[Fauna] Deathstar Strangler (WIP)

[Glodthor Kathos]

Fauna Request



Name: Deathstar Strangler
Habitat: The Midden and Lower
Threat: Average to High depending on size.
Notable Abilities: Fast acting adhesive Mucus.
Population Very high in the youth population fewer and fewer with age.
Description: If you were to see this creature on the ground, it would look to you like a large starfish. Like a five armed star shaped slug this flat creature wriggles across the ground. It's body often in the coloration of the caverns it calls home.
What makes this creature dangerous is that it will go to its natural resting place, the ceiling of the cavern. Where it will begin to prepare its adhesive mucus charge. Once some unlucky prey walks beneath it, the Deathstar strangler will drop from the ceiling and wrap its sticky limbs about it's prey. Due to the way they hunt and their size many an adventurer has had their head wrapped in this chocking embrace. Where between the limbs and adhesive it will trap its prey in a hardening embrace. Generally speaking these creatures rarely live long enough to grow to a size to pose a threat to an adult of most sentient species but it is said that those that do can grow to to lengths of ten to fifteen feet from tip to tip.
It is said they dislike fire and applying a torch to the Strangler will cause it to writhe and release its grip.
Life cycle When a Deathstar Strangler successfully captures prey it will begin to feed on it like a leech sucking the life and fluids from it before implanting very tiny eggs within the corpse. These eggs shortly hatch and feed on the host corpse before living the first 2 years of their life as mostly harmless decomposers. After they grow to a size large enough to begin preying on rats and other smaller denizens of the warrens they begin doing so to propagate. Often the hatchlings share the coloration of the creature they hatch from.
Reasons to hunt Besides them being a general nuisance there are a few reasons to catch such prey. A hunter capable of spotting deathstars on a ceiling and killing them before they drop and discharge their mucus, and kill them without puncturing the organ that houses said adhesive mucus can make a small fortune. The Mucus makes one of the hardest non alchemically made adhesives known to the world.
Furthermore its flesh when properly prepared makes for an air and water tight rubbery material.

[Paragon]

Hi Glodthor,

Description: In order to keep the writing across directory entries somewhat consistent, please remove the second-person language.

Example: “If you were to see this creature on the ground…”
Requested Edit: “Seeing this creature upon the ground, it looks like a large starfish.”

“It is said they dislike fire…”

You can remove the suggestive language here and simply make this a statement of fact.

“These creatures dislike fire. Applying a torch…”

Reasons to hunt:

Besides them being a general nuisance there are a few reasons to catch such prey. A hunter capable of spotting deathstars on a ceiling and killing them before they drop and discharge their mucus, and kill them without puncturing the organ that houses said adhesive mucus can make a small fortune. The Mucus makes one of the hardest non alchemically made adhesives known to the world. Furthermore its flesh when properly prepared makes for an air and water tight rubbery material.

I think this paragraph can be made a little more concise and clearer.

This is a great idea! Thank you for sharing it. Please let me know if you have questions or concerns and I am happy to work through it with you.

All the best,
Paragon