Spider Climb. The spider can climb difficult surfaces, including upside down on ceilings, without needing to make an ability check.
Web Sense. While in contact with a web, the spider knows the exact location of any other creature in contact with the same web.
Web Walker. The spider ignores movement restrictions caused by webbing.
Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. Hit: 8 (4d4) piercing damage, and the target must succeed on a DC 9 Constitution saving throw or take 8 (4d4) poison damage. The number of hit die for the piercing and poison damage is reduced by one for each two hp the Circus Spiderling Swarm loses.
Description
Avid predators; Circus Spiderlings can grow up to 3 ft. in length when presented with a large enough food source and the right living conditions. Their vibrant neon colouring can differ depending on the individual, but the designs of their bright skin pigmentation warns other creatures and potential predators of the deadly poison flowing through its veins. The purpose of their entire existence revolves around preparing enough food and resources for the Circus Spider Matron they serve. Curious but rather fragile by nature, Circus Spiderlings tend to trap their prey with large swarms and prefer to stay within the safety of their den.
Circus Spiders are an extremely rare mutation of jumping spiders that appear in temperate jungles, forests, and swamps in tropical humid climates. They tend to make their lairs far away from civilizations in unsuspecting clearings, tree hollows, volcanic shafts or by burrowing nesting holes in beach heads. Such lairs are often festooned with web cocoons still holding their past victims, the corpse's decaying faces frozen in perpetual satisfaction from whatever illusion they were last shown. Due to the coloring of the spider as well as it's webs, the nest's welcoming atmosphere and the look of pure ecstasy on the found corpses, the scholars who first discovered the creature morbidly dubbed them Circus Spiders and named their lair's 'Carnival Cobwebs'.
Circus Spiders reproduce extremely fast and don't have any natural predators, so they can quickly overtake a large region or forest if not taken care of promptly, completely upsetting the balance of the ecosystem their living in. When hatched, the male children stay behind to protect their mother while the females are sent out to create their own nests. Circus Spiders only need a year to reach their maturity, further leading to the massive destruction of the given area they've chosen to settle in. They are susceptible to the cold and generally nest in the warmest places possible within their ecosystem.
Shout outs to the Joro Spider for being my inspiration for this!
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