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Author Topic: Web of Life: A Drider's Adventure (Ended)  (Read 188331 times)

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Re: Web of Life: A Drider's Adventure
« Reply #2265 on: July 16, 2018, 09:33:36 am »

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WAIT! You force out, straining yourself to even yell.
Hmmm? What is it? Please go on.
D-don't you need more... data? First. I mean, I could tell you about the vampirism. There's some things there that you never heard of before, I guarantee it.
But why would I need to wait around for that? You'll tell it all to me willingly, when we're safe. She seems genuinely confused about it.
That would... That would affect the results! You need to be careful with your research right? No bias, neutral work... That kind of thing. If you control me, I might not deliver you the full truth anymore!
Hmmm... I hadn't considered that, you know. Have you done some studies? Most of the degenerates I have to operate on can barely walk and talk at the same time, you know...
I've studied at the tower, yes. The Orc tower, topside.
She gasps, perhaps a little exaggerated. Oh my gosh! I was going to GO to topside when I get out of here! I have to tell you, those dwarves? Amazing technology, but so, soooo boring! Topside, however... things are always changing, not to mention the eastern lands have some very special people.
How do you... know that? Have to keep her talking. Your arm is already regaining some feeling, so the sedative isn't working as well as she measured. Good, good....
Why, test subjects, of course! A hundred years ago we tried to make some driders with a transplant. It took quite a few tries, but I got it working. They were driders in all but name, but the age just didn't adapt. ah, the last one died about... fourty years ago? Humans are but mayflies. Still, the eastern touch really pleased the people here. Still got our needed population boom.
That's... uh..
Amazing, I know. She gestures to herself, placing her hand on her chest. Of course, the aphrodisiac sweat I added helped, but they didn't need to know that, did they? As long as it gets these idiots breeding, I get funded.
What was even going on here? That wasn't even to stretch time, you really wanted to know.
The "Queen" wanted to build an empire of superior driders. Of course, she just can't seem to gather up the idea that the mayflies won. They breed faster than us, are more social... And we have a tendency towards lazyness. Some exceptions, of course. I found that driders raised by the short-lived tend to be some of the best.
I'm... flattered.
Ahhh! I should have known. I'm pleased, you'll be a fine assistant when I'm done! Hmmm, maybe more? Ah, we've many years to work. Tell me, how old are you?
M-my twenties.
Really!? Wow. Wow. What potential, and what size you are, too! Hah! Plenty of mutations, isn't it? A life of strife works like that, I suppose. I've been quite limited on the physical mutations, you know. Plenty of magical ones, though I'm out of practice. Science really outstrips magic, in the long run. And I've been running for a long time.
How old are you, even?
Ut-tut-tut! Don't you know you can't ask a lady's age? Especially when they're pretty, you know... Ahhh, I'm getting distracted again. Come, Albus, we've an operation to work on.

Damn, damn, damn!
I haven't explained anything about the vampirism yet!
Hmm, not that much that I can't dig up within the reasonable margins of error. Vampirism isn't interesting, you know. It's static, nothing useful. I wrote that down in one of the copies of the tomes. I don't think it's your model, of course.
...What!?
Oh yes! I'm a proud owner, well, ex-owner of one of the tomes of darkness. I left it behind, of course. Too much knowledge is a thin line, but I'm careful. Did you know it tried to tempt me with power? Silly little thing that it is. It took... exception to that. But after a few souls, it seemed satisfied enough to just disappear and try to find another host.
You stare at her in minor horror. No wonder she knew so much, she essentially PLAYED one of those tomes. But she's distracted again. You need to keep her talking... You think you're feeling your fingers again.
What did the book teach you?
Oh, that's a toughie! After so many years, even a drider's memory gets a little fuzzy... I didn't forget its info, but I can hardly tell what came from studies and what came from the tome. It tends to mix, too... Oh well!

