>>41433613

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


The new OP isn't ready yet! I'll try to have it done for monday's thread!

>>41433613
>You should give Jin a proper congratulations. And a hug.

>>41433635
>The new OP isn't ready yet! I'll try to have it done for monday's thread!
I'm sad now.

>>41433613
>Console yourself by stroking your snake. That isn't a euphemism, either.

>>41433613
>You should give Jin a proper congratulations. And a hug.
>Console yourself by stroking your snake. That isn't a euphemism, either.

I'm voting for stroking the snake because I have a feeling she maybe bigger as well, she was in the 80's in her last character sheet update and she might have gotten some levels from the fight some how.

>>41433613
>>You should give Jin a proper congratulations. And a hug.

>>41433613
>You should give Jin a proper congratulations. And a hug.
>Console yourself by stroking your snake. That isn't a euphemism, either.

>>41433613
>You should give Jin a proper congratulations. And a hug.
>Counter headpat the moth. You're fine. Definitely

>>41433613
>Happily reflect on the fact that Nin can't start spewing queen stuff at everyone because Jin is distracting them.

>>41433613
>You should give Jin a proper congratulations. And a hug.
Once we've congratulated her and proven we are totally NOT jealous
>Counter headpat the moth. You're fine. Definitely.
Hold that Moth like a giant teddy and pat the hell out of her.

Operation: Harpy Hug is go!

Writing!

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>???????? ??????
Place your bets.

>????? ?????????????
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>???????? ??????

The suspense. The mystery. IT'S EATING ME ALIVE, NOT UNLIKE A GIANT SPIDER!

>>41433840
Metal Manipulation is the first one.

>>41433840
Metal generation/shaping/manipulation is pretty much guaranteed, of some variety.
Other should one a Tyrant ability, maybe fear inducement?
Last one is probably a hybrid, maybe defensive self buff?

>>41433868
But Manipulation is 12 letters and it's 13.

>It would be easy to mistake her for someone simply wearing gauntlets
Wait, Lyra doesn't have knifes for fingertips? Or are gauntlets just REALLY weird in this setting?

>>41433891
>Last one is probably a hybrid, maybe defensive self buff?
I think there is no way any of our new abilities are defensive. Not with that combination.
I'm pretty sure one of them is a Aura/Presence ability of some sort.

>>41433826
Can Lyra manipulate the metal at her finger/legtips can regular metal or is it just decoraction?

Maybe Power to Lead for the second one?
Perhaps a buff for when we are leading the charge?

>>41433926
Aura/Presence would be cool. Would fit in with the whole blessings she got.

>>41433942
>Maybe Power to Lead for the second one?
I also think the third word in that one i either Lead or Rule, most likely Something of Lead/Rule

>>41433891
I'd love for molten metal to seep out of her Skulbutt when she uses her offensive powers or something like that. It'd look even scarier to her opponents. I figure it would be for full Hearth Arachne though, but still.

Fingers crossed I guess.

>>41433635
>Dignity: Rank 1
Poor Lyra.

>>41433840
Right to Rule

>>41433984
It's definitely Rule, seing as how it's the blessing of the God of Rule.

>>41434157
Sounds about right. Definitely the most plausible suggestion so far.

>>41434157
Sounds legit. Would be pretty cool.

I also need to remember the ISP ban was lifted and I can vote now.

>>41433861
I'm thinking the last one is:
[Something] Tyrant
Maybe "Fearsome"?

>>41434134
Been there evers since she tied up her own hands trying to sew something.
The last sentence however is an update:
>Now stricken with terrible secrets, things that could diminish her already nonexistent dignity.

>inb4 lead puns

>>41433840
The Divine Right of Kings
Charisma: A++ Rank

alright people, by the time we meet mom again, I want to have lapped her.

>paladin thought 3 blessings was ridiculous
>have 5 now
lel

>>41434301
Well, We can't help being awesome.

>>41434301
What no we only have 4 we certainly don't have 5 nope absolutely not, we definitely don't have blessings from the god of rule thats a bold faced lie yep

>>41434301
Its weird how Forge is a full god and Fire is just a Demi-god.
I would really like to talk to the paladin about how this shit really works here.

>>41434333
The squee nin will give once she finds out will be legendary.

>>41434388
She.Must.Never.Know.

>>41434374
it seems to me that fire is too broad a subject for people to pray to only one god for it and a lot of prayers would be going to the function of the fire not the fire itself. The forge is a direct specific application having a single god watching over it.

>>41434374
There is a god of fire and there are also demigods. We didn't do enough fire stuff for the full-blown god to recognize us, but we did get the attention of the demigod.

iirc, REQM said doing more lava magic before we got the skullbutt would have resulted in a blessing from the god of fire.

>>41434411
It'll happen by accident. She'll overhear us or we mention it absentmindedly and only notice after it's too late.

>>41434440
>There is a god of fire and there are also demigods.
Are you sure? I understood it nas there only being one god of the thing and they are Demi/full god depending on power.

>>41434301
Holy hell, we'll have to visit one of their Temples when we get the chance.

At the very least, just to say thanks for showering us with blessings and super-powers.

Perhaps more importantly, we should really see if/what they expect from us in return.

I mean, can we expect to be handed a few Holy Quests at some point?

Odds are at least some of them have Temples in the big Trade Cities, we can drop in while we're there.

>>41434472
Definitely. I'm kinda surprised we arent attracting holy objects at this rate.Just some sort of.. blessing magnet.

>>41434459
Personally I'm betting on someone noticing that we now do in fact have a Majestic Queenly Presence and Lyra doing a horrible job of lying about it.

This isn't bothering you at all. Not in the least.
And moths hanging off your shoulders or not, you'll prove it!

You skitter into the crowd surrounding your exultant friend, people clearing the way before they've even seen you.
That raises your shoulders, just a bit.

