Muttation Contest XIII

[Lulu]

Attention Members! Would you like to contribute to the 68th Hunger Games from a Gamemaker's standpoint? Here's your chance to contribute!

Come up with a "muttation" or other genetically altered wild beast using the following form, and reply to this thread with your finished product. The best mutts may be included in the 68th or other future Hunger Games. There is no limit to how many mutts you may submit, so feel free to post more as they come to you (although remember to edit your post rather than double-posting if someone else has posted before you)

If your muttation is used, you will receive credit for your little beastie on the Muttation Directory thread that will be present during the Games, as well as on the Site Wiki's Muttation Page. Note that the Gamemakers (staff) reserve the right to make minor changes to your creations.

Notes: Mutts involving humans will not be used, and mutts created initially "to kill people," "to destroy people," or "to torture people" will also have to be explained very well to be used. Be more creative than that! You may want to refer to the Arena Map for climate-based inspiration. For the 68th, any underground, cave-living mutts will be especially appreciated.

You have until the 28th of September to submit. Enjoy!

[b]Name of Mutt:[/b]
[b]Brief Summary:[/b] (consider including previous uses [why the Capitol developed them], rough size/physical features, and general behavior, as well as any additional information you may have and please note that this should be no more than a paragraph — see the Muttation Page on the Site Wiki for examples.)
[b]Poision, Edible, or Neither?[/b] (please note that this may be changed by the GMs based on need)

[pup]

Name of Mutt: Cerberus
Brief Summary: This dog has three heads. Originally it was supposed to be for capitolite pets. Having a three headed dog seemed to be unique at the time. Unfortunately though the pets seemed to be to vicious, having guard dog like properties. During the rebellion after they had discovered this the Capitol used the large three headed dogs to guard bases so the rebels can't get in. They had sharp teeth and three heads which were perfect to attack the rebels with. The gamemakers decided to bring them back for these games because they have dark fur that is hard to see in the dark, and they are vicious.
Poision, Edible, or Neither? Edible


Name of Mutt: Hellhound
Brief Summary: It's eyes are a deep dark red as if they are on fire, and have night vision abilities. It is as almost as large as a fully grown horse. It has sharp teeth that protrude from it's mouth as to eat people better with. These were made during the dark days, when the rebels were fighting against the Capitol. The capitol created these as one of the first forms of mutt warfare. They were originally made and trained for nighttime assaults on the district rebels. Unfortunately though, after a while they became way to violent for the Capitol to control and the scientists who created them were given orders to exterminate every last one.
Poision, Edible, or Neither? Neither

[*]

Name of Mutt: Bottom Dwellers

Brief Summary: Every child has nightmares; fears of things that go bump in the night. What better way to get rating then to bring their worst fears alive? These creatures that are often overlooked by adults, are used distinctly for the arena. No taller than a foot in height, they can hide in small indentions of walls and crevices. These creatures, with the ability to mold into its surroundings, are often seen as tiny little hellions with body's reversed from humans, meaning their spines are in front. Their spines, however, curve upward to give these creatures a hunchbacked appearance. With short back legs and extremely long arms, they counter balance their ability to walk on all four paws. Hideous rat like facial features with protruding teeth on the bottom, they appear severely malnourished and nothing but skin and bone. Their body is, however, covered in a dust like fur that can affect the air around them and poisonous if inhaled. They usually travel in packs of three to five.


Poision, Edible, or Neither? Poisonous. (Due to the dust fur)

[Arrows]

Name of Mutt: Wall Wickets
Brief Summary: Created from the mind of Capitol scientists deep within a secret facility, the wall wickets were born. They were made for the sole purpose of being able to hunt down criminals within cities. They were the disturbing combination of spiders, bats, and wolves. Along with a few touches of growth hormones to make them the size of humans of course. When they were finally perfected they were large brown beasts with eight eyes on a bat head with bat ears included. They even had long and precise noses for capturing scents accompanied by sharp jagged teeth. Yet that wasn't even the most disturbing part of them, that would be their bodies. These beasts' bodies were that of wolves except with eight long spider legs perfect to traversing walls with ease. These spider legs also allowed them to be silent hunters, the only way one can detect them is if they listen to their squeaking bat voices. The last lovely part of these monsters is if bitten they inject poison that causes severe pain. After being sent out to catch criminals these creatures were rapidly recalled after a single generation when they became severely aggressive to all humans. With an entire stock of deadly beasts the scientists turned to the Hunger Games as a secondary answer. There they were sure their monsters would be amazing performers and formidable foes for the tributes.
Poision, Edible, or Neither? Poision

