What kinds of cultures do different species of spider-people

>>52193013
What are the two disgusting mouth things for anyway?

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>>52193013
IDK Opie, figure it out for yourself.

>>52194081
Moustache.

>>52194081
Biting, holding and injecting

>>52194081
They don't have jaws and they need some way to manipulate or mash food before they eat it. Their mouth is literally just a hole in their face

>>52194107
I know that /tg/ has a boner for spiderfolk so I thought they might like to help.

>>52193013
>Jumping Spiders
>Salticidae
...but they look like they'd be the least salty of the bunch?

I basically just made my spider people into cannibalistic drow. Backstabbing, amoral assholes that eat each other (mostly their own parents, or their own young in some cases) as a matter of course, and have most of their economy based around slavery.

>>52197172
Do they also have a goddess that turns some of them into half-spider, half-elf creatures (be it as a punishment or a reward)?

>>52197295
I don't think I ever developed them enough to give them a religion, but I doubt they would have one. Insect people as a whole in this setting (there were several varieties) were more about philosophy as a means of spiritualism than actual religion.

viking spiders with huge swords would be cool

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Those Assassin motherfuckers with the giant necks wouldn't look out of place in Star Wars. In fact, I'm pretty sure I saw one of them in the Mos Eisley Cantina scene. Pic related.

thought this was a /soc/ vag rate thread when I glanced at OP's pic

resulting comparison unwelcome

>>52193013
I don't know anon. Spiders tend to be solitary and cannibalistic. Not sure a race based on them would really have a culture in they way humans normally think of it. They could have ritualized behaviors when they meet or something like that, but I would not expect spiders to be the bug-people to make cities.

>>52193013
hey, I'm brewing some spider-based societies for a world I'm building.

The first one are the spider clans: theese ones aren't spider people, they are people-people. They live inside a tropical jungle and their tribes are structured around a "covenant" they had with some giant spiders, their cosmology goes beyond spider gods but they belive that their caves connect to the underwolrd where demons and hateful spirits made flesh. so they pay a flesh tithe to the spiders that live inside thoses caves in order for them protect the clans from the demons. most of the people used as tithes are captives or criminals. their shamans are said to be able to speak to 'the great weaver' who's not necesarily the creator deity but a kind of middle manager of the gods.

(do you guys want me to continue?)

>>52198852
Yes.

>>52199300
OK then. Most of the other civilizations belive that the spider clans are cannibals because they rarely kill other people in combat and allways have a hunting party or two in the jungle getting ambushes ready. the Clanpeople themselves aren't the happiest about the covenant but they understand that is a price to pay for their well being. they have a certain degree of fearful respect when it comes to spiders so they don't adorn themselves with spider motives and don't have them carved on totems unless said totems are infront of the caves. to see a spider is a sign of bad luck.

>>52199410
which leads us to the the other civ
based it off pic in >>52199326
basically it was a prosperous city tha was part of a larger empire. The city housed a strong mage guild. they started worshiping a pider god that would promise them more power and elevation from their mortal coil, they overthrow the authority and since the city was far from the imperial capital the army was to late to respond and they managed to secure their power. now they live to worship their living god and experiemnt with their newly found power (the spider god taught them a new kind of magic that would warp their bodies to a more perfect form). one of their main activiteis is to experiemnt on their slaves (before they were more trade based but since the coup they became more and more reclusive) and they usually get their slaves by kidnapping tribespeople from the jungle.

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>>52199643

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>>52193013

How does a regular process of moulting effect a society?

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As usual it depends heavily on the details. Starting with anatomy
-How does each variety of spiderfolk manipulate matter and objects around them? Mandibles as they were sized up for larger scales? Did they develop hands? Secondary or even tertiary manipulator appendages? Are they still using arachnid-exclusive locomotion or did some of their legs become arms with hands or narrow down to individual fingered limbs?

These difference can drastically change how they interact with each other and their environment. Spiderfolk who've no means to pick up and wield tools as we do would need to develop something of their own to get by in the world. Perhaps they've grown into their spiderfolk state from baseline spiders because their world is particularly dangerous, unusually inconsistent, or some quirk of their environment caused their brains to mutate. In any of those cases, if they don't also develop a means to create tools or work with objects beyond themselves everything they do is likely based off of how their own bodies work, such as web-spinning and picking an environment to live in that makes the most of that, or even developing some kind of communication with another species to form symbiosis, like a smaller, poisonous insectoid critter that they don't like to eat but will eat smaller pests and create nests that strengthen the spiderfolk community's webbing structures.