Jin is grinning ear to ear when you reach her, already spreading her wings towards you, showing off her feathers. She's definitely bigger-

"Look! My wings-"
You slide your arms beneath hers, tugging her into your chest and holding her tight.
Her wings wrap right back around you as she snuggles into your chest, her ear tufts tickling at your chin. You lay your head against hers as she hoots softly.

"Congratulations, yes."
"Mmmn."
She looks up from place, clutched against you.

"I am warm now, too."
"And stronger?"
"And stronger!"

Her feet find your legs, and she bounces up and down a bit, excited as a newborn chick-
"I'll show you! I'll prove it, yes!"
"Mhm." You run your fingers through her down-soft hair- Even with your chitin looking as it does, you can still feel through it easily enough. Jin leans into your hand, eyes growing soft, drooping closed.
It doesn't take much to put an owl to sleep in the day, it seems.

"We'll go hunting soon, yes? And we can both show off a bit."
"Yeeeees." She answers, sleepily.

"Both of you?"

You turn, still holding the now drowsing harpy, and find Kenzington himself watching, an oversized ladle in one hand.
He chews his lip as he stares at you, eyes roaming over your whole body before her prods at your skull's new horns.
"These weren't there yesterday..."

>>41434825
Yes. Yes, this is the sort of attention you should be getting.

"Did you just stick 'em on or what?"
Your glare could set fire to a rock.

"'m kidding, kidding. Geeze. Should I be expecting the lot of you to change before we even reach the city?"
You sigh a bit, repositioning the harpy that's started to snore into your chest.
"It does not work like that, yes? It happens when it happens."
"And when is that?"
"Last night?"

He gives you a flat look of his own, and you maintain an innocent smile.

"That's not a real answer, y'know."
"I don't have a real answer. When monsters get strong enough, they change and grow."
"Is it all the fighting, then?"
"Maybe? It probably helps, yes?"

He shrugs, you shrug.
The caravan is packing, people making ready to set off for the morning- There's a few merchants loitering around and staring at Jin's feathers, but all it takes is a glare to set them running for their wagons.

>Check in on Sheszka.
>Transfer Jin to the skull. You can't carry her and work. Not in your arms, anyway. Probably.
>Chat with someone. (Who? About?)
>Other (?)

>>41434858
>Check in on Sheszka.
>Transfer Jin to the skull. You can't carry her and work. Not in your arms, anyway. Probably.

>>41434858
>>Check in on Sheszka.

Haha we do have a majestic aura now

>>41434858
>Transfer Jin to the skull. You can't carry her and work. Not in your arms, anyway. Probably.

>>41434858
>Go buy ALL THE FUCKING METAL from the smith. Or some of it. You want to try out forging now.

>>41434858
>Transfer Jin to the skull. You can't carry her and work. Not in your arms, anyway. Probably.
>Check in on Sheszka.
>Tease the Moth that she is falling behind.

>>41434858
>Transfer Jin to the skull. You can't carry her and work. Not in your arms, anyway. Probably.

>>41434882
>>majestic aura
>>Hearthbound Tyrant
More like Morale Shattering Stride of the Monster Lord

>>41434858
>See if you can get a little space to yourself
>Try to feel out any obvious new abilities.

>>41434882
>Haha we do have an aure of Dominance and Terror.

FTFY

>>41434858
>Check in on Sheszka.
>Transfer Jin to the skull. You can't carry her and work. Not in your arms, anyway. Probably.

Bird to Skull, Locate Wolf.

Writing!

>>41435033
>>41435044
whether her aura is majestic or terrify all depends on which side of her spear you are on

>>41434882
Move Bitch Get Out the Way Aura

Reading Jins sheet-

>Sentinel: Rank 6
Jin is capable of roosting anywhere with sufficient space for her talons, bedding down and staring endlessly into space- One may think her asleep or otherwise distracted, and then her head turns all the way around and one shits their pants.

REQM, how many time has this happened when she was on guard duty?

>>41433901

Metal Manipulation+

YES I caught another one live!
>>41434858
>Check in on Sheszka.
We need to see if we're taller again.
>Transfer Jin to the skull. You can't carry her and work. Not in your arms, anyway. Probably.
Place bird in the correct slot.

>>41436145

>Place bird in the correct slot.

Lewd.

Jin has fallen asleep quite comfortably- although her feet still open and close slowly, ever searching for a perch.

Luckily enough, you've grown one.

It makes you wonder about just what is responsible for the evolutions. And how things are decided. Because this seems much more deliberate than random.

The harpy's talons close readily over the single horn, steadying and securing her at you back. You briefly consider a hood, or just throwing a blanket over her- But you aren't certain if it'd cause her to wake up immediately, or not until you remove it.
Either way is a pain, and she's sleeping already, anyway.

You leave her as is.

And with your harpy safely stowed, you have oter things to attend to.

The wagon for the injured is easy enough to find, marked with a symbol for the human god of healing, and trundling along in the centre of the caravan. You poke your head through the back, and Nin hops from your skull to your shoulders, and into the shadowed confines of the wagon.

You keep pace behind it, holding gently to its frame- too tight, and a burst of speed from the horses would leave you standing with chunks of wagon in hand. Some caution is necessary on your part.

The moth is reliable, though- She finds your injured sister, waving at you from deeper inside the wagon.
"She's fine. Sleepy, but fine."
"Her arm is healed?"
"No."

You tilt your head.

"I am working on it. Trying new things."
Good intentions or not, that sounds rather ominous.

>>41436322
"Maybe you should not try new things on injured people?"
"Its fiiiine. I practiced on injured people."
"Practiced what?"
"Watch!"

She hums to herself as she pokes about the wagon's interior, prying a small jar of soft, white dust from beneath a bench- Her own, no doubt. She struggle with the jar for a solid five minutes before she hands it over to you, one arm extended as she faces away.
You can still see the blush across her neck, though.

With her minor predicament settled, she throws a pinch over the sleeping wolf's arm.
And then, she squats down next to her, wings unfolding, hands held flat over the injured limb.

You watch quietly.

