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Olisthirophis; Griesilithus
Topic Started: Mar 11 2015, 12:37 PM (95 Views)
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Name: Griesilithus (Olisthirophis thalassankremo)

Height: 0.9 feet when at rest, head is lowered while moving, which decreases the height to about 0.4 feet
Length: 4 feet

Number in Pack: 8

Weight: 6 kilograms

Base DNA: Protosphyraena perniciosa, Northwestern carpet python, eastern kingsnake, Argentine black and white tegu, Nile Monitor, tokay gecko, chicken, rubber tree, African knifefish, banded knifefish, electric eel, Pacific hagfish, great grey slug, triangulate cobweb spider, velvet belly lanternshark, goblin shark, Atlantic Blue Marlin

Abilities: Slime trails, electricity, bioluminescence, quite intelligent, pretty good eyesight and excellent attention to detail, powerful limbs, excellent climber, adept swimmer and can breathe underwater for several hours, fast when traveling along their trails, both of their spears have tiny, retractable spines and hooks covering them, so that when they lock into place, they can also extend these by use of muscle contractions to lock them even more firmly, similarly to Velcro

Weaknesses: No armour, dislike dry areas, not much they can do if they get separated from their pack and trails, spears can easily be broken by strong blows, jaws are not very strong, although teeth are sharp and suited to slicing and tearing

Defenses: Electricity, speed, pack, intelligence, slime, extremely resistant to electricity

Special Attributes: Can link together to increase the strength of the electricity, slime is highly conductive, can change the electrical fields which they have around themselves to be either positive or negative, can create three different varieties of slime

Description: A torso like that of a monitor lizard or thick snake, with a short, thick neck and a long, slim but powerful tail. The head is rounded, with large eyes and a long, jutting spear protruding from the front of it. The spear is similar to a marlin bill, but with large serrated points running from about the middle to the tip. The tail has a similar spear at the end of it, but with points designed for locking into the points on another Olisthirophis’s head spear. On the underside of its head are a jutting set of jaws, like those of a goblin shark. The jaws are capable of withdrawing fully into the head, upon which a flap of skin covers the ensuing hole. It has powerful, medium length, monitor lizard or tegu-like limbs, with three thick, close-together toes on each foot. Each toe had a small, hooked claw. Running from the base of the head spear to the base of the tail spear is a wavy, fleshy crest. Similar crests run along each limb. They are somewhat like rooster wattles in appearance and texture. Running along its flanks and limbs are long rows of small ovals, which glow when exposed to electrical currents. It constantly produces slime through its soft skin, and so it tends to have a glistening appearance and leave a trail behind it. Its underside is extremely smooth, flat, tough and slippery, allowing it to scoot along on it at high speeds, especially when traveling over an equally smooth and slippery surface. Its limbs, feet and underside all have rubbery, insulatory skin, preventing electricity from flowing through them. It has thousands of electric organs, formed from electrocytes, running along its body.
It is grey-blue in colour, with a yellowish belly, spears, crests and jaws, and dark blue luminescent cell rows. While glowing, they can be light blue, green, yellow or white.

