Spider

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Little Brown Spider

AKA: Sewer Spider

Health: 1

Attack: Bite – 1 or 2 points of damage

Populated Areas: sewers, underground caves, spider hives

Movement Speed: Fast

Traits:

• Spider Leap – the spider is able to jump high and even over a regular height human

Counteraction

• Broadhead Arrow – takes only one exact shot at all times
• Sword – it takes only one exact hit to kill this spider at all times, though it is still hard to aim for this little critter

Encounters

TG Only

Song Of The Caverns

T1/TG

Lord Bafford's Manor

The Lost City

Big Green Spider

AKA: Huge Spider

Health: 10 / flees when left on 2 health points in T1/TG and on 3 health points in T2

Attack: Bite – from 4 to 6 points of damage

Populated Areas: sewers, underground caves, spider hives

Movement Speed: Fast

Traits:

• Spider Leap– the spider is able to jump high and even over a regular height human

Counteraction

• Backstab – kills a spider with a single swing
• Broadhead Arrow – one shot from a stealth position

Encounters

TG Only

Thieves' Guild

T1/TG

Break From Cragscleft Prison

The Haunted Cathedral

The Lost City Escape!

T2

Shipping... and Receiving

Blackmail

Red Spider

AKA: Spiderbeast

Health: 16 / flees when left on 4 health points

Attack: Energy Bolt (ranged) – 3 points of damage

Populated Areas: areas dominated by The Trickster

Movement Speed: Fast

Traits:

• Chaos Beast
• Entangling Web – this spider can entangle its target with 5 layers of a special spider web. Once a character is entangled his movement speed is slowed down and he is unable to attack. He must untwist each layer of web in order to get back to normal state. But if the spider shoots another web towards the character while he is untangling, the web layers will accumulate. For example one has 2 more layers to break trough and if he is hit by the web shot again he will have 7 total.

Counteraction

• Broadhead Arrow – one shot from a stealth position
• Fire Arrow or Gas Arrow – pretty effective

Encounters

T1/TG

Strange Bedfellows

Background and other Information

Spiders are one of the most common enemies found when exploring underground areas in the Thief universe. In the inhabited city they are somewhat scarce, as they are exterminated on sight. But in the sewers and deep underground, they are far more common, and come in three varieties, all of them venomous.

The small yellow spiders have abdomens about the size of a human head, white legs, and have a painful, but somewhat weak bite. To compensate for their individual weakness, they often travel in groups, usually two or three at a time, but are very easily killed, having only a single hit point. Thus, they can be dispatched with any weapon, ranged or melee, even when alerted. When attacking the player, they are capable of jumping up and biting the top of the player's head.

The green spiders are the largest, standing up to the height of a human's waist. They have black legs, green speckled skin, and have a much more severe bite than the yellow spiders. It takes several sword strikes to kill one, or three fully pulled broadhead arrows. If it has not been alerted though, it can be killed with one shot.

The red Chaos Spiders, or SpiderBeasts, are slightly smaller than the green ones, but are far more dangerous. They can spit balls of webbing at the player from a distance, which can immobilize the player long enough to get several deadly attacks in, including purple energy "magic missile" shots. When alerted, it takes about six fully pulled arrows to kill one, or one arrow when alerted. Fortunately, even an alerted chaos spider can be dispatched using a gas mine or arrow, rendering it harmless.

Since spiders don't count towards any of the "Don't kill anyone" objectives in the series, the best option is to kill them from a distance with broadhead arrows in a single shot, or with gas arrows and mines for large groups. They can be a most terrifying threat to any player who is arachnophobic.