Revanche

IWUAaDNW: Party 5.4

Jun 21st, 2022
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  1. A group of wasps came in, each holding a hollow sphere of beeswax about the size of a basketball in their legs. I made one of them drop the container on the bridge. It broke, releasing its contents: a few litres of honey, laced with sticky spider web. Properly macerated, the mélange had the consistency of particularly slimy and sticky chewing gum.
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  3. This was the non-lethal version of this weapon. I had taken to calling the other version “napalm balls”; honey, it turns out, is both sticky and, being almost completely made of sugar, quite flammable. A rope of web provided a convenient natural fuse that my will o’ wisps could ignite if I couldn’t directly light the ground on fire after dousing the invaders with honey. I’d set up a bit of a manufactory in a corner of the honey store, which could produce fifteen of these things at the same time in about a minute, meaning that even with minimal warning, I had more than enough to turn any battlefield into a burning hellscape. Raffaa had shown me that some adventurers could just shrug off even extremely intense fire, but Ulfric had shown me that even strong adventurers weren’t necessarily immune to getting burned.
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  7. A bunch of wasps dropped wax balls ahead of them. These contained the blue goop that the spider lair generated as spider food, which just happened to be slimy and quite slippery on a hard floor. I noticed Gwen’s eyebrow twitch as she recognized the fluid.
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  9. “…slippery floor? Seriously?” Karjn sighed.
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  13. Karjn and Ulfric joined her soon enough, Gwen trailing behind with the back of her pants and the small of her back covered in blue goop. From the look on her face, she was not too happy about that.
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  17. I brought down an actual napalm ball and dropped it on a patch of ground near them, then shot it with a fireball from a nearby will o’ wisp. The sticky puddle immediately caught on fire, filling the air with a thick caramel-smelling smoke and lighting the room with a two feet tall orange-white bonfire. There were several raised eyebrows, and a grimace from Gwen.
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  19. “That’s… huh.”
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  21. “So we’d be on fire right now if you were serious, huh?” Ulfric grunted.
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