2008-12-27 12:36:53 Nayk rolls 2 dice to Crawl Sideways (Gnosis) (Diff 4: Inner City) 3,7 (1 success)

I dissolve. A thousand spiders scatter into the cracks in the walls of my apartment building. Into the dark places full of old wires and dusty pipes. This is the gateway, right into the weaving, one after another we slip through the cracks and into the world of the weaver.

The shift from physical to spirit world feels a bit like drowning, like your lungs are frozen for just a few seconds until you adjust and remember how to breathe.

Thousands of black widows crawl from beetween the webs and gather in the umbra just outside of the physical spectrum. A million eyes take a quick looks around, in all directions at once before we coalesque. Spider after spider crawls atop one another and melds together, quickly reforming into something much larger.

2008-12-27 12:41:52 Nayk rolls 6 dice to Stamina+ Primal Urge 9,7,1,10,2, 1 (1 success)

The Ananasi call this for the Lilan. Most others just call it terrifying. I am half girl half spider. Four of my seven-segmented and clawed legs rest on the ground. My large abdomen with its red hourglass marking is raised behind my vaugely humanoid torso. Four more arms ending in claws sprout from my blackened torso/cephelothorax combination. My face is vaugely human but darkened to almost match my body. My lower jaw is split in two, with chelicrae hanging down. My eyes have multiplied leaving me with eight black orbs on my face. Tufts of my blonde hair hang from my head and my shiny exo-skeleton clicks as i survey the spirit world before me.  

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 The world is darkened here, but shadows from the moon dapple across the landscape and glisten off the weavers webs that surround you. There is a dampness to the air here, as if it were a morning dew. You can spot a few fleeting shadows of air elementals that are streaming south bringing the colder winds from the north.

Glancing toward your side, you notice a small delicately carved figure of a woman. She is mostly transparent, but her curves and edges sharp. You easily remember the pane of glass that stood in this place on the other side. Beside her on the webbing moves a few spiders, mechanical and tedious. They seem very thorough, patrolling their web and seeking out anyone that would seek to destroy their work.

A bright figure disturbs your thoughts. It is just outside the building, but its flashing colors are easily seen though its form is not.

I had intended to come here to begin the construction of my Sylie. The flashing colors catch the attention of my many eyes. Whatever that is it does not fit in the world of the weaver. Its not curiosity that makes me lean the top of my body out the window; its survival. If there is something unnatural and dangerous I need to see it, lest it sneak up on me while i am concentrating on my webs.

Four long legs grab the corners of the window frame and I lean out, peering down and prepared to pounce. This will be my territory within the weaving and trespassers will be killed and drained.

2009-01-12 21:57:17 Nayk rolls 6 dice to Perception+Alertness 5,8,8,1,6, 1 (1 success)

 As you lean outside the opening the culprit becomes quickly apparent. In the center of what was the street hovers a wildly flashing sphere of bright light. It rapidly shifts from a deep red to a verdant green and finally reaching a synthetic yellow, before it starts the entire process anew.

Just as you begin to sense its rhythm it arcs across the vacant street headed toward yet another intersection. You are left with small zephyrs and lunes playing upon the umbral winds carrying them off in a game that you can not begin to comprehend. The soft glow of the lunes shifting with the elementals misty forms to produce an effect similar to will of the whisps.

2009-01-17 08:10:23 Nayk rolls 2 dice to Intelligence 9,2 (1 success)

Until the pattern of lights becomes obvious I dont have a clue what I am looking at. In all my umbra travels I have never taken note of something like that before. When it changes intersections and continues its pattern I understand, and for a moment feel quite simple...

Left alone in the quiet of this world I will begin my work. Building webs is second nature to all Ananasi. To create my Silie first I must attach my webs to the great weaving, so the dark mother has a path to speak to me. I climb out on the side of the building, my claws digging in and letting me walk along the vertical surface to seek out anchor points for my webs.

[Nayk spends one blood point to auto-shift to Pithus.]
2009-02-03 12:32:05 Nayk rolls 7 dice to Wits+ Primal Urge 8,10,6,6,3, 10,1 (4 successes)
[Nayk spends five blood points to create webs.]

From my vantage point at the top of the building I change forms again. My torso collapses in and my face makes its final transformation fully into an arachnid form. To an onlooker I am a black widow spider the size of a Volkswagon Bug. In this form I can create webs with the strength of steel. I methodically go about my work ensnaring the area around my apartment. I create webs easily twenty feet high and wrap the floor of my building in the sticky, amazingly strong material. This will be a work in progress, i have much to add, but the base of my Silie is finished. In just a few weeks I will once again commune with the dark mother...

After my hours of work I am hungry. I slip through my webs and enter the window of my apartment again. It is barren on this side of things, but the cracks remain.

2009-02-03 12:41:01 Nayk rolls 6 dice to Stamina+Primal Urge 4,9,3,2,10, 9 (3 successes)
[Shift to Crawlerling form]

My massive form dissolves, thousands of tiny black widows dropping to a black mass on the floor before I, before We, flood through the cracks in the wall and back into the material world.

2009-02-03 12:43:26 Nayk rolls [Gnosis] 2 dice to Crawl Sideways (Diff 4: Inner city) 9,3 (1 success)  

Crawling back into the material world is like having your house painted while your asleep. Everything seems so vivid, sounds so clear. I am no longer underwater, I am free.

2009-02-03 12:45:07 Nayk rolls 6 dice to Stamina+Primal Urge 1,5,3,10,8, 2 (1 success)
[Shift to Homid]

The crawlerlings coalesque, a thousand black widows leaping on top of one another and rapidly forming my feet, legs, pelvis toso and arms. I roll my neck as my head comes together, the last of my swarm skittering into place and solidifying. I have worked for hours, it is now near dawn, and I am hungry...  

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