>>38951588
>Change topic. Greet everyone. Demand lessons in elf-words.

>>38951588

>Stick moth to ceiling, change topic, ignore Moth.

>>38951588
Announcements: twitter.com/REQMX

Q&A: ask.fm/REQM

Character Sheet and Misc:
http://pastebin.com/u/REQM

Archive:
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?tags=Re-Monster
or
http://archive.moe/tg/search/tripcode/!!7fb3j+Ac+pZ%20/type/op/
or
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rD-MZe51wYI63xxl-tG8dsxj-RWVtJu3S6Gzd6OTJSw/edit?usp=sharing

>>38951588
>>Change topic. Greet everyone.
>Stick moth back to ceiling.

>>38951588

>Grab moth, molest the FUCK out of those antenna, make her Squeak while we change topic and ignore any protest.

>>38951588
>Untie the moth.

>>38951649
>>38951588
>Make moth squeak
>Greet everyone

>>38951588
>Let people get settled. Demand elf lessons.
>Untie the moth.

>>38951588
Untie moth, and give her UNLIMITED HEADPATS. If she is not left squirming and squawking from our ministrations then we have yet to teach her a proper lesson.

Oh and change topic. Ask them if they saw any bears on the way here.

>>38951588
>Change topic. Greet everyone.
>Let people get settled. Demand elf lessons.
>Untie the moth.

Greeting everyone, teasing moths?
Writing.

REQM post a link on twitter

>>38951797
Damnit REQM I missed this vote because you didn't post a link on twitter.

>>38952046
>>38952088
My apologies. I'm a little scatterbrained right now.

Your family filters through the door, spreading through the blanket dotted living space.
You pull Nin off her feet, dangling her via blanket. If nothing else, you can keep her from being too much trouble? Maybe?

"Well, good afternoon, yes. How is everyone?"
There's a kind of universal chuckle at your words, your family snickering and grinning as Mom gives you a look.
"Everyone is well, yes? Noone attacked any giant monsters, or tried to fight a small war. Anything at all, really."
"That is... not my fault."

"I am sure. Have you kept out of trouble, spiderling?"
"I went fishing."
"For what."
"Fish?"

Your mother studies you again before snorting.
"For breakfast, yes? I am being serious."
"If you say so, dearheart."
You nod.

"It is just that we could see a plume of water from the forest, yes? And I thought to myself- Oh, my Lyra promised to stay out of trouble. That could never be her."
Nin starts to giggle.
You start to run your fingers through her antennae, and her voice catches in her throat with a little 'eep!'.

That'll teach her to laugh at you.

"I- ah. I may have tried to fish with my spear?"
"With your spear."
"With lightning."
"Why did you try to fish with lightning?"
"I thought it would be easier?"

"And was it?"
"Mostly it was embarrassing, yes."
Your father is trying very hard not to laugh.

>>38952171
Mom sighs again, sweeping her hair back irritably.
"As far as trouble goes... this is something of a blessing, I guess. I thought I would come back and see you eating a dragon, yes?"
"There are dragons in the forest?"
"Do not even dare."

Nin is starting to wriggle side to side- You let the moth back to her feet, slicing away the silk holding her tight.
She bursts free from her blanket cocoon, skipping two steps away and sweeping her wings out, stretching.
Spinning on her heels, she turns to face you, leaning forwards and sticking out her tongue defiantly.

Which you grab.

>That reminds you. Ask for language lessons.
>They might not have been fighting wars or monsters but everyone had to be doing something. Right?
>Sit next to someone and chat. (Who?)
>Other (?)

>>38952183
>>That reminds you. Ask for language lessons.

Show off to dad the elfish we know so far

>>38952183
>That reminds you. Ask for language lessons.
>They might not have been fighting wars or monsters but everyone had to be doing something. Right?

>>38952183

>That reminds you. Ask for language lessons.
>They might not have been fighting wars or monsters but everyone had to be doing something. Right?
>Also ask Elle about washable non moth wing harming dyes.

>>38952183
>That reminds you. Ask for language lessons.
Ask Dad for Elf words. Yes, we will insist on calling them Elf words.

>>38952183
>They might not have been fighting wars or monsters but everyone had to be doing something. Right?

>>38952183
>That reminds you. Ask for language lessons.
>They might not have been fighting wars or monsters but everyone had to be doing something. Right?
>Other
Embarass ourselves by proudly showing off the choppy elf words we've learned.

>>38952210
>>Also ask Elle about washable non moth wing harming dyes.

See this is terrible because Nin will just say " The Queen has painted me in her colors!"

>>38952183
>They might not have been fighting wars or monsters but everyone had to be doing something. Right?
We should learn what Aria and our brothers were doing.
Sara was undoubtedly reading books and exploding things.

>>38952183
>That reminds you. Ask for language lessons.
>They might not have been fighting wars or monsters but everyone had to be doing something. Right?

We can count to potato.

