Initially, I was gonna have Master Pi Zhu fight for Jack. He’d get shrunken down to bug size and take on the assassin spider. Maybe he’d be successful, maybe he wouldn’t.
Then I figured it would be better to let Jack fight the battle himself. It would tighten up the story a bit and ultimately make more sense.
Or… You’re vulnerable to whomever you trust…
Sorry to get all “Spock” on peeps again, but… Well; this is how the “handshake” came to be… Dif-tor heh smusma.
(3 seconds later)
A meteorite falls and kills every kind of life.
Except spiders, somehow.
Spiders, bugbears, and KEITH RICHARDS.