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Published: 2010-02-05 15:27:19 +0000 UTC; Views: 2292; Favourites: 40; Downloads: 64
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Description "Polypous Shambler"

CLASS: UNKNOWN

These oozing, throbbing, undulating mountains of alien flesh ocassionally "leak" into our dimension through invisible rifts created by the earliest experiments in matter teleportation, and exist in a constant state of bewilderment and agitation, lost in a universe they have difficulty comprehending. It is not known what they feed upon, but organic beings are sucked into their mass only to be ejected in a comatose state, hairless and toothless. Sapient victims are known to babble and cry out about impossible concepts as "sharp colors" or "dead angles" until recovery, but have no memory of what they experienced during this state. Mentally, Shumoth can understand and express basic, primal concepts but are unable to communicate the finer details of their homeworld or biology.

The surface of a Shumoth is an ever-changing array of seemingly random appendages and orifices, their only consistent features identified as ocular orbs, tympanic membranes and an olfactory trunk capable of spraying a defensive acid. Organs of over two dozen other varieties come and go from a Shumoth's body with no apparent pattern, and their functions remain unknown. Reproduction has never been observed, and it has been theorized that the Shumoth represents an immature or incomplete organism, possibly only a small fragment of a greater organic mass.
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Comments: 32

prometheushunter2 [2019-11-28 21:38:59 +0000 UTC]

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Lee-Sherman [2010-05-06 04:36:14 +0000 UTC]

What a cool-looking mess. Parts of it suggest so many things, but there's no whole to speak of. Nice job.

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CousinTed [2010-02-07 19:46:16 +0000 UTC]

Man, how do you come up with these?

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Zetron [2010-02-07 17:36:41 +0000 UTC]

MINDFUCK

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Under-Stage-Man [2010-02-06 03:52:04 +0000 UTC]

...It's like a sewer tried to have an abortion...

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PartlySmith In reply to Under-Stage-Man [2010-02-06 19:24:12 +0000 UTC]

No, no, it's like if cancer had leprosy.

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Under-Stage-Man In reply to PartlySmith [2010-02-07 00:23:06 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, if a diaper vomited on it.

(I think that's how the line goes...)

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Ganguro666 [2010-02-06 00:48:31 +0000 UTC]

"organic beings are sucked into their mass only to be ejected in a comatose state, hairless and toothless." That is completely frightening.. I really like the idea of this thing coming to our dimension and only being made up of what our universe could handle or whatever the case may be. This one is really great!

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Carni-Vorus [2010-02-05 23:27:39 +0000 UTC]

Awesome looking monster you got there.

I'd be afraid to see what the bigger mass looks like. O.O

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Rasec-Wizzlbang [2010-02-05 22:46:44 +0000 UTC]

I'm in love with this one.

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IggyHazard [2010-02-05 22:23:53 +0000 UTC]

Did you ever see the movie Endless Descent? There's a flower-shaped giant starfish type thing with an extending mouth of demented do0m. Did you ever play Sub-Terrania on the Genesis? It had flower-shaped things to0 also as well.

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scythemantis In reply to IggyHazard [2010-02-06 00:31:51 +0000 UTC]

I heard endless descent was full of great monsters but I've never been able to find it, it's only on VHS :/

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IggyHazard In reply to scythemantis [2010-02-06 14:42:10 +0000 UTC]

It's definately worthy of a DVD "upgrade." I still have a VCR, so maybe I'll get it on tape if I can find it.

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Jesus-lizard [2010-02-05 21:16:42 +0000 UTC]

I think I just founf another member for my Morta-team.

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PartlySmith [2010-02-05 21:03:40 +0000 UTC]

The single acid-spraying trunk reminds me of Vilepile; knowing that there are already several homages in Mortasheen, I'm guessing this was intentional?

I love how truly alien it is in terms of concept, being completely senseless to our feeble earth-logic.

Is every class going to get a huge, chaotic, super-powerful blob thing?

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Daimera In reply to PartlySmith [2010-02-06 08:11:58 +0000 UTC]

Hilariously enough, I thought similar. I'd have only made the remark if the description specified that its acid was yellow. XD

Time to get some implements.

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scythemantis In reply to PartlySmith [2010-02-06 00:33:08 +0000 UTC]

huge chaotic blob thing wasn't really meant to be a specific theme to each group, but I may as well

There should really be several in the Unknown class, though.

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Kamaelion [2010-02-05 20:07:24 +0000 UTC]

DAMN, Why is the ones that are so cool so hard for me to draw

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IcyBowser [2010-02-05 18:22:08 +0000 UTC]

MOOOOORTAAAAASHEEEEEEEEENZ!!! I like this one, it's kewl. I feel as though you have a great master plan to put an ever-shifting monster into each category. I mean, the Arthropoids have Chimerasect, Zombie Spawn have Ectozyme, Unknown now has this guy, and Manglewood sort of counts, doesn't it?
Oh yeah, I have a question to ask you. Did you get the idea for the Whumple from ? Because if you do, you're even awesomer than you were before.

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scythemantis In reply to IcyBowser [2010-02-05 19:01:39 +0000 UTC]

Nope, wasn't thinking of it at all, and I plan on changing the whumps so they look LESS like that, cause they're too close to a "ripoff"

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psychosomatic-itch In reply to scythemantis [2010-02-12 23:47:41 +0000 UTC]

But I like them as ripoffs. They're funnier that way!

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IcyBowser In reply to scythemantis [2010-02-05 21:33:38 +0000 UTC]

Aww. Okay. I've always wanted to put one of those guys on my team, preferably the Whumple, because the Whumplet would be too hard to control and the Whumplord just wouldn't fit. If I ever was to make a picture, he would TOTALLY be hiding behind my Insanititter.

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Freelance-57 [2010-02-05 17:28:18 +0000 UTC]

I'm guessing you're read At the Mountains of Madness recently..?

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scythemantis In reply to Freelance-57 [2010-02-05 18:06:12 +0000 UTC]

No, not since childhood. I just had to have a giant walking polypous thing in Mortasheen sooner or later.

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IainRamsay [2010-02-05 15:38:58 +0000 UTC]

Looks like my scrotum.

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psychosomatic-itch In reply to IainRamsay [2010-02-12 23:46:48 +0000 UTC]

Please see a doctor.

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IainRamsay In reply to psychosomatic-itch [2010-02-13 05:26:03 +0000 UTC]

My doctor says it is a lost cause.

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psychosomatic-itch In reply to IainRamsay [2010-02-13 22:22:17 +0000 UTC]

Well, that's a bitch.

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IainRamsay In reply to psychosomatic-itch [2010-02-14 13:54:54 +0000 UTC]

I blame the Canadian Healthcare system.

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psychosomatic-itch In reply to IainRamsay [2010-02-16 03:43:57 +0000 UTC]

Enh, I say we have it pretty good.

That's right, fellow Canadian-- you can't pull that one over on me!

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IainRamsay In reply to psychosomatic-itch [2010-02-16 13:40:22 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, we do have a good healthcare system. Sometimes I just like to be ungrateful.

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psychosomatic-itch In reply to IainRamsay [2010-02-18 00:55:53 +0000 UTC]

tsk tsk tsk

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