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====== Bestiary - Legendary Beasts ======

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.

==== Legendary Beasts ====

=== Vitruvian Splatterbeast ===

The Vitruvian Splatterbeast is a four-armed foul and fearsome monstrosity from the fetid acid-swamps of the jungles of Vitruvius.  Its slobber and oozing pus are both highly toxic, producing a violent burning sensation, and its razor sharp talons make it a fearsome and unrivalled predator.

  * 50 hits
  * 2 x 2 handed melee weapon (if safe to fight with, else two one handed weapons)
  * 4 x STRIKEDOWN by melee
  * **Big**
  * **Acidic Slobber** - BREAK by melee twice every 30s
  * **Splatterblast** - After every 10 hits you suffer, call MASS BURN (which you are immune to)
  * **Splatterbomb** - Call YOU: BLAST on a target you down

=== Vitruvian Splatterbeast (Decaying) ===
The Vitruvian Splatterbeast is a four-armed foul and fearsome monstrosity from the fetid acid-swamps of the jungles of Vitruvius. Its slobber and oozing pus are both highly toxic, producing a violent burning sensation, and its razor sharp talons make it a fearsome and unrivalled predator. This one is decaying, because fuck you that’s why.
  * 50 hits
  * 2 x 2 handed melee weapon (if safe to fight with, else two one handed weapons)
  * 4 x ZAP by melee
  * **Big**
  * **Acidic Slobber** - BREAK by melee twice every 30s
  * **Splatterblast** - After every 10 hits you suffer, call MASS BURN (which you are immune to)
  * **Splatterbomb** - Call YOU: BLAST on a target you down
  * **Decaying**


=== Sirutan River Scourgeling ===

== Claws ==

  * 8 hits
  * 2 handed weapon
  * 2 x your choice of PUSH or STRIKEDOWN

== Head ==

  * 12 hits
  * 1 x Dagger
  * Call YOU: PEW against a target every 10s (aim for people in Cover to remind them how this works)
  * **Head** - If the head dies the claws die too

=== The Squeeple ===

The Squid People, or Squeeple, are a recently spotted form of Sirutan Scourgeling that seems to operate as separate entities with a joint connection to a central mind.  Only spotted in the Sirutan seas so far.

== Squerson Splatterer ==
These throw ink and slime to cause problems on purpose.
  * 6 hits
  * Bag of throwing balls + 1 blunt weapon
  * When you hit someone with a ball, call one of the following:
    * YOU: PULL
    * YOU: SLOW
    * YOU: BURN
  * **Sticky Splatter** - when you are reduced to half hits, call MASS SLOW
  * **Shared Squintessence** - when you are reduced to 0 hits call YOU: HEAL 3 on the Squerson Squintessence

== Squerson Squisher ==
These big chunky bois smash and pulverise with their slimy henchness.
  * 8 hits
  * 2 handed weapon
  * Call STRIKEDOWN after every 5 hits you take or give.
  * **Goliath Falls** - when you yourself take a STRIKEDOWN call MASS STRIKEDOWN
  * **Shared Squintessence** - when you are reduced to 0 hits call YOU: HEAL 3 on the Squerson Squintessence

== Squerson Squintessence ==
The brains of the operation that has a big bulbous brain-sac and controls the smartness of the others.
  * 12 hits
  * 1 blunt weapons for self defence
  * Hand out toward a target for 10s to call YOU: HEAL 3
  * **Ground Pounder** - Call MASS PUSH each time you lose 4 hits

=== Thunderhead's Scourgelings ===

Thunderhead is a legendary Scourge that towers above the waves and launches scores of Scourgelings from its back to soften up its prey.  Pods fly in a straight line toward a target and call BLAST if they hit anything on the way before the entity inside bursts forth.

== Scyther ==
These are nasty praying mantis type creatures that hop around quite elusively and strike viciously.
  * 6 hits
  * 2 bladed weapons
  * 2 free uses of MISS
  * 2 BREAK

== Scalder ==
Similarly spindly creatures that spew burning light from pustules across their bodies in order to obliterate their foes.
  * 4 hits
  * 1 blunt weapon
  * 1 use of YOU LOT: BURN

== Shrieker ==

Bursting forth from its cocoon, it will shriek and pull someone toward it to try and implant its eggs.  Yuck.
  * 10 hits
  * Short weapon
  * **Static**
  * With a 5s build up of screaming, call YOU: PULL
  * If the target is pulled to you, call CURSE by melee when they arrive
    * The long term CURSE effect is EGGS.

=== Admiral Wiggles ===

A Scourge in the shape of a titanic sandshark, capable of swallowing a small mecha whole, named by the group of adventurers who blew it up.  Hopefully destroyed during the events of One of our Mechs is Missing.  Was associated with a range of weird slime creatures which might have been part of its immune system.

== Small slimes ==

A variety of small, amorphous blobby creatures resembling gigantic, motile slime moulds, or possibly extremely macro macrophages

Glitch Slime
  * 5 hits, shield and 1HW
  * 1x EFFECT: DISTORTION per PC (distorts sensory input, making vision, hearing, and other senses not properly agree with each other, particularly those senses which rely on electronic inputs)
  * 1x SLOW, 1x DRAIN by melee
  * Amorphous: freely PING STRIKEDOWN, PULL, and BREAK, take PUSH at 5m rather than ten, collapse into a pile of gloop after 30s downed (i.e. can’t be HARVESTed or scanned unless done quickly)

Acid/Electric Slime
  * 5 hits, 2x 1hw
  * Start with 1x YOU: BURN or YOU: ZAP and gain an additional use of the one you started with per 3 blows taken or struck.
  * Amorphous: freely PING STRIKEDOWN, PULL, and BREAK, take PUSH at 5m rather than ten, collapse into a pile of gloop after 30s downed (i.e. can’t be HARVESTed or scanned unless done quickly)

== Splitting Slime ==

A really, really big slime creature

  * Composite - 2x monster crew - fight back to back, moving slowly
  * 10 hits, 2hw
  * On one player first losing 6 hits, call SELF EFFECT: SPLIT, at which point both players can move freely, and each have 6 hits.
  * 1x YOU:PULL, 1x CURSE, and 2x STRIKEDOWN each before splitting, these are recovered after splitting - the CURSE is a more permanent version of the EFFECT: DISTORION applied by the Glitch Slimes
  * Amorphous: freely PING STRIKEDOWN, PULL, and BREAK, take PUSH at 5m rather than ten, collapse into a pile of gloop after 30s downed (i.e. can’t be HARVESTed or scanned unless done quickly)