Arachnophones

## Description

Arachnophones are hostile creatures that appear to resemble microphones but with 8 legs instead of the normal 3, and they only have one goal: bursting your eardrums.

Arachnophones come in many different types but the most common of them are black ones. An Arachnophone's size usually ranges from 6 inches to 3 feet, but larger ones have been seen. They are quite fast and can jump pretty high too. Arachnophones can also be tamed, but we'll get to that later. When two Arachnophones attack at the same time, the resulting noise is deafening. If you hear a ringing sound, that probably means an Arachnophone is nearby.

### Black Arachnophones

This is the most common type of Arachnophone. They have pretty average everything for Arachnophone standards: normal speed, normal jump height, normal aggression, normal volume, etc. They can occasionally be seen with foam caps on their microphones, which act as armor. Additionally, they have a black knob on their head that can be used to turn down their volume, but good luck doing that without your ears exploding.

### White Arachnophones

These Arachnophones look pretty similar to black ones, but they don't have a knob on their head and are white in color. These Arachnophones are the quietest type, besides babies, but can still make your ears bleed. They also have a cyan button on their head that replaces the knob, which when pushed, fires a shockwave that travels at 10 miles an hour and knocks anything that hits it back up to 30 feet.

### Red Arachnophones

The most dangerous type of Arachnophones, but also the rarest. They are red in color and are extremely fast. They're the loudest type as well, being able to produce sounds as loud as 500 decibels. As a last resort, they will open their speaker and send out a missile. Yep. You heard me. A freaking missile. When it hits something it will explode in a noise so loud, it will shake everything within a five mile radius. Your head will probably melt if you don't get away fast.

### Blue Arachnophones

These are probably the least dangerous Arachnophones. They are usually docile unless they feel threatened, which will cause them to let out an ear-piercing sob as a defense mechanism. They are the slowest but jump the highest.

### Baby Arachnophones

Baby Arachnophones are Arachnophones that haven't reached maturity yet. They don't know how to create sounds over 100 decibels and attempting to hurt one will anger Arachnophones nearby.

## Biology

Arachnophones are arachnid-like creatures that look a lot like microphones. They have 8 long skinny legs and ovoid feet. Their head has a microphone protected by a cage on the front half with just a solid part on the other. They all have a transparent button that doesn't really seem to do anything, and a crank on their neck that will make them shorter or higher when turned. Their body is a cylinder that has a half-sphere shape at the bottom which is connected to all the legs.

They also have a joint that connects their neck to their head and they can only use it to turn move their head forward or backward but not side to side. The mic inside of their cage is like their heart, meaning they will die if it is destroyed.

## Behavior

All Arachnophones really want to do when they see a wanderer is destroy the wanderer's ears, which they do by releasing extremely loud feedback and ringing noises. They also really hate glass and will go out of their way to break any glass they find.

Arachnophones are tamable, but doing so isn't easy. That's because you need to get close to it. Most cannot be tamed, but if you're lucky enough to find a broken one, all you need to do to tame it is fix its problem, which will then also calm down other Arachnophones in its vicinity.

## Dos and Don'ts

### Do:

* Keep noise canceling headphones with you.
* Stay far away from the babies.
* Throw a hammer or other hard tool at them unless they are a baby.
* When trying to kill one, aim for their mic/heart.
* Put a glass object on the ground to distract them long enough to get away.

### Don't:

* Try to run from a red one.
* Attempt to hurt a baby.
* Ignore ringing noises.
* Try to scream louder than them.