Halloween fic: Rogue Trip pt 1 - Bad Idea

[katzedecimal]

Morning!! I shamelessly stole the 'Rogue Trip' title because a) it's just that appropriate and b) I couldn't think of anything better. So apologies to goldphish_bowl ^_

Comments

[neotoma]

hoping it would drown out the sound of Piper being weird.

I get the impression that *all* the Rogues often think this about each other...

The mostly dialogue nature of the story works really well, because it makes the reader's imagination go wild with what arachnid horrors might be lurking in the room.

Piper and James are certainly the Rogues with the proper 'get while the getting is good' mindset to run away from danger, while the others tend to be the sort who just have to try showing up trouble.

[katzedecimal]

It's so much more fun that way XD Also challenging, trying to paint a picture with dialogue without getting too expositional - fun!

Yeahhhhhhhh I think Piper and Trickster have rather less testosterone poisoning than the other Rogues. Maybe that's why they just didn't really fit in XD

[katzedecimal]

..... I thought that's what boyfriends were for! And husbands. Isn't that why people get married, so you always have someone around to deal with the eight-legs? Dammit, why didn't anybody tell me! XD

'Spider on your back' incident was real. Happened to a buddy from Adelaide, when he was 12 and in summer camp. Needless to say, it freaked him out.

[hermine_ichigo]

I don't hate spiders but geez sometimes they are just creepy little things XD
And OMG I would RUN if a spider jumped at me O__o
(worst part is: My GF is afraid of Spiders...I'm gonna link her the fic *lol*)

But gee THAT was funny sweetstuff *LOL*
Thank you for sharing *giggles*

[katzedecimal]

And these spiders.... are NOT little. Google huntsman spider if you dare. If you really dare, google clockspider. Don't show the GF if you love her though and want to get snuggles for the next fortnight (the pictures, I mean, not the fic)

Glad you liked!!

[hermine_ichigo]

I DID google huntsman AND clockspider *UUUUGH* XDDD
They are HUGE *UGH*

Goddamn it XDDD (especially we compared their size -found at wikipedia- with a normal ruler *eeeeeeek* >______<; )

And GF stalked the comments after reading the fic and googled herself XDD *LOL*

But hetearia says she will snuggle me anyway *lol*
(hetaeria: that was...ugh. But at least Piper had his flute...and I would have SQUASHED it :P)

[katzedecimal]

You can't squash one of those things. It'd be like squashing a poodle. The splash and ick factor...! Well you could do it but be prepared to vomit afterwards and you'd still have a heck of a mess to clean.

And this is why Australia shall never know the touch of my feet XD

[axolotl_lan]

Oh god I still love this but you had to bring up dock spiders.... still oh tricks wait'll a platypus stings you!!!!

[katzedecimal]

Dock spiders, Ontario's pint-sized answer to the huntsman, and by "pint sized" I mean "in comparison to a clockspider not say an orb weaver." My uncle takes cans of WD-40 to the lakes, for the purpose of dock spider murder.

[amarin_rose]

I love how you mentioned that picture some brave soul took of the spider trying - and failing - to hide behind the clock. Also, EWWWWW! I once stayed at a hotel California and the garden was filled with slugs, but that was fine and dandy compared to this.

Also, now the spider in my car is creeping me out even more.

[katzedecimal]

That guy's camera must be some amazing piece of tech because you could actually hear that spider's thoughts, in those pictures: "Ahhh at last, I've found the perfect hiding place! Nobody can see me, nobody knows I'm here. Nothing to see here, move along. I am completely concealed, I am.. what? Hey! Put my clock back! How did you know I was here! Curse you humans!"