I start looking around to see if any of the spiders are still alive. Can't really tell if they are alive from just looking though, so I pick up a forelimb that has seems to have been twisted off. Its suprising light and has a sharp claw at the end of it so it'll make a great poking tool.... This will probably take a while....
-a few hours later-
"1087"
I counted the last corpse that I'm willing to poke. Im not even a fifth of the way through all the corpses but I'm giving up. How is there not a living one out of all of these? Maybe this pile has been here for a long time?
I also checked out the surroundings thanks to being able to see in the dark. The room is in the shape of the dome. It's a couple dozen meters high by a few hundred wide. The walls are made of web but are different from the cocoon I was in though, as they are a dark purple. There's a passageway that is extremely large. I guess that's the only way...
As I make my way down the passage there are arched openings into rooms that are devoid of anything. I look through those rooms but..... Nothing.... This passage is too long.... Huhhh??? light??? I start jogging towards the light and come into a massive chamber.
The walls are a mix of white and purple webs. The white giving off a low glow just like my cocoon, but the purple seems to devour that light. What lays in the center blows my mind... I thought the previous spiders were massive but, holy cow..... A spider.... queen? I guess that's what it is. Just like the walls it's coloured a dark purple and white. A small human torso sticks out of the top of the spider's head, but it seems to be covered in a purple grime. There is a small book being grasped to her chest.
I figure its really important.... Should I take it? I edge closer until I'm right next to it's spider head. Ehhh, it's looking at me.... those shiny beady eyes.... I know it's dead.... well I hope its dead.... Should make sure.... If its not, well I'm scewed.... I stab one of its 8 eyes and....
*Pluokk
.....It popped.... A dark purple goo starts to ooze down its head.... Gross....
Back to the more pressing matter I start moving the arms of the human torso that has the book by extending my spider spear and....
*Plok
...Why did it have to land in the puddle of goo.....Well.... I pick it up by its corner and start shaking it off. After that I start rubbing the bottom of it on the webs under my feet to get the last of it off.
"Ugghhh, sorry arachne queen?"
I apologize for some reason and focus on what I have. A diary.... I read through it and find some interesting knowledge. Apparently, this is a daughter of some super arachne. She left her mother's nest to set up her own. After a lot of searching she found her soul mate killed all his ehhhh.... Oh god.... a..anyways she set up her nest here with him.
This place is thousands of miles underground and there is a pocket in the earth nearby where there is a drow settlement. She had them feed her.... I don't want to know what.... skip... Anyway it's a lot of her fawning over her husband, blah, blah, spider babies, blah, blah, wait. She mentions something about her system. Nothing I don't know already. Still I'm not the only one with a system, huh.
As I read on it takes a turn from the fluffy crap. A drow poisoned her husband so she ate him to continue his life in her.... what???? Oh no.... this is getting bad.... I think I'll stop here for now as I'm not even halfway through it.... I can kinda guess where it goes.... She got poisoned too and from glancing at later pages she goes even more insane....
I edge away from her corpse and stumble. What'd I trip on? Hmmmm..... Eggs.... About a dozen.
" I wonder if they give...."
*plok
As i mumble to myself, I stab one of the eggs and it pops bringing up a transparent subscreen.
+1 experience
"They do.... "