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LOGI Info: Olisthirophis are social and intelligent reptilian creatures which live in unrelated but close-knit groups. They occasionally inhabit mountains and steep sided valleys, but by far their favorite habitats are sea cliffs. Wherever they live, they always set up their home in the same way. They secrete large quantities of one of the varieties of slime that they produce, covering the sides of the cliff and any nearby ground with it, using it to form long, wide trails. The slime is sticky and remains stuck to anything it is secreted onto. Over this slime is secreted a second layer of a different variety of slime. This slime is extremely oily and slippery, but upon contact with the sticky slime, will undergo a chemical reaction which causes them to bond together. This means that, despite still being extremely slippery, the slime remains stuck to the cliff. Two different sources of the slippery slime will also attract each other somewhat, just enough to help them stay together without causing too much friction.
These trails remain moist for a very long time, and if they begin to dry out, which generally isn’t a problem in the moist sea air, the Olisthirophis can secrete more slime onto them. A third kind of slime, a light, thin, watery slime can be secreted onto these trails, bonding with them and making them extremely good conductors of electricity. It also causes the sticky slime to become even stickier, if secreted directly onto it, without a layer of slippery slime in between. The sticky and slippery slimes already conduct electricity fairly well, but the conductor slime makes them even better at it. The conductor slime tends to wear off more quickly than the other two varieties, typically within two to four hours.
Eventually, the cliffs end up covered with a network of slime trails, glistening silver, allowing the Olisthirophis to stick to them and slide along them, powering themselves forwards with their powerful limbs, at great speed. The ground around the cliffs is also covered in trails, but these are nearly all sticky trails, with only one or two slippery trails leading back to the cliffside, which look almost identical to the sticky trails, giving most creatures aside from the Olisthirophis a hard time telling them apart. The Olisthirophis use this to their advantage when hunting.
Olisthirophis spend much of their time lying on top of their cliff, in a puddle of their slime, gazing out across the landscape. They monitor the positions and actions of as many nearby creatures as they can keep track of, especially when they are hungry. When they are hunting, they wait until a suitably sized creature seems to be heading in the direction of their cliff, at which point they will travel to the sticky slime trails at the bottom and coat them in conductor slime, along with some other trails leading up from them along the cliffside, connecting the vertical trails to the horizontal ones. They then return to the top of the cliff, or to the small holes which they carve out from its sides to use as nests, and wait. As soon as a creature steps on the sticky trails, it will usually become stuck for a few seconds at least, depending on its size and strength. At this point, the Olisthirophis will deploy their most devastating weapon, their electricity.
An Olisthirophis has thousands of electric organs, which it uses to create an electric charge and change its potential difference. It can then open its ion channels, creating a sudden difference in electrical potential, which results in a discharge of electricity. This shock can be at up to 800 volts and 1 ampere of current. However, by linking their spears together, Olisthirophis can conduct their electric charges through one another’s bodies, creating a much greater potential difference and therefore a much greater shock. The charge is prevented from flowing into the ground by the insulatory skin on the limbs, feet and undersides of the Olisthirophis. Therefore, to earth the charge, the lead Olisthirophis will touch its head spear to a trail which has been coated in conductor slime. This will send a powerful electric current through every other connected trail which has been coated in conductor slime. Since the trails covering the ground are all conductor slimed before prey comes near, the current flows through them, electrocuting any creature which happens to be stuck to them at the time, usually immobilizing or killing it. Once this has been done, the Olisthirophis will swarm down to the base of the cliff and devour their victim, systematically, precisely tearing it to pieces with their sharply toothed, extendable jaws. They start with the softest parts of the prey’s body and work from there, often wriggling inside the carcass if the outside is too tough to consume. They eat all that they can, although they have a preference for organs and other soft tissues, and then drag the remains into the sea or another convenient location, where they will decompose, be swept away by the tide, or be polished off by scavengers. Olisthirophis tend to go for prey only slightly greater in size then themselves, mostly preying on creatures 7 feet in size or under, and occasionally on larger creatures, sometimes up to 12 feet in size. However, they will attempt to electrocute larger creatures as well, not to eat, but in an attempt to drive them away from their home if they are deemed to be threatening.
When an Olisthirophis is building up its charge, the cells along its sides react to it, changing colour depending on the potential difference and the ensuing charge. A weak charge will cause them to become light blue. As it becomes stronger, they can go through green, yellow, and finally white. This helps to alert the other Olisthirophis if one of the pack mates is charging up, and they will often take this as a signal to join them. The cells on the legs will automatically begin glowing at them same time, as even though they are further from the electric organs, they are connected to and in synch with the flank cells.
If their cliff happens to have an overhang, the Olisthirophis will dangle sticky tendrils of slime down from it to ensnare creatures even more efficiently. They also often have trails leading into the water, which they can send a quick burst of electricity through to electrocute and then proceed to devour any fish which happen to be within range. As well as their trails, Olisthirophis carve small burrows into their cliff’s side, with large chambers at the ends of them. These chambers are often interconnected, and are always lower than the entrance to the burrow. They are filled with a mixture of slime and water, creating a safe, sheltered pool for the Olisthirophis to rest in while they are not busy with anything else. This mixture helps to keep them hydrated, as well as deterring parasites and predators from attacking them. These chambers are where they sleep during the night. They also dig shallow pits on the top of their cliff, filling them with the same mixture of slime and water, allowing them to remain hydrated while observing their surroundings or keeping watch for prey.
When fighting, Olisthirophis attempt to avoid direct combat at all costs, trying to lure their enemy into getting stuck so that they can electrocute it. If they are forced into direct combat, they will attempt to use their sharp teeth to slice at their opponent’s flesh and other soft parts, use their limbs to kick and scratch, and occasionally jab at them with their spears. However, the spears’ serrations mean that they can get stuck in an opponent’s body, and they aren’t particularly strong, so the risk that they could break if used as weapons is quite high. Therefore, they will only use their spears as weapons when they have absolutely no other option. Their most common tactic when in direct combat is to start building up a potential difference, which will alert their pack mates, before unleashing the charge, shocking their opponent and usually giving them enough time to escape back to the safety of their cliff.
During the breeding season, Olisthirophis will congregate at designated locations, often at the bases of particularly noticeable cliffs or mountains, although sometime in other locations with noticeable landmarks, such as near forests or on certain beaches. There, the will begin to mate. They have little in the way of courtship rituals, with individuals just paring up based on the health and strength of potential partners. Females mate only once, but the males tend to mate repeatedly, usually between 2 and 5 times. After mating, the packs will regroup and head back to their cliffs. The females lay their soft, jelly-like eggs, which resemble caviar, in the burrow chambers, and leave them mostly to their own devices after that until they hatch, since the burrows tend to be quite safe locations and remain at a fairly constant temperature. Once the eggs hatch, the females will spend a lot of their time in the burrows with the larvae, which resemble small snakes with gills, fins, jutting jaws and small spines on their heads and tails. The males supply them with food and guard them from predators.
Once the larvae are large enough and strong enough, usually at about a month old, they will be evicted from the colony by their parents, usually heading to the sea and swimming along the coast until they come across a suitable cliff where they can set up their new home. They have a lifespan of 5 to 7 years.

Other: Possibly a distant relative of Vathysaras?

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