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Welcome to my quest thread, first off I'd like to thank Astra for being an evil little muse to help me mold some of the ideas I had into shap for this quest. domokun

And a really HUGE thank-you to Enoh Love for allowing me to make Umrae as Drow as I wanted! heart whee

As for the quest it's self? Why it's a Drider of course! What is a Drider you may ask?

A Drider is a cross between a Drow, and a Spider. This is not something that just happens because it does. It's a painful transformation that only the highest of Lolth's priestess' can preform. Over three days and each day during an 8 hour period a Drow undergoes a painful transformation, the lower half of the human like Drow body is lowly bloated and transformed in to that of an over sized spider. Standing well over 6 feet tall these behemoths are a nasty thing to piss off. Most of them once created are shunned from their city and sent in to the Underdark to survive.

This is the quest, and the story of a Priestess of a lesser house who took things a bit to far, angered the wrong Matron mother, and found her self cursed to wander the Underdark seeking revenge in her new Drider form.

A form that would will it's revenge with it's dieing wish.

(Guardian info slowly being written up as you read this... >>)

The Ghost

Name: Umrae'Stra (Meaning Blessed Spider)
Hair: Ghost white and shoulder long
Skin: Ash gray

Wand: A thin black rod with a webbing like matter wraped around it, at the top two hands placed together like in a prayer with 4 spider legges reaching up around it.

Ghost: A light violet fog with a humanoid form however waist down is a bloated fog like cloud.

Child: At this point we finally see Umrae'stra, her hair is short at the moment. The odd growth covered by the fog in her ghost from is finally revealed to be a large cocoon massed webbing in place of where her legs would be. Other wise she looks like a healthy child of normal size, minus a few odd scars starting from inside the webbing and poking out along her waist and stomach. Clothing wise her upper body is draped in a dark purple robe that she was first presented in before she was cursed.

Toddler: At this point the cocoon finally breaks away revealing the lower Drider body. It's a dark black with a few flecks of dark red markings along the back as if mimicking that of some Underdark Spider. At this point it is also more obvious the way the scars work their way around her waist, some looking like a cut from her waist down in to the spidery lower mass, while the majority look like they tried to come across her waist hinting at her death involving being completely severed from her lower half. Her purple robes are now getting a bit small for her and as such come up high enough to reveal all the scars more easily, the robes only reaching just down past her naval.

Her mouth will also start to slowly develop fangs, these fangs would typically serve to produce venom (May or may not remove this ability, need to talk to Astra about it again) but mostly are needed to sustain her life as Driders do require blood to live. (She will have a normal diet but raw meat will be a favorite) Another thing to note is at this stage she would be the same hight as any normal child, however due to her spider body she stands almost a head and a half taller. She will be able to fully walk at this stage however it will be slow and cautious as the spider legs slowly learn to work together to move her about. At this age she would already be standing almost 4 feet tall her lower body the size of a small dog.

Special note: Both during the toddler and infant stage she is very sensative about being around others, this is a result of the ever lasting paranoia that living in the Underdark can impart on a persons mind. She rarely cries and when she does it's only enough to get food, after that she goes back to a quite state attempting to hide in what ever place she can to be left alone.

Kid: Her first signs of web spinning begin to manifest and she slowly learns more about using them and weaving them together at this age. Her old robes discarded she now wears a more formal like dress made of purple and blue silks, along the sleeves cuffs and hem of it are spider designs and in the middle is a larger spider hanging from a web string.

By now her paranoia mentioned above can be slowly breaking down, at the same time by now she will have had minor glimpses at her past life as a Priestess in the form of short quick dreams highlighting the better moment in her life. This is also why she wears a new set of robes designed to favor her spider goddess whom she feels at the time has not forsaken her. She will also gain a slight bit of arrogance and possible superiority complex over males after seeing glimpses of the social differences between her and the male lackies in her dreams. Size wise she is now 6 feet tall, her spider part can now be compared to a full sized German Shepard dog.

Teen: After her teen quest Umrae will fully understand the extent of what she was in her past life and learn how she became a Drider, she will also learn to the full extent all the powers, prayers, and other abilities she once had. However due to being reborn as a Drider and not a simple Drow she lost almost all of them. She will also grasp the concept of Lolths disfavor for her and forsake the robes she wore before.

Wearing a robe like top with large sweeping sleeves of dark purples and reds it stops just above the naval openly displaying the wounds that killed her. By now they will stand out a ghost white on her ash toned skin. The spidery mass will have also increased in size, standing now 7 feet tall her spidery portion being that of a small pony. She would weigh almost 300 pounds now but due to her spider like limbs she can move just as quickly and easily as a normal spider would. (Provided she can fit any where... xd ) Also at this point she will have regained the knowledge at least of how to effectivly use a whip. Granted said whip will no longer be the same live snake headed kind a priestess would have it would indeed be a rather long whip with which she would have no complaints using in combat due to the tip being spiked and possibly dipped in drow made poison.

