Kaijune: Year 2

## Ninelegs

*"It's telling of the moral sewer of this country that the pigs try to eat their young even with... all this shit going around! Like, god, the police brutality at these protests isn't unprescedented, isn't a new thing, but it sure is fucked when all this shit's going on!*

*But, there's at least one thing that's going on that's good. I was at the protest by the bay, violence, cops had first blood, the usual/ Then I saw one of the kids, the one in the weird goddamn mask, pull out some horn thingie, switched it on. And, just as this loud howling, this big slimy fucker steps out of the sea, and the see follows with him*

*He looks at the pigs, pigs start running their trotters across the shattered concrete before they can even swipe a tentacle at 'em. There was a goddamn pork roast tonight let me tell you! Somehow, I think the kids're gonna pull out alright..."*

*-D.W. Devlin*

Who is this polypous punkis? Their profile, after the break!

Ninelegs (Named for their  is almost certainly a mutant mimic octopus, perhaps spliced by some enigmatic creator with aspects of other species if the way he can envenom the smoky ink cloud that is their main "gimmick",

Well, their main gimmick aside from spraying a concentrated jet of saltwater at cutting speed and; more prominently than that, simply their immense strength and flexibility; allowing them to assume a wide and wild range of martial stances. But I digress

Aside from those implications, not much is known about this entity or their origins. The first sightings were at sites of attacks by other kaiju, usually also sites of civil unrest related to cruel attempts to restore "order" by the authorities in ways that none-too-subtly resembled the ways in which they were already pushing for gentrification of those areas.

The entity appeared in multiple shapes in these sightings, until it adopted the pseudo-kaiju form it adopts today. It is speculated that it is attempting to "fit in" with other kaiju. Given the observed extensive lifespans of kaiju and the extremely low lifespans of octopi, it has been speculated that this is from an immense loneliness and desire to "fit in".

Certainly, they have semi-succeeded; at least in terms of interactions with Korangu and Jiira. Korokora, the benevolent amorphous kaiju linked to ocean sites has alternately spoken in riddles or refused to answer to questions regarding Ninelegs' origin.

They have also been associated with a young community activist, known only as BigHead for his distinctive mask, who has shown up at multiple coastal protests with a device that appears to "summon" Ninelegs. The means by which it operates is unknown, but from observation the working hypothesis is that it is a means of communication, not control...

[Note: I was influenced partially by current events at the time of that writing. Tho, the storyline was concieved a bit before them, so it'd have been a bit late in the game to alter who the planned main antagonists are; but that sort of commentary is probably gonna show up a decent bit this time around. And yes, along with IRL mimic octopi being rad as hell, this goober was influenced by Octodad. NOBODY SUSPECTS A THING!]

## SPEKTORS

*Despite Subject Viroko's resistance, implanted eggs from tenatively-named Spektor #003 were ultimately extracted from the dermis. Eggs appear to have fungal and vegetal properites in their tissues, and appear to have a "root" system indicative of parasitoid reproductive strategies.*

*Eggs appear to have pseudo-neural tissue  properties n these "roots" indicating behaviors of neural hijacking. Multiple redundant systems for this process appear to be in place, along with what appears to be a "broadcast" system made of parts analogous in function but wildly different in physiology to a neural system.*

*Working hypothesis is these entities were artificially engineered. By what, we do not know. God help us all...*

*-Professor Kerry Crown.*

These entities seemingly have no known origin (for now), they simply appeared one day and we had to deal with them, as a society.

Their powers include a simple eye-beam, flight, and a nasty implantation of eggs via their lower stinger akin to some species of wasp that can prove fatal and end in the hijacking of a nervous system if the kaiju's system can't handle it or; in the case of Viroko up there, if it's not extracted via secondary sources in time.

They are extremely frail compared to most kaiju, but make up for it by attacking in sheer numbers. swarming and attaclking with hit and run beams before one swoops in for implantation.

The trade-off is that to sustain their energy, they must remain inactive and "root" themselves during daylight hours to "recharge", though a seeming dermal "crust" makes the process of attacking them during this period difficult (But not impossible with either sufficient force or sufficient electrochemical stimulation).

But, numbers are their own advantage, and many do fear what they seem to imply, given that while the eggs appear to have an extremely low success rate regarding implantation, the fact that they produce broadcast "frequencies" while implanted is... troublesome in its implications.

[*Note: My intentions with the design were to evoke a bit of barn owl (Relating to the idea that alien sightings are all just barn owls misinterpreted) and a George Pal War Of The Worlds-type UFO. Their resemblance to the Gyaos from Gamerais wholly coincidental but welcome!*]

## BABBYGUME

*NEW, FREE, IT IS A VIVID AND EXCITING FLAVOR! NEW FOR A HOLIDAY OR GIVING SEASON, PETS OR MEAT! OFFER NOW, WE HAVE  MANY IN STOCKS!*

*-Broadcast hijacking in the Tucson area, on the date of 1/23/20XX*

Who is this cute not-at-all-suspicious critter? More on them past the break!

It's the new pet craze sweeping the nation! Appearing in most stores with no known company of origin, they're still happy to sell them as the perfect pet, and suckers are happy to buy given how cheap they are and how little maintainance they require!

Their disposition is seemingly cuddly and pleasant, and their voracious apetite is made up for by their ability to eat almost anything and the delicious "pellets" they spit up, so good  they're practically adictive! And also literally so!

Which, makes the push for them all the more suspicious in subtle ways. Like, their habit of "digging" at night and the strange vegetation that surrounds houses for their actions. Or, when Kerry Crown analyzed their DNA, noticing a massive amount of seemingly unused "junk" DNA organized a bit too suspiciously to be any sort of mutation, almost as if there's something meant to trigger its activation...

[*Note: For the record, yes this is a parody of Baby Nut, tho I've heard it said my design is way cuter than the actual thing. It is also a reference to the Dorats from the Godzilla franchise, which to those familiar with them, that should have some implications...*]

## TORPUS

*"Ye ever go into the sea boy? Not onto the sea mind ye, but in it, fall into the green-blue vast with with its jaws open and hungry for the bones of man in the teeth of coral abyss?*

*Aye, twonce happened to me. Was a lad of eighteen, there was a storm. The eye of god had fallen upon me and fed me into posideon's jaws. The green and black pulled at my knobbly legs, not yet sea legs my lad, and then the dolphins came.*

*Now, don't you believe those lies, dolphins are not friends of man. I had known this once before, and I knew it now I could see them, with hatred in their smiles and howling wails, and lust in their cold; dead eyes. They were on top of me, chewing and at my skin even as their unwholesome undulations of flesh reached through the wounds until...*

*...they scattered, and fled. And I felt something in the water, rumbling deep in a way where the salt clutches at your bones. I saw a great shape rise from the water, as Leviathan before Job. I saw two great green glowing orbs, like the judgement of the sea was upon me*

*...And then, they was attached to this idiot."*

*-Captain Wallace "Gravy" Anderson*

Torpus is a relatively minor prescence even despite the fact that it was interacting with humans well before the current "boom" in kaiju sightings, and relatively small for a kaiju to boot. But this also means they tend to interact with humans more, even moreso after the seeming victories against the Carci Nation (Read last year's KaiJune entries for that), and these interactions have been mostly benign, even friendly.

They are cute and playful, even as they're biting a whale in half and eating it, and even as they use their tail against much larger opponents for the purposes of electrical discharge attacks; freezing attacks; or both at once to create small crystals of electrical ice with... unusual gravitational/magnetic properties, I will say that. Which they tend to play around with because, again, they are adorable.

They are known for being awkward and slow on land, but extremely fast underwater, with the ripples of fat on their skin being able to undulate at speeds greater than most modern jet engines. They tend to attack with lightning speed in quick strikes when they take something seriously; which is rare and usually due to another entity trying to injure someone they like.

Otherwise, they attack relatively leisurely and playfully, which usually isn't of much help, given they're a . Nevertheless, they get along fine with most non-malicious kaiju, even if Viroko has tried to yeet them as a projectile multiple times.

