Runoff

“Runoff” are monsters created as an unintentional byproduct of Engineer genetic experiments. As the name implies, they are spawned from waste produced by Engineer facilities. The improperly disposed of concoctions used as part of the Engineers’ genetic experimentation curdle in pipes, gutters, rivers and ponds into mounds of tissue, occasionally progressing to develop half-formed organs and nerves haphazardly stitched together by self-assembling protein bonds into a shuddering mass of cancerous meat typified by flapping, gap-toothed mouths, wagging, snake-like tongues, patches of twitching fingers and a multitude of blinking, bloodshot eyes. Runoffs exist in a constant state of mindless pain as a result of their abortive nature, but generally experience constant growth as they absorb whatever biomass they come into contact with as they slowly, aimlessly worm their way across the ground. They are composed predominantly of human DNA, given the subject of the Engineers’ experimentation, but over the course of their cursed half-life will incorporate whatever local fauna suffers the horrific fate of not being completely torn apart by various competing maws, instead being merged into the mass of flesh wholesale while being pinned against the pulsing blob by tentacle-like tongues and engulfed by psuedopods. Animals are thought to retain their own will even in this state as their nervous system appears to be mostly left intact by the experience, though they are helpless to escape. It is best left unthought of what might befall a human subject to the same process.
Runoff can be encountered wherever Engineer facilities are. They are most commonly found in California , Central Asia, South Asia, and Southeast Asia.
Category:PACYOA: TE
Category:TE Species
Category:The Engineers