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Mana-Weave Bug

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(Starship troopers bug biology)

 

Physiology

The mana-weave bugs origins are from the firefly, throughout generations from naturally occurring liquid mana areas across the lands. The fireflies began to selectively breed among themselves upon acquiring natural blending traits of its water source to assist in hunting and catching prey. This did come as a catch however, due to the density of liquid mana and it’s different properties from water over-time the bugs had more change than simply just blending, the whole abdomen would begin to expand over making it hard for the firefly to keep flight for a long distance, the tip of the abdomen would shift its coloured glow to suit the liquid mana below it. Eventually the bug would continuing the selection process would become flightless the abdomen becoming to big for the wings to contain losing a major property of defense and escape for the bug.

The firefly would begin to resort itself to more unconventional measures of survival and begin to burrow itself into the ground besides nearby caves where they’ll of resided before however this creating a new problem ground predators. They’ve gained the chitin crust over the body frame as a coping feature which protects the abdomen as much as possible while also gaining a spit-fire ability.

 

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(Turbosquid model)

 

Generations of selective breeding has come across the evolutionary dominant species mana-weave bug, constructed of a strong chitin surface covering the adult besides the parts where the plates would separate revealing a soft tissue organic sack which is used to collect liquid mana. The bug itself doesn’t necessarily have a purpose besides mostly eating small bugs such as larvae, snails and roughly anything around similar size. The mana-weave bug does have a defense mechanism due to the high contrast glow it’s soft tissue creates when hydrated offers easy spotting for prey, the mechanism being the ability to build up and spit up the liquid mana close to the rectum. This’ll be known the ‘arcane ball’ due to the density the bug builds up before firing appearing like a ball, hitting a target with the arcane ball would splatter into a stickable paste which’ll both sting on direct touch on skin and radiate to a glow.

 

The size of these bugs have significantly grown since the firefly, being average upto a foot in length for an adult and 1/6th that size for children, the children themselves don’t get the exposed abdomen covered with a shell until the mid adult stage. For full adulthood the bug would take from birth three human years (3 IRL weeks) and live upto 12 human years (3 IRL months).

 

The diet besides 'mana-water' to refuel the abdomen for it's defenses, it'll resort to eating small bugs/insects burred within the ground.

 

Habitat

The bug would stay around high concentrated mana areas, specifically liquid mana resovours so it may consume the waters for the defense mechanism and it having a natural glow to help draw in other insects and bugs for consumption.

 

Behaviour

The behavior of the bug is mostly calm, staying close towards the mana-water it requires for fuel and mostly within dim-lit areas safe from most predators. The way it'll gather food is burring itself within the earth or try to find small insects above to eat which are attracted to the glow that abdomens give off. The bugs reproduce with eggs once fertilized by the male host.

 

It’s open abdomen leaves it for easy attack unprotected by the chitin shell protecting the rest of its body the soft tissue can be easily broken into whereas the chitin can sustain people stepping over it. If one burst the soft tissue during the build up of an ‘arcane ball’ the bug would explode with the resin of the ball that it would’ve fired off. Which causes the creature to try and stay underground or far distance before revealing itself to larger preditors.

 

Abilities

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(Starship troopers - Movie)

 

Through the consumption of liquid mana, the mana-weave bugs have been known to utilize the energy given by it, through a strange deconstruction process within the organs the bug has the possibilities to unleash a range spit attack. The attack however mostly used to scare prey as it has no real damaging purposes, the attack being mostly comprised of a built up ball of liquid mana weaponized by the bug to shoot at a grand distance of 10 meters(blocks) to scare off potential predators against it. The ‘arcane ball’ that the bug is able to fire out close to the rectum carries a glow like substance having a comet trail render behind itself, if a target would be hit by the ‘arcane ball’ it’ll splatter across it like an explosion secreting a glue like substance that compliments an adhesive, offering a light gradient glow. On open skin it’ll begin to sear and leave a rash after some time has passed, these creatures would have good accuracy despite the ‘arcane ball’ moving relative slow, able to blind aggressors. The mana-weave bug would only have a certain amount of these charges, being three. If the bug would attempt to perform another ‘arcane ball’ it’ll leave itself dehydrated and left to die unless bathed within the liquid mana to re-hydrate itself.

 

Red Lines

  • Can be roleplayed by non-ST/ET. 
  • Cannot be tamed in any way bees could not be, nor capable of being commanded by druids due to the connection to the 'void'.
  • The mana weave bug isn't neccesarily deadly or dangerous except to insects and other small bugs.
  • The creatures only 'hunt' small insects/acracnoids/bugs, ext. They don't directly go out to hunt large preditors.
  • The chitin casing can withold a regular human stepping on it, however a stomp would break through.
  • If stepped on when the abdomen is revealed when using the defense ability the bug would explode with the adhesive liquid mana.
  • The adhesive liquid mana can be harvested. The adhesiveness acts as a fine bond glue, able to be pulled away through minimal force, no more than a child's strength. It'll degrade if remained on skin after one narrative hour.
  • The adhesive liquid if left on the skin will cause irritation and a rash similar to focii taint even to non-void magi.

 

Citations

Previously Accepted from Creature Index:

Focus Crystal Lore (For focii taint information):

 

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This Lore has been accepted. Moved to Implemented Lore, it will be sorted to it's appropriate category soon. Please note that if this is playable lore, such as a magic or CA, you will need to write a guide for this piece. You will be contacted regarding the guide (or implementation if it isn’t needed) shortly.

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