OK, so I don’t really think there are any such things as “Necessary” spiders, at least as far as video game enemies go, but these are particularly bad, not least so because of unfortunate timing.

I have been trying Dungeon Siege. I have heard it referred to as, basically, a prettier Diablo, and, yeah, from the 15 minutes of Diablo I’ve played, Dungeon Siege is kind of a prettier version. Except, you get to have a party instead of just one guy and the world has a little less of an “80s heavy metal music video” vibe.

If that makes any sense.

Anyway, it’s nice because I can pick it up and click things for a half hour or so and feel I’ve progressed and save. I’m not getting any long, uninterrupted periods of time to play games, so this is something I need –  something I can play for a bit without any particular pressure – and it’s been working out.

Until, that is, tonight.

When I went blithely into the dungeon full of freaking spiders.

Before bed.

And I’ve been trying to get through this dungeon full of spiders for, like, 2 and a half hours, and it just keeps throwing more spiders at me and getting progressively more creepy-crawly , and I just want to get through so I can see something that doesn’t have 8 legs.

GAH.

At least it’s not Ravenholm.

Oh, as an aside, I got one of my party members killed and needed to look up how to resurrect her.

I was quite tickled to find out that this is the subject of a Microsoft Knowledge Base article.

Dungeon Siege: How to Resurrect a Dead Character

They need another Knowledge Base article called something like “Dungeon Siege: How to make it so your skin stops crawling after fighting spiders for two hours when you’d really rather be in bed.”