CAVES OF SPIDERS (MarkAlina)

<Reverb>: Mark and Alina wake up in a dark cavern. They are unable to move and it is rather difficult to see.
Alina rubs her head, letting out a low groan as she wakes up and looks around
Wrong_Way is half awake mumbling about french homework.
<Reverb>: There is a light clicking sound, a pair of eyes glimmering in the darkness.
<Alina>: "....ah, rahat" she says to herself "what is all this mark?"
<Wrong_Way>: "Hm? What?"
Wrong_Way looks around and sees the pair of eyes in the darkness
<Wrong_Way>: "Oh jesus. Why are we in a cave?"
Alina looks up at the eyes, stepping a bit backward with a tinge of fear
<Reverb>: The clicking continues, the eyes moving in the shadows.
<Reverb>: ...another pair opening up.
<Alina>: "I hoped you'd know"
<Wrong_Way>: "Do I look like some kind of cave dweller to you?"
<Alina>: "I don't know just... figure it out" she says, glaring around
<Wrong_Way>: "Well I think we've got company, maybe they'll tell us?"
Alina stances herself, ready to fight back as she switches between staring at the sets of eyes in the dark
<Alina>: "Well?! Who's there?!"
<Reverb>: The two pairs look at Alina and Mark. The clicking goes silent.
<Reverb>: Another pair of eyes open up, smaller and sitting right on top of a bigger pair.
<Wrong_Way>: "At least you tried."
<Reverb>: An arm extends out from the shadows. At least, you think it might be an arm.
<Reverb>: It's more like a spider's leg, pale grey and covered in bristly hairs.
<Reverb>: It's at least as wide as Alina is, and maybe twice as long.
Alina tenses up at the arm, expecting it to lash out at her
Wrong_Way looks at spider-arm in horror completely freaked out.
<Reverb>: The arm seems to just run through her hair softly, pulling away when the eyes notice their terror.
Alina shivers a bit, extensively paranoid and one of her hands unthinkingly gripping onto Mark's shoulder
<Wrong_Way>: "...A-are you okay?"
<Reverb>: The other pair of eyes seems to extend its own arm, a massive, tree-trunk like limb holding back the paler arm.
<Alina>: "I don't know whats happening" she says starkly, staring at the arms and looking as if she is fearing for her life
<Alina>: "...j-just be ready to fight back if they try anything, alright?"
Wrong_Way nods. "Got it."
<Reverb>: The two pairs lock against each other, aggressive clicking going on between them.
<Alina>: "...I'm not as lucky as I used to be"
<Reverb>: The clattering stops, and the two pairs of eyes look at the duo.
<Wrong_Way>: "I've got your back, don't worry..."
<Reverb>: At last, the white spider steps forward, standing at full height.
<Reverb>: The spider stands at an imposing 8 feet in height. Its legs are long and thin, yet strong enough to support her massive abdomen.
<Reverb>: Its pincers click occasionally, all eight of its bright blue eyes staring intently at Alina and Mark.
Alina looks back with a challenging look that barely contains how scared she is
<Alina>: "wh-who are you?"
<Reverb>: The white spider slowly stops clicking, pincers opened wide.
<Reverb>: "I am the Queen of these caverns." it says, slowly.
<Wrong_Way>: "W-why did you bring us here?"
<Alina>: "...do you want to hurt us?"
<Reverb>: "Oh, heavens no, anything but that. We bought you here because you /were/ hurt."
<Reverb>: The black spider steps forward.
<Reverb>: Though not as tall, at a massive 7 or so feet, its limbs and body resembling rocks and trees more than anything.
Alina relaxes somewhat, loosening her iron grip on Mark's shoulder
<Reverb>: Shocks of yellow adorn its legs, a cluster of bright red eyes sitting above two pairs of mighty jaws.
<Alina>: "We were hurt?"
<Reverb>: The black spider begins to speak "Yes, we don't know what by but you were found by our traders on their way here."
