OOC:
With Nekurr's help, the mushroom check is now 4 advantage. That's enough for some samples, and perhaps to notice another valuable fact, which I'll relate. For the spiders, I'll hold off on adjudicating the advantage, but one possibility might, again, be noticing something potentially useful.
With the moonlight streaming down, Hildar's able to get a good look at the mushrooms, the spider mound, and the equipment strewn about the room. While the pipeleaf shrubs are familiar from the fair, the Elf can't place the toadstools. He does determine that merely touching them isn't likely to be harmful. Finding a spare flask amongst the equipment, he borrows a knife from Nekurr and scrapes some samples into the container for later study. In the process, Hildar marvels at the equipment on offer here—this is a fully functional alchemy lab.
The mage approaches the spiders after swallowing down an instinctive sense of revulsion. The mound is indeed large and horrific, with pulsating egg sacs spewing baby spiders from time to time. With each succession of new arachnids, the babies seem to burrow down into the mound, where, presumably, their food source must be. These are definitely the same species that came out of the pig at the village fair.
OOC:
For the first roll's advantage, Hildar has gathered samples, but also noted that this alchemy equipment is potential "loot" if he wants to go to the trouble of collecting it later.
