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Quick sketches of strange adversaries drawn during a whiteboard session.

EDIT: I decided to challenge myself and come up with backstories and personalities for each one, so here they are:

From left to right in row-descending order:

1. Scuttlebones: a demonic presence inhabiting a long dead corpse. Over time, the corpse has altered to suit the spirit's needs and is only superficially humanoid. Scuttlebones needs no meat. Its wide lenses absorb energy from the light of the moon. Its teeth are purely defensive, but the ornery creature will snap at whatever it deigns threatening, even chasing the threat long distances away.

2. Yonk: Nicknamed for its eerie calls. Yonk is a near-mindless creature inhabiting the sewer system. Disproportionately powerful, its babyish mannerisms and tendency to fumble with its food result in horrific scenes.

3. Brab: A tall creature only visible during foggy mornings. Brab wanders every night, searching for another of its kind but finding none. During the day it folds itself into a compact shape and quivers, alone and afraid.

4. Scraggle: A monstrous mutation. What seems to be a plant monster is actually more like a gastropod with a very wood-adjacent shell. Its surprisingly articulated legs and limbs can move thanks to fissures in their surfaces. Nevertheless, Scraggle's range of movement is limited and it prefers to lie in wait for prey.

5. Sygill: An alien with a particular fascination for sleeping people. It will spend hours at a time looking through windows, mesmerized by resting forms. It has no interest in people who are awake and rarely acknowledges their existence. If threatened, it attacks with its claws or retreats with sudden bursts from its surprisingly powerful wings.

6. #52582: A highly mutable, colonial organism first found in an abandoned lab. Seems to favor growing eyes and hands on its surface. With these two main structures, it has worked out a body plan very alien to our own.

7. Smelly Pete: A monster from fairy-tale lore. Smelly Pete makes no sound and projects no heat. His only indication is the stench of rot and formaldehyde before his darting form hits you like a bullet.

NEXT ROW

1. Mudslide: A mishmash of compost held together by a root system. Mudslide prefers to stay in a single area over many months, passively absorbing nourishment from the environment. Its already haggard appearance can become even more weathered during this dormancy, and many mistake it for an odd, withered plant.

2. DrippyDog: Some claim to see this animal very early in the morning. It dances in frenzied, spasming motions, flinging wet fluids all around it. DrippyDog disappears just before sunrise, but the liquids left behind wilt plants and kill small animals.

3. Charade: A predatory mass of worms functioning as a single, tentacular mass. Charade has a primitive understanding of humans, its favorite prey. To "blend in" with them, it carries around an opera mask so as to seem more disarming. This backfires tremendously.

4. The Mouseman: A disfigured but harmless cryptid known to raid pantries and kill livestock, but has never been known to attack people. Limited eyewitness reports claim the creature's eyes and nose "swim" freely around in its face.

5. Halgred: A swamp witch. Fairly standard, but cursed to laugh constantly. The clacking of her teeth can be heard half a mile away.

6. Un-unity: A fragment of a fragment of a god. Its twisted form is a crude attempt to mimic the planet's dominant species. It has no clear motives or agenda, even to itself.

7. The Dirtwood Runner: An unidentified predatory mammal with an asymmetric body plan. Moves faster than any natural mammal, leading to the dominant consensus that it is not.

LAST ROW:

1. The Bellow Brothes: Two ghostly creatures in constant, repetitious argument. They appear immune to all attempts at harming them and their noise cannot be dampened with solid objects. Civilizations have developed with circular holes around places where The Bellow Brothers once stood.

2. Margck: An unforseen by-product of genetic tampering. Margck is a combination of so many creatures it is barely a hybrid at all. Despite its looks, its personality is not much different than any other mammal, and it is currently under the care of an exotic pet owner.

3. Lemp: Nicknamed for its attraction to light, this harmless creature gathers in large numbers near artificial sources of illumination, feeding on bugs, mice, frogs, and any smaller critters that decide to explore the space. They retreat when people approach, but are quick to move back in their absence.

4. PAL: A dangerous organism that refers to itself as "PAL". Wants to "befriend" people through spore infection, where it will grow in their bodies and render them twisted and sessile. Claims all infected bodies are still alive and "playing fun and talking loudly", but MRI scans reveal zero brain activity in infectees.

