>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. You both have currently 100% if your reserves.

You can upgrade your nest with silk.Your nest currently has the following improvements:
>Small rudimentary web nest:
>Storage chamber
-20 units of food, 0 chitin plates, 3 metal shards, 1 chitin armor, 2 unfinished chitin armors.
>8 slingshots.
>Trap webs near the base of the tree.
>Expanded Aphid pen.
-5 aphids. Can hold up to 10 aphids.
>Warning web at the entrance to the tree hole and warning lines.
>Drop down net attached to the ceiling at the entrance.
>Reinforced sticky webs at the entrance.

There is also a bird's nest which contains all kinds of stuff.

Your current skills:
>Efficient web architecture.
-The protein cost of your silk structures is reduced by 5 units. Structures costing 5 units will still cost 1 unit.

You also need to feed your family.
Your siblings, brood and Isaac combined require 15 units of food per day. They are fed for this day however. You and Dorpou require 4 units of food combined.

You are currently packing up the new nectar shipment. Dorpou is returning from a hunt, Ranou is giving the scarecrow prototype some final touches, Bubbles is playing with your siblings, Andor is out hunting aphids and Kahless is waiting for your signal to take off.
What shall you do?

head to the drop off point

>>18803372

After packing up, you put on your armor, jump on Kahless and then you fly out.
You head towards the sunflowers, Kahless carrying as much nectar as you managed to stuff into one web-sack.

proceed with the nectar drop off.

>>18803493

You land on the sunflower, and meet 321, as you had agreed.
"Oh, good, you are here. Let's just get this over with, ok?

She seems to be nervous for some reason.

Harumph.

Thought Andor was out cargo carrier.

>>18803558

Derp, I forgot the picture.

>Bubbles is playing with your siblings

In b4 we return to find her tied down and raging.

>>18803566

Kahless is huge though. Plus he's way more intimidating than Andor

>>18803572

Attempt to engage in small talk, fist ask how their hive is doing.

Supplying the bees isn't exactly our Raison d'être.

What happened to empire building? We were going to forge an alliance as the means to some dark damning end right? THE END OF THE WASPS!

"So, about them wasps?"

Noting intimidated bee parts peeking over lip of flower. So cuuuute!

Speaking of, where is Webby?

>>18803590
>>18803608

"So, how are things back at home?
Did the nectar help your queen?"

"Umm. Well...I..kinda?...Yeah, yeah, of course it did....."

"The wasps still giving you trouble?"

"Not for lo...No! No! I mean yes! Yes they are. Like always! I saw one just yesterday! Horrible creatures!"

>>18803648

"You seem, troubled?"

"Good, now about that alliance. Supply you we do but needs of our own we have. Which we note our hate of the wasps being fortunately coincidental. So .."

Bleah bleah. Diplomacy, bleah.

>>18803657

"Troubled! Me! hahahahah! Iamnotatalltroubled!Everythingisfinefinefine!
Nowgivemethenectarandfleebeforetheothersmanagetosurroundyouyoudumbspider!
No! No! I said nothing! Everything is OK! Hahah! Troubled... so funny joke heh!"

>>18803704

"Well if you say everything is ok I guess I will take you at your word for it. I would rather not have to slaughter a large group of bees today."

Then leave

Roll the ball over to the far side of the flower.

Remount Kahless.

Whisper to Kahless "Ambush be ready."

A better idea might be roll the ball over and away, if 321 turns her back nab her and jet.

>>18803731
>>18803737
>>18803750

Which is it then?

Voting for roll an' nab

( But I'm the one who suggested it so ... )

>>18803770

Sounds good enough.

Don't forget to leave a Die Hard note:

"Now I have an Apis florea .. Ho Ho Ho."

Just as 321 is about to pick up the web bundle, you roll it away from her.

"Hey, why did you do that?" She asks as she turns to pick it up again.

Probably a last chance to not follow thru but if we jet now they can still follow us. Hoping the ambush party is distracted by the mysterious package - so let's get us a hostage then run.

