siren's pull; bestiary/darkness - ooze
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Ooze Darkness
The 8-Hour Death
Appearance: These guys are tough to notice at first, since they're as black as the Darkness itself. They're an ooze monster, so there's no set shape, but they look like a blob of Darkness or an ink splatter against the side of a building or a patch of previously broken pavement. The only obvious sign of their presence is the two glowing eyes above a toothless mouth. You might see an occasional flick of a tentacle from the mouth, if you're looking carefully.
Speed: They tend to stay stationary all night, they don't move, but the tentacles are fast as lightning and they can move at a decent clip when searching for a spot to nest - though they don't attack when searching.
Traits/Powers: They move fluidly, searching for a surface to meld to, and once they've found what they're looking for, they settle in, bore a hole into it, and set up residence as a parasite. Their mouths have tentacles instead of teeth, and will pull in an unsuspecting victim, who is then held there as he or she is slowly digested by the creature's potent stomach acid.
Location: These creatures are mostly found in the slums, in sectors 10 and 11, though a surprisingly high population can also be found in the high upper class sector 6.
Rarity: They don't exactly come in hordes, but most people see (and hopefully avoid) at least one a night, if they're in the affected sectors.
Notes: You can get away from one of these guys if you bring a knife with you - cut enough tentacles, struggle enough, and you might be able to worm your way back out of the mouth. There's no jaw, and tentacles and teeth are the only thing holding you in.
Credit: Anonymous
Acid Blob
Appearance: A blob-like form that travels slowly across the ground and buildings. Its body eats away at anything it rolls over, like acid. It's a bubbling mass of brown liquid that has a roundish form.
Speed: Slow, very slow.
Traits/Powers: Acid that can strip flesh from bones slowly. It's painful and hard to stop.
Location: Mostly in the more structured districts. Rarely found in the farms, docks, or slum like districts.
Rarity: It depends on the night. Sometimes you won't see any at all and other times you can't walk without falling into an acid burnt out hole in the ground.
Notes: To stop the burn of the acid do NOT use water. That only spreads the chemicals. If possible, and as silly as it sounds, use milk. For some reason it neutralizes things.
Bone Strippers
Appearance: Light yellowish blobs of ooze that speed along the ground by undulating its body along. There is what appears to be a human (we assume it's human) skull in the center, the 'eyes' looking out as it moves, bobbing around inside. Sometimes other bones can be found sticking out of it. When it eats, the yellowish colour turns more reddish-orange from the blood and flesh it has sloshing around inside.
Speed: The fastest of the blobs and oozing masses of crap, it moves across the ground at an alarming rate. Still, a human should be able to avoid it fast enough.
Traits/Powers: The power to strip bone from...everything else. Once its blob like form wraps around a human's...say, arm, it will devour the flesh and everything under it in a few moments, leaving only a bone, purely cleaned and sparkling white. It won't stop at the arm either. It will continue on until everything is eaten and nothing but bone is left behind.
Location: There is a migration pattern to these blobs. They travel around the island’s edge. The start of the month they are more towards the north side of the island, a week later the west, a week after the south, then the east at the end of a month. Because of this strange counter clockwise rotation, they are rarely seen in the inner most parts of the island.
Rarity: Pretty common.
Notes: Avoid at all costs...
Elemental Ooze
Appearance: Like something out of a video game! Water Ooze looks like rusty muddy gross stagnant water. Fire Ooze looks like a dark fire ball-like blob wandering over the land, burning everything it comes in contact with. Earth Ooze looks like a dirty muddy ball of soil and gutter trash rolling and slopping about the ground. There are others as well, like Ice Ooze or Lava Ooze and whatnot, which could be related to these.
Speed: Unknown to average. Depending on the creature.
Traits/Powers: Depends on the creature. Water is water, fire is fire, earth is earth, and so on. What each does is as simple as what the element does.
Location: Water is found more on beaches and the docks. The earth is found more in wooded spaces, farm lands and so on. Fire tends to drift through the City.
Rarity: Rare but not unheard of. There are only a few of each roaming around, though the water ones seem to be rather in large stock outside the island and hidden in the dark waters around the island.
Notes: Gamers will know best how to dispose of these creatures. Like most elemental chains, one over powers the other over powers the other and back again. Earth puts out fire or muddies water. Fire burns earth or evaporates water. Water puts out fire or breaks up earth. When facing one of these, remember that in battle. Or...better yet, run.
Fanged Heap
Appearance: Scrap, leaves, metal parts, rakes, shovels, knives, forks, tin cans, pocket watches, gears, cogs, dry grass, wood, anything. These look like piles of leaves and scrap in gutters and corners or fields and what not. What makes them 'fanged' heaps are the large bear trap sized jaws and teeth. Not only are they large, sharp and painful, but they seem to be as strong as a bear trap as well.
Speed: They rarely move, but when they do it's pretty slow, unless there is something they really very much desire to each or add to their body. It's surprising to see a drifting heap of trash take off after something…
Traits/Powers: They eat everything...everything BUT flesh. Like the bone strippers, they strip flesh from bone, but instead of leaving the bones behind they leave the flesh and blood, guts, and other soft bits of a human body behind. Hair, nails, clothing, bones and such are all devoured within its junk heap body.
Location: More around the residential districts and the 7th district. Not so often in the major working parts of the island. Can also be found around the fairgrounds a lot.
Rarity:Pretty common. Found in a lot of streets and gutters mostly.
Notes: Really, they just remind me of a pile of mulching leaves that Pops raked up three weekends ago and forgot to bag. The leaf pile that had the dog shit raked up into it, and little Timmy’s BMX bike got tossed into it, and it was raked up onto poor lil' Susie's wading pool that never got taken down, and mother's gardening tools, and some bum's beer bottle and...and a bit of everything tossed into it. There might be a needle in that hay stack and really...I'd leave it there.
Lava Lurch
Appearance: The Lava Lurch has obsidian bits flaking off it as it rolls, a hard clanking sound as cooled hard rock slaps the ground, and a crack and spurt of thick liquid fire shoots off here and there. It's slow and hot and black and fire-red. Like Lava, it moves slowly, so slowly, and it burns anything it touches. When it’s resting it looks like a pooling cooling pile of crap. When it moves again it sounds like something is cracking, then it overflows with lava, moving, and cooling again.
Speed: Slowest of slow. They tend to be found in the exact worst spots around, but they are easily avoided and even easier to get away from.
Traits/Powers: It's just a blob of lava that moves extremely slowly. Step in it and you will start to burn instantly though. Burn like lava that is. There's a guy named Stumpy down at the local bar who could tell you a tale or two...
Location: Here and there.
Rarity: Not exactly rare, but you won't find it in every mutated lynch mob either.
Notes: Much like the Elemental Ooze, but it's slower and tends not to be a threat to anything unless you happen to step on it or run into it.
Snake Ooze
AKA: Gutter Ooze
Appearance: Size unknown, seems rather large. Clear ooze, tinted with the grim and dirt it picks up. Transparent enough to see through. It has a winding intestinal sac inside its middle, with a long thin tube going up to the tip. There is a small eye floating at the top.
Speed: Fast. It seems fairly smart, and knows how to trap its prey.
Traits/Powers: Seems to spit acid or some form of burning liquid. It devours any substance it envelops with its oozing skin.
Location: Unknown. One found in 4th sector.
Rarity: Unknown. I’ve only ever seen one or two of them.
Notes: I ran into this the first time at a old closed bowling alley a few months back. Its movement is amazing and it seems to love gutters, pipes and tight fit spaces. It moves fast. I need more research on this creature.
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