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Name: Roostro
Alias: (The) Male Chicken Breed
Gender: Male
Alignment: Instinct
Variant: Black Body (Feathers) w/ Rich “Chestnut” Brown Head (Feathers) and “Neck/Chest” Feathers (includes the Wings’ Top), Red Feathery “Beard” and Red Flesh (around the eyes) along with Red (Fleshy) Comb/Crest and Faded Yellow Beak
Description:
Roostros are a male-only (rooster-only) breed of chicken. Male offspring are roostros, while females inherit the breed/coloration from their mother.
Alias: “Hummers”
Genders: Male, Female (Egg-Laying)
Alignment: Any
Diet: Omnivore
Variant: Orange Scales and Tail Fin, White Eyes with Black Pupils
Description:
Humming Fish are a race of orange fish that look similar to goldfish, but with a more cartoony humanoid face. They have the ability to walk “on their tail;” their tail muscles are in the extreme, and they have a moveable thick rubbery tail fin. Also, they have the ability to breathe in water and in the air (like a human). “Hummers” talk with a humming voice (though that doesn’t mean it is always musical).
Name: Grinch
Genders: Male, Female
Alignment: Any
Diet: Omnivore (same as a human’s)
Variant: Green Body and Scales (varying “sickly” tones, i.e. celadon, “screamin’ green/ultra green,” sea green, Russian green), Orange Eyes (“Eye Whites”) w/ Black Pupils
Description:
Grinches are a race of furry humanoids that have a heart two sizes too small when compared to a man’s. They are known to be foul-mooded, especially grumpy (whether they should be or not). Unknown to many who aren’t Grinches, they actually have scales underneath all the fur – the hairs grow in between the scales, connecting all the snake scales together in a sort of loose and flexible mat (similar to a human’s skin). Their hair is so thick that no one can really get a peek at the dull scales, which are the same (or nearly the same) as the Grinch’s hair color. Grinches are roughly 7-8 feet tall, being a little larger than a human.
Name: Starteeth
Alias: Biting Starfish
Genders: Male, Female (also Fragmentation)
Alignment: Instinct
Diet: Omnivore (includes wood, paint, plastic, metal, and rubber; Akin to a goat’s diet)
Variant: Orange Body w/ Bumpy Yellow Spots and Yellow-tipped Arms/Hands, Yellow Fluorescent Slime-coating, Red Gums and White (possibly Yellow-stained) Teeth
Description:
Starteeth (plurally but incorrectly called “Starteethes“) are an extremely aggressive species of fluorescent-coated (aquatic) starfish that have true canine teeth (and gums, though typically they are unseen), where they stick slightly out. The saltwater-dwelling creatures are about 8 inches long in length (through the size can vary). Starteeth, typically acting as parasitic hitchhikers, are known for finding a high point out in the open sea (normally at submerged reef), where when a ship nearly brushed pass or by the rock and leap onto the ship by tensing their central disc/mouth area than “snapping” themselves with their legs, launching them in the opposite direction.
They can be used as living tools, to the delights of sailors that are in a pinch, but users must be careful to not get bit. When agitated (and/or above water), they constantly keep doing a biting motion (as if they were feasting). A bite from them is extremely painful, do to their hard metal-breaking teeth. Thus, they can easily tear a victim’s hands to bits. They are extremely useful when having to cut metal objects since all manner of tools wouldn’t get the job done like a power-chowing Starteeth.
They can stay out of the water, even being not moist, for about an hour at tops without any deadly effects. Therefore, one just “restores” or “replenish” the biological tool by dipping it in the water every now and then, just like how one would do with a mop or wash rag. Another useful attribute about them is that an arm or a group/pair of arms can be torn off, where the starfish will survive and regrow (now into two separate entities) as long as the detached strip/arm and the previous owner’s body has part of the central disc.
Name: Pink Jelly
Alias(es): Pink Living Goo (includes any other forms of that name)
Genders: Both (Fission)
Alignment: Instinct
Diet: Carnivore
Variant: Translucent Whitish Pink
Description:
Pink Jellies are an interlocked mass of pink poisonous living goo that is more of like jelly in nature (thus, its name). They are more or less in the shape of a dew drop. These “jellies” reproduce by unnatural fission, having to be cut by some external force (i.e., a sword blow) without totally being gored/killed/cut-up/grounded (and so on).
The two clones it splits into are at first stunned when “made” (the entity who caused the fission gets to do another turn in combat for and if their intention is to attack or interact with one of the two new jellies, GMs).
The max size for Pink Jellies is, as far as it is known, unlimited (there has been a report of one growing up to 100 feet long). These goo masses are poisonous (as stated before) when consumed. They are like a snake in the perspective that they are carnivores and see in heat vision. Thus, they can be found plentiful in caves, though they aren’t by no means limited to those and like environments. This is because that it is easier for them to outcompete and find food quicker and easier.
