ArachneArachne. Humans with the extra eyes from a spider, and the lower half being a spider's body. Said body is moderately armored through their chiten, and their eight legs have small long hairs performing the purpose of a sensory system much like normal spiders. Like spiders, Arachne also molt their old shell, and this serves as healing for them if their legs ever get cut off.
Arachne also happen to be very fast over long distances, due to both their size and the advantage of a well-centered body made for such movements. This generally allows them to perform cavalry unit roles, but more on that later.
Arachne come in three general types, depending on ancestry of the changed spidergirl. Small, Medium, and Large. Small Arachne are exactly that, being around 5-6 feet long from front to back. They are most certainly the lightest among Arachne, well suited to using their spider biology, mouth and web-spinneret, to produce on the spot tools and simple bridges.. The tools in question is likely the most impressive as it is the human side that gives rise to the wrapping flail used to entangle an enemy as one passes.
Medium Arachne have one main difference from the small Arachne, the amount of thread they can produce, and being 16 to 20 feet long, and rather tall. Unlike their smaller cousins, they tend to be the best of two worlds, the small Arachne's ability to create traps, and the large Arachne's physical prowess and chiten armor.
Large Arachne can't produce web, but are 30 feet long and have a very large humanoid body. Their chiten armor is undoubtablely the strongest, and they serve as warriors of the battlefield, wielding lances, hammers, and cavalry swords with ease, as their larger body also comes with greatly increased strength due to more muscle mass.
All three can climb walls to some degree, though the smaller ones are undoubtedly the quickest. The small and medium Arachne can work together to form web rope bridges strong as steel, and the small Arachne provide their web to produce bowstrings of amazing quality that also happen to be waterproof. These bows are the main ranged weapon of the Arachne, with each carrying one for combat purposes, taking the role of horse archers in practice. The small and medium Arachne also prefer two swords compared to their large cousins for close combat.
One might ask how something could come of the mishmash, let alone three. But the simple answer is that each spidergirl that becomes an Arachne is a bit different. Someone's lineage may be a small species of spider, some species are large, and some species may be of middling size. The basic traits behind them, however, remain the same, that of a spider's.
Arachne tend to cover themselves in their own silk and make homes out of sticky thread, spiderthread, and the world around them. They also have 6 extra eyes on their heads, rather like those of a spider, each pair being a different size, to go with the normal pair.(which often also are spider-eyes) Mentally, they tend to see those they target as prey, and store their prey for later, and have no trouble eating them while they are still alive, wrapping them up and carry them away. They are also very playful, in a teasing manner, so those who date one had best remember that sometimes they forget their own strength in those limbs. They're also natural weavers, as befits their spider lineage.
Another note is their use of woven spidersilk gambosens when going into combat to protect their squishy bits, as chitin on the upper humanoid body isn't guaranteed to occur.
Hello spidergirls. Most useful for giving access to spidersilk as a material. Designs using spidersilk would have a fruit of the land cost though, since one needs nutrients and materials to produce it.
Needless to say, something that is strong as steel and waterproof.
Water Pump[to fix the aqueduct bug]
The Water Pump is a Lunacy-modified plant which pulls the water through it's own circulation system. It's quick to grow in wet conditions, easy to coax, climbs walls, and is constantly pulling water up through it's root systems to exit it's head. It feeds off minerals in the water, and is resistant to that spore poison we identified earlier. We actually used the modified lichen as the base for it, so it's a bit difficult to call it a traditional plant. Very useful for automating the whole water transport though so long as it's kept trimmed.
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