>>52193013
In Exile 3 (some spoilers but it's an ancient game you can download for free now) there's a race of these sapient spiders with hide in these ruins inside woods. They hunt the giant cockroaches infesting an island that hates, but are pretty cool as they're somewhat cute while requiring you to help them hunt until they'll trust you enough to show you to the Super Friendly Small Roaches (annoying antipricks).

In battle they're crazy effective if you're playing the game as a solo character (as I did for the last 80% of the game). They'd fling webs until you basically had no turns left, at which point you would get mopped up. So I suppose they'd be the reclusive warrior monks of SpiderLand. Small and respectful at first glance, but smarter than they seem and deadly due to techniques.

>>52193013
You should read Mother of Learning (a web novel). It features sentient spiders very prominently, along with their various cultures and societies. It's also just a great read.

>>52198066
I swear if that spider didn't talk like Krombopulos Michael I'd be really disappointed

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>>52196755
Correct, they are wee kitties. And slasher movie villains to prey, but even if they were developed enough to hunt you they'd be more like some charming ass Hannibal types.

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>>52198440

>>52193013
Velvet's and Jumpers are cuties.

>>52196755
It comes from the term Saltation, which means the act of jumping
Hence why the mode of movement for kangaroos and rabbits is known as saltatorial locomotion

>>52194081
They're pedipalps. Used to pin down prey, and sometimes to inject sperm into the female since a traditional spider dick is inefficient when the mating ritual is like a rodeo.

>>52200813
My bad, I was thinking you meant the other disgusting moustache things.

>>52198689
I actually thought of that when making my spider-people civilizations.
Most spider-people are loners without much of a culture despite having the cognitive capacities for it, living quite like their giant spiders ancestors.
There is however a not nerubian empire, where their solitary tendencies are constrained by a strong and rigid class society.
Though the different social classes doesn't exactly cover species variations, they are still tightly linked. Everyone is assigned a role to follow for the empire, though individuals sometime manage to give themselves some space. For example there is a caste for people than handle non sapient spiders, which may be equerry, animal tamer or livestock farmer with various degree of standing. One who raise small common non sapient spiders is probably a low rank individual, but another of the same caste attending a just as non-sapient titanic spider, considered as living gods by the ancestor cult many spider-people still follow, has a highly revered status.

There is also a strangely lawful old god cult that somehow help ties things together in a sinister but efficient manner. And I may make the foundation of the empire built on social spiders since they also are a thing.

Eating the dead is definitively a thing. Though eating the living is generally considered wasteful, but titanic living-god spiders do whatever they want.

>>52198066
Those are probably soldiers, secret services, executioner or something like that.

>>52199643
What need could a spider possibly have for a walking stick?

>>52201084

You never know when you might need a lever or a good thumping stick.

>>52194081

they're called chelicerae.

spiders don't have mandibles so the way they eat prey is by injecting venom that liquefies the prey's insides and then they suck out the juices through their mouth, which like >>52195988 said is just a hole in their face.

they also have another pair of "legs" on their face called pedipalps like >>52200813 said which are used to manipulate stuff.

I don't know enough about spiders to answer this question, OP.

>>52199787
One of the most important rituals surrounding molting is the destruction of the molted exoskeleton, usually by burning but tearing the exoskeleton apart before burying it will also do. If the exoskeleton is left intact, Spider-kin believe it will animate into a sort of vengeful spirit, haunting its owner with the goal of forcing them back into itself and reclaiming their old life.

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>>52193013

How good can spiders see with all those eyes? I heard somewhere that bugs actually have soe kind of decent hearing.

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>>52207643
Depend, but strangely enough they often have a bad sight. That's because most of them sit in their web traps and don't need seeing things to hunt, the vibrations of their web, the ground or even the air is a much better sense for them.

Though, if some are pretty much blind, other have a pretty good sight. Mostly hunter spiders. Some of those are especially good at estimating distances (jumping spiders for obvious reasons), some have have a 360 degree vision field...
Spiders are pretty diverse.

