In the tree-hole, you encountered an old and apparently lonely spider, who agreed to let you live inside the hole, provided that you would share some food with him. After quickly building a rudimentary web nest for yourself and your now quite large family, you and your mate are resting near it, waiting for your eggs to hatch. Andor is also resting nearby, as carrying all of you and your stuff was quite laborious. The old spider is in his web. Your siblings and Isaac are inside the nest.
What do you do?

>How this works.
Suggest an action and then depending how feasible it is, the spider will act.

You are just an ordinary spider in moder day earth. You have no special powers, other than your intellect.

Making silk costs proteins, which you can restore by eating. Your mate has his own protein reserves. Making the nest costs you both 15 proteins, which leaves you both with 75.

You can upgrade your nest with silk.Your nest currently has the following improvements:
>Small rudimentary web nest:
- web-sacks containing 24 food, 10 units of wood, 3 chitin plates and your egg-sack.

I knew staying up all night would be a good idea.

Can we make tripwires by the entrance?

Improve nest while waiting for the eggs to hatch.

Make a proper storage chamber, and ad warning lines to the entrance of the tree hole

>>17618796
>>17618801

You and Dorpou s improving your home. Dorpou builds a proper storage chamber while you lay some trip wires to warn you if some one enters the tree hole by climbing at least. It costs you 20 protein, and Dorpou 30, leaving you with 55 and Dorpou with 45.

>>17618846


*You and Dorpou start...

>>17618846
Ask the old spider what is name is and if he knows anything about the surrounding area.

I know this has been said, but I think it's time for a check up.

Check our spinnerettes again. It's all for your wellbeing I assure you.

>>17618873

You ask the old spider what he is called, and if he has any useful information on the surrounding area.

"I am Ranou of the Web Runner clan, though the contact between myself and my clan mates has been quite rare.
The are surrounding the tree has plenty of hunting opportunities, the abundance of flowers attracts many fliers to this area, the tall grass provides much cover for crawling prey and the pond nearby also attracts many other insects.
Know this however, this area is contested by the ant hordes. The flowers also attract bees, and bees attract wasps, who do not hesitate to exploit weaker creatures.

Stay low web-sister, all the hivers are dangerous, and loners like us are ill suited to fight their hordes."

>>17619017
>New mission objective:
Acquire and and wasp queens and make them our allies.
What could go wrong.

Do also check the eggs.

We could need a new slingshot-battery. Especially concerning wasps some air-defence could be well needed.

>>17618954

You excuse yourself and head behind the new storage to check your spinnerets.

>>17619085
>>17619087

While cleaning up you also make a mental note about the additional need of defense and the possibility of allying yourself with ants or wasps, though you aren't even sure what the later are.
After finishing your "inspection", you head to the primary chamber to check your eggs.

>>17619085
>>implying that wasps could ever be allies.

Wasps know only hatred.

Everything seems to be fine inside your nest.
The eggs are still intact, and everyone is present.
Dorpou has apparently moved the storage sacks to the new chamber, though he has taken some food from it. 5 food units lost, Dorpou has restored 15 of his proteins, and he now has 60.

Your siblings are playing with Isaac and Dorpou is resting.
What do you do?

>>17619252
Cautiously explore our surroundings?

>>17619272

You mean the outside world, or the inside of the tree hole?
You haven't checked the bird's nest for example inside the tree hole, and the outside world is basically completely unexplored.

>>17619298
The inside of the tree. Maybe there are hidden passages left behind by some kind of beetle. Or other interesting things.

>>17619252

Start collecting food, our brood is going to be hungry once they hatch.

You venture deeper to the hole. Many previously unseen things can be seen in the crevices of this old tree.

>>17619355

You also remind yourself of the need to hunt, as you will soon have many more mouths to feed.

>>17619422
Investigate the green stuff.

A dead bird. That means ressources for creating something! But what? Maybe we could use the bones for the slingshots, but bird-bones are hollow, that might not be the best idea. BUT....they are light so we could use them to BUILD A SLINGSHOT FOR ANDOR to carry on his back! HE WILL BE A LADYBOMBER!

The beak could be used for something awesome...but I have no Idea what yet. Maybe a shield to protect yourself in battle? Along with a lance/spear we have to construct later.

>>17619467
>The beak could be used for something awesome...but I have no Idea what yet

We can try to cut it in half and use the two halves as pauldrons!

>>17619438

They seem to be some sort of plants. They are excreting some sort of strange smelling nectar.

>>17619467
You also start contemplating the uses the giant corpse could have, but it is clear that if want to use the material, you need to find a way to break it in to smaller parts, as most of the individual bones are quite large compared to you.

>>17619508
>plants
Whats the big round-ish thing next to them? In the first picture.

>>17619514
It is a mushroom.