It starts at the centre of her back- where her wings meet her flesh. The golden tracery coating them starts to glow softly. Warmly. And then more, and more, the wagon slowly lighting from within, the patterns casting their golden light. The dust catches her glow, flaring to a sparkling gold, fading into Sheszka's arm.

>Dammit, you want a closer look.
>Nin can do magic?
>...Did you tell the injured people they were practice?
>Other (?)

>>41436337
>Nin can do magic?

>>41436337
>Dammit, you want a closer look.
>Nin can do magic?

>>41436337
>Nin can do magic?
You know, most healing magics have some dangerous variant. Weaponized medical malpractice can be incredibly dangerous.

>>41436337
>>...Did you tell the injured people they were practice?

>>41436337
>Nin can do magic?
>Dammit, you want a closer look.

>>41436337
>>...Did you tell the injured people they were practice?

>>41433926
It's tougher than regular chitin, but it can't be manipulated by her powers.

>>41436016
At least 4 times, though who knows how many have gone unreported. The first unfortunate guard actually wet himself- She was perched on a stump outside camp, and, assuming she was sleeping and planning on giving her what for, he tried to grab her shoulder.

It took almost half an our for the adventurers to stop laughing at him and mimicking his scream.

>>41436337
>Dammit, you want a closer look.
>Nin can do magic?

>>41436337
>...Did you tell the injured people they were practice?

I'm honestly not sure why Lyra didn't know this before now. She can sense and even see magic.

>>41436337
>Dammit, you want a closer look.
>Nin can do magic?

>>41436412
Maybe its not the same sort of magic?

>>41436337
>Nin can do magic?

>>41436337
>Nin can do magic?

>>41436412
REQM probably forgot because it hasn't been relevant for a fucklong time.

Either that or it's closer to elemental control than magic. I don't think Lyra's magi-sense has ever picked up on elemental control stuff.

>>41436337
>Nin can do magic?
>Lean in, get a closer look.

>>41436337
>>Nin can do magic?
>...Did you tell the injured people they were practice?

>>41436337
>...Did you tell the injured people they were practice?

>>41436337
>Dammit, you want a closer look.
>Nin can do magic?

>>41436465
Actually, during the necromancer ordeal, Lyra detected the magics that other people ther were capable of. She even detected a person that could heal iirc.

>>41436465
Racial powers are weird, some are magical and some aren't, its like how shezkas transformation is clearly not a normal thing but yet isn't magical either. This might be a similar effect.

>>41436403
>It took almost half an our for the adventurers to stop laughing at him and mimicking his scream.

No REQM, they are still laughing and mimicking his scream. It's just less constant.

I know you don't understand human work places that well, being a Giant Spider and all, but trust me, they'll make fun of him over that for /years/ to come.

Pissed himself in fear at work. Yep, that's the sort of thing that will earn you a lasting nickname.

Moth's are magic?

Writing!

>>41436547
At least, it's not Arcane Magic, which seems to be what Lyra can feel and manipulate.

Divine Magic, Spirit Magic and weird inherent Monster Magic don't seem to ping her mystical senses at all.

Different forms of power from different sources I guess.

>>41436545
>during the necromancer ordeal
Are you trying to imply that that wasn't a fucklong time ago? That was nearly a year ago. Almost 100 threads.

>>41436570
Oh man, how long before the other guards will stop making jokes about "that girl's a real head-turner"?

>>41436792
>Goes out to tavern with the other guards.
>They constantly try to 'protect' him from any women in the place.
>Don't want him to get frightened again.

Hmm when was the last time Nin's sheet ws updated? Also how much more fighting does she need to do to evolve into a Night Nurse Moth?

You lean further into the covered wagon, tucking your elbows over the wooden lip of the vehicle, craning your neck for a better look.
You don't feel any magic- Not in the Sara sense, anyway. No mana flow, no manipulation.

You skitter sideways to get a different angle, but the fact that you can't fit into a wagon is a rather significant deterrent.

"It... isn't magic, yes? Something else?"
Nin shrugs, though she doesn't look up.
"I guess."

"You guess?"
"I don't know magic."
"Well, how would you describe what it is you're doing?"
"Magic?"

You wait patiently.

Alright, that was a lie.

"Nin."
"Warmth, maybe?"
"Do you feel cold when you're done?"
"Are you offering to warm me up?"
"Nin!"

She giggles a bit, and shakes her head.
"It feels like... Like I'm giving something to my dust? I can do it straight from my wings, too. It's just harder to aim."

You study her face, a little bit of worry blooming.
She seems to catch your gaze, and flops her head a bit, antennae bouncing.

"You don't need to worry. I don't think it affects me at all."
"It comes from somewhere, yes? Don't do it till you get tired or anything."
She looks thoughtful for a second.

"Well, I do feel tired. Sometimes. After it."
"Then don't!"

>Tell her she's not allowed to push that far.
>Try and grab her. Sheszka heals fast.
>You can trust her with this much.
>Other (?)

>>41436970
>Tell her she's not allowed to push that far.

>>41436970
>You can trust her with this much.

>>41436945
June 18

>>41436970
>Tell her she's not allowed to push that far.

>>41436970
>>You can trust her with this much.
>>Other (?)
Grab her and head pat her....also think about more training for the moth.

>>41436970
>You can trust her with this much.
It's innate and she might improve.

>>41436970

Tell her to be mindful of her limits. Then we will have to carry her around when she inevitably over does it. Head patting mandatory along with soft hypocritical admonishment about pushing herself too far.

>>41436970
>>41437056
heh, seconding

>>41436970
>You can trust her with this much.
we can't tell her not to push when she had to nurse us when we did the same thing with earth.
Plus we haven't seen her completely out of it yet, she seems to be being responsible with it.

>>41436970
>>You can trust her with this much.
We've been sending her to get in death matches with rabbits, we can trust her with this. We have to trust her with something.

Also the more she gets into her powers the less she focuses on us as queen

>>41436970
>You can trust her with this much.

>>41437097
>We've been sending her to get in death matches with rabbits, we can trust her with this. We have to trust her with something.
No that's our Snek Scarf.

