Encyclopedia & Bestiary

TROPHIES:

 

Average Predelk (Small Predator Elk): 10HP, 1DR

Alpha Predelk: 20HP, 2DR

The teeth of predelk are made out of a material that is nearly identical to copper including its conductiveness. The horns of the predelk at highly insulated. It is theorized that the predelk, during a lightning storm, can store electrical discharges and return them through their mouth. While they are dumb creatures, they are aggressive, however. If one startles or surprises a predelk, they act like most herd animals: with confusion and indecision. They are quite weak, displaying pack mentalities, but sometimes one can find a lone predelk. Without their lightening attack they are fairly easy pickings.

Abilities: Basic Lightning Shock. +1-2-4-6 per turn left alive.

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Lava-Leeches: 1HP, 20DR

These hive like creatures are quite a peculiar sight to behold, and sometimes highly dangerous.

These leeches look much like glowing red or orange worms, and are easily seen in the dark. They make their nests in healthy trees. Over time, from the heat produced and leeching the nutrients from said trees force them to move constantly.

A single nest of lava-leeches can kill at least twenty trees in a year. They usually stick to a cluster of trees, and once that cluster is drained, they will then move immediately.

Usually harmless, it's only when they are migrating that they can become dangerous, their collective hunger making them hostile to all. They may only feed on trees, but this does not prevent them from killing all in the nest's path.

The average size of a moving hive is around two meters long and half a meter wide.

The queen acts as the hive's overall brain, and is deeply embedded in the moving swarm. They attack as one entire mass. If an attacker leaves after close combat after a leech jumps on them, they must shake off the leech before it boils it's way into the body.

If the queen is killed, then the rest of the worms begin dying as the mental link is cut to the hive.

Lava leeches can be quite valuable, their refined fluids can be turned into a potent slime, acting as a replacement for heatstones. If refined thoroughly enough, it can be used as a replacement for coal in steam trains for it's slow but high-temperature burning properties.

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Tungsten Basilisk: 200HP, 10DR (Minor); 400HP, 20DR (Major)

The tungsten basilisk is a sluggish, hardy creature. They are generally 12 meters long and 2 meters wide, able to drag itself along the forest floor or in tunnels much like any snake.

It's scales are composed of a tungsten composite, likely the result of this particular species having an affinity for that particular ore whilst spending much of their lives digging tunnels.

Although their eyes are tiny compared to the rest of their head, they instead utilize thermal pits across it's snout to seek out prey, as well as sense vibrations through sensitive  lower jaw while on the ground.

Along the spine of the basilisk is a series of crystals, directly connected to the basilisk's spine.  When highly threatened, the basilisk will rear up, exposing hidden 'flaps' on the side of its head much like a viper. When this occurs, the crystals radiate the basilisk's stored thermal energy, converting such into concentrated thermal beams, capable of melt rock into magma. While basilisks do have quite large fangs, they are not poisonous.

Abilities: Tail Swipe+2 (To all close range enemies), Basic Heat Ray+10 (When at 25% HP), Expert Melee

Other notes: -3 to all movement rolls

Basilisk Major unique Notes:

Titanium Rattling Tail; an intimidatingly loud noise combined with the size of a major tungsten basilisk make a scary combination: Expert Intimidate+5

 

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ENCYCLOPEDIA DEMENTIA MERCENARIA:

 

-The Slappening, v1.0:

 

-BOSSES: Mercy and Linara. During an armed heist of Lucky's competitor in Las Pegasus, the Operators encountered a white stealth-based pegasus named Mercy. She was nearly killed by Sapper and McSister, knocked out, then treated before she could bleed out. Sox interrupted Linara and entered combat, savaging the golden pegasus for some time before Thrill Collins assisted her, giving Sox the opportunity to knock her out with a critical stun.

 

-BOSS: Claren, The Black Guard: eventually brought down via LONT, McSister, Sapper, and Filth choking her out. Savaged them thoroughly in the process. While they wasted their opportunity to end the fight quickly with explosives, far more valuable time was lost trying to speak through her Veteran battle trance.