>>37004670

>I hope everyone is enjoying their holidays!
>Here we go!
Character Sheet and Misc:
http://pastebin.com/u/REQM

Archive:
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?tags=Re-Monster
or
http://archive.moe/tg/search/tripcode/!!7fb3j+Ac+pZ%20/type/op/
or
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rD-MZe51wYI63xxl-tG8dsxj-RWVtJu3S6Gzd6OTJSw/edit?usp=sharing

>>37004670
>A bit of scouting might be healthy. You left a rather large amount of meat on the ground.
>Speaking of meat- Breakfast.

>>37004670
>>Get people up and moving! You're almost there!

>>Speaking of meat- Breakfast.
Provide our wolf with her favorite food (bear) and head out.

So I did a bit of searching regarding hydras (and other mythological creatures, but not relevant at the moment).
I found that 1: They hate crocodiles and will attempt to eat their entrails. And 2: if you were poisoned by one, their liver can help cure you.

We'll know next time.

>>37004670
>A bit of scouting might be healthy. You left a rather large amount of meat on the ground.
>Speaking of meat- Breakfast.

>>37004670
>>A bit of scouting might be healthy. You left a rather large amount of meat on the ground.
>Speaking of meat- Breakfast.

Yay. Spiderbutt Quest!

>>37004767
>1: They hate crocodiles and will attempt to eat their entrails. And 2: if you were poisoned by one, their liver can help cure you.
Eh, the Hydra of myth is a unique creature, and didn't even live anywhere near crocodiles. Surely a whole bunch of stuff was made up using Hydras later, but that doesn't need to mean anything for this quest.
It might appear as a nod to a particularly famous version, I expect a whole bunch of D&D stuff to appear here, but nothing beyond that.

Looking like breakfast and scouting!
Writing!

Post-christmas quiet, apparently.
Did everyone get what they want?

I'm waiting for my gift of healthy wolfgirl.

>>37005001
and some panic because suptg is down right now.

>>37005155
nevermind that, it just came back up.

>>37004767
I would treat hydras like fugu fish until proven otherwise. Weird looking and hard to eat safely unless you are a master chef.

You shuffle snoozing monsters, groping for a particular web-wrapped package.

You find it, tear some of the silk free, and start chomping on a thick bear steak.
It's only seconds before you've finished- YOu need a lot more than a single slab to keep you fed, after all. And you're hungry. And in a bit of a hurry, as well.

You shuffle a bit in each direction, slowly standing. No need to wake people up just yet. You pull each leg further as you move, delicately scuttling over the sleeping group and pulling yourself onto the trunk proper.

After that, it's a short trip to the forest floor.

The sunlight isn't quite penetrating the forest here. A few beams trickle through the dense foliage, but you're too close to the wendigo territory now. You watch the trees in awe as you move. This, this is nature unrestrained- gnarled roots crushing stone, trees far older than any you've seen fighting each other for light and water and survival.

There's a silence beginning to creep in with the daylight- A stark opposite from your own piece of the woods.
You skitter along a bit faster.

Your nose leads you to the site of last night's battle with ease.

The bear is gone.
The ground beneath where it fell is soaked with blood, bits of bone and fur too small to bother with strewn across the ground. Furrows are drawn through the dirt, easily a few feet deep, branches broken and torn all about the circle.

You shiver.

>Recover your boat. It'll be easier just to carry it everywhere.
>Head back, get a move on.
>Wake them with breakfast. A minute of eating will save you time later.
>Other (?)

>>37005268
>Recover your boat. It'll be easier just to carry it everywhere.
>Head back, get a move on.
we can eat on the way.

>>37005268
>Recover your boat. It'll be easier just to carry it everywhere.
>Head back, get a move on.

>>37005268
>Head back, get a move on.
>Wake them with breakfast. A minute of eating will save you time later.

>>37005268
>Recover your boat. It'll be easier just to carry it everywhere.
>Head back, get a move on.

>>37005268
>Recover your boat. It'll be easier just to carry it everywhere.
>Head back, get a move on.

>>37005268
>>Wake them with breakfast. A minute of eating will save you time later.

If we're close enough to Wendigo territory that we don't need the boat any more, just leave it here. We'll get in on the way back.

Otherwise, get the boat.

Boats apparently belong on spiderback, and not up a tree?
Who knew?
Also we're getting this show on the road.
Forest path.
Whatever.
Writing.

>>37005001
As always, I amke excuses and come in mid-thread.
Really sleepily.

>>37005001
Well I'm playing a JRPG that thinks it's funny to have really easy enemies and a load of easy bosses, then have a summoner slut and a water elemental ream my ass with a single attack.

I was too busy grinding to get into the start of the thread.

>>37005612
>>37005575
by our powers combined, we're a sleepy grinder!

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HEEEEY.
We should get some spider boots.

For when we don't want to stab everything we walk on.

>>37005742

>Not stabbing everything we walk on

If it didn't want to be stabbed, it wouldn't have gotten under us.

The things that don't want to be stabbed and are under us? They better learn to bite their gums and take it like the lesser-creatures they are.

>>37005786
Look, there's all sorts of floors I don't want fucked up.

>>37005821
Then you shouldn't invite a Giant Spider on them.

>>37005821
We distribute our weight pretty well. I don't remember us damaging the hard wood floor at the adventuring guild hall.

>>37005860
Hey, that's spider-racist!

