![]() "In my defense, the professor was the last surviving member of a heretic culture that the Empire exterminated. "Don't look at me, I flunked out of Revenge Magic." Sorry guys, this is outside my range of expertise." "What, because of your crippling fear of spiders? It's fine, relax!" "It's better than that slime-stained tunic you used to wear." "You're not going to wear that, are you?" Two Aranea Seers and two Arachnid Servitors. "Man, thinking about bugs all the time makes my skin itch." "Hey Byff, the right side seems more your speed." So far as I'm aware, there's nothing you can do to read the left side. Our reward is in the webs: a Scroll of Return Life, and this: Aranea Seers are level 16.we are level 29. We might be a tad bit overleveled for this place. The Seer sounds threatening, but One-Eye kills it with three shots. "Maybe there isn't a way into the spire." There's a Spineshield scroll in this web. It turns out it's really hard to see secret switches when there's glare on your screen! I'm on vacation, at the beach, and did the first loop while out in the sun. "Make another circuit, paying closer attention to the walls this time." "There must be a way into the middle of the spire." You only need to find 5 of the 6 to fix the cave. ![]() "But we already fixed that cave! Every breakage point was repaired!" This has the same resonant structure as the crystals in the cave north of Cotra." One-Eye is one-shotting these aranea more often than not. Note the bloodstains everywhere: remnants of what might charitably be called "battle". "I think this is just someone's idea of interior decoration, actually." "Coins, crystals, skulls, candles, and a magic circle." There's small piles of money all over the place, along with the occasional corpse that the spiders haven't eaten yet. Servitors can spray webs, ensnaring us, and they're marginally harder to kill than the basic Aranea that are all over the place down here. "Or maybe they team up to take down and eat giants." "Maybe they domesticate insects? The friendly talking spiders did that." "What do they eat? The smallest mite wouldn't last ten seconds in here." "Does one? Does one really? Let's just get this over with so I can go take a nice, long bath." "One has to admire their enthusiasm, anyway." There's really only one other item of interest on the little plot of land we're on. "Elly, you realize what you just did, right?" No more lizards or slimes or anything like that, right?" Part 66: Aranea Cave "Let's finish up exploring around here, then I suppose we can go to Kyass."
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