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Trial of Ink - Day 7 - Inert

Added 2020-10-07 05:52:15 +0000 UTC

Hermit Slug

Limaciinersis solitarius

The large mollusk lives by using a hollow cavity as its ‘shell’. Once it found a spot which usually is a dead tree trunk or a small cavity on the ground or cave wall, It will anchor itself inside then expand and rearrange its organ inside that space to use it as its exoskeleton body for the rest of its life. It will then spread a network of tendrils filled with stinging cells around its perimeter. The stinging cells react to anything that touches it and will inject a neurotoxin that can paralyze large creatures with just a small dose. Hermit slug reproduces asexually, and only when they’re still in the immature stage that they can move like a regular slug.

This one is a bit tricky since I haven't heard the word 'Inert' before, so I go with the google translate translation of 'lacking the ability to move'. I immediately pictured an anemone. But anemone can still move, so I tweak it a bit and make this creature. Based on both anemone and hermit crab, plus I add the paralyzing toxin that it uses to lure and incapacitate prey, just to hammer in the theme of immobile even more.

Link to the prompt list:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/2020th-trial-of-41772325

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UPDATE:

Adding an extra page for Hermit Slug along with the stats, which also include material that can be harvested from it and items that can be made using those materials.

These extra files will be added to the Trial of Ink 2020 folder that you can find in the Vault