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Nov 8 2013, 02:27 AM
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Darnand worked his way cautiously through the webbing, cutting the thick supportive strands with his belt knife when he needed more room. He had once had the opportunity to observe a nest of the beasts for two days while trapped inside a Dwarven ruin. Now he considered that time well spent, for he readily identified which sections were sticky and which were dry. The spiders were able to fold and angle themselves through the narrowest openings. Though he was smaller, he needed more room to get through.
And I should not like to get stuck during a possible rapid egress.
Something tugged on his foot. Darnand’s heart stopped for a moment before he looked.
His shoe had gathered a mat of trailing silk and debris. Dammit. He managed not to fall into the webs when he yanked himself free.
When Darnand reached the end of the passageway, dim light from some unseen crevice above showed him the large, circular cavern. Life detection magic illuminated the beings scuttling within. He felt a crawling sensation along his neck. Though he had no pathological fear of spiderkind, he had a healthy concern about things that wanted to paralyze and bind him before sucking him dry.
Also, they looked creepy.
Darnand braced his feet and positioned his arms for casting. “Ready,” he whispered.
The frenzy spell impacted the mother spider in a splash of red light. She turned on her spiderlings with a vicious hiss. Darnand moved forward casting soul traps as she tore through the nest. She moved more quickly than he could work, but the constant hum from his bag told of energy filling the magicka gems there.
Most of the smaller spiders backed away in confusion, but a few fought back. The matriarch threw strings of venom from side to side as she thrashed in a frenzy. Black ichor splashed out of her wounds and the pierced bodies of her young. When Darnand stumbled over one, he realized that he had entered the nest.
The light was behind him. He had nearly passed through it.
The spider queen had backed two others into a deep alcove. Darnand watched her forelegs pump up and down as she shattered their exoskeletons and pulped their insides. He took a slow step back.
The big one let out a clicking moan. Her movements stilled, but she lived.
The frenzy spell has lifted. I shall try to make it quick. He drew fire into one hand and cast the soul trap. Then he shot a ball of flame at the grieving spider.
The gem in his bag sounded its note. Darnand turned to make his way back to the others.
A rustling sound filled the chamber, and shadows danced in the dim light from above. Darnand’s skin iced with panic as he looked up.
The mother spider had been as large as a covered wagon, and her young had ranged from sabrecat to wolf in size. Now a dozen of them descended from where they had sought refuge in the webs above.
Darnand let out an involuntary howl and sprayed the webs with fire. Thin shrieks sounded along with hissing pops as the spiders began to burn. Venom shot at him, boiling into jets of steam in the blaze.
The dry sections of webbing ignited. Fire raced up and down the strands. The dried husks of old prey exploded as they caught. The cavern ceiling became an inferno.
Darnand ran.
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