Name of Mutt: Teraspits
Brief Summary: Originally designed to enforce the fences along the districts and to keep all escapees from actually escaping; the Teraspits have been around for quite awhile now. Teraspits are the combination of moles and believe it or not squids! They look just like a mole except it has six long whip like tentacles flowing out of its back. When not disturbed the Teraspits burrow down beneath the ground and stay in a trance like slumber. However, whenever anything moves above them they awaken and shoot their tentacles entangling their prey above. From their they rise out of the ground and proceed to attack their prey with their tentacles and sharp claws. Although not large, the Teraspits have proven to be very effective and deadly at their jobs. It is due to this that the Capitol is now looking to use them within their beloved Hunger Games and to just see how effective they really are.
Poision, Edible, or Neither? Edible

Name of Mutt: FlourishFright
Brief Summary: The FlourishFright was one of the Capitol scientists biggest successes! For a long period of time Capitolites demanded a way to kill vermin more effectively than sprays. The FlourishFright became their answer, they were the combination of deadly venus fly traps and beautiful flowering apple trees. The end result of the combination created a typical green lively venus flytrap except it had a large apple dangling temptingly from a vine located in between its mouths. Vermin would then go to bite the poisonous apple and before they knew what was happening the trap would slam shut engulfing its prey in acid to be digested. Excited to see if these things could be used against humans, more specifically tributes, the scientists made the plant even larger to engulf humans with more luscious dangling apples. Hopeful to see their creation take out several tributes the scientists hastily submitted them to the GameMakers.
Poision, Edible, or Neither? Poision

[kittyoemily]

Name of Mutt:Squeal-kit Weasel
Brief Summary: Squeal-kits are a mixture of a weasel and a cat. It’s Long lengthy body allows it to sliver through small holes, but big paws and claws allows it to dig the holes needed for it to go bury itself in the ground. It was used in the uprising to disable the up-risers. How it disabled them was it would bury itself and cross to enemy fields. After it sensed it was on the other side it will reappear on top the ground and give out a high pitched squeal. This helped in two ways. First it gave a signal to where the enemy was, next it was so high that within a two hundred foot radius the people’s ears would burst and bleed leading them to fall to the ground and become un conscience until the capitol army could find them and exterminate them. Its claw’s also are good weapons if someone notices them before they can squeal. They tend to enjoy being a part of a pride like it's lion cat ancestors.
Poision, Edible, or Neither?: Edible, but watch out for the claws because they do secrete some hallucinogens.

[ghosty]

Name of Mutt: Phalanx Leocury
Brief Summary: Designed as a weapon to poison someone without them realizing, these leopards were given as pets to those they wanted to kill. Based on long extinct cave leopards that existed during the ice ages, these were modified to make them placid, and had mercury running through their veins, slowly poisoning the owner until death. These were then obtained and modified further by gamemakers. They were turned violent again, and given large teeth, in excess of 30cm. About 2.5 m long, and are covered in a mercury type fur. They usually come in pairs, and maybe even three, with one of them a young.
Poision, Edible, or Neither? Poisonous

[cass]

*mutt by cass, nyte and python 'cos yolo*

Putting down again because perf

Name of Mutt: Crawler

Brief Summary: Naked, and covered in pink skin, aside from hair on its head and a small tuft in its chin all you see is skin. A beast of the night it roams the darkness, fearful of the light you can hear its cries in the depths of the darkest holes, where it awaits. Running on four legs, its limbs stretch out to two meters each, with a body at almost seven meters in length it is not a beast to be taken lightly. Developed by the Capitol to dig tunnels in times of war it has been modified for games purposes to scense humans and devour them. Unlike any normal predator its teeth are as blunt as a humans, a bite from this beast will mean pain, the claws on its hands are not a weapon, but a way for it to dig, but if being bitten by a set of blunt teeth doesn't terrify you, then it hunting you down will.

