(OT) I'm being hunted by a spider.

[Oni]

Let me just add another watch out if it is a brown recluse. These things are nasty and (though some people may tell you otherwise) aggressive. Just last week one actually went out of its way, charged across the room and tried to attack my father. He wasn't anywhere near it, or doing anything to threaten it at all. Luckily I noticed and warned him in time to jump out of the way and kill it. I personally just barely survived a brown recluse bite when I was a child, I had to be put on steroids (which isn't a particularly good thing in and of itself). Anyway, make sure you know what your dealing with.

 

[-Ekimus-]

Well a good way of killing spiders I've found, is to spray either Cinch, or some sort of strong smelling cologne(sp) or something to that effect. It generally causes the spider to get disoriented, or so I've come to find.

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.

Actually, this happened to me once, except it was with a wolf. It followed me for 8 hours in the Neverwinter Wood. I kept throwing stuff at it, but it wouldn't die, because it kept hiding behind trees. I went to sleep and it Coup De Gras(sp) 'd me. Then I ripped it to pieces...

 

[Ace]

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Originally posted by alsih2o
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.
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Wow.

One can only wonder how you would suggest handling a large cockroach infestation... I imagine it involves something nigh apocalyptic.

I think alsih has something in the E=MC2 line for Major Vermin Infestation problems



as for your big spider problem creamsteak, don't sweat it the critter isn't interested in you and won't hurt you anyway. SPlatt it if you must but leave it be if you can.
Spiders are very valuable sources of Vermin control and with that big wolf spider you will be pretty much cockroach free forever

 

[reapersaurus]

What a classic thread! ROFLMAO
bump just in case someone didn't see it last night.

 

[Kamard]

spiders. sssssspiders.

if I had a four inch spider in my house, I would move out.

and I wouldn't come back.

ever.

 

[Werewolf_26]

Something we have found that works rather well for catching rather mobile targets is a type of fly paper they sell at hardware stores for mice and rats, and other large rodents.

They do require monitoring as larger rodents are capable of pulling themselves free. We have caught a number of daddy-long-legs & a few spiders & roaches with them. Of course the pests require some alternate means of destruction.



Another option is a beach blanket or heavy towel (net) and a base ball bat That also works but is much more primative but works for birds, dragons, spiders, adventurers, evil PCs, etc...

 

[Pielorinho]

Something we have found that works rather well for catching rather mobile targets is a type of fly paper they sell at hardware stores for mice and rats, and other large rodents.

Aw, man, that stuff is nasty! I used to work at a bakery where they used it as pest control, and I'd get there first thing in the morning to find the traps with mice on them, still alive, having chewed themselves almost in half in an effort to get free. Gives me nightmares.

Spiders in the house are good luck. Killing them just means they get the ghost template slapped on them, and then where will you be? They'll start spinning webs inside your head, that's where you'll be.

Daniel

 

[Wikidogre]

You should make friends with it, teach it to like you, feed it, and then when your a dm or gm and the players piss you off send it in on a straffing run, or to sneak attack. But i would not send it after a dm or gm if you are a player.........consequences and reprucutions.....(Maybe they are spelled right!)


Take it froma master, i have been able to train my mastiff to get me beer, and let himself outside, and my ferret to attack others socks if thier shoes are off!

 

[shadowthorn]

Creamsteak, you have my sympathies. Spiders are my nemesis (nemeses?). I've had friends vacation in other countries and return with stories of spiders a foot long, which jump from wall to wall when you try to squish them. BRRRRR!!!

I believe the spiders I've fought all my life have currently negotiated an alliance with bedbugs, which I've been battling for weeks. Spraying, fumigating, laundering - nothing has helped. I may have to get a new mattress soon. Bastards!

 

[AuroraGyps]

Thanks for the nightmares

Ok, I should've known NOT to read this thread. I will so be having nightmares tonight... especially after the pictures. Anyways, I've heard that Wolf Spiders can be poisonous if they're a pregnant female... but who can get a female Wolf Spider to pee on an EPT stick? However, my spider killing weapon of choice is hairspray (Aquanet Unscented Extra Super Hold is best... lavender can). Ya spray the spider and they get all coated and can't breathe so then ya can smash 'em.
I once visited my parents during an infestation of Golden Orb spiders (not that bad, just annoying). My parents would turn out all the lights and go to bed. I'd come down from my bedroom and when I'd turn on a light, like 6-12 spiders would make a made dash across the ceiling (I HATE when they're on the ceiling). So, I found that walking around at night with a can of hairspray and sneakers on worked rather well.

"Click"
"Scurry"
"Whoosh, stomp... whoosh, stomp... whoosh stomp."

Fun vacation.