>>37005883

Then bite your lip and take your scuffed floors like the filth you are, Thing.

>>37005860
That sort of attitude is exactly the reason we're never invited to any fancy dinner parties.

>>37005928

And you know what happens? Those parties end up being shit because there are no giant spiders, and everyone has a bad time because of the lack of giant spiders.

>>37005821
It's cool. We can control our stabby-ness perfectly well. Been no mention of us fucking up the floor every time we entered a building.

>>37005928
I think thats because we don't fit into the buildings. Human buildings are discriminatory against the large bodied and people with giant skulls on their butts.

>>37005935
>parties without giant spiders

You even call that a party?

>>37005928
That's why we need a new dress and shoes.
We'll finally be part of the high society!

>>37005821

We are more than capable of regulating our strength and weight anon, if we weren't capable of doing that, then every tree we walk up ends up having an innumerable amount of holes scattered across it, and we wouldn't be able to head-pat or antennae-stroke without pushing our hand through someone's skull or ripping them out by the roots.

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>>37005742
>Actual Giant spiders

This is my fetish

>>37005968

People try to have them, they fail.

>>37005987
>hiding our beautiful and sharp spider legs behind shoes
Thats just a fashion crime.
I like the idea of spiderdresses though, Elle will be ecstatic.

>>37006001
>implying our tree ISN'T covered in spider holes-
It's a lot easier to control your strength than your weight.

>>37006023
What's a fashion crime is having eight legs and not wearing a single shoe.

You're missing out on so much!

>>37006023

Spiderdresses is a stupid idea and you should feel ashamed for having it, just like Elle.

Why would we ever want, or need to cover our glorious spider half?

>>37006065
>not wearing a spidercozy or a spiderdress

It's like you don't even style.

or chicks in turtlenecks.

>>37006054
Shoes on spider legs would just look silly.
Stockings on the other hand...

>>37006054

This kind of retardation ends up with Spiderbutts wearing stiletto heels and stabbing everything under them a thousand times worse than if they were going barefoot, oh, and they can't wall or ceiling walk anymore.

Stop being dumb.

>>37006082
Spider Silk Stockings?

>>37006090
>not taking off your high heels before climbing on the roof

you DESERVE to twist your ankle when that cereal killer shows up!

>>37006077

I'm perfectly fine with Spiderbutts wearing turtlenecks on their torso bits, but WHY would they need to cover their gloriously patterned, textured, and / or shiny butts with pig-disgusting cloth, what are you, some kind of human-elf-thing? Go die in a fire, you filthy animal.

>>37006077
Something else to do when we return: introduce Elle to turtlenecks. and sweaters.

That reminds me, what season are we in right now? Spring?

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>>37006082
That could turn out looking really neat or really clunky.

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>>37006082
>Stockings on the other hand...

>>37006130
>WHY they would need
Because it's comfy and easy to wear!

like having blankets, but ALL THE TIME!

I've long considered getting a mantle for just this reason, but haven't because they just aren't acceptable in modern society.

>>37006155
>season?
I don't think it's ever come up. I have no idea.

But of course we need turtleneck sweaters.

>>37006155

Lyra with a turtleneck solves our uncovered-NAUGHTY PARTS issue as well, as they would be tight around the hips, which are connected to the Cephalothorax

It's a bit of work to carve your boat free of the tree.
More so because it's full of stuff, and you wind up covering yourself in bags and pouches before you even start cutting it down.

You end up looping thread over a sturdy branch and making yourself a very amateur pulley, lowering the boat to the ground with care.

You raise it over your head and set forth. Straight back to the other tree.

Yawning faces greet you. Sara murmurs something about bears and sleeping as she rubs her eyes, and you start the process of lowering people to the ground below.

With everyone safely anchored to the earth via gravity and also their feet, you urge them on, into the woods.
Meat and rations are handed out as you move- Nin takes to the air, fluttering into the leaves to find her own meal. Jin has settled behind Sara, feeding Sheszka, one piece at a time.

Lann moves up beside you, compass in hand.

She's squinting at the surface in the dark, and you hold out a hand, lighting it ablaze.
"Thanks."
"Mhm. Are we heading the right way?"

The elf chuckles a bit to herself.
"Well, I don't know where we are, or where we're going..."
You snort.
"... But we need to just head north, and we're already between the lakes, yeah?"

"So we are going the right way, yes?"
"For a given amount of right, I guess?"

You roll your eyes.

>Pick up the pace! This is giant monster territory, we can't- Giant as in bigger than you, yes.
>Sneak through. It's not night, but there's no point in taking risks.
>The foliage is practically solid. That's an invitation to use it as a road if you've ever heard one.
>Other (?)

>>37006217
>solves

Well, in the way that a lady wearing only a turtleneck with her legs closed is solved.

Sure, in a technical sense it is, but in a dreamer's imagination, consider all the things it could get snagged or hooked on.

Spectacular.

>>37006239
>>The foliage is practically solid. That's an invitation to use it as a road if you've ever heard one.
TREEWALKER SIMULATION 2007!

>>37006189

But it's not actually comfy, because we have our shell there, nor is it easy to wear, because it covers such a broad thing that have moving parts, let alone the skulls and thing that go on it.

And you are just being plain disgusting, wanting to cover up our Spider-markings; it's like you are ashamed to be a Giant Spider.

