towerofanimus | DISTURBING! Spiders Shouldn't Be That Big!

Characters: Lina and Spidermom in one thread, otherwise totally open.
Setting: Random hall on the 18th.
Format: Prose to start, will follow if you prefer action.
Summary: Lina's just wandering around and grousing, and will encounter Vriska's lusus on the loose. However, I'm also open to other threads happening here before or after her run-in with Spidermom.
Warnings: BIG-ASS SPIDER.

Before Spidermom:

This tower was nothing but stress.

The labyrinth. The punishment for dying there. Recovering from that. Sayaka turning into a monster. Confronting Sayaka over that. And on top of all that, the only thing to eat was more of those lousy food bars. Eugh. Lina's out for a walk to try and work some of this stress off - she'd go cut loose with magic, but doesn't wanna risk accidentally setting off the people here to cut her off yet again. That, and while the nutrition bars do their job, for someone like Lina, it's just not enough. And eating enough of those things to quell her hunger appropriately just does not sound appealing in the least.

A sound catches her attention down the hall. Sounds like she's coming up on somebody. Or something...

After Spidermom:
Hey, you there, person. Hopefully you're watching where you're going, because there is a short redheaded girl running full-tilt toward you with a rather panicked look on her face.

"GET OUTTA THE WAY!"

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The shadow of a spider appears along the floor first, quickly followed by the towering form of a white goliath of a spider. She takes up a large section of the hallway with sheer girth. Once Lina's in sight, she scuttles forward quickly once she's identified her as prey. Better think quick on your feet, Lina!

This was absolutely ridiculous! Heinous! Awful and simply disrespectful! Who kidnapped sleeping innocents, collared them and then, then had the gall to claim the world was destroyed?

Monsters, that's who!

Only Monsters would pull so tasteless a joke and take it even further by re-clothing their victims. The shriek she had emitted upon waking had reverberated through the second floor, though any offended parties were ignored -- not intentionally, though, Filia was just too blinded by rage to notice.

She stomps through the tower, hollering for the one Monster she wished she never knew. It's by chance that she notices a familiar head of red.

"Miss Lina!" she cries out, oblivious to the ginormous spider scuttling their way. "Oh, I'm so glad to see you! This is Xellos' doing, isn't it, that dirty, loathsome--"

Nevermind that she had just been calling for him to get an explanation.

Well. This day just got a lot more stressful. There's some lunatic yelling about some 'Xellos' guy, and...yelling out to her?

Lina looks back for a moment, confused by Filia, then turns back around for just a moment--

Spider. Spider. BIG SPIDER.

Big spider coming after her and it does not look happy. CRAP. Lina stumbles backwards, recovering into a backwards retreat - it's not fast enough to last against the big beast's speed, but hopefully long enough to cast something to distract it. "I dunno who you are, but we got a bigger problem than some dirty guy!"

She draws a hand back, and swings it forward, tossing an explosive ball of fire at the arachnid. "FIREBAAAAAAAAALL!"

The spider recoils and withdraws for a moment, shaking off the stun of the unexpected attack. Used to having her food handed to her injured, she's not presently accustomed to fighting for her food. The attack simply appears to enrage her and she darts forward again, a front leg stabbing outward to attempt to spear one of the girls. She doesn't have a preference really, all these humans seem to taste the same and she's hungry.

" 'Don't know who'--" she starts, but upon following Lina's gaze, ends the question with an undignified shriek.

She lets out another one when Lina's Fireball fails to achieve its goal.

"Oh, you've made it angrier!" she cries, not having yet made the choice to try to be useful.

Well, she might not have done much, but at least she could actually cast.

Damn it...! "Move your butt outta here or DO SOMETHING! BOM DI WIND!" That gust of air is aimed for Filia, and Lina uses the kickback from it to move backwards, and to avoid that incoming leg.

The dodge doesn't deter spidermom for long. She's already rushing forward again to try snatching one of them up with her pedipalps, her fangs extended in the event she's able to catch one of them and sink in.

The gurgle of noise coming from Filia is unintelligible, but the wind spell does the trick -- Filia is propelled right under spidermom's belly.

Oh shi-

Letting out a horrified cry, the golden dragon lets loose a stream of laser breath right on the underside of spidermom.

Lina, you are so getting a talking to when this is over.

Do you want to survive, Filia, or do you want to be spider food?

Lina keeps moving backwards, and meets that pedipalp with a nice burst of lightning - "DIGGER BOLT!" This may have not been the wisest thing to do, depending on if Filia's actually touching the oversized arachnid, but desperate times and desperate measures and all that...

The spider skitters back, putting Filia in front of her. She sinks low to the floor to cushion her burn and curls her pedipalp in on herself. It slides against her chelicera, producing a sort of hissing sound, which sounds more like a screech coming from such a large creature. There's a moment or two where the spider merely sits there, staring at them. And then she's rising back on her legs and lunging forward again, enraged by the damage.

Crap, this didn't quite work out as planned.

Not that there was much of a plan, but...

"I dunno who you are, but, uh... Run the other way, I guess - I've got its attention! I'll lead it off and try to case it in ice or something!" With that, Lina flings another fireball and takes off the way Filia came from.

Po-h! Yes, she is indeed electrified -- her frazzled hair and charred appearance are testaments to this. Filia waves Lina off, responding more to the sound of her voice than her actual words, before tottering off in the opposite direction.

She is easy game for the beast now.

[ ooc: spidermom can catch her! or she can wobble away by sheer dumb luck if you'd rather that. i'm a-ok with either. ]

The spider would have gone for Filia if not for the fireball to her face that dazes her and has her skittering back several feet away from them both. Once she recovers she changes her attention and charges after Lina. The attacks only seem to enrage her more than doing damage.

Okay, this is getting her nowhere.

Time to retreat and rethink things, but she needs something to hold the beast off. Maybe a wall of ice...

"FREEZE BULLET!" Pale blue light erupts from her palm, striking the floor between the spider and herself, and begins expanding at high speed, filling the hallway with an icy block.

DISTURBING! Spiders Shouldn't Be That Big!

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THIS IS SUPER LATE SORRY ):

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