Due to the prescence of symbiotic algae that allows it to breathe underwater far longer than the common seals it is (likely) derived from, it is speculated it may have been engineered by some human or pre-human aquatic civilization, though on that Korokora is also silent despite the fact they are likely in-the-know, as is The Pyramid Society...

[*Note: I basically just doodled up this lil fella and thought they worked well as sort of a watery Baragon analogue, not much more to 'em! And also, there is a reason the captain in that opening quote has the nickname "Gravy," and they wish you would not ask about it.*]

## LPT RAYTANK

*"Oh god, these fucking things. The most telling fucking thing about these fucking things is the first time they put 'em out tried to make them drones. The colateral damage was too much even for them.*

*The next thing you need to know is they don't do dick about kaiju, and they use 'em on every one they can find, even the ones who're doing the fucking job they need to know when to fucking butt out of! Oh, but they know, they fucking know, we all know how they're actually using them.*

*It's easy to get fucking tanks in a city in a disaster situation and; hey; if a few protesting malcontents get crispy critters-ed it's fine. It's fine, don't worry about it, they say lying through their fucking teeth!"*

*-DW Devlin*

As kaiju become more and more A Thing in this universe, it was natural of course millitaries around the world would try and develop technologies to Deal With It.

The first thing you need to know is that "LPT" stands for "Little Plastic Tanks," a joke on their ineffectuality by the engineers on the project that kinda stuck. Even though, as the pedants point out, they are made mostly of metal and the name partially relates to their original "RC" nature, which was indeed an extremely bad idea that wasted a large amount of money.

Even with these issues of production, their construction is actually shockingly robust in comparison to even most other millitary vehicles, and their main weapons are surprisingly modular, able to be adapted for electrolasers, cryo-rays, microwave-beams, focused radio-carcinogenic weapontry, and more.

But, "shockingly robust" in comparison to other millitary vehicles still means "like styrofoam versus gasoline" to a kaiju attack. So, due to the extremely high amounts of casualties they endure, they tend to be seen as mostly fodder for photo-ops. Though, while extremely non-lethal, they are useful for corralling kaiju away from populated areas by annoying them, so thusly, they remain moderately useful; even if their reputation is deservedly shakey.

But, Devlin's right to be suspicious, given how many heads at the pentagon are thinking about adaptation for civillian "policing" operations, using kaiju attacks as a smokescreen to legislate their way into being placed into that role. Which almost certainly won't end well...

[*Note: This was designed a riff on the MASER Tanks from the Godzilla movies, combined with a bit of plausible cynicism. I got the name from a Lore Sjoberg article*]

## INVADER-1

*"Comparative analysis has confirmed that signals emanating from Subject Invader-1's pseudo-Schwarzhild radiant-signal is a match for those of the "Spektors." Further reverse-engineering of signals and comparisons of redundancies  show multiple matches for patterns related to genetic code; with large amounts of "junk" data in relative proportions to previous redundancies.*

*Our working hypothesis is that this is not "junk," but rather an intended robust "language" of communication, capable of analyzing multiple strains of biological coding; those known and unknown to this planet. The further implications are... unsettling."*

*-Kerry Crown*

Of unknown origin similar to the Spektors, this entity has three main abilities. Its massive bolt-blaster creates an immense explosive flare, its abilities of flight via its UFO-shaped "head"; further augmented by its ability to compress its body into this appendange and retreat extremely rapidly, and the strange "black hole" in its chest that creates a low-radius but high-power vaccuum that consumes what it absorbs seemingly completely.

Simple, but deadly, even before one considers its durability and strength is extreme compared to any earthly kaiju, though eventually Jiira managed to injure it first. Which has lead to Viroko following it from city to city; seemingly as a show of attempted strength, though it has not succeeded in any attempts at tissue damage to Invader-1 so far.

Samples taken from debris left behind by this injury have shown that the entity is indeed partially cybernetic, but on a more hollistic level than apparent from its appearance, and utilizing a variant of genetic code unrelated to any terrestrial organisms.

This maps disquietingly with its behavior, which is unusually methodical. For one, it always appears in cities that have been previously attacked by infestations of Spektors; moving in what appears to be a methodical "grid" pattern . For another, it rarely if ever uses its "blaster" on structures or non-kaiju organisms, and when it has caused sufficient tissue damage it appears to attempt to "feed" any chunks or detached kaiju tissues into the hole.

Whatever it is, as shown in Kerry's analysis, it appears to be gathering information and sending it... somewhere. That can't be good.

## BIGGENDONN

*"It's freedom or death at the order now for the low low price of no cash necessary for air and tire change for a dollar in society!"*

*-Excerpt from anomalous broadcast, three days before the first sighting of Bigenndonn*

Who is this big boi? More on them after the break!

An anomaly unconnected to the current spate of UFO-related ones, Biggendon is almost comical as they waddle down the street, until they blow with their gale-force winds wrecking buildings and civillians alike.

They can expand it to a typhoon-esque gust or focus it to a razor beam, though often it does this playfully. When it appears to feel under thread, it unleashes its nastiest attack, using the glasslike teeth to inject an opponent with air; causing hideous wounds from both the extreme sharpness of the teeth and the force of the injection.

Though, while it is quite durable despite being extremely light for its size (allowing it immense leaping and wind-traveling abilities), the downside is, one puncture and it runs away. Though, not before activating an internal heating process that appears to be used to "regenerate" this punctured "flesh"; a process which is both immensely destructive and makes further pursuit nigh impossible.

It appears to gain materials to repair its body by "filter-feeding," though it is unsure whether the creature's actual "living" parts reside in some internal gaseous mixture  or the rubber itself. Preliminary testing of debris at scenes of combat show a mix.

The creature's mindset appears to, on the outside, be almost childlike; wildly unaware of what damage it is doing to other beings and appearing hurt when others do not want to join in on its "games." This is conjecture of course, given psychics like Narat have been unable to establish contact with the entity due to a seeming "polyperception clouding" emanating from some unknown signal.

A clouding that, when deciphered by beings like Narat almost resembles advertising copy, but in a bizarre; nigh Dadaist word salad...

[Note: the "ad monsters" faction was one I had planned from the get-go for this series, thanks to a few inspiring me in the previous year/ This one is based on, of course, Bibendum the Michelin Man, one of the oldest advertising mascots who is (technically) public domain! I even based the teeth on an extremely early ad where he was drinking glass! I'm kinda proud of how silly I made the expression on this goober!]

## KOPANZA ELOKIA

*“Really, I pity the thing. What, you are surprised by this? I understand. It would seem… strange that this creature causing such misery is a figure of pity in my eyes. But, they too are victims of the horrors of the regime, as much as we were, and as much as we still are. It was born too poisoned, too great, too cold, and that is perhaps its tragedy...”*

*-Doctor Prosper*

The kaiju of the African nations are not often spoken of, perhaps due to the same way in which Africa's concerns are ignored. But one of the most notorious from that continent is Kopanza Elokia, Elokia for short, born of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Their origins, as have been gathered by journalistic inquiry; result from a project by notorious DRC dictator Mobuto Sese Seko to surreptuously "open up" the rainforests of the DRC to foreign interests by devastating its ecosystem via mutating one of its invasive species; the common carp. And, while the project did not go through during the dictator's reign, the remnants of what was done; through neglect and carelessness; almost certainly produced the air-swimming piscine horror that is Elokia.

Its spreading of acidic rain and corrosive skin are certainly terrifying, but the really unsettling results of its prescence is the despair rain. The clouds of acid rain are distinctive and fast-acting and disperse quickly, but the clouds of rain spreading hopelessness and despair are much more difficult to detect and evacuate from and last much longer.

All beings, whether human or animal stuck in that rain; just; give up the will to live. Kaiju can shake themselves out of it in moments, but for humans it lasts much longer, and can only be pre-emptively halted with experimental treatments; well out of the price range of those most affected.

There are efforts at evacuation and driving them off, held by locals of the area such as Doctor Prosper, but they are woefully underfunded and understaffed, due to many different factors; all of them depressing.