>>18803823

As she does that, you quickly pounce her.
"Aaaah! Whatishappeningwhatwhywhywhwyhelp!"

Before the lurking bees manage to respond you tie her up, and drag her to Kahless's back.

"FLY KAHLESS, FLY!"

"DON'T LET THE SPIDER GET AWAY!" Yells the overseer to her troops.
The bees take off after you.
"NOT ALL OF YOU! TAKE THE SOMEONE TAKE TO BUZZING BUNDLE AND TAKE IT BACK TO OUR NEST YOU BUZZING MORONS!"

The conflicting orders cause confusion amongst your pursuers, giving you a head start. After quickly figuring out who will take the bundle, the bees are after you.

Roll 1d10 for seeing if you can shake them off you.
Number to beat 5.
First 3 rolls are counted.

rolled 7 = 7

It begins

rolled 10 = 10

>>18803921

And yell "For the glory of spiders!!"

rolled 7 = 7

This package might make Webby's day

RN God is willing today

Praise be

The bees have no hope of catching up with Kahless. You fly off their grasp before they could even properly start chasing you.

What now?

>>18804034

Can we get the yard picture? Well really I just wonder if the lawnmower is still where it was.

>>18804054

here you go!

"We shall take her back as a sacrifice to our GOD!"

I'm sure Ranou is done with the scarecrow by now. Let's check it out and show her around. But start with some scare tactics.

Plus, you know, Bubbles is probably edging over to a fine shade of bundled livid about now.

>>18804073

Yes go to the lawnmower for questioning, it should prove an able atmosphere to bugs being tortured. We shall demand everything 321 knows! Like why the hell we were ambushed?

>>18804096
And why she warned us, I smell dissention among the bees. Which makes absolutely no sense what so ever, somethings happening and we need to know what.

You fly to the lawnmower.
"Why are you taking me here!" yells 321.

>>18804246

"To get you to answer questions my dear!"
Land near the oil.
"Now first, why were you ambushing me? Second a general What the hell?"

Holy shit, Spider Quest. I almost missed this.

Don't be so sneaky OP.

( General? Did I Miss something? )

"I need to ask you few very specific questions my dear.
Firstly, why the ambush? I thought that we had a deal.
Secondly, why did you warn me? Wouldn't that be kinda counterproductive for your ambush attempt?"

321 is clearly intimidated. She struggles for a moment against her bindings, before speaking.

"IbuzzingswearthatIdidn'tknowabouttheambusuntiltheoverseercameandtoldmetodistarctsotheycouldcap
tureyouanditwasnotmyideaandididin'twantitatall!"

>>18804338

Demand to know what's up with the hive and why the change of plans. Also tell her the deal's naturally off.

You don't cross bibi. You just don't.

>>18804338

"Ok then, however why the ambush? you must have some clue as to why they wanted to ambush me. So fess up and we don't use you to find out what that black stuff does."

So much for an alliance. Now what?

>>18804355
>>18804361

Threats seem to cause her head to clear up a little.
"NO NO! I will tel you! Don't put me to the black stuff! The overseer wanted to secure the source of the nectar! She fears that there will not be enough of it for tomorrow! That is why she wanted to capture you! She wants to get to the source of the nectar!
She needs the stuff to keep everything going as planned!"

>>18804409

"Ok now clear this up for me, What plan?"

"Plan?"

>>18803273
Fuck yeah, Spider Quest!

Do you plan to start the threads this early from now on? I hadn't expected this for another hour.

>>18804434
>>18804463

"Ummm, well the overseers kinda think that they can use the nectar you gave to us to poison the honey the wasps are going to steal tomorrow. They think that the wasps will go as nuts as the council and our queen did, and kill each other off.

>>18804501

Facepalm and say "you know I could have gotten you actual poison if you wanted to kill the wasps"

>>18804501

If you had wanted to kill the wasps, we would've got better stuff for that.

...way better. (remember the stuff from the mushrooms back in the tree that killed the aphid almost instantly?)

However, I think further deals with the bees are out of the question.

>>18804517

"You what? Actual poisons? You mean that you have other stuff than the nectar? What kind of buzzing spider are you?!"