Language lessons it is!

Please offer me 3d100.

Rolled 35, 71, 36 = 142 (3d100)

I Offer these Dice to REQM

Rolled 18, 39, 46 = 103 (3d100)

>>38952374

Rolled 36, 99, 69 = 204 (3d100)

>>38952374

Rolled 79, 30, 28 = 137 (3d100)

>>38952374

Man, our shedding is getting really progressed.

I wonder at what point it will be appropriate to crawl out of our own shell.

36 99 and 69?

Writing!

>>38952387
>>38952390
>>38952392
>36, 99, 69
Well, that 99 is good, atleast, so it's not a complete failure.

>>38952431
huh?

>>38952431
Probably tomorrow. Course, i am wondering if our colour is going to be the same when it comes off.

>>38952461

Crustaceans get rid of their damaged carapace by just out-and-out replacing ALL of their carapace.

It's like watching a disembodied hand try to wriggle out of a latex glove.

>>38952491

>Crustacean

Arthropod.

What the fuck, me.

>>38952452
I hope the 99 is for Sheszka and she's schooling us at language learning

>>38952514
Was going to say, close family, but distinct.

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>>38952531

My brain problems are acting up again.

Still, the statement remains true, shit is disturbing to watch, and often takes a long ass time.

>>38952565
Considering the sturdiness of Layla's Chitin, and the fact it will be infused with her magic, it might be a mold-able and useful material. Could certainly think about improving our shield or using it as a hand grip for the spear

Actually, Ezzy might have tips on what could be done with shed skin, her pastebin says she's worked with her own before.

>>38952609
who the fuck is Layla?

>>38952609
Sooo,
how are we going to shed and not lose our butt skull?

>>38952677
Uhhhm, magic?

>>38952661
Lyra, sorry, close enough.

>>38952677
I think the skull is a permanent addition. Though i get the feeling if we ever did manage to break it, something serious would happen.

>>38952677
It's a magic skull, it sheds off and underneath is a new skull of equal size and shape.

>>38952677
well I think we're only replacing the damaged stuff on our arms, and maybe a leg.

but you do raise a good point. if we had damaged our chitin around the skull I have no idea how we would have managed to shed that area and keep the skull.

maybe we would loose it and the next morning it would reappear the way it first showed up when we evolved?

>>38952719
>>38952677
Obviously, we lose the outer layer of our skull, just like we lose the outer layer of our chitinous armor.

We grow a new one.

>>38952183
Just got to the thread but I think we should see what's goin in in the sweet life of zack and ephram they are so ignored.

>>38952845
You know what?
You're right.

ZACH AN EPHRAM, FULL STATUS REPORT

>>38952857

"Well, after we evolved, hunting deer got way too easy."

"Yeah, now we hunt bears."

Both nod.

"...so you wanna talk about hunting bears?"

>>38952916
Yes.
Yes lyra does.

Do they always attack zach an ephram for no reason like they do us?

>>38952374
>The third number is for Nin learning Elvish
LANN. Why are you teaching Nin the lewd words!

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>>38952857
>ZACH AN EPHRAM, FULL STATUS REPORT
They're chillin'.

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>>38952916
Yes.

Yes I would like to talk about hunting bears.

"Muh- Luhrah leggo!"
"Sticking out your tongue is rude, yes."
"Nuuuuh-"

Oh, that reminds you. Lann's lessons were nice, but you bet your father's would be better.
More accurate. Probably involve books, too.

You step towards him, and Nin follows, mostly because you have her by the tongue.
"Dad?"
"Lyra- What are you doing now?"

You glance at the moth and let go of her tongue.
"Nothing, yes. I learned some elf-words from Lann."
"I- Oh?"

You demonstrate.

You find yourself worried for your father's teeth, as he is clenching his jaw so hard that he has broken out into sweat.
"That was, ah. Very good, dear."
"It wasn't, was it?"
"No, no-"
"You were trying not to laugh, yes."
"You just have a very, ah. Unique accent."

You snort, folding your arms and taking a seat.
"Teach me, please? I wanted to meet your family, yes. I do not want to be laughed at."

He smiles softly, and lets himself laugh a bit as he takes a seat cross-legged in front of you.
"They wouldn't laugh, I'm sure."
"Really?"
"Well. My sister would laugh. But they speak plainspeech, as well."
"I still want to learn."

"And I can teach you."

The first half of the lesson goes over well. He retreads what Lann taught you, and fixes your pronunciation.
Elvish is hard.

The second half is harder- You're picking it up easier now, though the words are getting, in your opinion, kind of ridiculous.
It is the sea. It does not need a twelve letter word. No, you do not care if it is 'beautiful' or that it translates to 'softly flowing tides'.
You decide humans are better at getting to the point.

>>38953085
At least, when he's done you have a passable vocabulary.
And he taught you how to say "I don't know that word." and "I can't find a word to describe-".
You're sure you'll get a lot of use from those.