Description
Quick sketches of strange adversaries drawn during a whiteboard session.

EDIT: I decided to challenge myself and come up with backstories and personalities for each one, so here they are:

From left to right in row-descending order:

1. Scuttlebones: a demonic presence inhabiting a long dead corpse. Over time, the corpse has altered to suit the spirit's needs and is only superficially humanoid. Scuttlebones needs no meat. Its wide lenses absorb energy from the light of the moon. Its teeth are purely defensive, but the ornery creature will snap at whatever it deigns threatening, even chasing the threat long distances away.

2. Yonk: Nicknamed for its eerie calls. Yonk is a near-mindless creature inhabiting the sewer system. Disproportionately powerful, its babyish mannerisms and tendency to fumble with its food result in horrific scenes.

3. Brab: A tall creature only visible during foggy mornings. Brab wanders every night, searching for another of its kind but finding none. During the day it folds itself into a compact shape and quivers, alone and afraid.

4. Scraggle: A monstrous mutation. What seems to be a plant monster is actually more like a gastropod with a very wood-adjacent shell. Its surprisingly articulated legs and limbs can move thanks to fissures in their surfaces. Nevertheless, Scraggle's range of movement is limited and it prefers to lie in wait for prey.

5. Sygill: An alien with a particular fascination for sleeping people. It will spend hours at a time looking through windows, mesmerized by resting forms. It has no interest in people who are awake and rarely acknowledges their existence. If threatened, it attacks with its claws or retreats with sudden bursts from its surprisingly powerful wings.

6. #52582: A highly mutable, colonial organism first found in an abandoned lab. Seems to favor growing eyes and hands on its surface. With these two main structures, it has worked out a body plan very alien to our own.

7. Smelly Pete: A monster from fairy-tale lore. Smelly Pete makes no sound and projects no heat. His only indication is the stench of rot and formaldehyde before his darting form hits you like a bullet.

NEXT ROW

1. Mudslide: A mishmash of compost held together by a root system. Mudslide prefers to stay in a single area over many months, passively absorbing nourishment from the environment. Its already haggard appearance can become even more weathered during this dormancy, and many mistake it for an odd, withered plant.

2. DrippyDog: Some claim to see this animal very early in the morning. It dances in frenzied, spasming motions, flinging wet fluids all around it. DrippyDog disappears just before sunrise, but the liquids left behind wilt plants and kill small animals.

3. Charade: A predatory mass of worms functioning as a single, tentacular mass. Charade has a primitive understanding of humans, its favorite prey. To "blend in" with them, it carries around an opera mask so as to seem more disarming. This backfires tremendously.

4. The Mouseman: A disfigured but harmless cryptid known to raid pantries and kill livestock, but has never been known to attack people. Limited eyewitness reports claim the creature's eyes and nose "swim" freely around in its face.

5. Halgred: A swamp witch. Fairly standard, but cursed to laugh constantly. The clacking of her teeth can be heard half a mile away.

6. Un-unity: A fragment of a fragment of a god. Its twisted form is a crude attempt to mimic the planet's dominant species. It has no clear motives or agenda, even to itself.

7. The Dirtwood Runner: An unidentified predatory mammal with an asymmetric body plan. Moves faster than any natural mammal, leading to the dominant consensus that it is not.

LAST ROW:

1. The Bellow Brothes: Two ghostly creatures in constant, repetitious argument. They appear immune to all attempts at harming them and their noise cannot be dampened with solid objects. Civilizations have developed with circular holes around places where The Bellow Brothers once stood.

2. Margck: An unforseen by-product of genetic tampering. Margck is a combination of so many creatures it is barely a hybrid at all. Despite its looks, its personality is not much different than any other mammal, and it is currently under the care of an exotic pet owner.

3. Lemp: Nicknamed for its attraction to light, this harmless creature gathers in large numbers near artificial sources of illumination, feeding on bugs, mice, frogs, and any smaller critters that decide to explore the space. They retreat when people approach, but are quick to move back in their absence.

4. PAL: A dangerous organism that refers to itself as "PAL". Wants to "befriend" people through spore infection, where it will grow in their bodies and render them twisted and sessile. Claims all infected bodies are still alive and "playing fun and talking loudly", but MRI scans reveal zero brain activity in infectees.