>>41436970
>You can trust her with this much.
>But tell her to be careful, not to push it to far.

>>41436970
>Tell her she's not allowed to push that far.

Whoops. Food time.

Vote ends at 10 past post.

>>41437159
Supporting. It's a queenly order and she must respect it.

>>41437144
Didn't we send both of them?

>>41436970
Agreeing with:
>>41437056

>>41436970
>You can trust her with this much.

Hey REQM I've got two questions; Can we merge and mix the River metal with our Pure metal spear, is Moth Dust a good spice for food?

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>>41436970
>Tell her she's not allowed to push that far.

>"Are you offering to warm me up?"
Oh my.

>>41437193
Nope it was just us and our Snek Scarf huntin' wabbits and a Rabbit...Bear....REQM?

>>41437223

It's so very Lewd~

Ah shit, thread today.
I thought you meant NEXT friday for some reason.
Time to get caught up.

>>41436970
>You can trust her with this much.

>>41436970
>>You can trust her with this much.
we give ourselves migraines all the fuckign time, might as well let our friends do it.

>>41437398
The issue here is the implication she is draining her own life away for this.

>>41437454

I don't think REQM is that grim. More likely this is divine magic or some as yet unknown alternative.

>>41437454
hmmm.
I gotta wonder which type of "life" it is.
Because if it's just current-health, that's fine.
But if it is directly taking years off, it's not.
I'll swap to
>>41436970
>Try and grab her. Sheszka heals fast.
for now, for the sake of caution, but I think we should be figuring out which type of life drain it is.

>>41437517
>I don't think REQM is that grim.
The setting is pretty grim, as matter of fact and REQM had been hoping to get a bit of a sanse of that back when we hit the road, actually.

I'm not saying it 'is' that, but thats what the situation implies and the reason for why there is a "don't overdo it" response, because as far as Lyra knows it might be that.

Back and writing!

>>41437548

Don't overdo it is good, if completely ironic advice. In the end, I kind of just hope we stay off the grim path of an otherwise noble bright quest, but REQM's made enough good gains to where I could maybe accept Nin having a long term detrimental power.

Meh in the end Lyra's a hypocritical worrywort who fusses over her friends like a mother hen.....and tends to go mama giant spider on anything that hurts/frightens them.

>>41437193
>>41437274
We sent them hunting together before we left the Forest. It's where Ezzy duelled with a horned rabbit and told everyone she was eating that one by herself.

>>41437641
>I kind of just hope we stay off the grim path of an otherwise noble bright quest
Well, I can understand not wanting mood whiplash, and I seriously doubt Nin will just fall down dead one day because we didn't tell her not to do it or similar.
But the quest was never meant to be noblebright, we just had absurdly good roll luck with the most powerful starting species and never really felt threatened by anything.

Honestly I also just think even with less reason to worry Lyra is far too much her mothers daughter to not worry on principle.

Was I the only one hoping that "get a closer look" meant finding out about our human form so we can get into wagons and buildings and stuff

>>41437708

We need to reignite Tiny Death Battle Arena.

>>41437716
>Was I the only one hoping that "get a closer look" meant finding out about our human form
Yes.
No one else wants a human form, why the fuck you are so obsessed with that shit is beyond me.

>>41437716
Maybe.
I don't like the whole human-form thing, as it bypasses all the inconveniences and differences that are inherent in having spiderbutt.

>>41437716
Yes.

>>41437716
Human form is easily the dumbest pet obsession a few people here have.
Lyra is a giant spider, deal with it. This nonsensical wanting to bypass all possible challenges and inconvenience is ridiculous.

>>41437823
There's no need to be butt hurt over this....ours is big enough as it is!

are we talking about pet obsessions?
because I am always 100% behind doing more weaving, but we just so happen to roll poorly every time we weave.

>>41437723
Tiny Animal Death Battle Arena is alive and well.

We just re-branded it as something else.

When we set her against a horde of rabbits we called it 'encouraging her' and 'training'.

>>41437823

I think in the last thread, that one anon's idea of how Lyra would react to human form is pretty accurate.

"Oh hey, neat."
SHAA-ZAAM.
*Giant Spider*

>>41437823
As one of the guys who mentioned human form last thread, I was just operating on the assumption that having 2 legs and 8 + 4 eyes meant human form. Now I'm just confused as to why those notes were included when they evidently amount to nothing.

>>41437869
I will happly back the weaving.

Maybe we weave metal thread now.

>>41437869
I'm so down with more weaving. Jin and Lyra need new clothes now anyway.

>>41437923
>>41437936
Who needs chainmail? Not us!

>>41437923
>metal thread
You mean wire? Cuz that would be cool and maybe painful.

>>41437954
>>41437923
I sort of don't like the idea of "metal thread" because that sounds really uncomfortable and hard to work with.

unless it was like, an additional webbing type, like "tough" and "sticky".

>>41437978
Depends on the property's. If its like semi molten metal/silk hybrid thread then it could be amazingly interesting to work with.

>>41437923
>metal thread
Suddenly I remember that one dwarf fortress story about what happens when a legendary surgeon with adamantine thread stitches up someone who'd lost literally all their flesh.

>>41437978

How would it be painful when it's part of our biology?

No really, how? Are the fucking BURNING magma cracks in our carapace painful?

>>41437902
You mean in the Evo dream?

I think it's something along the lines of our soul keeping an imprint of our past forms.

While we were in the ... magic place ... to pick our new form, imprints or echoes of all our old ones were there too.

Imprints of our past Spider forms were probably there too, they just didn't really stand out from each other.

>>41437936

Weaving gets my vote. I'm hoping for stronger thread.

>>41437996
Lyra would find metal thread easy to work, not to mention we have no idea how much finer the control has become.

If it was an additional web type, it would probably come under "Rigid" threading.

>>41437996
>>41438007

Maybe something like this? https://bato.to/read/_/330310/tensei-shitara-slime-datta-ken_ch3_by_alyschu/15

>>41437902
>Now I'm just confused as to why those notes were included when they evidently amount to nothing.
It was about Lyras soul not being properly scrubbed clean so it retains a certain imprint of her old human self.

