91st Mutt Contest

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( map credit : napoleon, d2m ₊⊹ 🐁 ɢʀɪғғɪɴ. )

ATTENTION MEMBERS! Would you like to contribute to the 91st Hunger Games from a Gamemaker's standpoint? Here's your chance!

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 91st 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 91st, we are looking for mutts that fit our Blunders & Bards-esque arena. Anything medieval, fantasy or otherwise D&D-ish will suite nicely! 

The contest will end on June 18th!

Use the form below:

Brief Summary: (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.)

Poison, Edible, or Neither? (please note that this may be changed by the GMs based on need)

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TAR TOAD

^{TAGS: NONEDIBLE, FLAMMABLE, SMALL}

DESCRIPTION: As the name might suggest, these creatures are the scientific marriage of ordinary garden toads and the flammable tar which has become trademark in many arenas these days. They are never purposefully violent- unless you are a fly and they are hungry. That, of course, is not to say that tar toads are not dangerous. They like to cook their food before eating it, rubbing its coarse feet together to create sparks it then secretes itself onto, which creates a very small contained fire. However, when falling- or being thrown- tar toads have been reported to accidentally explode themselves. They do not produce enough tar to be harvested from, but could definitely be made into some makeshift grenade or something, should a wise enough tribute stumble across them.

RIVER BEE

^{TAGS: NONEDIBLE, SMALL-MEDIUM}

DESCRIPTION: In the continued effort to save the bees, scientists several centuries ago crafted the river bee, which resemble sentient bubbles with beady little eyes. While babies may be small, adults can grow up to three or four feet in diameter easily. They are mostly empty space, which allows them to float at will, and their jobs in the ecosystem are to fill themselves with aquatic plant life, grow themselves in size, ad float to a different body of water to help spread the love. Of course, sharp objects were a big no-no to these creatures, and making them poisonous would've been too devastating to the plant community, so their one and only line of defense is to encase themselves around around a target by opening and extending its mouth, until the target drowns within it. Some river bees have been found with several fish swimming inside them, or dead birds who got testy, and many other peculiar creatures. If they were altered to grow slightly bigger and be slightly more durable, who knows? Maybe they'd be capable of enveloping one of our lovely tributes.

GLOOM TREADERS

^{TAGS: NONEDIBLE, MEDIUM}

DESCRIPTION: Featureless, furious gloom treaders send shivers down the spines of all who come close enough to see their tragedy. They are vaguely humanoid in shape, though considerably taller. Their legs end in jagged points which stab themselves into the ground, and each arm has three sharp appendages which grow like branches as the gloom treader grows older, eventually touching the ground and making them twice as fast when running. They cannot see, and cannot hear, so they have adapted to rely entirely on the vibrations of movement when hunting. Why do they hunt? Who knows! Certainly not to eat, as they don't have mouths. Maybe they're just angry that they can't eat, so that's why they're so sulky all the time. Originally, there were tall tales that these creatures were what happened to avoxes who dared to step out of line a second time, and despite being disproven with facts several times, the lingering fear of the creatures and their natural hunting abilities make them worthy adversaries indeed.

MACROBAT

^{TAGS: POISONOUS, LARGE}

DESCRIPTION: You've already heard of the stomach churning, anxiety-inducing macromantula- classic giant poisonous spiders of hunger games past- but the fact of the matter is that they have began to fall from arena favor in recent years for newer, more terrifying creatures. As such, a makeover was due. The creatures were given the wings and echolocation of vampire bats, recementing their place as apex predators in any habitat they might find themselves in. The smallest of the creatures is man-sized, and it spins is web over entire sections of forest, interconnected strands wrapping from tree to tree and rendering hundreds of tinier little victims helpless until the macrobat makes its way to it for dinner. If ever there is a slow day, fear not. A mere minute or two in the sky and it has located its next meal with ease.

[napoleon, d2m ₊⊹ 🐁 ɢʀɪғғɪɴ.]

The Capitol and their burning desire for hybrids never see an end. This one however, was meant to be a genuine effort at an loving creature. Feathers cover the thick, shaggy coat of its bear-like body, and the limpid pupils of its great round eyes stare from its beaked owlish head. A miracle, a wonder, the owlbear. Things took a turn though, when these animals began—as bears normally do—hunting for prey. And an owlbear, blessed by sight and ferocious with might, is a hunter you do not want on your trail.

War and invention has always gone hand in hand, though if they should or not is a question held aloft by this beast. Hungry, sharp-teethed, and with eyes glowing a fiery green, these creatures were made during a war. A miraculous cross between a hound and a panther, their paws glide soundlessly across any surface when they hunt, the only sound they produce being a light purr that is almost always heard too late. But its terror does not cease there. What the displacer hound does, is that it can completely turn itself invisible. They bend the light through specialized skin cells, making themselves inscrutable, becoming mere mirages in the air, all before they apparate with their maws open in front of your face. Thus, if you were to ever stumble upon one, here is a friendly tip: don’t blink.

They walk endlessly and ceaselessly. And once they were praised for doing so, lauded by insomniacs for absorbing all their bad dreams, a miracle invention of sorts. They are humanoid in shape, adorned with leaves and branches that gleam an iridescent shade at their ends, a beautiful dream that would guard against any night terrors. But even dreams, no matter how lovely, need to be woken up from. These walkers however, never had that feature in them and so they kept others dreaming, forgot to ever wake them up. Every path they walked, they left dreamers forever entombed within their own fantasies.

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Kua-Toa

Brief Summary: The Capitol, for many years, has loved to mutate things, so they figured, why not start with a simple organism like a fish? Many versions of this creature were created by the Capitol over the years, and as time went on, they were created to be more and more capable of living both in and out of the water (although the water is their preferred domain). The Kua-Toa are fish-like, yet amphibious. Their faces are like those of frightening, deep-sea fish, and their bodies are structured like that of a two-legged creature. They also have decently functioning arms. While somewhat less intelligent than a human, they are often seen carrying crude weapons, fashioned from things such as bones of other sea creatures that they've chosen as their prey. They speak in a strangle jumble of squeaky sounds and grunts that humans can't understand.

Poison, Edible, or Neither? Edible, with a fishy taste of course.