Kyle Foster wrote:

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> While trying to find a some monsters that I felt really fit Cerilla and
> the BirthRight feel I came across a monster I had never uded before; The
> Ettercap. I was intruiged by their reletionship with Sipders and
> thought that they might fit well with THE SPIDER.
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> I have 4 ways that I think he could have brought about Ettercaps.
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> 1) the usualy means of bredding with goblin females.
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> 2) gving his blood to some of the goblins for them to drink thus
> changing them into the Ettercaps, or anyone for that matter who drank
> the the stuff including captured humans.
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> 3) an uncataloged Blood ability that some Abominations (the Hydra and
> the Sphinx, for instance) posses to alter or create unblooded monsters.
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> 4) a "genetic" poision which he can injec with his bite that alters the
> vicitm.
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> I like it! What about some sort of blood ability that allows the Spider to
> "warp the flesh" of his victims. (Kinda like Winnowill from the Elf Quest
> series) Hey, something nastly should be going to those victims which get wrapped
> in the Spider's coccoon.)