Lolth apparently has several identical bodies, or aspects, or something, several of which are fighting various Roman invaders. Others are lying in wait.
Gnorfank leaves off fighting a Lolth to go save the clerics, but Sir Adelphis saves them by leaping onto the spider while it's distracted by the Knights. Gnorfank then falls down, but Rosa heals him.
Bjern stabs Lolth to death at the same time as she stabs him to death. The difference is she doesn't have Rosa to Cure Critical Wounds on him, so he doesn't completely die. As he says "I'm going to live ... kind of."
The Knights and Clerics attack another Lolth, spreading out to give her too much to think about. The Captain-General growls, "Here's your diversion, 'Pouncequick.' Don't waste it."
He doesn't. He strikes at a crack in her armor inflicted earlier by Elrond. Casting Protection from Evil on himself, he stabs his hand deep into Lolth's interior and places a vial of holy water there. Recoiling in all directions from the holy water in her center, Lolth's body explodes.
Decinque hides in a canyon from Molasar, who wants his blood. Decinque cuts himself, spreads blood around, then moves somewhere else. Molasar, riding on a carpet of bats, is deceived and follows the blood lure. Decinque emerges from the crevasse, runs to the base of the black strand in teh sky, follows it back to the Demonweb, and now has both ends of the black thread in his hands. He cuts it, and the black thread is broken.
The Demonweb is now held up by only four strands. It tilts crazily, swinging Lolths and Romans around. Retarius goes around behind the Earth Tower and ascends it, but doesn't enter the Earth Dimension. Decinque, on the other hand, does enter the Earth Dimension, and Lolth, seeing the damage he did to the black thread, pursues him.
The Earth Dimension is green, vast, floaty and translucent, with roots and worms and chunks of minerals floating about. It's a bit like what the Earth would look like if soil were transparent and air were opaque.
Lolth pursues Decinque, but Sylvia, aiming along the green thread, shoots Lolth repeatedly. Lolth uses her control of space to tighten invisible cords around Sylvia's neck, strangling her. But Bjern attacks Lolth, cutting her so badly that she dies. Sylvia is therefore spared.
(Bjern has now killed TWO Lolths to Brother Aquila's one and Pouncequick's one.)
A huge orange rock monster follows the green thread down to the Demonweb and declares, "Calamus was stupid to let you all live!" Retarius thinks this is Binyamin, the Earth Wizard we have never seen. He plans to crush Retarius, Rosa and Elrond, but Rosa seizes the green thread and accesses the really quite bountiful nature power of the Earth Dimension. She uses this excess of druidical might to call lightning, pelting Binyamin painfully and not killing anyone else.
Elrond flourishes his silver sword in a circle and severs the green thread. The Demonweb tilts wildly, wobbling on its three remaining supports.
Bjern, meanwhile, slides along the green-to-blue thread to intercept two Lolths coming the other way, and he leads with the Axe of St. Michael. A thunderclap and flash of blue strikes one Lolth dead, but the other is unharmed. (That's THREE for Bjern.)
Lolth's six eyes are down to one ...
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