You move forwards into the vale. As Shakou and Mystal Mar have reported, the place is choked with delicate curtains of spider webs, although there is a well-worn trail through the middle. You don't even need Ape's tracking expertise to spot the trodden path through the moss. The canyon is cool and moist, with ferns growing in the crevices up the side. The sky is almost totally hidden behind a canopy of webs and bamboo.
The webs yield easily to blade, and the clutters of tiny spiders are non-threatening, scattering as you pass through. But as you move deeper into the canyon, there are strands of web like thick ropes. Massive webs are strung like cargo nets across the valley; one reaching down the the ground from the left, one strung above like a rope bridge. These webs twitch and quiver as you approach.
At the far end of the valley, another over-sized web sweeps down from the canyon wall to the ground, and perched near the top end of this is a massive spider, easily as large as a house. That is; spider it may be from the trunk-like hairy legs arching high above, or the swollen abdomen that pulsates slowly, but the head... The head is three human faces, blank like theatrical masks. Three faces sharing four eyes, looking in all directions.
It's about the same time that you realise that you aren't walking on moss-covered boulders, but moss-covered bones. Thousands and thousands of them.
[SBLOCK=Shakou]
You can smell the scent of the the thing that killed the goose. It isn't this giant spider-demon, but whatever it is is somewhere over to the rear left; there's a small cave in that direction.
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[sblock=Mystal Marr]
You already know that somewhere high above and to the right there is a spider that you saw earlier. You also noticed one at the top of the left-hand web.
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[sblock=Growling Ape]
Your spirit guide gives you a mental prod, fearfully. Looking up, you see a large spider, about the size of a riding beast, on the "bridge" web.
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OOC: Map to follow if it becomes necessary to know positions...
