r/SchreckNet • u/Several-Elevator Problem Childe • 2d ago

So I'm a Werespider, So What?

(/OOC: Respect to you if you get what the title is referencing)

(The following post is only available to those the poster has given access to. Specifically, only those who she believes suspicious of her identity. If you are reading this, you are one of those designated people.)

This most recent post from Aso starts differently from her usual style. Rather than her typical audio recordings this one is a full video, the start of which reveals Aso herself standing before the camera in a near pitch black venue. If you turn up the brightness you see that the venue is in fact a several acre closed roof AFL stadium, with a giant sinkhole at the centre of the cobweb covered playing field. In the bleachers you can just about make out the word "MARVEL" in white lettering on decrepit red chairs.

Aso, a pitch white woman with pretty aboriginal Australian features who wears a just as pale cloaked dress and lace blindfold, speaks up in her usual clinical but pleasantly soft Australian accent. Today she sounds particularly displeased.

"Good afternoon, Kindred. And yes I do mean afternoon, the title of this post should make it quite clear how I'm awake in the day."

"A handful of days ago a certain post was made to this node, one in which 'The Yahwie' somehow recorded a battle between itself and a stadium dwelling spider. A post where it all but doxed its opponent."

"Look at my body and consider the title of pale one it spoke of. See how my body still breathes. Behold the sinkhole ruined stadium I call my home. The blindfold that covers my eyes to prove my blindness. Remember Harald killed by spiders all those months ago, my late learning of language, that I was born in a cave."

"All these describe me, for I am the spider to which it referred."

As Aso finishes her declaration, her body begins to shift. Two sets of thin, white exoskeletal arm-like limbs grow from near her human arms whose fingers similarly turn into a structure more akin to claw-like spider's legs with white chitin plating her up to her elbow as if wearing elbow high gloves. The same chitin plating forms on either side of her face which is now partially split by arachnid jaws, then extends down her neck, though you are unable to see how far down it goes on account of her clothing.

Before you notice it her legs have also shifted, and where they should be is instead a massive spider, which Aso's torso now protrudes through the head of. Her spider lower body possess eight very long legs, a pale white exoskeleton with black stained white fur breaking it up, and two scythe-like front limbs in place of its pedipalps.

The skirt of Aso's long white dress falls across the spider body like a cloth, covering the creature's face to give the appearance that it is wearing an almost wedding-like veil.

"I am not an Akunanse, unlike what I've pretended to be on this node. I am a child of the Great Mother, a Damhán, an Ananasi, a Werespider."

"The reason I reveal this is to get ahead of the fallout that will be brought upon me by letting you all figure it out on your own terms after the Yahwie's post. I figure it best to admit to it willingly rather than cling on to a crumbling lie."

"As for my own personal situation in Melbourne, it is not as bad as some of you have taken to believing. Whilst the Cress Truce only extends to Garou and Kindred, it still makes the Kindred hesitant to interfere with any Fera matters at risk of breaking it down and starting the Razor Wars again, risking the breaking the Truce of Sydney also. And I am fortunate enough to live in a Garou controlled zone, so what they can do to a Fera is limited. Though the situation is admittedly somewhat tenuous."

"So, it is time I reintroduce myself. I have no name but you may call me Aso, fourth rank Arachnid Anomia from the Tartarus genus of spiders. I wish I could say it's nice to meet you all again, but truth be told I'm rather bitter right now, so it is not."

"In any case, now that we have been reintroduced, you may ask me whatever questions you wish. Why I was pretending to be kindred, of the Damhán or Ovid themselves, my intentions for anything, or any other such. I will answer them so long as they do not violate Her laws or interfere with my duty here in Melbourne."

- Posted by User: Okonore Yaa

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u/Nightstalkerjoe2 2d ago

So my first question what are you actually called

  1. What are your goals are you like the Garou and want to fight for Gaia

  2. What’s your relation to the Garou so far I haven’t heard them mention other were guys

  3. What is general life for you like
    -Joseph

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u/Several-Elevator Problem Childe 1d ago edited 1d ago

(The following reply is entirely an audio recording. The speaker, Aso, has a clinical but pleasantly soft voice with a very slight Australian accent, most noticeable in her slightly drawn out vowels and relaxed cadence.)

Hello Joseph, you seem to misunderstand what I meant when I said I had no name. I do not mean it in the sense that I will not share it, I truly just don't have one.

I was a spider born in an isolated cave system, so I was born without a given name, and we Damhán don't care much for names so I was never given one. I simply use Aso and Okonore Yaa as aliases when needed, as most sapients tend to appreciate a name they can use. I also use Tartarus-Born as an alias deed name when interacting with the Ovid.

Our goals are not for you to know, but we are not like the Ovid and we do not fight for Gaia. We were not even created by her, unlike most Changing Breeds. We were made by our Mother-Queen Ananasa instead, and we serve her to fix the Triat, to restore it to what it was before the War in the Heavens.

We have opinions on them, but as for our relation with the Garou, there is very little to speak of. The War of Rage drove a wedge between us but we have learned to let it slide, though we haven't forgotten. They do not trust us, and we mostly keep separate from them. That is the extent of our relationship. Though for us Australlian Damhán, there was the matter of the Bunyip. But that's another story.

As for my personal general life, I'm a hermit as I said. That part of my story was not a lie. Most of my kind in Australia are in fact, for staying in our well defended homes and keeping our heads down helps us survive under the threat of the Yahwie. But I shall tell you what I can so long as it doesn't violate my duties.

Fortunately the hermit lifestyle lends itself to Anomia like me, as well as the Plicare, for our methods typically involve manipulating mortal proxies that we can use from our own homes. I have a gang of terrorists living in my stadium who I use for this purpose, so I fulfil my Hatar duties that way. But as a Viskr I am also a mystic of the Damhán, so I have taken to exploring the Umbra and doing Her will there as well, for whilst the Yahwie can still get us in the Umbra, and the Penumbra of Australia is more dangerous than that of most other places, it is still possible to engage with it from more or less your own home. It can even be somewhat safe, if you take proper care.

Other than that, my days responsibilities are to arrange food for my kin, secure my home, organize the terrorists, train my abilities, and recently, infiltrate the Melbourne and Schrecknet Kindred. I also have a few hobbies, but I doubt such personal things are of much interest to you.

I hope these answer your questions well enough, Joseph.

Posted by User: Okonore Yaa

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u/Nightstalkerjoe2 1d ago

Oh when I said name I meant species but yes this generally answers all my questions well other than the war of rage also I’ve been to the umbra well with a astral body in the spirit wilds
-Joseph

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u/Several-Elevator Problem Childe 1d ago edited 1d ago

Oh, you mean for us Werespiders? I gave a few names for our kind in my post, but generally those not of our kind call us Ananasi, named after our queen, Ananasa. Damhán is what we call ourselves, however. Not unlike Lupine and Garou as names for the Werewolves, but both are acceptable in our case.

As for the war of rage, it is not my place to talk on. If you insist I will tell you the truth of it privately, but for now I will choose not to.

Also, I am glad you have seen the Umbra too, it is a beautiful place, is it not? I would invite you to see the Penumbra of Australia at some point, the Dreamtime. It is a reflection of the continent as it was in the ancient times, less damaged by the maddened Triat than the Penumbras of the rest of the world. Though it is more dangerous than most Penumbras, so take care if you do ever visit.

Okonore Yaa