Madame Spiderfly

**"Madame Spiderfly' or 'How I learned to stop worrying and love.."** is Chapter 3 of *The Vagabond Chronicles* series. The episode begins with our party in the church rescuing a semi dead cleric, Rattigan found an amulet that he put on his head as fire & light erupted from him. They hear rachnoid sounds all around the church

## Summary

Light fills the entire chapel, blinding the rest of the party. Rattigan gets lifted of his feet for a second and experiences an outer body experience. In it he seems a certain building and sees a red circle around it.

Ziggy runs past Teddy, tutting at him(for not barricading the door) as he does so. He slams the doors shut and put a bar across it shouting 'barricade the exits'. He notices a crack in the middle of the door. Ziggy grabs a bench and barricades half of the window with it. Bondo barricades another door. Outside the door spider noises can be heard approaching the church rapidly. Ziggy interprets this as all sorts of monstrosities coming towards the church and takes 1 insanity point. Teddy checks out the side room and sees an office with a chest in it. It has a rudimentary lock on it and he successfully picks the lock. Rattigan is screaming at him to not touch the treasures. Teddy finds a shiny candelabra, a pouch and a couple of scrolls encased in silver clasps.

Rattigan sticks his head out of the window and sees at least 4 rachnoids approaching the church. He informs the rest of the party of this. Bondo comes over to also look out of the window, as the rachnoids spot him. Teddy goes to investigate the other door but the side door starts banging as he does. Teddy screams 'Occupied!' and then investigates the room. It's a store room with some barrels and robes, nothing important. Ziggy throws the doors of the church open and hits the rachnoids(which are large dog sized). Bondo grabs a pew and barricades the side door more. Rattigan uses his branch and smashed the window. The side door bursts open and the 2 Rachnoids try to get in. Bondo's axe smashes into the pew and he has to take a step back as one of the Rachnoids enter the room where Teddy is in and the other jumps up on the pew near Bondo. Teddy hits the creature in the room and smashes some of his teeth out.

Ziggy decapitates a rachnoid with his weapon as he sends it flying(no one sees it). Teddy gets a critical hit on an Rachnoid and killing it with a blow to the head. Two more creatures smash through the windows, one going through Tal's stomach in the stained glass. Ziggy gets a critical hit on the rachnoids and stabs the sword through its chest killing it(again, no one else sees it). Rattigan hits a homerun with his branch, sending the Rachnoid flying away 9 yards. Ziggy kills a third rachnoid at the chapel door. A rachnoid bites Rattigan but he can fight off the poison. Ziggy kills his 4th rachnoid of the night. Rattigan burns the creature's genitalia, microwaving it a bit, with a magic spell. The remaining arachnids try to run away and retreat.

Exiting the church they see the arachnoids scuttling towards the town hall. The doors are wide open and there is a strange bright pulsing green glow coming from inside it. Rattigan puts a nice robe in his pack for later use. Ziggy is musing to himself what would look cooler tattooed on his shield 'spider bane or rachnoid slayer'. The party sees one of the rachnoids scuttle up to the window and crawl into the first floor window. They also spot a storehouse on the right of the town hall. The entire party hears people screaming from inside the building.

Ziggy saunters 'soldierlike' towards the building. Teddy scales the building going towards the window. Rattigan starts heading back towards the barrels. Inside the building Ziggy sees a lot of cocoons, some being pulled up towards the ceiling by worker spiders. There is a figure with a hood and a very large sword that it's holding, very focused. One of the goblins stabs a cocoon which groans and then stops moving, it eats the contents and then goes out towards the figure who's holding out the sword and the staff and puts the blood onto the staff. The figure raises the staff above its head and green mist erupt from it, enveloping the room. Ziggy and Bondo enter the room. Teddy sees all this from the window and decides to help Rattigan, but he sees the side of the face of the figure. Not only that but he recognises her. It is Veronica Klaas, Sinta Klaas' wife, who is now looking at both Ziggy and Bondo. She looks at them and says 'Welcome, come and meet my *real* family'

## Trivia

* Birthday shout out to WoahThereVeronica happens which prompts the lads to sing 'Happy birthday' for the angy bat.

* Intro is 20 minutes