I opened the grill cover before lighting it and this critter ran out of the depths:

It eventually crawled up to the gap at the lid, from whence it could bail out over the edge. I fired the barby and, alas, it scuttled in exactly the wrong direction: down its web and directly into the burners.
Made me feel like crap; spiders are good to have around.
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