Cursed Statue (ASHR)

> *Don't turn your back on those things unless they are in a corral.*
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## Cursed Statue

Don't turn your back on those things unless they are in a corral.

## General Information

### Found In:

Anomalous Epicenter (Common), Wild, Tangled Mess (Only 5), The Incinerator (Only 10), Feral Thicket (Only 5), Fractured Iceberg (Only 3)

### Diet:

Everything (excluding a lot of Slime Science resources, Slimes and Ranchers)

### Special Behaviour/Abilities:

doesnt move when day, but starts moving at night / if put into a place with no light (indicated by glowing eyes and different pose). wont be able to move if you stare at them. will try to kill you. will stop trying if fed their favourite food. also still has the "will never stop eating like ever" cringe. Will break petrified hens and roostros. Immune to Prismatic Abominations.

### Theme:

honestly i really want to make a unique theme for when there's like 20 or more of them targeting you but idk if that's a good idea

## Media

### TOU:

no

**Cursed Statue** is a hostile slime. Generally it is found in the Anomalous Epicenter, but some of them can be found in different areas, such as the Wild, Tangled Mess or The Incinerator.

This slime is exclusive to the "A "Slightly" Harder Range" gamemode.

## ~~Slimepedia~~ L's Extra Details Information

### Diet

Everything, excluding Slimes, quite a lot of Slime Science Resources and you. The only Slime Science resources that they do eat are Hiss Wax, Hexacomb Wall, Feral Honey, Trap Jelly, Pepper Jam, Walnut Juice, Honey Leaves and Rough Fluffwax.

### Favorite

Milk. I have no idea how their... "Evolution" gave them a favorite food.

### Slime Toy

Glitching Statuette. It looks cursed. They love to beat the crap out of it when no one is looking. You can use it to distract them; Cursed Statues will always prefer targeting the Glitching Statuette over targeting anything else.

### Slimeology

Cursed Statues are former Ringtail Slimes. Unlike most other slimes, their new appearance and abilities isn't the result of evolution; It's more of a transformation they seemed to undergo shortly after the Ancient Ruins became the Anomalous Epicenter, similarly to Dimensional Anomalies, the former Quantum Slimes. Rumor has it these guys were cursed by some random interdimensional entity. No clue how much of that is real, but they do sure as hell look cursed.

Despite fully being statues, they are still capable of movement, but only during nighttime or in dark spaces, and only when a Rancher isn't directly looking at them. They will make a unique sound (okay, calling the sound of a rock being dragged across the floor unique might've been a little stretch.), which helps you determine whether they're moving or not while you're not looking. Their movement capability and whether they're targeting something or not is determined by their eye color; Yellow glow is indicating that they can move right now, but are being stopped by something. Orange glow is indicating that they're fully capable of movement. Red glow is indicating that they are capable of moving and are targeting something. Pink glow is indicating that they can move, are targeting something, but are being stopped. No glow is present during daytime out of spaces with no light.

Time and lighting conditions don't matter in the Anomalous Epicenter, though. So watch out for any murderous statues while you're there, and remember to bring some milk if things get out of hand. Yup, these guys stop trying to kill you if you feed them milk. I guess they're just grateful. Or just not that hungry to bother chasing you again. I have absolutely no clue.

Also, due to Cursed Statues being, well, literal statues, Prismatic Abominations don't consider them food. Cursed Statues take advantage of that, and attack Prismatic Abominations when they feel like it. They'd be decent Anti-PA defense, if not for their hostility and the fact that sometimes they just don't care.

### Rancher Risks

Cursed Statues are hostile. VERY hostile. The second they see you, they want you dead, and with the amount of damage they deal, they're very much capable of that. They're also pretty darn fast, so if one is targeting you, make sure to always keep an eye on them, or that eye is going to end up in wherever they process the things they eat along with the rest of you. Other than that, they're pretty harmless. Heck, if you have enough milk, you could even keep one as a pet... Though i seriously don't recommend that.

They will also break any petrified chickens they see for some weird reason. Not an issue if it's happening inside of a corral, but anywhere else... A Prickly Slime raid is pretty much guaranteed to be coming to that place. Which also shouldn't really be an issue unless you're trying to gather resources or unless it happened inside of a hideout or on your ranch out of a corral because you thought that keeping a Cursed Statue out of said corral is a good idea.

Oh, and the never-stopping-eating issue is still around. Their eyes gain a slight green tint when they're supposed to be full, so don't feed the specific Cursed Statues if you see that, unless it's a wild one and you just don't want it to kill you.

On the ranch, always keep Cursed Statues within a corral, or else you risk turning your ranch into a generic Anomalous Epicenter Cursed Statue zone. In the bad way.

### Plortonomics

something something same shit as actual ringtail plorts but they are always hardened something something also makes some random shit unironically move when no light something something still very malleable something (wip)

## Appearance

statued ringtails but big and eerie as crap. eyes glow when night/in a dark place/in anomalous epicenter

## Tips

* always bring milk when going to anomalous epicenter. also have milk stashes in anomalous epicenter hideouts
* never keep cursed statues out of corrals
* its generally better to collect their plorts with a plort collector. whatever the hell it is you're doing, never throw yourself into one corral with those things unless you fed them with milk beforehand
* dont use pure Cursed Statues as prismatic abomination defense ever, they might decide to do literally nothing. But if you dont have the adaptable anu slime yet and seriously need actual prismatic abomination defense, you can pair these with feral canine slimes. this way you will make the resulting largo never not consider fighting prismatic abominations. Best part - the largo WILL win the fight, 'cause it's a rock. Don't use the pure cursed statues or any other slime / cursed statue largo for that though.
* glitching statuette is worth it because cursed statues will always only target it and nothing else when its around. you gotta have the toy replicator though because durability is a thing and cursed statues do a hella lot of damage (50)

## Secret Style

Their Secret Style is called Mind Control. it makes them into volleyball references. Because i fricking can.

### Description

*Imagine being mind-controlled by some perfection-obsessed idiot for 8000 years.*

## Trivia

* Cursed Statue is one of the only four slimes in the gamemode to not have "Slime" in its name.
* ha ha pink pearl references
* Cursed Statue's icon has yellow eyes because you're looking at it.