Chrysalis

Despite my tough talk I was shivering inside my own carapace as I waited to see if the spider would pursue me into the tunnel.

I retreated all the way to the junction, thinking that if worst came to worst I could hide close to the wolf lizards or aggro them onto the spider and try to slip though their den.

Fortunately this spider appears to be as cautious as me!

And why not? All he has to do is sit inside his web and wait for the prey to be delivered, stuck and unable to fight! Practically free Biomass! Truly, being a spider is like easy mode in this dungeon!

My resentment is building towards this web spinning noob. Thinking of all the hardships I've been through whilst this chump is sitting here collecting free XP. My rage is reaching towards the sky, to the very heavens themselves!

To ease my fury, the spider must die!

Of course, I only consider this course of action since I have weighed the odds and I think I can win. There are a few reasons for this, firstly, the tunnel is unusually bright, so spotting the spider and its web is not as hard as it would have been just after I arrived in the dungeon, secondly, the spider appears to be small, possibly as weak (stats wise) as I am, if I can remove the natural advantage it gains from its web, I can win.

That only question is, how can I ensure I never fight it in its web? Phase one is already complete. With my two acid attacks yesterday I can presume that the spider has lost at least five HP. Unless it can secure food to replenish its strength I will continue to attempt to lure it to where I can attack it from range.

Simple.

The weakness to my plan, is that I need to ambush the spider a number of times in order to be victorious, however, if the spider can ambush me even once with its poison fangs .... Lights out.

Antennae, forward! Eyes, open! Brain, focused to a razors edge! There must be no mistakes! Moving in this way I advance towards the web once more, inspecting every stone and fold in the rock for hidden arachnids.

No sign of it however, the horrid thing is probably licking its wounds behind the safe walls of its web, provided it has a tongue.

Since I can't see it, I will process as I did before, trying to lure the fiend here by disturbing the web. As I did before, I prepare some choice stones and line them before flicking them one by one into the web. I use four stones this time, trying to create a larger disturbance to convince the creature a juicy prey has become entangled.

I quickly hide in a shady position and prepare to wait.

And I wait.

And wait.

leg. Not coming out eh? Yellow are ya?! Too chicken to fight face

This is also fine.

need to be

some stones, line them up and flick them into the web using my mandibles. I ramp

retreat and observe. Come

is perfectly still and quiet, not even a whisper echoes off the

to a monster. Death lurks around every corner, no safe guards can afford to be cut. If this spider wants to play a waiting game with me, I'm game. I wait

is too wary to approach this side of its nest after

softer, looser stone and begin to shift it close to the web using

it wafting and shivering once more. Unlike the heavier stones I was using before, this

It sticks.

of it rebounds and falls, and some if it impacts the threads, remaining hanging in

be able to pass through without being stuck.

and hide, just in case the

minutes later and I'm

refuses to emerge I try to cover as much of the web as I reasonably can from the ground with as thick a coating as I can. If I get a leg stuck to this damned web I

antennae across each strand I plan to walk past, checking for residual stickiness. Finding

is the most dangerous phase of this conflict. Although I have secured a path of retreat,

as I can but dark, shadowed areas are becoming harder and harder to find. The flowing blue light the runs through the walls of the tunnels has definitely

although I can't hide very well, neither

walls and floor here and there, some of them so fine they barely catch the light. I hesitate with almost

What's that?

sure though, is it

Take this you bastard!

I blast off

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