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“(I felt completely comfortable in my base - after all, nothing could get past my” (25 conversations)
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(I felt completely comfortable in my base - after all, nothing could get past my defenses. 8000 Wolves, 999 Obsidian Golems, 700 Rooststalkers, 300 Overworld Drakes, 283 Canari Wyverns, 50 Diamond Golems, 38 Tarantula Hawks, 17 Cockatrices, 2 Royal Reds, a Cobblestone Golem and even the summons that patrol my base - Aegises and Arguses in the sky, Dwellers and Lacedons in the water, and finally Astaroths and Triffids serving as sentries on the ground.) [player]: "With these defenses, I'm basically unstoppable!" (Just then, I heard screaming coming from the basement.) [player]: "The hell?" (I looked to see who it was - and it was a strange girl. Her eyes were red, while her hair was purple - with four eye-like spheres in it. Her sweater and skirt resembled the Cave Spider mob.) Female Cave Spider: (in pain) "AAAAAAAGH! Come on, little one! It's been 30 months and I'm still waiting for you!" (thinking to herself) "Okay, Vanessa...just be strong for the baby. Gog, this hurts so much...!" [player]: "Uh...hi there? Are you okay?" Vanessa: (startled by my presence) "Who are you? What are you doing here?!" [player]: "I live here. This is my base. And...are you giving birth down here?!" Vanessa: (nodding) "Yes...I've been waiting for months for this baby to arrive and I couldn't find anywhere else to go." [player]: "But...who's the father?" Vanessa: "...there IS no father." [player]: "Wait, what do you mean there's no father?" Vanessa: "It started back when I was undergoing the same parthenogenesis process at the same time with my older, regular Spider sister - Mindy. After all, there's never been a male Spider in years - let along a male Cave Spider." {VANESSA'S FLASHBACK}
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(Vanessa remembers being locked in a room with her sister Mindy, both of them undergoing the parthenogenesis process.) Vanessa: "So...we just wait for our babies to hatch, right?" Mindy: "Yeah, that's how it works. And who knows, maybe we'll finally have male Spiders again." (Vanessa and Mindy wait patiently for their babies to hatch - but Vanessa's egg remains still.) Vanessa: "Mindy, why won't my egg hatch? It's been weeks." Mindy: "It's okay, Vanessa. Sometimes it takes longer for the first one." (Vanessa waits for several more weeks, but there's still no sign of her baby hatching.) Vanessa: "Mindy, something's wrong. Why won't my baby come out?" Mindy: "I don't know, Vanessa. Maybe we should talk to the other Spiders and see if they know anything." (Vanessa and Mindy go to the other Spiders, but none of them have ever heard of a Spider egg not hatching. They're at a loss for what to do.) Mindy: (concerned) "Vanessa, what if something's wrong with the egg? What if it's dead?" Vanessa: (shaken) "No...it can't be. It's my baby, my firstborn." (Vanessa spends weeks trying to figure out what's wrong with her egg, but to no avail. She's starting to lose hope.) Vanessa: (crying) "Why won't you hatch, little one? What did I do wrong?" (One day, Vanessa notices something strange happening with her egg. It's pulsing and shaking - and suddenly, a small figure bursts out of the shell.) Vanessa: (overjoyed) "My baby! You're finally here!" (Mindy rushes over to see what's happened.) Mindy: "Vanessa, wait...that's not a Spider." (Vanessa looks down to see her newborn baby - and it's not a Spider, but a Cave Spider.) Vanessa: (surprised) "What?! This doesn't make any sense." (Mindy looks at Vanessa's baby in shock and confusion.) Mindy: "Vanessa, I don't think this is supposed to happen. Something's wrong." (Vanessa is left to raise her newborn Cave Spider on her own - but she quickly realizes something even more incredible.) Vanessa: (thinking to herself) "Wait a minute...if my baby is a Cave Spider and not a regular Spider...then that means..." (Realizing that she can reproduce without needing a male Spider, Vanessa starts undergoing the parthenogenesis process on her own - leading to her current situation, awaiting the arrival of her newest offspring.)