Poision, Edible, or Neither? whatever you want it to be

[Death]

Name of Mutt: Lost Child

Brief Summary: Although their original name was a bit more scientific, the lost child was designed to, not surprisingly, appear to be a lost child. Unfortunately, their project was never as successful as hoped, since the rebels often opted to save their own skins rather than help the “Lost child.” They have since been moved to Games duty in the hopes of turning the tables on those tributes who decide hunting the weak would be a good idea. Created by combining the genes of chimpanzees with a spider, a vampire bat and a shark, the lost child is just under 5 feet tall and looks very similar to a human child from behind. Its body was engineered to be bald (except for the hair on its scalp which is able to grow very long) and coated in a mass of callouses to help protect it from the cold. If you look closely, its hands hang nearly to its knees with its super long arms. It is very proficient at creating the sound of a wailing or crying human, generally that of a female. Do not make the mistake of getting too close. While they will normally keep their back to their prey (with the spider’s multiple eyes being located in the backs of their heads as well as the front), once they turn around, the last thing you will probably ever see is their gaping circle of a mouth with rows of razor-sharp teeth. To top it off, their saliva has an anti-clotting agent from their vampire-bat side that makes stopping the bleeding of their bite difficult. Although they’re fierce opponents, their success relies on the element of surprise giving them the upper hand since they’re relatively weak and have soft flesh that a good knife can easily break.

Poision, Edible, or Neither? Neither.

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Name of Mutt: Hedge Pixie

Brief Summary: In the times of the war, there were many attempting to escape on foot and it would take hours for a search party to comb the woods for a single person. Instead, the Capitol would leave traps rigged with canisters of Hedge Pixies to be triggered by some poor soul. Hedge pixies are a glowing, swarming creature very similar to the mosquito, with the added benefit of teeth. They are attracted to any kind of carbon-dioxide releasing organism and will swarm an individual. The likelihood of attracting the Hedge pixie increases exponentially the more you are running, as you exhale more carbon dioxide the more oxygen you use. In small numbers, you’ll be left with a mass of unpleasant, fiercely itching bites about a centimeter in diameter. In larger numbers, you will most likely be stripped of your flesh– and your life.


Poison, Edible, or Neither? Neither.

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[Deleted]

Name of Mutt: Fireflies
Brief Summary: Taking the name of an organism quite too literally, the firefly was invented for both building detonation and rubble clearing afterwards. By modifying the mutt in ways only an elite Capitol scientist would know, the firefly was transformed into just that, a fly with fire. Modified to release a chemical from their bodies when danger is near, the flies would be sent into an abandoned building, and then shortly thereafter send a vibration through the entire building, alarming the fireflies and causing them to release the chemical. That'd then set off a chain reaction inside the firefly, and cause them to blow up from the inside out in a fiery, burning mess, a miniature bomb that could breed. However, although initial results proved successful, the firefly was eventually retired due to the amount of accidents caused by the mutts, and the cost of keeping the mutts together and safe. Though, with the 68th Games on the horizon, Gamemakers have decided to bring the mutt back, upping their aggression and their explosive power.
Poision, Edible, or Neither? Neither. Does burn damage, travel in swarms.

Name of Mutt: Pavo
Brief Summary: It was, by far, the most expensive luxury Capitol pet ever invented. Not settling for the beauty of a normal peacock, Capitol scientists and designers took it one step further by weaving the feathers of the Pavo with traces of diamond. The result was a truly magnificent creature, with an equally as magnificent price tag. However, when it was released to the market, it bombed, the price tag that came along with it pushing away even the most obsessed Capitolite. So it was recalled, killed off except for a select few. That is, until the 68th Games rolled around. Due to a rather eccentric and zany scientist, the Pavo has made it's (quite literally) triumphant return, except this time it's not just a pretty pet. To increase it's lethality, the feather's in it's tail have been sharpened to the point of darts, which can be launched by the mutt at any threat by whipping it's tail, all while looking beautiful.
Poision, Edible, or Neither? Edible, if you're into that type of thing.