"Except for the fact we don't know for certain how the wasps will react to it I'm OK with this. Also: ..."

>>18804517

>>18804540

Yea but I think we would want to mix the two the aphids didn't want to eat the mushrooms so I think that mixing the two would work to cover up whatever made the aphids not want to eat the mushrooms.

>>18804544

The curious empire building kind.

Just dumping poison on them won't work, they're sure to test it first.

Come to think of it there's no guarantee they won't just nibble a bit of nectar and discard it. So.

"Well this is fine mess. Maybe I should try the ants?"

>>18804577
>>18804572

"Your poisons wouldn't have worked anyways probably. The reason why the overseers wanted to use the nectar is precisely because it smells exactly like normal nectar. The effects only manifest later, or at least on the council and queen they did when they first drank it, according to the overseers. The wasps wouldn't notice a thing.

It doesn't matter anymore anyways. The overseer is sure to go forward with the plan, even if she doesn't get her hands on the source."

Sneak into the hive and beenap the queen. An intervention, if you will.

Our path is clear.

>>18804618

I don't know that we could manage that.

>>18804617

Help them go through with the plan. Send 321 back with the poison and as soon as the Bees take care of the wasps there will be a massive upheaval within the hive due to us cutting off access to the nectar after that. Perhaps we could fund the Bee Queen's army with weapons to help them retake her control over the hive from the Overseer.

Kill 1 and a half birds with one delivery.

Hell even if it fails the wasps will go to war with the Bees leaving them both in a weakened state for us to use.

Well we could just let the bees go forward with the plan, hell it might work.

"What makes you think the wasps will just go after each other? What if it makes them gang rush your hive? Who knows how they organize themselves, they might have some ambitious overseers of their own you know. I see this all ending badly."

>>18804665
>>18804645

"Don't ask me! It's not my buzzing plan! I didn't come up with it! I am just a pawn of the overseer! She thinks it will work, and she, along with her allies are in a position to go forth with the plan! Now was that all? Will you let me go now?!"

Well, what do we do?

I'm OK with letting the bees go forward. I still predict it will end badly. I hate them wasps so why not? The bees aren't even official allies so we've got no real agreement with them. Plus the ambush.

We can let 321 go. We should at least warn her this may not be the best thing for them.

>>18804705

Let her go, but tell her, "if the overseers ever want more nectar its going to cost them, and I have little to no use for honey, but I'm, sure I will think of something."

>>18804705

Leave her a means of escape so she'll be busy unbinding herself while you make our way back. Chip of paint might do the job.

"We'll leave a large does of the poison and the nectar in caches here in a few hours. Bring plenty of bees to carry it. The two batches will be clearly labeled. The poison will have a leaf woven onto the outside of the bag."

You warn her about going on with the plan.

"Your concerns are noted spider, but again, I am not the one pulling the strings here."

You cut open the bindings on her secondary pair of limbs, so she can release herself, after which you depart from the place.

Wat now?

>>18804813

Head back to base and bag a bunch of poison and nectar.

Do we want to mislabel the bag on purpose to stir up something or go through with giving them clearly labeled bags of both?

With regard to the bees await developments.

"Well that was a waste Kahless. You could have told me so."

Back to the tree? We could find some ants and observe them. Brood on them as potential allies for a while.

>>18804847

There is no chance to be allies with the ants. The bees may have fucked things up but they were really the only chance at an allied nation. We should focus on building up our nation for now.

>>18804847

We already killed ants to free Andor, and even if we had not, it doesn't seem all too likely the ants would be interested nor benefit from an alliance with anyone. They seem territorial, hostile, and most of all, already pretty damn powerful.

And again, judging from previous encounters, I'd say we're already at odds with them.

You return to your nest.

Andor has returned, and he apparently brought a new aphid to the pen.
Ranou is still working on the scarecrow.
Bubbles has been tied up in a bundle and is currently hanging from the roof. She seems annoyed.
Dorpou is trying to get your siblings to release Bubbles.

>>18804940

Help with operation release bubbles.

