82nd Muttation Contest

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THE 82ND MUTT CONTEST!

Attention Members! Would you like to contribute to the 82nd 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 82nd 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 82nd, we are looking for mutts that fit our space station crashed into an ice shelf theme.

The contest will end June 12th, so please have your entries in by that evening!

Use the form below:

[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)[/font][/font][/div][/div]

[✨ zozo.]

Brite (like a sprite, but... bright!)

Brief Summary: Initially created as a new take on children's night lights, a Brite is a glowing, floating entity that has the ability to change the colour and brightness of the light it emits. One may say that a Brite resembles a star on a clear night.

When afraid, it dims completely. When pleased, it glows softly. When threatened, it is almost blinding to the eye. These are purely for aesthetic purposes, used to guide (or lure) tributes to certain places in the arena.

Brites were removed from Capitol retail development due to complaints of beta models burning noisy children's retinas, causing temporary blindness - a feature which could be useful to tributes and Gamemakers alike...

Poision, Edible, or Neither? Neither!

[umber vivuus 12b 🥀 [dars]]

Brief Summary: First impressions matter. And this creature, easily spanning seven feet in length, have a very, very intimidating first impression. Their tails are barbed, their teeth dripping with a mixture of venom and hungry saliva. And they're fast, climbing up the walls, clearing hundreds of yards in seconds. Xenions are the world's most perfect hunters, and their lives are dedicated to catching their prey. Once they do, they bite their victim in the neck so that the poison quickly spreads to the brain and finishes whatever job the mauling didn't. Few people escape a xenion alive, even fewer escape without being poisoned, and none escape without injury. From the moment you see its shadow, its tall, slender frame headed your way, you begin praying that you'll be the exception.
Poision, Edible, or Neither? ??? idk tbh poisonous?

Brief Summary: The electrical hum within the floor lulls you to sleep, but it is a different sound that wakes you up. Harmonious, sweet, vaguely familiar. Like that of a cricket's chirp, only deeper and louder. Your eyes search the area around you, peeled for what could possibly be making the sound when you see it, rising from the ground. When comes the point it should stop ascending, it does not. It hovers there, bobbing up and down in the air as if tied to a string. It appears to be some morbid mix between a jellyfish and an insect, with viscous, damp flesh and several tentacle-like appendages dangling beneath its vaguely serpentine body. The sound you heard may have been coming from the wings on its back, but the sound they emit now is closer to the twirl of a helicopter blade. It folds in on itself and stretches in ways that don't seem possible, you aren't even sure where the thing's face is to be honest. But you are certain of one thing. It is coming toward you.
Poision, Edible, or Neither? nonedible

Brief Summary: You think at first it is a tree, partially uprooted. The gnarled, knotted legs are steady, the trunk firm and sure. It is only when you look up through the mist that always seems to accompany the majorae that you see a pair of glowing red eyes looking back at you. This is not what it seems. The thought has barley crossed your mind when one of the appendages you thought was a root system moves, pointing one of its jagged, sharp legs directly toward you. Before you have time to run, a black fog begins to pour from it, cloaking you in darkness as you struggle not to breathe it in. Of course, it is futile. Only moments from fainting, you gasp, sucking the substance down and crumbling to the ground as it begins to do its job. You close your eyes and when you open them again, you feel a sense of rage you cannot explain: a need to kill. Something. Anything. You are no longer prey, but the top of a separate food chain. You'd be content with killing the creature, sure, but you see the others getting prepared as well. You hope they do not take this from you, because if you don't kill the majorae, you'll be forced to find something else to satiate the blood lust within you.

tl;dr: roll to see if poison is ingested. anyone who ingests the poison has to kill something, if they don't, the poison slowly drives them crazy and eventually causes hallucinations. (Purely ic?)
Poision, Edible, or Neither? poisonous

[Skylar]

FLORAKEET

Brief Summary: Once designed to keep up with excessive insect control for the more green-thumbed of the Capitolites, and perhaps to spice up the flora-obsessed culture that the Capitol fawned over for a brief part of a decade, these birds are excellent at looking beautiful and eating insects. They've been cross-bred with the genetic makeup of hibiscus flowers. A cluster of hibiscus flower sits on each of their wings which adorns their rainbow feathered bodies. Unfortunately, it seemed that the florakeets had a natural inclination towards territorial aggression, and thus they were removed from public use after a few nasty attacks had the scientists of the Capitol under scrutiny for a while. For the Hunger Games, though? They're perfect. In fact, they've been redesigned to attack anything other than their kind upon sight. It may take a moment for them to do their dance and sing their fight song and show off their flowered wings before they proceed, but when they do, they won't stop until their opponent or themselves are victorious.

Poision, Edible, or Neither? Edible, but not the most delicious

[goat]

long furby mutt

brief summary: Developed by the Capitol to unnerve and unsettle, these elongated creatures were briefly used in interrogations to throw the person off their game. One look at their uncaring eyes and stretched bodies was often enough to cause the person to confess. However, their use quickly ceased once the Capitol realized they couldn't stop them from reproducing, and they were left with hoards of Long Furbies and no idea what to do with them. It was decided to send them to the 82nd arena once they realized the creatures were a perfect fit for the unsettling atmosphere.

