“What the heck?!” Bonnie protested, looking back and forth between Nick’s and Lucas’s loot. “That’s broken! That’s stupid broken. How come I didn’t get anything cool? Boss, let me have that cloak and dagger. You two are Mages, so you don’t need them. Let me use them!”

“Well, if you really want them . . . we can always re-do the dungeon for you later,” Lucas offered, watching as Bonnie’s face paled at the prospect.

“I could use another dagger to match this one,” Nick agreed. “And it’s not like the monster was particularly hard after we figured out the trick. Should be easy to repeat. Kinda surprised that more people haven’t done this dungeon with these drops.”

“Yeah, I am as well,” Lucas said, throwing the cloak on and pulling its hood up. “How do I look?”

“Like someone pixelated the spot you were standing . . .” Nick said. He and Bonnie both gave him an oddly disgusted look.

“That just doesn’t look right,” Bonnie commented, shaking her head. “It’s creepy. It’s like someone loaded an image, but one spot was still rendering when the Internet gave way.

“Whatever,” Lucas sighed. Even if it wasn’t perfect camouflage, and he’d still be noticed up close, this cloak meant that his relaxing naps outside would be that much less likely to be disturbed. Heck, even Xun Guan, or whatever her real-life name is, might not be able to steal my cheese and wine while I’m in this cloak. Web of Deceit indeed. “We’ve wasted enough time here. Let’s get going.”

“Umm, boss, how do we get out?” Bonnie asked. “I made sure to tie a rope to the top before I came down, but we’ve got a little problem . . . it kinda got lost during the fight. I think one of Nick’s fireballs burned it.”

“No worries,” Lucas said, pointing to the prison of Earth Spikes that had trapped the giant spider. “We can just use those on the wall and make a ladder of sorts up.”

Nick nodded, looking at what Lucas was indicating. “We can, can’t we? But . . . you sure you don’t want to explore further in, see the rest of what this spider cave has to offer?”

Lucas gave the cavern one more glance over but still couldn’t see an exit. The only direction they could go was to enter the giant tunnel the fat boss had made with its body before appearing. Unfortunately, when he walked over and checked the hole, it was clear that the boss had just been waiting there the entire time. There were dozens of webs connected to it, but it was rather shallow, indicating that the fat spider must have been lazily lying just under the surface.