Noooo wait. We DON'T cut the bird-corpse....it may be more usefull intact. We could build a decoy out of it! The old spider said that everyone around feared the birds as giant monsters! So we could try to use silk-rope for pulleys and fasten the bird-corpse into a standing position at the entrance of our new home. Ater that we decorate him with leaves and such things to make it look as if it was still alive!

We would have an awesome scarecrow! If it works other insects would be to scared to come near our home!

>>17619544
Ah, okay. Sorry OP, I though it was an egg, or something equally interesting-

>>17619545

Hell even other birds might think the hole is still taken and won't come here to build a new nest!

>>17618746
I wanted to say this earlier, but I was to lazy to get around to it, but I'll say it now. FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK SPIDERS, BURNITBURNIBURNITBURNITBURNIT

It just occurred to me, with our weaponry and ingenuity we could become monster hunters.

The monsters being predators WAY above us. Like birds, or giant centipedes.

Let's make Monster Hunter but with Spiders.

>>17619545

Another brilliant idea hits you!

>>17619550


Well they it is still kinda interesting, to you at least. You have never seen a mushroom in your entire life, not to mention one that bleeds blue stuff.

>>17619571

Well fuck you too sir.

>>17619594
In that case, let's try to get a few Aphids not supervised by ants and try to blue and yellow stuff on them.

We should taste the blue stuff. It could be something we could use against predators, or a food source.

Yay, Spider quest!
>>17619644
Better, let one of our sibling taste it, if it's poisonous, well, a disgrace, if it's comestible, yay!

>>17619612


You go to Andor, as he is the one with the most knowledge on aphids.
He says that it is safer if he retrieves few of them, alive he presumes. He says that he'll return shortly.

>>17619660
>>17619644
Are you sure that you want to use yourself or your siblings as guinea pigs?

>>17619594

Taste the mushroom!

>>17619717
>Are you sure
No, not at all.

>>17619717
Better a bro, we will have to feed a lot of mini-spiders sons, and if we will lost one--- Well, a pity.

We shall use an aphid as a test subject. about to go mad labatory shit in here

Nope, no testing on our siblings or children! We are better then that!

>>17619735
>>17619720
>>17619730
>>17619736

So what shall it be?
Do you taste the shroom liquid yourself, put one of your siblings to taste it or feed the blue stuff to the aphids Andor went to get?

>>17619765
One of the aphids, please.

>>17619765
My vote is aphids

>>17619765
Or siblings or aphid, better don't prove that shit, because, well, can be poisonous or awesome.

>>17619765
Wait for the aphids. If he's going to be awhile we can preoccupy ourselves with searching the old bird nest or something.

>>17619778
or trying to get a few food units. we should build little traps around the base of tree for food

>>17619790
Yeah, and some web reds just in case than a wasp army try to get in our nest, we need to build the slingshots, and all that. Then, we need food.

If we get aphids soon we need something to make sure they won't abscond. We should build aphid containment cells!

>>17619806
I agree with this, we need containment cells.

Send Dorpou to look out for any other exit and tell him to secure them, because those vicious ants WILL be coming through them.
They are like supersmart goblins.

Okay so i think the order of our plans is going like this.
1. tell Dorpou to go find and secure exits besides main one
2. build aphid cells
3. small traps near base of tree

>>17619778

While you wait for Andor to return you decide to check out the birds nest.

>>17619847
>>17619806
IMO you just need to make sure you have a stable food source for the aphids. If there's enough, most of them won't go anywhere.

>>17619883
Oh wow, how many pretty thing will be able to do with all that. The fucking bird was a crow!

>>17619883
JACKPOT

Maybe it was a magpie or something.

Oh, dam, so many other suggestions.
I should have refreshed this before I posted that pic.

>>17619900
Hey, no harm done, and it wouldn't be right to waste a perfectly good drawing.

>>17619883

That ring just enforces my belief that we will probably end up the Monster Hunters of the insect world.

Bird's scare the shit out of everyone and are basically our apex predator.

Bird's go full retard when confronted with shiny things.

We can use shiny things as traps, and break their wings with other traps, such as a stick trap (log trap) or webbed rocks as wrecking balls.

what are the pointy things? needles? is that a spoon on the lower right?and what is the nubby thing above the coin? Also the coin would make a good wheel.

>>17619914
Looks like pins and needles. I think there's a battery in there too. The spoon can be used as a catapult. I like this birds nest, it opens a lot of new possibilities.

We could gather the shinny stuff and make a makeshift 'flower' to attract insects into our web.

>>17619883

In case this picture is unclear I can roughly describe the contents of the nest.

>Multiple sharp translucent objects.
>Bones.
>Long sticks made from the same material as your wheels were.
>String like things.
>Round object with a shiny thing embedded to it.

There are more things, but many of them are quite hard for you to describe, as you have never encountered anything like them before.

When we build our decoy we should make it move able so that it is harder to tell it is fake from a distance. Even if just a wing and the head can move that would go a long way.

Guys guys guys.