Your friends and siblings joined in, picking up what they could.
And now you're all sitting around and conversing in half-elvish as Mom laughs, and Dad flinches at any particularly bad desecrations of his ancient and hallowed language.

>Bug your siblings for stories. Or something.
>Remind your father to write a letter. Within a few days, not a few decades.
>Your arm is really starting to itch, now.
>Other (?)

>>38953113
>>Bug your siblings for stories. Or something.
>Remind your father to write a letter. Within a few days, not a few decades

>>38953113
>Bug your siblings for stories. Or something.
>Remind your father to write a letter. Within a few days, not a few decades.
>Your arm is really starting to itch, now.

>>38953113
>>Bug your siblings for stories. Or something.
Talk to me, siblings. I've not seen you brothers in so long!
>>Remind your father to write a letter. Within a few days, not a few decades.

WHATEVER YOU DO DON'T THINK ABOUT HOW ITCHY YOUR ARM IS

>>38953113
>>Other (?)
Has Dad finished work on that spell or magical item that will allow us to stay in contact over long distances?

>>38953113
>>Remind your father to write a letter. Within a few days, not a few decades.

>>38953113
>>Remind your father to write a letter. Within a few days, not a few decades.
>Other (?)
Ask him how you might go about learning a few fire spells. Want to live up to the good Firescairn family name and all of that.

>>38953113
>Bug your siblings for story's
How goes the sweet life of zach and ephram and do they hunt bears yet?

>>38953113
>Bug your siblings for stories. Or something.
>Remind your father to write a letter. Within a few days, not a few decades.
What have Zack and Ephram been up to?
Is Aria still hunting giant bears? Would she like to come with us to hunt a bear larger than a house?

>>38953113
>Bug your siblings for stories. Or something.
>Remind your father to write a letter. Within a few days, not a few decades.

They all know we're going to molt, don't they. Mom told them and they thing it'll be funny to watch us freak out.

Well, they're going to be disappointed. Reincarnation and the gift of meta-knowledge! Ha! No hilarious freak out for you.

>>38953113
>Bug your siblings for stories. Or something.
>Remind your father to write a letter. Within a few days, not a few decades.

Itching can wait its turn.

Family time it is!
Writing!

>>38953113
>Bug your siblings for stories. Or something.
>Remind your father to write a letter. Within a few days, not a few decades.
>try not to scratch arm
>try REALLY hard not to scratch that arm
>scratch the fuck outta that arm

>>38953113
>>Bug your siblings for stories. Or something.
>Your arm is really starting to itch, now.

So, lyra is attempting to ignore how much her arm is itching then.

THAT will work for suuuuure.

>>38953478
It'll just end up her shedding some of it while preoccupied. Won't even notice cracking a chunk off.

>>38953585
>implying we're so lucky
No matter what we chose, itchyness is the true course of action.

It seems like it's been so long since you sat down and spoke to your brothers and sisters- though you manage to remind yourself of other things before you get too distracted.

"Dad?"
"Oh, well spoken."
"Thank you, yes? But you need to, ah. Remember to write a letter. For your family, so I can carry it to them."
"Oh!"

He snaps his fingers and nods, and goes stalking through the house to find himself a table. You don't think your sister has any chairs though.

You settle down between Sara and Aria, and set yourself to finding out what your siblings have been up to.
Your smallest sister gives you a rather exacting looking, scanning you over with pursed lips. She reaches out wordlessly, poking at your cracking chitin while Aria looks on.

"I am fine, yes? A little slow, but Mom says that it will pass."
"Sometimes I think you are more than a little slow, yes."

"Ah. Hm. So, ah. What have you been doing?"
"Magic. Lots of magic, yes. I tried to learn fire spells from Dad, but it wasn't working."
"No?"
"Mm. I need to study more. More spells, more kinds of magic- I am running out of books, yes."
"You were looking at libraries before. Are you still going to head for those?"

"I am a little surprised you remembered."
"I remember everything-"
Aria snorts.
"-just not all at once."
"Do you remember all the times Mom has told you to stop doing dangerous things?"

"Are you both going to do this?"
Your sisters exchange a look around you, and nod.
"That is not fair at all.

"Life is not fair, I am told."
"Dad told her that. When she asked about magic."
"You tried learning it too?"
You ask, turning to Aria.

"It seems useful."
"That is true. Not as much for me-"
"You use magic all the time!"
"I cheat all the time. I cannot use magic without Dad or Sara or my stone, yes? And the stone cannot do everything."
"Huh."

>>38954120
"Mhm."
You lean back on your shell, looking across the circle to your brothers, who have yet to stop conversing in elvish.
You are fairly certain that they have been arguing back and forth over who has caught more animals.

"What have you two been up to?"

They turn to you in time with each other, even blinking simultaneously.
"Hunting." "Being better at hunting than Zach."
"No."
"Yes."
"I caught more."
"You caught twelve, I caught thirteen."
"The last one was mine. You stole it!"
"You didn't get it fast enough so it was mine!"

