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[doctorscaryteeth]

Dr Thurlow dashes through the front door of the Bar and slams it behind them. They're looking a tad shell-shocked, insofar as it's possible to tell under the goggles, iron hat, and truly massive amount of cobwebs clinging to their face and clothing.

"That is... eeeurgh. Not going back out there for a long time," they announce to all and sundry, making retching noises and muttering about eyeballs as they pull the spider-silk off. Which could take them a while. It really is a prodigious amount of web.

((OOC: Yes hello Thurlow is here to get infected with the IMDB flu! Come sneeze on them or something.))

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[street_sparrow]

Gavroche, who has escaped the IMDB flu but whose mun hates to see an untagged post, eyes them.

"Do I want to know where you've been?"

[doctorscaryteeth]

"Probably not. Unless you're very keen on vast hordes of overgrown spiders and their horrible, horrible breeding methods." Thurlow continues to yank off chunks of web.

[street_sparrow]

"Not really. Does it involve eggs in places you don't want them? And do you need a hand there?"

[doctorscaryteeth]

"You've got the gist of it. And-" Thurlow unspools a strand coiled around their protective iron hat. "Yes, some help would be appreciated."

[street_sparrow]

"You've got it." He moves to start untangling the web, keeping a wary eye out for potential baby spiders in it as he does so. "Were you in the deep jungle or something?"

[doctorscaryteeth]

"No, they've conveniently situated their lair in an abandoned chapel by the docks." Thankfully there are no spiderlings to be found. Just a whole bunch of web.

[street_sparrow]

"...well, I suppose it'd be dark and damp, that's the kind of place spiders like", Gavroche concludes. "But does that mean you went in the nest on purpose?"

[doctorscaryteeth]

"...It seemed like a good idea at the time."

Thurlow's made much worse decisions!

[street_sparrow]

Gavroche eyes him dubiously, then decides there must be something he doesn't know yet.

"What part seemed like a good idea?"

[doctorscaryteeth]

"Following them into the crypt after we broke into the chapel. Because I wanted to see what was down the hole where they were taking the severed eyeballs."

"I should probably have mentioned that detail sooner, shouldn't I." Thurlow picks one of the remaining strands of cobweb off their sleeve. "That's the purpose of the goggles."

[street_sparrow]

"To... stop them from stealing your eyeballs", Gavroche guesses, winding bits of web absently into a ball. "Did you see what was down the hole? And why did you break into the chapel?"

[doctorscaryteeth]

"Because sorrow-spiders are a plague upon the Wolfstack Docks and I thought perhaps if we found where they were coming from we could burn it or blow it up or something."

[street_sparrow]

"...good reason", he says with a nod. "So what was down there, or did you not get that far?"

[doctorscaryteeth]

"A lot of eyeballs. Which they had laid eggs in. The tunnel went further down, but they didn't take kindly to me gawking at their eggs and I had to turn back." Thurlow gestures to the ball-o-web.

[street_sparrow]

He makes a sickened face at that.

"Don't blame you. I think I'd have turned back even without the attack spiders."

[doctorscaryteeth]

Thurlow grins briefly, although whether out of sympathy or schadenfreude (if that can be said to apply when you're horrifying people with your own revolting life experiences) is difficult to tell. "And thus I'm here in the transcendental bar. In which I plan to remain for some time."

[street_sparrow]

"Bar can probably give you the makings of a torch before you go", he suggests. "Light it and scare them off, if you're going to be still in there when you leave."

[doctorscaryteeth]

"Good idea. It should at least give them something to think twice about."

[street_sparrow]

"Everything alive is afraid of fire", Gavroche says with a nod. "If it's got enough brains to be afraid, anyway."

[doctorscaryteeth]

((OOC: I can't think of anything to add! Fade?))

[street_sparrow]

[ooc: works for me! They can talk again without the spiders.]