She continues pushing, and you see her open a door. A massive room, with a comparatively small table in the middle is shown. There's room for a damned audience! What the hell...
Do you like it? It was an old part of a university they were building, but an earthquake shunted the building underground. Plenty of other buildings are just... buried underground. Dwarven mistake from around 300 years ago. Buildings that were sturdier than their own foundations! Swallowed up by rock, but some parts... perfectly preserved! Ohhh, I love it so. Sometimes, I even find a few dwarf bones. *Gasp* Maybe YOU can work with that! I've never had a lot of necromancers available, and the queen uses her own program. I don't think it works very well, is it normal for them to faint?
O-only if the mana is low. T-they're overtaxing!
Overtaxing? Really... I thought spells just fizzled out.
They should, but forcing it can still force the spell. I-it shortens... uh, L-lifespan.
Those tools next to the table are sharp and terrifying. You see a lot of robotics and a lot MORE organs and tissues in jars. What the fuck are those things?
Right, here we are!
What are you going to do!?
You're reaching hysterics, at this point. You've never been in a situation where you're just INCHES away.
Albus? Keep watch at the entrance to the lab, would you? I can't work with you looking at me.
The massive beast wanders out of here, meek as a kitten.
So... I'm going to add a few redundant organs, while I'm digging around in there. Then, I'm adding a few hormone emitters to make you a little more... agreeable. Nothing that would leave you as Albus, mind you.... Maybe add a few personal touches, as well. I like women like you, you know, but maybe there's a few things that I might just improve. But, ah! I should get started.
Why would you do this? I... You don't need to change me, I've done so many interesting things.
You can almost use the arm. Just a little longer. Dear gods, just a little longer!

Hmmm... Go on! I think we have a little time.
Uh... I-I joined a bandit gang, early on. I-it was... It was horrid, and I... I developed a second personality.
Ohhh, yes! Queen Alexia! I knew it had to be you! Oh, the drugs you've taken... And yet, you're fine! There are a few things I can give you, you know. Would you be happier if I just promised you a little more of... this!?
She flicks up a vial of pink liquid, sending it spinning before she captures it. You don't recognize it, but...
You want it. Bad.
Hmmm, Dilation of the eyes, but no salivating. You're quite resistant. Probably the cleverest thing the Queen ordered, you know. It gets us so much funding, though I didn't expect a cult. Oh well, easy troops. Most of our servants come from there, you know. Unwanted pregnancies are so common, and we can just make it "Fwoosh!" She throws up her hands a little and moves her fingers, as if it's a magic trick Disappear! Fortunately, the distracting vial of pink liquid disappears up her sleeve.
We're getting off track, no? T-the bandit group died out when the leader sacrificed everybody to the Gestating God. I survived because of the drider resitance, but I was burnt by the marks. He was going to make me a luitenant.
Hmmm, yes. I have read the reports. Interesting creatures... Did you see a few.
Y-yes. They're... THey're horrible.
Powerful?
Very.
Do you have an example.
...Yes.

Your hand shoots up, still a little sluggish, but fast enough. You close your hand around her throat, causing her to drop her things and try to rip away your fingers. She doesn't even come close, and you bash her against the cart of tools, sending most of the sharp bits away.
I think this will give you an idea.

Squeeze.
You'll figure it out when she's dead.

Unparalyse me, and you get to live.
You're walking out of here.

Let's continue the talk, shall we?
Without the upcoming distraction of being operated on.

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Re: Web of Life: A Drider's Adventure
« Reply #2266 on: July 16, 2018, 12:02:19 pm »

a mix of unparalyze me and lets continue to talk

"Hey, I bet that you will get a mutation now right? but only if you unparalyze me, or else you are dead unless you keep talking

Now I will ask questions, first, where are MY, FUCKING, KIDS, second, my eggsacks, can this albus tear a small cut on himself? put those eggsacks there

lastly, You will tell me what you know about my mother, name location ocupation. and now, tell me about the queens strengths and weakness, and where we can find the cure to your fucking virus

don't try anything funny, exactly like you could make me a slave I can afford to live with another headache and make you mine and albus will just come to my control by default, But I am really enjoying our little game right now"
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Re: Web of Life: A Drider's Adventure
« Reply #2267 on: July 16, 2018, 04:43:19 pm »