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Do you like your sapient spiders as just bigger spiders or more humanoid like this?

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>>52207965
I have a fondness for the nerubian style.

>>52207965
>>52208078
I too enjoy Nerubian. Giant spiders are alright too, but I like Driders too.

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What weapons would spiders use?

>>52209249
My not nerubian use:
- Mostly spear and various pole weapons especially for the subspecies inspired by jumping spiders.
- also javelin and such

A lot of natural weapons depending on subspecies:
- of course silk (web, net, slingshot or staff-sling... a lot of possibilities, but even more as utility than as weapon)
- poison of various kind (sometime mixed with silk for a poisonous net or "silk grenade" filled with poison) sometime spited, sometime injected, or coated on weapons
- "mandibles" or whatever >>52198066 have
- irritating hairs...

- heavy use of various non sapient spider subspecies.

What real-world cultures would be the best fit for spidermen?

>>52211184
Something non-obvious. What about the Celts? They had lots of solitary shepherd clans that occasionally bashed each others' heads in with bronze hammers and throwing axes, which would be cool. I don't think I've ever seen a mead drinking spider before.

>>52196693
You can honestly do anything with the concept of super people culturally. It's like ancient aliens asking what sorry of cultures humans would have.

>>52211568
>What about the Celts?

Roman era celts who had pants or skirt wearing modern celts?

>>52193013
I like how you can see when it dips into the uncanny valley with spider eye cuteness.

>visible giant poison needles level
Dysderidae
Tetragnathidae
Ctenidae
Araneidae
>tiny unlovable eyes level
Thomisidae
Scythodidae
Pisauridae
Sicariidae
>it's a spider level
Oonopidae
Hersilidae
Oxyopidae
>tiny eyes on a lovable teddybear level
Eresidae
>hi I have charm and personality level
Lycosidae
Salticidae
>"I have stared into your soul, and it looks delicious" level
Deinopidae

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>>52212019
oh shit anon, oh shit

>>52208445
Driders are a nice, lazy option.

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>>52209249
I like the idea of spiders using back-mounted launchers, similar to slingshots or arbalests.

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>>52212529

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>>52212668

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>>52212684
/dump

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Needs more spider.

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>>52212790
Spider People?

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>>52212813
Of just spider?

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>>52212834

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>>52212813
Spider developing new weapons.

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>>52212813
Spider merchant

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>>52213062
"It belongs in a museum" spider

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Some jumping spiders are brightly coloured.

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>>52213091
Spider-knight

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Some spiders dance.

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Fun fact: if you woke up with this staring down at you, you'd piss yourself.

>>52213314

I almost pissed myself closing the previous image to find it staring at me in the next tab...

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Some spiders are furry.

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Some spiders are friendly.

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Some spiders are not friendly.

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Some spiders are strong for their size.

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Some spiders are just strong.

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Some spiders are adorable.

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Some spiders are NOT ADORABLE.

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Fun fact: the size of a spider is usually negatively correlated with its adorableness.

>>52193013
>>52193013
>>52193013
>>52193013
AUSTRALIAN HAWKWASP.

REMEMBER

THERE ARE *NO*

TARANTULAS IN THE UNDERDARK

>>52193013
If you want to go for the more civilized route for spider-people, then they're actually one of the more interesting possibilities.

A society of spider-people, if their eating habits are not considering 'evil' by their neighbors (ie: they don't eat people), could have very close and friendly relationships with their neighbors, since silk is something they will have in abundance, giving them a valuable resource to trade with others for anything else they need.

And given their talent for webs, they could be great weavers and clothiers in their own right, able to produce tapestries, gowns, and other things made of fabric of exceeding quality. For bonus points you could even have the spider-folk dressed in fabulous robes and such, if the PC's should ever visit their town.

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>>52207951
>jumping spiders
They're also the cutest of all spiders.

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>>52213521

>>52212698
#4 is missing, anon

>>52207951
Tarantulas in particular tend to be nearly blind. They can tell light, darkness, and fast movement but no real details.