>>41437996
>that sounds really uncomfortable and hard to work with
Anon, take a second to think about that you just said in light of the fact that working said material is a process that consists mostly of looking at it, deciding what to do, then watching it shape itself.
Also, explain how it would be uncomfortable when most of our body is tough enough that if you took a rasp to it, you'd probably wear out the tool before filing anything off.

>>41438081
>>41438053
well, either way, I hope we keep our traditional silk too.

>>41437996
Well, whatever we make them from, we're going to have to make SOMETHING.

Shez still needs new clothes. Now Jin has grown. Our size hasn't increased that much but I bet our stuff needs adjusting too.

>>41438124
Course we would. We have yet to lose an ability due to an evo.

>>41438123
>uncomfortable
Anon, wearing metal directly on the skin is horrible.
We would need some kind of underlayer, hopefully made of actual silk.

If we were metal-exclusive, we'd have to stop making dresses for our team, and be stuck on armor-only.

>>41438081
I remember that, I can never get to that point though, always die to a fire-breathing FB, lost my last two forts to one.

>>41438177
Trick with fire-breathers is to equip all your Dwarves with shields and train its use. Really can only be taken down by well trained men or you'll suffer horrible loses.

>>41438081
Hunh, didnt know there was a Re:Slime manga

>>41438263
>you'll suffer horrible loses
Isn't that the point of DF? The universe is malicious and out to get you specifically?

>>41438330
Lots of Re: manga.

>>41438263
Thing is a i did do that when my dwarves got near the thing they just didn't hit it.

My best thought on why that is was because it burnt off everything so there was nothing to hit but was somehow still alive when i used my like 15 Giant Spiders to buy time as cannon fodder.

Kinda like that adamantine dwarf.

>>41438330
It's not really a RE:Monster series even if it's really damn similar.

>>41438359
Yes, but that does not mean you can't murder it right back. Hmm, i am getting the dorf fort itch again.

>>41438372
Beasts die easy. Mob it with 10+ dwarves fully kitted in iron will do the trick. Also use a variety of weapon types, helps solve resistance/immunity problems. Though lets stop spamming the thread with ooc content.

>>41438385
>MC is reborn as a monster after being stabbed
>Has an auto cannibalism ability to gain other monsters abilities
>Has super ammounts of knowledge for no reason other than plot
>Monsters in the world evolve into higher forms
>Same art style

Yeah, nah, its Re:Mon.

>mention weaving
>WEAVING WEAVING WEAVING

Yep, we're still set to spider settings.
Too bad lyra sucks at weaving

>>41438531

It's not RE:Mon unless the MC is a blatant powertrip of an unstable madman that has a major fetish for rape goblins and mental illnesses galore.

>>41438628
We can get better if we practice! its not like we can get worse

Your fingers drum across the side of the wagon as you resist the urge to lunge forward and bodily drag her from her patient.
Power doesn't come from nowhere. There's a cost- Just like your non-magical abilities giving you headaches and the like.

You push back against your unease and close a few eyes.

You're not that hypocritical-
Whether it worries you or not, you won't order the little moth not to use her own abilities.

"I trust you, yes?"
The simple statement throws a tremor right through her, her antennae standing on end even as she turns her face from you.

"That's- That's only natural! As your herald-"

"Shush, you. Do not overdo it, yes?"
"Mm. I promise."
"I will hold you to that."

She waves you off, still refusing to turn around.

You skitter off to one side, keeping pace next to the wagons, the dull grinding of their wheels against the dirt a counterpoint to your clicking limbs.

Your unease isn't completely gone, but... If it turns to trouble, you'll deal with it, one way or another.
You flip your hair over one shoulder, and look around.

The caravan is in full sway, guards posted all around, wagons rolling, horses tossing their heads and trotting along.
You've got time before your shift- You're stuck with the later shift today. Which doesn't mean much, as you can't ride a wagon anyway, and don't get tired at this pace.

There's a few things you could spend time on.
Clothes for your friends, for one. It'd be easier to do seated, but you won't screw up that badly again. Right?
Or you could check out your own body, you suppose. You've evolved! Who knows what you're capable of now!

A bit of work here and there, and you could probably maybe sorta figure something out, right?

>Clothing. Clothing is important.
>Clothes can wait till evening. Try out your new spider-y powers!
>Find someone to chat with.
>Other (?)

>>41439072
>Clothing. Clothing is important.

>>41439072

>Clothing. Clothing is important.

>>41439072
>>Clothes can wait till evening. Try out your new spider-y powers!

>>41439072
>>Clothes can wait till evening. Try out your new spider-y powers!
Were a forge, surely we can make metal clothes.

>>41439072
>Clothes can wait till evening. Try out your new spider-y powers!

>>41439072
>Clothes can wait till evening. Try out your new spider-y powers!

>>41439072
>>Clothing. Clothing is important.
>>Clothes can wait till evening. Try out your new spider-y powers!
Both.
See if you have any new spider web abilities.

Though, primarily, MAKE CLOTHE DO EET

>>41439072
>Clothing. Clothing is important.
>Find someone to chat with.
>See if you can find the paladin to chat about blessings with while you weave

>>41439072

> Clothing. Clothing is important.
It also takes a while.

>>41439072
>Clothing. Clothing is important.
Time for learning experiences

>>41439072
>Clothing. Clothing is important.
Get dat weaving exp.

>>41439072
>Clothing. Clothing is important.

>>41439072
>Clothing. Clothing is important.

>>41439072
>>Clothing. Clothing is important.
Friends come first!

>>41439072
>Clothing. Clothing is important.
Clothing for our loyal subjects!!

...GOD DAMNIT NIN, GET OUR OF MY HEAD!

>>41439072
>Clothing. Clothing is important.

>>41439072
>Clothes can wait till evening. Try out your new spider-y powers!

