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Weaver Cavern
Silk Chasm
The Weaver floods the pit with tension silk, the Needle drops from stone cracks, and the Skimmer cuts walking lines.
Weaver Cavern drops into limestone pits laced with purple tension silk. White gypsum needles hang from the ceiling, wrapped in thick cocoons of dry cord. The air smells of vinegar and dried beetle shells, humming with the vibration of taught anchor threads.
Three hunting castes hold the pit walls. The Grave Weaver anchors the cavern floor, dragging a swollen egg abdomen and raising twin purple scythes. High in the dark, the Ceiling Needle grips stone cracks, waiting to drop like a plumb bob into exposed ranks. Darting across the silk bridges, the Chittering Skimmer skates along anchor cords, snapping walking lines and cutting escape ropes.
The colony hunts by trapping intruders on web lines before harvesting bone. At the cavern mouth, the Chittering Skimmer darts forward, cutting hand ropes and forcing travelers onto sticky ground. The Ceiling Needle drops without sound, driving raptorial claws into the shoulders of anyone who pauses to free their footing.
When prey thrashes or cuts silk, the Grave Weaver lumbers from her nest. She floods the cavern with fresh thread to immobilize rescuers, then brings her heavy scythes down on trapped limbs. The colony avoids fair duels. They draw targets into tension lines, pin their hands, and drag them into the lower fissures.
Example encounter
1. Put the Grave Weaver on the cavern floor, the Ceiling Needle clinging to ceiling cracks directly above, and the Chittering Skimmer across a silk bridge.
2. On the Skimmer's first spotlight, use Line Sprint to skate along silk cords into Melee, attack with Sickle Arm, and force an Agility Reaction Roll (15) to knock prone and Vulnerable.
3. While a foe is Vulnerable, spotlight the Ceiling Needle to use Drop Strike with advantage, dealing damage and inflicting 1 Stress.
4. When travelers cluster or cut silk, lumber forward with the Grave Weaver and spend a Fear on Web Spray to Restrain targets in sticky thread.
5. Sweep Melee with Scythe Cleave to strike up to two targets and leave them Vulnerable.
6. If a Restrained target takes damage within Very Close range, spend a Fear on Cocoon Snatch to hoist them off their feet.
