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Gweneth Malley (+1 w/ stake)

Gwen was pretty damn sure that whatever he had just vomited was purely alcohol and she needed to look away swiftly to keep herself from a gagging reflex. It was, to be frank, a very sad sight indeed to see a grown man, dressed as a scantily clad cat, so drunk he could barely stand. Wait. No. So drunk that he fell to the grass talking about the spiders wanting cats and....who else knows what.

She turned away from her ex as he began bemoaning and talking while in the grass. The motion of spiders making their way over the hedges was more than enough to pull her attention from the spectacle. The creatures were honing in on their prey and Gwen held her stake tight. Ready to attack when needed.

One of the creatures eyes her from afar, at least....she thought it eyed her. It was hard to say but it moved in her direction. Perhaps it had been focused on someone else, Isaiah maybe, but Gwen was able to take the creature by surprise with the weapon in her hand. The stake she thrust at its face, managing to hit one of its mandibles. Crying out the spider reeled at her. Gwen prepared to dodge when she felt a hand, begin to make it's way up her body as did the weight of someone leaning on her. Did he just really use me like some sort of pole? "The hell?!" Che cursed at him.

Her change in focus meant she got sprayed with the nasty ichor from the spider's mouth. The spittle ate away at her already rather skimpy black dress. Thankfully the most important bits stayed in tack. Wasting no time, Gwen swung out with the stake and racked the creature right across the eyes. It screeched and wailed as it moved to make a hasty retreat. If there wasn't the legitimate fear that if she left Isaiah he'd faceplant in the grass again she would have gone after the beast. "You realize right, that there is no ******** way I am letting you go home tonight by yourself. Especially if you drove."

Eta - + stake

If Buffy the Vampire Slayer had been filmed using cats as the stars then Eta would have been the Slayer. She kept the stake gripped in her teeth and when a rather large spider dropped down from the hedge maze she launched herself at it-- in the name of defending Felix, of course. The slender feline moved quickly, dropping the stake briefly to keep her movements quick only to pluck it back up and jab at a spider again. Take that Sarah Michelle Geller.

Michiko Wakahisa X

Michiko screamed as spider legs came out at her as she tried to get out of the maze and the spiders spit at her some of the acid getting on her butterfly wings back and arms. This was too real, this felt too real, she was freaking out a little bit. She didn't know what to think this was all really strange, she felt like she was in one of her dreams where the darkness was coming in trying to take everything she loved. This didn't feel like a game anymore. This couldn't be a game there were people throwing up and seeing things how had this happened!! Michi frantically looked around to make sure Toby was still with her.

Tom and Jason Wolf (dressed up respectively as Sherlock Holmes and Watson respectively.) - both have metal stakes
They were fast-walking through the maze, trying to make it out, and trying to keep up with the spoiled teen that they had managed to get stuck with, and thought they were making some progress. Unfortunately they didn't know what direction the end of the maze was, so even if they thought they were going the right way, they could just end up on the other side of the maze with no exit. Too bad they couldn't just run through the bushes. "You know, instead of random metal stakes, why couldn't they have left random metal swords or machetes?" Tom asked as they made their way through.

Suddenly, a giant spider popped out over one of the hedges and hissed angrily at them, the acid from it's mouth dripping and it looked like it could burn through clothing. The two brothers were definitely glad that they hadn't worn anything that they really liked.

Tom launched himself first at it, determined to protect his little brother, and the brat, and managed to be hitting it quite well. He even seemed to be making some progress on defeating the creature! But, like that scene in Jurassic Park, Jason decided that it would be a better idea for the spider to attack him and yelled at it to come and get him. The spider, a bit woozy from Tom's attacks, started to go after the younger Wolf and Jason realized just what a mistake he had made, as Tom continued to beat on it. Luckily for Jason it didn't seem to be able to get to him that easily, but it did shred a bit of his clothing as he dodged its' legs and tried to hit it a few times. "Better stay back if you don't want to get hurt by this thing!" He said to Mahogany.

Derrick Keenan (dressed as Rick O'Connell from The Mummy) - metal stake
As fast as Derrick could help Gisela, they started to make their way through the maze. He sometimes looked behind him now and again to make sure that Gisela was able to keep up, but otherwise concentrated on trying to get out of this crazy place. Why would they make it so that the maze is the only way to get through to the other side?! He thought to himself as he started to get a bit more frustrated that they hadn't been able to make it out yet.

Suddenly, a spider came from over the tops of the hedges and raced towards them. Caliban though, with some great reflexes, managed to hit it a few times with his metal stake before it could get an attack in, and that seemed to discourage it a bit, though it kept attacking.






Sachio Sugiyama (dressed as BotW Link sans pointy ears) - metal stake
"Well, seems like even a dumb giant spider isn't a match for me." Sachio said, pretty much to himself, as he continued to get hit after hit on the spider. If only someone else was there to see him and how awesome he was being! He had been making his way through the maze, a bit slowly compared to other people since he knew that panicking and running around with no plan wouldn't get anyone anywhere, when suddenly a spider popped out from the top and went after him. Sachio had managed to get the first hit in though and from there it was easy!

Anxo - Dressed as a Scarecrow -- 7 + 1 spike

Waiting for Litian



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Roddy – dressed as a lionman COLLECTED METAL STAKE 5+1 = 6

"I'm fine, just as right as rain, Julian, don't you worry none at all." Roddy couldn't help but offer a comforting smile as they re-situated themselves. He was more than happy to have Julian rely on him as much as he needed to. That's what he was there for, to be that pillar of strength for the other man whenever he needed it. And right now it was especially important.