LEECH :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

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Re: Web of Life: A Drider's Adventure
« Reply #2268 on: July 17, 2018, 03:12:51 am »

A word to that giant monster and things will be flipped back.  We have to kill her or pride her and then kill her after getting some info.
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Re: Web of Life: A Drider's Adventure
« Reply #2269 on: July 17, 2018, 03:44:01 am »

a mix of unparalyze me and lets continue to talk

"Hey, I bet that you will get a mutation now right? but only if you unparalyze me, or else you are dead unless you keep talking

Now I will ask questions, first, where are MY, FUCKING, KIDS, second, my eggsacks, can this albus tear a small cut on himself? put those eggsacks there

lastly, You will tell me what you know about my mother, name location ocupation. and now, tell me about the queens strengths and weakness, and where we can find the cure to your fucking virus

don't try anything funny, exactly like you could make me a slave I can afford to live with another headache and make you mine and albus will just come to my control by default, But I am really enjoying our little game right now"
Albus is prime leech material, eggs are for Queeny ideally, but +1. Also, grab the electric handsaw(there is always one in these places) and fire it up. It should mask our conversation some and make a leech-hole in Albus if we are quick.
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Re: Web of Life: A Drider's Adventure
« Reply #2270 on: July 17, 2018, 11:09:20 am »

Now I am in doubt

one word to albus and it can flip back or her get killed

leech can make sure she will follow us

if in the end the leech is the solution we should ask her to keep a poison nearby

to kill herself after she is taken to interrogation
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Re: Web of Life: A Drider's Adventure
« Reply #2271 on: July 17, 2018, 07:30:20 pm »

But if we kill her, then we will only have one mad scientist on our team, and she won't even be a spider as far as we can tell...
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Re: Web of Life: A Drider's Adventure
« Reply #2272 on: July 17, 2018, 07:58:44 pm »

It's because she WILL be taken to interrogation

and we don't want nobody to know that we have mind controlling things

she will not be part of the team on the long run because she will go to jail, and maybe even death setence
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Re: Web of Life: A Drider's Adventure
« Reply #2273 on: July 17, 2018, 08:12:33 pm »

You know, this wouldn't be a bad time to ask her to be apart of our side. I mean, we have her by the throat... But she strikes me as the kind of person who wouldn't mind that? We should set our boundaries and make em tight. We don't need to make another enemy if she's against the Queen... I mean, she could help us down the line, right?
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Re: Web of Life: A Drider's Adventure
« Reply #2274 on: July 18, 2018, 02:27:34 am »

She may do strange things to us in the guise of helping us.  I'd rather kill her, or leech her and then kill her a few minutes later, after interrogation.  Do find out if she's got any healing or magic potions, or any immediately beneficial spells, but I don't trust her, and I don't want anything to do with her long term.  And I don't want anyone to find out we have mind controlling leeches.
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Re: Web of Life: A Drider's Adventure
« Reply #2275 on: July 18, 2018, 02:33:16 am »

Why say it was OUR leech, we may be the one with the demon arm, but we can always claim that we "Broke Several things on a shelve against her head and she ended up like that"
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« Reply #2276 on: July 18, 2018, 02:37:15 am »

Just seems too risky, particularly with everyone else around.  Someone might try to cure her, for instance.  I don't think doing it openly should happen unless we are willing to leech an entire cult or something, after which the secret will get out.
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Re: Web of Life: A Drider's Adventure
« Reply #2277 on: July 18, 2018, 10:52:37 am »

Fix me, now! I have enough movement in this arm, get me the rest!
Hmm. Fine. She twirls out a syringe and plunges it into the arm. You nearly squeeze apart, until you suddenly feel full movement again.
Well, I suppose I've got a new boss. Good show, I must say, I hadn't accounted for the arm. She says, looking at the arm still holding a deathgrip on her. She doesn't seem affected in the slightest.
What the hell are you talking about?
Well, it's simple. IF something defeats me, especially so easily, evolution demands I follow it as long as it wishes. Survival of the fittest is more complicated than just murder, you know. The top dog requires servants. I defeated the queen and used her, so I dominated this place. You defeated me, so now you own me.
You're twisted.
I know. Isn't it hot? she says, as she unbuttons her lab coat by a dot, revealing some cleavage.