>>37006239
>The foliage is practically solid. That's an invitation to use it as a road if you've ever heard one.
Thats why its great to have two Giant Spiders, all the two legged followers can be carried.

>>37006239
>>Pick up the pace! This is giant monster territory, we can't- Giant as in bigger than you, yes.

>>37006239
>>The foliage is practically solid. That's an invitation to use it as a road if you've ever heard one.

>>37006239
>The foliage is practically solid. That's an invitation to use it as a road if you've ever heard one.

>>37006267
But anon, there's no actual taboo against covering up spider stuff.
In fact, it's a fun and interesting path of work to use in.

Also,
>showing that much leg
sssssslut

>>37006239
>The foliage is practically solid. That's an invitation to use it as a road if you've ever heard one.
knock knock

>>37006239
>The foliage is practically solid. That's an invitation to use it as a road if you've ever heard one.
That smug feel of giant spider supremacy again.

>>37006217
>Wearing nothing but a turtleneck
I somehow feel that would look even more lewd.

>>37006239
>Pick up the pace! This is giant monster territory, we can't- Giant as in bigger than you, yes.
>The foliage is practically solid. That's an invitation to use it as a road if you've ever heard one.
Pick up the pace topside.

>>37006305
I feel like if we're not careful, we could develop a bit of spider racism.

>>37006327
Its not racism if we really are that much better. its just realistic assesment.

>>37006327
To be fair, Arachne really are flat out better.
Nature itself acknowledges that by giving us our XP handicap.

>>37006355
>>37006340
Oh no, it's starting!

>>37006327

It's not racism, it's well-earned and well-bred superiority.

It's like how a killer whale feels when confronted by a dolphin.

>>37006340
>>37006355
With this in mind, is it not our duty to spread the enlightenment that is spider butt to the lesser races? So that they may gaze upon a far superior form than themselves?

Truly it is our duty to assume the mantle of leadership and become queen. For the good of all.

A quick jaunt through the trees!
Writing!

>>37006408
Get out of here, MOTH.

>>37006408
Nin, what have we told you? Get off the computer.

>>37006408
Once again we wish to urge all readers to keep secondary lightsources in their room, so that naughty, lying moths don't get drawn to the computer.

>>37006305
Shy bookish girls in ribbed turtleneck sweaters is my fettish. We need to have Elly make one for Sera.

>>37006435
>>37006440
>>37006472
The Truth will be heard and cannot be silenced! You'll see!

>>37006497
don't forget the no-pants part.

>>37006497
I'm not sure how I feel about Lyra encouraging her sister to such lewd clothing.

Mostly aroused

Well, I gotta go a bit.
I just KNOW I'll miss the vote.

Yes! A thread not overlapping with my campaign!

The Mothia now own an orphanage. One of them is engaged to a Noble lady spider, their archnemisis has created a giant bug sapper and Dr. Love evolved to stage 3 level rainbow Fabulous.

Jesus fucking Christ where did my campaign go wrong

>>37006579
>The Mothia now own an orphanage.
>One of them is engaged to a Noble lady spider,

Story time. Now.

>>37006579
Wrong? WRONG?

What's wrong is that you view this as an issue.

>>37006579
The lesbians. Why can't people just appreciate a good dick?

>>37006579
I think you mean "what went right?"
This sounds really entertaining.

>>37006703
Dicks are like children, there is nothing good about any of them except your own.

You slow your pace, moving over to stand beside one of the giant trunks vanishing into the shadows above.
Lann watches you as you crane your neck to look above.

No luck.

So the limits on your ability to see in the dark is distance?
That's something to keep in mind, in any case.

"Lyra?"
"Hm?"
"You're kinda just standing there and staring into the trees."
"Ah."

You clear your throat, covering your mouth with a fist, and turn to your friends.
"We are still in monster territory, yes? Maybe. I thought it would be safer above."
"Ah-"
"You would have to carry us, Lyra."
"You are not very heavy, yes? Any of you."

Nin smiles, and speaks slowly, as though she was adressing a child.
"The boat is in the way, Lyra."
"Oh."
"Did you forget you were carrying a godsdamn boat?"

"It is not very heavy, Lann."
"No, I'm pretty sure it's bloody heavy."

>Follow through with operation overground.
>Stick to the ground.
>Other (?)

>>37006811
>Follow through with operation overground.
OPERATION IS A GO!

>>37006811
>Follow through with operation overground.
>we just bind the boat to Lyra, and everyone else besides Sara can sit in it.

Have to wonder if there aren't any arachne or harpy or wolf (etc) groups that forgot why eating sentients is bad after the collapse of the city.

Like, they don't deliberately hunt sentient creatures, but if they find a dead one or get into a fight and kill one, they wouldn't have a problem eating it.

With regards to the nasty evolutions that they get from eating sentients, either they haven't (re)made the connection between those evolutions and eating sentients (they think it's a curse for something else or just see it as something that happens at random when you're due for an evo) or they see those evolutions in the same way as they see other evolutions.

>>37006811
>Follow through with operation overground.
Be honest Lann, you want a ride on the boat spider!

>>37006811
>Follow through with operation overground.
Stash the boat in this tree. If we decide to take the return trip by river again, we can come back for it.

>>37006811
>Follow through with operation overground.
I arbor deep feelings for this plan.

