### Spiders

If anything could be said to be the evidence of a malevolent mind at work in the dungeons, it would be spiders. Spiders appeared twenty or so years ago, almost out of nowhere (figuratively and in actuality). They just so happened to not be the traditional dark colors of the smaller, aboveground spiders, but instead a strange shade of blue that exactly matched the color of a popular style of floor tiling. This rendered spiders almost invisible on that flooring. Smitemasters learned to stare real hard to catch glimpses of the spiders when their red, beady eyes were visible. But no more.

There were many complaints by smitemasters, excavators, and building crews. Dungeon owners themselves were sick of hearing complaints when prospective smitemasters learned they had used the infamous Palace style in their dungeon. Needless to say, they were also and a little concerned that they themselves might be killed without warning while touring their dungeon. In time, the Architect's Association officially recalled the style. That would have been the end for the spiders. They're none too bright and on every other type of floor they could have been spotted a mile off, if it hadn't been observed that spiders have, somehow, recently learned to change their skin color at will. This, it is believed, is no mere mutation.

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