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Things look a lot more dangerous than they seem. You get the impression that <span class="mu-s">OBSERVING</span> what's going on will be a better idea than just rushing in. You approach the webs and begin to carefully inspect them. The webs themselves seem remarkably thick compared to the average spider webbing. It more has the texture of clumps of hair stuck in a shower drain than anything.
"Target moving!"
"Nicole!" You feel two hands grabbing onto your shoulders, pulling you back in the nick of time. Seems like the GRANDMA OF NESTS (SPIDER GRANNY, maybe?) managed to dart over to where you were at in mere seconds. <span class="mu-b">She's way faster than you expected.</span>
"KHEH? WHAT ARE YOU DOING?" Heaven Above, she fucking reeks as well. A thick haze of old person scent radiates around her entire body. You can now make out that the shimmering thing you saw earlier in the gap of her body was a <span class="mu-b">pendant.</span>
You think you saw a picture of an old man? You didn't get a good glimpse.
You turn to see that Ashley was the one who pulled you away. She's clearly wary of the anomaly now but she clears her throat, trying her best to distract it. "She wanted to learn from the best."
"Oh!" It clicks for you. "Yes, yes, I wanted to study your webbing. It's very interesting."
You can hear your other allies trying not to retch from the stench radiating from the anomaly; It doesn't help that thick sticky mucus is dribbling out of the gap of her 'neck' and FUCK. That smells like rotten eggs.
"...KEH! SURE, SURE, NOELLE. GRANNY DOESN'T MIND. <span class="mu-g">IT'S GOOD TO LEARN FROM YOUR ELDERS!"</span>" Sticking to the webs she laid out, she skitters right back to the ground of trapped ETF agents. Good, buys you time.
Ashley then lets go of your shoulders to investigate the webbing. "Don't know a lot about spider stuff but I heard something about spider webbing being better than Kevlar if it had the same weight."
"Yeah, S-Corp said something about wanting to use it for construction purposes." Alexis chitters out.
"Just cut it." Wendy scoffs, clearly impatient.
"I WOULDN'T RECOMMEND-"
Ashley cuts Quentin off by trying just that: Cutting it. Her hunting knife does manage to leave a massive cut in it but <span class="mu-b">as soon as she pulls her knife back, the webbing begins to patch itself up.</span> Self repairing, that's no good.
"Hm. It can be damaged but I doubt physical force can leave a serious impact. Try that mask you found a while ago. Fire is probably not a good idea considering..." She gestures at how much webbing there is; You're smart enough to know big fire + enclosed space = uh oh
You hold MASK OF SORROWFUL COUNTENANCE over the webbing, letting the blackened ooze dribble onto it, but nope! It slides right off. Odd. Cutting does nothing, fire is too risky, acid does nothing.
"Wait. it's an anomaly. Maybe it has some topsy turvy logic to it. Maybe we do the opposite of what's normal?" Ashley proposes.
"What, getting stuck in it?" Phi is a bit skeptical on Ashley's proposal...
