The group moved on from this somewhat worrisome building - whoever or whatever was inside, they could keep it.
Despite heading "south", they rand into the jungle of Lahag. This was not where they wanted to be, but at least it was a landmark! They headed south again, to explore the area between the Dead Palm God shrine and the house of the brass golem, pretty confident of their bearing.
Following a fairly clear boulevard south (good visibility, good travel speed), the party spotted, a few hundred feet away, another of these strange looking yellow spiders - the ophilinone. It saw you, and whooooped. The group's initial concern became serious alarm as dozen, hundreds perhaps, of whoooops answered, and a swarm of of them came bursting out of the bushes.
Our heroes have a moment or three to react before the ophilinone swarm reached them.
Some info:
- There are no good hiding spot in the immediate vicinity. If you ran away you can probably dive into some bushes before they reach you, but with so many of them hiding will be difficult.
- The swarm is to the south of you - between you and the Red Road.
- You think they might be slightly bigger than the ones you fought previously, but you aren't certain.
- You might be able to reach another "zone" (the fort in the middle of the map, the dead palm tree shrine) but it's dicey, and depends on them having less endurance than you
- There is a small tower that you walked back a few minutes ago that seemed pretty defensible
- The Jungle of Lahag is also an option (it's closer than another "zone", farther than the tower), but an extremely risky one - it would essentially be based on the ophilinones being too afraid to follow because whatever is in the jungle is worse.