Heya Folks! Got a sick suit upgrade, and It's been a bit, so I figured I'd reintroduce myself.
Name's Audrey Krentle, A.K.A. Arachne. I've been New Portland's friendly neighborhood anarchist for about 2 years and counting.
I got superpowers after being bitten by some weird spider while stealing stuff from Alchemax with my then girlfriend at the time, MJ. The stupid things you do to impress a girl.
You know how it goes. Became a superhero with MJ's help, she became a supervillain called The Vulture, and we had a messy breakup (to say the least). Since then, I've joined a punk band with my best friend Gwen and have been trying to balance my semblance of a life between helping people, fighting baddies, and playing shows.
A while ago, a mercenary hired by Alchemax calling himself Spider-Slayer (real name Kraven) used an experimental teleporter that bugged out and briefly sent me to another universe. I came back not a minute later and noticed my phone was acting strange. The bugged teleporter had made it so I could communicate with people across the multiverse! So, of course, I decided to make this blog to chat with folks and answer questions!
Pretty standard DNI. No bigots, no pervs, etc. Be civil. While I am pretty openly in support of various causes, I'll try to keep politics to a minimum. That goes for you too. This blog is mostly just for fun 🤟 That being said, <3 ACAB <3 BLM <3 Eat the rich <3 Trans Rights <3
I've heard around that some spiderpeople have organic webbing that comes from their wrist 😬 that sounds SO uncomfortable. I guess maybe its more convenient, and you dont have to either be a smarty or have someone else be smart enough to develop wrist mounted web shooters and the cartridges they need. Pros and cons. Although I feel like the con of having that be in your arm is pretty major. It's making my wrists hurt just thinking about it
I noticed it says you're in NEW Portland?? Is that anything like New York? Is there an OLD Portland?
Hey there, humble question(s) asker!
To be honest, I hadn't thought about how this place must be different in other universes. So apologies for not yapping about this sooner, I guess.
New Portland DOES get compared to New York a lot, even in our world. We often get called "The West Coast's New York". It is a major metropolis for sure and does share a similar scale with New York, or well Manhatten at least. Although besides the surface level of being a big city, the vibe is totally different. Lot more... artsy... in like a hipstery and/or queer way a lot of the time. Ya know, typical for the PNW. No offense to New York's own art and cultural scenes. I haven't been, though, only seen it in movies and the like. I couldn't say too much else on the differences.
As for Old Portland. Yeah, we have one. It's essentially the "Old Town" historical section of the city. In the 1950s, there was a MAJOR movement to modernize and expand the city. Eventually, it grew so much that it was dubbed as "New Portland".
Messed up that this gorgeous shade of orange of that heart emoji is the one chosen for this question. Orange is by far my second fav color. Honestly, I would have done my suit orange and white in my younger years when it was my fav instead of purple.
ANYWAY, sorry off topic- umm gosh, it's hard to find one that I actually HATE. I have too much of an artist's eye and can see the contexts in which most colors can be pretty. Although this thing is a bit rough on its own. Nasty brown green. Granted in like a swamp or other nature landscape it could be a nice part of a palette
Man, fuckin' Electricia broke out and caused a power outage AGAIN. This woman is such a pain. Literally and figuratively. Can't really punch someone that's like made out of electricity(??) Its like being tazed. At least my webbing isn't conductive, so I still have some way to deal with her. Well besides the obvious of just like hitting her with something that won't zap me. Maybe Mark can help with making a suit upgrade to deal with that.
ANYWAY, the outage means the show we were gonna play was canceled. yaaaay :/
If I get grey hairs I'm blaming her. assuming I don't already have some
Been awhile. A lot happened. Guess I'll start from the top.
Pete was the Green Goblin. Still feel stupid that I didn't see it right in front of me. I mean, of course, he had beef with Alchemax. Whole reason he worked with Oscorp before it got bought out was for the good he thought they were going to do with his tech, and then all those company values dissappeared in favor of money and government weapon contracts. All he worked for was going towards war and oppression. He lost all his blueprints and prototypes when he quit, but then he saw me and vulture fighting. My powers from the Alchemax Super Soldier program I inadvertently ruined, me using the webshooters and vulture using the flight gear he designed. I guess it stirred his want for revenge and new ideas on how to do it.
He had made his glider and weaponry inspired by how Vulture altered his flight gear. He just needed my DNA to supe himself up, so neither me nor any of Alchemax's goons would be an instant roadblock. He manipulated his way to me, took a stray DNA hair sample from me being around his store so often, and made his own formula by reverse engineering my DNA. It worked, though only for a period of a few hours at a time, and it apparently had some psycho active side effects. Majorly heightened his aggression and sent him into this mania where he went way more destructive than originally planned. Attacking Alchemax businesses and warehouses with no concern for the people working there.
