I still can't believe you did that.I was curious! And whatever was going to pop out wasn't going to be as nice as my babies...You hug your newest child, a comparatively massive light-blue spider. She looks a lot like mommy! Well, minus the human parts. But she's so pretty, otherwise! She's about three times larger than even your newest children, and they were fairly large already. For comparison, this one's about the size of a medium dog. In spiderterms, that's about a "holy shit!" in size, but not quite to the point that it would be exceptional amongst giant spiders. But, then again, this one is still a juvenile.
Sure. But that still leaves open quite a few questions. Just how smart is this thing, anyhow? It keeps giving me looks and i feel as though you'd be angry if I had to defend myself. Because you'd do it with extreme prejudice. True.Well, she likes you. And not in the food sense, she just generally likes the look of you. You can tell from from how she clicks her pedipalps together a bit. Aww, look! You're a nice little spider, aren't you? You wanna play with your brothers? Go on! The spider scurries off to play with the other white ones. Mostly playhunting, with the newest member being the prey. The size difference makes it a logical exercise.
Creepy... Yunikki says. Her voice is just about back, but she's still sparse with her words.
The spiders are "purring" in the meantime. Turns out that's the noise they make when they're happy. Mind you, you should probably let them hunt, soon. You don't doubt they'll be able to kill a bird or lizard by themselves, though it'll take some traps. Maybe they can kill some vermin, as well. You don't know how, but there's been a few lizards around that have been getting at the grain. The lizards aren't as bad as rats would be, they don't tear open sacks or leave quite as much droppings on the food, but it's still kind of annoying.
Then there's a sudden purple flash through the room, and most thoughts go quiet.
Did you just fire a deathbolt?I didn't. Don't even have a target or anything, so... What was that light?Yunikki is rolling her eyes at the situation, to the point that you fear they might just roll out of her sockets. She's clearly not pleased at the current development, whatever that may be. Fortunately, she's kind enough to explain the situation. Still in a sparse amount of words.
Magic spider.You do some very unbecoming squealing at the prospect. Looking back, it was very unbecoming of you to have that reaction to having a magic spider, but you were really excited and honestly? Since that little purge you feel like a girl again! Like, before all this nonsense with the bandits and the thing that happened...
Hm.
You just made yourself sad, but you don't... really know why? Your heart just feels cold all of a sudden, like an icicle is going through it. You shake it off.
The deathbolt was just used to lock the lizard in place, however, and the white spiders are quick on taking it down. They sting it down, and bite off its head before it can move. Strangely, they don't seem to eat it for a while, instead preferring to hang back a little. Strange reaction, but...
The lizard is wriggling and bulging up. That is unusual, to say the least. In fact, one could place that under "highly worrying". After a tense few seconds, the skin of the lizard basically explodes off, and out pops... a little spiderite! It's considerably smaller than your own spiderlings, and you don't feel quite as attached to this thing as you are to your direct descendants. Still, this feels like it would snowball.
All your companions are currently looking at you in that "well, how do we even
react to this" kind of way. It's still on it's way of hitting you, though. Give it a few seconds
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Ah, ok, your mind worked its way through the fog! let's see what you just fully realized:
Oh you've got kids that can create more spiders how positively drollMaybe you should take a close look at your kids. Or maybe just start planning a way out of here.Basic Stats
Level: 13
Health: 40/60
Poison stings: 1/1
Restraint 3/3
Mana: 55/60
Items and equipment
Items:
410 gold coins
Magic Cookbook.
Book On Far Eastern Royalty
5 rations
Equipment:
Scimitar
D-VA armor
Skills and spells
Magic:
Summon Tome: You can take out your piece of the Tome of Eternal Darkness from seemingly nowhere. Others cannot see the book unless you want them to, and it's still headache-inducing to do so.
Resurrect vermin: Allows you to resurrect very small creatures such as rats(invests 2 of your max mana) (no mana cost)
Resurrect average beast: Allows you to resurrect creatures such as dogs, cats and other similar-sized creatures.(invests 7 mana) (no mana cost)
Resurrect Humanoid: Allows you to resurrect humanoid creatures. (Invests 10 mana) (Costs 14 mana)
Reshape minion plus!: Allows you to majorly change the appearance of your resurrected minions.
Control Undead: Allows you to attempt to control an undead that doesn't belong to you. (mana cost of 2 per second, unmastered)
Minion Vision: Allows you to see what a minion sees. The minion must have eyes.
Disintegrate undead: Delete a corpse you currently control.
Animate Piece: Allows you to animate just a piece of dead tissue. It requires your constant attention, and cannot act independently. (Drains 0 mana)
Graft: Allows you to use dead tissue as a replacement limb. Requires a lot of mana. (1 per second) (average limb takes around 20 seconds to properly graft)
Gather Soul: Allows you to make a soul visible. You could try putting it in a flame of some sort to keep it around. (9 mana)
Soul battery: Allows you to use a soul-infused flame as a small mana-boost. This snuffs it out, however
Undead flashbang: Allows you to blow up a minion for a flash-bang effect. (9 mana)
Stitch: allows you to close a wound and stop bleeding as fast as you can stitch. Costs zero mana, but requires something to stitch with.
Siphoning Cloud: Breathe out a cloud that drains the life from victims and gives it to you. Adds a LOT to intimidation (4 mana)
Smoke Cloud: Breathe out harmless but thick smoke. (1 mana)
Deathbolt: A bolt that hurts the body's connection with it's soul. Causes minor wounds to appear over the body as it attempts to compensate (1 mana)
Doombolt: A more powerful version of the above (4 Mana)
Pinworks: You can apply spells into a bone spike, relative to the size of the victim. You can also make traps if you use an offensive spell. Allows creation of free zombies.
Cantrip
Spark: Allows you to set something on fire, provided it is flammable to start with.
Skills:
Broodmother: Once per day, you can sting something to create spiderlings, which are large, clever spiders that adore you by default. Your instincts cause you to be VERY protective of them.
Crossbow usage: Novice
Adaptation: You regenerate mana faster than most
Gun usage: Novice
Oral Fixation: Can cast spells spells from the mouth.
Draining: Can drain blood using fangs.
Incredible experience in blocking and swordplay.
Climber
Crafty: Bolas
Cooking skill: Excellent
Corpse Cutting: Quite Decent.
Animal handling: inexperienced.
Necromantic knowledge
Soul Sniffer
Spiders
Lieutenant (Really large spider. Can use magic and is really smart for a spider)
3 Breedlings (White spider, slightly larger than average. Their stings spawn spiderites)
1 spiderite (small, weaker spider that is still highly loyal to you. Expendable and toxic.)
Author
Topic: Web of Life: A Drider's Adventure (Ended) (Read 184998 times)