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<blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 9257916" data-attributes="member: 57383"><p>Finished the Mammoth Helicopter Damselfly with the following addition to its <strong>Description</strong>:</p><p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong><span style="font-size: 26px">U</span>NDERDARK<span style="font-size: 26px"> H</span>ELICOPTER<span style="font-size: 26px"> D</span>AMSELFLIES</strong></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: magenta">Deep beneath the earth is the Underdark, a mysterious maze of tunnels, crevices and caves. The greatest of its caverns are unbelievably vast and teem with life in forests of weird fungi and strange subterranean seas. In this sunless realm, the ecosystem is powered by dissolved chemicals, geothermal warmth, and the Underdark's own eldritch radiations.</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: magenta"> Some of these sunless seas and mushroom jungles swarm with shimmers of giant damselflies who explorers from the surface have dubbed <em>Ghostwings</em> from their eerie appearance. A ghostwing is two or three yards long, with body and legs that look so thin they're almost translucent, and to normal eyes it is colored pallid white with spots of deathly grey. However, it is actually strikingly patterned in garish hues that are only visible to darkvision—many of these darkvision colors don't even have <em>names</em> in Common. Despite their spooky appearance, ghostwings are relatively harmless, and mostly only attack normal bats and spiders, Tiny giant flies, and creatures of similar size. A ghostwing damselfly is a Small or Medium underdark helicopter damselfly (see Giant Damselfly or Giant Dragonfly for statistics).</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: magenta"> That is far from the case for the mammoth underdark damselfly, a rare monster that can reach lengths of 50 feet or more. They have many names, such as <em>Death Phantom</em> or <em>Web Killer</em> and are hated and feared by the Underdark's inhabitants, especially the drow,. Mammoth underdark helicopters show a great fondness for eating subterranean giant spiders and the drow themselves, so the dark elves go to great lengths in attempts to eradicate them, with little success. A death phantom damselfly is a Huge underdark helicopter damselfly (see Mammoth Helicopter Damselfly or Titanic Tropical Dragonfly for statistics).</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: magenta"> The main reason the drow have failed to exterminate the Huge underdark damselfly is ghostwings and death phantoms are actually one extraordinarily tenacious species. The drow are unaware of this, and would be unable to destroy every ghostwing in the Underdark even if they knew. The larvae of underdark helicopter damselflies are able to metamorphose into adulthood from a range of instars (larval growth stages) far wider than any natural odonatid, with adult sizes ranging from a Small ghostwing to a Huge death phantom. The adults then mate and females lay their eggs in water to hatch into the next generation of naiads, which become adults themselves when environmental cues trigger their transformations. In general, naiads who share their water with larger predators transform into adulthood as early as possible, becoming ghostwings and flying off to somewhere safer , explaining why they are so common. However, if a naiad is very successful, it becomes one of these "larger predators" itself before it is old enough to metamorphose, in which case it attempts to reach Huge size and become a death phantom.</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: magenta"> Underdark helicopter damselfly naiads can become intermediary adults between a ghostwing and death phantom in size, but this is unusual. This typically only happens when their water pool is just big enough for a single naiad to develop into a Large underdark helicopter damselfly, a creature dubbed a <em>Wraithwing</em> by the surface dweller who discovered it (see Imperial Giant Dragonfly for statistics).</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: magenta"> An underdark damselfly's eggs can survive out of water for an impressive length of time, lying dry and dormant until conditions are better. In addition, underdark damselfly naiads are incredibly adaptable, able to live in an incredible range of water temperature and chemistry, from near-boiling brine to crystal-clear icewater, and also are amphibious, able to breathe air as well as water. While they prefer to live in water, an underdark damselfly naiad only has to be submerged when it hatches from its egg, or when a naiad of Large size or bigger needs to molt its exoskeleton and grow into its next instar (see Mammoth Helicopter Damselfly Naiad for details).</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p><p>That satisfies me enough I'm going to do another update:</p><p></p><p>Updating the <strong><a href="https://www.enworld.org/posts/9249257" target="_blank">Giant Damselfly</a></strong>.