10-28-2010, 10:31 AM | #31 | |
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Re: Would a 9 lb sapient spider producing 1/10 lb of silk a day suspend your disbelie
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Which is a shame, cuz my inner nerd thinks it would be a totally cool thing.
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10-28-2010, 10:37 AM | #32 | |
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So what CF sounds appropriate for 1 lb costing $500? Off the top of my head I'm guessing CF +49 Also, when working with truly expensive materials, masterful tailoring should pay for itself with its savings going to the tailor's profit. Right? |
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10-28-2010, 11:30 AM | #33 | |
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I suppose the first symptom of being a host to a batch of new spiders would then be slight hearing loss for a couple of weeks while the egg sack matures in the inner ear, call it Hearing -1. A couple of weeks later as the eggs hatch and start eating their way up the auditory canal the Hearing loss becomes more significant, -4 on that side, -2 overall. A couple of days after the tiny spiders get to the brain and start digesting it, we can start adding several days of mental disadvantages and such before the spiders do enough damage to cause the death of their host. They then will continue to eat the host's brain for several more days post-morten, depending then on whether or not the spiders cannabilize each other or not, we then have either a few, or several hundred, ounce sized spiders eat their way out through their host's eyes... |
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10-28-2010, 12:10 PM | #34 |
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Re: Would a 9 lb sapient spider producing 1/10 lb of silk a day suspend your disbelie
I'm suddenly reminded of the zombie ant fungus.
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10-28-2010, 12:28 PM | #35 | |
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Depends on the material. I think the lost weight basically ends up turning into scraps in the process of masterful tailoring. If these scraps can readily be processed into usable material (like bronze, IIRC), it might be possible to offset (partially or entirely) the cost of masterful tailoring. If the scraps cannot be readily processed - as likely in the case of textiles - an offset is exceedingly unlikely. Regardless, I'd say it's more likely to be something you'd have to work out with the artisan, rather than being the default case. Masterful tailoring is a lot of work on the part of the artisan, after all.
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10-28-2010, 12:47 PM | #36 | |
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10-28-2010, 01:45 PM | #37 |
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Utterly harmless. They can't even pierce a facial tissue with their stinger-legs. They mostly just flail around and freak people out when handled directly. They hold very still if you wrap them up in a tissue quickly though, which makes getting them outside easy.
They just have a lot of very long legs, run quickly and in defiance of gravity, and see humans well enough to react "intelligently" to us menacing them (ie dodging the descending shoe), which freaks people out.
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10-28-2010, 01:53 PM | #38 |
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Re: Would a 9 lb sapient spider producing 1/10 lb of silk a day suspend your disbelie
That is not what I picture when I think of a centipede.
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10-28-2010, 02:04 PM | #39 |
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Re: Would a 9 lb sapient spider producing 1/10 lb of silk a day suspend your disbelie
Do you have the desert centipede (Scolopendra polymorpha) that far north? At any rate you are probably thinking of a member of the family Scolopendridae not Scutigeridae to which the house centipede belongs.
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10-28-2010, 02:05 PM | #40 |
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Re: Would a 9 lb sapient spider producing 1/10 lb of silk a day suspend your disbelie
It's creepy, crawly, and disgusting.
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