SPITTING SPIDER

The spitting spider looks almost identical to the harmless puff spider, but the air sacs on its body serve a different purpose. When threatened, this spider will inflate its sacs and use the air to spray a strong toxin at its attacker. The poison can be absorbed through tiny cracks or cuts in the skin, and rapidly causes convulsions and possibly even death. If close enough, the spider will bite as well, ensuring puncture wounds for the toxin to enter. Spitting spiders hunt in small packs and will attack even quite large animals, subduing them with poison, and then webbing the body to form temporary nests. These spiders make communal nests like puff spiders, but they tend to migrate more often, since they have a bad effect on the local wildlife and so the nests are generally smaller. The toxin is retained in small vessels in their flesh, so they are poisonous to eat. Their only natural predators are Urbears which are immune to the effects of their toxin. These animals are sometimes driven into infested areas by hunters to clear out spider nests.

STR -5 -30 DEX 14 +4 CON 10 BOD 5 -10 INT 2 -8 EGO 2 -16 PRE 10 COM 10 PD 2 +2 ED 2 SPD 3 +6 REC 2 +2 END 20 STUN 8 Total -50 OCV 5 DCV 5 ECV 1

POWERS 30 20 points of shrinking, always on 4 1 pip HKA reduced penetration (bite) 6 +2 to all perception, all senses 12 Concealment (12-), Stealth (12-) 5 UV vision -8 -2" swimming (0") and -2" running (4") 30 Poison bite - Convulsions : 3d6 Entangle (transparent, +1/2), invisible effects (+1/2), uncontrolled (+1/2), 16 uses (normally uses 1-6 charges per attack), Gradual effect (1 minute, -1), activates 14- (Chance to hit broken skin or mucus membranes, -1/2) OR bite must do body (-1/2) 22 2d6 HKA, invisible effects (+1/2), uncontrolled (+1/2), 16 uses (normally uses 1-6 charges per attack), Gradual effect (1 minute, -1), activates 14- (Chance to hit broken skin or mucus membranes, -1/2) OR bite must do body (-1/2), linked to entangle (-1/4) 101 Total powers and skills 51 Total creature cost Note -4 to others PER rolls, +8" knockback 50 + DISADVANTAGES 15 Physical limitation - no fine manipulation 15 Distinctive features - (not concealable) -29 Poison spray bonus (minus)

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