The average Long Furby stretches out to around ten feet, but they've been known to reach lengths of thirty. Once prey is found, they'll wrap their body around them, but their mechanical spines aren't strong enough to crush— only trap.

poision, edible, or neither? Edible.

[kap]

626 (or six-two-six)

Brief Summary: These blue, six-armed creatures with an affinity for licking things were initially meant to be pets for the people of the Capitol before they were discovered to be much too dangerous. They'd destroy any toys they were given, as well as toys and things that they weren't given, and often, people were reporting that they were being bitten by these creatures. Eventually, the Capitol took these creatures away from the public, simply labeling them '626', or 'six-two-six', adding them to the many other creatures that failed to be marketed as pets before them.

626 (six-two-six) has a vicious bite and is a rather nimble creature. Its claws are as sharp as knives, and it isn't afraid to use them if angry. Very few of these little beasts were ever properly tamed, and those who weren't were determined to have a better use as arena mutts, as they were surely good at destroying things, so perhaps they could kill, too.

Poision, Edible, or Neither? Neither (pls don't eat him)

[cameron]

Jelleflow

brief summary: the jelleflow was created as a cleaner. With the fluidity of a jellyfish and the gravity-defiance of a spacecraft, the jelleflow uses strong surges of electricity in its many tentacles to shoot itself into the sky and stay afloat. It's underside has a wide open fanged mouth that eats whatever it passes, and the electricity of it purifies the air around it. They thrive best in colder weather, as their electricity conducts better, and are often used to keep games arenas clean before tributes arrive.

edible poisonous etc: neither

[Arrows]

Vampire Gulper Snake

Brief Summary: The Vampire Gulper Snakes, originally called only the Gulper Snakes, were not always designed for horror. In the beginning, they were meant to be life savers, heroes in the battlefield. A gaping mouth filled with teeth for tethering and crowned with an adjustable jaw. Initially, they were intended to be released into a war zone to find and attach to injured Capitol soldiers. Capable of covering wounds as big as arm or leg amputations, they would latch onto the soldier and release a saliva that would effectively act as a live band-aid. They were meant to save lives, but not everything goes according to plan. 

The Gulper Snakes were used all of once, with disastrous results and unspeakable despair. As designed, despite being blind, their scent for blood was so strong that they were able to easily find any injured soldier. However, that was the end of where they were a success. After finding the soldiers they clamped down on the wounds tightly and began draining them of all of their blood. Their saliva worked exactly opposite to intended, and the Gulper Snakes had become Vampiric shredding snakes. Following the failure, the massacre, the word Vampire was added to their name while they were locked deep away into some cage at the back of existence.

That is... until recently.

Poison, Edible, Neither?: neither I would say?

Tattoo Monarch Butterfly

Brief Summary: One of the biggest trends in the Capitol is tattoos. Large, small, common, unique. A million different variations and a whole city full of captivated enthusiasts. It was from this love where the Tattoo Monarch Butterfly was born. Meant to be the next craze in the Capitol ink world, the Tattoo Monarch was designed to be a temporary living tattoo. The idea was that the genetically modified butterfly would burrow lightly into the skin where it would attach its wings and body to the skin's surface, and its vital systems to small veins in order to supply itself. 

At first everything seemed like a stunning success, but that's when the side effects arose. It would seem that after several days of having the tattoo, patrons were beginning to go blind. After recalling the Tattoo Monarchs and examining them further, it appeared a bacteria vital to establishing connection to the skin, also caused problems for human vision. With such information, the idea was cancelled. That is, until another potential buyer appeared in the form of the Hunger Games. 

Edible, Poisonous, Neither?: Poisonous or Neither?

[Baby Wessex d9b [earthling]]

Brief Summary: i was going to submit a very smol cute and baby-ish Venus Fly Trap but please hold this space for:



They cute.

They cuddly.

They vaguely penguin x koala x chibi.

The Capitol needed more cute in their lives. They made this adorable creature and totally forgot to moderate its voicebox. It loud.

Credit goat because how? did we not make this happen sooner??

Poision, Edible, or Neither? Tiny tiny mutt, possibly poisonous, possibly edible, certainly very smol

[charade]

TIN SOLDIERS

Brief Summary:
After the wide success of the 70th quell’s clockwork automatons, Capitol Leadership tasked several laboratories to further their advances in the fields of robotics and cybernetics. The result was the Tin Soldier, originally conceived as a potential security system to replace peacekeepers in buildings at a high risk for being targeted by potential rebels. When damaged, a tin soldier will use any and all materials in the area to repair itself, creating the perfect, unstoppable weapon of war. Unfortunately, there was a fatal glitch in their programming that caused the limited A.I. to be unable to differentiate between inorganic and organic material, as a massacred research team found out too late. Once decommissioned, the Tin Soldiers have found a new home in the 82nd arena.

Poison, Edible, or Neither? Neither. But consider the possibility of slain tin soldiers being used with the improv station? I'm looking at you, mecha gauntlets in the cargo hold