>>41439072
>Clothes can wait till evening. Try out your new spider-y powers!

Weaving is not our strong suit. Trying to do it on the move willll.... Dignity: Rank 1.
I'd like to keep at least that single rank.

>>41439072
>Clothing. Clothing is important.

Lets just concentrate this time.

Weaving on the move again?
How bold!

1d100, please!

>>41439305
>inb4 nat 1

Rolled 70 (1d100)

>>41439305

We are the bone of our needles. LITERALLY!

Rolled 8 (1d100)

>>41439305

Rolled 95 (1d100)

>>41439305

Rolled 77 (1d100)

>>41439305

Rolled 31 (1d100)

>>41439305

Rolled 26 (1d100)

>>41439305

>>41439338
Good Job!

>>41439338
Looks like it will be good armour.

>>41439338
95!

Writing!

>>41439338

Huh, if our threads are metal this would be explain so very much.

>>41439381
>We can only weave armour like clothes now.

>>41439388

Shit man, Elven Grandmama would love us then, because metal armor that feels and flows like silk.

>>41439388
OR MAYBE
>We can weave clothes that are strong as armor.

>>41439422

Then they are just armor dingus.

>>41439420
Mithral?

>>41439436
For some reason there's a disconnect in my mind between clothing and armor, but shit you're right and it pleases me

>>41439486

Clothes are just armor against weather conditions and indecency.

>>41439486
New line of Casual Armour.

Armour your could wear on the battlefield or to an upscale social event and be equally at home!

......... oh shit. If we develop an new type of silk, Elle will hunt us down.

>>41439447

Nah, it would much finer.

>>41439618

Elle is BBEG, her plans of turning the Fashion industry into a Tyranny under her will come to fruition, unless Lyra with her Steel-silk stops her.

>>41439618
>And this is the start of armored underwear

>>41439618
well, I wouldn't mind seeing elle at some point.
I mean, we're going to be away from home for a while. elfton isn't that close.

>>41439618
Anon i have two words for you:
Armor Lace

Ya know, this:
>???????? ??????
could be
>metallic thread

Is this when we find out Lyra's new webbing is the new kevlar?

>>41439717

Black Widow spider silk is stronger than kevlar I believe, and Darwin's Bark Spider is over ten times stronger than kevlar.

Lyra's would be stronger of being both giant spider silk, and also fucking giant spider silk METAL.

>>41439975
We have truly become the most Metal of spiders.

>>41439975
So, free on-demand body armor for allies? Neat.

>>41439717
Regular webbing is super-kevlar. A metallic superwebbing would basically fix the one real problem kevlar has, changing it from difficult but not infeasible to cut to damn near impossible to cut.

>>41440042
how, exactly, is anyone supposed to repair and/or work this material without being a giant metalbending spider?

>>41440070
>how, exactly, is anyone supposed to repair and/or work this material without being a giant metalbending spider?
They can't. The beauty of monopolism.

>>41440070

The same way people are expected to repair and/or work normal steel armor.

Find a god damn professional to do it, it's not like metal bending / mending is impossible for a normal mage, difficult? Probably, it just comes naturally to us.

>>41440070
That's the beauty of it: they can't! We'll have an unassailable monopoly on the next big thing in fashion!

>>41440070
If anything manages to get through that the person wearing it probably isnt going to survive most likely, or they have bigger things to worry about.

>>41440070
How is what non-mtal bending non-spider plebs do in any fashion our problem?
We can still make it for ourselves and our friends.

>>41440109
>>41440130
>[capitalism intensifies]
Just how big is the nose portion of our skull anyway.

>>41440130
Fashion nothing, do you realize what royalty would pay for something that can be comfortably and secretly worn underneath their regular clothing, AND can protect them from the vast majority of assassination attempts?

if we do have metallic thread I wonder how our sister is going to react when we return home and she finds out?

>>41440167

That's the beauty of it, as a skull there is no flesh or cartilage to give away just how huge the jew-horn actually is.

>>41440070
Spools of thread? They could probably weave it like normal thread. Super thread is still thread.

Repairing finished works? Very difficult. Patching something onto it would be.... iffy.

Of course, damaging this stuff in the first place would hardly be easy. If it was hit hard enough to damage it (and you survived) then it just saved your life.

>>41440196
>from the vast majority of assassination attempts?
While amazing, it would not protect against poisoning or slit throats.
Or a crossbow bolt in the head.

>>41440237
Hence why I said vast majority, not all.

>>41440237
get a food taster parrot and spider burqa.

>>41440198
[Blumenkranz Intensifies]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWZs5POCp0I

>>41440237

>Vast majority
>List few examples

It also wouldn't protect against strangulation, then again conventional armor doesn't protect against that either.

>>41440256
>Hence why I said vast majority, not all.
My point was actually that the vast majority of assassination attempts that could succeed are usually not prevent by this. They usually don't involve outright stabbing.

>>41440279
>List few examples
Considering that poisoning alone already takes up at least a very significant amount of all assassination attempts, its a pretty fair list.

>>41440303
You are being a little pedantic, the use of such a garment against the variants of assassination attempts that it could stop would still be great.

>>41440303
It gives them some peace of mind so thats worth something at least, and if they aren't taking precautions against poisoning there isn't much we can do to help them

>>41440332

Assassinations aren't always between several well off nobles engaged in a shadow war where everyone involved has access to everyone else's foodstuffs dingus.

Hell, make the fucking Metal-spider silk have a turtleneck and it'll protect against slit throats too.

>>41440356
>You are being a little pedantic
Possibly true, but what I wanted to get at is that protection against assassination attempts is not the strength of that hypothetical garment, it would help people mfar more who have to fair getting stabbed a lot. Like, for example, traveling merchants, bodyguards and such.

>>41440382
>Assassinations aren't always between several well off nobles engaged in a shadow war where everyone involved has access to everyone else's foodstuffs dingus.
You realise that hiring someone to put something poisonous into somes food is way easier and cheaper than hiring someone who is willing to day on failure of his job?
Its especially the not-well-off-nobles who would go for poison.

