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[366 Days of Monsters] Day 124/366 - Cloud Jelly
🕑 Added 2020-05-22 15:00:04 +0000 UTCCloud jellies resemble colossal, hovering jellyfish which roam the skies over The Desolation of Ditimaya. Their 50-foot-long tentacles dangle below their bulbous cores, brushing the surface of the wasteland as they drift. Once the tentacles hit a living creature, it restrains it, poisons it, then slowly draws nutrients from it. After it has drained the creature of its vitality, it leaves the creature's bloated, blackened corpse in the dunes to rot under the Eye of Naeyer. So loaded with poison, it victims are inedible to the carrion-eaters that dwell in the wasteland.
Unknown Origins. Sometimes, there is no reasonable explanation for a creature's existence. For example, Pexian aberrationists are stumped by the existence of cloud jellies. The scholars reviewed the usual suspects—Aspaethan Transmuters, danaavrakti, elementals, etc.—and so far have landed on zero leads pertaining to the origin of this bizarre species. However, some have noted that the jellies first appeared shortly after the War of the Burning Plains. Perhaps the absence of dragons allowed the jellies to propagate across Omeria?
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Comments
DM Dave
I like to imagine you're walking through the desert and see these weird lines in the sand where it's dragging its tendrils. You keep finding the bodies of dead creatures all around it. Horses... giant lizards... gnolls... then you cross over a dune and boom. There it is like 300 feet from you and you're like... "oh shit."
DM Dave
Yeah, cool little bugger. I bought the art on DTRPG and thought it needed some "big" stats haha
I love everything about this creature! Grappling is a feature we don't see enough of. Thank you!
