Re: Tentacle Compendium.
*sadistic, evil grin* Felt like tossing in a few "dirty tentacle" types that may 'accidentally' slip into tentacle ranches or be found in the wild and need to be "treated" by the "professionals" of the ranches.
Tentacle Variety: Fertility Blob
Gender: None (asexual reproduction)
Description: The tentacle equivalent of a weed. Often appears as a pale pool of water, larger clusters often being mistaken for small ponds or lakes, and on rare occasions, a stream. The liquid itself is merely a watery nutritional substance that the creatures create to store gathered food for the colony. It uses this water-like appearance to coax females into trying to swim or drink from it before the creatures themselves attack.
The individual creatures are exceptionally thin and only about 3 inches long and their color varies, typically only slightly darker than their nutritional fluid. Because they function as a group, they can easily become lengths ranging from ten feet, to in rare, large clusters, hundreds of feet long to attempt to catch its prey.
They will implant themselves into a woman's womb and wait there until they have gathered enough food, then exit her and return to their colony with the fresh nutritional goop.
These tentacles have been known to infect animals as well as intelligent creatures, however most animals are unable to gather food at the same rate while pregnant, causing them to run out of nutrients, when the entire cluster will leave the animal's body to find better food supplies. Intelligent creatures will often still be able to eat (such as buying food or being fed by their fellows), allowing the tentacles to survive in such women almost indefinitely.
Diet: Though the colony may subsist on plants and soil for some time, their typical diet is to trigger a woman's reproductive system into thinking she is pregnant, draining her body of nutrition, and in some species, magical energy. They are called the "fertility blob" because a woman's belly will swell as if they are pregnant at an accelerated rate, coming "to term" in a matter of two months. The first time. Once their food supply reaches her limit, a small amount of the tentacles are "birthed", taking as much of the nutritious goo as they can carry to return to their home or start a new colony.
Even after this occurs though, the majority of the tentacles typically remain in a woman, breeding inside her and keeping her body in a state where it thinks she is pregnant, and she will come "to term" again every two weeks, only to "birth" another batch of the tentacles over and over.
Uses: Although no known uses are confirmed, there are rumors of women using these to fake pregnancies, enhance their libido, enlarge their breasts (due to hormones), or help encourage pregnancy in the infertile. There are also rumors of certain countries using them as a form of torture against spies, keeping close tabs on the drugs and magics used to "cure" a victim, so any woman looking for the cure can be examined by the government.
Reproduction: The tentacles prefer to breed inside their food source, causing women unlucky enough to be "impregnated" by them to be unable to remove them without exceptional means. The tentacles will create new ones through asexual reproduction, and are known to do so anywhere they have enough nutrition to get by.
Due to the way the cluster works together, it was originally thought that these tentacles re-impregnated women as they left her and she gave birth every two weeks after the original birth. It was later discovered that the tentacles inside her will continue to breed indefinitely until stopped.
Tentacle Variety: Tainted Whisper
Gender: Hermaphrodite
Description: An extremely rare breed of intelligent tentacles, they are a mere inch in length and burrow into a person's ear in their sleep. The transparent tentacle then begins to secrete a toxin that causes its host to become unnaturally horny and seek out others to have sex with. The amount of secretion increases gradually as its host adapts to this new lifestyle, every instance of sex causing the hormones in its hosts blood to spike, which causes even more of the toxin to be produced.
Although this tentacle may infect animals as well as intelligent creatures, due to its enjoyment of feeding on its host's mind, it almost never infects animals.
Diet: The Tainted Whisper feeds off of its host's blood and thoughts, and seems to greatly enjoy the pheromone increase and mental state caused by sex.
Uses: This tentacle is sometimes placed in uncooperative farm animals to encourage breeding. Its only common use amongst sentient creatures is as a form of (typically illegal) aphrodisiac, once someone is infected, if they remain unaware of it and are not treated, the victim will gradually become more sexual until completely giving in to the sexual urges, perhaps even becoming the aggressor in a relationship, or multiple relationships. When the person who infected the individual is finished with the relationship, a simple antidote can be administered, causing the breakup to seem as if it was simply the end of a passionate fling, often leaving the victim in a state of confusion over their unusual actions.
Reproduction: It uses this urge for sex to seek out others of its kind to mate, when it detects others of its species in an area, it will "whisper" tones into its host's ear that encourage attempting to mate with anyone who is also infected. The tentacles will overwhelm their hosts by encouraging them to have passionate sex until both of them pass out, then mate with one another before returning to their host's bodies, both tentacles impregnated. In rare mating situations, the tentacles have been known to push their hosts into having sex to death.
They will then attempt to have their host have sex with others into exhausting the other before birthing their young into the person who their host had just been with. Children will grow until they may infect others in about six weeks, and may remain inside their parent and feeding for up to six more weeks. If a new host is not found for the children, the parent will birth them anyhow and kick them out, leaving the young to seek its own host, though the odds of success if this happens are considered almost zero. The tentacles are not known to be able to live together in a host.