>>52199787
They use the moulted skin as instruments. Music plays an important role in spider society. Their webs make for amazing harps and the moulted skin hardens and make for great drums. Some spiderfolk are chosen as bardachnid and sent out into the world to share their music with it. Some cities sent their bardachnids with stories of mysterious cities filled with treasure to lure people into their cities as a food source. Some spidercommunities aren't as malevolent however and befriend other kin. It's a great honor to receive a moultdrum and when a spiderbard dies it partially moults a final time and transforms itself into a living instrument. It's final spasms create a most sublime, yet disturbing melody that often haunts those witnessing this event for the rest of their lives. After the bard has died and the final note has played, the body is gifted to the closest friend. After a week of mourning, this friend is supposed to end this period by playing the harmonic husk, celebrating the deceased's life. Then a day and a night of feasting commences.

>>52193013
I want to pet the 4th and the drugs the 16th one is on.

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>>52215657
>using the dead as instruments

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>>52214798
> Those two guys are itinerary silk merchants.
> They are trying to sell yourtheir stuff while arguing with each other like an old couple.

>>52217260
Their names are Breeble and Bork and they've known each other since spider-highschool.

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>>52207036
Deep

Threads like this are amazingly weird for me: I love Nerubians but I also have a strong arachnophobia. It's a fun mix of creativity, appriciation of skills, and raw terror mixed with a pyromaniac response.

I think that if you wanted to make spiders a civilization building species, then you really have to tweak their bodies, partially out of necessity (size, tool use, communication, etc), partially out of creativity.

For example, you could have the front 4 legs look different that the rear 4, the way a gorilla's is different: the front set has developed to enhance weaving abilities, grabbing large things, and a means of metacommunication; meanwhile, the rear set is almost exclusively used to support their weight and move around swiftly. They also have a pair of strong, if short, arms that they use to eat and for small but high dexterity tasks.

Immediately, you'd have different art styles, like hand-painting vs weaverlimb-painting. You also have a different posture, due to the specialised limbs and the need to stand at least partially upright for various tasks (spider metalworking would be a sight to see).

There's also a lot of opportunity in their hair. Since it also works as a sensor, spiders would aim for clothing that leaves them free, but would protect them if necessary (again, spider smiths).

>>52193013
Functionally Dysderidae are my favourite after having a woodlouse infestation in my porch.

Salticidae are the cutest though.

>>52213495
oh hey, I can see one of those from where i'm sitting

>>52213495
Black widows get a bad rep. They're actually very docile only biting if you corner them, and even then it's only painful for a few days. You can even handle them if you guide them onto your hand.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4OftWZn5BU

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>>52212019
>Roman era celts who had pants or skirt wearing modern celts?
>or

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They really enjoy killing the fly-people and sucking on their vital juices.

>>52193013
Well since they're all generally solitary I'd say they don't have any culture. Or at least they'd have only a rudimentary one. Perhaps some shared legends whose "heroes" they all claim to be decended from. Like if they were scorpions they'd all claim to be descendents of the scorpion from The Scorpion and the Frog, where to them being ruthless and deadly are laudable and to trust even the word of your own kind is folly.

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>>52207951

Jumping spiders can actually shift focus by moving the back of their eyes around inside their head.

>>52217260
>The orb weaver try to sell you wonderful tapestry because style is everything
>The net casting argues about that and try to sell you extremely sturdy tools and clothes because usability and durability are the most important qualities

>>52218274
>>52222010
> The net casting is an harsh negotiator you have to wrestle with to make a good deal because good craftsmanship have to be paid for.
> The orb weaver is an innocent looking jolly guy you end up talking half an hour about various stuff until you leave your hands full of wonderful stuff wondering what you will do with all that

>>52193013
GIFTS are the best

>>52207643
If I recall, spiders, though maybe only jumping spiders, have no ears or sense of hearing, but sense vibrations and rhythm.

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They definitely like to dance.

>>52212813
I'd have sex with that.

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>>52213597
But only with dew hats?

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>>52222904

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>>52222916

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>Freezing temperatures.
Spiders are immune.

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>>52220043
Some make them like pick related, with two sets or arms. That version is a bit too humanlike to my taste and I think the nerubian style looks better, but the four arms allows for what you say.

>>52222872
> Adding traffic spider-cops to my setting

>>52215657
> Adding mortuary bard-chaman spiders too.

>>52199655
reverse drider?

