The spiders came from all sides at once, it was a coordinated assault that spoke to some kind of weird psychic connection between the beasties (which is terrifying, spiders that can use their minds to talk? Yeah not sleeping without the lights on ever again). They were as small as the dog spider from earlier to as big as a small shed. All different types as well, I didn't know that they were breeding multiple horrible giant spiders, but they apparently had (different colors, different fang placement, they were all horrifying in unique ways!). My hunter companion struck up a position almost back to back with me, her halberd held in front of her at the ready.
"Do you have a plan?" Outside of the obvious I wanted to know if there was a strategy other than don't die.
"Don't let one of them bite you, the venom is a paralytic and it will kill you very very fast." That seemed like the worst of both worlds.
"So these assholes just made the worst giant spiders they could."
"Oh these aren't the worst, these are the soldiers." I was about to ask what that meant when the spiders attacked, they hit from four different compass angles and went high and low (some of them had spring boarded using webs, it was very inventive if not horrible) I had my sword and pistol out not that the pistol seemingly did a whole lot of good (hard carapaces meant that the bullets hit their target but didn't seemingly kill anything). I heard a hiss and saw a cleaved spider fly by me. Myself I had emptied my pistol into the charging dog spider and then I impaled it on my sword, the blood from the spider sizzled on the blade of the earth, it made me afraid for getting any of the blood on me. I looked behind me quickly and noticed in the time it took me to dispatch one of the beasties the lady had killed three, but I could see more coming so I did what I do best, I set things on fire. Specifically I set a ring of fire around us to at least dissuade the creatures from coming into the ring, it kind of worked, they didn't exactly stand back but they weren't rushing in either.
"You can set things on fire and you didn't just burn the spiders?"
"Look magic is hard to conjure I went for economical usage over killing one specific creature." The spiders were held at bay, they didn't dare risk leaping over the flames even with their weird web trick. Unfortunately it was hard to maintain the ring, and the fire was smoking pretty bad, in fact it was almost choking me with its burning.
"So you're plan is to die by passing out from the smoke and the spiders eat us?"
"At least you won't know it was happening!" She didn't like that as a plan and I can't say I blamed her, then again it would be nicer than knowing you'd be eaten. We didn't get eaten, and thankfully I didn't have to keep up the ring of fire too much longer. Turns out super smart spiders also can figure when they've been temporarily beat and so they retreated. Which was like good thing bad thing, hey good they left, bad because they were still freaking out there waiting! Sometimes it doesn't feel like I win when I win!
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