Episode 21

With the life of Bixx's wife in danger and the spider threat under control the party rush to reach Baaha and form a plan before his 24 hours are up.

After a good nights rest, the party and their spider mounts prepare to set out. Cade ignores Nok-Nok's request to be woken when they are ready to leave and wakes him at 6 am with the rest of the party. Nok-Nok is visibly irritated by this, but he grunts and gets up anyway.

By 7 am they are ready and start planning their approach into Baaha without being seen. Bixx informs them that he will leave a member of his group stationed at the top of Cheif's home once they reach it. If they see him wave then all is under control, if not, well then they should continue with what ever they have planned. Cade asks Bixx if he would attack them if they enter and Bixx informs him that he will do what is required to save his wife.

The party plans their approach into town and it is decided that Cade will move ahead and scout while the party waits just outside the walls for his signal. During their conversation, Maya interrupts Cade with images of a massive creature patrolling inside the village. She informs him that the shadow figure has left the village in the direction of the ancient ruins, the spiders are concentrated around the stores area and of the goblins patrols moving around inside and outside the walls. Cade shares the information and the party heads to their positions while Cade starts to make his way inside the village.

Cade turns invisible and silently moves into the village to Bixx's house. From there he follows the instructions Bixx gave him to get into the house with the powder barrels. He silently picks up the a barrel and moves it to Bixx's home since it would be easier for the others to group there. Cade suddenly has an overwhelming urge to guard the village. He readies his bow and moves to the west gate to take up a guard position between the rest of the goblins, luckily for him, he is still invisible and the other goblins do not notice his presence between them. A short while later he regains control of himself and sees the other guards near him. Confused, he moves back Bixx's house. Cade moves back out to the party and informs them that it's safe to enter and they start to make their way inside, keeping an eye out for Bixx's guard atop Cheif's home.

Once at Bixx's home Cade shows them the house with the gun powder barrel and they start to move the barrels out. Cade does some more guard duty whilst Taman feels the same urge to guard the village. Nok-Nok notices him getting into a defensive stance and grabs hold of him before he can move away. Taman still manages to drag Nok-Nok due to his strong dedication to his trade. After the party manage to get hold of themselves again, they fashion a makeshift bomb from the barrels, the aim is to set it off from a distance with a fire spell of sorts. Galhaphé manages to get a good look at the patrolling creature and explains that it seems to be a golem made out of the corpses of giant spiders. They determine the best place to put the makeshift bomb and wait for the creature to reach it. As the golem approaches, Cade suddenly feels the urge to guard again and leaves the ambush to go do his duty. Galhaphé ignites the barrels and the explosion does massive amounts of damage to the golem. The nearby spiders, goblins and Cade are alerted to the explosion and they start to make their way towards it. The party manage to kill the golem freeing the village from it's control. Galhaphé informs the spiders what is going on and they disperse into the woods. The goblins are surprised to see the party but also do not remember much.

The party heads to Cheif's home to meet up with Bixx. They discuss a few things relating to what has happened and Bixx informs them that he is taking his wife home. The party them move to the storage rooms to see if they can find any clues as to the reason for the cloaked figures arrival at Baaha. The find some artifacts worth quite a bit and a warhammer which they determine to be magical. Taman takes the hammer to examine at a later stage.

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