video; un: dunmer dragonborn

[fireandhoney]

Turns out when one is bored, doesn't feel like drawing or reading, and has a familiar that makes silk, this is the end result.

[He holds up a braid of string. The string is pearlescent, and it's crudely braided together, looking like a kid's first attempt to braid their hair or make a friendship bracelet. One can also see four very large spider legs draped over his shoulders, though the rest of the spider is hidden behind him.]

I may have discovered the future of fabrics right here.

[He tugs the string a few times, as if testing its strength.]

Comments

[fireandhoney]

That would be Sil, my familiar.

[The spider inches up more, climbing up the back of his head until she's resting on the top of his head, like a shiny, white hat. She's about the size of a cat.]

I don't see why not. She produces quite a lot of silk, and it shouldn't be too hard to gather some up and roll it up.

[tsukky]

Hello, Sil.

[ Yep. That's a big spider. It feels strange talking to a spider but that's the kind of thing that's normal around here.

A cat-sized spider and now there's an actual two-tailed vaguely demonic-looking cat the size of a small wolf appearing on her screen in the background. For some reason its expression seems as though it's not amused by the conversation topic, as if it's above such ordinary cat things like playing with balls of string - even though it's clearly interested in the dangling shining string on the screen. ]

Well, if she's happy to spare some I could always use more cat toys - he usually destroys 'em pretty quick. Might stop him from scratchin' the furniture so much.

[fireandhoney]

We can certainly do that. I can even have her spin an empty egg sac and give you that.

[He's yet to see a male of her species in this world and he's quite sure that she's far too big for common house spiders to mate with, so any egg sacs she produces will be duds anyway, perfect to tear apart.]

She's certainly in no short supply of silk. One time I settled down for an afternoon nap and she gave me a spider silk turban. I'm not sure if that was her way of preventing bedhead or if she just felt mischievous.

[tsukky]

That would be good. Anythin' that can be dangled that he can destroy, he likes. Even though he likes to act like he's not like an ordinary cat in any way.

[ Also, that must have been an extremely fetching turban. ]

...If mischief was the case, I never thought about a spider having a sense of humour like that before.

[fireandhoney]

I wouldn't think so either, but Sil seems to be much more intelligent than most spiders, and has a personality beyond catching prey or attacking anyone who disturbs her.

[tsukky]

Seems like it.

...Are spiders that size and colour normal where you come from?

[fireandhoney]

They actually are. Sil here is a Solstheim albino spider, native to my homeland. I actually ran across an operation where some mages were experimenting with them to give them magical abilities.

[tsukky]

Sounds cruel.

So magic is actually a thing where you come from as well then? It ain't where I'm from.

Strange how some of us are pulled from worlds with magic and others aren't. Almost seems like people like ya have an advantage.

[fireandhoney]

Magic was everywhere in my world, and I was a trained mage. I've lost most of my powers since coming here, though I can still do elemental spells.

Ironically, I have Death Magic now too, and I was not adept at necromancy back in my world.