Borgo remains motionless with bow held ready with arrow knocked, as
Berith moves forward with the torch to the edge of the corner and holds it out above and behind Borgo's head as she leans out to look.
The light slowly creeps acoss the far wall slowly bring Albrecht's corpse into view where it lay in a now dried pool of blood.
Borgo's eyes are momentarily drawn to his ruined head, now dry streched. As the far corner comes into view, he sees what he thinks was the source of the noise. It looks like someone small has fallen over on the left hand statue in the corner. The Kobold! But he's nearly upside down and his hear is hung up on part of the statue and he's pulled it over, as the statue now leans against the back wall.
As
Berith's torch fully emerges and
Marev come up behind,
Borgo can see that Vennok appears lifeless. The odd angle of his limbs and lack of movement are enough, but his head appears tilted fatally to the side and his neck and shoulder are a bloody ruin.
A second later, flashes of reflected light draw all of your attention as four disks reflect the torchlight and a very large archnid is exposed on the ceiling near the right hand corner. The creature is very large, perhaps massing as much as two large dogs or a small pony. Two glossy plate sized eyes reflect the torchlight, with one smaller eye on each side. The creature was motionless until the
Berith and
Marev appeared. It's body shifts fractionally closer to the ceiling and you can see the torchlight shift in the glossy spheres. You know it is looking around and at you when suddenly, it quickly skitters back into the corner where you can no longer see it. As you know it has nowhere to go you assume it must be attempting to hide.
OOC:
You have interrupted this spider while feeding. It must have gotten in through the open door while you were away, seaching for prey in this dark place. Perhaps Albrechts stench drew it in to search for carrion eaters. It did find prey picking at the bones of this dead place, and snatched the Kobold from the dark and carried him into recesses of this room to consume.
Your swallow your intial shock at finding the dead Kobold and his killer. The spider meal interrupted has moved into the darkness. You cannot know for sure what had been running through it's alien mind, but you can imagine some kind of calculation was taking place.
What do you do?
You know the spider is in the far back right corner, you assume still on the ceiling. That second corner blocks it from view (I am assuming that Borgo is standing just beyond that first corner by the large chest near the entry (the chest with the tunnel down) and that Berith is holding the torch just behind him. Vennock's is hanging on the statue on the right (as you look at the map), which is to your left as you look into that part of the room.
Elspeath, you can take you pre-spider action if you want as part of your decision/action when you post. Or just post pre-spider if you like. Does that make sense?
