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From: Ubiquitous <weberm@*******.net>
Subject: Re: [SR2] Who's Who of SRII?
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 13:31:50 -0400 (EDT)
At 02:19 AM 9/20/96 -0400, Hairy Smurf wrote:
>At 23:57 9/19/96 -0700, you wrote:
>>Hairy Smurf wrote:

>>> Okay I can't let this by again. Spiders are NOT bugs. They do not posses
>>> metas like insect spirits. They are another form of totem. Please stop
>>> adding them into the bug pile. The published totem is not even anti-insect.
>>> I kow its a little thing but it avoids confusion if you can all keep it
>>> straight.
>>
>>Ahh..But Spiders are in the same creepy crawly category as bugs..And are
>>just as alien as the bugs with their own agenda just like bugs..
>
>How do you figure? I don't remember anything in Bug City (where the totem was
>introduced) about them being alien like the bugs. They just like to have
>their hands in every pie and running all of them. The published stuff didn't
>make them out like bugs. Besides the spider totem in one of the Secrets of
>Power novels wasn't at all like other bugs.

Some Jap kid encountered a bunch of what sounded like Spider spirits in the
hallways (or was it air ducts) of "Little Godmother's"(?) HQ. How they came
about was never described, but it could be like other Insect spirits.

--
"I dyde shyte thre grete toordes." Fables of Aesop,
Caxton translation,
V15 1484

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