The giant spider thing is nothing like a familiar. And BTW, I wouldn't advise a familiar. They die too easily, they don't bring any spectacular skills to the table, and when they die they take away from your CON. It sucks to have to re-do a fight because your familiar died, because it doesn't take much to kill them. The giant spider is a summoning, the familiar is not.
If you want to store items you don't feel like carrying around, and you are by the adventure mart, go inside and put your stuff in one of the boxes or crates in the back of the store. Nobody will take them and you can put as much as you want there. You can't get your stuff back either without using shadowkeeper. I lost some really cool shit learning the hardway.
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