DISTURBING! Spiders Shouldn't Be That Big!

[dragonspooker]

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!"

Comments

[morituramfides]

Give him enough reason to and he probably will, so.

At the news of her magic not working, that got a peer over the top of his glasses. Jin knew shit all about her magic, but he at least knew what it was capable of. "Did ya try freezing the actual spider? that'd at least immobilize it."

[dragonspooker]

"I..."

Lina pauses, and a sudden sheepish look comes across her face. "...nnnno, but given the effects that the other stuff had, it probably wouldn't have done much good."

[morituramfides]

Have a nice deadpan look. Jin may not have been a first class strategist, but come on.

"Never know until ya try, right?" He crossed his arms. "Besides, you stopped it somehow, and it's better than running around looking like an idiot."

[dragonspooker]

Lina folds her arms and scowls. "It seemed like a good idea at the time, since it was shrugging off everything else I threw at it!"

Wait, was that a compliment in there?

[morituramfides]

Nope, no compliments here. Just being practical!!

You could probably construe that as more of a compliment if he weren't currently pinching the bridge of his nose. "How the hell are you even still alive?"

[dragonspooker]

Her face scrunches up at that question - that could be interpreted two ways. Neither was good, but one was much worse than the other, so she needed to find out. Her answer is snappish and accusatory, though - "Y'mean just now, or my life in general?!"

[morituramfides]

It is taking all of his willpower and stoicism not to turn that nose pinch into a full-on facepalm.

And he follows with a flat, "Both."

[dragonspooker]

She shrugs off the implications of his question, and instead takes it as a chance to fluff her ego. "Because I'm Lina Inverse, that's how!"