Praise Bubbles for an excellent training session. Free her.

Pull Dorpou aside it's time for a frustration pouting cuddle session.

>>18804940

Looks like we've gotta save Bubbles from her antics. Maybe we could make some sort of anti-web coating for her to wear when she messes with the kids again so they don't devourer her.

Afterward gather up a bunch of poison and nectar (empty the reserves). Once that's done take it to whatever drop off location it is and maybe get Bubbles to spy on the wasps or the Bees to see if the Bee's plan will work.

We could wait a day or so then go wasp hunting. Webby needs a better practice partner. We could pick up the news that way too.

Operation save Bubbles initiated!

You climb to where Bubbles is hanging and begin to free her.

"No big sis, we want to play with her for a little longer!" yells one of your siblings.

"No more games! I have had enough of being tied up! You should, like teach some manners to your kids Bibi." responds Bubbles.

"OK who's idea was this?"

>>18805108

"While it is amusing to trap Bubbles...*pause for annoyed outcry*...it gets to a point where you need to hold back. You guys have pretty much gotten to that point. I'll help you let her down, and I don't want to see you guys tormenting her this much again.

Was this Webby's idea?"

Need to give the kids something to do. Live fire ant hunting expedition anyone?

>>18805129
>>18805160

You scold the kids for needlessly teasing Bubbles, and when you inquire whose idea this whole thing was, they both immediately inform you that Webby was behind this all.

"When she saw that you and the dragonfly returned, she ran into hiding. I don't know where she went."

>>18805263

A hunting we will go. Let's teach her to torment the Aphids and not our allies, or maybe have Dorpou take her hunting and teach her that with great power comes great responsibility.

Also we need to actually get Bubbles down before she gets more annoyed.

>>18805283

A hunting we will go*

Meaning look for Webby.

"Webby front and center it's hunting time!"

Um .. anyone seen Isaac?

After freeing Bubbles you begin to search for Webby.

"I, like saw her jumping towards that bird thingy that Ranou is fussing over!" Bubbles yells to you as she flies to the water hole.
"It feels like SOOOO goood to stretch my legs!"

On her way out ask Bubbles to check over by the lawnmower, see if that bee we abandoned was able to escape.

>>18805354

Using Bubbles as a launch pad proceed to jump all the way to the bird project.

>>18805383

The water hole is inside the tree hole.

You go to Ranou and the scarecrow prototype.
Wat now?

let's go find Webby and find her something more productive to hunt. Then she can be useful and we won't have to worry about Bubbles.

>>18805558
"Have you seen one of my siblings around here?"
Ranou doesn't know her name is Webby I guess.

>>18805605

"I think I saw one of the little ones jumping past me. I think she went to the old bird's nest behind me."

I agree with the hunt plan. Also, you should give Dorpou some good time once in a while, he's been a responsible husband.

>>18805627
Oh boy. Thank him and go to the bird nest.

Thank Ranou and check the bird's nest.

You move to the bird's nest, and try to look for Webby. You can't see her anywhere.

>>18805757
Well shit. Dash to the plants?

Double check the nest, just in case.

>>18805788

You start moving towards the plants.

>>18805830
Turn around abruptly to the moving leaf
"AHA! GOT YOU!"

Check that leaf!

Child hunt.

OK.

Well that's one way to burn up their excess energy.

>>18805860
>>18805871

"HAHAA! There you are!"

Webby is startled by you, and she accidentally reveals herself completely.

"No fair!" She says and attempts to jump away.

>>18805915
"Stop right there, young lady. You're only making things worse!"

>>18805928

"No! I didn't do anything!"
She jumps to the edge of the nest.
"No one can catch me! I move like a whirlwind!"

>>18805962
Let's see if she isn't all talk and chase her a bit~

>>18806000
this

>>18806000
>>18806050

The chase is on!
Roll 1d10 to see if you manage to catch her immediately.

Number to beat : 7
first 3 rolls are counted.

rolled 4 = 4

>>18806088

"You won't get away!"

rolled 83 = 83

>>18806088
My try!

rolled 2 = 2

>>18806112

I guess that would count as an 8 right?

