Bestiary

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Monsters roam the halls and floors of the Tower. They are rare in the daytime, but all too common at night. The only places a monster cannot enter, unless otherwise noted for a plot, are the dormitory rooms and bathrooms--though they can wander the dormitory halls, they will not do so during the day. Monsters may be from the Tower's universe or they may be from the characters' universes.

Bestiary
Common Uncommon Rare
The danger scale ranges from zero to ten, with zero being harmless and ten being completely invincible and highly dangerous. Note this only refers to its ability to kill you, and not its ability to cause emotional trauma. A rating of N/A means the monster is not seen during this time of day or night.

Not all monsters appear during the day. All monsters that do have a RARE rarity rating during the day.

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[wegotlucky]

Name: Shadow
World: Neverland
Description: A large human sized shadow with glowing eyes. It looks something like a ghost, though it can interact physically with people, including carrying off children and grown adults. It can command shadows that have been freed from the bodies of a person and if it manages to remove the shadow off of a person forcibly, it kills them. Unless, of course, it manages to be slain.

Edited to add that it can only be slain by being lit on fire.

[animusmods]

The following monster has been added to the bestiary:

Shadow
World: Neverland
Rarity: Rare
Danger Rating DAY: N/A
Danger Rating NIGHT: 10
Description: Sometimes, at night, you'll notice something's just not right about your shadow. That's because it's not your shadow any longer, but a Shadow. Once you've noticed that its movements don't quite match yours, it will open its eyes - they glow eerily, and one will feel compelled to stare into them and not do so much as move a muscle. Do that, however, and the Shadow will draw itself up before you and make a slicing motion across your neck. This frees the Shadow from you, and you have until daylight to find a way to recapture it; should it still be separated from you when the sun rises, you will die a horribly painful death in the manner you fear most. That's not all you have to worry about, however; while it's loose, it will seek to forcibly remove the shadows of other people by dragging their shadows away by the neck, and if it succeeds the target will collapse, dead of a snapped neck. These other Shadows will then seek out more victims, and will disappear when the sun rises. The only way to recapture one's Shadow is to somehow manage to burn it to death - easier said than done because it can so easily vanish and reappear by escaping into any other shadows - and then ingest the ashes. If you only go it halfway, and burn the Shadow but do not ingest its ashes, you will burn up from the inside out at sunrise.

[warriorscribe]

Name: "The Mushrooms" - there's really no name for them. Glow Mushrooms, perhaps?
World: El Shaddai/Gideon (Gideon is a novel set in the same universe as El Shaddai and features two characters who play a part in it, but the franchise/verse does not have a proper name. Whether you list it under El Shaddai or Gideon is up to you)
Description: At first, these fungi look like ordinary mushrooms, except they glow, a white glow from within that isn't blinding but makes it impossible to tell what color they actually are. At first they're very small and can't move at all. When they grow to be about the size of a palm, they are able to move around a little but still remain stationary most of the time, enough that they still pass as a regular mushroom if someone picks them. Eventually they get to be the size of a person, and able to move around like one. Several of these will cluster together into one creature as they continue to grow, until their caps merge; at this point they are the size of buildings and are able to float.

Throughout its life, as it grows, the glow it emits intensifies. At its final stage of life, the light is blinding and absolutely impossible to see through without aid (sunglasses will do). If at any point their skin is broken, they will die and shrivel into formless jelly, their glow fading. About once every ten thousand years, one of these mushrooms will manage to wander into or over an inhabited place, blinding its occupants. It doesn't seem malicious or capable of complex thought, however. In fact, the only danger it poses is its bright glow. They are susceptible to fire, and burning them produces no harmful fumes. In addition, being just a fungus, albeit a strange one, one will die on its own after a few days in its mature state.

They are somewhat toxic; a single bite will give the eater a stomachache, with presumably more serious symptoms coming of eating more.

Have a visual.

[animusmods]

The following monster has been added to the bestiary:

Glow Mushrooms
World: El Shaddai
Rarity: Uncommon
Danger Rating DAY: 3
Danger Rating NIGHT: 7
Description: During the day, these mushrooms are only found on floor eighty-six, mixed in among the mushrooms forming fairy rings. There is nothing that identifies them as different at a glance, but if one draws too close to a fairy ring where there are Glow Mushrooms, they will start glowing intensely with a bright flash. Sometimes this flash causes blindness, sometimes it causes hallucinations; either way, it greatly increases the likelihood of stumbling into a fairy ring for the fae to have their way with you. At night, they will pulsate gently with a soft glow that will slowly intensify as they start to grow larger; when they have reached about the size of a young child, they will begin to move about the Tower. However, they don't like to be seen. Laying eyes on a Glow Mushroom will cause it to forcibly intensify its glow, causing either blindness or hallucinations - which could be deadly depending on the floor you are on. Furthermore, the Glow Mushrooms will give off intensely poisonous spores at night - breathing them in could cause all manner of lung problems which will leave you dead within two days if you're not careful, and allowing them to touch your bare skin will result in painful rashes at best and bloodied, pus-oozing sores at worst.

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