Encyclopedia & Beastiary

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 melting rock into magma. While basilisks do have quite large, exceedingly sharp 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/Lord unique Notes:

Titanium Rattling Tail; an intimidatingly loud noise combined with the size of a Major/Lord Tungsten Basilisk make a scary combination: Expert Intimidate+5

 

Tungsten Basilisk Lord, 4200HP 40DR

Appearance: a 36' long, extremely thick and powerful basilisk. The freakishly distended upper jaw contains a pair of 15' fangs, easily capable of swallowing a buffalo whole. The titanium-steel alloy scales on each side of the basilisk have an equal axis, allowing it to literally dive into the ground or constrict itself through thick boulders with unnatural strength. Only one of these is present at any time on each of the five continents. This fact is proven, but the cause is unknown.

 

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ENCYCLOPEDIA DEMENTIA MERCENARIA:

 

-The Slappening, v1.0: Violin attempts to slap Filth. He misses, and receives 4 near-fatal slaps from Jihad Joe. This irritates McSister enough to toss a flashbang, which misses. Thrill then knocks the bastard out.

 

-The Poisoning: Pickles, for no particular reason, decided to stab himself while attempting self-surgery, and then poisoned himself with expired painkillers.

 

-1st Boss Vaporization: Gas Man managed to obliterate a spectre (Shrel) with three strikes from his machetes.

 

-The Slappening, v1.1: Thrill hurled a teapot, full of boiling tea, into Violin's face, showering him. Retaliating, Violin placed an incompetent, faulty round between his eyes, knocking him out.

 

-The Slappening, v1.2: Filth surprised Twisted Wing, and was suitably forced to the floor with multiple critical Intimidation rolls. Clemency then pulled a critical Intimidate, stunning her before attempting to shred the Operators. Thrill then dropped a bombshell of an insult. Immediately afterwards, Filth used the jihad, and stuck it in her ass, restoring her Intimidate capability and allowing her to once more devastate the Operators' collective morale. Countering with her wing blades, she nearly kills Filth, tramples Sapper, and partially eviscerates McSister. Mere seconds later, a VSS SC-9 round from McSister smashes into her armored head, forcing her into superior enrage. Stabbing the enraged General with several doses of morphine, Hollow then aids Lont, Sapper, Ironclad, and Jeff in pinning her. Sapper, unfortunately, was the only one bucked off. However, Zoo fails a Party Games attempt, sending her in a perfect rage state. Clemency takes the opportunity at this point to jump on her back, and ride out her rage.

 

-First Teamkill, v1.0: Lont walked up behind Violin, placed the barrel of his shotgun on the back of the other's head, and pulled the trigger, vindicating Filth, Clemency, and Thrill's harm due to the moron's actions.

 

-The Rapening, v1.0: During events in Old Canterlot, Filth rushed ahead of the other Operators, and was found sodomizing a large spectral pony. The white stains on the ceiling were very mysterious, after it was killed.

 

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-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.

 

-Necromancer Cult Church Fiasco: Esera, upon receiving a letter from Hope, part of the cult she had finished her initiation rites from three weeks before, took Dante, Hollow, Roust, Glico, McSister in his earth pony state, and Clemency to the church undergoing renovations. While initially just strange, the interior floors were littered with mangoes and peaches. Supposing to be a simple meeting, the Operators, earth pony, and Changeling escorting Esera, McSister and Glico suffered from a sneaky batpony's tricks, shoving mangoes into places they shouldn't have gone. Hollow and Roust, however, were -nearly- assaulted by a mango that landed right in front of the Vanguard's hoof. Failing to hold back Hollow, Roust resorted to stunning him and the slightly insane avocado colored batpony. McSister, however, was waylaid by a batpony, busy eating mangoes out of a barrel. Startling him, the trapbat shoved Mc into the barrel, and rolled into a challenge area for a screech off, which he promptly destroyed by threatening a mango. Swiftly retreating with a mango, Mc stops the trapbat and the innumerable batponies behind him by carving said mango up, and placing them on the trapbat, which turned out to be his fetish. He was batpiled like mad. Meanwhile, Hollow and Roust collected Cross, the somewhat crazy batpony, after Dante, Glico, Clemency, and Esera meet up with Hope. After Hope pays Clemency for the Operators escorting Esera to their new home, events fly out of hoof as Hollow and Roust attempt to take off carrying Cross, screeching about her 'special' mango, around with a large pile of collected mangoes. Just as they're all about to leave, the trapbat appears, chasing them around to the roof where an unlocked portal stone awaited their exit. Clemency summoned Twisted Wing, blocking off their escape attempt. After inspiring Twisted, Clemency, Hollow, Roust, and McSister duel four respective batpony, crushing each of them under massive stunning attacks, while Twisted smashes through most of the batponies that hadn't been trapped behind Roust's weakly created psychokinetic barrier. Taking Hope with them, the Operators, Esera, and Twisted return to Razorback Fortress. Hollow and Roust, however, bring Cross to the Nest, placing her in the storage room.