Everfree Survival (Comment driven story)
Chapter 19: SPIDER! GET IT OFF!
Previous Chapter Next ChapterSPIDER! GET IT OFF! Okay, spiders. Exoskeletons. Eight legs. Venomous...don't really know how to KILL a giant spider. I'm guessing it will require stabbing, thanks to that exoskeleton. I guess...aim for the head? If it acts logically, one good blow ought to send it running once it realises it's prey is fighting back. That said, it's NOT acting logically, it's acting in game logic, which means I'm going to have to kill it dead. Game logic means it wouldn't have attacked us. Okay, KILL IT WITH FIRE!
As you consider your options, you find yourself with an inner monologue. It goes a little something like this:
"AAAAAH! SPIDER! GET IT OFF! GET IT OFF! Okay, it's off. Spiders. Exoskeletons. Eight legs. Venomous... How do you even kill a giant spider? How does the added size affect its mobility and defensive capabilities? Killing it will probably require a lot of stabbing - always a worthy strategy. Aim for the head, I suppose. Actually, aiming for the joints on the legs might work to reduce mobility and all. No, not that kind of joint. Seriously, stop interrupting my inner monologue. Now, as I was saying... If the spider acts logically, it will bugger off as soon as it realizes it's not the apex predator. However, this twisted place uses video game logic, which means it might just fight to the death, which can be a lot more problematic if it's using a mix of real and game logic. The cornered rat will bite the cat and all that. NOW KILL IT WITH FIRE!"
As you finish your monologue, you realize the spider has climbed up a wall and is... Well, doing something at you. Probably some arachnid body language or something.
Before you enter battle though, what type of spider is it, how fast is it capable of moving? Does it spit, run or jump even? also giant doesnt really specify its size, so what would you compair its size to?
It's the big type of spider. It moves pretty fast, but not so fast it'd be a problem. You have yet to see it spit anything, but it runs pretty well with its eight legs.
You would compare its size to an M1 Abrams. Imagining such a vehicle next to the spider, the spider seems to be about a quarter of that size. Give or take, seeing as you have to imagine the tank rather than having an actual one to compare. You don't trust your imagination to show you an accurate representation of the Abrams.
tame the spider you are a man
it will be a useful companion
It ignores your attempts to flirt with it. Apparently, it's a speciesist giant spider. Your very best pickup lines, honed over years of none of them succeeding, bounce harmlessly off the spider's exoskeleton.
[You have gained status effect: Rejected.]
Open up with an energy blast to the face. ... If it tries to run, I can throw javelins. As long as we keep it out of biting range, we're completely fine.
and don't forget to yell "Love Me!" for absolutely no reason when using the energy blast.
Grab your butane javelins, light em up and start throwing them at it.
You take a javelin and light it. Giving it a moment to catch fire properly, you take aim and hurl it. It lodges in the wall just below the spider, which scurries away. Readying another javelin and adjusting your aim based on the first throw, you use an energy blast to destabilize it. As you unleash your arcane powah, you for no reason scream, "LOVE ME!!!" It's stunned for a moment, and you hurl the second javelin, hitting a leg and pinning it to the wall. You take a moment to appreciate your physical strength - sticking a primitive javelin into a stone wall isn't easy. Maybe that's from the badass points?
As you prepare a third javelin, the spider cuts its losses and tears off its own leg, before crawling upwards. Keeping watch around you, you prepare for an attack from any direction. It does, but from the one direction people don't generally look in. Straight up. You feel something fall into your hair, before you're pulled up by it. It's probably the sticky type of web used by spiders. (You remember something about spiders having multiple types of "thread", two of which are the sticky and the non-sticky. They supposedly combine these in webs so they can walk around safely while an ignorant rival would get caught.)
include lots of screaming and yelling
arms flailing in the air.
Realizing you are caught, you flail around wildly with your arms. By chance, your torch hits the line of webbing. Turns out, spider webs don't burn. It does however, shrivel up and become brittle, allowing you to break free. In your panic, you forgot that you're suspended a decent distance from the floor, and fall down. Your foot is twisted, but it doesn't seem like anything is broken. It will hurt to walk, but you'll live.
You crawl back to the corridor and take up a defensive position. The spider is smarter than you expected. Given your previous experience, you suspect the admins may be controlling it. After all, your cleverly designed plan was awesome. You should have owned the spider easily! Sure, there was some flailing about and such, but that was planned too!
You idly wonder if shedding your armor and shirt would provide enough badass points to lay the smackdown on that bitch spider, but decide against trying without giving it some more thought.
Oh, and you lost your cigarette earlier. Flailing about while suspended by webbing can do that to you. That's okay, though, you had already smoked most of it.
What do you do?
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