<Wrong_Way>: "Weird..."
<Alina>: "Where are we, exactly?"
<Reverb>: "In the caverns beneath the forest, the one close to your school." the Queen explained.
Alina nods "Then we're not that far off"
<Wrong_Way>: "Are we well enough to uh leave?"
<Reverb>: "You should be." the black spider said. "We just need to remove the bonds."
<Reverb>: "Which reminds me, apologies for them, but people tend to run away at the sight of us, and in caverns like these such a thing always ends in disaster."
<Wrong_Way>: "Explains the bonds I guess."
<Alina>: "Makes sense"
<Reverb>: The queen raises a leg, and you now notice how sharp it is, little jagged spines near the end of it.
<Reverb>: She slices through the bonds like they were nothing, the cocoons splitting open.
Alina shakes herself as she is let loose
<Wrong_Way>: "Um, thanks for helping us."
<Reverb>: A pair of smaller spiders, around three feet and a muddy shade of brown in color walk in.
<Reverb>: They pick up the cocoons and run off with them.
<Alina>: "Shouldn't we... find out what hurt us?"
<Reverb>: "That would seem wise. Whatever it is that hurt you has been causing trouble for some time now."
<Reverb>: "We survive predominantly on our silk and the antitoxins we produce. This creature is preventing the human traders from reaching our cavern."
<Wrong_Way>: "Right. Got any leads on this guy?"
<Reverb>: "We know very little, other than they are in the forests conveniently when our human traders are." the black one explains.
Wrong_Way turns to Alina
<Wrong_Way>: "You wanna help these guys out?"
<Alina>: "I suppose we owe it to them"
<Wrong_Way>: "Plus that guy supposedly kicked our butts."
<Wrong_Way>: "We'll go for it! Uh, any way you could lead us out of these caverns?"
<Reverb>: The Queen and Black Spider nod. "Sit on our backs, we will lead you out."
<Alina>: "...Alright"
<Wrong_Way>: "R-right."
<Reverb>: The two spiders bend down, enough for the two to climb on.
Alina climbs on
Wrong_Way climbs onto one of the spider backs
<Reverb>: The two spiders rise up, and begin to walk out of the caverns. Various veins embedded within the cavern walls begin to glow softly, illuminating the area.
<Reverb>: "We do admittedly appreciate you both not panicking when you saw us."
<Wrong_Way>: "Yeah, S-men training has taught me that it's better to panick internally than externally."
<Alina>: "I nearly panicked" she admits quietly with a grumble
<Reverb>: "Still, these are the caverns we live in. We're in the lower area, where most of my subjects won't tread unless necessary."
<Wrong_Way>: "Why's that?"
<Reverb>: "Well, usually because there is little of interest here. In some nearby areas we have some smaller children who play, but nothing of note beyond that."
<Wrong_Way>: "Oh. I thought you were gonna say there were gonna be like scorpion people or something that you fight."
<Reverb>: "Oh goodness no, that would be silly."
<Wrong_Way>: "Y-yeah..."
Wrong_Way makes a reminder in his head to look up spiders fighting scorpions on the internet later
Alina holds onto her spider for dear life
<Reverb>: "Now then, from the bottom regions to the middle. Living quarters, mining, the works."
<Reverb>: The two spiders walked through some manner of bazaar, with spiders claiming food and other materials from the clerks.
<Wrong_Way>: "You guys have a food court here?"
Alina looks around, taking it in
<Reverb>: "Oh, we do indeed!" the Queen said enthusiatically, immediately walking toward said food court.
<Wrong_Way>: "Um, maybe another time. We do have a guy to catch still right?"
<Reverb>: "Oh, that's right. I'll hold you to your promise, she said, giggling.
<Reverb>: Well, rapidly clicking her pincers together.
Wrong_Way wonders if spider food courts are any good.
Alina still looks a bit worrisome, but continues along with the spiders