</p><p>Updating the <strong><a href="https://www.enworld.org/posts/9249220" target="_blank">Giant Dragonfly</a></strong>.</p><p>Updating the <strong><a href="https://www.enworld.org/posts/9249560" target="_blank">Imperial Giant Dragonfly</a></strong>.</p><p>Updating the <strong><a href="https://www.enworld.org/posts/9249563" target="_blank">Mammoth Helicopter Damselfly</a></strong>.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cleon, post: 9257916, member: 57383"] Finished the Mammoth Helicopter Damselfly with the following addition to its [b]Description[/b]: [INDENT] [SIZE=5][B][SIZE=7]U[/SIZE]NDERDARK[SIZE=7] H[/SIZE]ELICOPTER[SIZE=7] D[/SIZE]AMSELFLIES[/B][/SIZE] [COLOR=magenta]Deep beneath the earth is the Underdark, a mysterious maze of tunnels, crevices and caves. The greatest of its caverns are unbelievably vast and teem with life in forests of weird fungi and strange subterranean seas. In this sunless realm, the ecosystem is powered by dissolved chemicals, geothermal warmth, and the Underdark's own eldritch radiations. Some of these sunless seas and mushroom jungles swarm with shimmers of giant damselflies who explorers from the surface have dubbed [I]Ghostwings[/I] from their eerie appearance. A ghostwing is two or three yards long, with body and legs that look so thin they're almost translucent, and to normal eyes it is colored pallid white with spots of deathly grey. However, it is actually strikingly patterned in garish hues that are only visible to darkvision—many of these darkvision colors don't even have [I]names[/I] in Common. Despite their spooky appearance, ghostwings are relatively harmless, and mostly only attack normal bats and spiders, Tiny giant flies, and creatures of similar size. A ghostwing damselfly is a Small or Medium underdark helicopter damselfly (see Giant Damselfly or Giant Dragonfly for statistics). That is far from the case for the mammoth underdark damselfly, a rare monster that can reach lengths of 50 feet or more. They have many names, such as [I]Death Phantom[/I] or [i]Web Killer[/I] and are hated and feared by the Underdark's inhabitants, especially the drow,. Mammoth underdark helicopters show a great fondness for eating subterranean giant spiders and the drow themselves, so the dark elves go to great lengths in attempts to eradicate them, with little success. A death phantom damselfly is a Huge underdark helicopter damselfly (see Mammoth Helicopter Damselfly or Titanic Tropical Dragonfly for statistics). The main reason the drow have failed to exterminate the Huge underdark damselfly is ghostwings and death phantoms are actually one extraordinarily tenacious species. The drow are unaware of this, and would be unable to destroy every ghostwing in the Underdark even if they knew. The larvae of underdark helicopter damselflies are able to metamorphose into adulthood from a range of instars (larval growth stages) far wider than any natural odonatid, with adult sizes ranging from a Small ghostwing to a Huge death phantom. The adults then mate and females lay their eggs in water to hatch into the next generation of naiads, which become adults themselves when environmental cues trigger their transformations. In general, naiads who share their water with larger predators transform into adulthood as early as possible, becoming ghostwings and flying off to somewhere safer , explaining why they are so common. However, if a naiad is very successful, it becomes one of these "larger predators" itself before it is old enough to metamorphose, in which case it attempts to reach Huge size and become a death phantom. Underdark helicopter damselfly naiads can become intermediary adults between a ghostwing and death phantom in size, but this is unusual. This typically only happens when their water pool is just big enough for a single naiad to develop into a Large underdark helicopter damselfly, a creature dubbed a [I]Wraithwing[/I] by the surface dweller who discovered it (see Imperial Giant Dragonfly for statistics). An underdark damselfly's eggs can survive out of water for an impressive length of time, lying dry and dormant until conditions are better. In addition, underdark damselfly naiads are incredibly adaptable, able to live in an incredible range of water temperature and chemistry, from near-boiling brine to crystal-clear icewater, and also are amphibious, able to breathe air as well as water. While they prefer to live in water, an underdark damselfly naiad only has to be submerged when it hatches from its egg, or when a naiad of Large size or bigger needs to molt its exoskeleton and grow into its next instar (see Mammoth Helicopter Damselfly Naiad for details).[/COLOR] [/INDENT] That satisfies me enough I'm going to do another update: Updating the [B][URL='https://www.enworld.org/posts/9249257']Giant Damselfly[/URL][/B]. Updating the [B][URL='https://www.enworld.org/posts/9249220']Giant Dragonfly[/URL][/B]. Updating the [B][URL='https://www.enworld.org/posts/9249560']Imperial Giant Dragonfly[/URL][/B]. Updating the [B][URL='https://www.enworld.org/posts/9249563']Mammoth Helicopter Damselfly[/URL][/B]. [/QUOTE]
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