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Endless Realms bestiary - Snake Kelp
Bestiary artwork for Endless Realms, a D&D-like "pen and paper" fantasy RPG I'm working for.
Have you ever been to the shore, shortly after the tide has gone out, and the beach is covered in sheets of seaweed, and birds and other animals are busy foraging upon the plants and sealife that were washed up? Do you know what bull kelp looks like? Its this long, thick, tough, snake-like slimey rope with a bulb at the end - they're great for swinging at your friends and snapping like a bull whip! Anyway... Bull kelp used to freak my husband out as a child, and he'd dream about it grabbing him, and dragging him down into the surf to drown, or other, more terrible things.
Turns out, a lot of childhood terrors make great monster fodder!
This is our carnivorous bull kelp, a bull kelp mimic, if you will - a carnivorous plant that disguises itself as harmless, inanimate bull kelp washed onto shore with the rest of the seaweed, and waits for foraging creatures to come along...
We're expecting a number of jokes about this one, for various reasons, but I still think it's a great concept :b
Concept & Artwork © 2014-2017 Lunar Games Inc.
Endless Realms FAQ: http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/5774483/
Have you ever been to the shore, shortly after the tide has gone out, and the beach is covered in sheets of seaweed, and birds and other animals are busy foraging upon the plants and sealife that were washed up? Do you know what bull kelp looks like? Its this long, thick, tough, snake-like slimey rope with a bulb at the end - they're great for swinging at your friends and snapping like a bull whip! Anyway... Bull kelp used to freak my husband out as a child, and he'd dream about it grabbing him, and dragging him down into the surf to drown, or other, more terrible things.
Turns out, a lot of childhood terrors make great monster fodder!
This is our carnivorous bull kelp, a bull kelp mimic, if you will - a carnivorous plant that disguises itself as harmless, inanimate bull kelp washed onto shore with the rest of the seaweed, and waits for foraging creatures to come along...
We're expecting a number of jokes about this one, for various reasons, but I still think it's a great concept :b
Concept & Artwork © 2014-2017 Lunar Games Inc.
Endless Realms FAQ: http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/5774483/
Category Artwork (Digital) / Fantasy
Species Exotic (Other)
Size 800 x 800px
File Size 643.6 kB
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Never going to Florida again.... Screw the "Hurricane Season" anyway.
If mother Nature strikes regularly and with devastating force, it's usually a sign humans weren't meant to live there. Winter is one thing, Hurricanes every damn year, named by the alphabet? I'm good, no thanks.
If mother Nature strikes regularly and with devastating force, it's usually a sign humans weren't meant to live there. Winter is one thing, Hurricanes every damn year, named by the alphabet? I'm good, no thanks.
I picture them as being ambush predators: There you are on the beach, filled with seaweed and dozens of big long gross bull kelp, just lying there with all the rest of the washed up sea-juk. You're looking for some crabs to eat and go picking through the piles of sea-junk WHEN SUDDENLY the bull kelp that you thought was just a bull kelp GRABS YOU, coiling around your body! Maybe it's a bit on the small side, or maybe you're really big, in which case perhaps it begins slowly, inexorably dragging you into the surf to drown...
Heh, no problem :) We have a ton of that up along the Pacific Northwest here! Sometimes you'll get whole tree trunks, complete with this, like, bleached-crispy crazy root system sticking out into the beach. Most of the roots break off eventually, become brittle from being dehydrated and because people use it for firewood, but still cool-looking.
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