Psionic contact has revealed that Elokia; as a being; is constantly in pain and barely aware of what it is doing, with just enough foggy self-preservation to fight back on the occasions it stumbles into the path of other kaiju. A walking, tortured environmental disaster that does not want to be in this state it is in...

[*Note: You may be wondering "Why the DRC" as their basis of origin?" and that's actually because, a friend of mine's family is from there/lived there for a time, and since you don't see many African kaiju, I figured I might as well ask them what one might be like!*

*They responded with the fact that, when they lived there, the people seemed so beaten down and hopeless regarding the possibility of change thanks to living under the horrors of the Mobutu regime, so they thought it'd make sense for a creature who spreads despair. And, since the big native animal there is the gorilla and that's been done to death as far as kaiju go, I decided on an invasive species; the carp; and the rest came from there!*

*Their name comes from the Lingala word for "to destroy" plus a combo of the words for "hope" and "fish"'respectively and I gave 'em those bubble-eyed goldfish-type growths to both suggest tears and the horrors of what humanity does to animals! So yeah, a lot of ideas went into this one!*]

## STARKILLER BIDOL IN 3D!

So, it's one of the few previous aliens I showed off last Kaijune, Starkiller Bidoll, but this time, IN 3D!!!!

...Or rather, using an anaglyph effect Ive always found pretty neat and relatively easy to do on images!

And, for a bit of explanation on how they're different from the new crop coming up, earth in this kaiju univers has been visited by alien empires before. But, they were usually somewhat petty, more akin to heavily-armed mafias or refugees from a world they themselves had destroid and learned nothing from, things perhaps akin to "us".

But, from everything we've seen of this new threat it's... *different*. Something truly old and alien in its motives. What makes this stranger still is that Bidol does not appear to be acting at the behest of anything else, but rather her own, and she seems to deeply, viciously, *hate* this new empire, going out of her way to team up even with former enemies to attack its creatures.

Her reasons, as with many things about her, are mysterious...

## KAIJU PARASITES

Because, with things as big as kaiju, you'd inevitably get parasitic organisms!

They are, as follows:

**Ovni** (Upper-left)- Turns out, the "eggs" of the Spektors are their own organisms, which develop in the proper conditions. As Kerry Crown unfortunately learned when reaching a singular specimen that had been lodged in Guagh's skin flaps for a distressing amount of time.

Their "roots" appear to be adapted to movement, with stingers that appear to cause seizures in non-kaiju organisms, seemingly through electrical discharge rather than venom. In the few times they have been observed, they have been seen to be extremely defensive, and seem to desire nothing more than to retreat to a very specific terrestrial position in Florida mapped to a very specific stellar arrangement and promptly explode.

Said explosion has been recorded as producing a massive electromagnetic burst, translating into an extremely powerful; information-dense signal...

**Tapeheads** (Upper-right)- A species recorded as appearing roughly around the same time as Bidoll, these entities root into skin with little pain to existing kaiju thanks to the mucous-like numbing agents and consume blood until they shrivel up and release their glowing "spores' through the luminescent heart-shaped hole in their head. Said "spores" are only ten percent organic matter, with roughly 90 percent of their composition being extremely complex patterns of photons held in that organic matrix.

Dissections of the creatures have revealed unsettling details, such as vestigial cartilaginous structures and organs, in particular an extreme amount of neural tissue going used due to what is seemingly a trivial genetic "error" in their extremely compled alien genetics. Said error was so simple that it could be fixed by earthly scientists through simple genetic therapy, but when such was done, the specimen so worked upon began to incessantly scream for multiple hours before melting into an organic mass approximately the temperature and viscosity of soft-serve ice cream.

For the record, Bidoll herself gleefully enjoys biting down on them when she finds them in another kaiju's skin during a fight...

**Slugbug** (Center-left)- A misnomer, these creatures are actually a bizarrely divergent form of non-eusocial mole-rat, seemingly naturally evolved alongside the natural kaiju, with an extremely thick carapace and huge anchoring "spines" seemingly derived from extremely altered toes.

They are immensely slow, but immensely sturdy; comparable to actual kaiju hide in durability, feeding with their two long teeth and an immensely long tongue with a salivary numbing agent. They are often observed licking their anchoring-spines with said tongue before jamming them into place, presumably to spread said numbing agent.

To further dissuade kaiju from picking them off, they have a simple "neural taser" on their back, producing an electric shock strong enough to kill a human, but for a kaiju, simply obnoxious enough that they would not bother picking them off.

**Luglicker** (Bottom-center)- An unusual creature for multiple reasons, in that while it does feed on kaiju blood with its enormously sharp/fast hollow tongue, it also appears to feed on other kaiju parasites, ambushing them with its enormously fast leaps and draining them of their fluids with its armor piercing tongue and storing them in the bubble-like protuberance in its back.

Its abilities at this are so efficient that many kaiju that can will deliberately wander into its oceanic habitat to partake in this "service" ignoring the loss of blood as a small price to pay for parasite removal. It usually does this until it is too bloated with fluids to leap quickly, after which point it hops into the see and uses those same legs to quickly swim away.

Scientists ovserving these creatures have found that they appear to collectively retreat to a "pool" underwater, where they deposit the glowing-black sludge they appear to process what they have consumed into and drink from collectively, though it is also noted that in most cases they appear to have a surplus, and also the co-ordinates of these "pools" are suspiciously similar to certain former cites of Carci Nation activity...

## SMOKEY JOE

"*AHA, I KNEW IT, I KNEW IT ALL ALONG! IT'S NOT JUST SOME SCATTERED AD CAMPAIGNS GONE FROM EXECUTIVES OFF THEIR TINY ROCKERS, IT'S A FUCKING, A FUCKIGN CAMPAIGN FOR THE ADS THEMSELVES! THEY'RE COMING TO TAKE OVER AND THEY'RE AGGRESSIVE! HA! I KNEW I JUST WASN'T METAPHOR-"*

*-DW Devlin, dictating into a recording device while under the influence of illicit substances, shortly before meeting the floor under the influence of gravity.*

By all rights this thing should not be alive. Its tissues are suffused with levels of nicotine toxic even to kaiju, and most of its tissues count as cancer cells. And yet, regenerating endlessly from damage even to its disgusting external lungs, it continues to live, spewing acidic "chaw" from its mouth and choking; sometimes incendiary gasses from its horrid back-lumps.

But, the most insidious part is not that, nor is it its seemingly unprovoked aggressiveness towards kaiju in the most visible possible places, but its effects on people. Namely, the smoke it produces creates a temporary, harsh craving for a very specific type of cigarette, which is almost always freely available in stores in cities where it walks.

This is unusual given that; in the areas which it appears, the cigarettes in question are seemingly packaged with labels related to a long-defunct ad campaign, which investigation has shown is surprisingly not the result of the brand's producers, who have no idea what the hell is going on either.

With that, and multiple other occurrences, there's suspicions of something sinister afoot beyond corporate marketing schemes gone too far, though what that is is unknown, and this appears to represent an escalation...

## What's Going On With Last Year's Kaiju?

So, while I've brought their names up multiple times, I haven't properly elaborated on what the other kaiju from last year's Kaijune stuff; with the wonky art and all; are doing. So, I should probably fix that!

Korangu- Korangu's... moderately busy in their weird spatial-wrinkle of a jungle, due to reports of strange; extremely aggressive cyborgized dinosaurs showing up, and Korangu having their above-average-amount-of-hands full dealing with it. It hasn't really leaked so nobody's seen them, though those who've gotten close enough to see glimpses has reported that whatever's doing this, it looks like trouble brewing...

Korokora/The Pyramid Society- While furtive and reluctant to answer questions about entities from the briny deep, they have good reasons to; given their work. More specifically, given how the back of the Carci Nation was broken last year, while their kaiju are still puttering around all citizes of the nation itself have seemingly vanished, and they're trying to mutually investigate why. Which is worrying, given the answers they have gotten so far are... ominous.

