Template: Scorpion
Body: 34
Mind: 6
Spirit: 10
Hit Points (HP): 42
Pleasure to Orgasm (PP): 28
Spirit Energy (EP): 30
Speed: 26
Dodge: 25
Armor: 0
Resistance: 17
Perception: 18
Stealth: 18
Grapple: 34
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Monster Name: Anudorian Shimmer Scorpion
Monster Type: Beast
Monster Class: None
Differences from Base Creature: +10 Dodge (35), +16 Stealth (34), +16 Resistance (33),
Talents:
Hard to Hit
Sneaky x2
Resistant x2
Flaws:
Mindless
Fragile
Mutations:
Armored Skin
Natural Attack
Dangerous Tail
Venomous Attack: Stun/Hallucinogen
Skills:
Inventory: Shimmer Gland, Shimmer Carapace
Tail (+32) 2d12 +15 (Resistance check or gain 2 round stun + 1d4 hours of hallucination)
Description:
Named for the way the light plays tricks off of it's textured carapace, the Shimmer Scorpion is a large but slender sandy white coloured scorpion naturally native to the sands of Anudor. Famed for two things. It's mesmerising semi reflective carapace being one, and it's mind addling sting being the other.
Though not an aggressive species to creatures larger than themselves, they are highly territorial and very skittish. This becomes a problem due to their behaviour of shallowly burying themselves in the sand during the day. Upon being disturbed or feeling threatened their most common course of action to dash towards the target, deliver a lightning quick single sting, and flee. If the sting misses or fails they tend to have an equal chance of trying again or fleeing.
Shimmer Scorpion claws are too small and slender to be a significant threat to larger animals. Their tails venom however is known to be very potent, and can be highly dangerous in certain circumstances, but is otherwise entirely non lethal. The first almost instant effect being a sharp flash of short lived involuntary muscle action, followed by an onset of hallucinations and inebriation which can last several hours. Victims can quickly lose track of reality, experiencing false perceptions, and exhibiting significant behavioural and mood shifts, with the precise results seeming to vary from victim to victim and their surroundings and situation.
Their mating habits are one other thing that had drew the attention of wildlife observing scholars. With the females actively hunting, ambushing, and effectively raping the smaller males of the species, and then proceeding to lay her eggs in the mates brain. Anudorian scholars all agree that this lifecycle is unsettling and bizarre, but still preferable to some of the things that go on in the Amazon. To compare an Anudorian women to a Shimmer Scorpion, is making a strong and provocative statement.
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(What, you thought they'd lay their eggs in human vagoo or something? How absurd. :V )