It was... well, it was rough when I found out. Yet another person close to me turning into a crazy super terrorist. Markus... good ol' Markus... he was the one who found the thing that clued us in to Peter being an option for who the Goblin was. He found a vial of the formula Peter had in his desk drawer. Neither of us knew what it was at the time, but it clued us in enough that something was up with him.
Markus tailed him after work one day and got jumped by the Goblin. Pete fully having lost himself from taking double the dose of the goblin formula and used him to draw me out so I'd stop getting in the way of his revenge. I'm here obviously, so like- I won. Marcus was just a bit bruised up. He's perfectly fine now. Besides the trauma, but ya know. Pete got off on criminal insanity due to the formula. He's doing better now at the facility they put him in. I try to visit him when I can. He was a pain in the ass as the Goblin and betrayed mine and Markus' trust, but like I understand what led him there and that not everything he did was fully in his control. He does regret it, too.
The reason I've been MIA is actually related to this whole fiasco. My phone got fully busted in the fight, and I had to wait until Markus recovered and could work on the teleporter device before I could get my new phone all multiverse glitched out like before. He's smart, but he is still just a kid in college, so he couldn't do much beyond getting it to do that. So, no multiverse adventures for me still. Honestly, I can barely handle shit here, so probably for the best.
Besides all that, it's pretty much back to normal. Things are going good with Gwen, band's doing alright, no other new baddies or major awful shit. Though... Alchemax has been understandably more on edge and active since the goblin attacks. They seem more serious about their security and even seemed to slow funding on sending their lap dog, Sergei, after me with the prototypes they usually would have him testing out. Maybe a blessing in disguise that they aren't currently bothering me as much, maybe just something waiting to blow up in my face again. We'll see if the monkey's paw curses me yet again. All in due time, I suppose.
For now, this has been your friendly neighborhood anarchist, Arachne. Signing off.
Been very busy, but I talked to the guys. Markus was pretty easily able to make a little GPS tracking bug that connects to the WEB app. Even made it shaped like a little spider.
Also talked to pete about all this and if he has any ideas as to suspects for who could be this goblin dude. Gave me a short list, but Alchemax has so many enemies that really it could be anyone.
•Phillip Urich; 'Daily Bugle' Journalist with a particular grudge and focus on doing Alchemax hit pieces. Apparently, his uncle was involved in some accident when working for Alchemax.
•Roderick Kingsley; Former Founder and CEO of local business 'Kingsley Pharmacy'. His business went under shortly after Alchemax came to portland. Couldn't compete with them.
•Dr. Mendel Stromm; Former business partner and engineer in the early days of Oscorp. He was arrested and imprisoned for embezzlement.
Dunno why any of these guys would all of a sudden start attacking Alchemax NOW, but suppose I finally have something to work off of. Gonna see about tracking these guys and looking for any suspicious activity. If that turns up nothing, then at least next time the goblin shows up I can hopefully place that tracker on him.
I looked into that Phillip Urich guy's Daily Bugle Articles on Alchemax. His uncle Benjamin Urich worked as a security guard at the Alchemax lab that Dr. Curtis Connors AKA The Lizard was the lead scientist at. Ben was on shift the day that Connors had his transformation, and Ben was assaulted by The Lizard. Pretty good reason to have a grudge against Alchemax.
Phil has also written some of the Bugle Articles condemning me, so I probably don't want to directly confront this guy if I can help it. Markus did make a couple of the trackers, so I'll see if I can bug him and just keep track of his movements.
I still don't know the how or the why that he would be doing this Goblin stuff though. Like The Lizard thing happened a little under 2 years ago at this point, and Phil has been working at the Bugle all that time. Why would he do anything now, and also how would he even get his hands on that tech the Goblin is using?
Roderick Kingsley, even though his business went under, seems to still be having a pretty cushy life. He moved down to LA and is doing some sort of business venture. I found an article theorizing actually that Alchemax bought him out. Regardless of if that's true or not, he's doing perfectly fine as all rich CEO a-holes usually are. All of that happened years ago anyway. I severely doubt him having moved to LA and doing fine would have any reason to bother attacking Alchemax, especially so directly.
Dr. Mendel Stromm is still in prison. Of course, he could orchestrate something from inside there, although if that was the case, I'd expect something more idk... subtle? This is one specific guy waging war on Alchemax with a goblin costume on a hoverboard with bombs and rockets. He could be maybe funded/hired by someone else, but idk.
Stromm does harbor a grudge against Norman Osborn for catching him embezzling from Oscorp and testifying against him, but means and motive for him having anything to do with this Specific Green Goblin guy is shakey at best.
