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Message: <blockquote data-quote="physics_ninja" data-source="post: 1073842" data-attributes="member: 5570">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.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />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.</blockquote>

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