What the larder was feeding
The Spider Queen
Past the larder, behind a door grown shut with silk
The room is warm, and every wall of it is eggs.
At the back, something the size of a cart lifts itself off them, slowly, so as not to crush any. It has been expecting you. It needs you to be quick about it - there are mouths to feed.
What it is
An old man, a hero they called him, shut her in years ago with her brood. She should have starved. Her young feed her through a crack only they fit, and every silk body in the larder was being carried to her.
A notebook lies half wrapped in silk by her door. Its owner went on writing after they could no longer get up. The last page reads: SHE IS NOT HUNGRY. SHE IS KEEPING US FOR THEM.
How it fights
She plants clutches of eggs on her own body. Any clutch you have not broken within two turns hatches, and what hatches stays with her for the rest of the fight: more strength, more guard, another action, another card, or a great deal of health.
Her fangs infect; a second infection on the same part turns to poison. She is not the way down, and she asks before she fights.
What you were told
Jerome's word
Leave the door shut.
Past the spiders' rooms there is a door grown shut with silk. Leave it shut. What she catches she keeps alive. She is not the way down, and nobody will think less of you for walking past.
Once you have met it
Deadly It kills candidates. Be ready, or be somewhere else.
- Health
- 300
- Attack
- 56
- Defence
- 20
- Magic
- 30
- Magic defence
- 18
- Each turn
- 3 actions, 4 cards in hand
Make a card from its body
The Queen's Fang100%
Venomrare
Every silk body in the larder was being kept for her. Most of them are still being kept.
What it carries
A Clutch of Eggs
1Buff
- TARGETS: Head/Body/Arm/Legs
- PLANTED on a PART: in 2 turns hatches into ONE of: +10 ATK, MAG, DEF or MDEF, +1 AP, +1 card in hand, or heals 60 - BROKEN by any ATTACK on that PART
Laid warm, and kept warm, and every one of them is listening.
×4 in its deck
Venom
1Attack
- TARGETS: Body/Arm
- DAMAGE ~17 (30% ATK)
- INFECTS the PART it lands on: a second INFECTION there turns to POISON
You milked it out of the fangs yourself. Your hands have not been right since.
×2 in its deck
Fang
1Attack
- TARGETS: Arm
- DAMAGE ~28 (50% ATK)
×2 in its deck
Spider Silk
1Guard
- TARGETS: Head/Body/Arm/Legs
- GUARD: blocks 75% of ATTACKS on one PART
Stronger than it looks. Stickier than you would like.
×2 in its deck
The Queen's Fang
1Attack
- TARGETS: Head/Body/Arm/Legs
- DAMAGE ~24 (42% ATK)
- INFECTS the PART it lands on: a second INFECTION there turns to POISON
As long as your forearm, and hollow, and still not empty.