“Well, here is Mirkwood!” said Gandalf… “I hope you like the look of it.” —The Hobbit

Characters get –1 hit point for each poison token on them.

When Revealed: Each player places 1 poison token on 3 different non-[baggins] characters they control (you may use progress tokens as poison tokens). Each player searches the encounter deck for 1 copy of Old Fat Spider and engages it. Shuffle the encounter deck. Discard cards from the encounter deck until a location is discarded and add it to the staging area.

Characters get –1 hit point for each poison token on them.

Forced: After a character defends against or attacks a Spider enemy, place 1 poison token on that character.

Resolution: Replace each poison token on a character with a damage token. If there is at least 8 progress on this stage, earn The Web-cutter. If there are fewer than 1 enemies in play, earn The Stinging Fly.