Tahldar casts fireball up into the dark crevasse above your heads. The darkness is lit up in the blast as the fireball streaks upward in an explosion. In that brief instant of light, you see a thousand eyes peering down at you. Then the bodies begin to drop.
You jump back out of the way.
Five humanoid (now burnt to a crisp) bodies flop to the ground. They appear to be dead for a moment, but then begin to move in awkward jerks. Other remains also fall to the ground--skeletal masses, bones, and the like--and you see that most of these appear to be giant rats. About ten of the rats appear to be in the early stages of decomposition.
Also falling are hundreds of small spiders about the size of your hand. They were the thousand eyes you saw as the bodies fell.
The five humanoid corpses and ten giant rat corpses begin to move and rise in jerky articulations at the joints. They all seem sticky and covered in webs. You may have just awakened something and accidentally hatched these spiders.
That said, the spiders that flop to the ground appear to be permanently dead. It is the crispy fried bodies of the humans and rats that appear to be rising to their feet to attack.
Meanwhile, Borimer is exploring the northeast area... (PM)