Handspiders can gnaw their creator

[Tom Clancy's Gay Ghost]

It even steals some DNA!

[Firebarrage]

It's biting the hand that feeds you, but backwards. feature.

[Boa Jacque]

Feature, since one ling may need to use -his- handspider to beat up another ling.

if your own handspider attacks you, ask the admins to nuke them.
Perhaps banning shit handspiders from changeling antag roles would suffice?

[Grek]

Handspider doesn't make you an antag or even oblige you to be helpful to the ling that ate you. If you spawn a handspider without confirming your victim is willing to cooperate, you deserve bit. Also, attacking the changeling that spawned you could be a valid deception tactic. Not a bug, IMO.

[Ultimate Shrek Fan]

Well, I disagree with that, Grek. You're part of a hivemind, after all.

[Grek]

As we learned on Battlestar Galactica, hiveminds don't have to be entirely cooperative.

[Boa Jacque]

Deception tactic, yes.
But, the way I see it- if the absorbed people could just take control of a hand and strangle the ling, they'd do so without needing to be severed first.

Also the lings/hivemind we have here spawns from -the thing-, not BSG.
I respect your stance however.

My main consideration here is:
More fun interactions would occur probably if the handspider was loyal to its hivemaster. If we do it the other way, we'll more oft than not see hand-rampages begin with the ling that spawned them.

[Grek]

The ling doesn't have to spawn all the hivemind members as handspiders. It probably shouldn't, even. Stick with headmates that prove loyal/helpful/not inclined toward murdering you.

E: I'd also accept it if hivemind members were effectively 'mindslaved' to the changeling and were required to answer questions/do as they're told. But as it stands, a hivemind member isn't required to be helpful at all as part of the hivemind, so severing it shouldn't change that.

[Superlagg]

I like the idea of a particularly pissed-off headmate conning the ling into putting them into a handspider, who promptly flips off the ling and catches the next flight out to space tahiti.