Are you even a part of this conversation?
"Don't worry. They do this all the time now, yes."
"What? Arguing?"
"Yes."
"That is dumb."
"Yes."

>That itching isn't going away.
>Has Aria joined the guild yet?
>Convince the boys to stop arguing, maybe?
>Other (?)

>Other (?)
Ask momma if it is time to shed yet.

>>38954142
>>That itching isn't going away.

>>38954142

>That itching isn't going away.
+
>>38954165
Goes together i bet.

>>38954142
>>That itching isn't going away.
>>Has Aria joined the guild yet?
What itching we arent itching. Nope no itching here.

>>38954142
>>That itching isn't going away.
>Has Aria joined the guild yet?

I don't think we are actually ever going to convince brothers to stop arguing.

ESPECIALLY In an argument over whether the catch counted as zach's or ephiram's.

That is the kind of argument you carry to your grave.

>>38954142
>>That itching isn't going away.
>>Has Aria joined the guild yet?

>>38954142
>That itching isn't going away.

>>38954142
>That itching isn't going away.
>Has Aria joined the guild yet?

>>38954142
>That itching isn't going away.
>Has Aria joined the guild yet?
is everyone being mean because we got hurt?

>>38954120
Slipping back into old habits again bro

>>38954142
>Has Aria joined the guild yet?
>Other: Ask the brothers what they're hunting now.

>>38954230
I can support the other.

What did they catch twelve and thirteen OF?

>>38954165
Supporting this.

Itching and sisterly concern!

Writing!

Your arm itches.
A lot of you itches, actually, but you were trying to ignore that but it won't stop itching.
It just- it keeps going and itching and itching and itching.

Aria!
Talk to your sister and don't think about how even your back is starting to itch and you can't reach under there what are you supposed to do how do you scratch chitin it's like armour-

"Aria!"
"Wha-"
"Yes! You wanted to join the guild. Have you done that yet?"
"Why are you yelling?"
"Sorry. Sorry, it is nothing."

One hand creeps up, fingers digging at the cracks in one arm.
"Well, I was thinking I would see..."
You aren't really listening. Scratchy scratchy-
Oh gods yes. That is heaven. Perfection. Whoever said not to scratch itching things? What an idiot. Probably sat there like a moron and never felt relief or-

Huh.
"Lyra? Are you listening?"
"You wanted to talk to people first?"
"That's not how I said it, but that is what I meant, I guess."
"Mhm."
"What's so interesting in your hand?"
"I think it is a piece of my arm?"
"Uh..."
"I think I will go see mom now."

The chitin beneath the layer you just scratched off is a gleaming red- the same colour you were, but shinier. And vaguely see through? Are those bones? Can you see your bones?
You're starting to feel a little light headed.

>Moooooooooom!
>No, no. Rationalize this. Spiders do this, right? Calm down. Calm down.
>You're see through? People aren't see through. You can't be see-through right now!
>Other (?)

>>38954900

>You're see through? People aren't see through. You can't be see-through right now!
>Moooooooooom!

>>38954900
>Moooooooooom!
>No, no. Rationalize this. Spiders do this, right? Calm down. Calm down.

>>38954900
>Moooooooooom!

>>38954900
>No, no. Rationalize this. Spiders do this, right? Calm down. Calm down.

Spiders moult. We're a Giant Spider. Nothing to worry about. But we should ask if there's a certain way we're supposed to do this.

>>38954900
>>No, no. Rationalize this. Spiders do this, right? Calm down. Calm down.

>>38954900
>No, no. Rationalize this. Spiders do this, right? Calm down. Calm down.

>>38954900

>Moooooooooom!

>>38954900
>>No, no. Rationalize this. Spiders do this, right? Calm down. Calm down.

It does make sense. Calling Mom seems like a good idea, though.

>>38954900
>Faint

>>38954900
>Moooooooooom!

You didn't say this would be IIIIITCHY

>>38954900
>No, no. Rationalize this. Spiders do this, right? Calm down. Calm down.
>Moooooooooom!

>>38954900
>Moooooooooom!

>>38955004
>faint
This is fucking hilarious and grand.

>>38954900
Quick put it back on and secure it with webbing, people are not supposed to be see through

>>38954900
>>Moooooooooom!
>Faint

>>38954900
>>Moooooooooom!
>>No, no. Rationalize this. Spiders do this, right? Calm down. Calm down.

Why don't we show dad that we have bones?

>>38954900
>Be cool. You watched a show about this on Animal Planet, right?

>>38954900
>Moooooooooom!
>No, no. Rationalize this. Spiders do this, right? Calm down. Calm down.
>Show dad that you have bones

>>38955031
>>38954900
Seconded!

>>38955092
>Why don't we show dad that we have bones?
Oooh, I like this.

