Freakishly Large Monsters (of the end game deep)
ResolutionBlaze
The Dunes Join Date: 2016-04-06 Member: 215392Members
The Dunes Join Date: 2016-04-06 Member: 215392Members
I'm not talking Leviathans. They're big, but they're identifiably big. You can see where it starts and where it ends. I'm talkin' something so big it makes the Reaper seem pea sized. I'm talking whatever left this skeleton in this pic:
https://i.redditmedia.com/YNh-lC_Mer9E9pZi4uKC14K904-H8yzZAEA35TrS8S0.jpg?s=cf471ac73c80d045cf90880eb06ff028
I'm talkin' things that stick their tentacles out from the deep dark to grab weary prey. A Kraken-like creature that inhabits only the end map of "the endless drop off".
There is nothing scarier to me than having something so big I can't even see how big it is, coming up with a single tentacle to grab and drag me down into the dark abyss.
I think something of this nature should be in the "end game drop off"; an area populated with leviathans and such, which act as prey to this massive creature, which if you wander too far out, will reach up and grab you, destroying the vessel you're in and then grabbing you, dragging you down until you drown or it crushes you with it's tentacles.
Nightmare fuel for the curious.
https://i.redditmedia.com/YNh-lC_Mer9E9pZi4uKC14K904-H8yzZAEA35TrS8S0.jpg?s=cf471ac73c80d045cf90880eb06ff028
I'm talkin' things that stick their tentacles out from the deep dark to grab weary prey. A Kraken-like creature that inhabits only the end map of "the endless drop off".
There is nothing scarier to me than having something so big I can't even see how big it is, coming up with a single tentacle to grab and drag me down into the dark abyss.
I think something of this nature should be in the "end game drop off"; an area populated with leviathans and such, which act as prey to this massive creature, which if you wander too far out, will reach up and grab you, destroying the vessel you're in and then grabbing you, dragging you down until you drown or it crushes you with it's tentacles.
Nightmare fuel for the curious.
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It could even just be large tentacles, it doesn't have to be the whole creature (if it's as deep as it is) I'm sure that would get past the huge technicality aspect of that.
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Because this tiny little Phantom Leviathan of Lost River is the chestburster that killed your majestic giant.
Lost River tells you: "Here lies the realm of ancient alien evil. Sea Emperor kin and mighty beasts beware and meet your acid doom in our caves."
This is the waste bin area of the great Warper civilization who created beasts like this acid spraying Phantom Leviathan as one of their bioweapons. One jet of breath from him will melt your smaller subs like butter in hell. The special material of the exosuit lets you survive, because this thing is made of transparent plasteel and duranium, but a cyclops without chellonian reinforcement will sink in no time.
And then, what would it eat? Where are the tons of fish it would need to eat every day? Where are the creratues that are of the size that would justify thse teeth? (Presumably dead, yes) This skeleton seems like the Subnautica counterpart of a dinosaur.
Maybe the drop off could have the giant reefbacks with actual reefs on their backs.Its large enougg and the Dropoff leviathan could hunt them.
Perhaps the reefback there could be adults and the reefbacks in the red grass biome are just children in a nesting "ground" of sorts.
Yeah, I noticed this too.
If it had a different skull (e.g. a decayed invertebrate) one could imagine it as a giant homeostatic octopus (with some ribs??) that crawled into a hole to spawn and die. If the bones were a bit translucent or even suggested a degree of flexibility like cartilage. That said, won't the final game have creatures that can survive in molten rock and teleport? ...so, maybe we are overthinking this.