>>52221878

Jumping Spiders have really complex eyes - basically those large two eyes are really deep tubes with lenses at both ends, and like telescopes or binoculars there's a set of muscles twisted around them that rotate the ends to change focus.

This gives the jumping spider the bizarre visual quirk where it's got eye sight comparable to people, but on a small scale, equivalent to only a couple dozen "pixels" of human sight.

So what they do is they assess an environment by moving their whole body from side to side and up and down to scan in a larger view of an area with their extremely developed eyes, which their brains are capable of assembling into a highly accurate 3d spatial map that they then use in moving around that environment.

Once in motion, they mainly use their main pair of eyes for keeping track on key points in the environment as they move, either landmarks or prey or potential predators.

>>52215462
I posted everything I had. Whether there even IS a number 4 is uncertain. It could just be a quirk of my younger self's numbering.

>>52223715
What is the og sauce?

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>>52208445
Good taste

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>>52222942
Jesus christ you can just see the hate in its beady little eyes.

I'm a person that generally likes spiders and is very gentle with them but if I saw that coming out of the snow at me it'd be 2 men enter one man leaves time.

>>52225894

Which is funny because that looks cute and Jumping Spiders don't set off my arachnophobia at all.

Possibly because they have an actual face to them that can express - that guy just look like he's grumpy after having a long day at work and I'd just step out of his way.

>>52225957
>that guy just look like he's grumpy after having a long day at work and I'd just step out of his way.
I feel similarly. The expression says "Can't a guy just take a fucking walk?" to me.

>>52225957
>>52225986
Looks more like an anxiety attack to me. They're only called daring jumping spiders because they Hulk jump, these guys are so twitchy they'll fly a meter in a random direction if someone moves too suddenly during a courtship dance.

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>>52193013
Anon, here is the reference book/series for you.
Warning: It's not very good.

The author also wrote "The Star Vampires", which was converted into the movie Lifeforce. Lifeforce was known mostly for two things - Patrick Stewart getting tortured by psychic vampires, and the main female lead (Mathilda May) spending the entire movie naked. Those were the only even remotely redeeming features, and yet it was still a massive improvement on the book, which was still better than the Spiderworld series.

>>52199655
Terrible.
There's no need for the human lower half, it really doesn't add anything, and it hampers the clear path of making the "chains" webs.

>>52198066
>prey only upon other spiders
would be edgelords of the setting

>>52212939
Isn't that also the ogre-faced spider?

>>52223608
Now how would that apply to a fantasy sized-up version?

>tfw I just had to kill my first house spider of the year
Spiderfolk genocide when?

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>>52231406

Really long range vision, like an eagle. Good scouts, border watchers, semaphore signallers.

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>>52233235
Sorry, but this thread is in its death throes

>>52198066
I started on a 28mm sculpt of one of these guys, I should finish it some day. I can't really call it a miniature as it's about 10x their actual size though.

>>52207036
shedinja

>>52234588
A macroture? Post pics.

>>52199822
I know some tarantulas have retractable claws on the ends of their tarsi, if you have them with some kind of manipulating bits on the end of their palps it would work.

>>52198066
>tfw one of the races uses these things, scaled to huge size, like war elephants, mounting small siege towers on their backs

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>>52234625
I don't seem to have a recent picture on hand, basically everything is done now except the legs which I'm not sure about. This image is really only good to get an idea of the size; that's a standard wine cork it's attached to. I'll try and take a new one tomorrow if the thread is still up.

>>52207951
Jumping spiders are horrifically intelligent for spiders.

>>52235783
>horrifically
You mean adorably.

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>>52209249

I think leg caps sort of like punching daggers would be a thing. Unlike with humans, for a spider a leg is the furthest-reaching bodypart you have, and you can stay pretty sturdy even when attacking with one. However, they just have those little two-prong toes on the end, so it's not like you could hold a spear or a sword in your "toes" and attack enemies with them. But holding a little cap, something like pic related with a small grip in there, would probably work because you could still walk on it but you could also use it to puncture enemies.

I'd imagine the primitive version of this being something like holding a sharp rock in each of your foremost legs, then holding a spear in your pedipalps.

Actually, I'm now imagining primitive spider archers who use a bow and arrow by holding themselves up on four legs, using the front two to hold the bow and the back two for drawing the string back.

