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[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I can't think of any worse use of a turn in combat.

Sure, you may kill your opponent via eventual infection and necrosis but they know this, and will be fucking pissed directly after.

I suppose for a stealth situation you could do this then just leave and wait a week

[–] rockerface@lemm.ee 8 points 8 months ago

Yeah, Testicular Torsion and Mend Buttcrack are usually far more effective if your goal is to quickly incapacitate your opponent

[–] lemmylem@lemm.ee 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I got bit by a brown recluse when I was sleeping. They had to cut open my finger because I let it get swollen for a couple days. It first started out as a pimple, then my finger started to turn purple after awhile. I went to the hospital like a week after getting bit and they said I was like 2-3 days away from having a heart attack because it was causing the blood in my finger to clot. Still thinking about getting a spider man tattoo. Also, fuck brown recluses.

[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Fun fact, not everyone is reactive to it. I lived in a house with an infestation and got bit a ton and it never effected me, just regular spider bite redness.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)
[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's a thing. Search brown recluse toxicity on Google or whatever. Some people is very reactive and some people it's not, I don't know why and I don't honestly think science knows why yet.

https://animals.howstuffworks.com/arachnids/brown-recluse-spider-bite.htm#:~:text=Not%20everyone%20who%20is%20bitten,recluse%20bites%20do%20absolutely%20nothing.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Sure, whatever. There's also a pretty common misidentification issue with them but let's assume you're right...

Sue people for making you live in the Brown Recluse Gangbang House. That's not okay.

[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Not when you catch several and have them all identified by pest control.

I can't sue my parents dude, there were issues we move on.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

How does this story keep having further trauma reveals?

[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

Life is weird I guess?

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Maybe they just built up immunity over time from many bites. You could probably do that too.

[–] xkforce@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I cast... Australian to counter

[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

We're immune to spiders of 3rd level or lower

[–] ignotum@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

3rd level and up you mean?

Australians have never encountered spiders weaker than level 3, so they have no immunity to them

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 2 points 8 months ago

Australian spiders must be higher than 3rd level to survive, it's the evolutionary arms race.

[–] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I thought this was a constipation curse

[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Probably depends what kind of casting is poured into the spider mold

[–] littlebluespark@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

Completely different from the ancient hex that causes tenacious, explosive dysentery with an inception-esque quality, "Brown Recurse".