>>5483937You think your caution has narrowly avoided a dangerous ambush. The strange barbed insectile looking creatures just leer at you from beneath the twisted trees, waiting. They resemble some form of spider mixed with centipede and crab, adorned in chitinous plates and have a macabre demonic appearance. Their hooked appendages sway wickedly with the tree branches. If you had not examined and proceeded with such caution, it would have been difficult to notice them at all, camouflaged as they were in the thorns.
QM: the strange thorn monsters and the headless Guillotine Knight appear to be just waiting. If you attack, you get to act first.