Your face when she does that is... indescribable. You feel a slight facial twitch coming on as she smirks and has the infamous "bedroom eyes". Considering she just got done explaining how she ran a 500 year con, made genetic abominations and was about to turn you into her own personal mind-controlled soldier, this isn't exactly pleasing to you in the slightest. Matter of fact, your brain is currently short-circuiting between "disgust" and "anger". You decide to settle for both.
I should really just kill you and get it over with.
But you didn't! Besides, aren't you interested to see what I could do for you? It'd be easy, you know. I can have Albus distract everybody, make an escape. We leave the dumb lug behind and move topside. Then, you can have me all for yourself.
You shake her by the neck to make her shut up, causing her to make a choking sound. Stop that!
She just groans, although you don't think it's in pain.
Everything about this is wrong. Sick and wrong. But... Tell me, how could you cut a hole into this Albus figure?
Ohhh! You want to make some kids from his flesh? Good choice, they'll be quite powerful!
I've more than that in mind. Tell me. You shake her again, causing her to suck in some air through her teeth.
Ohh, he's basically unkillable as it stands. But a decent saw would do the trick, with some persistance. I'll tell him to stand down, if you want. He's expendable, after all.
...And how would you do that?
I conditioned him quite thoroughly with electroshocks. No matter how tough, in the right places and nerves anybody turns pliable. Just a shock to the base of the skull and he'll be out like a light. I've got a remote for it.
Where?
Make a guess... she chuckles as her smile grows wider.
Back pocket.
Her expression falls, and she's clearly disappointed.
Fine, yes, that's right.
Press it.

Sighing, she pulls out a little remote and presses the button. You made sure she does so very carefully and without doing anything fishy. You don't see or hear anything happen, other than a light on the remote turning green.
Done! Now... What else?
Where are my kids.
Oh, them? I placed them in a terrarium, at the entrance to the lab. They really are cute, you know that? I was so interested to see how it works... How many can you sting in a day?
Just one. I'll need that egg back.
Ahh, that will be difficult... I looked it over quite intensely, learned a lot. There is SO much I can learn about you, you know. Come on... We would be good for eachother.
Too much hassle, also: you creep me right the hell out.
Please. The police won't catch me with just a little know-how. A quick visit to my facial reconstructor and a fresh paint-job, and I'm Blackarachnea, the backally whore of 41st street. We took her in a while back, everything I need for an identity. And she got to live here, where she could be an "upper class" drider! Hah!
You look at her, standing upright. The cold air makes it kind of clear that you're still naked, but you decide that now would be the time to finish up on a concensus.

Kill her.

Leech her.

Let her follow.

Let her go.

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Re: Web of Life: A Drider's Adventure
« Reply #2278 on: July 18, 2018, 11:06:33 am »

hmm, err, we turned the table of who can die or don't, and she turned the table of seduction

I think she isn't being sincere, and that button is a self destruction lever or a call to albus but she seens sick enough to be sincere afterall

We should interrogate her more, "okay, you almost distracted me, now keep talking, what the fuck you know about my mother and that drider clones?"
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Re: Web of Life: A Drider's Adventure
« Reply #2279 on: July 18, 2018, 02:23:01 pm »

...I really think we should just kill Albus, I think he's still aware in there.

Argh, leeching is pretty much committing to killing her later. But just letting her go when we're so weak seems like guaranteed "bad things happen to us" if she just happens to be bluffing... One one hand, killing someone who is basically surrendering (albeit in a very creepy way) is pretty much just murder. On the other hand, letting her run free will just let her keep on committing atrocities. On the third, horribly mutated arm, we have to consider what will be least likely to get us killed... which would be to leech her, then kill Albus, then kill her in cold blood.

Let her follow. But try to roll a sense motive or whatever beforehand, so that we know she's not going to just screw us over the moment our grip loosens.

Hey, if she's following us, she's least likely to be extremely unethical. She can be like our Belkar.
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