As of learning why she was created she will possibly shift towards an even more negative personality refusing to trust others and holding an extream ego over males.

Another thing to note is with her finally having re-learned all her clerical and priestly spells she does have the option to try and invoke them. However such occurrences are rare, and only happen when she is deeply angered at her Goddess for forsaking her. Often in a mad fit of rage starting a prayer to the Goddess with enough anger and chaos about her can grant Lolths attention just long enough to give her the spell, if Lolth deems her unworthy of blessing at the time... well your last words just fell on deaf ears probably. However her ability to levitate and summon darkness are lost to her as they where never really 'learned' they came almost naturally. Levitating in general by now is most likely impossible due to how large she is.

Youth: Still 7 feet tall it seems she has slown down in growing, however her spider portion has gotten much more powerfull, her spider legs can easily support her weight allowing her to jump (not very high jumps, and when she lands she could probably shake the house down) and even aid her in climbing to a degree. She can't actually stick to a wall and simply walk up it, but if a wall has foot holds in it she can use her spider appendages to move up it with the aid of her hands to guide her. Also her ability of web manipulation has become much more efficient, given enough time she can construct crude webs that she can use to maneuver down a wall by creating foot holds for the webbing. (Think over sized silly string webbing that can support up too half a ton) However she still lacks a full ability to commune with her goddess. Clothing wise she still continues to show off the scars that killed her but she has abandoned the colors of her former House and now wares dark reds lined with just a hint of gold.

Adult: One last sudden burst of both strength and growth makes Umrae an 8.5 foot tall Drider, she is now able to easily scale walls with out even using her hands to balance or guide her upper half. Her ability with web making has increased greatly to the point where her webbing can actually compensate for any weakness in the architecture it's built around. (This would mean if a wood platform couldn't support her with enough time she could strengthen the supports with her webbing. How ever a lone strand of her webbing even if it is proportioned to her size it can not support her to free dangle from it.)

At this point in her life Umrae has finally decided to forsaken Lolth and instead follows the Goddess Eilistraee (The Dark Maiden) her outfit is now a silver and cream colored gown like robe that reaches down past her waist and is about 6 feet long so it barely extends past her lower body when fully standing. She also wears an amulet of her new faith that is show as a silver long sword outlined against a silver moon with silvery filaments. She still carries her whip about for self defense but prefers to avoid fighting now, her focus in the power of spells has also shifted away from offensive and lethal spells blessed by Lolth to more defensive and healing as another sign of trying to forsake her old ways. With proper time to pray she can preform one large spell a day and a few minor ones on site given time to properly pray and create the gestures needed.

The Perks of Being A Drider (Okay so it sucks these are just cover ups for the fact that you have a spider butt rofl )

Spider Webbing (Kid and up) - At Umrae's kid stage she will start to show signs of her ability to spin her own web, it is unclear if her original cocoon was made by her or if it was simply a sign of what she was. None the less at her kid stage she is able to produce low amounts of webbing. Unlike James Dean (Astra's character) her spider webbing is really nothing fancy. It sticks to stuff and makes webs, and a lovely way to wrap ones enemies up for snacking on later.

Drawbacks: While the webbing is efficient, it requires a good amount of time to do any sort of massive web work. Being a Drider making a web between two large buildings could take quite a while you know! Also if it lacks the proper support around it the webs up until her adult stage are subject to being just as weak as the support it holds on to.

Efficient With Whips (Teen and up) - After a full trip through her past Emrae gains back the knowledge of how to properly wield a whip like she did as a priestess. However she no longer has access to a living snake whip she is none the less still able to attack, disarm, and defend with one.

Drawbacks: Unless the whip has a barbed head with poison it's still only a whip and as such is not always the most efficient weapon. Also she lacks the vars tile knowledge that a male Drow would know with weapons having been raised only using a snake whip like most priestess. No whip = Umrae with out any weapon other then her body.

Priestess/Clerical Powers (Teen and up) - With her knowledge of her powers as a priestess restored from her quest she can finally attempt to tap into them once more. At first she attempts only to tap the power of Lolth which she was originally raised to do, however at her adult stage she switches her alignment following Eilistraee instead of Lolth granting her a new less violent book of spells and a better chance to cast them. (Healing and defensive mostly where as Lolth would grant spells to hinder and harm.)

Too tired to read much, but just make sure you've checked with Enoh, ne? Since she has a Drow kid.