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
- 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.
Dangerous is increasing…
Running Battle... is increasing… (+1 CP)
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]
- Dangerous is increasing…
You've gained 9 x Whispered Hint- Running Battle... is increasing… (+1 CP)
Failure
It moves too quickly
You land a few blows but it skitters away into the night before you can kill it.
- Dangerous is increasing…