>>38954900
>You're see through? People aren't see through. You can't be see-through right now!

If it were a bad thing, it would have hurt. Still weird to see, though.

You can deal with this. You just need mommy, that's all.

Writing!

And give me 1d100, for fun.

>>38954900
>>38955092
>we have bones

HOLY SHIT

HEY DAD WE HAVE BONES LOOK LOOK

Rolled 10 (1d100)

>>38955133

Rolled 7 (1d100)

>>38955133

Rolled 13 (1d100)

>>38955133
MOOOOOOOOOOM

Rolled 15 (1d100)

>>38955133

Rolled 35 (1d100)

Prevent fainting roll?
>>38955133

Rolled 71 (1d100)

>>38955133
who cares about that, WE HAVE BONES

Rolled 79 (1d100)

>>38955133

Rolled 65 (1d100)

>>38955133

>>38955139
>>38955145
>>38955148
>>38955151
wow that is low

>>38955139
>>38955145
>>38955148
>>38955151
>>38955153
>>38955157
Wat.

>>38955139
>>38955145
>>38955148
>>38955151
>PANIC!

>>38955139
>>38955145
>>38955148
PFFT. We fainted.

>>38955139
>>38955145
>>38955148
All these low rolls. Laughing my ass off.

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>>38955175

>>38955148
I fucked up. Welp. NAP TIME

Pffft. Lyra predends to be a hardass, but she gets light-headed as soon as she sees her own bones.

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>>38955139
>>38955145
>>38955148
>It's okay. It's alright. I'm cool. Everything's fine.

>>38955198
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1cs2lXXOuU

>>38955139
>>38955148
>>38955151
>>38955153
Bahahahahaha
You guys, please. This is spiders, not lizards

Fuck you guys I'm not paniking.

WE HAVE FUCKING BONES THIS IS AMAZING

We don't faint, we just somehow accidently get salt in there.

>>38955256
Oh, that's fine then.
by which I mean aaaAAAAAAAA

HEY WAIT A MINUTE.
Check our chitin in our lower body.
Do your spider parts have bones?

>>38955529
we just saw a bone, the answer is yes!

>>38955587
that was in our spider-arm.

I meant in our spider-legs.

>>38955609
What about our spider-butt? Does that have bones?

>>38955529
We have to find out. For SCIENCE!

>>38955529
>>38955609
The chitin is probably thick enough to be fine.

I would strongly suggest not trying anything extraneous until the entire affair hardens though. Don't want dents in the shell. We'll have to drop our passengers off while we shed.

>>38955622
well, obviously it has a skull.

>>38955529
We'd have to, arachne are just too large for their weight to be entirely supported by and exoskeleton alone. They would require an endoskeleton to help support the load.

You half stagger through the house, your brain working overtime.
It's okay. It's okay it's okay it's okay it's okay-
It's okay! You said that why isn't it okay yet.

No! No. Calm down. Spiders do this. Spiders do this and this is a thing that happens and everything is fine.
You just need to breathe.
In and out.
In and out.
Inandoutandinandoutand-
Too fast, that's hyperventilation where is Mom this is momtime.

You stumble against the wall leading into the kitchen, leaning wild eyed against the door frame.
Your parents look up- Your mother from gently massaging your father's back as he stands, writing that letter he promised.
Really though? That looks like four pages already.

Wait the letter doesn't matter-
Your mother raises an eye brow at your current situation, which is, specifically, kind of freaking out.
You manage to regain your feet, hauling yourself through the door and forwards, at which point your mother catches you, and you wrap your arms around her to try and stay upright.
Because things are spinning.

"Lyra? What are you-"
"SPIDERS HAVE HYDRAULIC MUSCLES-"
"What-"
"It's the fluid and it goes updown and they shed but they don't have bones- SPIDERS DON'T HAVE BONES I CAN SEE MY BONES WHY-"

She reaches out, picks your buckler off the counter and calmly upends it over your head, showering you in cold water.

Your chest heaves and burns as you rein in your breathing.
"I am calm. I am calm, I am calmcalmcalm-"
"You really can see her bones!"

Your turn your head in time with your mother to blast your father with a withering glare.
"Not now, dear."
He nods, and steps out of the room.

>>38955728
"Are you okay now?"
"No? I can see my bones."
"It is fine, yes. You are molting."
"Okay."

You stay there, hanging off your mom and trying to breathe like someone who's bones aren't on display.
She hums a gentle tune, brushing out your hair, and you gradually calm down.

"I was scratching it."
"That is fine."
"It was so itchy."
"Mhm."
"Can I see her bones now?"
"Dear, get out of the house.
"Alright."


>If it's safe, get the rest of this off.
>Is it gonna shed by itself?
>Ask for help with all the hard to reach bits.
>Other (?)

>>38955750
>If it's safe, get the rest of this off.
>Ask for help with all the hard to reach bits.

>>38955750
>If it's safe, get the rest of this off.
>Ask for help with all the hard to reach bits.

