Naturally formed limestone tunnels, holed through like Swiss cheese so that passages which start apart run into one another without warning.
Description
Naturally formed limestone tunnels, holed through like Swiss cheese so that passages which start apart run into one another without warning. Cool, damp, and branching almost immediately from either entrance. The floors are smooth stone and carry drag marks. The air smells of organic decay and silk.
Entrances open at the spring’s cave mouth at ground level and again about thirty feet up the cliff face; both lead to the same system.
Notable Features
- The webbing. Not stretched across passages like a curtain — thick cables laid along walls, ceiling and floor as structural supports, trip lines and vibration sensors. Every touch announces a position. It burns in a sudden whoosh and fills the tunnels with acrid smoke and ash.
- The junction. The upper and lower tunnels intersect in a massive cavern, which is how the party’s two search groups found each other underground.
- The cocoon chamber. High-ceilinged, hung with suspended silk bundles — fresh ones lower and at the edges, older desiccated husks further in and further up. Beyond them, against the far wall, a woven mass of egg sacs with the breeders braced over it.
- Fire is the only advantage. The spiders will not cross open flame, and they will not follow anyone past the shadow line at the cave mouth into daylight.
- Navigation. The party marked their route with twine and chalk on the way in, and got out on it.
Connections
- Socotran Cave Spiders — what lives here.
- Jumman and Freddy were cocooned in the high chamber and cut down alive. See Socotra Cave Rescue.
Appearances
Known Figures
Connections
People
Visited by
- Adrien de Montferrand Player character neutralPresent for the cave rescue1 session: The Sterile Bay
- Emma Wentworth Player character neutralClimbed the pyramid and cut Jumman down1 session: The Sterile Bay
- Freddy Cavendish Player character neutralTaken by the spiders; cut free by Holt in the collapse1 session: The Sterile Bay
- Georgiana Wentworth Player character neutralGave first aid twice during the rescue1 session: The Sterile Bay
- Katherine Ward Player character neutralPresent for the cave rescue1 session: The Sterile Bay
- Nathaniel Holt Player character neutralFell from the cliff, was bitten in the chest, and killed the drone1 session: The Sterile Bay
Places
Part of
- Socotra Location hostileRiddles the limestone cliffs above the sheltered bay1 session: The Sterile Bay
Events
Location of
- Socotra Cave Rescue Event hostileThe cave system above the sheltered bay
Creatures
Haunts
- Socotran Cave Spiders Creature hostileTheir nest, hunting ground, and egg chamber1 session: The Sterile Bay
Location of
- Socotran Cave Spiders Creature hostileTheir nest and hunting ground1 session: The Sterile Bay