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BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD

KILL MAIM BURN

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>It's a thread about spiders
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

>>52237222
qt

>>52236987
But spiders don't have blood...
Not that much blood at that scale anyway.

>>52201084
Pimp stick. To keep his spiderhos in line.

>>52222942
There were spiders in my storage portakabin in Antarctica. Bossman wanted 'em killed as 'Invasive species, not allowed'. I just moved them to behind some older boxes where he wouldn't see them so easily.

Jumping spiders should have an atheltic, nomadic culture. They should rove from place to place and have annual or recurring athletic events, like the highland games.
Obviously most of their spider-sports would involve jumping and running but there should be climbing etc as well.
They should have a less technological culture as they don't use their silk as much.
They should probably les receptive to other spider cultures who would see their less docile way of life strange or savage or some shit.

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>this thread
I might feel like taking napalm to my backyard after seeing pictures of so many damn spiders but I'll be damned if this isn't some interesting discussion

>>52229060
Lifeforce had Patrick Stewart in it? All I remember was nekkid Mathilda May.

>>52235955
Dubs confirm truths.

>>52237020
(^(^;;^)^) BOW BEFORE YOUR NEW ARACHNID OVERLORDS PUNY MAMMAL!

>>52241601
Oh, since jumping spiders are the cutest they should have adorable cheer squads.

Crab spiders should be the hippie elves, living their lives in great forests and lving their lives "naturally". Maybe they could have a symbiotic relationship with plants to liven things up a bit.
Their culture could be lead by druids with deep connections to the earth etc. Maybe there could be a coming of age ritual in which spiders are bonded to a certain plant?

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>>52241462
Pimp spider you said?

>>52241813
Being a pimp spider would be super hard because females are usually quite a bit larger...

>>52241813
:D

>>52222916
Oh my, most stylish

>>52209249
Weapons that cause large leaky wounds to reduce enemies internal pressure would stop the legs from moving.

>>52241945
Who said the pimps were the males?
With humans, males are sexually dominant because they're bigger. With spiders it not only goes the other way, but often during mating, the male is killed and eaten.

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Here is another spider civilisation for you.
The Ilwrath are evil to the core, and pride themselves in it, believing that you can't have a functioning society if everyone is not out to backstab and murder anyone who annoys them.

They're like Tea Party Republicans taken to the Nth degree.

>>52200241
>web comic
No one's gonna say anything about that?

>>52242646
Sorry, I didn't follow the thread.

>>52242646
The post you're replying to says "web novel", not "web comic".

But yeah, a web novel about spiders, hue hue hue.

>>52241813
Is that a Neogi/Tso?

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>>52234625
OK here's a more finished version but a worse picture.

Would a spider civilisation use cattle?
Of what?

>>52213631
that looks more like a Pantopoda. Closer to limulus (horseshoe crab)

>>52215657
I read an Ursula K. LeGuin story kind of like this once

>>52244260
It is. Technically it's still a chelicerate but definitely not a spider.

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>>52241619

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Do you like my hat?

>>52247653
(^(^;;^)^) FEAR NOT! TEAM SPIDERS IS NOW FIREPROOF! SOON WE WILL CONQUER THE BATHTUB AND THEN THE WORLD WILL BE OURS!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2298036/A-web-intrigue-Tarantula-skin-contaminated-asbestos-attic--beast-shed-twice-large.html

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>>52248316
> Underwater?
> Also there

>>52248494
(^(^;;^)^) BUT WE STILL NEED TO CONQUER THE BATHTUB! THE ONLY REMAINING OBSTACLE TO OUR OTHERWISE INEVITABLE TRIUMPH!

>>52213597
>>52214870
>>52222904
>>52222916
>>52222920
>>52248197
Why do they have dew hats?

>>52193013
The Huntsman looks like a handsome old man. I like him.

>>52253167
I just don't see it anon.

>>52213264
Come at me, bro.

>>52248316
>not a single actual photo from where they found it
>"look at all those scary spiders that will kill you"
Journalist whores being whores, as usual.

>>52250290
no reason, all photos were staged. They guy who made those just likes to put droplets on spider's heads

>>52254397
They say the same things when humans have water hats.

