Third pass with my swarm. They focused on his legs, and very nearly unbalanced him.
Honestly, I should probably have seen a focus on unbalancing him coming. There’s been too much emphasis on Mannequin’s excellent but precarious balance for it not to be essential.
I could see him pause, watched his head tilt quizzically. I bit my lip.
To his right, my left, the swarm had once again gathered in a tight cluster, and were expanding slowly, with controlled movements.
A second round of the crawleidoscope?
The swarm consisted of pairings of flying insect and arachnid. Every spider from my lair was clutching a bee, a wasp or a larger dragonfly, who clutched the spider in turn.
Oooh. Are we going to be binding him in silk?
A thousand pairs.
That is a lot of spiders and insects.
Connecting to one another, these bugs quickly drew out five hundred or more lines of webbing. Mostly dragline silk, this ‘net’ maintained enough of the sticky webbing to attach to him, draping over his artificial body and staying there.
I love this tactic. It’s the perfect way of making the bugs useful without finding a way to penetrate his casing. 😀
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