Episode 9: Mechanical Spiders Are Wretched Things And I Do Not Like Them At All
Phlogiston ray projector pistols are invaluable for dispatching automatic arachnidian adversaries, just make sure you don't break the vacuum tube, or you shall all fly out of there together!
Enormous arthropodal automata may be fearsome indeed, especially in the London Underdark, but like all logical engine-controlled devices they have some notable limitations. These were sent to kidnap members of the British Royal Family, but instead have managed to capture only a minor foreign nobility, a European aristocrat, a crate full of Egyptian mummies, and several barrels' worth of Crown And Sceptre Ale.
Also I expect the beskirted grey woman will have some rather pressing things to say soon.