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>>52193013
Pretty sure they have an Ara based economy.

>>52209249
Traps, mostly, I think. Most spiders don't really "hunt", so I don't really see them fighting fighting.

It would be more like a deadly game of minesweeper, except the bomb is a quick and deadly ambush.

>>52212813
>late at night, he saw a human figure gesturing "come here"

>>52253167 >>52253358
I totally see it. Could be a wise group of ranger spider-folk.

>>52254902
>It would be more like a deadly game of minesweeper, except the bomb is a quick and deadly ambush.
Now I'm thinking of minesweeper as a spider team sport - one team hides themselves as bombs in a grid field, the other tries to find out where they are without getting caught by the "bombs".

Could also be a more free-for-all/sudden death type with just the one sweeper, depending on how you want to play it.

>>52254940
See:
>>52213003

>>52254950
Actual bombs would have no place in the minesweeper-esque spidersport, the "bombs" would be either spiders of the other team (for the team variant) or just the other contestants (for the sudden-death free-for-all whatever variant).

>>52193013
me on the bottom right

>>52254803
Those jiggles are all sorts of wrong

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>>52193013

>>52213521
The top of the worm look like a midly annoyed face

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>shitposts in the nihilist

>>52255503
They're pediperky.

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The spider-people are perfect, and the next step in evolution.

>>52242646
>>52242723
Did you make these up on the fly? Because I didn't catch them.

>>52244610
Looked it up. Is it called 'Leese Webster'?

Elves were made from Drow, who came from Driders. And Drides were first made because a spider's thirst was that strong.
I need an image of a spider in a tinfoil hat.

>>52258698
Is this the secret of the dew?

>>52258969
They are learning to make humanoid torsos.

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>>52257279
This is perfect. Have a high five!

>>52207036
Pretty kewl

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>>52207036
This belief come from a secret magical practice of silkomancers using magically manipulated silk threads to puppet molted exoskeletons as some sort of cheap necromancy.

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look at the proud mama

>>52262309
"Don't talk to me or my son ever again."

>>52259202
Thanks, I tried to use both what the faces inspired me and what kind of spider they actually represent. But sometime I had to use subgroup of it or even just making up whatever (like the spitting spider that's all about one detail of it).

>>52234803
>since they only eat other spiders, executions are mainly used to keep them satiated until the next battle

>>52265994
>the cost in lives to keeping them in an army makes them highly prized as status symbols for rulers
>no ruler is true a king unless they can claim a loyal squadron of Ogre Spiders is under their command

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What do you think of my spider bag?

>>52267366
Cute.

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smol

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>>52257279
Wolf spider, best spider.

>>52268950
> jumping spider is young novel hero-tier
> Wolf spider is the by the rules hero
> Spitting spider is dashing vigilante that operate outside the law
> Lynx can be the reluctant and unlikely hero

> Wooolouse is the common guy that pull out an heroic scene when his family is threaten
> Velvet is the anonymous guy that will sacrifice himself so the hero can save the day
> Nursery web spider is jumping spider adoptive mom and go bear mom at one point
> Crab and Lynx are the dumb comical duo
> Orb weavers and net casting are the not dumb comical duo
> Recluse is either Sasuke or a bad guy
> Huntsman is the reliable friend
> Wandering is the unexpected traitor
> Long-Jawed is either the expected traitor or Han Solo or the informer or a little hoodlum
> Two-tailed has seen too much or is a henchman.
> Goblin go unnoticed. Again.Just joking, he's Yoda.

>>52220568
...that is a female redback.

>>52213264
>man the other day me and this hot tomboyish girl started dancing, we were so into it we were perfectly in sync, shit was so cash bro.
>so? did you fug her?
>nah man, she was trapped in glass

>>52257364
If that's not his face ill be thoroughly disappointed

>>52257758
I love tachikoma but six limbs and a grenade launcher.

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Giant trapdoor spiders should be in more games.

>>52273649
As an aggressively hospitable people who're all about surprise parties, with competitions on who can throw the best one happening often (with the primary way of "invitation" being grabbing an unsuspecting sapient as they get close enough and pulling them down into the surprise-party-pit)?

>>52215462
>>52223715
Scene 3 segways directly into scene 5, so I'm guessing it's just numbered incorrectly.