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Electrofuge - Caves of Qud
"Gossamer hairs stand stiff in static charge across its octet of Spindle legs, and it crackles as it crawls."
These arachnids often dwell among ruins, and have the ability to build up and discharge electricity.
Likely intended to be a camel spider, also known as a solifuge.
Day 83#: Regal Jumping Spider
Today's animal of the day is the Regal Jumping Spider (Phidippus regius)!
Photo credit: Patricia Tiller
This relatively large species of jumping spider can be found throughout the eastern half of the United States as well as the Caribbean. Females can grow between 0.28 to 0.87 inches long, while males are typically smaller and grow between 0.24 to 0.71 inches long. Males tend to be mostly black in color with white markings and an iridescent greenish-blue sheen on their chelicerae (mouth parts). Females can come in a variety of different color morphs, such as tan, brown, gray, and even orange!
Photo credit: Maxim Larrivée
These arachnids don't build webs to capture prey like other spiders do, and are instead active pursuit predators that will use their amazing jumping abilities to pounce on prey from a distance. However, they do still produce silk, which they use to create draglines to catch themselves if they fall while jumping, as well as to create little nests to sleep in at night. Regal jumping spiders are most active during the day, since they rely heavily on their sense of sight to locate prey, and they can be commonly found on tree trunks or on man-made walls, which they can scale easily.
Photo credit: C. P. Gibson
Jumping spiders in general make surprisingly good pets, and the regal jumping spider is a particularly popular species to keep in North America, since they are so common. Since they are much smaller than most tarantulas, they don't need as much space as tarantulas do and can be housed in a 6"x6"x9" sized enclosure. Though you'll probably want to get them a larger enclosure if you can, and make sure that it has plenty of vertical space for the spider to climb and that it's front opening, since the spiders like to build their nests at the top of the enclosure and you don't want to destroy their nests everytime you open their enclosure. Depending on the species, they also don't tend to live as long as some tarantulas, and so they aren't as big of a commitment. Typically, the lifespan of a regal jumping spider is between 1-3 years in captivity, with females living slightly longer on average compared to males. Meanwhile, some female tarantulas can live up to 30 years!
Photo credit: Kaylyn Pearce
Jumping spiders are also much more active than tarantulas, since they are pursuit predators as opposed to ambush predators, and they are also more likely to be out and about during the day instead of at night. While I wouldn't recommend handling a jumping spider too much, out of fear that you might accidentally lose or squish them, they tend to be fairly easy to handle, and you'd have to be actively trying to harass them in order to get one to bite you. If this does happen, since they're much smaller, jumping spider bites are much less painful than tarantula bites, and their venom tends to be pretty mild, though some people can be allergic to it and have more severe reactions. Honestly, as long as you do the proper research, they're probably one of the easiest and cheapest types of spiders you can keep as a pet. Plus, they're so freaking cute with those massive puppy-dog eyes!
If TFP Had Quirks: Jack Darby
( Please imagine a Present Mic like voice making this announcement :D)
Name: Jackson “Jack” Darby
Age: 16
Quirk: Short Range Teleport
Description: With his quirk he is able to teleport up to 10 meters at a time, though he has to see the location he wants to teleport to first. Despite this condition his power compensates itself by allowing him to rapidly teleport multiple times in a row before getting tired, highest number being 18. He is able to take others with him when he teleports, while none living things need to be the size of a fridge to travel with him. Downside is that with each person he teleports with his stamina and number of teleports decreases, meaning he tires himself faster when he needs to transport someone with him.
Quirk AU: Predatory
Jack was running and panting through the forest as Arachnid chased him, he felt disgusted in himself for leaving Arcee but knew that he couldn’t help her. And besides, their aggressor was focused more on him at this time. He looked back with the corner of his eye and saw the dark femme climbing up the hill towards him.
"That's the spirit, Jack" She smirked "Play hard to get"
The teenager ran faster as he continued to try and escape the giant Insecticon, jumping over rocks and dead branches he stumbled into a fallen tree in his path and feeling like he had no better option he climbed over it before ducking just under its trunk.
When Arachnid approached the fallen tree Jack held his breath, hoping that she doesn't spot him in his shabby hiding place. For while all he could make out were her legs, long and pointed, just ready to stab into helpless prey. All seemed quite for awhile, with the teenager almost sure that the spider-bot didn’t spot him, until her oversized head appeared right in front of him.
"Hello, Jack"~ she purred with a sinister smile.
He screamed and with a visible flicker Jack teleported away from the dead tree and began running yet again. Arachnid blinked her purple optics in surprise before a pleased smile entered her face. She shot a web by from her hand but it hit a tree instead when the human before her manage to warp out of the way again.
“Slippery little thing” she mused.
without stopping Jack continued to teleport through the woods, not stopping even for a minute as between trees Arachnid continued to chase him. Not even when he reached the cliff of a canyon, his quirk making it all too easy to get to the other side.
He had hoped to have put some distance between himself and Insecticon, but she simply leaped over the canyon with her spidery legs.
