Antediluvixen

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@Flynn Awww, I like talking.

Also, what do you think of my idea to contact Wade and IrishAngelQueen about spots opening due to lack of activity?

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Name: Ash Giant Trapdoor Spider

Species: Ummidia venator hominum (venator hominum- hunter of men)

Rarity: Rare.

Behavior: Aggressive ambush predator.

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

Key Points:

• NO.
• 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.

Appearance: 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.

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@DarkFey I'm doing my best.

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Right so, what's the plan? Tactical doesn't seem inclined to post (or he's busy), Shield, Suzy, and Witch Queen appear to have disappeared, perhaps we could contact IrishAngelQueen or Wade and tell them there's space since people decided to vanish on us (since they had interest for the RP already, instead of going looking for new people)? Deadpixel's not able to be on for now I think. Nobody else seems particularly inclined to write, perhaps either a time skip to the city or a time skip to the actual trip, instead of trying to squeeze out words for just sort of going to the sand skitter and shootin' the shit with people.

Ik Abysmal is still with us, I'm obviously still here, DarkFey's waiting quite patiently and it's not fair to keep her waiting much longer.

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@Pathfinder We do!

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@Lightning Fast Probably because he'd sauté it in the blood of innocent children and sprinkle lightly with crushed dreams, with a bit of powdered agony to taste.

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@DarkFey I eagerly await such an event.

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@AbysmalDemon More words.

Also the reason everyone else is taking so long should totally be something ridiculous like a stubbed toe and an argument about beer or something. Make it happen, guys, c'mon.

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Sonya started at Samuel's arrival, breaking from her seventeenth recounting of all her ammunition -arrows included- and looking up at the man. "I'm not sure, to be honest. I got here after dealing with a minor... situation, and nobody else seems to think it'd be a good idea to have showed up. I've just been counting various things, mainly. If anything I've had enough time to go and see those dwarves and get an idea of what they're planning, which at this point I might just go regardless."

She shrugged, standing up and stretching as she hopped down from the sand skitter, "I guess this is why it's a good thing to keep supplies pre-packed. Makes things a lot easier." Glancing at Samuel's water pouches she continued, "At this rate we're going to use all our water before we've even started off, since we're just sitting in the sun. I'm going to go and find some shade, you're welcome to join me."

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Also you found a perfect picture for Roberta

@Darcs

My thoughts exactly.

EDIT: Also I forgot to mention your writing is the shit. Seriously it's waaay up there.

EDIT EDIT:

"Vodka?" The boy perked up, bright and happy, smiling between the two, "Don't you mean lick... lick... liqui... uh, don't you mean water Russians?"

@Darcs

I'm dying help.