Here's my entry for the Monster Contest! Name: Snatchet (Shellidaen Trapicarious) It's snatch and limpet combined! Distribution: Because of the demand for kelp has reached an all time high recently, Snatchets have been taken along in cargo space crafts to many distant planets. Nobody really knows where the Snatchet's home world is because they are so dang distributed. On a few planets, they are an invasive species and threaten to collapse ecosystems. More details are still being analyzed about where these creatures came from. Ecology: Your average snatchet shell is about 3ft tall, 2ft wide and weighs approximately 30 pounds and is reddish-orange. The creature itself is squishy with green skin. A snatchet usually spends its time buried in the ground with only it's head and neck exposed. Snatchets are patient, they disguise themselves as kelp to bait grazers or unwary critters. The skin flaps stretch out to look like kelp blades to further its camouflage. Once a victim gets too close one it unleashes powerful webbed tentacles to ensnare its prey. These tentacles are lined with venomous stingers that paralyze its prey, so it [the prey] doesn't try to fight back and damage the snatchet's soft head. A snatchet has two muscular "feet" that it uses to walk around on the ocean floor looking for a place to bury itself in the ground. It uses its spiral shell to drill a hole in the ground. Its shell is so hard that it can bury itself in just about anything, even stone! When a snatchet feels threatened it will quickly pop out of the ground (if buried) and rapidly spin its two feet like propellers to quickly torpedo its way out of harm. And due to its spiral shell, it will end up spinning around which makes it move even faster! Just try not to be in the way, you'll get the wind (err, bubbles) knocked out of you! Status Inflictions: Watch out for those Toxic Spines, they have a really good chance at paralyzing you! Also be sure to stay out of its way when it starts torpedoing, they ram into you so hard that all of the air gets expelled from your lungs and you'll instantly start drowning Preparing Sandwich Meat: First, make sure the creature is dead, then remove the meat from the shell (the shell makes a cool helmet). Toss the head, unless you like eating brains. Cut off the tentacles from the body and save that for another dish, Next you'll want to pull out the spines on the tentacles for safe consumption, cut off the webbed membrane connecting the tentacles (it taste like rubber trust me), next fillet the tentacles in thin slices and sear them for about 15 seconds. Add a dash of penguin beak powder for flavor and a bit of paralysis venom for tang, and BAM! You have some great sandwich meat. Tips: Make sure to be cautious of any seaweed patches, try to look out for some eyes. The shell is really hard and is impervious to most attacks so try to hit its soft head. This was fun to make Here's an example of what it could look like in-game.
I wanted to upload the PNG but it was too big, so I had to settle with the JPEG. However it still looks just as good
Love this one! Just feel kinda strange that he puts his head as a seaweed when hiding (kinda dangerous isn't it?).
It does that to attract herbivores. When they get close enough, it snaps them up. Kind of like an angler fish.
I wish I had half the drawing ability as you It might help with my contest entry. I'm more of a lore person, so there's just a lot of words on mine...
I'm going off-topic, but I like your avatar. Just noticed that you're the sun and I'm the moon On-topic: Maybe, but I haven't had much to begin with I'm a doodler, not an aspiring artist.
