BONUS MONSTER 25:
BRIVELDID
CLASS: BIOCONSTRUCT
Free, additional supplementary monsters for the Mortasheen Tabletop RPG Core Rulebook, created by Jonathan Wojcik, additional writing and all gameplay stats by Bonnie Saucier. For use with the gameplay system by Morgan Mullins!
*this monster is a quick and rough digital sketch for now
Description:
This monster has the shape of a fat, flightless bird with short, club-shaped legs. Its body surface is brown and woolly. Emerging from a dark hole in the top are five extremely long, snakelike skeletal necks with small, jawless bird skulls. The beaks are thin and slightly hooked.
BIOLOGY:
An attempt to recreate the power of the Devilbirds in a more manageable Bioconstruction, Devilbird genetics resulted in a more dangerous and unpredictable psychoweapon. It possesses little soft tissue, most of its bulk consisting of a dense chitin-based fluff and cartilaginous skeleton. It feeds primarily on inorganic chemicals.
Usually possessing only up to five heads at a time, each of its small brains acts as a conduit to the psigital transmitter deep within its torso, a powerful psychobattery maintaining constant contact with the nanomons shed from its wool. Each sub-brain specializes in emitting a different psigital code to infected nervous systems, inflicting adversaries with a host of erratic and often self-destructive behaviors.
A Briveldid can occasionally produce a single, woolly egg, which it will usually leave in the care of an infected host, which perceives the egg as somehow containing whatever being it values most, regardless of that being's actual current whereabouts or status.
BEHAVIOR:
The Briveldid's multiple minds are usually deep in their own obtuse thoughts, only dimly registering their surroundings at a conscious level. Their minds overlap in a shared subconsciousness that manages their outward actions and communications, though body is almost constantly swaying and rotating like a sluggish, plodding waltz as the sub-mind crudely wrangles its many conflicting whimsies in an effect not dissimilar to perpetual intoxication. Beneath this fog, its collective personality exhibits some of the same egomania as its distant Devilbird relatives, viewing itself as a brilliant mastermind in total control of every situation. While considered confusing and insufferable by many other creatures, its efficacy in combat is undeniable, wielding its psigital arsenal to devastatingly strategic effect through the chaos of its fractured psyche.
Concept Notes:
This is one that began as a random, thoughtless doodle about a year ago, and feels like an older style Mortasheen design. It also felt like there was no way it wouldn't be tied to the Devilbirds, but the Devilbirds are meant to remain rare, so formally expanding them with new species is something I try to hold off on as much as possible. You'll probably see more monsters "influenced" by them in the years to come.GAMEPLAY BLOCK:
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