>>6049382>spidersPack fire spells and purge spells, with oil and antivenin to multiply effectiveness. Buy a padded overcoat heavy about the head and neck, boots, and gloves.
If we interview the ranger at Fox Tail we'll have a rundown of the spiders' opening tactics and common skills.
Revenge might motivate the ranger to go with us for a discount.
Finding the Mother will be fairly easy: ping the ambient mana every half hour.
If budget permits, the new party can chip in for a cask of 85% black powder 15% nails.
The spiders are not a big a danger as it seems: the rumor is recent, and only rumor; they have not expanded overground, and the dungeon ban has not been reinstated.
>but the ranger's party died though...tpk's happen easily in ambush, but getting firsthand info from a survivor who is also a ranger, and going in with an antiarachnoid loadout will offset a lot of this.
We have a fair chance, and I say we killemall