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Mortasheen - Belphegoyle

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"Spring Hoof"

CLASS: BIOCONSTRUCT

An impulsive, lewd and often narcissistic creature, the Belphegoyle's love of destruction is exceeded only by its own masochism, and its lust for new flavors of pain can often prove its undoing. Generating volatile reactant compounds in its many-chambered gut, it can spew forth a boiling hot geyser of stinking sulfuric vapor, even burning away its own resilient flesh in the process. Proud of its scarred and scabrous face, it fears being seen in a fully healed state and regularly "freshens up" with its own caustic regurgitant.

The Belphegoyle's leg muscles allow only springing locomotion, continuously bouncing even while its head may remain level. Tensing every muscle in its body body, it can clear several yards in a single leap.

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I actually came up with two similar monsters, a hopping devilish goat and a more elongated, winged version ala the Jersey Devil, but I wound up combining them. Maybe I'll still do the flying one some day.
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Lee-Sherman's avatar
The eyes are really eye-catching. You seem to have combined goat eyes with lizard eyes, and the way they're reflecting the light makes them stand out. The melty face with crooked-toothed gator jaws poking out is also remarkable. The body doesn't really make much of an impression. This has more dark parts than most Mortasheen, and that provides nice contrast. The horns, like the eyes, are a neat feature that really stands out. The sheen you give the horns doesn't really square with their ribbed silhouettes.