Not even sure if there's any way I could talk to the guy, or find out what he's doing in there if I wanted to. Not about to break into a prison, and not going to try to visit the guy with my civ identity. That'd look so weird, and might compromise me. I'll keep him in mind I guess, but that's about all I can do.
Speaking of prisons, there is someone else that might be worth talking to, given that the Goblin's board shares some design similarities with her wings... but I'd rather keep her as a last resort. Don't want to dredge all that up again if I don't have to.
Been very busy, but I talked to the guys. Markus was pretty easily able to make a little GPS tracking bug that connects to the WEB app. Even made it shaped like a little spider.
Also talked to pete about all this and if he has any ideas as to suspects for who could be this goblin dude. Gave me a short list, but Alchemax has so many enemies that really it could be anyone.
•Phillip Urich; 'Daily Bugle' Journalist with a particular grudge and focus on doing Alchemax hit pieces. Apparently, his uncle was involved in some accident when working for Alchemax.
•Roderick Kingsley; Former Founder and CEO of local business 'Kingsley Pharmacy'. His business went under shortly after Alchemax came to portland. Couldn't compete with them.
•Dr. Mendel Stromm; Former business partner and engineer in the early days of Oscorp. He was arrested and imprisoned for embezzlement.
Dunno why any of these guys would all of a sudden start attacking Alchemax NOW, but suppose I finally have something to work off of. Gonna see about tracking these guys and looking for any suspicious activity. If that turns up nothing, then at least next time the goblin shows up I can hopefully place that tracker on him.
"Ah, your universe finally has a Green Goblin huh?, I am so sorry if they turn out to be like the Green Goblins of other universes, tricky thing about Goblins are their identities are common yet hard to discern within an individual universe. Start with figuring out who has a reason to attack Alchemax exclusively and go from there, you really need to nip this in the bud or it will get worse eventually if the wrong person is behind the mask" - Spider-Thorn of 4563
Thanks, this is INCREDIBLY OMNIOUS 👍
The tough thing is Alchemax is really big, and there's definitely a lot of people that have reasons for hating it. Hell, I do! But tbf they are the main source of the people who try to kill me sooo
Well, Peter did have connections to Alchemax through the Oscorp merger before he left, so maybe he knows other people with a more direct hatred and means. Some disgruntled ex employee, maybe. Hell, it could be someone from a rival company. I have no idea 🤷♀️
I haven't had to really worry about finding out the secret identity of the peeps I fight. I usually just beat them and find it out when they get arrested, or they don't even try to hide it in the first place
Happy Halloween! Or that's what i would say. Unfortunately for me, there's some new green costumed weirdo on a flying hoverboard thing in town. News has taken to calling him "Green Goblin". I'm not sure what his deal is, but he's been targeting a lot of buildings owned and operated by Alchemax.
Strangely, his board actually reminds me of the designs Vulture stole and altered from Alchemax for her wings...
Okay, so goblin guy isn't some october/halloween one-off villain. Despite the fact he's def wearing some altered halloween outfit. Guy keeps showing up. He's actually really hard to fight. His board has rockets, blades, and dude has different types of weird grenades he tosses out. I'm used to having the aerial advantage, at least, but I can't even have that. He's just messing with me half the time.
I don't even know what his deal is! Like the guy doesn't even monolog! Usually, these guys LOVE to monolog. He just shows up, attacks some Alchemax related place, fights me a bit, and fucks off
I need to find out where the hell this guy is set up, like an evil lair or something. Gotta talk to the guys about making some sort of gps tracker maybe that i can stick to him
Happy Halloween! Or that's what i would say. Unfortunately for me, there's some new green costumed weirdo on a flying hoverboard thing in town. News has taken to calling him "Green Goblin". I'm not sure what his deal is, but he's been targeting a lot of buildings owned and operated by Alchemax.
Strangely, his board actually reminds me of the designs Vulture stole and altered from Alchemax for her wings...
Genuinely don't know why there's still the occasional person that thinks they can fuck with F.E.A.S.T.. like idk how you see Arachne throw the Lizard into a building and break several of their bones for targeting FEAST and trying to turn them into iguanas or whatever the fuck they try to do, and think "oh yeah that's a good idea I'm gonna try to rob them".
Like first off it's a charity for the homeless and underprivileged , what the fuck is wrong with you???? Second off I don't have to be in costume to beat your ass. Like can they not see the punk girl volunteering there? How could they think she wouldn't kill you for assaulting people/trying to steal shit???
It's FINE. I've had much worse, but now I have Gwen worried when I'm reckless and get messed up. Which tbf they have been before, it was just easier to hide and lie about before.
On one hand, it's nice having them know and care. On the other, it instills a deep dread 💜
The struggle of pushing myself too hard and being a self-sacrificing idiot VS. Wanting to have a life with Gwen
