Room? This is more of a hallway, or perhaps and artificial underground cavern than a room. It is large enough to park lots of cars (behind you) and allow the passage of large delivery trucks (where you're standing, and further down) to get to various places along the corridors, albeit 30- and 40-foot WIDE corridors. This particular area shows the signs of pitched battle, and it seems the people were on the losing end. Makes you wonder exactly *what* is going on...
Close examination of the spider-body reveals something on the order of a large-ish bug: an arachnid, in its own nature, but somehow not really well-formed, as if it might be young. This invites the heebie-jeebies, as most arachnids never GET this size, even when they're fully grown, so what spider has spider-lings that hatch at the size of medium-sized watermelons? Disturbing. On the astral it looks - like a spider. A BIG spider, but still a spider. Seems natural.
The passage seems fairly quiet, unfairly dead, as if all of the action went upstairs with the Tactical Operations Squad, leaving nothing behind but memories.
There is still the rest of the passage to wander, and you DO know the action seems to have come from the LEFT turnoff just ahead, at the T intersection. Well, if the slime-tracks (and blood trails) on the floor mean anything, anyway.
The off in the distance, a slow, rhythmic thump-oooom can be heard. Almost three to the minute... ...sounds like it could be coming from way down the passageway, off to the left, down at the T-intersection... |