We are a jumping spider. These needles can be like lances or javelins.

Looks like we really are gunna end up as beast hunters.

Cool beans.

>>17619932
>>Long sticks made from the same material as your wheels were.
AXLES

>Spider with glider,javelins and carapace armour hunting birds.

Glorious.

>>17619942

But you have no wheels anymore.
You didn't pack any with you.

how heavy are the sticks maid of wheel stuff?

so we got some new loot? we have bigger things to do so do this. >>17619874

Ask Ranou if he wants to be our treasure master. We will hunt for him and he will guard our loots.

can you describe the thing that is above the translucent sharp things? The string like stuff is on the far left right?

>>17619991
I think that's a button with a bit of string still on it.

we still need to make sure any other exits are accounted for, don't want ants to sneak up on us like >>17619850 mentioned.

Even if we DID still have wheels around here.

The fuck would we need the axles for? If anything we would the wheels as gears or something.

Nah, we fashion them into weapons, spears, Halberds. Various other pole arms. Might even make a hook for when we eventually go hunting larger prey.

>>17619961
Not very heavy, but their length makes them hard to carry.
>>17619991
It is string connected to some sort of thin disk like thing.
>>17619989
You ask if Ranou is willing to guard your newfound stuff in exchange of food. He gladly agrees, as he has really nothing better to do.

>>17619971
You realize that, although an interesting find, the bird nest and it's loot isn't of the immediate concern.

You go and wake up Dorpou and tell him to start securing the hole. You on the other hand start preparing to build the aphid pens and some traps.

most good! we need a stable food supply. and aphids eat grass or something? and we have some green stuff in our hole? we could make a green stuff farm for the aphids

'Hey Ranou, which insects are easy to hunt around here? At which height should we build our webs?'

Making the aphid pen cost's you 10 protein and 2 pieces of wood. You now have 45 protein.
Dorpou is searching and securing any possible back doors with web.

>>17620119
Grow some mushrooms will not be hard, so the farm can be very easy to run. Alas we will need some hunt, the aphid will be the last resource in imho.

>>17620171

He says that the pond spawns mosquitoes in abundance and that they are easy prey. He is curious however why a jumping spider like you is interested in web hunting.

but the shrooms might not be safe, lets ask Ranou what he thinks of the musroom

>>17620218

He says that he has never really though anything about them, as spiders don't eat mushrooms.

if there deadly or really bad for us we dont want to feed them to aphids clearly

We should take a quick look outside, see what we can see from this height, maybe check the ground for ants.

You finish up improving your new home for now by building few sticky web traps at the base of the tree. The traps are connected to your main nest with strings, notifying you if something has been caught.

This costs you 35 protein, leaving you with 10. All this working has also taken it's toll on you. You have 3/5 of your energy left.

Use pointy things as lances.

Go hunt some goddamn tasty treats.

>>17620298

Go back to the mushroom, and eat it.

All of it.

>>17620341
no

>>17620341
No.
Alas eat something, rest and expect the arrival of arnor.

As you return to the hole, you see that Andor has returned with two confused aphids. The other is bleeding slightly.
Andor is looking curiously at your web contraption.

>>17620387
Explain that we want to keep the aphids in the pen.

Ask him what the aphids eat, and how we can obtain it.

>>17620387
they go inside the net cage thingy so they dont escape. while were at it lets ask him about the shrooms. and if they aphids are male and female

>>17620387
Excellent. Tell him to put one in the pen, and have the other feed off the nectar of the strange green flowers.

>>17620411unless it is almost winter there is no such thing as a mail aphid But IC we dont know that.

>>17620366
Before you do anything about the aphids, you quickly go and grab some food. 5 food units lost, you regain 15 protein leaving you with 25 and you now have 5/5 of your energy. The storage now holds 14 units of food.
>>17620408
>>17620411
>>17620424
You explain your plan to Andor.
He says that the aphids reproduce quickly, and the to his knowledge don't even need males to produce the offspring.

Which one will you test the nectar on. The wounded one or the healthy one?

>>17620481
The one that looks the most like a nigger.

>>17620481
Test on the healthy one. More likely to survive if it's something only slightly deadly.

>>17620502
And we can prob get some more from andor

You bring the healthy one to the nectar.
It starts drinking it greedily.

>>17620481
The healthy one first. If there's no obvious effect we try it on the wounded one. Perhaps it helps heal stuff.

>>17620549
Now the mushroom junk.

>>17620549
whats the green stuff growing on?

>>17620549
Feed it the mushroom blue stuffy stuff now :3

>>17620549

Does it die?

>>17620566
Nooo, we need to see what the other stuff does before we feed it anything else.

>>17620577
I'M THE SPIDER HERE.

>>17620602
How many of your legs can you use to type with?

Nothing exceptional seems to be happening.

