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<blockquote data-quote="TheSword" data-source="post: 7401385" data-attributes="member: 6879661"><p>If you want an escalating sense of awareness about the hive mind you could escalate the displays of intelligence and cooperation. Consider these stages for instance...</p><p></p><p>Stage One: Have spiders act in ways that spiders would not normally do... perhaps in ways that aren’t in their own self interest. Examples could include a large spider watching the party for a time then scuttling away, only to be seen watching the party at a later date. Or a spider dragging an object away that a spider would clearly have no use for.</p><p></p><p>Stage Two: Have the spiders cooperate to do things spiders couldn’t do alone. For instance to bridge an underground stream, spider swarms cling to each other forming a bridge. Individual spiders tumble into the water and are swept away but as a whole the spider swarms bridge the river. Or the spiders form a living wall obscuring something the spider queen doesn’t want the PCs to see.</p><p></p><p>Stage Three: Have the spiders communicate en mass. That’s one of the surest signs of intelligence. Maybe the spiders arrange themselves into runes. Or even form a human like face that the forms sounds from rustling legs (think of the Intelligence at the end of the third matrix film forming the face from hundreds of the seeker robots)</p><p></p><p>[i love your concept by the way, I’m definitely stealing it! It could work with any swarm like intellignce]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TheSword, post: 7401385, member: 6879661"] If you want an escalating sense of awareness about the hive mind you could escalate the displays of intelligence and cooperation. Consider these stages for instance... Stage One: Have spiders act in ways that spiders would not normally do... perhaps in ways that aren’t in their own self interest. Examples could include a large spider watching the party for a time then scuttling away, only to be seen watching the party at a later date. Or a spider dragging an object away that a spider would clearly have no use for. Stage Two: Have the spiders cooperate to do things spiders couldn’t do alone. For instance to bridge an underground stream, spider swarms cling to each other forming a bridge. Individual spiders tumble into the water and are swept away but as a whole the spider swarms bridge the river. Or the spiders form a living wall obscuring something the spider queen doesn’t want the PCs to see. Stage Three: Have the spiders communicate en mass. That’s one of the surest signs of intelligence. Maybe the spiders arrange themselves into runes. Or even form a human like face that the forms sounds from rustling legs (think of the Intelligence at the end of the third matrix film forming the face from hundreds of the seeker robots) [i love your concept by the way, I’m definitely stealing it! It could work with any swarm like intellignce] [/QUOTE]
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