>>37006861
I figure its just not a big problem because most monsterfolk live in their own bubbles in the forest that sometimes overlap. So arachne, moths and harpies all still know that stuff, and with the exception of Arachne/Lizard conflict never get to opportunity.
Additionally, sentients just aren't very good prey animals, so it most likely never becomes a issue, its only bad if you make a habit of it, and its just really unusual and mosly not worth it to go out of your way to eat other sentients, unless you do it for culural reasons like the Lizards.

>>37006811
>Other (?)
Test to see if the overground can even sustain this much weight.

If you fall, be embarrassed and continue on the ground.

>>37006811
>operation overground
Any reason why we don't stash the boat in an earthen dome and mark the place?
It's an unnecessary burden and we risk it getting damaged in a fight...

>>37006861
According to the Ask, Arachne that hunt sentients like that are exiled. The fact that a policy exists means some have done this.

Likely other races have too.

We may run into a rabid Goul-Arachne some day.

>>37006953
I support stashing the boat. We can pick it up later.

>>37006811
>Follow through with operation overground.

>>37006953
It could get damaged or dug up or any other sort of thing can happen to it while we are gone, and we only have the one boat.

>>37006626
>>37006665
>>37006709

Some time ago Gin adopted a little girl, that is now training to be swole. After awhile the whole party began to dote on the little girls as fa/tg/uys are known to do. See as what was meant to be a one off background character became a party cohort I started making up backstory for her on the fly. So of course she was apart of a street urchin gang that kept her alive and was her family, they also ran afoul of a group of ogres and had to split up for safety and out of fear. So decided to track down all of the kids and bring her, her family back. For reasons I am still not clear on they decided the best way to do this was to open an orphanage as they apparently. They have found some of her family but not all yet, they now also have a gaggle of street urchins that do odd jobs and run messages. One of the Ho's Dr. Love stole from another pimp is now running the orphanage, she never wanted to be a Ho, and now I need to think up a back story for her too.

>>37006954
>We may run into a rabid Goul-Arachne some day.
Not even sure they actually become rabid, it might be that it only bcomes worse and worse with several evolutions, and since Arachne don't evolve alot, they never find out its actually a problem.
Which would explain why theey are nonchalant about eating Lizards.

>>37007013
As for the Noble Spider Lady, a Noble (Spider) Family of the city wanted to get in on the Caffeine deal, they were offering moderate protection from the fuzz and additional resources as long as they got a set amount every month to export, the Mothia took the deal while expressing among themselves how to fuck this deal over the second Tim figures out that whole exporting and shipping issue they have. This being a noble family however, and being spiders with fucktons of kids they wanted to seal it with a marriage. So naturally the Spider Daughter on question is a widow that is larger then all of them and things the Rainbow moth is the cutest thing ever, just to have Dr. Love the receiving end of all the awkward flirting for once. He was not happy and beginning to worry about his chastity. And that is when Nye speaks up. Now Nye is the fluffiest of the Moths, and then he rolls to seduce the spider girl and crits. So now Nye is engaged to a Noble spider girl with a fluffy fetish.

Now I just need to figure out Spider wedding dresses...

>>37006811
>>Follow through with operation overground.

Heading into the trees!
Writing!

>>37007027
>Noble spider girl with a fluffy fetish
This is brilliant

>>37006999
What are the odds of random monsters actively investigating a seemingly normal hill who are also capable of digging through a thick layer of earth?

Last night we almost lost the boat in that bearfight... had our webbing snapped it would have plunged to the ground.

I don't think we should be spending our time carrying a boat and possible guarding it in a fight... our wolfgirl hasn't really got time to spare.

>>37007027
>spider wedding dresses
THE MOST HUGE.

I mean, they have infinite high quality fabric!

Also probably pretty revealing because well tailored silk, even when it covers everything, can really show off that figure.

>>37007097
>investigating a seemingly normal hill
A hill that shows up over night isn't "normal", we can assume the animals in this forest know the terrain well enough that they would be curious about it. Not to mention
> Furrows are drawn through the dirt, easily a few feet deep
Some things in this forest can very well damage the boat while its underground without actively aiming to.

Its not a huge chance, by any means, but its a risk I see no reason to take. Even when attacked, we got more then enough abilities to fight at range.

>>37007097
I dunno, the chance of giant moles living in this place doesn't seem so small to me.

>>37007027
>The fluffiest of the Moths seduces the spider girl with a fluffy fetish.

I LOVE IT!

>expressing among themselves how to fuck this deal over the second Tim figures out that whole exporting and shipping issue

I have to ask, did none of them see the HORRIBLE flaw in this plan? This is a family of Arachne. Not even counting the wealth and political power, this is a family of unstoppable Apex Predators.

If you fucked them over on a deal, it would only take one of them to come round and slaughter everyone.

Hopefully the Lady Spider will keep Nye and his friends on the straight and narrow, preventing them from causing tpk by Spider.

>>37007186
I think their most likely avenue of not-dying is the fact spiders might just not want to kill someone over something like this.

Especially if one is married to 'em.

Then it's just an awkward family circumstance.

>>37007186
>I have to ask, did none of them see the HORRIBLE flaw in this plan?

This is the group of Moths that had the squirrel breeding pit, turned an aquifer into Alcohol and got the Chief of police drunk, so no I don't think they thought thus through, on the other hand Nye seems to like his new fiancee so I'll see how this goes.

>>37007107
>>spider wedding dresses
>THE MOST HUGE.

Can you imagine the train? An endless stream of shimmering silk, carried in by a hundred bridesmaids.

