Insect Pets

The keepers call them insects, the spider with the rest, and the spider has not complained. They are armoured creatures, hard to hurt and without much interest in magic, and each brings some poison or stench of its own to the fight. The ettercaps of the jungle are given a grown spider at the start of their road, and most of them keep it.

One of the family is unlike the others. It is a small soft thing that the keepers named Fluffy. It can scarcely be hit, and can scarcely take a blow; and they hold that there is more magic in it than in all the rest.

Details

• Commonest to rarest, with their young: Huge Spider (spiderling), Giant Ant (ant larva), Giant Bee (bee larva), Stink Bug (stinking larva), Praying Mantis (praying mantis nymph), Fluffy (infant fluffy).
• Their eggs are foggy and grey. They are found in treasure, and the rarer ones are seldom seen in the treasure of low levels.
• The giant bee is born flying and poisonous.
• The first five have room for few magical tricks. Fluffy learns magical tricks and no others.