>>17620644
so its safe to assume we can feed them this stuff

>>17620644

THEN SUDDENLY!
The aphid begins to twitch, it's antennae start to spasm. It starts to shake uncontrollably.

>>17620656
Uhhhhhh...

>>17620644

Have it eat the blue stuff!

>>17620644
Well, let's test it on the other then.

lets wait a bit....

>>17620656
OH GOD. ASK ANDOR WHAT IS HAPPENING.

AND PANIC.

>>17620680
This. We need to know whether the effect is fatal or not.

We're going to need more aphids at this rate.

>>17620656

>>17620656
>>17620656
>>17620656

It starts running around erratically, it's movements are twitchy.
After few moments it stops, falls to the ground exhausted, but clearly still alive.

i think more waiting is in order for him. Bring in subject 2! test blue shroom stuff!

>>17620711
Put it in the pen again and test the blue stuff on the other aphid.

>>17620711
Sounds like quite a ride.

>>17620720
Yes! For science!

>>17620720
Agreed, we must know what the blue stuff does and subject 1 is still under the effects of the green stuff so results will not be as accurate. Thus, we must test it on subject 2!

>>17620726


+1

Also, requesting a spider in a lab coat, for SCIENCE!

>>17620729
>Yes! For science!

Of course, we are SPiDOS, after all.

You bring the other aphid to the blue stuff.
It seems a lot less eager to taste the liquid as it's comrade did.

>>17620790
Force him.

>>17620790
It might just be because his bro is still wigging out.

Introduce his mouth parts to one of the drops. It doesn't have to be a large dosage.

>>17620790
Push its face right in that stuff.

We must invent our own spider alphabet so that we may learn to write and record our findings

>>17620825
Yes. We could record our history in gigantic silken spider murals.

You push the aphid to the liquid.

>>17620879
Did we break it?

You stand back to observe how the aphid reacts.

>>17620934
It mostly looks disgusted and a little pissed off.

I am not here for a short time and when I come back you are torturing Aphids. I sure hope these are not some of the sentient Insects.....otherwise it would be horrible. And Bibi is not horrible :-(

>>17620947
Rub it all over it.

>>17620959

>>17620934
Check to see how the other aphid is doing.

The blue stuff doesn't seem to be very healthy...

Don't touch him, and grab a bola, just in case we will need to struck down the poor fellah.

>>17620959
>I am not here for a short time and when I come back you are torturing Aphids.

We kinda decided to change the direction of the quest after yesterday's thread tanked.

All hail the new Bibi!

>>17621010
I feel like a very bad spider-person right now. Killing for food or defending the brood is one thing, but that really was totally uncalled for.
Rest in peace foor aphid.

>>17620982

Alright, time to get real.

Stop torturing aphids. Get these guys back to pen. Go to hunt.

I don't want a new Bibi. I like old Bibi :-(

So I say leave the poor Aphids alone. But we did learn that the blue stuff seems to be poisonous so.....SAY FOR POISONED WEAPONS!

And the green stuff seem to be drugs so YAY FOR DRUGS!

Now we have to get more food I think...and after that we should work on my former BIRD DECOY Idea

>>17621010

This isn't what you expected that would happen.

>>17621088
Yay, extremely poisonous shit!

>>17621059

I think they are digestive juices

>>17621088
Jump back so none of that stuff hits us.

>>17621088
We can poison our slings with this stuff!

>>17621088
Now we need to feed the ahiv with the rest of the carrion, to know if it's possible eat the shit we will struck down with poison.

>>17621088
Acquire new home, get:
-Lots of loot
-Acidic mushroom
-Drug flowers
-Bird skeleton
-New spider

Dare I say, jay?

MUTATİON TIME!

POISON GLANDS!

The first aphid seems to be recovering from it's freak out.
The remains of the second are slowly dissolving to a pool of blood and melted chitin.

>>17621192

Forgot the pic.

>>17621192
Find out what can carry that without being corroded, then send your siblings out to harvest dat shit and store it in a corner of your home.

>>17621179

But you already have poison glands!
You are a spider after all.

>>17621192
>>17621202
Put it back in the pens.

>>17621202

Take aphid back to its pen. Then go for hunting.

If we poison our food, we can't eat it. I'm all for luring bugs with drugs, but we should avoid using the poison on things we intend to eat.

>>17621192
Share our discoveries with the others.

So there's Red Bug energy nectar, and explosive death poison.
Keep the remaining aphid to study a bit longer, and if there's no ill effects other than that bit of exhaustion, we may have a supply of energy drinks to take out into the field.

>>17620959
It's not about torture. We had to test the substances somehow.

>>17621192
I knew it was digestive acid. We should fill some sort of container with the stuff and dump it by the spider sized cauldron full on attacking predators.

>>17621209

I assume that you mean the corpse.

You carefully poke it, but it seems that the blue stuff has already reacted with the flesh of the aphid, rendering the resulting mush at least non corrosive.

