GIANT WATER WALKER: 38/100 HP

Another twitch, stronger this time. Legs began to move--then curled back in. The Giant Water Walker was fighting its paralysis; it was unlikely to survive, now, the damage that Orthoclase-Alpha was doing. Unknowable organs were torn forth, strange and misshapen by vertebrate standards. Liquids of various colors began to ooze from the gaping wounds.

Within Orthoclase-Alpha's body, the spider-swarm continued their assault.

GIANT WATER WALKER: 32/100 HP

The Water Walker's legs twitched, and then uncurled... slowly, gradually. But it was on its back, Orthoclase-Alpha having torn too deeply into its abdominal cavity--and its weight too great atop that--for it to easily pull itself free.

Still half-paralyzed, now badly wounded, the spider's legs began to slowly wave in the air... as if begging help from someone, anyone, against this senseless attack.

It took the Water Walker some time to die. Perhaps if the damage weren't so great... Or perhaps if Orthoclase-Alpha and its heavy gemstone had not settled directly atop it, their combined weight pressing down on already-terrible wounds.

Legs flailed in the air, mechanical, slow, rhythmic motions that eventually jittered, and stopped. Long minutes passed before the body began to decay, rapidly congealing and dripping into black, shining Oil that slipped down into the soil.

Left in place was a jagged chunk of Eye Agate, perhaps the size of Orthoclase-Alpha's head.

The myriad tiny spiders still on Orthoclase fled away, into the water--or were consumed and crushed by its gemstone.