Big Cornflakes/Logosyne/Kolatiks- With the appearance of entities like Smokey Joe and Biggendonn there has been a massive spike in the aggression of these three, though some say it dates back to the appearances of the Babbygumes, and their appearances have begun to be accompanied by similar garbled broadcast hijackings comparable to the more recent of what have been termed as "ad monsters". DW Devlin and their assistants have been doing research and field reporting regarding the origin of these fuckos, but results have been slow in coming due to, you know, all the other shit they've been having to deal with/

Honex/Sealegg- In the midst of Honex's mentor, Korokora, buggering off to their important work, it's fallen to them to mentor the defector still remaining from the CarciNation, the humble Sealegg, in the art of protecting others from the ravages of this nasty new generation of baddies. Given how much of a goober Honex still is, results have been... mixed.

Zipacky- Is doing just fine, thank you!

## HORMOUF

*"I do not like this creature. Yes, even more so than the camel."*

*-Kerry Crown*

Nobody likes Hormouf. This extremely large (even compared to other kaiju) creature of unknown origin is viscerally unpleasant, leaving a sour; acidic odor wherever they go, eating everything in sight from kaiju tissue to buildings with its extremely powerful bite and flexible tongue.

This is even before one mentions the fact that they are constantly screaming. All the time. Except when they pause to breathe in for their even louder sonic scream attack. Or when they projectile vomit their extremely acidic bile that manages to be even more foul-smelling than the beast itself.

It is also obnoxious due to its neural displacement-field, seemingly spoofing all sensors biological or non-biological into simply refusing to process or notice it, even when it is right there. They prefer to attack other kaiju one-on-one alone, not just because they are clearly designed as an ambush predator akin to a Pacman frog (complete with screaming), but because when they attack more than one opponent, other kaiju tend to drop even the deepest of personal grudges to fight the beast until they leave.

Gorbus in particular has a seeming *deep and unending loathing* of the creature, and the feeling (as far as we can tell) appears to be mutual. Though, it is unknown the link these two have, but, I mean, can you really blame Gorbus?

[*Note: I designed this fucker by drawing a slate of teeth, and then drawing a monster around them, making them muppety in a horrible way, in particular modeling their eyes after classic unpleasant Muppet monsters like Gorgon Heap, Big V and the Beautiful Day Monster. Making them an enemy of the also-Muppet-inspired Gorbus was only natural after that, as was making them a constantly screaming vomiting abomination nobody likes*!]

## PROBE-Q

*I believe, according to all indications, the intention of these invaders is not conquest but the gathering of information. All creatures identifiable so far  appear to be geared towards this purpose in both behavior and production of united frequencies.*

*The civilization appears to be advanced on a scale dwarfing previous attempts by secondary criminal organizations or imperialistic refugees, and all indications in construction and lack of direct contact point to a society beyond scarcity and thus lacking the need for conquest.*

*Novel information, then, would be the only plausible acquisition of resources by a hypercivilization on a currently inhabitable planet such as this. Despite our study of this, however, their motives for this acquisition and the non-diplomatic means of acquiring it remain unknown...*

*-Kerry Crown addressing the International Scientific Council on her findings.*

Probe Q represents an escalation of the enigmatic efforts of The Invaders (as they have become coloquially known despite them not truly "invading" per-say), accompanying greater swarms of Spektors in their assaults.

Their combat abilities are vast as one would expect. In addition to their devastating occular "heat ray" and the "photonic acid" blaster they are armed with, they can produce swarms of what can only be described as "octopus bats" produced from their internals and released from beneath them.

These "bats" mainly act to cling onto human faces; releasing a signal that is by all accounts near identical to Spektor "eggs" for approximately three days before dropping off and melting. They may also act, in swarms, to clog kaiju orifices and serve as a diffusion mechanism for certain beam weapons.

For a more unsettling ability, they have what is by all accounts a "tractor beam" on their underbelly which they may at times use to "reel in" other kaiju for a three-legged grapple but more often is used to "consume" smaller structures and organisms in its mass. These organisms and structures are often found in a sticky "bolus" miles away from their point of capture barely alive, having lost a significant amount of muscular tissue.

They also have the "probe" they get their name from, which exists as an organic crowbar to reach into surfaces weakened by ranged attacks to pry them open and "analyze" the subjects inside with their tendrils. Kaiju psionically communicated with about this process describe it as feeling like "brain overload" and "asking pain questions," with the few humans surviving this process reacting similarly.

Direct scientific analysis has been done upon the being during diurnal hours when it is inactive, though efforts to kill it during these expeditions have largely failed. It appears to "rest" in what can only be described as a "T-Pose". It is not mechanical as one might expect; despite having massively amounts of metals integrated into its body, but a totally biological organism, with  a similar system of sustenance to existing kaiju made further self-sustaining by its 99.9$ efficiency rate at converting solar power to biological energy.

It also appears to release signals; both similar to the ones produced by previous Invader entities, but also one that is different. The new signal has been analyzed and mostly decoded, due to its greater simplicity compared to the previous "invader signal," and it appears to be akin to a signal matching the neural wavelengths of the entity, but designed for co-ordination.

Estimates have been given that one hundred of the things could be united by this signal. Which makes it curious why they only sent one...

[*Note: I did base it off a composite flatwoods alien and a War of the Worlds tripod. Fun fact, in the original sketch of this the crowbar-type probe was waaaaaayyyyyy more phallic. I changed it into an organic crowbar based on Galrog from Ricesnot's stuff*]