Put the living aphid back in the pen and try to talk to it. Calm it down or something.

Then check on the eggs. If still unhatched, get to building those slingshots, woman!

>>17621256

You are not sure if it's edible however!

You bring the surviving aphid to the pen. It seems to be fine, at the moment at least.

>>17621291
Again dammit!

>>17621291
>>17621298
We need more aphids, and we need to secure a food supply for the aphids. Is Andor around? Ask him what the aphids eat.

If we want to keep Andor's services, we need to give him something of value. Like aphids from our farm.

>>17621298

Get a stick, and wipe the blue slime on each egg.

>>17621321
Why? Aphid feed an plant juices. If we hunt them directly on plants not claimed by the ants, we won't have to worry about transporting those plant juices back to our hideout.

>>17621336
no

>>17621269

You return to your nest to check on the eggs.
One of your siblings comes to you.
"Hey big sister! What are you doing? I am soooo bored here, now that Isaac and the other are sleeping! I want do something!"

Your egg-sack is also emitting faint noise.

start teaching the spider the ways of the hunt

>>17621407

Get a stick, and wipe the blue slime on each egg.

YES, more spiders, take care of the egg bag, and toll to you bro to help with it.

>>17621407
>Isaac sleeping, curled around the others

D'aaaaaaaaw

>I want do something!
Let's see if his new brothers and sisters are ready to hatch. If not, show him/her the aphid. It should be harmless.

>>17621428
no

>>17621428
No.

>>17621428

Have to agree with this guy. Let's try it and see what happens.

>>17621465
Let's not.

>>17621465
Nop.

>>17621428

good idea

>>17621428
nein!

>>17621407

Tell him to salvage wood from the old birds nest if he wants. You could teach him to build slingshots later, that would be fun and helpfull. Eventually you should teach all of them to operate slingshots. More Markspiders more kills.

But for now you have to check on your eggs, they may be hatching and be in need of theire mother. And you are their mother. Mother Bibi....how does that make you feel? :3

>>17621465
No

>>17621428

Lets do it

>>17621495
No

>>17621428

Agreed, let's spice this up a bit! Its a female, it can always have new eggs. Maybe the blue slime on eggs will result in extra fast growth.

>>17621485
this sounds good, also we can use sticks from the nest to start developing are spider alphabet.

>>17621551
Nop, this will get medieval soon, we will need all the spider than we will be able to get.

>>17621551
no, the slime is digestive acids secreted by the mushroom, although Bibi doesn't know this, we know it was not good for the aphid, so it would probably not be good for the eggs.

>>17621560

We can always just have more. I think we should try it.If it doesnt work on all of them, then we know for when we have eggs next to try the other liquid.

>>17621586
No, dammit. We already used the blue stuff on the aphid, and nothing good came of it. Puddle of ex-aphid.

The green stuff, if you want to let some of the new ones try it, maybe

can we just ignore the pro-killing baby spider people?

>>17621597

Look, lets compromise. We try the blue stuff this time on all the eggs, and next time we try your idea. Thats the only fair way.

Your mother instincts prevent you from bringing the obviously dangerous blue slime even near your eggs.

Instead of infanticide, you open up the web-sack.
The hatchling stares at you intently, most of it's body still inside the egg, it's arms waving around slowly.

>>17621608
I agree.

>>17621608
sounds like a fucking plan

>>17621597
I agree, but only give a very small dose of the green stuff to one of them.

>>17621617
Bring it into the world. Our siblings can meet their new niece/nephew.

>>17621617

Gonna have a small break here, I'll be back within 10 minutes.
Cheers!

name him/her largen

Don't get that blue shit anywhere NEAR our fucking nest or eggs.

>>17621617

Take that spider and put some blue stuff on it.

>>17621617
extreme fear of smaller spider-babies getting eaten by bigger spider-babies. Express the idea that these new hatchlings are NOT FOOD.

what happens if you mix the blue stuff and the green stuff together?

we need to teach the older spiders how to hunt for food and such

>>17621705
finally! an idea that doesn't involve homicide

>>17621705
A good ant trap.

>>17621721
we can become an spider tribe, and we will be the dictator!
captcha: prozac tasks

>>17621747
i like the way you think

>>17621749
no.... we will become empress

You lift the baby to air and showcase her to your siblings.
"This is your new family member, treat her as if she was born form the same brood as you, for we are all a big family."

>>17621857
Help her out of the egg.

>>17621775
>>17621775

Did you make that yourself?
If so, I am honored.

>>17621857
feed the new baby

>>17621857

Just jumping in to say that this is the cutest quest on /tg/.

Ever.

>>17621857

We shall name this spider Tamequa.

>>17621864

She is out of the egg. Her remaining siblings however are still inside theirs.

