tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4754170279177021419.post7388273604380148006..comments2024-03-25T19:47:36.154-07:00Comments on Goblin Punch: Elephantine OozeArnold Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12603155377769597516noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4754170279177021419.post-24461322424967032672017-12-31T17:35:50.535-08:002017-12-31T17:35:50.535-08:00Huh. Inspired by predatory flatworms, by any chanc...Huh. Inspired by predatory flatworms, by any chance? Goblinpunch'd Giant Flatworm-<br /><br />They hunt by stretching and grasping with their hammer-shaped faces. No one knows why their faces are described as such, apart from the elves, who are quite pleased with hammers that do not make loud noises and that are uniquely symmetrical. Giant flatworms have eyes like two small dimples, but most are blind. This is because they are too large to have a microscope to look up, and so stare at the sun instead. A giant flatworm without a sun to stare at will either imagine a sun, which blinds them, or they will imagine a microscope wielded by a being that would need one to view them properly. This makes them quite devout worshippers by most standards. Treat these worms as clerics, paladins or antipaladins depending on which god they imagine. <br /><br />The gods are not real ones, but the worm has enough faith to worship nevertheless. They must complete a quest for atonement if they observe the sun or imagine a separate microscope. Being worms, atonement usually involves not being in the sun any more, as they are rarely imaginative enough to imagine these separate microscopes in the rirst place. If they do so, or are tricked into doing so, they will often come to bizarre conclusions of how to atone, such as attempting a pirouette. They do not seek assistance, for they are very patient.<br /><br />The Celestial Buereaucracy thus offers a bounty on giant flatworms, as their sins are oddly shaped and very difficult to measure.<br /><br />When a giant flatworm has found its food, it will attempt to wrap its face around it. It enjoys snails, and oligochaetes are a delicacy because of their violent squirming. They find other flatworms to be most delicious, however, as their lack of a body cavity it difficult to predicr which organs will dissolve first. Tetrapods are thus eaten much like how a prawn is not eaten- they will eat the delicious fleshy limbs, and discard the rest. Unfortunately, the other limbs melt bwfore the flatworm is finished eating, and so large quantities of meat are discarded. Some flatworms enjoy eating their own kind because their made up gods have convinced them that such bycatch is unsustainable, and they must figure out how to chop limbs off and eat them one at a time.<br /><br />There is only one flatworm that has succeeded in this. However, each time it has decapitated itself, the flatworm that head grew into has shared the knowledge- thus, knife-wielding flatworms are a real and credible threat. They are all identical, and terrified of plagues.<br /><br />When a flatworm has caught a meal, it will envelop it closely until the prey is mostly hidden. Once this is done, they will spit their mouths out of their bellies and stab the prey, to vomit up stomach acids inside. Their hammer-shaped heads act as flaps so the prey can be surrounded completely, which keeps the drippings inside while it drinks up the liquid meat. It finds snails very convenient to eat, because it can press the shell opening to the mouth on its belly and slurp up the meat without spilling. The shell is left very clean. They do not like turtles, because they can never seem to cover all six holes before the turtle melts.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06537056479288460350noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4754170279177021419.post-78613554555265346242017-05-31T22:37:11.962-07:002017-05-31T22:37:11.962-07:00Can it fit through openings thinner than its own s...Can it fit through openings thinner than its own skin? Not that a feeble door would save you from it in any case.TPmanWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08415910295872695542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4754170279177021419.post-50524262385490693322017-04-28T09:33:51.490-07:002017-04-28T09:33:51.490-07:00So what kind of honey is produced if a stirge gets...So what kind of honey is produced if a stirge gets it's proboscis into one? Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10111280245710595592noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4754170279177021419.post-52842316530778126922017-04-28T04:40:44.036-07:002017-04-28T04:40:44.036-07:00For increased creepiness, I would also add that th...For increased creepiness, I would also add that the limbs will become as the ones with elephantiasis...G. B. Verashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07321019711309446662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4754170279177021419.post-27282632218982960912017-04-28T04:17:07.452-07:002017-04-28T04:17:07.452-07:00Smash, crush, nom nom nom. A true monster, good jo...Smash, crush, nom nom nom. A true monster, good jobJDsivrajhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10674833512849495283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4754170279177021419.post-22613634421280693922017-04-27T22:27:42.194-07:002017-04-27T22:27:42.194-07:00New word needed for creepy+amazing. Cramazing? Ame...New word needed for creepy+amazing. Cramazing? Ameepy? You get my point.Spwackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07247063374457045751noreply@blogger.com