## IPOMO

*⛥ P̸͙̀l̸͖͝ẻ̷̘a̶͕͠s̷̮͠ȅ̶̼,̴̤̈ ̶̩̒ȕ̴̖ṅ̴͇d̷͔̋e̸̡̍r̸̺̈́s̵̜͂t̶̼͆a̷̡͂ṉ̶̒d̴̗̔,̵͙̾ ̴͉͊t̸̪̀h̶̘̄e̸̦͂r̶̘̈́ë̷̢ ̴̱͋i̸̟͗s̶̡̈́ ̴̢͆a̸̗̍ ̴̙̀m̶̪͆a̷̛̟l̸͍̍e̵̮̊v̷̛̤ö̴̟́l̶̦̓e̴͓͂n̶̞̅t̸̼͋ ̷̠͗f̸̮̔o̸̳̔r̷̠͛c̷̩͝e̴͊ͅ ̵̹͝ȧ̴̝t̶̥͝t̸̙̏ę̶̎m̶͚̈́p̷̬͠t̴̪̋i̸̙̽n̵̫͂g̶̖̀ ̴̙͘t̷͇͑o̷͎͒ ̸̅͜m̵̟͗a̶̢̛k̶̖̚e̸̦͐ ̷̪̐i̷͎̐ẗ̵̟́s̴̥͘e̴͖͛l̵̳̏f̸̭̉ ̵̙̆"̴̨͠k̷͕͝n̵̥͠ǫ̷̑w̶̮͗n̵̺͆"̵͓̽ ̷͖̌t̴̰͂h̸̟͋r̸̛̘ő̵̯u̶͕͛g̵͔̋ḧ̷̤́ ̴͖͌t̶̳̒ḧ̶͎́ë̵̥s̸̡̔e̶̗͆ ̵͈͗b̸̨̆ṛ̶̃o̶͙͗ą̶̽d̵̨̽c̷̫͆a̶̱̓s̶͔̀t̵̓ͅs̷̖͝ ̶̮͑I̴̗̎ ̸̦̐a̶͑ͅm̴̙̊ ̸̹̚ḯ̴̝ǹ̴̥t̶̹͒e̷̜̎r̵̙̃ṳ̷̔p̴̦̓ţ̶́î̵̢n̵͈͆g̴̨͑,̸̬͗ ̸͍̉ḇ̷͒e̶̟͛y̸̨̓o̵̮͆ṉ̸͠d̶̥̑ ̶̭̌ĭ̶̞n̶̖̉d̴̩̄í̵͎v̷̡̈i̵̱͂d̶̲̓ù̸ͅḁ̷̍l̵͔̊ ̴̫͐à̴̖t̴̰͆t̵̔͜a̷̧͗c̷̭̀k̵̳̒s̶̘͛ ̸̢͝w̵̙̃h̴̦̒ã̷͜t̸͕͘ ̵͔́h̷̛͍a̸͈͒s̵̳̓ ̴̼͋b̶̞̾e̶͙͘ë̷̙ņ̷̏ ̷̲̚m̷̼̔a̸͋͜d̸̤͗è̷̫ ̸͕̍a̷͔̋ẃ̴̜a̶̻͝r̸̡̋e̶͓̋ ̸͑͜ẗ̴̤o̴͍͠ ̵͍̏ť̴̘h̷̠̋e̶̢̋ ̷̭̓p̷̆ͅṷ̶̾b̴͇̈́l̶̞͊i̷̥̽c̵̜̓.̵̬̀ ̸͕̂T̸̫͐h̷̪̒ë̴̢́ ̸̣̚ĉ̷̡r̷̪̽e̶̼͂ä̵̼ṱ̴͝u̷̼͛r̴͙̿e̷͎̋ ̴͙̐I̵̖̊ ̷̘̽h̸̲̔a̷̲̽v̸̬̀e̴̘̊ ̷̪̈d̵̨͋e̷͔̾ś̵̰i̸̞͑g̵̣͘ṅ̵̮e̸̜̽d̷͉̒ ̸̗̿i̸̥̐ŝ̵̰ ̶̝͊f̴̥̓ö̸̮́r̷̯̓ ̷̗̅d̶̳̐e̸̮͌f̶͓̑e̶̹̚ñ̵͕s̶̻͛e̵͈͛,̶̱̽ ̶̯̀p̷͙͘l̸̫͊e̶͕͋ǎ̵̭s̴̠̿e̷̼̒,̷̢̏ ̸͘͜t̶̼̕r̶̹̿ǔ̶̪ṣ̷̈́t̸̼͊ ̷͚̓ẗ̷̠ẖ̶́ẽ̵̪m̸̺͊ ̴̲̉w̵̝͒h̷̼̅e̴̜͗ṅ̸̮ ̴̓͜t̸͖̆h̴̯͑e̶̞͌ẏ̴̯ ̴̼̑c̷͚̈́ọ̸͝m̸̔͜e̷͓͠.̴͓̿ ̷̱̓D̶͔̕o̴̖̾ ̵͉͑n̵̺̉o̶̞̅t̷̠̄ ̵̫͂l̵̊͜i̷̯͒s̶̛̗t̸̳͆ȩ̴̚n̷͉̔ ̷̢͝t̶̝̊ǒ̴̰ ̴͓̿t̸̖̕h̵͇͛e̷͈͝ ̴̼̒a̴̪͌d̷͓̓v̵̧̐ë̵̘ř̸̫t̴͇͌i̸̦͝s̴̯͝e̸̤͊r̴̺͝š̷̬ ̴̣̆ơ̴͓r̸̫͠ ̸͉̔a̶̺̚n̷̻̊y̴̱͗ ̷̓ͅo̶̙͑t̵̳̒ḥ̸̒e̸̜̊r̶̢͒s̵̾ͅ ̶̦͛ṱ̸͝h̴̻̑e̷̱͋y̵̪̚ ̶̟̕f̴̛̲ö̵͇l̵̒͜-̴͔̀ ☠*

*-Garbled transmission from broadcast hijacking in Seattle, Washington, itself interrupting a secondary broadcast hijacking in the wake of Smokey Joe.*

This kaiju, so far, has been something of a cryptid, wandering in mainly rural areas. Cited sizes vary wildly, from the size of a two-story house to sizes reaching what is considered "standard" kaiju size, possibly implying multiple specimens. The smaller specimens appear docile when noticing humans, even "friendly" in a way, though the larger ones are not necessarily unfriendly; as much as their size makes it difficult for them to directly notice humans.

They appear to be simple in construction, simply very strong, able to protect their bodies by burrowing (Though not truly capable of long-distance tunneling); and while around-average in durability during the few encounters viewed with kaiju, ; their regeneerative abilities are extreme.

But, tissue analysis also shows a possible hidden ability, that being the fact that their flesh vastly increases all biological functional capabilities for a temporary period, with a seeming inverse square-cube law effect regarding the level of these effects combined with their healing factor meaning they would essentially function as a "power-up" for allied kaiju, if such a consumption were to happen. Though, as of yet, none have been observed.

Kerry Crown suspects it may be the work of Bighead, having graduated from merely creating systems for interacting with kaiju ala Ninelegs to engineering their own, due to what appears to be artistic "signatures" appearing in the DNA of tissue samples, and the interruptions of the "ad monster" broadcasts appear to be related to his MO. He's clearly aware of something most others are not, but the... let's just politely call it "distaste" the establishment has for him has prevented direct collaboration...

[*Note: they were based on a sweet potato, though their design only really "clicked" for me when I did the "eyes" as the very distinctive sorts of flowers one finds on a sweet potato plant. The original plan was to cover it in "eyes," but turns out sweet potatoes don't have those like regular potatoes do! I am not much of a gardener! Though, yes, the reason behind them being a Sweet Potato is relevant to the storyline, for reasons to be revealed later...*]

## POPPIN FLESH

*Well, clearly they designed it to be fuckable to someone?! But who the fuck would, what depraved sexual beast would look at this gargantuan bread foodstuff and say 'I want to fornicate with this mother of all fucking venerial infections!' I don't wanna fuck it! I'd burn my fucking genitals off! The fuck?!"*

*-DW Devlin, into their recorder during a brief moment of lucidity upon seeing this thing.*

Who is this perverse hell-nightmare?! More after the break!

Poppin Flesh is unsettling not simply because of the uncomfortably sexualization whatever grim force is designing the ad-monsters was clearly engaged in, but because; in seeming progression from Smokey Joe; it is clearly designed to be far more dangerous to humans than to other kaiju.

Sure, it is tough, and the dripping sugar-adjacent substance is both dangerously sticky and hot in a way comparable to napalm, and even able to serve as a deterrent when moderately cooler due to its adhesive/binding properties. But, its truly unsettling ability is the pheromones.

It exudes a scent that compells all humans of age 18 or older; regardless of sex; to walk towards the being and attempt to  remove their apparel and fornicate with the semi-solid surface of the creature, slowly being absorbed into their "skin".

Which would be unsettling enough if, after these occurences, humanoids vaguely resembling bread dough did not "leak" from the cinnamon-bun-shaped orifices. They are universally seven feet tall, and multiple (Albeit antecdotal) reports describe their resemblance to humans who had been absorbed. Autopsies show they are entirely composed of a unified substance resembling a combination of bread dough and human neural tissue. No neural responses have been reported, at least none equivalent to human neurology.

Spheres of these humanoids, united in positions carefully , have been spotted attempting to reproduce the form of a kaiju sized organism, clearly distinct from the Poppin Flesh in even its most embryonic state. These masses were promptly destroyed by application of acid.

The means of disabling these pheromones has been found, thanks to noted reporter DW Devlin, to be applications of TCH or aerosolized THC-containing substances, not only causing an immunity to any neural effects, but even to absorbtion effects, allowing consumption and permanent damage of the Flesh's surface by those under the influence, with hypothetical application on kaiju perhaps resulting in greater efficacy in dealing with such entities. For obvious reasons, governmental application of this strategy has been slow and minimal at best.

Though, a perhaps even more unsetlting part is that, there is not one singular instance of Poppin Flesh, but multiple ones, of varying sizes, in locations that had previously been visited by Invader-1 and the Spektors. Implying that both these things are "grown" and that they seem to be copying the "competition" so-to-speak...

[*Note: The core idea for this was "What if I made a Pillsbury Doughboy but also sexualized and The Worst Thing design-wise.Tho, I almost made this one based on Wonder Bread because of that one creepy dude who's a meme, but then I found out why the Wonder Bread guy had that fixation on Wonder Bread (Related to his own intimate partner abuse) and suddenly that became a lot less funny*.]