>>37006927

Yeah, I figured the separation would probably keep it from happening to most, but I'm thinking of Sheszka and the pack wars - if there was a pack of wolves that just lost a good bit of their knowledge like the Lizards did, got into a big fight and ate the dead because "IT'S MEAT AND RIGHT THERE" or somesuch, then woke up the next day and there have been several evolutions (with the sentient eater evo being only one of them). That kind of thing - I doubt they'd really be able to regain the understanding of why that particular evolution occurs and thus how to avoid it (if they even see that evo as bad), especially with the general attitude towards evolution that we've seen being "It's something that happens for reasons".

>>37007019


That as well. Given how few evolutions really happen, it's doubtful that any group that forgets is really ever going to remember without outside information.

>>37007259
Actually I don't imagine that the train is all that long.

Just the central dress itself will be huge. Like a goddamn tent.

>>37007281
>but I'm thinking of Sheszka and the pack wars
I don't think fighting packs would eat the dead of eachother, for similar reasons why most animals in the real world don't.
Its just not very healthy, in desperation they might, but if they are that starving they probably won't win a fight to eat the dead anyway.
It probably happens to some extent, but without knowing exactly how rabid/insane those evolutions become, its hard to say if they would realise its something bad at all.
Arachne do, because they have a very solid cultural continuum from the city days, but the very wild werewolves, might actually consider a ghoul evolution not so bad.

>>37006954
>Arachne that hunt sentients like that are exiled. The fact that a policy exists means some have done this
Thats probably not so much because of the sentient eating, as much as its for the sentient killing.
Arachne mostly encounter eachother and moths and harpies, which would most likely be the main prey of such a arachne. So its more exiling a serial killer than for its eating habiits.

So, uh.

How do we make the forest safe for moths without effectively killing the entire ecosystem?

>>37007558
Spider cabs.

>>37007558
It's intelligent beings that actively hunt them for their value that's the problem.

Establishing law and order so that no race of our Empir- no race of the Forest is hunted would make them safe.

Well, relatively safe.

>>37007656
>intelligent beings are the problem
Well, they're A problem, but pretty much the entire ecosystem wants to eat them too.

>>37007635
What about TREE BRIDGES?

>>37007695
There's not much we can do about the ecosystem eating them, since its trying to everything else too, but we can minimize the exploitation by sentients.

>>37007732
Well SOMEhow in the last kingdom they managed to make it so moths could go around without being eaten by lightning tigers.

Did they just kill all the animals? Or what?

>>37007732
>>37007656

So we are in agreement then.

Anyone tries to kidnap Nin in our travels, the entire kingdom/country/continent dies as a matter of principle.

>>37007558

Invent some form of light-weight, yet powerful weapon. Ideally ranged and has the potential for rapid fire and/or a large magazine...

>>37007773
Nah, anon. Don't even joke about that.

>>37007783

Starbolts?

>>37007783
Flamethrowers?

>>37007695
>Well, they're A problem, but pretty much the entire ecosystem wants to eat them too.

Yeah, there's lots of wild animals that would be happy to eat them if they crossed paths. But they are not being actively hunted by wolves.

Taking basic safety precautions against wild animals is well within their means. The Moth Village had guards. It's not like many humans or kobolds are going to make it into the heart of Arachne territory to kidnap them. The guards are mainly to take care of stray wild animals.

>>37007831
I would like to reach a state where a kid can wander off out of the range of the guards WITHOUT being eaten by a wolf or something.

You look from the boat to the moth and back again.
In the end, your friends safety wins out over convenience.

You bury the boat, using your magic to build a marker over top of it- You need to find it on the way home, after all. After that, it's simple to get everyone into the treetops.

You end up the same way you started the day: Covered in your friends.

Sara keeps the sleeping Sheszka for the time being, leaving you with the rest. You skitter through the branches, keeping your weight across as many as you can as you move. The ground blurs far below, and it grows darker with every step.

Comparatively darker.
You can see just fine, but there's no sun to be found here.

The group moves in silence.
You're fairly certain Jin has gone back to sleep, but you don't want to distract yourself at the moment. Moving this fast in the trees isn't that easy. Not without Mom's webbing building roadways.
The spider equivalent of roadways, anyway.

An overpass.
That's what they were called!
Overpasses.

This isn't in anyway relevant to our situation.

You draw up short, and Sara bumps into you, jostling your cargo.
"Lyra?"
"What is it?"
"Lyra?"

"It is glowing. Below, yes."

>Head down.
>Try and peek through the branches.
>Keep moving.
>Other (?)

>>37007798
>>37007818
Are we sure Jin is the one with the fire obsession?

>>37007791

What makes you think I'm joking?

It's a fact that someone, somewhere is going to possess enough money, or arrogance, or an equal measure of both, and a damn good helping of BRANI PROOBELMS to try and steal the exploitable drug-trade creating fluffy thing that the Giant Spider That Turns Entire Armies Into Statues Of Smoking Melted Flesh And Steel treasures above any and every form of material wealth in creation.

I mean, people try and slay Elder Dragons to take their shit, that's proof enough.

>>37007863
>Try and peek through the branches.

>>37007879
>what makes you think I'm joking
The disproportionate retribution against random-ass people who aren't even involved.

>>37007863
>Try and peek through the branches.

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>>37007863
>Keep moving.
Gotta go fast.

>>37007863
>>Try and peek through the branches.
If it's nothing relevant / dangerous to us
>Keep moving.

