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I always assumed that just about all spiders are solitary, but a bit of Googling suggests that some spiders do have social tendencies and can form colonies numbered in the hundreds. Fun fun fun!

Yona (FS): Majority of yaks are arachnophobic?
DM: Well, afraid of just about any tiny, swarming, creepy-crawly creature, but spiders are the most effective. Like you were saying: Smash one, and twelve more crawl up your leg.
Ocellus (TS): I don’t know if spiders “swarm” all that often…
Sandbar (AJ): They do in D&D.
Ocellus (TS): Oh, yeah, good point.
DM: I take it you’re playing Yona as unafraid, though?
Yona (FS): I suppose… Yona is already unlike a lot of her people for traveling outside her home country, wanting to learn how to make friends. That is already scary enough. So what are a few spiders?
Smolder (RT): Awww…!
Silverstream (PP): What a sweet, helpful-in-this-situation backstory!
DM: Just as well. They’d be more terrified of you yelling and stomping than you would be of them anyway!
Gallus (RD): …That would turn the swarm hostile, wouldn’t it.
DM: Maaaaaaybe. It IS a trap for yaks. But instead, they offer to help Yona escape the maze and find her friends!
Yona (FS): Um, I’m not playing Fluttershy right now, how would they–
DM: These are spiders who have been living in the branches of a magical tree. Of course they can communicate. You’re lucky they don’t sing and dance.