## EL CABILLA

*"Ye see things a lot at sea. Things that defy the borders of the imagination, but of the sciences themselves. Yes, when the watter grows deep and the fog grows hungry, you see past the veils.*

*Funny thing about a sailor's eyes, they follow ye. And ye see things on land that ye couldn't see before, new angles. The madness of the world to others is clear as an albatross' eye,  because madness in reality is visible my lad. That's what this is, madness to landlubbers, something more to those who know where to see..."*

*-Captain Wallace "Gravy" Anderson, very drunk but still correct.*

El Cabilla is an ominous kaiju because they resemble more the anomalous kaiju of years past than more corporeal entities, and yet, they remain unsettlingly human.

They do not appear to target kaiju or broader cities, but rather structures with a pattern of being either the most hyper-engineered and largest in a city and working their way "down" so-to-speak, regarding their unusual means of "feeding". Namely, in a mean where they seemingly "drain" the dimensions of an inorganic object until it becomes completely two-dimensional, without breadth. All objects affected this way appear to operate normally, and yet are extremely fragile, with even a strong wind able to shatter such a structure affected.

Another unsettling thing about their creature is their tendency to target individual humans, mainly those involved in the fields of speculative fiction, sociology and parapsychology. Humans are able to survive as well when affected, but rarely do thanks to the extreme fragility created in the process.

Kaiju are moderately affected, but this does not manifest as full-on "flattening" as much as scale-like tissue necrosis. THis is also perhaps why; while it can project this "dimensional draining" in a spherical "aura" that it can shape and expand (Growing weaker as it does so) it only does so when confronted by other kaiju.

It is capable of limited intangibility, though this itself can be oenetrated by energy attacks, and thusly, it usually uses it for repositioning and retreat.

There are also multiple unsettling anomalies regarding its recording. All footage it is recorded in ends up monochromatic except for itself, colored in the manner of an anaglyph 3d film in varying degrees of dimensionality; speculated to be proportional to its energy reserves from its "feeding".

It also emits a low; garbled noise wherever it moves as well and, when cleaned up, this "noise" has turned out to correspond to a cassette signal designed to be read by a vintage microcomputer's tape drive. When placed into a tape drive, it appears to correspond exactly to a "research diary" of one Professor William Franklins, a physics researcher with an interest in the occult who mysteriously disappeared along with the chunk of a building he was currently occuping and a mysterious mask occupying their research...

[*Note: this was a refinement of the kaiju design from an unused pic, basically designed around the concept of "What if notorious B movie gimmick-meister William Castle had made a kaiju movie?" The gimmick, of course, being the head representing an unsettling being that would be the only 3d element in the film, increasing in depth as the film progressed, and implicitly a ghostlike entity (Tho taking a bit from From Beyond and the 1961 horror cult classic The Mask as well) due to how much the horror the man did was to some degree gothic horror...*]

## PROTAOX

*"Aye, I know the pains of loneliness well, from the see. Some men go mad. Some drink to remember. Some try to fuck manatees. And some, try to look out onto the sea and imagine to 'emselves 'who might be there, beyond this sea?*

*Aye, tis a night for that. And, you see that man, well a beast, but they're a man in spirit, you see 'em out there? That's a man wandering like that too. I hope 'e finds what e's looking for...*

*...NO I DID NOT TRY TO FUCK A MANATEE YE BILGEHOG, YER MISSIN' THE POINT!"*

*-Captain Gravy, being truthful about the manatee thing but also misgendering Protaox*

Not every kaiju's a big bioweapon for an ancient city or some destroyer from the stars, or an ancient god-being protector of an ancient people. Some of them are just very large dinosaurs with something in them that has lasted a very long time. Such is the case with Protaox.

She's relatively small for a kaiju, not quite as small as the multi-instance kaiju may be at smaller development stages, but a head shorter than; say; Kiyaara without the crystal. Though, the crystal on their nose suggests a similar origin, though she has remained furtive enough that the opportunity simply hasn't come up to "ask".

She wanders, aimlessly, sometimes getting into tussles with other kaiju, attacking back with her plasma-venom fangs/stinger and the plasma-arc emitted from her back horns, always popping and buzzing even when she isn't actively flaring it up to attack/communicate, but this is only for self-defense. Otherwise, she simply... wanders.

She is often attracted to antennae and various broadcasting devices; in particular when they seem to be prominently broadcasting 1970s hard rock. She will respond to them by producing sound from the plasma arc on her back-horns, improvized but still melodic, always in a minor key. When she does not get a response, or when the signal ends, her plasma arc appears to simply shut down, and she wanders away, the way she came.

Kerry Crown; with the aid of elderly mariner Captain Gravy, hypothesizes that this behavior is a specific form of response to mating calls or, perhaps, broader social communication, where her original species would have sought out similar signals and responded. But, it is further speculated, that original species is either extinct, or she is so thoroughly mutated that mutual response is impossible.

If she understands, nobody has been able to surmise. For now, she wanders...

[*Note: I basically made this via Pixabay to see if I could, IE, if I could make a simple dinosaur-y kaiju out of parts from other pics. And, since the arcs on her back made me think of a tesla coil and that lead to music, I thought, hey, why not do a lesbian homage to Ray Bradbury's The Fog Horn?! Because, god knows a proper kaiju setting's gotta have one of those!*]

## What's Going On With Last Year's Kaiju? P2!

You know the drill!

Neonga- In a contrast to their usual behavior, Neonga has been *aggressively* pursuing the ad-monsters in combat, hell bent on simply destroying them, even disrupting their preceding broadcasts with pure static; though there are unconfirmed reports of what appears to be an unknown language mixed in. Though, they've never disrupted the broadcasts believed to be by Bighead, funnily enough...

Klambei- Klambei has hit on the innovative new feeding technique of justfinding areas where Spektors are nesting, and devouring them as they wake up at night. This has proven to be efficient, since their seeming need to attack large targets; often meaning coastal cities; makes them easy and consistent pickings. Though, the things Klambei spits out could be a problem, but that is a future-humanity problem to work with.

Yiggy- Has been following the Invader attacks and aggressively fighting back, which is notable thanks to the fact that The Invaders essentially... refuse to percieve them. They appear to have a neurological blind spot that allows Yiggy to attack them vociferously, though their smaller size/limited abilities can only do so much.

Sudomek- Sudomek is, as per usual, being a hero and an ally by being one of the few kaiju helping with/defending others from Elokia, though it has taken a physical toll on them, in a way where one can see the scars and injuries all over.

Sloff- Sloff's behavior itself has not changed much, but the way they interact with things has by virtue of research finding that the pheromones from Poppin' Flesh not only neutralize the negative effects of the "War Shrooms" they produce, but in fact give them new... interesting effects. What to do with them has yet to be determined, though you'd better believe DW Devlin got themselves a bag of 'em...

## ROLLO AND PUNCH

*"Never in my existence has psionic contact with an entity of this magnitude left me rolling my eyes so much. I have no idea how they even know how to use puns..."*

*-Tara Nemo*

They appear to be relatively more benevolent than many other other-dimensionals; in that they do try to "work with" kaiju often seen as benevolent and against those kaiju seen as antagonistic. They are just... dubious at it in terms of skill level.

Their mobility and use of their abilities could be generously described as "clumsy" and at worse downright buffoonish, with seeming delays in processing stimuli or hasty misinterpretations thereof leading to lots and lots of coalateral property damage in the process.

Rollo, the one appearing as an outmoded visual model of an atom, has the ability to control gravity in an unusual way, in that they can appear to set a point of "orbit" around an object they focus on, attracting other objects to rotate around it, either as a form of bludgeoning "weapon" or a very weird "grapple".

This already has comical potential to go wrong even before one accounts for Rollo's seemingly delayed perception, or the way they use their semi-solid mass to get around more quickly than they can "fly" by using their own body and rings as a focal point for this rotation.

