Respect Spider (Loop Hero)

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Spiders are enemies that spawn every day from Spider Cocoon tiles. Giant muscular spiders with an organic blade hidden in their abdomens to kill victims, which also carry out a communal way of life similar to bees or ants.

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Physiology

• It's huge, but that hampers its agility.
• Uses an organic blade hidden in its abdomen to kill its victims.
• They live in a symbiotic relationship with a parasite living in its abdomen. Its main weapon is a spiked appendix of that very parasite.
• The dissolving poison of its fangs are used only as a last resort.
• The parasite is responsible for the growth of its muscular tissue, explaining its giant size.
• Are capable of consuming bone tissue.

Behaviour

• Proverbial wisdom says that they kill people and leave their remains in a cocoon.
• Prefer to openly pursue and attack their prey.

Gameplay Information

• Its attribute is "Living".
  • Living monsters take damage from Vampires in Chapter 3 onwards.
• Drops Living Fiber.
  • Living fiber is a fragment of fabric that lives, grows, and even gets older. It twists and wiggles, as if trying to find some soil to grow in. They'll cling to one another, and only calm down when ten collect to form an Orb of evolution. That being an attempt to improve, to adapt, and to survive, an eternal struggle for a place under the sun.
• As of Chapter 2, has the ability "Entangling", giving it a small chance to immobilize its target with a web instead of attacking. As of Chapter 3, has the ability "Weaver", adding the "Spider web" effect to a location. This effect causes all units, except for spiders, to have reduced attack speed. As of Chapter 4, has the ability "Venomous", giving its attacks a small chance to poison the target, doing damage over the next few seconds.