#spiderette

Initially, Pandora’s only “spiderette” is the room in Sam’s island house where he canonically planned to imprison Michael in order to lure Ranboo to the prison for arrest. This is a post-Ouroboros AU, so Sam never actually got around to doing any of that…but it’s the thought that counts, right? So the Vault considers this room a kind of prison and therefore an extension of itself.

But it doesn’t stop there. As the depth of Pandora’s sentience grows, the set of converging factors that qualify a structure on the server as a potential spiderette also expands. First it’s just structures built by c!Sam with intent to imprison — that’s Pandora Central, Michael’s room at the island house, the room where Sam maimed Ponk, plus two extra non-canonical holding cells that are distinct from Pandora Central where Sam eventually decides to imprison Ranboo and, separately, Connor (ostensibly for the same reasons he imprisons them in canon, just a bit later in the timeline.) But the prison is getting hungrier. Pandora is no longer satisfied with such a limited self-concept. What about every structure built with intent to imprison, regardless of who built it? That means the holding cells in Sapnap’s courthouse are now under Pandora’s control. And what about other locations? What about Dream’s disc finale vault, where he kept other people’s pets and items? What about Logstedshire? How far can we push this? Etc.

Eventually, Pandora’s expansion reaches a new threshold and it gains the ability to propagate its own spiderettes. Strange, unearthly structures begin inexplicably popping into existence all over the server: staircases that lead to nowhere, doors that lead to nothing. Houses with hundreds of windows and no doors. These spiderettes pop up all over the place, Kinoko, Las Nevadas, the Badlands, Snowchester, the L’manberg crater.

People notice. People get freaked out.

People get…involved :)