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+Spiders(specifically tarantulas) in their current are boring: They pop
+out of vents, fight people, and are eventually wiped out.
+
+\# Overview: Ports old /tg/ style spiders, a much loved antagonist.
+
+The spider gamerule spawns 2 Broodmothers in maints. These broodmothers
+lay eggs and place webs, making a home for themselves. After a few
+minutes, the eggs start to hatch, being offered to ghost roles.
+
+\# Standard Castes: Regular eggs can hatch into one of three variants of
+spider:
+
+Guard: Reasonably beefy, but a bit slower. Does brute damage.
+
+Hunter: Faster, but less durable. Does a mix of brute and toxin damage.
+
+Nurse: Very little health, but can place webs quickly and heal other
+spiders with a do-after.
+
+These spiders fight the crew and expand the nest. As they kill
+crewmembers, the Broodmothers can Cocoon the bodies to lay Enriched
+Eggs.
+
+\# Enriched Castes: Enriched Eggs can hatch into one of three types of
+spider:
+
+Broodmother: Medium health and low damage. Places webs quickly. Direct
+the swarm, lay eggs, don\'t fight.
+
+Tarantula: Massive health, very slow, huge melee brute damage.
+
+Viper: Very little health, very fast, injects slow-acting poison on
+bites, dealing high damage over a long time.
+
+\## Reasons this should exist: \* Current spiders are very barebones and
+boring. \* The proposed spiders will act within a niche of being a
+low-threat territorial antag. They won\'t end the round or kill
+everyone, they\'ll just inject some action into the round. \* When a
+player dies to spiders, they can very easily just take spider egg ghost
+roles, keeping them engaged in the round. \* The crew get to enjoy
+killing hordes of spiders, the spiders get to enjoy many respawns and a
+way back into the round. \* Boring, on-station simplemob swarm
+antagonists are bad and we should probably aim to slowly remove them,
+which this does very well \* This iteration of spiders is vulnerable to
+atmos: More atmos/engi content/stuff to do!
+
+\# Non-Goals: \* Make spiders into a round-ending threat \* Make any one
+spider caste better than the others