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>>38955728
>"SPIDERS HAVE HYDRAULIC MUSCLES-"
OH GOD MY SIDES HAS SOMEONE SEEN THEM.

>>38955750
>If it's safe, get the rest of this off.
>Other (?)
I really don't mind if dad looks at our bones very much. Science, after all.

Also, It would be cool to see them hydraulic systems close up. If we can see muscles.

>>38955750
>Is it gonna shed by itself?

>>38955750
Can we use it in making armor?
>>38955770
>>38955799
Second thses

>>38955750
>Ask for help with all the hard to reach bits.
>Let dad see the bones
He may offer some insight we have overlooked.

>>38955750
>Ask for help with all the hard to reach bits.

>>38955822
Yeah, I'm proud of our bone structure. And curious.

>>38955750
>>If it's safe, get the rest of this off.
>>Allow elfdad to ogle our endoskeleton.
I love this family.

>>38955750
>Is it gonna shed by itself?
How do we do this?

>>38955750
>Ask for help with all the hard to reach bits.
Can't wait until they ask us what a hydraulic is.

>>38955750
>If it's safe, get the rest of this off.
>Ask for help with all the hard to reach bits.

>>38955859
Indeed.

I am honestly curious as to the reaction we will get when we admit to having memories of a past life. From a world of technology no less.

>>38955859
I can't wait for hydraulics to be relatively common anatomical knowledge for spider doctors, and for it to be an athletic problem for your hydraulics to be off.

>>38955750
>>Is it gonna shed by itself?

>>38955819
>Can we use it in making armor?

Before moulting, the exoskeleton gets cannibalised by the body slightly, before being cut off from the circulatory system.

Sort of like how trees suck the good stuff out of leaves before they shed.

I have zero clue how this would effect our shells strength. I guess we'll just have to test it and see. Or ask Mom, she'd probably know. There might even be some sort of Arachne tradition for the first moulting.

>>38955859

Hell, we could use this as a way to broach that whole reincarnation topic.

Of course Mom will think that we're just traumatized but I wouldn't be surprised if Dad and/or Sara at least tentatively believed us.

>>38955924
>arachne anatomy inspires the first hydraulic engine

>>38955959
I don't really see any reason for us nto broach that topic, its increasingly irrelevant for Lyra, and its not like it affects anything for them.

>>38955859
Indeed, this is the first time we've ever actually mentioned knowledge we couldn't have acquired in the setting. I'm quite interested to see if anything comes of it.

>>38955859
Hydraulics have been in use since Greek times. It's not an unknown.

Family fun in the shape of prying off your dead skin with help!
Your family is weird.

Writing!

>>38955959
Yeah, nah.

Let it lie.

>>38956044
Don't forget the anatomy notes!

>>38955997
>>38956047
We don't need to directly bring it up, but if they start asking about hydraulic muscles and otherwise digging into how we know things we shouldn't, it would be interesting to tell them the truth.

>>38956162
Frankly, i would be against letting anyone know.
This is our family, no need to make us feel like a stranger to them.

>>38956044
A bit of a food break, then family time!

>>38956217
They are our family, and they are our blood now, even if we can remember a time when that wasn't the case. Let's not lie to them if they want to know the truth.

>>38956217
I don't think that would happen either way.

Myself, I'm not for or against telling them. But I would be against lying if they asked us something directly.

>>38956217

I think they have a right to know.

We shouldn't just randomly shout it out, but if they ask something (like about hydraulics) we should tell them.

>>38956217
I agree with >>38956268s position, we are who we are now, and we are family, regardless of whether or not we died horrifically in a past life. We can bring it up if prompted and not get erased from existence probably, but we shouldn't actively say it or push it.

Little white lie to say we read it in a book.
Its not important and not something they need to know. This is our world now. And that is why i will vote against it when it comes up. You are free to disagree. I am just against bringing baggage with us.

>>38956313
>I think they have a right to know.
Not really. It doesn't matter to them, and would really only add distance between us for no particular gain.

Is the soft Chitin kind of like raw skin? Will it be super tender?

What happens to the Skull? do we get a new skull or do we have to remove the bits around it?

I care not for all this whether or not we are reincarnated business and care more about getting our dad to look at our sick bone structure and check how our spider musculature fucking works.

>>38956351
I imagine he will be writing lots of notes.

Wonder if our internal organs will be on display or if it'll just be pure muscle and bone shown.

>>38956344
Do we have the right to lie to them? Because that is essentially what you are arguing for.

>>38956390
>Lyra, did you eat a WHOLE FISH? You should really chew.

>>38956390
Family's lie all the time to protect each other anon.
"were did our old dog go?"
etc etc.

>>38956400
this goes to
>>38956375

>>38956390
>Do we have the right to lie to them?
Yes, why wouldn't we? Its not like the lie hurts them, quite the opposite.
They aren't entitled to all our personal secrets. Aria has a right to lie to us about her gems too.