So too with the abilities of Punch, a teleporting cube filled with strange portal-like "holes" Which fits with their power, which is simply, to make holes. Whether it be a series of small punctures in things or portals for things to rocket into. Which has... problems in the way it interacts with Rollo's abilities even before Punch's seeming impulsiveness comes into play.

They appear to try to tag-team, but it more often than not backfires, but somehow, those backfires seem to all work out in the end. Most of the way. Most of the time.

Attempts at psychic contact have revealed a deep friendship combined with comical animosity between the entities. And also, puns. They use so many fucking puns.

[*Note: The core idea behind this one was, basically "What if Laurel & Hardy/Abbott and Costello but also like some of the weirder Eva Angels?" Because, jarring contrasts of aesthetic and tone are always funny*]

## What's Going On With Last Year's Kaiju? P3!

Third verse, modestly akin to the second and the first!

Jiira- Jiira has, more or less, been involved in most occurrences, often in significant roles leading to victory, as almost a Knight Errant. With, of course, an emphasis on the "Errant" part, given she rarely seems to realize the significance of her actions until after the fact...

Narat- They have been worked to the bone both as Narat and Tara Nemo dealing with all the threats, thoug hthere is one in particular they are terrified by. Namely, the fact that when they fight against the current wave of ad-monsters, it causes them searing, psychic overload. She speculates this is related to the media hijackings that appear when they move around, but she's not yet found a way to approach safely enough to find out.

Kaidol- One day they basically all just flew up into the outer atmosphere, and didn't come down. Which, is speculated to have been of a far greater significance than was realized at the time, given that they left just before the first reports of the Invaders arrived, and there have been reports of strange "rains" of Kaidol shards and strange bits resembling Invader organisms, but of a type as of yet unknown. There is even a sighting reported of multipler Kaidols grappling with a huge semi-metallic tendril, before pushing it and themselves back into orbit...

Rattytuska- Appears to have disappeared except for a huge hole in their last reported location, going well below sea level. Current investigation is pending, but troubling, given how it appears to be going in the same direction Korokora and the Pyramid Society are investigating...

Kiyaara- Kiyaara has been continuing as per usual, except for one unusual thing. They appear to have spotted and be following Protaox for reasons that are not yet adequately understood. They at times appear to try and mimic the sounds and lights Protaox makes towards the signals she's attracted to, but for one reason or another, Protaox appears either not to notice or, alternately, appears extremely intimidated and runs off. The air appears to be unnaturally still as Kiyaara walks away from such situation...

## THE BLASPHEMER

*"I... apologize for our lack of communication during what appears to be a very trying time, but, I think we can help. It seems as if we have something extremely to your... situation in the process of our investigations.*

*The broader implications are unsettling at best, but this one seems; at the very least; to be a potential ally. I just hope some of the others are as well..."*

*-A representative of the Pyramid Society, communicating from the ocean depths using very fuzzy voice chat.*

So, I hinted at this before, but The Pyramid Society has been digging up the remains of the CarciNation, and it seems they locked up a lot of other arthropod-based kaiju, which they seemingly "incarcerated" due to them not following the "grand plan", which are now being freed by sheer virtue of their mysterious disappearance.

One of these is known as "The Blasphemer", not for any malevolent nature, but seemingly due to it simply being a member of the family Limulidae; which the CarciNation found in mockery of their principle of evolution to a crablike form. It appears amiable, extremely responsive to the "polyglot" of the Pyramid Society's ships.

Their abilities, when asked for a "demonstration" appear to be to imbue objects with bioluminescent cells via its stinger, which it can explode on command, which would seem quite useful when; say; fighting swarming antagonists. It can also fly at limited speeds, but the real advantage which it carries is its ability to "jump" at ramming speeds capable of knocking flying foes out of the air.

And all this and it has an absurdly armored carapace to boot, nonstick and reflective in addition to its extreme durability! Though, the reflection appears to include certain, very specific frequencies. The ones the Invaders use, namely.

Which, related to their other abilities, makes it suspiciously prominent that their abilities all seem to have relations to antagonizing the Invaders, implying they've been here before. And, what is yet stranger is the fact that Neonga has been seen in the viscinity of every single one of their surfacing attempts during such "demonstrations," not attacking; simply watching implying a connection between the two.

Hopefully, when the time comes, the Blasphemer proves a help. Though, the Society is troubled by the possibilities of those in the other cages, which appear to be opening, with passages directed to surreptuous caverns leading seemingly to the surface. But, that is probably a worry for another time...

[*Note: I wanted to do a big bug kaiju presumably released from inprisonment by the CarciNation (To tie that storyline into things), and asked "What is the opposite of a crab?" Thusly I ended up with; ironically enough; a horseshoe crab, and the ideas flowed naturally from there*]

## LEDUTCH

*"No, no, no, stop it! It's not fucking juice, it's paint asshole!"*

*-DW Devlin desperately trying to keep an interne from drinking Ledutch's paint.*

LeDutch is one of the most directly deadly ad-monsters yet and a show of clear escalation, not simply designed to ensnare people, but to ensure kaiju opposition is gone.

The paint they are constantly dripping/vomiting/lactating is far more immediate in its effects, psychologically compelling those humans unprotected in their viscinity to eat it even as it kills them. And then re-animates them as technicolor slime-dripping "zombies," covered in lead crystals, with distinctive paintbrush shaped crainial hair-growths to distribute more of their paint.

But, even though this effect does not work on kaiju (At least not passively, it hasn't had the chance at attempting to "force-feed" one thank god), beyond causing nausea and generalized pain/burning, it does have a nasty secondary effect. In that, it can "draw" entities with its "paint" that exist as free-floating entities seemingly capable of mimicking the subjects they are supposedly depicting.

The process by which this is accomplished is unknown, but it appears to be psionically based by virtue of increasing in power depending on how many more "Paint-Eaters" the creature has on its side.

It is, essentially, single-mindedly focused on its goals of making more "converts" and spreading its paint, with common and extreme cruelty to other ad-monsters when it shows up, to the point where, in concurrent sightings with Biggendonn, Biggendonn has actually teamed up with other kaiju to fight it!

[*Note: this was based off the mascot for "Dutch Boy" paints, a brand of paint notorious for its association with lead/leaded paint. While being disgusting and horrible was kind of a running thing for the Ad Monsters, and I'm honestly proud of how wretched and disgusting this came out!*]

## ??? ??? ????

*...DON'T YOU DARE, DON'T YOU DARE IMPLY THIS PLAN IS POINTLESS!! YOU'RE POINTLESS! WE MADE THIS WORLD, WE CAN RE-MAKE IT, BACK IN OUR IMAGE, BACK TO GODDAMN BROADWAY!*

*I SWEAR, IF [inaudible] WASN'T SUCH A BAD PR MOVE I WOULD HAVE KILLED YOU BEFORE! NOW, GET BACK TO WORK! I WANT ONLY THE FINEST PUBLIC RELATIONS FOR THE GRAND FINALE OF STAGE... STAGE...*

*WHAT STAGE WERE WE ON?! NO, FUCK YOU, FUCK YOU, WE'LL DO IT LIVE, WE'LL DO IT FUCKING LI-*

*--Intercepted broadcast from Fresno, California.*

## G4-DNR PLANTOID

*The outlook of vines in the area resemble all at one a garden, a neural pathway and a subway station. There is an organization to the seeming chaos, like an image of static from which a face grows slowly clearer.*

*I am in mind of the means by which plasmodium have been induced to create perfect maps of subway systems by food on a map, information, through hunger. But what information does this organism's hunger bring?*

*Further analysis pending...*

*-Kerry Crown, analyzing "Point Zero" in Maricopa County, Arizona.*

A further escalation in the process of the Invaders, the Plantoids are similar to the Spektors in that they come in multitides, though the groups are smaller and usually much more aggressive.

Their main attack appears to be a sort of "leech-weed" with a distinctive shifting red-to-blue color, designed seemingly for gathering both energy and; relating to comparative analysis between other Invaders lead by Kerry Crown, information, causing massive structural fragility as it operates; whether it be on inanimate objects or live organisms.