>>17621857

Call Dorpou! They're his children too! He surely wants to see them right now!

so... we need to feed the baby spiders. what do they eat? mush of some sort? because if the aphid bits that melted are safe to eat then it could be a good food source. but we have to be EXTRA careful with that shit. dont want to hurt any spiders

>>17621857
cue the Lion King

>>17621869
sadly no i did not do that, i found that while lurking /tg/

Check the food supply. We need to hunt a bit? Now's the time to decide.

>>17621929
we do need to get food now that is a fact

>>17621924
lmfao!

You leave the newborn to the care of your siblings for the moment it takes you to call Dorpou.
He responds, and starts running towards your nest.

>>17621988
only to be intercepted by a wasp

Maybe the hatchling can help us develop our alphabet.

As he arrives you tell him that the eggs are starting to hatch, and that you need more food here asap!
He says that he will bring some from the storage for the immediate concern, and after that he shall check the traps you made and go hunting.

You also mention that he could tell Andor that he could fetch few more aphids, if he would be so kind.

We need to improve our food collecting still with newborns now

>>17622079
this, completely and utterly this.

Yay, I've been waiting so eagerly for the babies!

Err. What are your siblings doing with the spider baby?

>>17622102
nom nom nom

SO! heres what needs to be done if im correct!
Food get!
defense's
random shit.

Dorpou rolls one of the web sacks containing food to the nest, and then goes hunting.
Your siblings join you in aiding the spiderligns to hatch. They predigest the food bits for easier ingestion for the babies, and tend to them while you help them out of their eggs and lift them out of the egg-sack. Isaac is rather curious, but one of your siblings is ensuring that the centipede doesn't get too close.

Lets do some hunting...

or...

lets kill the spider that was living in this cave before and eat him. I dont trust him around the spiderlings.

>>17622234
he seems Bro-tier to me

>>17622234
*Sigh* No, the spider is bro, we don't kill fellow spiders unless they atack us first.

>>17622231
Hug Isaac when we're done with helping our little spiders hatch. Don't want him to feel left out.

Isaac has gotten big...

>>17622234
We don't want to found our dynasty on mistrust and betrayal.

>>17622297
and why not?

>>17622309
They tend to be messy and short-lived once you're not around.

>>17622309
it sets a bad example of the younglings, AND will probably cause them to eat each other.

>>17622309
A house divided against itself cannot stand.

>>17622324
A spider whose legs do not work together goes nowhere.

Your family now has about 20 new members.
The 14 food units have already been halved. In a day, your brood+your siblings will need 15 units of food for now. As they grow the numbers will increase.

(Goddammit, how will I be able to deal with this many spiders?! So many legs to draw.)

>>17622322

Then go "Hunting for aphids" kill him discreetly and suck him dry for the proteins. Then when you return, say he was killed by a wasp.

Only Bibi need know it happened.

>>17622341
Copy and paste. They have no unique features.

Let's go hunting.

>>17622351
He's more valuable as a guard than as food. And I don't think he's a significant threat.

>>17622351
Let's not rid ourselves of an elder with information we don't have.

Why haven't we named any spiders yet?

I think we can trust the old spider.Besides, if we keep our young under supervision until the can protect eachother and their selves then we will not have to worry, now we should start developing that alphabet.

>>17622404
food first

you guys do know we now need to develop a way to hunt more at a time.

What shall you do now. Dorpou hasn't returned jet, the brood is fed, and everything seems fine, as long as Dorpou manages to bring food.

>>17622425
We can supplement our hunting with the aphid farm.

we shall make rooms! a room for everyone!

>>17622419
We could probably start making letters in our head while we search for something to hunt.

>>17622433
Have Ranou keep an eye on the spiderlings and Isaac, then get out there and help Dorpou hunt.

>>17622400
Name the first spider Dorpou Jr. for a daaaaawwwww moment

>>17622419
>>17622450
You guys know that Dorpou is already hunting?
If you wish, you can off course go though.

Well we live in a tree and the old spider bro is a proper web-building spider unlike us. He could teach us how to build a prober web and we could lay some web-traps between the branches to catch flying bugs etc.

Apart from that we could ask Andor to work together with us more closely for mutual benefit. He can fly and carry us...which will greatly incerease the range in which we can hunt. We could spot potential pray from a higher up position on Andors back and when spotted we can dive in for an attack with our bolas or an slingshot in Andors back. With that tactic we should be able to secure much prey, much more then andor and we could hunt alone for ourselves. YAY FOR SYMBIOSIS!

>>17622524

On top of that, if Danger arises we are much more capable of fighting it off together....and when in need we could flee much better on his back. Even if a stray wasp spots us Andor could concentrate on flying and fleeing while we could fend off the attacker from his back, again with bolas or a slingshot.

Seems like this was consensus.

You ask Ranou to guard your nest while you go and aid Dorpou in hunting.

We've been neglecting our defense. Build slingshots and teach the youngsters (but not the youngest-sters) how to use them!

we should build more hang gliders.

