Change 6938

```Originally Posted : Fri Oct 30 03:54:03 2026
Posted by : Darkpoole
Title : Spider2: open playtest - wolf or orb?
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The refreshed Spider is now available to everyone as an OPEN PLAYTEST. Look
for Spider2 under Horror at character creation. The original Spider is
unchanged and still playable.

Spider2 is a full rebuild of the Spider. When you hatch you choose your
nature, and you must choose before you can do anything else:

WOLF SPIDER - the hunter
- stalk (2): shadow your prey.
- thorax (4): reshape your thorax outside combat. Hard gives armour, hairy
gives resistance and attacking, toxic sprays poison on anyone who hits <bryou.
- masticate (6): chew a foe open, lowering its resistance and toughness.
Stacks.
- trapdoor (8): dig up to 3 trapdoors, then wait in ambush for a named
target or anyone. Bursts out with a bite, venom and a flurry of strikes.
- jump (12): leap onto a target, even into the next room, bite and pin
them for a few rounds. Hits harder if they never saw you coming.
- infest (15): lay an egg in a foe that hatches and eats its way out.

ORB WEAVER - the trapper
- weave (2): your webs entangle anyone who enters.
- web sense (6): feel anything struggling in any of your webs, anywhere.
- pull (10): drag prey into your web.
- skitter (12): run along your silk to any of your webs.
- eggsack (15): spin a sack, lay eggs and hatch young to hunt your foes.

BOTH
- bite, spin (cocoons) and the classic venom.
- NEW: brewed toxins. 'do toxin <type>' fills your venom sacks, 'do toxin
set <type>' chooses one, and 'do toxin auto on' laces every bite ith it.
Wolf: hemotoxin, cardiotoxin, rhabdotoxin (weakens their attacks).
Orb: hemotoxin, neurotoxin (clumsiness, dropped weapons), pneumotoxin
(cuts healing).
Your toxin packets show on your HP bar.

Read 'help spider2' for the full guide, and 'help skills <name>' for each
skill.

THIS IS A PLAYTEST. Numbers will change and bugs are expected. Please
report anything broken with 'bug', and send balance or design feedback
with 'idea' - especially:
- whether wolf or orb feels stronger or weaker
- skill costs, cooldowns and the levels skills unlock at
- toxins: too strong, too weak, or confusing?
- anything that blocks you or behaves oddly during or after hatching

Once it has had a round of feedback, Spider2 will replace the original
Spider. Existing Spiders will then choose wolf or orb when they next log
in, keeping their path's skills and getting a full exp refund for the
rest.

Have fun, and happy hunting.
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