Spiderfiend

Overview
Spiderfiends are humanoid creatures with a spider-like exoskeleton and eight glowing red eyes. They are found scattered throughout Canada can pose a significant threat to lower-level players, especially when encountered in swarms. A higher-level player with better gear will have a much easier time dealing with them.

Combat
Spiderfiends have two attacks: a weak but quick melee which deals 5 damage, and a ranged attack in which they fire a web at their target from a distance, applying Slowness II for seven seconds on impact and allowing them to close the gap and attack several times, as they have a relatively high move speed (7). They have no resistances, but weakness to Knockback (30%), a significant weakness to arrows (80%) and a slight melee weakness (14%).

Drops

 * String x1, 63%
 * String x2, 45%
 * Shilling x4, 26%
 * Sovereign x1, 4%
 * .32 Auto Cartridge x2, 10%

Background
It is thought that the spiderfiends were created accidentally by the Holius Division of the New Fantastic Army with the Mythagos strain of the New Fantasy Virus. It is believed that the being which became the spiderfiend was originally intended to be an Athena spider, which the NFA would later manage to successfully create (using NFVMK2). However, somewhere along the line, the mutagen failed, fusing the DNA of a Canadian wolf spider (Gladicosa gulosa) with a New Fantastic Soldier (Homo fantasticus), creating a new organism entirely. They appear to not posses the nocturnal characteristics of their spider counterpart, yet seemingly never sleep or tire, unlike their human counterpart. They have animal-level intelligence similar to that of a fox, incredible senses; ability to attack prey without even seeing it first, and considerable speed. They are about 1.67 meters tall and weigh roughly 3.63 kilograms. Their biological classification is debated- most Old World scientists agree on Allocosa horrendous hominous, yet New Fantastic Army Scientists refer to spiderfiends as Allocosa fantasticus.