Breakdaddy
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A spidar machene! I wonder if it surfs the intarweb???
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(OT) I'm being hunted by a spider.
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SteelDraco
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Don't you read comics? Watch movies?
If you're still thinking it's a mutant spider, let it bite you. You have my personal assurance that one of two things will happen.
1. You will get cool super powers, and thereby be able to leap tall buildings, shoot webs, and other such coolness. This is, clearly, the optimal result. I think the risk is worth it, since it seems clear that you've found a mutant spider.
2. It will hurt, and you will feel silly for following my advice. You will also possibly get sick.
Seriously, though, I'd check to make sure it wasn't poisonous. From your description, it's just a (rather large) wolf spider. I'd leave it alone, as it's busy killing all kinds of other, more annoying bugs in your house.
If you're still thinking it's a mutant spider, let it bite you. You have my personal assurance that one of two things will happen.
1. You will get cool super powers, and thereby be able to leap tall buildings, shoot webs, and other such coolness. This is, clearly, the optimal result. I think the risk is worth it, since it seems clear that you've found a mutant spider.
2. It will hurt, and you will feel silly for following my advice. You will also possibly get sick.
Seriously, though, I'd check to make sure it wasn't poisonous. From your description, it's just a (rather large) wolf spider. I'd leave it alone, as it's busy killing all kinds of other, more annoying bugs in your house.
Jeremy Ackerman-Yost
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Sounds like a wolf spider to me. I wouldn't worry about it unless you have very young children around. Of course, I also wouldn't expect a huge decrease in your bug population. A spider that size will take down a large bug every couple days or a number of small bugs more often. They have a surprisingly efficient metabolism, despite all their jumping around.
Also, I wouldn't feel too bad about being "outsmarted." Some species of jumping spider have been found to have disturbingly good problem-solving skills. And they have the advantage of nimbleness over we poor, lumbering beknighted bipeds.
Also, I wouldn't feel too bad about being "outsmarted." Some species of jumping spider have been found to have disturbingly good problem-solving skills. And they have the advantage of nimbleness over we poor, lumbering beknighted bipeds.
Furn_Darkside
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Renshai said:
Bug sprays never seem to be too good on spiders.
I find lysol disinfectant sprays are good- and you don't need to get close. They don't kill right away, but they tend to cause the spider to freak out- you can scoop it up and flush it.
FD
alsih2o
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bugspray and lysol??? pshaw! take an appropriate burner off one of your kilns (you DO have a kiln, yes?) and run a flexible line to a propane tank with an overcranked regulator. wait. spray a decent 12x 5 foot area where he appears. if the flames don't get him, the smoke might. 
this solution may seem drastic, but my first idea was "start by getting an even bigger spider..." but i figured you didn't wanna go there.
this solution may seem drastic, but my first idea was "start by getting an even bigger spider..." but i figured you didn't wanna go there.
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Jeremy Ackerman-Yost
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alsih2o said:bugspray and lysol??? pshaw! take an appropriate burner off one of your kilns (you DO have a kiln, yes?) and run a flexible line to a propane tank with an overcranked regulator. wait. spray a decent 12x 5 foot area where he appears. if the flames don't get him, the smoke might.
Wow.
One can only wonder how you would suggest handling a large cockroach infestation... I imagine it involves something nigh apocalyptic.
Tewligan
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This is true. I once had a large spider living in my apartment. I didn't kill him, so out of gratitude he started balancing my checkbook and helping me with difficult jigsaw puzzles. His cleverness had a dark side, though - I eventually found out that he had made a crude paper mache mask in my image, and was making time with my girlfriend when I wasn't around. I confronted him about it, and our friendship ended soon thereafter. Last I heard, the two of them were living somewhere in Nebraska. I wish them all the best.Canis said:
I'm A Banana
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It just wants to be looooved! Love the spider! Hug it's hairiness!
And then stab it in the back when it ain't lookin'. The big buggers die real purdy like.
On a side-note, how annoying would this be to a PC party. A tiny, obnoxious little thing that they had to kill/capture for some reason, but whose AC was so bizarrely high they could never hit it. Give it some mad-wack spell resistance to, so the big gun feels outclassed.
Make it a mephit or a kobold or something so that it can add insult to insult and they can do nothing!
Mwahahahaha!
Wow, I scare myself...
And then stab it in the back when it ain't lookin'. The big buggers die real purdy like.
On a side-note, how annoying would this be to a PC party. A tiny, obnoxious little thing that they had to kill/capture for some reason, but whose AC was so bizarrely high they could never hit it. Give it some mad-wack spell resistance to, so the big gun feels outclassed.
Make it a mephit or a kobold or something so that it can add insult to insult and they can do nothing!
Mwahahahaha!
Wow, I scare myself...
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