'Hail, ${CLASS}, and well-met indeed, for I have seen naught but spiders and black dogs for three days now, and it is good to speak with an ally at last. A great gloom hangs over this corner of the wood, likely emanating from the barrows just to the north of here; no one has tended those barrows for an age, and they are home now to evils only... and the spiders are everywhere!

'I cannot recommend that the Hidden Guard come this way until we know for sure how deadly the venom of these spiders may be. It seems that the eyes of Dol Guldur are not watching the Scuttledells, but that will be no relief to any of our company who fall to the spiders in the name of secrecy!

'Take this cloth, and use it to gather the venom from slain spiders here in the Scuttledells; I will see how perilous it may be.'

Gladiel is by the Shrine of the Ancient One, in the Scuttledells.

You have collected a number of venom samples from the spiders of the Scuttledells and should return them to Gladiel so she can examine them.

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