RE: Godhood XIV - Usurper [Honey Edition Turn 2]
03-23-2013, 02:49 PM
(This post was last modified: 03-23-2013, 03:14 PM by DenizenShipper.)
Sure, sure! I still want to do the beaches next though. All I really want from you is a hedge-living (I.E. non-burrowing) version of your burrowers. And maybe some baitfish or similarly niched creatures, if you have any ideas.
Kahtrak begins to mutter, mostly but not entirely to himself.
What can I make that is elegant enough to live under that moon, in this alpine paradise? It needs to be something graceful. Well I guess it doesn't need to be. I could just make something shockingly out of place.
...
Why not both?
Kahtrak takes a vast wad of clay from beside a lake and begins sculpting a creature. Very little smoothing is done, however, and a fat, lumpy torso covered in thick grey skin with innumerable wrinkles takes shape. The creature's flattish face bears two large, golden, lidless eyes with small pupils located behind a very large mouth with a few teeth and a long, sticky tongue. A single, seemingly vestigial horn rests above two nostril slits. It stands on four long, stocky legs, each ending in 3 splayed toes with a small talon. They still seem slightly spindly compared to the rest of its body, and after breathing its first breath, the creature kneels, hiding its limbs entirely under the rolls of it's torso.
There, graceful and shocking. I call it a Boledrom.
Boledroms are fairly sizable ambush predators that move and hunt by jumping distances. They carefully aim to crush the unsuspecting prey when they land, so it can be easily swallowed whole in their vast maw. They will frequently and eagerly attack prey that is too big for them to crush.
I think that this species is well suited to keeping rapid breeders in check because it can kill several of them at a go if they cluster.
The boledrom lifecycle is solitary. They hatch from large, leathery eggs buried in groups of about 10 under the sandy soil of mountain luck beds. Left to fend for themselves, they perfect jumping and use their sticky tongue to catch snowflake butterflies.
As adults, they have no use for their tongue (yet.) and instead hunt any moving creature they can spot using their bulk. Adult boledroms mate seasonally, in a brief, boring ritual, and part immediately after. Since boledroms have no way of harming each-other, they have no territorial interactions, wandering freely in search of prey. However, elderly boledroms will often settle in a favourite haunt that they know their way around by heart.
The main weakness of a Boledrom is that they are primarily vision based, and by the time they reach adulthood their eyes have migrated most of the way down to the underside of the head (an irregular process that rarely results in a symmetrical face). An adult Boledrom observes its surroundings via an upward leap. So, they are very vulnerable to being snuck up on while on the ground. Their bodies are technically capable of walking, but very few actually know how.
2 Acts for a mid-sized creature.
...1 Act for a sticky tongue.
...1 Act for cushioning/crushing bulk.
...1 Act for a mighty leap in lieu of ordinary movement.
Name: Boledrom
Kahtrak begins to mutter, mostly but not entirely to himself.
What can I make that is elegant enough to live under that moon, in this alpine paradise? It needs to be something graceful. Well I guess it doesn't need to be. I could just make something shockingly out of place.
...
Why not both?
Kahtrak takes a vast wad of clay from beside a lake and begins sculpting a creature. Very little smoothing is done, however, and a fat, lumpy torso covered in thick grey skin with innumerable wrinkles takes shape. The creature's flattish face bears two large, golden, lidless eyes with small pupils located behind a very large mouth with a few teeth and a long, sticky tongue. A single, seemingly vestigial horn rests above two nostril slits. It stands on four long, stocky legs, each ending in 3 splayed toes with a small talon. They still seem slightly spindly compared to the rest of its body, and after breathing its first breath, the creature kneels, hiding its limbs entirely under the rolls of it's torso.
There, graceful and shocking. I call it a Boledrom.
Boledroms are fairly sizable ambush predators that move and hunt by jumping distances. They carefully aim to crush the unsuspecting prey when they land, so it can be easily swallowed whole in their vast maw. They will frequently and eagerly attack prey that is too big for them to crush.
I think that this species is well suited to keeping rapid breeders in check because it can kill several of them at a go if they cluster.
The boledrom lifecycle is solitary. They hatch from large, leathery eggs buried in groups of about 10 under the sandy soil of mountain luck beds. Left to fend for themselves, they perfect jumping and use their sticky tongue to catch snowflake butterflies.
As adults, they have no use for their tongue (yet.) and instead hunt any moving creature they can spot using their bulk. Adult boledroms mate seasonally, in a brief, boring ritual, and part immediately after. Since boledroms have no way of harming each-other, they have no territorial interactions, wandering freely in search of prey. However, elderly boledroms will often settle in a favourite haunt that they know their way around by heart.
The main weakness of a Boledrom is that they are primarily vision based, and by the time they reach adulthood their eyes have migrated most of the way down to the underside of the head (an irregular process that rarely results in a symmetrical face). An adult Boledrom observes its surroundings via an upward leap. So, they are very vulnerable to being snuck up on while on the ground. Their bodies are technically capable of walking, but very few actually know how.
2 Acts for a mid-sized creature.
...1 Act for a sticky tongue.
...1 Act for cushioning/crushing bulk.
...1 Act for a mighty leap in lieu of ordinary movement.
Name: Boledrom