>Don't lead with the pitchfork, and hold the torch like before. Spiders are going to be much more afraid of fire than pitchfork tines. Not to mention the benefits of having the fire where we can see it to prevent accidentally brushing against something flammable.
>Proceed.
>You continue playing musical equipment, shifting the torch back to your main hand while keeping the pitchfork in the other.
>You continue onward. More time passes; you think you have easily descended 100 feet by this point. Eventually the tunnel emerges into a larger chamber, perhaps 20 feet tall. Small stalactites dot the ceiling, and there are a few hints of stalagmites on the ground, though you would be apt to simply call the floor 'lumpy'. You step out into the chamber and stretch. Oh, it feels nice to be able to stand again.
>The room is large enough that the opposite walls are poorly illuminated by your torch, though you can see well enough to spot several more tunnels branching off of it. There is a tunnel of similar size to this one along the southeast corner and taller, but somewhat rougher looking one several feet up the western wall. Towards the south, you see a significantly larger passage, nearly as high as the chamber itself. Scattered about are also several smaller tunnels, not unlike the ones you passed earlier. There are at least three of them, two in the southwest and one to the north. The tunnel you just exited from is in the northeastern corner.