# The Spiders' Gully > From the Curse of Strahd game wiki (it covers the whole game, spoilers included): https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-spiders-gully.html. Unofficial Fan Content permitted under the Fan Content Policy, not approved or endorsed by Wizards of the Coast. > [!infobox] > **Type:** Side quest > **Region:** [The Old Svalich Road](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/regions/the-old-svalich-road.md) · level 4 > **Given by:** [Iancu](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/people/iancu.md) > **Starts at:** [Tser Pool Encampment](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/tser-pool-encampment.md) > **Rewards:** [Boon Companions’ Bands](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/magic-items.md#boon-companions-bands) ×2, 40 gp ## Summary Iancu's cousin Tsura rode the falls path with a letter three days ago. Her horse came home with web on its saddle. ## Walkthrough ### Getting the quest [Iancu](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/people/iancu.md) throws knives at a stump at the [Tser Pool Encampment](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/tser-pool-encampment.md) between 8 in the morning and 6 in the evening. Once everyone in your party is level 3 or higher, he has stopped throwing. Talk to him and he tells you his cousin [Tsura](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/people/tsura.md) rode out by the falls path three days ago with a letter in her coat, and her horse came home with web on the saddle. That starts the quest and puts [The Webbed Gully](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-webbed-gully.md) on your travel map, on the path between the crossroads and Tser Falls. ### Step by step 1. **Travel to the Webbed Gully** (from the River Ivlis crossroads or from Tser Falls). ![loc ivlis spider gully 1](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/shots/loc-ivlis-spider-gully-1.webp) 2. **Go to the long bundle of web on the ledge** at the back of the gully. Tsura is inside it, alive, with one eye open. 3. **Read the web first.** Try **Nature DC 12** ("Look at how the webs are strung"). On a success you see that every strand runs to the cracks in the walls, and the fight that follows starts normally. On a fail, or if you just cut, the spiders catch your party **surprised**. Either way, cutting her down starts the fight. 4. **Fight the spiders:** three [Giant Spiders](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/giant-spider.md) (AC 14, venomous bite, a web that restrains on a failed DC 13 Dexterity save) and two swarms of spiderlings ([Swarm of Insects](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/swarm-of-insects.md), which resist weapon damage, so use spells or area attacks on them). The spiders climb the walls, so ranged attackers earn their keep here; free webbed allies quickly. 5. **Talk to Tsura** at the ledge after the fight. The letter was hers, to her mother: she was running from a wedding she didn't want. While you're there, the older bundles further up can be cut open with **Medicine DC 13** for 20 gp and an [Antitoxin](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/equipment.md#antitoxin) (1d4 poison damage on a fail). ### Choices and endings Choose where Tsura goes. Either way she gives you the wedding rings, a pair of [Boon Companions’ Bands](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/magic-items.md#boon-companions-bands), and **40 gp**, and Thistle (+2), Wren (+2), Godrick (+1) and Kip (+1) approve. - **Back to the camp** to tell her mother to her face: Iancu later says she's back by the fire and nobody mentions the wedding. - **On to [Krezk](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/krezk.md)**: Iancu later says she sent word from Krezk, where she mends nets for an old man, and her mother is packing to visit. ### If you're stuck - **Iancu just throws knives?** Someone in the party is below level 3, or it's outside his hours. - **Can't find the gully on the map?** It only appears once Iancu has told you about Tsura. ## Rewards - [Boon Companions’ Bands](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/magic-items.md#boon-companions-bands) ×2 - 40 gp **What your companions think** - **Thistle:** +2 you cut Tsura out of the spiders' web - **Wren Featherfoot:** +2 you cut Tsura out of the spiders' web - **Godrick Pendlebrook:** +1 you cut Tsura out of the spiders' web - **Kip Smudgewick:** +1 you cut Tsura out of the spiders' web ## Fights - *Things come out of the cracks in the gully walls on long legs, very quickly, down their own threads.*, in [The Webbed Gully](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-webbed-gully.md): [Giant Spider](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/giant-spider.md), [Swarm of Insects](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/swarm-of-insects.md). Scales with your level. > [!example]- By party level (the first line your party fits is the fight you get) > - **[The Webbed Gully](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-webbed-gully.md)**, when gully web read: 3 × [Giant Spider](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/giant-spider.md), 2 × A Swarm of Spiderlings ([Swarm of Insects](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/swarm-of-insects.md)) (800 XP) > - **[The Webbed Gully](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-webbed-gully.md)**: 3 × [Giant Spider](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/giant-spider.md), 2 × A Swarm of Spiderlings ([Swarm of Insects](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/swarm-of-insects.md)) (800 XP; surprise: party) ## Journal > [!quote]- Every journal entry and hint > **Asked**: Iancu's cousin Tsura rode for the Vallaki camp by the falls path three days ago with a letter in her coat. Her horse came home yesterday with web on its saddle as thick as rope. There's a gully off the falls path where the stream cuts down. > *Hint:* Take the path from the crossroads toward Tser Falls and turn off into the Webbed Gully, where the stream cuts down. > > **Cut Down**: Tsura was alive, wrapped and hung on a ledge at the back of the gully. We cut her down, and the spiders came out of the walls. > *Hint:* Go to Tsura on the ledge at the back of the Webbed Gully. > > **Done** (the end: success): Tsura's letter wasn't for the Vallaki camp. It was for her mother, and it said she wasn't coming back to be married. She gave us the wedding rings. > [!abstract]- Every skill check in its conversations > - Nature DC 12: (Look at how the webs are strung.) ## Related - **People:** [Iancu](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/people/iancu.md), [Tsura](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/people/tsura.md) - **Places:** [Tser Pool Encampment](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/tser-pool-encampment.md), [The Webbed Gully](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-webbed-gully.md) - **More in The Old Svalich Road:** [Called by Name](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/called-by-name.md), [The Count's Huntsman](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-counts-huntsman.md), [The Dancing Bear](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-dancing-bear.md), [The Grey Mare](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-grey-mare.md), [The Hanged Man at the Crossroads](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-hanged-man-at-the-crossroads.md), [The Lantern in the Roadhouse](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-lantern-in-the-roadhouse.md), [The Tinker's Wagon](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-tinkers-wagon.md)