Name: Gelly
Alias: Gelatinous Cube
Genders: Both (Budding)
Alignment: Instinct
Diet: Omnivore
Variant: Translucent Sky Blue Body
Ability:
Description:
Gellies are a type of gelatinous cube creature that grows to a maximum of 30 feet high, 30 feet long, and 30 feet wide (sometimes, they are not “perfect” cubes, since the size depends on where they live). They can be found in caves and dungeons (or any place where they can get to those hallways that they can fill up). Gellies move silently.
Gelatinous cubes eat by moving forward through hallways and corridors, absorbing everything in their path. They stun it by giving it a strong electric shock that affects the thing for hours. Then they proceed to consume it with their stomach acids, which normally are stored in the cube’s “foot.” Thus, they are resistant to (their own) electrical shock. All non-edible matter is shuffled just above the foot and is left behind in its wake.
Gellies reproduce by “budding” (clone forms inside the foot, then released later on once mature), where it leaves all copies in its wake. Only 1 clone can be grown at a time, and when that one has been released the creature immediately starts producing another clone (the average time of the process is 24 hours, including the release). But there is a risk that the cube will, later on, consume it’s (or another’s) little copy (if that happens, then the clone is absorbed as food). Only larger gellies can consumer smaller gellies (even if there is a slight difference in size); it does NOT work the other way around.
Name: Slime Pig
Alias: Slime Guiana Pig, Oozing (Guiana) Pig
Alignment: Instinct
Genders: Both (Fission)
Diet: Algae, Moss, and Liverwort
Variant: Varying, Brighter Colors (e.g. Red, Yellow, Green, Orange, Blue, Pink, Purple)
Ability:
Description:
Slime pigs are, according to their appearance and size, Guiana pigs made out of “slime.” They can “melt” away to so they are just a mass of the thick slime on the ground. Slime pigs reproduce by splitting themselves in two. Since these pigs have very little threats, they act dumb and stupid, so normally negative things like birds tearing them up or rocks splitting them are actually beneficial to the pig.
Name: Red White-Spotted Loach
Alias: White-Spotted Loach, Spotted Red Loach, Hover Loach, Land Loach
Alignment: Instinct
Genders: Male, Female
Diet: Plants (Occasionally Mud-sucking for small organisms)
Variant: Soft Red w/ Blurry White Spots Body, White Underbelly, Red Barbs, Black Eyes, Muted Yellow Fin Bases
Description:
The Red White-Spotted Loach is very special long soft-bodied (scaleless) fish with barbs (“whiskers) at the end, right around the circular mouth. The body is that of a long loach’s (e.g. weather loach), and its coloration is a soft, almost pinkish red, with soft or blurry white spots all over it (the barbs are just red, though). Each of its fins’ bases starts out as a muted yellow than quickly disappears up the fin, leaving most of it clear. They can about 5 feet long.
What’s really special, though, about them, is that they have the ability to hover (or to not hover) roughly a foot above land without touching the ground. This combined with the fact that they can retain moisture for many days within their gills (the hotter it is, the less time they have), in a best-case scenario, means that many (but not all) loaches will go on land to feast on overworld plants.
When the land is blanketed with dew, that is the peak time when the hover loaches come out, since they like the wetness. Also, they like a field of tall (1+ ft.) green weeds (or elevated lilypads), so they can be more stealthy AND have much food around them. It is a plus for them if water is at the bottom just on top of the mud/it is a marsh, since the, even more, prefer lilypads that are elevated high enough so they can get through without pushing them constantly.
Name: Beevil
Aliases: Bee Weevil, Weevil Bee
Alignment: Instinct
Genders: Male, Female
Diet: Carnivore
Variant: Black Skin, Varying Black and Yellow Striped-Pattern
Description:
Beevils are giant carnivorous bees with the heads of weevils. With this snout or tongue, they eat prey, never eating anything they have stung (their own venom is poisonous to them if they consume it). They are roughly 6-feet long and occasionally attack man. These beevils also are not like normal bees; They are loners, instead of being part of a hive. Thus, they have no “queens” and such.
Name: Space Slug
Alias: Exogorth
Alignment: Instinct
Genders: Both (See Description)
Diet: Minerals (and Metals and Radiation)
Variant: Varying (Camoflagues to the astroid’s or anything else’s coloration)
Description:
The silicon-based lifeform called space slugs look more like grubs with a tougher skin that have a more moose-like mouth but full of sharp teeth, with sensory slug eyes sticking out from the sides directly behind the mouth. Exogorths live out in space, particularly in asteroids, burrowing and feeding on the minerals (and also feed/soak-up radiation waves if available). Theses aliens just keep growing and growing; they have no maximum size at all. Since they can get so big, they sometimes have entire (normally parasitic) ecosystem that just lives inside the tunnel-like through and crop (the place where food is first stored, later on being pushed through the flesh to the stomach).
Once the space slugs are adults, the exogorth larvae’s bodies begin growing in the gumline(s) and the fleshy roof of the (upper) jaw. When the adult dies, the babies begin to make an extremely hard (like rock hard) egg casement for themselves. Thus, the babes live, until the eggs encounter radiation, there the lifeforms will then start breaking themselves out from the encasement. Like the microscopic “water bears” or triops, they can live dormant in their shell for thousands upon thousands of years.
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