slave boss's giant spider research project whim wanders the countryside without him to pilot it [the victims of its functioning are many still manning it, their nerves having been wired to it, their consciousnesses having skilled coping strategies learned with hard knocks ...]
sometimes animals or people walk aboard and let the giant spider carry them across the countryside it raises and lowers at different locations, its AI imagining slave boss leaving to speak to controlled crowds, and returning again
