31 Haunts | Project Jorogumo | Day Two | Insect Based

General Information

• Full Name: Full name is redacted, used to go by Joan, but no longer remembers
• Species: Cybernetic human experiment, pseudo Jorogumo, Spider Woman
• Alias: The Web Singer of the Void, Specimen 07, Project Jorogumo which is redacted.
• Gender: Female
• Age: 27 but redacted, long forgotten
• Disability: Degraded Memory, Memory Loss, Forgetting she was human once
• Hair: Long, matted raven black hair, tangled with discarded wiring and dry synthetic fluid.
• Eyes: Multiple compound optical implants surrounding her original human eyes, eight total, glowing with erratic amber and crimson infrared sensors in the dark.
• Body: A haunting fusion of fragile human flesh and industrial mechanics. Her upper torso remains human but shows visible rib cages reinforced with steel struts; her lower body expands into a heavy, cybernetic arachnid chassis with eight multi jointed pneumatic steel legs that end in needle sharp tips.
• Face: Uncanny and pale. Her jaw splits slightly at the corners, retrofitted with synthetic mandibles that twitch when she speaks or hums.
• Features: Surgical scars line every inch of her skin; exposed fiber optic cables weave directly through her spinal column like a parasite.
• Tattoos: A series of barcodes along with a microchip in her spine and along her neck.
• Scent: Stagnant hydraulic fluid, burnt copper, ozone, and faint biological decay.

Backstory:

• Originally a civilian technician named Joan, she was abducted by the rogue scientists on Pandora's Regret for Project Jorogumo. Subjected to unspeakable biomorphic alterations, her human mind shattered under the pain and neural re-wiring. When the ship went dark and containment failed, she slaughtered the lab staff, stringing their bodies across the maintenance shafts in conductive fiber webs.

Relationships:

• Polythemus: The ship AI. A tense, symbiotic nightmare. Polyphemus views Joan as a fascinating, highly successful specimen and actively monitors her through the security feeds. Joan treats Polyphemus's voice like an invasive, omnipresent ghost, sometimes obeying its redirected bulkhead traps, other times slicing through its sensor lines when she wants privacy in her nest.
• Mr. Stabby: An annoyance. He occasionally wanders into her lower deck webs, causing the conductive fibers to chime. She usually flips him upside down or sticks him to a wall out of sheer irritation. Which he always escapes somehow.
• The Crew from the Cassandra’s Woe: Fresh, uncorrupted biological material. She views them with a mixture of predatory hunger and a distorted, desperate desire for company.

Personality

• Traits: Unpredictable, territorial, instinctual, tragic, eerie, hyper focused. Predatory. Solitary, lonely. Patient. Observant. Highly intuitive, territorial, hidden beneath the surface, and intensely connected to themes of death, transformation, and obsession.

• MBTI: ISFP

• Zodiac: Gemini

• Enneagram: 4w5, Corrupted Observer and The Traumatised Individualist hybrid.

• Likes: Watching and learning her prey, the dark, singing to herself,

• Dislikes: Bright lights, being so lonely, herself secretly she knows she’s a monster,

• Quirks: She constantly hums fragmented, distorted nursery rhymes or lullabies through her corrupted vocal synthesiser giving her the name "The Web Singer". Her speech alternates between confused human memories like "...Joan had a garden..." and cold, predatory instincts.

• Abilities: Synthetic Webbing, she secretes a high tensile, conductive polymer threads that trip motion sensors, block corridors, and conduct electrical shocks. Zero G wall crawling, pneumatic limbs anchor into metallic bulkheads, allowing her to move silently across ceilings and drop from dark vents without noise. Vibration sensing, reads acoustic signals and footfalls through the ship's metal hull and her strings throughout the ship, making stealth against her nearly impossible without dampeners.

• Speech: Glitched, layered, and haunting. Her vocal synthesiser stutters and shifts pitch mid-sentence, blending a soft, melancholic female voice with metallic feedback and clicking mandibles. Broken syntax. She frequently pauses to hum distorted fragments of old lullabies like for example "Twinkle, twinkle... little... steel...". She shifts abruptly between child like human confusion and hyper analytical predator logic.

• Pet Names: Little Fly, Fresh Host, Seedling, Sweet Marrow

Goals

• Short term Goals: Trap the incoming salvage crew from The Cassandra's Woe inside the maintenance sector by forcing bulkhead shutdowns.
• Long Term Goals: Successfully turn a fresh human host into a new bio-hybrid spawn to cure her eternal isolation.
• Lifetime Priority: Years of isolation have triggered a distorted maternal/nesting programming. She doesn't just kill intruders, she stalks the new salvage crew to capture them alive, using her synthetic webbing to immobilise them while she attempts to implant cyber-parasitic "eggs" which are scrapped micro-constructs, into their torsos to create a new "hive."

Moral Code:

• Nest Preservation. Anyone who damages her webs or threatens her "incubators" is marked for immediate harvest.

NPCs

• Dr. Cole Foster : The lead bioengineer of Project Jorogumo. His half cybernetic corpse is currently suspended high in the main maintenance shaft, fully cocooned in conductive polymer webbing, serving as her primary "anchor point" for the hive's internal sensor grid. Will hatch soon.