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Morris Sp

Morris the spider guy

The spider-crawler tomb-raider who uses his silk to descend the mile-long ladder and connect the lightning cable — dying the moment he finishes.

Story so far

Morris Sp, the human spider-crawler among the doomed tomb-raiders, becomes the unlikely hero of the final quadrant. Freed from ghost-possession by Carl's self-harm trick, he volunteers for the suicide run: using his silk ability to drop the mile-long ladder to water level and reach the submerged electrical connector while Low Thi distracts Quetzalcoatlus. He reports the deaths of his teammates (Bobby DJ crushed, Janice into a crusher, Tyler ripped in half by Chris) as he goes, then connects the wire — 'It's connected!

I did it! Going back up…' — before a message tags him deceased, killed by the ghost or the very electrification he enabled. His sacrifice liberates the Subterranean Quadrant, and the bubble honors him by name.

Appearance

A human spider-crawler, able to spin silk and descend rapidly; last seen a mile down a flooded ladder.

Role

The spider tomb-raider whose fatal cable-connection wins the final quadrant.

Relationships

Carl — Who frees him from possession and sends him to his death for the objective.
Low Thi — Who dies drawing the ghost away so he can finish.
Quetzalcoatlus — The ghost that kills him at the connector.
Bobby DJ — His teammate, crushed during the descent.
Sources — 3 recorded facts, by chapter
Chapter 6
  • A level-23 'Freelance Psychiatrist' crawler with a human head and torso on a tarantula's body — one of the two with Desperado access.
Chapter 7
  • The half-tarantula 'Freelance Psychiatrist' crawler from the trap-maze subterranean quadrant, now allied with Carl over the map.
Chapter 29
  • The spider-crawler tomb-raider who uses his silk to descend the mile-long ladder and connect the lightning cable — dying the moment he finishes.
Character sheet
LitRPG stats — unique to this series. Other books surface a different panel here.
Skills & spells
  • silk descent
  • climbing
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