So I just finished Uncharted 3 and while I enjoyed the story as a Indiana Jones movie that it is, I was left wondering what was up with the crazy spiders that you encountered couple times during the game. Did I miss the explanation because I felt that at least there was somekind of supernatural power doing its thing with those creepy crawlies?

Also what was deal with the "mummified" agent that you saw in France? I feel that I missed something big...

Edit: And what about Cutter with his tower "accident" and the tarot card that was in his pocket after the fall?

@Rappelsiini: Hmm, I'd forgotten all about the tarot card. I thought for sure it was going to lead up to something. Maybe I missed it as well.

For some reason I had the impression that the illuminati or whatever were using the spiders' toxins to make that mind control stuff. They never out right say it but you do see one in a jar in their crazy underground lab. I figured that the spiders were being harvested from most of the areas where those templars or whatever set up shop in ancient ruins. As to why they show up to attack the protagonists, I just assume that wild animals do that from time to time and they just happened to be native to those areas.

yeah i dunno about the spiders... for awhile i thought they might be behind the secret to the mind bending toxin's that some of the characters get injected with....

I think the spider's toxins were extracted to make that mind-control dart shots. And the green agent was bitten by a spider, I think.

I think the agent was bitten by the spiders and the mind-control/hallucinogen agent (lol Homophones) was something they got from the spiders.