Arachnofibre Production in Gamma World | World Anvil

Arachnofibre Production

Spider silk has the highest tactile strength of any natural substance known to humanity. This mutation causes the character to generate a similar substance within her body which she can spin, creating beautiful and durable strands she can shape at will. The process is strange and—some thing—somewhat disturbing, but no one can deny the beauty of it. The mutant produces thin and silvery, yet extremely strong filaments.   Type: Major positive.   Effect: The character becomes capable of spinning two types of silk—stick and non-sticky strands—and the character may spin either at her discretion. The former is used to spin webs that can catch and trap unwary enemies, and the latter is particularly useful for descending great distances, constructing barriers, or simply spinning out extremely lightweight and durable rope. In either case, the strands are quite flexible, yet extremely strong; the strands have 14 hit points, hardness 1, and a break DC of 30.   The character may spin her silk at a rate of 20 feet per round, up to 100 feet before her supply runs out. The fluid is naturally replenished at a rate of 20 feet of silk per hour. The character can instinctively build webs or other structures out of the silk, and she can easily attach strands to objects or specific spots, as long as she can reach them. It takes 20 feet of silk to block an entire 5-foot square so that no one can pass through without destroying the webbing first or becoming caught up in it. While the webbing is not hard to spot under good lighting conditions, in badly lit areas it blends into the darkness, making it very difficult to spot (Perception DC 25). A victim who stumbles into the web must make a Reflex save against DC 25 or become entangled. If he fails the roll by more than 10, he is held so immobile that he is grappled instead. He remains grappled until he manages to either extract himself from the webbing (CMD 25), or break the strands that hold him. The mutant can never be entangled in her own webs.   The silk starts to lose cohesion after 48 hours, losing -5 from its break DC every 6 hours, until it becomes nothing more than dry and almost insubstantial wisps of fragile silk.   Where exactly the silk is secreted from depends on the type of mutation or biodevice—it may come from the subject’s chest, mouth, hands, or even her backside as if the character were a spider. In any case, the character needs her hands free to shape the solidifying fluid into a strand.   Biotech: Implant, Graft.


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