The Spider Queen

"I can hear soft struggling mixed with spiders chittering when I'm down there... Spooky."The Spider Queen is a Pre-Hardmode boss that summons in the Spider Cave's central room when you try to free the Webbed Stylist for the first time, and can also be summoned manually once the Stylist has been freed using a Webbed Crown.

While The Spider Queen is alive, the music Boss 2 will play.

Spawn
The Spider Queen can be summoned manually using a Webbed Crown in the Spider Cave's central room. Using this item will display the status message "The glint of the crown has attracted unwanted attention" If attempting to manually summon The Spider Queen before the Stylist has been freed, the status message "To many questions are left unanswered" will show in chat, and nothing will happen. Trying to use the item in a different part of the Spider Cave will result in the message "It's too dark to see the crown properly" regardless of the light level. Using the Webbed Crown anywhere except inside the Spider Cave will result in nothing happening.

It will also spawn naturally if you interact with the Webbed Stylist for the first time. When spawned this way, a message will appear over your character saying "Oh, I'm afraid I can't let you do that yet" and the status message "The Spider Queen has awoken!" If the player attempts to leave the Spider Cave immediately after freeing the Stylist and before defeating The Spider Queen, then upon returning the Stylist will be as she was before being freed.

If the player dies before defeating The Spider Queen, then the Stylist will be webbed and back in her original position.

Phase One
The Spider Queen has two phases, and is able to fly in both of them. In the first phase, it will do the following attacks in a random order.


 * Fire a spread of three web shots in the direction of the player. These webs will inflict the player with the Webbed debuff for 3 seconds / 5 Seconds However this attack can only be used once every 15 seconds / 10 seconds due to the possibility that the player would get this attack multiple times in a row, leaving them stuck for prolonged periods of time. In Expert Mode, these have a 25% chance to also inflict the Obstructed Debuff for 5 seconds.
 * Dash into the player twice in quick succession normally, and three times in Expert mode.
 * Summon 3-4 Web Bombs, which will explode into a different version of cobwebs that will dissolve after 10 seconds / 15 seconds upon coming into close proximity to the player. These webs will act like normal cobwebs in that they will also break when a player runs into one, however these are much stickier. They will slow your movement to 2 mph upon contacting one.
 * Stab the player with her additional legs, inflicted the Spider Venom debuff for 5 seconds.

After 7 attacks, The Spider Queen will throw a spear at the player. If it misses, The Spider Queen will be stunned for 3 seconds, or until hit. This can be very useful to allow the player some time to heal and reposition. If the spear hits the player, then they will be inflicted with the Spider Venom debuff for 5 seconds and pulled towards The Spider Queen at a speed of 13 MPH. The player can escape by either hitting The Spider Queen or using a Rod of Discord to teleport away. Being hit will also deplete flight time.

Phase Two
Once The Spider Queen falls below 55% health, she'll enter her second phase. In this phase, her defense is decreased from 30 to 20, and her damage is increased by 5% if the world is in Hardmode. She will gain a few new behavior changes.


 * There will be less time between each of her dashes, and they will travel less distance.
 * She will now summon 5-6 Web Bombs instead of 3-4, and the explosion radius will be increased from a 2 tile radius to a 3 tile radius.
 * She will fire a second volley of web shots half a second after the first. These will only web the player for 1.5 / 3 seconds instead of 3 / 5 seconds
 * She will gain the ability to launch a dark tendril at the player originating from one of her ripped parts of clothing. This will also inflict Spider Venom for a duration of 4 seconds.

After 5 attacks, she will throw her spear. This acts the same way as it does in Phase 1, but will deal more damage and move faster.

Trivia

 * The Spider Queen was the first thing ChasingFlavors designed for this mod.
 * Although it is a Queen and can be summoned with a Webbed Crown, there is no visible crown. this is because it was designed before any way to summon it was conceived.