>>37007908

Gotta make an example out of someone, and organizations take too much effort and time to weed out.

Scorched Earth is Best Earth.

>>37007863
>Try and peek through the branches.
>Try to feel if it's magic.

>>37007863
>this isn't in anyway relevant
Fuck that we need to build overpasses soon.


>Try and peek through the branches.

HEY. GLOWING GUYS. ARE YOU THE GUYS WE'RE LOOKING FOR?

>>37007879
Please stop capitalizing words that should not be capitalized, it looks retarded.

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>>37007923

Fast? Motherfucker you don't even KNOW.

>>37007849
>The spider equivalent of roadways, anyway.
>An overpass.
There is your answer.

>>37007863
>Try and peek through the branches.

>>37007949

To be fair to him, Giant Spider and everything attached to it needs to be capitalized to put emphasis on how fucking retarded someone has to be to voluntarily fuck with it.

>>37007863
>Try and peek through the branches.

>>37007879
>Kill the fuck out of idiots that try to hurt our friends.
Hell yeah. There will be no survivors.

>Murder the fuck out of loads of random innocents because some idiot happened to be born in the same country.
Err.... No.

>>37007863

> Bungie cord on Lann and send her down
> Tug twice for quick escape.
> Be ready to run.

>>37007863
>Try and Peek
Safety over curiosity. If we risk getting seen it's better to hide until whatever it is passes.

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>>37007957
RIP in peices.

>>37007863
>>Try and peek through the branches.

>>37007863
>>37007863

> Bungie cord on Lann and send her down
> Tug twice for quick escape.
> Be ready to run.

>>37007957

>5112 km/h
>Doombringer

Jesus Fuck, if he hit anything it's fucking gone, I mean, so is he, but damn, not even a splatter and a ruin to mark the area, just gone, disappeared into particles.

>>37007863
>>Try and peek through the branches.

It's like peekaboo, but with giant spiders.
Writing!

>>37007957
>>37008094

And thus the tale of the Man who would become a kinetic kill weapon draws to a close.

>>37008177
>It's like peekaboo, but with giant spiders.
Ceiling Spider is watching you.

>>37008450
The queen's secret police is comprised entirely of highly trained arachne operatives.

>>37008590
They don't bug buildings, they snake them by putting tiny cockney lamias in cozy hammocks in the ceiling.

You spread you legs wide to keep your balance, dipping your whole body forward.
Sara waits patiently behind you, while Lann tries to peer around you to see what's going on below.

Pulling back a few stray branches gives you something to look through.
YOu poke your head into the gap and...

The forest below is lit with a green glow, a soft light coming from every corner of the world beneath your feet. Leaves drift gently through the still air, floating to the floor so far away, a dark, fluttering counterpoint to the green light.

Your eyes comb the trees, the rocks, looking to find the source of the illumination.

It's everywhere, you realize.
Moss. The moss is glowing.

Crawling across the trees and stones alike, the moss glimmers in the shadow of the canopy, lighting the forest with a quiet sheen.

You pull your head, careful to keep your hair free from the branches grasp.

>Keep going. Stay above till you see someone below.
>Head down- Maybe this is the wendigo territory?
>Get some opinions. Maybe someone knows a story or a legend about this.
>Other (?)

>>37008704
>Get some opinions. Maybe someone knows a story or a legend about this.

>>37008704

Could we remain in the trees, just low enough to see the floor?

>>37008590
>>37008699
This should be a thing.

>>37008704
>Get some opinions. Maybe someone knows a story or a legend about this

>>37008590
>>37008450
we need to go freak out that centaur in town more.

Sleep on his roof.

>>37008704
>Get some opinions. Maybe someone knows a story or a legend about this.
You guys know what's up?
If not,
>Head down- Maybe this is the wendigo territory?
Because we ARE here to find them. we can always go back up.

>>37008704
>>Get some opinions. Maybe someone knows a story or a legend about this.
"Cool, glowing moss. Have any of you heard about this?"

>Keep going. Stay above till you see someone below.

>>37008704
>Get some opinions. Maybe someone knows a story or a legend about this.
>Keep going. Stay above till you see someone below.

We don't know if the moss is toxic or not.

>>37008704
>>Head down- Maybe this is the wendigo territory?

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>>37008450

>Lyra leaves a message for Detective Nin

Getcher opinions here!
Red hot opinions!

Writing.

>>37006165
>Not comfy pejamas

>>37009099
I don't think those work with stockings, anon.

You twist, turning to face your friends.

"The trees and stones below are covered in moss, yes? That is what is glowing."
Lann tucks an errant lock of hair behind one ear as she replies.
"Glowing moss?"

You nod.
"Yes, yes. Does anyone know anything? Like... If the wendigo have lowing moss. Or if it's poisonous, or healthy, or a marker. I am tired of things being poisonous."
"You're bloody poisonous."
"I am venomous, thank you."

"There's a difference?"
"I have to bite you for it to matter."
"Well, don't do that."
"But what if I think you'd taste good?"
"This isn't up for discussion."

Nin is giggling the whole way through.

"Is that a no, then?"
"I think I was fairly clear about you-"
"The moss, yes. Noone knows anything about the moss?"

You get a few murmurs, shaking heads.
"The books are old, yes? There isn't anything much about wendigo."
Nin chirps in after Sara.
"And they have been gone for hundreds of years."