>>41440423

Hiring someone to drag someone else into an alley and shank them is even easier and cheaper than it is to hire someone to poison them.

>>41440445
>Hiring someone to drag someone else into an alley and shank them is even easier and cheaper than it is to hire someone to poison them.
If the person you want to kill is so unimportant he has no bodyguards, or is too stupid to employ them when going out, then this would be true, but someone like that would certainly not be helped by any sort of protective shirts.

>>41440445
>Hiring someone to drag someone else into an alley and shank them is even easier and cheaper than it is to hire someone to poison them.
If they can drag that dude into the alley, how exactly is the chainmailshirt supposed to help them? They notice they can't get through the shirt, so they stab him in the eyesocket, problem solved.

I can't wait for some hman asshole thinks they can intimidate Lyra somehow, like some arrogant noble or something and even though the odds are pretty low but god damn would it be satisfying to see Lyra try and be scary for once rather than unitentionally.

>>41440474

Not everyone has bodyguards 24/7, sometimes a person just steps away to sit on a balcony, and heads are a very tiny target to aim for.

Poison is a common and useful tool for assassinations, but a knife in the dark and an arrow / bullet are just as common, hell, they might be MORE common considering that this is a magical setting and having someone able to either cure poison or make something able to cure poison on hand probably isn't difficult.

All clothing starts somewhere.

It just so happens that yours- and your friends' and your family's- starts with silk.
From your butt, but you generally avoid mentioning that.

You take a few sheets, working them together into a pair of sizable shorts- Adding a drawstring is actually a bit of work, but not too hard, in the end. You set them aside as you finish the last stitch.
Your sewing isn't anything special, or speedy, but it'll hold.

And Arachne silk is Arachne silk, after all.

The shirt is- well, there's no way around it. It is a t-shirt. But you're pretty sure that that sort of thing already exists? It's not like you've built an airplane or anything.

Jin mostly uses a breastwrap and loincloth- She's still set, though you could make her more when you've got time.

You play around with your silk for a while. Just getting used to it again. And more importantly, getting used to not tying your hands together.
Really, you just have a bad track record when it comes to silk.

You're plucking strings of silk between your fingers when one vibrates... wrong.

The tone is off, and the string feels stiff almost.
You hold it up to your eyes, and immediately notice that it's shot through with streaks of your latest colour addition.

Specifically, metal.

You twist it, watching the light washing over it, bending and shaping it-
It behaves more like wire than silk, but more like silk then wire?

That's a really crappy way to describe it, but you're drawing a blank when it comes to descriptive terms for some sort of metal/cloth hybrid. Well, it certainly doesn't seem easy to work with.

You're distracted from pondering the miracles of the universe and your own silk by someone shouting your name.
Time to go.

Metal web can wait.

>Stand up, suit up, walk up.
>Use your padded shirt, rather than the full armour.
>You've got a weird feeling-
>Other (?)

>>41440569

We've done that twice.

Once when we scared a bunch of nocturnal wild-life into paying us tribute, the other when we yelled at the Tentacleperson.

>>41440569
Experience with the racist ignorant merchant guy who risked his families life on his greed and self-aborbdness, teaches that most likely a large number of people would proclaim him the greatest character ever and vote for Lyra to suck up to him as hard as possible.

>>41440589
>>You've got a weird feeling-
MYSTERY BOX

>>41440589
>You've got a weird feeling-

>>41440589
>Stand up, suit up, walk up.
>You've got a weird feeling-

>>41440589


>Stand up, suit up, walk up.
>You've got a weird feeling-

>>41440589

>You've got a weird feeling-

>>41440589
>>You've got a weird feeling-

Curious~

>>41440589
>>Stand up, suit up, walk up.

>>41440589
>>You've got a weird feeling-
Also suit up it its quick.

>>41440589
>Stand up, suit up, walk up.
>You've got a weird feeling-

>>41440589
>Stand up, suit up, walk up.

>>41440589
>Stand up, suit up, walk up.
>You've got a weird feeling-

>>41440589
>>Stand up, suit up, walk up.
>>You've got a weird feeling-
Who doesn't love a good mystery?

>>41440589
>>You've got a weird feeling-
BUTTON!

We must NEVER let Elle find out about our Wife/Steel silk, hell, let's make it a better kept secret than our Blessing By the God of Rule to Nin.

Why? Because Non-heavy as all fuck Ballgowns.

>>41440589
>Ha ha Elle is gonna be so jelly of my new silk
>...
>...
>Oh shit Elle is going to tie me down and forcibly harvest my new silk if she ever finds out.

Mystery boxes!

I demand tribute in the form of 1d100!

Rolled 20 (1d100)

>>41440806
DICE FOR THE SPIDER

>>41440698
>>41440695
>>41440276
goddamnit elle.
Stop being the BBEG of some story that is entirely unrelated to ours.
Stop having plucky bands of fashion designers team up to fight you.

Rolled 14 (1d100)

>>41440806

Rolled 100 (1d100)

>>41440806
THE BOX WHAT'S IN THE BOX

Rolled 70 (1d100)

>>41440806

Rolled 77 (1d100)

>>41440806

Rolled 77 (1d100)

>>41440806

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>>41440846
OH SHIT NIGGA.

OH SHIT.

>>41440846
Oh myyyyyyy

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>>41440846

>>41440846
The gods themselves look in earnest.

>>41440846
YYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSS

The Box demands it!

>>41440846
Oh my

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>>41440846
Everyone in the caravan drops to their knees and begins to sing praises to Lyra, a bishop appears and coordinates her on the spot, Bad End

>>41440911
noooooooo

>>41440823
>Congratulations, you've defeated the BBEG
>But wait, what is this?
>Her sisters have arrived....
And then they were royally fucked.

>>41440911
You mean "coronates", right?

>>41440956

>>41440846
Aww shit Nin's going to find out that we now have Majestic Queenly Presence!

