====== Bestiary - Siruta ======

This Bestiary is a semi-IC document containing Monster stats and information for various enemy types encountered and encounterable in the world of //Planetfall//.  It is safe to assume information here is IC available for your perusal thanks to the [[:research#Zeitgeist Research Department]].  Anyone is free to edit this information and add Monsters of their own creation.


==== Siruta ====

=== Cliff-Face Eels ===

== Cliff-Face Electric Eel ==

Large eel that inhabits the cliff-faces of Siruta and builds up enormous static charge

  * 4 hits
  * 1 melee weapon
  * 1 x YOU LOT: ZAP
  * Always PING ZAP

== Cliff-Face Giant Eel ==

Enormous eel that dwells within the cliff faces

  * 10 hits
  * 2 handed weapon
  * Call PULL once per 30s

== Cliff-Face Spitting Eel  ==

Large eel that inhabits the cliff-faces of Siruta and attacks its enemies from afar

  * 6 hits
  * 1 melee weapon
  * Call YOU: PEW after 10s of appropriate roleplaying of preparing a spit

== Cliff-Face Eel Broodmother ===

Eel embedded into the rock of a cave, at the endpoint of the eel lifecycle.

  * 15 hits
  * Always PING ZAP. You may then immediately call YOU: ZAP on someone else
  * Static
   * 1x great weapon
  * 1x BREAK
  * After losing 5 hits, call MASS PUSH, then WARP to burrow into the ground. You may not move while warped. Unwarp whenever you think is appropriate (max 10s)
  * MASS ZAP upon death

When the Broodmother WARPs, additional eels (Electric or Spitting) spawn from their burrow.

=== Giant Crabs ===

== Crusty Crusher Crab ==

Large crustacean with big claws intent on wrecking your day
  * 6 hits
  * 1 x Blunt Weapon
  * 2 STRIKEDOWN
  * Move sideways if you can for flavour

== Hermit Scorpion Crab ==

The improbable genetic amalgamation of crab and scorpions, creating a truly existing creature.
  * 6 hits
  * Shield + Short Weapon
  * 10s of charging to call YOU: PEW from your tail
  * **Armoured** - Plant yourself behind your shield to use it as Cover (2 x MISS)
  * **Shy** - Use other Cover as much as you can

== Megacrab ==

Maybe a rare species of even giant-er crab, maybe the result of repeated moultings.

Composite:

Claws:
  * 15 hits
  * 2x blunt weapons
  * May call BREAK on body if you hit with both weapons simultaneously (and are not blocked)

Mouth:
  * 10 hits
  * 2x swords
  * Spend 5 seconds making bubble noises, if the person in front of you hasn’t moved away after 5 seconds call SLOW
	
Shell:
  * 10 hits
  * 2x shields 
  * Every 20s, call GAIN MISS on an ally
  * Freely call PARRY in response to any blow that hits your shields
  * If not engaged in melee, may freely call MISS on behalf of any monster
  * Whenever a call is MISSED by you or another crab part, may make that call against an enemy
  * When hit by a YOU LOT: call if not engaged in melee, may repeat that call as a YOU call against an enemy.

=== Jellyfish ===

== Electric Jelly ==
  * 6 hits
  * Two weapons
  * Call ZAP whenever you strike someone or something with your weapon
  * **Mindless** - Move without purpose, bump off things and wave your weapons around

==Photosensitive Jelly ==
  * 6 hits
  * Two weapons
  * You may choose to call EFFECT: BLINDED when you strike
  * **Photosensitive** - Move toward things that use bright lights (e.g. guns)
  * **Mindless** - Move without purpose, bump off things and wave your weapons around

=== Surface Sharks ===

== Sandshark ==

Predatory sand-dwelling creature capable of swimming through sand at phenomenal speed.

  * 6 hits
  * 1 x one-handed melee weapon
  * 1 x STRIKEDOWN
  * Call PULL by melee on anyone unconscious in sand
  * **Shark Metabolism:** Must keep moving!

== Surface Shark ==

Predatory amphibian that coasts along the surface of water and slides up onto beaches to ambush unsuspecting prey.

  * 6 hits
  * 1 x one-handed melee weapon
  * 1 x BREAK
  * **Camouflage** - Call WARP after spending 10s uninterrupted staying still.  Start the encounter hidden, if you like.  You must call WARP when you reappear.

== Sand Shark of Unusual Size (SSOUS) ==

A huge predatory amphibian, somewhat like a giant remora, with a mouth 3 to 5 metres in diameter, which swims under the sand.

  * 10 hits, 2h melee weapon
  * **Camouflage** - Call WARP after spending 10s uninterrupted staying still.  Start the encounter hidden, if you like.  You must call WARP when you reappear.
  * Spend 5s making rumbling/slurpy noises before calling MASS STRIKEDOWN to leave WARP.
  * Call YOU: PULL on a PC in strikedown to isolate and try to eat them


=== Sirutan Armourdillo ===

Large armadillo creatures - very terratorial, will build beaver-like dams across narrow choke points for no apparent reason

  * Big:
    * Sturdy (Always PING STRIKEDOWN)
    * Heavy (Take PUSH and PULL for 5m)
  * 6 hits
  * 1x shield, 1x 1-handed weapon
  * May call PING to any melee call that strikes the shield
  * Lumbering: Take PARRY in an exaggerated manner, give an even wider opening than normal
  * May spend 5s obviously roleplaying pawing the ground, then charge and call BREAK by melee
  * Ponderous: other than when charging, max speed is a slow heavy jog, cannot turn sharply while charging

=== Skitters ===

Horse/deer-like creatures.  Very nervous and prone to stampedes.

  * 3 hits
  * Daggers
  * Nervous: When spooked, will scream an alarm call, and then run away from whatever spooked it.
  * Stampede: If it hears an alarm call from another Skitter, will run in the same direction that Skitter is running
  * Overrun: When stampeding, call STRIKEDOWN against anyone in your way in melee