You sigh, crossing your arms.
"So we're blind, then."
"No we can all-"
"Well then, forwards!"

You scuttle deeper into the woods, following Lann's compass.

The light below doesn't die, but it gets dimmer as you travel- until you find a new colour.

"Lyra."
"Yes?"
"The moss is blue, now."

You peer down.
The moss is most certainly blue.

>Maybe the colours mean different things?
>Is the moss a different colour, or does the moss change colours?
>Head down. Check it out.
>Other (?)

>>37009372
>Is the moss a different colour, or does the moss change colours?
>Head down. Check it out.

>>37009372
>>Is the moss a different colour, or does the moss change colours?

>>37009372
>Is the moss a different colour, or does the moss change colours?
>Head down. Check it out.
>Make small patches free of moss with earth shaping to walk on.

>>37009372
I think we're in wendigo country.
>Other (?)

Send a harpy drone up and ask if we're between the lakes yet. If so, go down.

>>37009372
>>Is the moss a different colour, or does the moss change colours?
>>Head down. Check it out.
>Use the earth.

>>37009372
>Is the moss a different colour, or does the moss change colours?
>>37009444
We are already between the lakes, but a air scouting sounds good.

>>37009372
>>Is the moss a different colour, or does the moss change colours?
>>Head down. Check it out.

Bite the Plot Hook.

>"But what if I think you'd taste good?"
At some point we need to give her a taste test. Just a lick.
Then we stare at her for a long moment. Place our hand on our chin and just stare.
"Lyra, why are you staring like that?"
"I am thinking, yes."
"About what?"
"I was right, you do taste very nice."

Continue to stare at her with a hungry look until we can no longer hold it in and break down laughing.

>>37009372
>Is the moss a different colour, or does the moss change colours?
>Head down. Check it out.

>>37009528
have to do it as she wakes up though.... get the greatest response when she's not fully engaged cognition...

We have external magic control. Can we test if the moss is magic?

>>37009528
Perhaps we shouldn't make our good friend fear for her life for the sake of a quick giggle.

>>37009372
>Is the moss a different colour, or does the moss change colours?
>Head down. Check it out.
>Use the earth.

Lyra sure has been talking alot about eating Lann recently. Is that spider instincts or puberty at work here?

Checking things out?
Writing!

>>37009601
Lyra can't bite Lann, but Lann can bite her~

>>37009592
Meh, we've both been making jokes like that since we first went out together.

If she thought we were REALLY going to eat her, I doubt we'd have hung out a second time. Let alone her joining us into the deep woods.

>>37009637
Fairly sure we can choose to inject venom or not.

Nothing preventing us from nibbling on her ears.

You know, I sort of consider lann a special guest party member.
I feel very strongly that we won't have her around after this or the next adventure, and she'll go off to do her own thing.

>>37009560
I am worried that she will jump in fear and nick herself on our fangs and die horribly from our super venom

we should get some sort of immunity to arachne venom ring to let people wear before we tease them (also for kisses)

>>37009724
Probably. I'm surrpised she came along for even as much as this trip, I would have thought we would only get her for our trip to the city.

>>37009752
>and nick herself on our fangs
We have to choose to inject the venom, even if she cuts herself on our fangs, she won't get poisoned. Unless we used them recently, maybe.

>>37009782
did QM explicitly say so?
I know we can manually release venom. But that is not the same as pure manual control. Typically for venomed animals there is both a manual release and an automatic one (same with spit really, you can intentionally willingly squirt spit from the glands that produce it into your mouth, or it can happen automatically, you can't stop the automatic)

>>37009886
Considering Dad has yet to die from kissing mom.
Its a pretty solid assumptiom.

>>37004670
fuck i missed it, haven't read the thread yet but thought i would mention something, i think we need to free seranthis when we have time to do so, i think he will be vital when rebuilding and becoming a queen

>>37010115
He isn't trapped, so we can't "free" him, he is down there on his own will.

>>37009918
maybe dad has elven poison resistance, or as an adventurer wizard he has a ring of poison resistance.
Did they have sloppy kisses with tongue or just pecks?

You give your friends a once-over, double checking they're all mostly secure. You don't want to be ferrying people around if you need to fight. Or run.

You creep down the tree, picking your way carefully around the moss, one step at a time.
It looks... mostly similar to the stuff you passed, aside from the colour. The glow is a bit dimmer, as well. You're not a moss scientist. Or any sort of scientist.

You reach the ground without stepping in any glowing plant life, so that has to count for something.

Here on the floor, though, the effect of the glow is almost like a sky all its own- The canopy too far and too dark to properly see, and the glow of the moss on the ground.

It reminds you of home, in a way. The glow of the city against the night sky, the stars invisible for the blaze of humanity.
It's a strange thought.

The stones are piled. Stacked atop one another, forming pyramids and little structures beneath the moss. Wherever you are, there's something moderately sentient nearby. It's encouraging.

You're about to poke some moss- with a silk glove, of course- when a deep and creaking voice echoes out from behind you.

"Little Spider.... You are far from home."

>>37010246
>That's it for tonight!
>Our next thread will be monday, 2PM EST!
>Hopefully we can get back into the swing of things after the holidays are done making a mess of my schedule.
>Comments questions and concerns answered in thread!

>>37010246
Hah! Wendigos!
Oh, a treant. I thought you were a wendigo.

>>37010282
seeeeya monday!
Someone should archive!