>>38956408
...How would saying we have memories of a life other than this one make us any less literally of this family... We are still lyra even if we were an entity before.

>>38956390
I think the truth sounds so absurd that it's fully justified in this case. Unless we're going to use our past life knowledge to do something incredible like build a spaceship, it's just irrelevant and makes us sound insane.

>>38956443
If you can't see how it would affect say our mother if you were in her shoes then there is not much point in arguing with you over this, because you just wont get the point.

>>38956443
>How would saying we have memories of a life other than this one make us any less literally of this family
Because it means we had a entire life without them, its basically as if we were adopted.
it would definitly make Mom feel as if we were not as much "her" child as before.
She probably gets ovr it, but until then it will cause her a substntial amount of grief.

>>38956468
We just spouted off a whole bunch of facts about spider physiology without having any valid reason to know spider physiology, that alone is a fact that should be a giveaway...

>>38956495
We still were born and lived a childhood with them, as her child, I doubt she'd react that negatively as people say.

>>38956508
>We still were born and lived a childhood with them, as her child
We basically played her child for a year. In actuallity we are nearly as old as she is.

>>38956508
>without having any valid reason to know spider physiology
We. Are. A. Giant. Spider.

>>38956508
>without having any valid reason to know spider physiology
We hang out with Nin, it wouldn't surprise me at all if she knew a bunch of spider trivia.

>>38956508
>I doubt she'd react that negatively as people say.

Being a parent is special anon. Learning your not the first for a person and that their personality could even predate your own is not going to go down well which ever way you spin it.

Best to let it lie alone and untold. No amount of "do they deserve to be lied to?" will convince me otherwise.

>>38956508
I sure hope we know about spider physiology, what with being one. Besides, again, hydraulics is NOT a new concept. At all.

>>38956495
I think you have a really good point.
However, what if there already was one or several recorded precedents of reincarnations ? Maybe Dad would know something about it...
I can't imagine we are the only ones this happened to in this world, where there is fucking magic everywhere...
In the end it's just up to everyone to vote anyway.

>>38956636
Well, I think we should do our own research away from family first before bringing it up.

>>38956615
Yeah, but applying that concept to organic musculature is.

Are we going to have a phobia of skeletons now?

>>38956715
Probably not in a world of giant spider-people.

>>38956495
>>38956570
Not the person you're arguing with but I think you're misunderstanding how reincarnation works in this case. It's not so much that we're Sarah (I think that's our past life's name) pretending to be Lyra but Lyra with the memories of a past life. We clearly have a very different personality from Sarah's shut-in nerdiness so I don't think we're currently lying about who we are at all. It wouldn't be "I was only pretending to be Lyra, I'm actually someone else" but instead "Mom/Dad, I have these memories of being someone else. What does that mean?".

>>38956719
Nah, skeletons are cool. We just, you know, felt a bit light headed.

>>38956740
I think you misunderstand how much knowledge of how reincarnation works our family has.

>>38956726
Considering in our world people didn't understand some of the most basic biological functions in a life form, I would be mightily surprised if anyone in this setting managed to figure out how hydraulic muscles work.

Especially considering the most popular explanation for how thunder wolves work is that they jump into stormclouds and swallow lightening.

>>38956740
And i think you are wrong in that regard since the personality was a clear carry over that changed from what it was. As personality's are want to do. Just because your personality changes does not mean your past is not your past, no matter how embarrassing your memory's of school are.

>>38956773
>I would be mightily surprised if anyone in this setting managed to figure out how hydraulic muscles work
They don't need to know how they work, the question was knowing they are a thing and spiders use them.

>>38956791
Dude, they think arachne have extendable mandibles in their spider half for eating human children. They don't know jack squat about the finer points of spider biology.

>>38956841
>Dude, they think arachne have extendable mandibles in their spider half for eating human children
The one thing has literally nothing to do with the other, and I don't know how what HUMANS know is in any way relevant to us.We could have easily gotten it from Nin who got it from her books.

>>38956841
I know that spiders actually managed to hit the maximum efficiency of a brain they can have to spin complex web designs and function. In fact, all spiders have roughly the same sized brain, whether they are one of the tiny jumping spiders or a fucking tarantula.

>>38956776
It being our past isn't what matters. It's who we are that does. You were saying that if we came clean about our reincarnation then our family would freak out because we aren't mentally their daughter or something. I'm saying that having the memories of our past life doesn't inherently make us not their daughter or mean we're someone else. Our mental narrative hasn't been that of Sarah and we clearly haven't been playing Lyra as Sarah stuck in the body of an spider. I don't see why knowing about those memories would cause our family to emotionally distance themselves from us simply because we have them.

>>38956903
>I don't see why knowing about those memories would cause our family to emotionally distance themselves from us simply because we have them.
Because they don't know how it works and they can't look into lyras head.
"I'm actually a person witha full life nearly as long as Moms" will make them think we a don't feel as their daughter, because we were basically their guest for just a year. Thats how it will sound to them.