[✌ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ]

Name of Mutt: Minotaur
Brief Summary: The Minotaur muttation was first invented by a scientist that was very into animals. Probably far too into animals as some might say. She wanted to develop a muttation that could also be a partner and therefore latched onto the idea of the minotaur from greek myth. The minotaur is often referenced because it has the body of a man but the head of a bull. For some reason most likely influenced by the scientist's insanity, she decided to develop her own version. The animal she ended up with has the hooves of a bull, the torso and hands of a man and the head of a bull. She had succeeded in creating a perfect representation of the bullman from the myth. Unfortunately, this also meant that she had taken the berserker attitude as well. The Minotaur mutt has one goal and one goal only and that is to stick his horns in the cute butt of any tribute that happens to be walking by, preferably so that he/she can eat them. The Minotaur prefers to prowl around dark places so as not to be seen as easily by it's prey. However the mutt is often heralded by the sound of it's hooves against stone and the loud roars it emits. The minotaur either travels solo or with a companion mutt.
Poison, Edible, or Neither? Neither

[анзие (Anz)]

Name of Mutt:Whistlewind
Brief Summary: The Whistlewind was developed initially as an alternative to the common musical harmonica - that the Capitolites needn't have to waste their breaths on. However, scientists could never quite stop the crow-sized Whistlewinds from taking flight on the sound of their own overly shrill voices that caused the beginnings of a migraine in each man and woman that heard it. The project was abandoned for a mere month before the announcement of the 68th Games - where the bird-like Whistlewinds were built in greater numbers, with sharper beaks and deadlier talons, and will rise up on tributes in a furious cloud of red and black if disturbed.
(Knife-Talon/Beak-Bow&Arrow - speeds towards the tribute on a whistle.)
Poision, Edible, or Neither? Not poisonous, small game.

[Ailera]

Name of Mutt: Minues
Brief Summary: Very tiny black dot-like bugs that fly around the head and get into openings (ie. nose, corners of eyes, ears, mouth, cuts). Lay eggs that hatch within a day and often release 10-20 more bugs. Created to annoy tributes and cause them severe discomfort.
Poision, Edible, or Neither? Neither - just really irritating

[admin kay]

Name of Mutt: Cobra Noctiluca

Brief Summary: Often referred to as the Shadow Cobra, this is the beast you don't see until it's too late. Developed to weed out rats, vermin, and trespassers in the sewers beneath the Capitol, this mutt has a deadly sense of smell. While it is vulnerable in the light, in the darkness, it is king. In order to lure otherwise suspicious prey (such as rebel humans), the Capitol designed its flesh to be transparent, with twinkling glow-in-the-dark bio-luminescense running up and down its form. It can look indistinguishable from the normal sewer lighting, camouflaging itself until it strikes. Shadow Cobra can grow to be six feet long, but it is not the length of its body that kills. Each three-inch fang is tipped with venom, and it has three rows of fangs. This is a beast still used in the Capitol, designed for one job: to taste anything that crosses its path.

Poision, Edible, or Neither? Poisonous

[Sage]

Name of Mutt: Shadow Walker
Brief Summary: The thing that all children have nightmares about, the Shadow walker is basically a living shadow with the ability to either terrify tributes into stillness or stun them with their vapors. Originally designed to haunt the forests of district seven and catch anyone going outside of the district boundary, the shadow walkers were later altered to be more offensive with the vapors they're made of able to temporarily paralyze a tribute if inhaled too deeply and for the affects to last longer, usually up to a day or two depending on how much of it was breathed in.
Poision, Edible, or Neither? neither, only able to stun.

[charade]

Name of Mutt: Angler
Brief Summary: Originally meant to assist deepsea divers in district four searching for pearls, The Angler is a crossbreed between nearly half a dozen deepsea species of fish. The primary baseline is of course, the angler fish, which gives the Angler the luminescent fleshy growth that acts as a light source and a lure. They were supposed to find oysters and then lead the divers to the pearl, but like so many Capitol muttations, there was a flaw in the dna. The Anglers would instead lead divers to large predators and then feast on the remains when the battle was done. For this arena, the mutts have grown to twice the size of the original ones, making them equivalent to a medium sized dog. They are able to distend both their jaws and their stomachs; since its bones are thin and flexible, allowing it to swallow prey up to twice as large as its entire body. For a final sadistic touch, the Capitol scientists have mixed the new breed of Angler with a bit of rat dna, Giving them small stubby legs and enabling them to walk on land.

Whatever you do, don't follow the lights.

Poision, Edible, or Neither? (Neither)