kumoko: (determination!!)
Nameless ([personal profile] kumoko) wrote in [community profile] voidtreckerexpress2019-12-20 12:04 pm

OPEN - Holiday Spider Is Comin To Town

Who: Spider and YOU.
What: SHE SEES YOU WHEN YOU'RE SLEEPING, SHE KNOWS WHEN YOU'RE AWAKE
Where: Literally everywhere, no escape.
When: Day 25 of Catfish
Notes: Moderate spiderwebs, no spider descriptions. If you have questions about your character's gift, ask in this plurk.

[ Originally, she had intended to make new clothing for a few people. You know, just for appreciation for the constant feeding and the Not Attacking Her thing.

So she had! And then, she's not sure how, it became a project. It became a thing. By the time she blinked out of her excited daze, she was knee-deep in fabric, trying to pleat a skirt against a roughly human-sized rucksack stuffed with other rucksacks.

It was weird. She'd shrugged, and gone back to it.

But! Now! At long last!

It's happening, be cool, be cool. Ten days of solid sewing and silk production and staring at the Thunderstorms until they showed her how to colour thread or sew a dart or line a skirt or whatever skill she hadn't gotten yet. Ten days of eating for an army, because she couldn't check her stamina and mana bars any more, and that led to an embarrassing number of times she had to stagger drunkenly into the kitchen and just scoop an entire carton of eggs into her mouth before passing out on the floor from producing too much silk too fast.

Ten days of innovation, recreating the system's Thread Manipulation magic from first principles, until she could force cloth into the thickness and consistency she wanted. Until she could pour mana into the threads just so, creating glitter or fur-like qualities or just a faint glow.

She has one experimental square of cloth that looks and feels exactly like human skin, and that one has been stuffed to the back of her cabin nest in 1-D and no one can ever see it.

Feels great, though.

ANYWAY.

She has no idea what time of year it is, and no idea what holidays the others on the train celebrate, but it was snowing for two days and that's close enough to winter that she has stuck a tiny Santa hat jauntily onto her head for the next step.

Which, primarily, is ambushing everyone and throwing simple white sacks at them, roughly the size of a school PE bag, containing some kind of outfit tailored alarmingly well to them.

Hey, spatial magic is useful for a lot of things OTHER than teleporting and storage, and one of those things is being able to look at someone and understand their body's dimensions. She now knows way too much about everyone's sizes and three measurements, and she will be deleting it all from her memory starting tomorrow probably.

WHATEVER.

Take your bag! ]

marriedanidiot: (happy wife happy life)

[personal profile] marriedanidiot 2019-12-20 12:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Arma? [ She blinks, surprised ] What is... Oh! [ She draws a dress from the bag, the cloth a rich green, the bodice close without being tight and the sleeves practically fitting ]

Why Arma, it's beautiful! Is it for me? Thank you!
Edited 2019-12-20 12:52 (UTC)
marriedanidiot: (wisdom)

[personal profile] marriedanidiot 2019-12-20 02:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah... yes, Happy 25th Catfish to you too...? Is that a celebration on your world?

[ Ask her, Kumoko, she'll gladly put it on if you do ]
marriedanidiot: (Default)

[personal profile] marriedanidiot 2019-12-20 05:01 pm (UTC)(link)
I see. That's kind of you to create one!

[ She brushes her hands across the dress, feeling the threads ]

You don't mind? Alright then, give me a moment.

[ She pulls it over her head and wriggles the train outfit off underneath it, before dressing properly ]

There! How do I look, dear?
pleple: (Taking over)

[personal profile] pleple 2019-12-21 05:14 am (UTC)(link)
Gah!

[ Ple Two swats the bag aside, wide-eyed - her reaction time served her well, but there's really no need to fear so she feels kind of dumb. ]

Er... that was for me?
myblueskies: (of course!)