>>17622571
And then we can start project Big Bird.
>>17619594

You find Dorpou stalking a creature that has been stuck to your web.
"Do you need assistance?"
"No, dear. I got this. You should be with the children right now. Leave the hunting to me."

>>17622594
while we are working on these things, we will also be making that alphabet in our mind.

>>17622628
bitch/spider slap him for being sexist

>>17622628
he gots this, back to being a mad scientist

>>17622571
>>17622591
>>17622594

You remind yourself of the multiple projects that you need to finish as soon as you can.
What shall you start with?

defenses. i consider the bird part of that but thats a big one...

>>17622661
The gliders. Might even help us escape if things should ever go down south.

>>17622661
turret defenses, and training (aka slingshots)

>>17622690
Yeah, we need something that can take out a flier.

Next step for defense would be the bird carcass.

>>17622661

Hug Isaac.

Then check that the magic mushroom 'o aphid torture is safely made off limits to our mini horde.

I forgot about this quest after the first one. OP, you are an awesome person.

>>17622699
OH DAMN

Did we even TELL anyone that thing is deadly?

>>17622699
I second the hugging and the telling.

Our hole in the tree is very open. We need to wall off the upper reaches with web to stop flyers from getting in.

>>17622727
agreed, fortify defenses +2

>>17622552
Welp, time to wait for OP.

About project scarecrow. Again, Ranou is a proper web-building Spider. Maybe he can help us with that. His webbing skills should be way better then ours. Maybe we can even keep parts of the scarecrow moveable, like the wings through marionette-like strings. So we could scare away wasps etc. even better.

>>17622644
Before heading back to the nest you quickly smack him for his demeaning comments.
"Ow, what was that for?"
"I can hunt as well as you can, you..you.. DUMMY!"

>>17622772
Wouldn't it be easier to put a web over the hole and cover it with foliage and sticks.

Appropriate random female behavior noted.

Now get back there an get to work!

>>17622785
No

>>17622772
and then set up the slingshots using him as a base

>>17622841
the bird that is, not ranou

When you get back to the nest you start building multiple slingshots. Luckily the bird's nest is made from sticks, so there is no shortage of materials. Making the slingshots costs you 10 protein, leaving you with 15.

Andor has also returned, and he brought two aphids with him.
He is curious about your future plans for them.

>>17622885
>He is curious about your future plans for them.

So am I. Why are we herding those things? They've served their purpose.

>>17622885
>15 protein
we should probably eat something sometime soon.

>>17622885
"we're going to make ant traps"

Easy food source, although we need a means to feed them as well.

>>17622909

Some of you had plans of using them as cattle as the ants do or something, but other than that, I don't know. I am making shit up as I go! No reason to make plans, as you guys will not follow the path I planned!

Not that I am complaining. This is entertaining as fuck.
Though I must say that it is unfortunately again quite late, so I will end this within a hour.

>>17622909
It's securing a group for raising like cattle.

We can farm ones in the wild instead, but that requires forming a perimeter against the ants.

>>17622925

and we could herd them or something, you know a long-lasting foud source.

also i think we should at one point return to the shed, andor could carry some more stuff, like those weels.

>>17622949
We don't have any kind of pasture for them nearby except the drug plants.

>>17622977

make the drug plant grow faster than the aphids can eat!

>>17622977
Yeah, so we'd probably have to haul food in...

This is useful if
1) Hunting is scarce, but plants aren't
2) or the outdoors is very dangerous, but we can get plants safely

Though you might be right that neither of those points actually holds. I say we keep them as an insurance policy for now, and keep them fed.

Worst-case we just use them to teach our brood how to hunt. They can practice pouncing.

Right, we learn from the ants. We don't need to kill aphids to get food, aphids can be "molken" for nectar. We are using them as cattle and have to think of it for the long term too. If we can get them to reproduce.....we took the first step into civilisation. We learned herding wich will net is with a steady income of food in form of nectar and the occassional aphid. And that all without the risks of hunting.

On top of that we can go hunting too to even bost our food production more...and a huge food production is the basis for a big family...and will net us the freedom for more aspiring projects. Like gliders to get an airforce, war carriages to crush the ants if they get cocky and so on and so on.

>>17623011
>hunting practice for brood

BINGO!

You guys are good.

>>17623024
>molken" for nectar
I'm pretty sure spiders can't even digest that stuff.

You explain to Andor your multiple for the aphids.
"If you are going to raise them like the ants, you need some food for them. I don't see many plants here, well besides the tree itself. I could perhaps help you with this project, if I get my cut of the aphids of course. I could fetch some plant stuff for them to eat. That should be easier than always fighting with the ants.

>>17622977

We literally live in a tree. Carrying leaves and stuff into the aphid pen is way easier and safer then hunting.

And if our aphid-herding plans succeed, we can offer Andor a share of the easy to get food...which will bind him even more to us and give us the opporunitiy to use his awesome services even more. Like hunting partnership and LADYBOMBER services.

