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Which monster Tomorrow?

  • Gross Mutant lamprey/crab hybrids with babies on board 22
  • Giant Flame Wasps with strong engineering/fortification powers 61
  • 2022-06-09
  • 83 votes
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Content

So two of the suggestions got a decent amount of likes, and I'm fine with either one.The winner will be the swarm outbreak the sirens are indicating.The loser will receive honorable mention by the characters (making both canon) and possibly be reshuffled for a future battle(transcribed directly from the suggestions)1:Mutant lamprey/crab hybrids. Think the facehuggers from Alien, but with a mouth and sharp teeth and the widest part about the size of a hand and a tail a couple feet long for adults. Maybe they mutated to prey/parasitize from prawns so can also cut through/burrow into tinker armor?  High tide could be their spawning/hatching time, due to all the dead prawns, and their babies could basically be a swarm of inch-long crab-fish-leeches that will burrow into people and eat them from the inside out.(Author's impression) Typical parasitic critters whose lifecycle heavily depends on another creature. Reminds me of those ticks from Cloverfield. Good ick value, not sure about the worldbuilding. Reinforces that High tide is dangerous as heck, thought. Not 100% how they would interact with their environment. Corpse piles, maybe?2: Mason bee's, a queen has triggered and once again is trying to become empress with the Wall as their fortress, boring into the tinker concrete and building up a massive force. Give em some weak form of tactile telekinesis/pyrogenisis so they swarm a cape and flash cook em.(Author's Impression) I envision these suckers about the size of a poodle and lethal as heck. I have a very clear image of concrete nests made from when they chew up concrete and spit it back out into hecka strong stonelike nests. Since they're something just made bigger i have a more clear image of how I would use them, but the Ick factor just isn't the same. Less gross, but easier to use. I may have them be a bit more wasp-like.

Comments

Jared Bowers

Personally there's a time for that's cool versus shutter. I think in this story The okay that's a cool bee type thing works better.

SunderGoldmane

The walls of cities make an attractive target for these mutant wasps. It sounds like it could be an established threat within the world as well. Like there’s a playbook for how to handle pyro mutant wasp infestations of the wall. Sirens could double as a kind of sound interference as well, possibly disrupts their communications with each other and breaks of the swarm into smaller swarms by limiting the range of their communication?

Marcel Ortlepp

I really like how interactive this story feels as a reader.

KB

Could the bees have triggered from the lampreys, and killed them all, now swarming?

A disgruntled nondescript squirrel

eh I just thought it would be funny to read about repelling the horde then dealing with seeing clowns holding onto poles and hanging from walls honking their tiny horns in annoying high pitched calls

Throngler In Chief

I'm just happy the lamprey-crab prawn parasite monster idea is going to be cannon. Could call them, "Prawn Mites" so they sound kind of innocuous until one pops out of a dead prawn and crawls inside you to chow down on your organs, if it's small, or latches on and starts taking massive bites out if you if it's a big one.

Carl Mason

Mutated/awakened Mud Daubers? Is that where this is headed?

A disgruntled nondescript squirrel

here is a fun idea for a weapon A polymorph ray but it is roughly size conservative and it says in the spell description that it is random but it just does something from your subconscious so it just does women (ants become tiny women with ant feature like they are cosplaying elephants become giant women in elephant pajamas rabbits become tiny bunny girls etc)

A disgruntled nondescript squirrel

and by your subconscious I mean the readers and yours macro (lol) So Perry figures it out as drawing from an extra dimensional observers mind

0xFFF1

Writing in your character to be able to perceive you, the author, is dangerous. What if they don't like you puppeteering them and decide to go hop dimensions and kill you? Perry will go supercritical at some point, he'd definitely have the power to dimension hop to you.

Throngler In Chief

How about Fornets? (Forge-Hornets) Or Blast-Bees (since they can burst into flames with pyrokinetic force)

Carl Mason

It looks like somebody read deadpool killustrated.

A disgruntled nondescript squirrel

I meant he can detect the observation but does not know it is the author There are probably lots of other observers and he could just think its a pervert