 months ago. The bird has no idea about it. 
Later in the day the party enter the mountain pass. It is far steeper route than the northern pass. There are far more switch-backs.
In the evening party spot another swarm of giant spiders. The party see the spiders in advance this time and are not ambushed.
The party decide to wait until twilight for Arachis's magic is stronger.
The party move into position after waiting. Grau casts on the party and on himself. Arachis casts on 4 of the spiders. 
Auguste, in full defensive posture moves ahead of the party towards the spiders. The non-paralysed spiders move towards Auguste. Grau moves up, in bear form, next to Auguste, to attack the spiders too. Arachis casts on 4 spiders, sleeping 2.
Auguste and Grau fight the remaining spiders and kill them.
Arachis tries to harvest the poison from the spiders. 
The party then move on and make camp further into the pass. During his watch August spots a quietly climbs down the cliff. Auguste wakes up Arachis. Arachis points out the Grimlock is blind and doesn't notice the whole area is lit up by a light stone.
Auguste hits the Grimlock with his glave. The Grimlocks cries out loudly. 
==Experience==
No experience given this episode.
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