The Spider Caves
In SLASH'EM, the Spider Caves are accessed by a stairway down located between levels 26 and 29. It's essentially filled with spiders. Monster generation in this branch is biased toward chaotic monsters.
Contents
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Objects
Scattered randomly throughout the level are two potions of invulnerability, a wand of make invisible, an amulet versus poison, a pair of speed boots, a ring of conflict, a wand of death, 48 eggs, five piles of gold, 22 giant spiders, Shelob, Girtab, 10 random s, and 48 webs.
Strategy
This level is of no major difficulty by the time you'll reach it. Shelob and Girtab are unremarkable and probably the greatest threat, is that a werespider wastes the wand of death on you or throws you a potion of amnesia. It is quite an annoying level though, due to the large amount of very weak enemies. It does worth the trouble however due to valuable loot.
Avoid using teleportation on squares you haven't explore, it will often fail due to the large amount of spider webs.
The eggs will mostly be giant spider eggs, which will begin hatching into (initially) cave spiders as soon as you enter the level. You should stash them as soon as possible so that they don't hatch. You could also come back 400 turns later so that they all rot on the ground.
Note
Take note, that here they are guaranteed pair of speed boots, a ring of conflict and a wand of death.
See also
Reference
From file spiders.des .