Galingal looks from the unresponsive duergar over to Yuk Yuk.

"How long to go around these webs to get to Gracklstugh?" Galingal asks the goblin.

"Around? Man, I don't even know, bruh. Now through isn't too far, from here'd we'd have to cross over once, then back over farther down, that'd put you out not too far of a walk from Gracklstugh. You visiting with the Gapper here? If you're new to the Paths, maybe best you don't go it alone. Me'n Spiderbait can guide you there, once he gets back."

Galingal moves over and waves Kolose, Neth, Jimjar, and Lia to join him and Stena.

"Goblins say we're close to Gracklstugh but only if we cross these webs. They move quick with grease. Grease not attract spiders as quickly. Maybe work."

He looks close at the old wizard.

"Think can do it?"

"You found the two best Web Runners this side of... well, anywhere. We'll have to go without the grease though, if you dudes are as green as you say, but maybe when we are close, can find a gentle slope and let you give it a try. If you don't know what you're doing, you're just as likely to slip right off the strand. Old dude's probably see some stuff in his day, bet he's got all kinds of gnarly stories."

Galingal appraises the goblins as best he can to see if they legitimately just want more people to enjoy their favourite past time or if they trying to lure them into trouble.

Insight: 23  

The goblin gives Galingal a heavy lidded smile and flashes a hand signal as the shadow elf surveys him trying to judge intent.

Yuk Yuk sounds confident, but besides the other goblin... Spiderbait (there's a name that is either reassuring or worrying) showing off drawing the spider away from the duergar, Galingal doesn't really have a frame of reference to judge their competence. Helping you get to Gracklstugh doesn't seem likely to do much to build the hobby, especially if he's now urging caution rather than trying to use the grease to slide down the webs, so he probably wants to get something out of it, but Galingal's naturally cautious mind isn't sure if there's some as yet unspoken compensation desired, or if they do have something more nefarious in mind. 

Stena pats Thorum on the back and offers consoling in dwarven,

"Pull your shit together Thorum or you aren't ever going to find your wife."

She shifts her attention to the goblins,

"What do ye want for getting us across?"

"Where is she? Where is Agatna?", Thorum pleads.

Yuk Yuk looks over your group and your seemingly meager belongings.

"If you dudes and dudettes have the gold to pay for the two best guides you could have, we can call it... ten gold when we get you to Gracklstugh? If things are a bit tight now, we might be able to work something else out..."

 Stena looks assessingly between the goblins and the quivering mess that is Thorum and says,

"Agreed. 10 gold on arrival to Gracklstugh."

To Thorum she says in dwarven,

"Gracklstugh. If she's anywhere, she's there. Now get up so we can get moving."

"Righteous!", Yuk Yuk offers a fist bump to Stena, but if she leaves him hanging, he'll shrug and return to the alcove where they were resting and gather his and Spiderbait's things.

Thorum ceases his sobbing and looks up at Stena with hopeful eyes. He wipes the snot from his face with his beard and stands up. 

"You all ready to drop in once Spiderbait gets back?", Yuk Yuk asks. "We'll want to stick together, if you think the old bro is gonna need help, best have someone near him."

"You newbies able to see well enough in the dark to put one foot in front of another? Lights tend to get the attention of things we'd best avoid, if you catch my drift."

Galingal secures all of his belongings so nothing falls off when they have to jump on to the webbing.

"Yes. We see fine." Galingal answers, remembering Kolose's deal with the hag.

Stena looks at the fist and, not being sure if this is to seal the deal, grabs it in her hand and shakes it.

"Someone stand with the old guy. Kua-Toa, stand with him."

Stena delegates.

Kolose is clearly very much not happy about this whole plan, but seems to realize it's their best, if perhaps not only recourse. He steps forward, hesitation fading after a moment, even if he seems rather wary of everything happening here still. The main path to this city the others are so keen to find couldn't possibly go through a spider nest like this, right..?

Insight: 9

(Sorry, was looking at the wrong stat, should be +3, not +4 so 12 total.)

Kolose doesn't find any deception in the goblin saying that they can get you to the city via these paths.

((Anything else before you depart? I assume that Neth assures everyone that it will be 'fine'.))

(If he does I think both Stena and Galingal are going to push him over the edge into the webbing)

((Jimjar quietly places a bet with Neth.  :p ))

Stena steps up,

"Let's get moving."

"Yep, you got it, just waiting for... ah, there he is.", Yuk Yuk points to a distant spot of fungal glow that appears to be flashing. "Totally knew he'd lose her. Spiderbait'll catch up. Right then bros, couple of ... not really rules, but things to live by. You know, instead of dying by. Anyway, keep to the center of the strand unless I tell you otherwise, no going for big tricks, I'm looking at you there, dude," he says to Thorum, "and if you feel the web bouncing, you stop moving. Could be a spider plucking the strand to see if there's prey, or it could be our walking is stressing it out, man. Just stop if you feel that, and listen up for me." 

"Alright, let's move."

You follow Yuk Yuk's lead, and edge out onto the silken strands. Those that he leads you on seem to be more supportive and structural, and he points out differences between them and the sticker capture silk areas. It is slow going, as it takes a fair bit of care, and if one isn't cautious, it's easy for parts of your feet to get momentarily snared. You are are eventually joined by Spiderbait, who tends to come and go from the procession, hopping onto crossing strands and moving ahead and behind, helping to scout and detour around hazards when and where he can.

You've been traveling for twenty minutes or so, now no longer able to see the bridge or cavern wall you left from, only able to the faint silken strands surrounding you as they disappear into black darkness that is occasionally studded with bits of fungal glow. If not for the glow of fungus, it would be easy to think that you're not moving at all, just trudging in place through an endless void of silk, but those bits, like constellations for ships navigating at night, give some semblance of position, clumps on a pillar or stalagmite moving faster to your perspective as you approach and pass it, while the ones on the far side of the chasm remain remote and unmoving.

The more perceptive among you feel it at about the same time as Yuk Yuk and Spiderbait do, a faint swaying and bouncing to the web, your goblin guides holding up hands to halt the party.

((Stealth checks!))