[personal profile] myblueskies 2019-12-21 05:07 pm (UTC)(link)
"For me miss spider?" Romeo blinked at the bag that had been thrown at him. He didn't know why the spider lady would be giving him a present but he recognises the hat she is wearing.

"Is it Christmas time?" It had been Christmas not so long ago in the heavens, so he had learned all about it!
runs_on_batteries: (what)

[personal profile] runs_on_batteries 2019-12-21 06:03 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Tony had just been minding his own business and leaving his cabin after freshening up post-work out when he gets a bag thrown at him. He was just tired enough that he was stunned instead of drawing up his armor. Blinking, he looks at the bag and then realizes Kumoko is standing a few feet away. ]

What is this?

[ Was that a Santa hat on her head? He opens the bag and stares. Looking from her to the clothing inside and back, he was completely floored. ]

You made me a suit?

[ He was normally a lot faster at processing things mentally, but this was taking him a minute for it to sink in. ]
deductiongeek: (innocent)

[personal profile] deductiongeek 2019-12-21 11:27 pm (UTC)(link)
There were some things that were just habit. Catching a bag when someone tossed one at you was one of them.

Unfortunately when you were Conan's size, that habit resulted in nearly knocking him over.
runsfast_rollsfar: (o_o)

[personal profile] runsfast_rollsfar 2019-12-22 03:41 pm (UTC)(link)
The bag smacks Prisoner across the back and he jumps and spazzes out like a cat who just saw a banana. He jumped up on his feet and spun around with his hands in karate chop position, but this movement is mostly dramatized. If he thought he was in any actual danger he would have summoned his weapon.

He looked down to the bag, then back up at Kumoko, then down to the bag, then back up at Kumoko. He pointed to the bag, then to himself. Is this for me? he seemed to be asking.
deductiongeek: (too early)

[personal profile] deductiongeek 2019-12-22 06:59 pm (UTC)(link)
....That is not actually helpful? The moment he regains his feet he is trying to step away from the spider's attempt to help.
pleple: (The street desire)

[personal profile] pleple 2019-12-22 07:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Th-thank you. And sorry.

[ She'll take it carefully and unwrap it - it's a gift. Whatever this occasion is... she'll accept it gratefully, if a bit delicately.

And it's... some sort of cloak? Black, cozy looking, and actually appropriately sized for an adventuring eleven year old... ]


...it seems very nice...
azrthmtrnznthos: (....really?)

Santa Spider is adorable!

[personal profile] azrthmtrnznthos 2019-12-22 07:27 pm (UTC)(link)
[Raven had not expected to be ambushed. Hands raised defensively with dark-energy, and mantra on the tip of her tongue before she noticed the Santa hat. Also the lack of hostile-intent despite being an ambushing giant spider. Wasn't there one that lived in the the dressing carriage?

It did mean that the white sack was stopped by dark-energy, but no attack came otherwise. Raven blinked at it, letting the bag be suspended in front of her. Then blinked at the spider.]


Um...hi? I don't do well with ambushes--sorry.

[She really is sorry about the almost-attack.]
azrthmtrnznthos: (blah)

Re: Raven is also adorable!!!

[personal profile] azrthmtrnznthos 2019-12-23 03:11 am (UTC)(link)
[Raven might be slightly disturbed if Kumoko ever tells Raven that about her dark-energy.

As it is, she'll take the bag and look at it, then back up at the spider, and there might be a hint of amusement in her voice.]


Playing Santa? I...thank you.

[The hat and random gift were enough to clue Raven in.]

I'm Raven--I don't usually do well being startled.
runs_on_batteries: (smile)

[personal profile] runs_on_batteries 2019-12-23 01:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[For someone who could be incredibly generous with his resources, Tony was shocked when it was reciprocated. Not always, but this time for sure. Finally he just smiled- not his arrogant one either, but a much deeper and more genuine one than usual.]

Thank you.

[She wasn't wanting a hug was she? How did one go about hugging a spider? He really wasn't sure.]

Next time you tell people you're a 'good spider', you should say you're the best.

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