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I just ran across this and I have to post my own similar story .. .
It was, I think, in 1992. I was on my bed reading late at night, when I noticed that there were lots of things crawling on my arm, and on my lamp and on my bed. Looking more closely I realized that there were hundreds of tiny, tiny white spiders. I squashed the ones on my arms and followed the trail of webs that they were spinning. They were crawling all over the lampshade and I traced the webs to my AC unit which was also covered in spiders and webs. From there I followed the webs down to a space underneath my dresser drawers where I found the mother (as in parental unit) of the spiders. And this one was very clearly a black widow spider. There was an egg case which still had some of the babies coming out.
I which point I freaked. My apartment was swarming with lots of dangerous, poisonous spiders that had been crawling on me and my bed for who-knows-how-long before I noticed.
Fortunately, none of them seemed to have bitten me and I spent the next three hours squashing every one I could find between my fingers. It was the only way I could find that didn't require DC 20 dex checks.
When that was done I turned my attention to the mother spider. Where it was I couldn't squash it without being totally sure it wouldn't somehow bite me. After about an hour, I managed to use a can of chain lubricant to force it out of its hole and trapped it inside of a jar. I seeled the jar up and put it in the freezer.
For about a week after that I showed my trophy to my friends and bragged about all of the xp I must have earned.
Interesting fact: Baby black widows are white.
Now I am freaking out again and pulling my legs up onto the chair lest there be something underneath my computer desk.
It was, I think, in 1992. I was on my bed reading late at night, when I noticed that there were lots of things crawling on my arm, and on my lamp and on my bed. Looking more closely I realized that there were hundreds of tiny, tiny white spiders. I squashed the ones on my arms and followed the trail of webs that they were spinning. They were crawling all over the lampshade and I traced the webs to my AC unit which was also covered in spiders and webs. From there I followed the webs down to a space underneath my dresser drawers where I found the mother (as in parental unit) of the spiders. And this one was very clearly a black widow spider. There was an egg case which still had some of the babies coming out.
I which point I freaked. My apartment was swarming with lots of dangerous, poisonous spiders that had been crawling on me and my bed for who-knows-how-long before I noticed.
Fortunately, none of them seemed to have bitten me and I spent the next three hours squashing every one I could find between my fingers. It was the only way I could find that didn't require DC 20 dex checks.
When that was done I turned my attention to the mother spider. Where it was I couldn't squash it without being totally sure it wouldn't somehow bite me. After about an hour, I managed to use a can of chain lubricant to force it out of its hole and trapped it inside of a jar. I seeled the jar up and put it in the freezer.
For about a week after that I showed my trophy to my friends and bragged about all of the xp I must have earned.
Interesting fact: Baby black widows are white.
Now I am freaking out again and pulling my legs up onto the chair lest there be something underneath my computer desk.
Piratecat
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Something similiar happened to my sister in Key West. Apparently cockroaches laid eggs in her hair dryer and hatched. When she turned it on she had her eyes closed ...she just felt the 'tick' of bugs hitting her skin.
All these tiny cockroaches thought her ears and nose were nice dark places to hid in and tried crawling in...
All these tiny cockroaches thought her ears and nose were nice dark places to hid in and tried crawling in...
alsih2o said:
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Will someone *please* think of the ants?!
On a related note, what would the Search DC be on something like that? Certainly above 15, maybe 20?
Maybe just a Summon Swarm magical trap? Or something more... nefarious?
Off to make a new, third-level, swarm spell with a cone area of effect...
- Rep.
On a related note, what would the Search DC be on something like that? Certainly above 15, maybe 20?
Maybe just a Summon Swarm magical trap? Or something more... nefarious?
Off to make a new, third-level, swarm spell with a cone area of effect...
- Rep.
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