As for questions, who will our next special guest adventurer be? My vote is the harlem globetrotters.

>>37010246

Well, it's probably a Treant, this may be very good or very, very bad.

>>37010282
thanks for running. see you next time

>>37010282
thanks for running. Wendigos find!

>>37010282
The suspense!

You are an evil, EVIL, Spider.

Thanks for the thread.

Can you confirm or deny our venom control? Is Elfdad only alive because of a magic ring of poison-immunity?

>>37010282

Thanks for running.
Time for Plot Advancement!

I'm still here though. Anyone want to know something? Find out new, strange information about a creature they know of? Or learn about one they never heard of before?

c'mon, it'll be fun, and weird.

>>37010345
>>37010338
>>37010337
>>37010312
Thanks for playing!


>>37010344
You've got control over your venom.
You had less as a kid- but at that point, you only really had your fangs.

>>37010416
>You had less as a kid- but at that point, you only really had your fangs.
>you only really had your fangs.

Does that mean we have venom delivery methods other than our fangs? Can we inject venom with our claws?

>>37010490
You can't produce venom with your fingers, no.

You could apply venom to them and scratch people if you liked.

>>37010490
i suspect he meant we only had fangs, and no normal teeth.

>>37010604
Suptg is back up and working again.

>>37010135
he went down there of his free will a long time ago, that doesn'r mean he want to stay any longer, and we'll need him for when we become queen spider

>>37010642
>i suspect he meant we only had fangs, and no normal teeth.

Oh, right. That makes more sense. The wording threw me.

>>37010411
Hell if I know.
I am always out of questions.

>>37010685
Yes, we know he is still down there of his own free will, because he keeps something contained.

>>37010717
he wen't down there to keep something contained that does not mean that he still needs to keep it contain it was a long time ago and we don't know if that has changed(i don't remember him saying anything bout it)

>>37010703
I'll tell you about the Chang Nam then.
It's an incredibly small (think cat or mouse sized) elephant with a fish tail. Also venomous tusks, because back in the day making your mythological creatures venomous was the trendy thing to do. It is otherwise a docile herbivore.

>>37010416
>You've got control over your venom.
Is it to the point where, if someone punches us in the mouth and accidentally impales their finger on one of our fangs, we can choose to not inject venom through that fang?

>>37011079
....Wat?
First of all, how would you impale a finger on a fang when punching someone?
Second, why wouldn't we want to inject venom into that someone?

>>37011121
not that guy, but
A. tooth-stabs are incredibly common when you are punching people in the mouth
and
B. most times, if you are punching somebody in the mouth and they are punching you in the mouth, it's a friendly drunken disagreement with no lethal intent.

>>37011135
>most times, if you are punching somebody in the mouth and they are punching you in the mouth, it's a friendly drunken disagreement with no lethal intent.
I would heavily disagree with that.
It certainly happens, but most times when you punch someone in the mouth, its because you want to fuck that guy up. Friendly drunken disagreements would usually ppunch against the jaw or torso to avoid the kind of serious injury that breaking someones teeth can result in.

>. tooth-stabs are incredibly common when you are punching people in the mouth
Yeah, no, they aren't. Cutting yourself on a tooth is, but IMPALING your finger on someones canines is rather unlikely.

>>37011121
>First of all, how would you impale a finger on a fang when punching someone?
by hitting them at the correct angle. this super common IRL in fights when punching people in the mouth
>Second, why wouldn't we want to inject venom into that someone?
1. murder during a barfight is bad
2. what if it wasn't a punch by another accidental hit? like, you spooked a friend from behind going "boo" while goosing them, and they jump, and they hit you in the mouth and impale on a fang? (this actually happened to me IRL, with different people, being both the spooked and the spookee... only without fangs of course. i am not a giant spider)

>>37011196
An impalement on a human canine is a cut, anon.
The same thing goes for with a fang.

And statistically, the VAST majority of punching in mouths in most countries aren't with lethal intent.

>>37011079
who would be stupid and brave enough to punch a giant spider in the face

>>37011196
>Punching in the jaw is harmless while punching in the teeth is very bad
http://www.emedicinehealth.com/broken_jaw/article_em.htm
>The teeth are nowhere near the jaw
>Drunks can aim perfectly while swinging at each other
lel

>Yeah, no, they aren't. Cutting yourself on a tooth is, but IMPALING your finger on someones canines is rather unlikely.
Are you not aware of the difference between a human canine tooth and a fang?

>>37011248
>And statistically, the VAST majority of punching in mouths in most countries aren't with lethal intent
I would be very interested in seeing that statistic then.

>>37011260
It's the same statistic as everything like this.
Common, non-harmful problems occur infinitely more than actual aggressive ones.
In all fields.

>>37011256
One of them muscle guys. The kind who have curly moustaches and wear leotards.
That's the very first one off the top of my head.

>>37011260
That is like asking for the statistic of how often mcdonnalds employees wish death on someone who asks for extra gravy on the fries. They are just not inherently connected things. Further exacerbated by the fact you put the word "intent" there.

However, what we can tell is:
1. 4.7 per 100,000 is the murder rate in the USA
2. A bar fight is tried as a battery assault case (NOT an attempted murder case, not even aggrevated assault)
3. 229.1 per 100,000 is the rate of aggrevated assault in the USA
4. I can't find the battery assault case count, but it should be much higher than aggravated assault.