Names made creatures in certain settings stronger. It also gave them the benefit of joining parties and gaining skills beyond the standard allowed by the generic monster type. My humanoid form was based on my teenage body with a few modifications. I was a sandy blond with baby blue eyes. My skin was an ashen bluish gray. I gave myself a bit more muscle tone than I had in my real life. When I accepted the character, I saw that the start area was called "Blackweb Forrest". I checked in the game's encyclopedia about the world in the settings menu. The forest was called that because the higher level driders that live in the forest could produce black webs that were stronger than any other. It also had a soporific effect that put victims caught in the webs to sleep. When I began the game session, I was just a lv. 1 hatchling. We were in a cave I looked around the environment and saw that there were scores of other driders that were hatching as well. Since I was new, I walked around and looked them over. My years of experience allowed me to do it perfectly while everyone else was still fumbling.
There were around a good 140 newborn driders here. There were only 35 females in the whole place. Females were twice the size as the average male was. They were a shiny black with very deep purple dots over their black thorax and abdomens. They had the hourglass on their undersides. With the information from the encyclopedia given to me, I knew that the forest was a major matriarchy where males had no rights at all. Males were forced to do all of the work and hunting for the colony while the females lorded over them with their superior size and strength. Females leveled up by competing with the other females for status and position. They fought internally. It was a pretty cushy life. Males fought with their lives on the line externally. All of the females could claim a male to mate with whenever they want. Those chosen males were not forced to work as hard and did not have anything to do. However, most of those males did not survive their mating sessions. That was not the only reason to fear the females. There was also the sibling cannibalism. Cannibalism that would begin soon.
As I wandered around the nest chamber in the cave, I noticed that the entrance was sealed. It most likely would not open up again until the cannibal frenzy was over. If it truly was the case, that truly sucked for us. To make sure that I made it out in one piece, I went around and looked for allies. As I turned back, I saw a pair of really tiny males. They were much smaller than me. They waddled over to me and made some chittering noises. I sighed and moved closer. The runts would be the first ones to be killed and eaten by the others. I pulled them closer to me. They looked very alarmed and they struggled to pull themselves free. I looked at them a bit closer. While all of the driders in the nest had the same skin color as me, they also all had inky black hair and ruby red eyes. Pretty cool in a evil way. I saw they were both dark brown with white dots over their thorax and abdomens. "Hey. You two can both follow me and I can keep you guys safe. I will call you Kibo and you Zetsubo. Okay!?" they flinched and writhed in my arms. They relaxed and a popup appeared saying I was able to recruit them.