Right now, though, it looked like he was more of a junglegym, the way Julian scrambled up him, and he was ready for it, arm poised to wrap around the other and keep him safe, but to his surprise the man pulled away of his own accord and began to attack the monster. Roddy wouldn't allow himself to fall behind either, so with spike in hand, he charged at the spider, digging this spike into it's head and narrowly missing a swipe at him with a furry leg.

Somehow, a bit of spit ended up on him, fizzling at this clothes and burning a whole straight through his sleeve. Rather than deal with it in panic, the large man only grabbed his sleeve and ripped it clean off, tossing it to the side. No harm, no foul! There was still a beast to be taken care of.



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Nischal -- Dressed like Most recent iteration of Aquaman - 3

Nischal felt incredibly bad for dragging Jason around like he had. He hadn't given the other a choice besides to go into the maze, the entire places' hive mind herd leading him into bad decisions. When he finally stopped, it wasn't by choice, but by a spider lunging out at them. Jason did manage to push him out of the way, but... Just as they entered into the maze, another one lunged out!

"GAH!!" Nischal squeaked, the fangs of a particularly ravenous spider digging deep into his legs, it's foaming venom forming holes into his pants and a bit of blood dribbled out from the bite. The beast's movements were enough to tear their hands apart, which was just as well, since that meant that Jason would be able to go free. "JASON RUN!!"

In the end, despite the panicking, Nischal was much more invested with Jason getting out of here alive than himself. With this monster distracted by his rather delicious calf, maybe there was a chance. To try to distract it further, Nischal tried to smash his free heel into it over and over again, trying to loosen it's grasp on him. So far, he had no luck as it only attached itself further, the furry legs coming up to twist around him and slowly inch it's way up his body.

Rayna Farrell - as Wednesday Addams

At first it looked like Rayna had gotten away without without any conflict at all. The teen thought that was perhaps for the best as her shoulder had begun to throb about two turns back. With the intensity of the pain Rayna had to assume that it was possible she had aggravated the wound that had been healing nicely up to this point. With her left hand she gently clutched her injured limb and pressed forward. When running towards the maze she had not had the chance to marvel at how large it might have been. The goal before the spiders had attacked was to get to the center of the structure. Was that still the objective here or was just getting out of the maze alive the goal?

So lost in her thoughts and pain making her susceptible to lapses in concentration that it took her precious seconds to realize that she was no longer alone in the maze. Rayna backed up a step as the spider that had just dropped over the hedge wall advanced menacingly on her. Her hands went over her ears in an attempt to block out the noises that the arachnid was making. As her ears were covered nothing could block the frothy spit that landed on her costume. A few droplets landed on the bare skin of her arms and near her face. While the spit on her costume was causing a smouldering effect on the clothes it seemed only to produce a sensation akin to something like the itch one would experience with hives or poison ivy. Unpleasant as it was, it was bearable.

What was not bearable was the spider's leg that swept Rayna's feet from under her causing her to crash to the ground. Yelping in shock and then in pain the teen fought to right herself or at least get off her back. More legs came into play as the spider hovered over the downed teen. Two more appendages managed to pin each shoulder to the ground and Rayna could no longer hold in the panic that was coursing through her body. A scream was torn from her as the leg pinning her right shoulder down actually caught and tore through her flesh. But that was not the worst pain to come...

Seeing as she was effectively pinned like an doomed insect the spider hissed in triumph and with hardly any effort on its part managed to sink its fangs into the girl's left side. Fangs that were as long and sharp as steak knives found no resistance from the dress that Rayna had worn that evening. Agony beyond anything she'd ever experienced, even as her powered self, flooded through the teen. She needed help. At any other time she would have struggled more, given more fight to her opponent but it wasn't going to be that way tonight. A pure scream of terror was torn from her.

"Oh gods! Get it off me! Someone help me!"

Rayna's struggles lessened as the pain became too intense. Envenomed, wounded and pinned to the ground by a giant arachnid. Was this how she was going to die?

Kathryn McAdams - not dressed up ((metal stake + 1 to roll))

Kathryn had been trying to keep track of her bearing in the maze but hearing random shouts of those that were taking siege or giving siege to the spider army was more than a little distracting. Still wielding the metal stake that she had found outside the entrance she was cautiously exploring the layout as best as she could. It was perhaps fortunate that she was paying attention as she had seen the start of eight legs climbing over a hedge in front of her. Gritting her teeth at the thought of the battle to come Kathryn gripped the stake in front of her. At least she wasn't totally helpless. As the arachnid landed in front of her Kathryn noted that the creature seemed like it didn't see her at first. Could she take the fight to it in this scenario?

Rushing forward Kat swung the stake back and forth in front of her before attempting to jab the stake into the abdomen section. As she rushed forward it almost seemed to "wake" the spider from its dazed state and Kathryn had to fling herself out of the way of the legs it suddenly brought into play as it swiped at where she had been standing moments ago. "Okay, so that didn't work."

Brushing herself off quickly Kathryn noticed that the spider had begun to spray a frothy spit in her direction and as it came into contact with her clothes the material began to literally melt. "Okay then, that was just bought creep."

Avoiding the legs for the most part Kathryn waded in with her metal stake and jabbed at the underbelly portion of the spider .. effectively driving it back the way it had come. As it was flailing about one leg caught Kathryn's side and although painful she continued to put on a front. She'd not give in, not even an inch.

Soon her path was spider free and she moved forwards as she kept her right arm close to her body. Dang those feet were sharp.