Insanity at the Spring Rendezvous

It's been awhile since I posted. The group has since completed the forest temple quest and moved on to some intrigue at an annual fair. Here's a recent update to the campaign. I'll try to be more active here in the future.



Oscar is the first to hear the low, rhythmic clanging of what he recognizes as gongs. Then he sees the people. Guards, revelers, shopkeeps, waitstaff, entertainers all running north (toward the rest of the group) at full speed. "The alarm! Plainspiders!" one guard yells. The entire mob is panicking. "Head north! Stay away from water sources!" another guard yells over the heightening crowd noise. 

Seconds later, the crowd surges over the rest of the group. Billy pulls you deeper into his booth. "Works of Antarkus!" he curses. "That fire and the unbearable heat must have set them on the move. We'll have to make our way out of the grounds. Stay away from open water or you'll get yourself trampled by the buggers." Billy moves NW through the crowd toward the gates.

At first Oscar thinks he sees trees leaping over the walls of the festival grounds. Then he thinks to look up. The trees, he realizes, are red, chitinous legs. Atop the uppermost leg segments Oscar sees a huge brown ball of fur. A sickening green proboscis unfurls from the front of the beast's body. That's when Oscar finally takes in the immensity of the creature. Standing over 2 stories high, it resembles a giant spider but with crab legs and a furry brown body. Oscar chills when he notices the beast has no discernible eyes or mouth. The proboscis probes the ground about 50 ft SW of Oscar. The Plainspider is travelling East. 

The rest of the group see the creature just after Oscar. There must be more than one. You can hear further crashing to the SW. 

C. Aaron Aldridge 2013