>>41440956
Fuck English but you are probably right

>>41440846

ayyyyyyy

>>41440846
EXPLOSIVE BOX REVEAL

WRITING

>>41440956

Nope, the bishop is there to make sure everyone is singing in tune.

>>41440981
No that would only happen if we got a 1

>>41440947
eh, probably not.
They're probably having weird fashion battles with non-lethal win conditions.

>>41441214
>non-lethal
Clearly you are inexperienced in the fashion world

>>41441214
something something the price of fashion

>>41440846
>crit

>>41440848
>>41440849
>>41440852
>five 7s in a row

HYPER JACKPOT.

>>41441318
>Blorp intensifies

>>41441405
>Lyra forcibly evolves into Dridogre, a magnificent mixture of ogre and drider.

>>41441630

...an Ushi-Oni?

You stash your wire-stuff and Sheszka's freshly made clothing, skittering up to the wagon line.
You follow along at an easy pace, waving to yawning adventurers dragging themselves into anything with room to carry them.

Your gear is stowed in its usual space- a wagon stuffed full of adventurer gear.
And adventurers, for that matter.

Your undershirt goes over your light tunic, Ezzy is shifted to a little nest on your butt, and you lay your hands across the scarred surface of your plate.

And stop.

There's an odd feeling- now more than ever, in the back of your mind. Like an itch, but not quite? Something half mental, half physical, hovering at the edge of your consciousness.

Cake strides up next to you, rapping her knuckles against your leg.

"Oi- Don't suppose I could catch a ride?"
"Hm?"
"I've got short legs. It's a pain, right? And you're out two passengers. So, I'm thinking-"

You motion the halfling mage for quiet, trying to recreate the feeling, trying to pinpoint it.
"What're ya?"
"Trying something, yes. A moment."

The woman raises an eyebrow- and then both eyes shoot open so fast you think she may well have given herself whiplash from it alone.

The feeling snaps inwards- outwards, a tingle starting from your fingers and exploding up your arms, across your body.
Your chitin swells, the weirdest feeling you've received in your short life, coating your body in a split-second, closing around your throat, cupping your chin in a flexible and impossibly hard shell.

>>41441834
The mage is making vague gurgling noises as you examine yourself- It's segmented, just like your hands- precise pieces fitted in perfect harmony, covering your body in an entirely new set of armour.

The lines of colour are shot right through your new coat, forming abstract patterns over you.
You twist and turn, checking your limbs- You've got as much flexibility as ever. Maybe more.

Cake is still staring blankly at you.

>Maybe you should throw a tabard over all... this?
>Just put her on your shell. She'll recover eventually.
>No helmet, though?
>Other (?)

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>>41441834

METAL SPIDAH

>>41441856
>Maybe you should throw a tabard over all... this?
>No helmet, though?

>>41441856
>Just put her on your shell. She'll recover eventually.
>No helmet, though?

>>41441834
well, shit.
I guess we have fold-out chitin armor now.
>>41441856
>Other (?)
Can we... REfold the chitin armor?
Are we good enough to do that?

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>>41441856
>>Just put her on your shell. She'll recover eventually.

METAL SPIDER

So does it just cover our human bits or our entire body?

>>41441856
>>Maybe you should throw a tabard over all... this?
>>No helmet, though?

>>41441856
>Just put her on your shell. She'll recover eventually.
>No helmet, though?

>>41441856
>Maybe you should throw a tabard over all... this?
>Just put her on your shell. She'll recover eventually.
>No helmet, though?

>>41441856
>Just put her on your shell. She'll recover eventually.
>No helmet, though?

Awww Yiss.

>>41441856
>Just put her on your shell. She'll recover eventually.
>No helmet, though?

>>41441856
>Just put her on your shell. She'll recover eventually.
>Other (?)
Try to make a sword/shield/spear form from our claw hands. Shit would be so cool if it works.

And we should get around to making a metal-thread cloak/hoodie thing.

>>41441856
>Just put her on your shell. She'll recover eventually.
>Find a nearby reflective surface to look at ourselves and maybe try to fiddle with pseudo-mecha-armor?

>>41441856
>Just put her on your shell. She'll recover eventually.
>No helmet, though?

Time to get our crown!

>>41441856
>Just put her on your shell. She'll recover eventually.
>No helmet, though?
Okay, thats pretty cool.

And now wait for our "helmet" to have a crown design.

>>41441856
$20 says we made a crown and are currently wearing it.

>>41441856
>Just put her on your shell. She'll recover eventually.
>No helmet, though?

>>41441856
>Just put her on your shell. She'll recover eventually.
>No helmet, though?

>>41441856
>>Maybe you should throw a tabard over all... this?
>>Just put her on your shell. She'll recover eventually.
>>No helmet, though?
We don't need more people freaking out at us.

>>41441856
>>Maybe you should throw a tabard over all... this?

>>41441856
>Just put her on your shell. She'll recover eventually.
>No helmet, though?

>>41441942
>>41441946
>>41441964
HAH! Crown mind

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And to think, people were bitching about Hearth-spider being very popular / tying with Tyrant.

Now we are METAAAAAAAAAL SPPPIIIIIIIIIIIIDDDDDDEEEEEEEEEERRRRRR

>>41442003
>And to think, people were bitching about Hearth-spider being very popular / tying with Tyrant.
Since its chitin and not metal its pretty likely this is a Tyrant power not a Hearth power.

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>>41442003

>Metal Queen
>Metal Spider
>Total Face Mask helmet / Crown

IDS HABBENING.

>>41442039
>chitin and not metal
>BITCH DO YOU EVEN FUCKING READ

>>41442039
Lyra's chitin basically is metal now.

>>41442062
Yes, anon maybe try reading
>Your chitin swells, the weirdest feeling you've received in your short life, coating your body in a split-second
>Your chitin swells,...coating your body

>>41442039

No, it's Metal Chitin, because magical spider biology.

The "lines of color" and probably the crown helmet if we get it are probably the Tyrant influence.

It wouldn't make sense for it to be just regular chitin considering it affected all our limbs.