I'm feeling better today, which is awesome for you little journal. Though I'm going to relate a story of my journey through a huge spider nest, not so awesome. So when I left off yesterday I had a bit of fire dying in my hand and a big spider staring me down from the darkness. If you've been reading this far you can probably figure what I did (no I didn't run off screaming, there was no where to go and I at best could hobble away anyway!) I expanded the fire in my hand and launched it at the spider (four feet tall, barely fit in the cave section I was in, damn ugly before it went up in a shower of fire and spider). As the fire scorched the first spider I could see more behind it trapped in a narrow corridor, my luck was with me as the fire blew back and burned them dead as well (though the smell of burning spider would fill my nostrils for days, its a smell without equal of horrible).
The intial spider party dealt with I was feeling pretty good, it would be a short lived feeling, but you know how these things go. First I had to wait for the fires to die down, which unfortunately took a while (and like I said the smell lingered), I made due in the time while waiting by fashioning a crude torch to illuminate the darkness (in Duvein I'd aquired some of their remarkable lamp oil, I intended on using it as an accelerant to deal with whatever had been in the mine, but now I was using it for the more traditional illuminating things role). With one hand on my torch and one over my nose I stepped over the smouldering corpses of the spiders and into the cave beyond.
I expected more narrow pathways, but instead was greeted by a fairly cavernous area, my fire light didn't penetrate even the full length of the passage it was so big. The stone looked fairly worn, most likely from water eroding it. The cavern was coated in spider webs, massive things, I didn't see any spiders, but it was clear however the Loshan's had discovered the cave, the spiders had been living there a long time (well the webs and all the bones I could hear underneath my feet). I could make out fresh coccoons amongst the webs and figured those were the harvesters (how the hell do you harvest spider silk anyway? I've never had this question answered and I've asked plenty of people!).
I was actually surprised there weren't spiders on the webs waiting for me, I was thinking maybe I had gotten lucky when I had that distinct something large is behind you feeling (you ever get those? Just me? Ok). I spun around with a slash and hit nothing, figuring my nerves were just getting to me, I almost became spider chow. Apparently the four feet tall monsters I'd dealt with earlier were the babies of this particular group of horrors. The beast that decended on me from above was at least 8 feet wide, long black legs slithered past my shoulders (the only indication I got that I was about to be eaten!) I rolled out of the way and straight into some spider webs (spiders 1 Trezlan 4, hey I cooked those little buggers at the entrance that counts!) the horror moved towards me. I still held my torch (thankfully this time it didn't cause some fluid to ignite and burn me to death) and swung backwards with my sword to free myself, the torch at least kept the beast back till I got free, but the creature grew brazen and came charging.
I was forced back into the webs and this time did drop my torch, it fell to the side providing partial light, but was blocked by the spiders massive body. The spider smashed me against the webs again, this time I was driven into the cave wall. I was about to try and use magic or drive my sword into the beast, when I heard a roar and then I was thrown through the air, for a brief moment before I made another impact into a wall, I wondered "who the hell brings an explosive into a lair of spiders." And then I smashed into something and the world went black.
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