No story today. I will be featuring this critter in an upcoming picture, but a lot of the detail is lost there. So I wanted to show it as a model. It was made by me entirely from Bryce metaballs, except for the horns (which came from cattle props by Debra Ross. The eyeballs are regular Bryce sphere primitives with a Keisha eye texture. (V3 was never so sexy!!) The tongue and green parts are leather textures by RDNA. I believe either Judith Ward or Nikita Creed (or both) did them. Now, a bit about the critter. The spider-looking one (lower center and upper left) are front and backsides of the female. The upper right critter is a female in front and two "males" connected to her and each other. The mature males don't have eyes or true mouths. Their heads are much closer to the head of a pensis--a condition similar to that of human males. ;) The female is penetrated by the male, who then metamorphoses into an appendage--another segement of the female--then another male penetrates the "femalized" male and becomes yet another segement, so there may be pregnant females with two to ten segements. The former males do not transmit their sperm to the female. Instead, the female transmits her eggs to the different males (segements). There, the eggs are fertilized and grow into a litter of three to six baby spyderpedes. Like a certain shark species, the toughest baby in each male survives by eating its brothers and sisters. When that supply is gone, it starts on dear ol' Dad, eating it alive. At some point, the male segement dies and drops away from the female, who just keeps on walking away. The babies continue to dine on dead dad, then start on each other. If Mom ever chances their way again, she won't hug them, but will try to eat them. Actually, Mom will try to eat anything her size or smaller. She tried humans but didn't care for them. Enjoy--if you can! Regards, Jeremy