>>38956841
Musculature is hardly a "fine point of spider biology", its a thing you see when you cut them open.

>>38956903
>Our mental narrative hasn't been that of Sarah and we clearly haven't been playing Lyra as Sarah stuck in the body of an spider.
We've certainly been getting friendly with those humans. You know, the ones that toppled our civilization and genocided our race

>>38956959
>You know, the ones that toppled our civilization and genocided our race
Neither of these are actually true, and we mostly got friendly with them over Jin and the harpies.
We don't even have any human friends, the closest we got is the half-elf Lann.

>>38956903
And this is why i said i didn't want to argue on this, you've just missed the point entirely.

>>38956985
>implying the old man is not a friend

>>38956992
Actually, you said that to me, and I decided over half an hour ago that this conversation was boring and going nowhere for anyone. That guy you are arguing with is some other person entirely.

>>38957032
He isn't, we talk to him on occasion, but maybe thats a cultural dissonance thing, I wouldn't call someone we had a few conversations with a friend already, but maybe its different for you.

>>38957036
Ah, my pardon for the miss identity.

>>38957032
Calling him our "friend" is really overstating our relationship. The Smith is more our "friend", and even that I would consider a stretch.

>>38956992
>>38957036
Yeah, not the guy who started the argument but I'm starting to agree with you that this is pointless. I think we need REQM to really address the nature of our reincarnation (how we percieve the memories, is our identity discernibly separate from Sarah, etc) before we can really address this.

With the immediate threat of passing out because you have barely any control of yourself some times-
The day goes much easier.

Surreal as hell-
And this is coming from someone who was reborn as a giant spider-
But much easier.

Mom assures you that shedding is natural, and that if its itching, it's safe to pry it off.

She sets you up in the living room again, at which point you become the centre of the family activity.
The activity being the complete removal of your now dead carapace.

Compared to the dull sensations of healing, the fresh shell is almost too much.
Your shell is ticklish.

And Nin hasn't forgiven you yet.


"Lyra, stop moving."
"I ca-a-a-an't-"
"Nin-"
"Heehehehehe-"

Your brothers are largely ignoring the whole situation, but still helping out.
Prying open the chitin on your legs and sliding it off.
Sara has concerned herself with the bits under your skull, pulling the awkwardly out an discarding them.
Aria is cleaning your legs on the left, and currently wearing Ezzy as a hat.
Apparently, heat non-withstanding, the snake has managed to half hibernate. Or all hibernate. Or whatever it is snakes do?

Your sister coiled her around her horns, and she's just kinda drooping there.

Your father, on the other hand, has a sketchbook out, and is working feverishly, calling up magical lights to shine through your transparent exoskeleton.
Also, he is talking to himself a lot.

>>38957106
We talked with him a few times and don't hate each other. That makes us friends. It is the rule of the people collectors.

>>38957122
"Are they connected to the shell itself? How does that work- and segmented- and the spine extends into the- Can I see your organs?"
"I will send you outside again."

The evening is quiet, largely because you spend it inside, out of the wind.
Not that Nin leaves you alone, but one irritant is better than having your entire body exposed to something.

Mom warns you to wait at least a day before doing anything, or you might end up dented. Dad's letter is up to six pages and counting.
You have begun to suspect that he is transcribing his journal in it's entirety.

It's a bit off to fall asleep alone- Or rather, without anyone using you as a mattress.
You've come along way.

>>38957113
Not really, because the issue isn't how reincarnation really works, but how our family will understand it.

>>38957142
>And I'll call it here tonight!
>Next session will be saturday, probably near 230 PM EST
>Comments, questions and concerns answered in thread!

>>38957142
I wonder how confused our grandparents are going to be when we introduce ourselves as their grandchild.

>>38957173
Thanks for running man, i enjoy reading this.

>>38957185
Thanks for playing!

>>38957174
I'm not sure, but I am very much looking forward to writing it.

>>38957212
I'm sure it will be the highlight of this glorious quest. Keep on writing you good spider yes.

>>38957142
Stupid mom slowing the progress of science.
Doesn't she know this is important work?
>>38957173
Thanks for running, guy. Did dad ever get his answers on the organs?

>>38957161
I think that is at least partially dependent on how we perceive it ourselves but we'll just have to disagree on it.

>>38957173
Thanks for running! Care to elaborate on how Lyra views her reincarnation memories? Is our personality an adaptation of Sarah's or are we more original?

>>38957252
Thanks!

>>38957264
Your skin wasn't transparent, just your chitin. And your butt is too thick to see through, even if it's partially transparent.

>>38957275
It's an odd thing to try and word.
She thinks of herself as Lyra. She is Lyra, and this is her family.
It's why it doesn't come up much.

>>38957356
So, are we allowed to walk around and stuff? or are we too soft?