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I had a great in-character moment that involved running away. I'd been playing a human-raised drow thief with severe arachnophobia (that had nothing to do with Lolth and everything to do with waking up one morning when she was 5 and finding herself staring at a giant-ass spider (a daddy longlegs) on her pillow looking back at her).

So there'd been several fights against giant spiders that I'd only taken part in at range, and one forest that had been overgrown with spiderwebs from giant spiders and ettercaps that the party's warlock had needed to use Suggestion on my character to get me through.

But anyway, we got past that, found our way to some castle. While exploring the place, I opened the door, and the DM described me as seeing, about 10 feet away, a Giant Centipede. Which is not a spider, but...I went with my first instinct:

>Me: "Giant centipede?"
>DM: "Yup."
>Me: "Okay. Basically imagine there's a "ding" and screen freezes. Then little arrows start popping up pointing to the legs, numbered: 'One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven, PANIC!'"
>DM: "So you will not be participating in this encounter."
>Me: "I will not be, no. Iliira goes running away screaming at the top of her lungs."
>DM: "You know you won't get any XP."
>Me: "That's fair."