The Ninth Adventure

[kipper]

"Maybe, but why would it be worth looking for it?" Dame Simonetta replies to Dougal.

We've been stymied in our hunt for the spiders, it seems they have retreated and are not coming back out just now. We have a few options I can think of:
1) Make our way through the spider cavern, not burning any more webs
2) ditto, but continue burning webs as we go
3) return back to the previous room and try a different direction.

[mushgnome]

Ouch! Did you try peeing on the wasp stings? (Or maybe that's for jellyfish, I forget.)

[mushgnome]

1) Make our way through the spider cavern...

If the party decides on this suggestion (to further explore the spider cavern), and given that the space is much larger than the 30' radius of torchlight, what would be your plan? Stick together, or split up the party to cover a wider search area? Do you go straight forward into the middle of the room? Or do you stay close to the wall and try to explore the perimeter? If so, clockwise or counterclockwise?

[mgtremaine]

Ouch! Did you try peeing on the wasp stings? (Or maybe that's for jellyfish, I forget.)

Wasp stings on the ear and you want him to pee on it....

[rredmond]

I vote we continue to check out Spider Cavern, while looking up, without burning webs, together (no splitting up) while looking for creepy crawler's lair.

Isn't there an old Guys & Dolls joke about cider in your ear? Peeing in your own ear would be impressive, if icky.

[dtspurrier]

bilfur will go with the majority

[Bastet1002]

"Yes," says Robur. "Let's try to keep burning them."

This is in response to someone making a "pee" reference in Guys & Dolls above. So, if you will excuse me for a few infantile 'tasteful' Hobbit jokes:

'I see,' says the blind bobbit Took peeing into the wind,
'it’s all coming back to me now.'

'Frodo, did you hear my new joke about pee?'
'No, Gandalf.'
'Well, thank the Shire no one leaked it! Ha ha ha!"

'You know Pippin and Merry,' said a very aged Bilbo. 'Happiness after second-breakfasts is like peeing in your pants....
I haven't experienced it since I was a wee one of twenty-eight! Ha ha ha ha!'

Ok, but seriously... I don't think any of this will help with bee stings... and especially not venomous spider bites. Proceed with caution but burn burn burn!

[kipper]

Dame Simonetta agrees with Robur and wants to continue burning as we proceed.

I would vote for: stick together, stay close to a wall, move counter-clockwise.

[mushgnome]

lol at the jokes, @Bastet1002!

[mushgnome]

The flare of light from the burning web pushes back the shadows. Let's pull back the camera and reveal a larger section of the map.

To the north is a vast, yawning, cavernous space.

To the west is a rough, natural rock outcropping, towering out of sight into the shadows above. It is filthy with giant spider webs. The webs are thick as cables and look almost like the rigging of a ship's mast, with the crow's nest lost in the fog.

To the south is a rocky up-slope. (You're not sure how far up it goes.) The rock is smooth and hard, not rough and gravely like the slope on dungeon level 1.