>>18806112
Whoops, typed one 0 too much. Are you okay with simply dividing that roll by 10 and rounding down?
Would still net us an 8. Or should I roll again?

rolled 2 = 2

GETTUM

>>18806122

Depends, would you like a longer chase or a shorter one?
You can re roll, if you wish.

rolled 1 = 1

>>18806135
Hmmm, I'll let the dice decide.
1= reroll
2= taking the 8

rolled 5 = 5

>>18806148
Okay, rerolling with a d10.

Could be a long chase.

It's OK, let's do the happy fun parenting thing and burn some energy!

She manages to narrowly slip away from your grasp, as she quickly jumps towards the nectar plants.

Roll 1d10 to see if you manage to catch her on the second attempt. Number to beat: 6

rolled 3 = 3

>>18806192

rolled 9 = 9

>>18806192

rolled 6 = 6

Come on...

You manage to catch her.

She seems somewhat shocked by that.

>>18806312

Then she begins to struggle intensely against you.

(Yay 501st spider quest pic!)

>>18806343

Tie her up.

>>18806312

"You may move like the whirlwind young lady, but you were racing against a tornado. A very, very annoyed tornado that has the power to make your next week less than pleasant."

Scold for picking on bubbles. Again.

>tobaco 1787

I am sure that is a good year captcha, but I really don't think that is an appropriate message to send to a young spider.

Tie her up and scold her, then we can try to make her focus her boredom on something productive.

>>18806371
i think the tobacco is for Bibi

You tie her up, and scold her for teasing Bubbles.

"I didn't do anything to her! We were just playing! I did nothing! The others can prove that!"

Yeah, no need to be harsh here - we're partly at fault for not doing the parenting thing.

Toss her over our back and let's get to hunting!

>>18806449
We should think about the delivery

>>18806475

What delivery? we didn't agree to give the bees any more stuff.

"Bad, bad, bad! OK! Who's up for hunting?"

Yeah, our delivery needs work. Dorpou can reign us in I'm sure.

>>18806449

You decide that the best way to calm Webby down is to take her hunting with you.
What will you attempt to catch?

>>18806526

A case of cordiceps.

>>18806526

Are there any grasshoppers to hunt?

I'm voting for ants but the world's wide open, eh?

We do want to take the gang 'o kids along too.

>>18806544

Umm...don't we have an impending war with wasps/bees to be concerned with?

So there is a vote for ants and a vote for grasshoppers. In addition, someone wants you to die horribly to a cordyceps infection.

What will you hunt?

>>18806482
Here:
>>18804813

>>18806558

We aren't at war with them, we can go look later to see how many died.

>>18806567

Ants are good

>>18806581

That post says nothing about a delivery.

While the bee / wasp thing is important, domestic duties are a calling.

Overall we seemed to have agreed that letting the bees to the biological warfare strike was OK if rather risky. Just not risky for us. Guess we're gonna sit this one out.

I for one don't like the wasps, and am happy to see them get a smack down, but my motivation is based on one single act the wasps did a while ago. We did save one once so hate of the wasps is not totally agreed on.

I think the real plan though was just to ally with the bees. Well, they ambushed us. Current attitude seems to be "the hell with them too."

Might wanna pause and determine what we need to prioritize now but we do really need to put some parenting time in.

>>18806590
Aaaaagh, the one before that!
>>18804758

I'm confused now. I don't think it was noticed.

Note to Spider Quest OP - we might need to pause and argue this out or at least get a majority consensus. We did effectively drop 321 and ignore the bees. I don't want to just run over a part of this story, and people who just came in may be confused. It also may seem a little out of character. ( I don't think so - we a spider not a NGO hug friendly thing. )

Basically at this point we said "fuck em."

>>18806613

Well we might make a deal with the bees again later, mostly because neither the ants or the wasps would want anything to do with us, so the only nation that could become allies are the bees.

>>18806654

Feel free to do so.

Btw, didn't anyone notice the plot hook I placed to the OP?

