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[b]Name:[/b] Ash Giant Trapdoor Spider

[b]Species:[/b] Ummidia venator hominum (venator hominum- hunter of men)

[b]Rarity:[/b] Rare.

[b]Behavior:[/b] Aggressive ambush predator.

[b]Location(s):[/b] The island of Ash, no particular region but unusually high clusters surrounding the Sentinel chokepoint.

[b]Key Points:[/b][list]
[*] [i][b][u]NO.[/u][/b][/i]
[*] Do not fuck with.
[*] Seriously don't go near.
[*] When you become spider food I'll say to your friends, "I told him/her so."
[*] Venom is extremely potent and acts roughly as fast as hydrogen cyanide. 
[*] The exoskeleton is actually rather soft and pliable on the underside of the spider and on most of its abdomen, as a result the spider rarely ever exposes its entire body. However the frontal half is incredibly well armored, not impervious by any means but most common handgun calibers such as 9mm and .45 ACP will have little if any effect unless they hit a weak spot.
[*] The spider hunts in the same manner as Old World trapdoor spiders, digging a burrow and waiting for anything unfortunate enough to be spider snack sized (which is almost everything) to stumble by. The spider moves lightning fast despite its size and for the most part there's almost always zero time to react.
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[b]Appearance:[/b] The Ash Trapdoor spider is large- each leg is roughly a meter and a half long, with the front four sporting smallish claws for traction, the body of the spider retains similar proportions to Old World trapdoor spiders, it's simply orders of magnitude larger. The fangs are the exception to this, they have grown longer and thinner and will punch through mild steel sheet metal like a hot knife through butter. The spider sports twelve eyes that are easily distinguished from the tar colored carapace by their sickly scarlet coloration. It's known to make a clicking noise with its fangs when about to strike, the only sign of the danger lurking underneath except perhaps a slight movement of the soil as the spider shifts into striking position. The weight or any particular details of the spider are unknown, largely because the only three to have been encountered that did not devour the encounteree were destroyed with an old world main battle tank modified to carry large canisters of napalm and a launcher for it- specially modified to counter these predators in particular.