> That being said you do not make a sharp blade by running it against a soft stone.
That is -literally- how you are supposed to go about sharpening things.

I think that’s why it’s so frightening that they didn’t return. You respawn if killed normally. But they were killed deader-than-dead or stuck in a creature’s belly or in a web to slow die.

I agree. This is like trench frontline warfare. Only the most fortunate survive. Luck is what otherpeople are said to have. An individual is best looking at themselves as fortunate, since that is an effect they can have. Trying to claim luck for yourself causes a person to take risks without preparation.

Hah! Good catch. I totally forgot about that… https://elven.co.nz/comic/elven-00129/

Still feels iffy, once they die they should respawn, so they either did not = omg torturous slow digestion by spider acid, thats some PTSD material if I ever saw one, or they somehow did? Maybe some “log out of this plane of existance” option which they used to avoid torturous death by spider goo, which effectively means death?

\’never returned\’ doesn\’t necessarily mean \’dead\’, they may be in suspended animation as part of the Queen Spider\’s pantry…or maybe she just collects shiny things like adventurers in armour and puts them on shelves to dust off once in awhile or maybe play \’dress up\’ with 🙂

The explicit point made when this assignment was handed to Cyprien was that none of those she sent had returned. As in, they died. Permadead. Pining for the Fjords. Shuffled off their mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin’ choir invisible! They are Ex-adventurers.
The save point used in the previous adventure was a dungeon feature that the spider nest lacked.