Eventually needing to stop to catch his breath Jack hid behind a tree and reached to the bag on his pants and taking out his multi-functional pocket knife out and pulled out all of the blades, but realized how useless it was against the spider-bot
"Oh, who am I kidding?" he said before, teleporting away when he heard a loud brunch of twigs nearby.
At times like this he wished he had a different quirk than his teleportation. He wished for a power more strong, more powerful. Something that would have kept him from leaving his partner!
"I have to thank you Jack, you're not making this too easy" he heard her say “You know the reason I cam to this planet is because I heard the interesting gossip that this world was inhabited with a species that possessed unusual abilities, and after seeing you I’m sure I’m not going to be bored here”
A cold chill traveled Jacks spine at those words, further urging him on.
"Now, where did you scamper off to?"
Coming upon the ship from earlier he hid behind one of the dark wings, trying to keep his breath quite and shallow. Not wanting Arachnid to catch it, so when he felt that she was gone, he released his breath and teleported near the entrance of the ship. So enough Arachnid walked over across the top of her damaged ship.
"If you wanted a tour, Jack, all you had to do was ask," she said walking "Did you spot the empty space? I hope you like it, it's where you'll soon hang your head”!
But to her surprise, Jack wasn't inside the ship, he was in fact still outside and slowly slid down the miniature slope before hearing a slosh. His shoe had come into contact with some sort of blue liquid blue liquid, a substances he was all more than familiar with.
"Energon," he said out loud, thinking of a plan.
"Jack?" Arachnid said from inside her ship before she stepped outside again.
Using the magnesium fire starter to ignite the stick, after a few more tries to lite it he started blowing on it and a fire started and he threw the stick up at the energon from above and began to run away from the Cybertronian ship when Arachnid appeared again
"Jack!" She screamed as the energon began to ignite.
The ship exploded and even though Jack teleported some distance to get away from the blast the force still knocked him back and into the woods. He looked and saw as Arachnid's ship go up in flames before his very eyes.
He sighed in relief, but as he stood up next to a tree when he suddenly heard something before something landed on his shoe and securing it.
Panicked the teen teleported leaving behind his footwear. He looked down and saw that there was a web over his separated shoe. He looked up in horror only to see Arachnid, singed and burnt. Webs continued to rain down upon him and Jack did everything he could to evade them.
But finally one came in to fast and Jack found himself quickly pinned to a tree. Arachnid gave a victorious smile only to grow irritated as Jack teleported free yet again.
“You know that trick is really starting to annoy me” she hissed
“Then why not try this one”!
Suddenly hearing an engine revving, Arcee. Transforming as she jumped leaped into the air and punched Arachnid in the face, causing her to fly backwards. The fighting didn’t stop their as both femme fought fiercely with one another. Finally with another kick to her chassis the Insecticon was launched across the forest and making a heavy sound as she landed.
Arcee looked back relieved to see her human charge in one piece "Jack, are you okay?" she still asked
"Yeah, of course," he said smiling slightly "I’m not that easy to catch”
(may change this in the future)
I don't know if Gur Sevraq can drink so he's holding that bottle for a Sovereign.
[IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Two full body pictures of Gur Sevraq. Gur Sevraq is a spider synthetic being, they have gray skin, face etchings (in the second photo), six eyes, pinchers, two human arms, and eight spider legs.
Image 1) Gur Sevraq is holding a book to their chest and a bottle in their hand, he is also putting a book up on an undefined shelf. Gur Sevraq is wearing a reddish purple turban esque head wrap and a matching cardigan on top of a turtleneck dress and boots on six of his legs. The dress is a deep purple, with a red and pink panel sewed on front, and diamonds that are the same green as the inside of the skirt.
Image 2) Gur Sevraq is wearing blue turban esque head wrap, he wears a tied shawl on top of a turtleneck dress and no shoes. The dress is blue with silver diamonds across the bodice, a silver sash around the waist, and a white skirt underneath. IMAGE DESCRIPTION END.]
Have you posted about Monster Hunter's Temnocerans before?
Nerscylla - Monster Hunter 4
"A Temnoceran that spins webs to defend territory and hunt prey. They bind foes that have been weakened by ailments and devour them with giant mandibles. They are fond of wearing the hides left by the Gypceros prey they consume."
A massive spider with jagged crystals of crystallized poison on its back. It wears the rubbery skin of an avian monster like a shroud. It has retractable jaws and a Hymenopteran stinger on its abdomen, just in case the web-weaving and launching wasn't enough (not that I'm complaining).
It's capable of not only envenomating and webbing foes, but it can also put them to sleep. In Monster Hunter Wilds they even rapidly spawn hatchlings to swarm hunters with. It's a pretty smart monster that sometimess does fake-out attacks and makes up for its weakness to electricity by wearing the skin of the highly thunder-resistant Glypceros for protection.
Definitely one of the better spider monsters I've seen in a game. It's great.
Look at it go.
The California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco is home to a coral reef, a four-story bubble that encapsulates a replica of a rain forest, and perhaps most famously, Claude the albino alligator. But...
