A straightforward approach... Squash the filthy things!

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From: Destroy an Infestation of Sorrow-Spiders


Sorrow-spiders are the size of a small cat, and both armoured and poisonous. The best way to deal with them, although not the tidiest approach, is to hit them as hard as you can with a hammer.


Challenge information

Broad, Dangerous 20

  • 14 - very chancy (42%)
  • 17 - chancy (51%)
  • 21 - modest (63%)
  • 24 - very modest (72%)
  • 27 - low-risk (81%)
  • 31 - straightforward (93%)
  • 34 - straightforward (100%)

Success

Got one!

Squashing a sorrow-spider sends yellow-green ichor everywhere. It smells like badly rotting fruit. And they keep wriggling for hours. Still, one down.

Rare Success

Perhaps a tad overenthusiastic, there...

[…] your hammer knocks a sorrow-spider […] through a wall. […] you find […] a dusty china doll […] Its eyes are glass; its skirt is velvet. […] stitched the names of nine dead men into the hem. […] It's old information, but everything's of value […].

[Find the rest of the story at https://www.fallenlondon.com]


Failure

It moves too quickly

You land a few blows but it skitters away into the night before you can kill it.