>>17623051
YES.

>>17623051
all of my yes

>>17623051
/r/ that we name the kids already.
We have twenty kids, so there's plenty of names to go around. What do you say?

>>17623048

Well it is not really Nectar, I don't know what it is called right now...but it basically is almost pure sugar. Keep it in an bowl or something like that, spit some of your predigest-vomit on it and let it do its work and after that I am very sure we can eat it. We would need bowl or other things to store it in though. We could construct them from leaves and silk I presume.

Sounds good, and we *DO* want to take good care of Andor too.

We're gonna be a management mogul in no time at all.

>>17623086
It's going to be very hard to keep track of them anyway. Maybe name the ones that become distinctive? Make a name a right of passage or a privilege to be earned, rather than a default.

Even our brothers and sisters weren't named by our mother yet.

>>17621428
Find the smallest and biggest of your male hatchlings, and name them Ornstein and Smough, respectively.

>>17623099
Ooooooh, I like that idea.

The pact is sealed!
Andor will help you feed the aphids that you will protect, provided that he can eat a couple of them every now and then.

We should immediately train half of the hatchlings to be hunters to get a steady supply of food.

Have them practice on aphids maybe?

From the very first threads:
>>17432801
All hail Motorcycle, heir to the Spider Empire! MUHAHAHA!

>>17623111
Also, train them to be Bibi's loyal guardians. Train Ornstein to use a spear, and Smough to use some sort of bludgeoning weapon.

>>17623141

I am afraid that your hatchilings are far too tiny at the moment for such a task. They could hunt really tiny bugs, but the won't be any real help in your hunts for a while.

>>17623099
I like this idea. I like a lot.

>>17623119
I'd be more comfortable giving him a fixed percentage of all offspring, and any that become old/sterile/useless or die.

That we he can't eat our herd into the ground.

Did we hug Isaac yet?

>>17623178
I don't think so. We really need to rectify that.

hug the hell OUT OF HIM.

Also since it is the end of the thread, I request celebratory family dancing! Wave them legs together, spider family and friends! :3

We are going to need to eat before we can continue any projects. When is Dorpou coming back? Also, play with Isaac and your kids goddammit.

>>17623172
He assures you that he realizes the fact that if he over eats the herd will get nowhere. He says that his intention never was to completely stop hunting. He thought that the herd would provide a nice emergency cache in case of a rainy day.
>>17623178
You go and hug Isaac.

(I think that I'll end this soon. It is almost 1.30 am here where I live.)

>>17623259
D'aaaaw. Thanks for the thread. Any ETA for the next one?

>>17623259
Good night Spiderbro. Thanks for the quest. When can you start up another thread?

Maybe ask the old spider if he has any suggestions what to do?

You know, stay a while and listen.

Someone already archived it

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/17618746/

So vote on dat :3

"Honey, I am home!"
Dorpou enters to the chamber carrying a big insect.
And then the spider family had a great feast!
The end... for now.
>>17623274
>>17623280

I will try to start a new thread next Saturday about 10-14 server time. I will also answer to any input you guys might have.

Anyway seven and a half hours of solid spider questing again. Thank you very much OP, you rock! I am really enjoying this, I hope you do too!

>>17623351
>I will also answer to any input you guys might have.

Dude, as much as I'm in danger of getting diabeetus from it, I love it when you turn up the daaaaaaw.

>>17623361
It is nice to know that.
I find it funny how cutesy this quest turned out to be, as drawing all this cutesy stuff is almost completely out of character for me. I would be the last person in my social group that would be suspected of enjoying cute things.

I off course enjoy this too, otherwise I wouldn't be doing this.

excellent quest thread OP

>>17623434

Thank you. I will keep trying my best.

>>17623406

That is the wonder of the internet. Even grown men like me can safely admit to like cute things without having to fear to look like an idiot. And so far Spiderquest is great. It is a good mix of awesome, cuteness and creativity with a side-flavor of action and suspension. That and the simpleness of the exotic theme. Thumbs up.

>>17623462
True dat.
I hope that I will manage to keep that mixture fresh. I'd hate to see this turn stale.

The thing is, I really do only very minimal planning with this. Sure, I think some ideas for encounters and events, but beyond that, it is almost impossible to plan anything, as you guys always go to completely unexpected directions, and I just have to try to keep up, as I don't want to railroad this.

>>17623521
You've done a magnificent job, IMO. G'nite.

>>17623528

Night!

Forgot it was saturday so I missed the quest, but in terms of aphids, we could always use them as part of a way to keep Andor with us. We provide him with an aphid farm and he provides us with all the benefits that a ladybug can provide a spider empire. He could even collect the plants to feed them himself, especially considering he says he still wants to go out hunting. If Andor was ever wounded then we would be unable to keep him fed if not for an aphid pen.

>>17623727
Keep that in mind in the next session.