>>18806688
?
>You also explored the surroundings of the tree and discovered a large thing made from some thin and colored material stuck in the higher branches of the tree.

Damn it no I did not notice that, and I got into this thread at the beginning, I feel dumb now.

rolled 9, 2 = 11

consume the children
ignite the tree into a ball of flame

> ..a large thing made from some thin and colored material stuck in the higher branches of the tree.

Um ... that? I'm afraid I came in late and skimmed thru to get in and going.

OK .. but we still need to chase the kids around or something.

>>18806736
the dubs have spoken

>>18806736

While that does sound good, it might interfere with our currant plans. So lets put that on the back burner for after bibi goes insane.

If you feel that you need to discuss your plans further, just say so.
Though I need to inform you that I will stop soon, so the plans will come in fruition in the next session.
It is already 1 am here where I live.

Awwwright. Explore the higher parts of the tree with Webby. Also, is it difficult to get up there? If not then we might take our other siblings with us.

We also need more material to finish the armor, but we'll come back to that later.

OK, we're floundering here.

Options:

a) "Hm, never noticed that before" .. toss the kids at Dorpou and investigate.

b) Let's hunt stuff .. UP THERE!

c) Get the hunt over with first then mount a tree top expedition.

How's that gang? What do we do?

>>18806784

Yes let us finally go for the plot hook no one noticed.(I blame myself)

Then after the session is over with bibi and webby should go hunting for something that would be good for making armor out of.

So the consensus seems to be moving up the tree.
Very well then. Instead of hunting, you take Webby with you to explore the strange object you spotted in the canopy of the tree, that you somehow forgot to check out until now.

( Note to self: when you feel you're missing something go back and re read carefully BECAUSE YOU'RE MISSING SOMETHING. )

It is bigger than you thought.
It is stuck between the branches of the tree.

>>18806910

Well get closer look at how its stuck, also check out the dangling bit.

>>18806934

You send Webby to check out the dangling bit, while you yourself investigate how the thing is stuck.
It seems that it is constricted between the two branches, there is some dead leaves and stuff that lock the thing very tight.
The material of which the thing is made from seems quite frail. It looks like it could be cut with the glass or metal shards you have inside your nest.

Webby informs you that the dangling bit seems to be some sort of long thin sheet woven from weird strings.

OK, let's free it.

>>18807039
Go back to the nest and fetch some glass for cutting

>>18807185
>>18807196

What will you do?

How about send webby back to get some glass. Webby got all that energy, etc.

We can examine it further. Maybe have a look around, see what we can see from up here.

If we free it the giant might take it before we can take some materials...

>>18807225
>>18807236

So I take that you will try to fetch the glass.

You send Webby on her way to get the glass.

Nibble on it?

It seems not a bird.

Have Webby stalk it and bind it up? Come back three days later ...

While Webby is getting the glass, you gaze upon the world from the tree.

Those are wasps, I think.

Bees have a proper ground based artificial hive.

>>18807348

Yeah, those are wasps.

I might need to stop here unfortunately. It is already 2 am here where I live, and I am getting sleepy.
Sorry if this end in this kind of shitty spot.

That's OK, I think the player base is at a loss for what to do.

Take seven, see you next week. Thanks again OP!

Thanks to all who participated!
Sorry if this session lacked focus.

As usual, input is welcomed, and critique even more so, so I might improve.

bbeg

I think we all missed the obvious so this session was a bit of an undirected wandering thing. I still loved it. Sorry we were so obtuse.

Critique? If the players seem to have missed something don't fret about mentioning it again. At least they can bite or outright reject it, instead of just mellowing and staggering through outright ambiguity.

Keep in mind quite a few people wander in and out during the quest time so you can get people who jump in without reading everything in detail that happened earlier in the thread. It's a functional limitation of the medium.

I do think you're doing great and thank you!

>>18807452

Thanks.
I guess I'll be hitting the bunk now.
It has been fun folks!
I'll see you next Saturday around the same time.
And thanks to the anon(s) who keep archiving these threads. You rock!
Night guys!

I missed Spider-Quest. Now I am sad :-(

Well, next time again.