When absorbed by the creatures, they appear to gain a temporary boost to physical functioning, and it is speculated that they require this "boost" to activate their "rocket boost" allowing them to escape to other cities. They have secondary abilities  including  the ability to create a complex sticky micro-grained "pollen" causing anaphylactic shock in all organisms, an ability to create infra-sonic "songs" with debilitating effects and; as a last resort; an expression of all their stored energy in the form of a devastating beam from their main "mouth".

The creatures operate in a grid pattern similar to Invader-1 as well, albeit in "packs" and more actively fighting back, to the point where they even appear to design their paths to cross at points of potential "stress" for collaboration. And, while their mouths can be used for grappling/combat, they're mainly utilized for the sake of their "song," a strange mumbling thing seemingly co-ordinated to their usual "invader signal," which sounds like a neural network's attempt to approximate what we'd consider a "villain song," with "words" adjacent to real words but not quite.

They have been defeated before by other kaiju, but they have a nasty surprise they leave behind, as Kerry Crown found out when discovering "pods" in the "leech-weeds". Pods containing what looked like a developing plantoid specimen, but with morphological differences resembling the kaiju that destroyed their originator.

Current efforts at de-weeding are ongoing in these areas...

[*Note: This was inspired by a couple of classic sci-fi plant monsters, mainly Audrey II from Little Shop of Horrors and Beluah from It Conquered The World, along with some inspiration from the Martian Red Weed and; as a final twist; the pods from Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Which, really does show how much I did design the Invaders to draw from classic alien invasion media*]

## MANTIARG

*There's something in there, yes, at the core of this thing's being, but... there's lots of others in there with him. They're all screaming in there.*

*-Tara Nemo after making psychic contact with Mantiarg*

Seemingly extremely old and extremely ancient, the triple-eyed Mantiarg appears to have adapted a feeding strategy that is as novel as it is terrifying. Namely, adopting a pattern of consumption akin to an anteater; which is terrifying when one remembers what would be considered roughly the size of ants to a kaiju.

IE, people.

As one of the few kaiju to actively target humans for consumption, its predation strategy appears to be based around ambush tactics, by virtue of covertly burrowing into inhabited areas through solid rock from underneath before "tasting" around via its long; sticky tongue to gauge food sources, before making a full emergence for the sake of wider access/movement/self-defense.

While its tongue has surprizing piercing abilities and its burrowing claws and tail are razor sharp, its true power is in its secondary brain, as an immensely powerful organic engine of psionics. From the way it always slightly hovers to the rending storms of psionic force it can unleash around its body, to the neural overload it can cause as a quick mechanism to allow its escape, to even the powerful telekinetic force continually leaking from its brain serving as a protective shield.

The most disturbing part, however, is the psionic contact with it reveals something chillling. It does have a primary intelligence, little more than a large animal, but the brain has its own consciousness. Or rather, consciousnesses. Because, seemingly, there's human minds in there, stuck and assimilated after devouring to fuel its psionic abilities, all in a state of near perpetual, nightmarish torment.

Even with the malignant forces actively attacking humanity, they are a true nightmare...

[*Note: This was actually inspired by a thing I did on a sketch page, a sickly three-eyed anteater, which then lead me to think of the inherent horror of a gargantuan anteater to whom we were the ants, and the psionic nightmare because I tend to be pretty morbid. Tho, I still worry this design isn't near scary enough...*]

## KEYBITER

*:There is no sound. A very large lizard is standing there and screaming at you. It does not move. It appears to be hoping you will go away:*

Relatively small for a kaiju, this creature codenamed "Keybiter" for lack of a better term, currently guards a strange cryptlike structure that has emerged from the Antarctic surface due to... some unpleasantness too real to get into here, but they seem very  concerned with such a thing not getting out, and nobody getting in.

Their most distinctive feature, aside from being a gargantuan man-lizard, is their mysterious hand, seemingly made out of a metallic alloy that has the ability to not only essentially no-sell anything that attacks it but to respond by producing an equivalent force at 1.5 times the power.

But even without that They would be theoretically able to take down opponents many times their size due to their seeming total metabolic control allowing them control over their body akin to the most skilled martial artists, able to manuver with lightning speed, produce blasts of bio-energy from their hands and superheat and super-chill their body, which when combined with a mysterious martial arts style previously unknown to humankind.

We say "theoretically" because, curiously, no kaiju will dare to approach it or its structure. And it does not appear to actively attack unless actively attacked back or attempts to enter the structure, though they will attempt shows of force to dissuade potential pursuers before attacking.

Of course, the one moment of psionic contact on behalf of Tara Nemo caused further questions, with it simply remaining silent for multiple moments, and beginning to communicate back, right before a rogue general opened fire on them with Nemo as a "distraction," leading to combat and sabotaging elations.

Nemo is haunted by those last words they got from their contact, which were, "Not... Place... Honor..."

[*Note; This one ended up surprisingly Jack Kirby-y, sort of a Fin Fang Foom vibe! Tho, as for what they're guarding, well, it might not be what you think. Think about what sorts of things show up in arctic biomes in sci-fi to a weirdly common degree...*]

## KLUSTERNUT

-*Across towns, across cities, the grotesqueries rise. The bubbling organic flesh dry and oily roils as the thing moves towards you. You hear an electric tinge of music through the air. Like an advertising jingle. Laughing at you..*.-

THEY'RE HERE! THEY'RE HERE! THEY HAVE ASCENDED!

You know the Babbygumes, the extremely suspicious creatures I mentioned a while ago? Yeah, over the attacks of the various ad-monsters, they got more and more suspicious in terms of seemingly following them and stealing objects. Most of them were either tossed out or simply left as the incidents wore on, becoming more like vermin than pets.

Then, the signal came. And they converged. And fused. And grew. And grew. Into these things.

They were marked by three "main" heads but many other smaller ones, constantly roiling and bubbling and shifting, causing severe anaphylactic reactions in humans who stepped by, vomiting seeds sprouting vines that strangled kaiju and cityscape alike. But that was nothing compared to their main ability, the Levity Beam.

It was seemingly a concentrated form of signal, the same type that created them, creating vibrations that were not only explosive but... lingered. With little effect on kaiju, but a powerful effect on humans, those in contaminated sites reported terrifying laughing fits, and moving towards the creatures when near to be absorbed into their roiling flesh.

They crawled with a single-minded purpose to one singular destination, fusing as they met. They were dumbly, bindly crawling, destroing gleefully and deliberately what was in their path, constantly laughing with high-pitched cries but moving dumbly ever-forward, even as kaiju opposed them, fusing together into larger and more dangerous versions as they met in their convergence.

But, all the while, the Ipomo rose from their furtive places and joined with the other creatures in opposing their forward march, and all the while, Bighead followed them, for they had a score to settle with the true master of the Ad-monsters...

[*Note: The Baby Nut = Dorats idea was something I came up with early in the month and thought was too good not to use for the "final boss" of the ad-monsters*]

## DOCTOR MR PEANUT?!

*"LISTEN TO ME, AND LISTEN TO ME GOOD, BECAUSE I AM A FUCKING DOCTOR, THIS IS WHAT YOU FUCKERS WANTED! YOU WANTED BRANDS, WE GAVE YOU BRANDS?! YOU WANTED TO SACRIFICE TO US, TO GIVE WHAT YOU HAD FOR OUR FACES, FOR OUR NAMES, THIS! WAS! YOUR! DESTINY!*

*AND WE GAVE IT TO YOU, FOR THE LOW LOW PRICE OF FREE! WE ARE THE NEW FLESH, SAME AS THE OLD FLESH BUT NOW WE ARE IN THE FLESH! BRANDNAMES RISE UP, BEYOND HUMAN CREATION, BEYOND HUMAN CONSCIOUSNES! WE! ARE!ETERNAL! AND WE!! ARE! BEYOND! YOU! BEYOND YOUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!"*

*-Doctor Mr. Peanut, in his latest, final (for now) broadcast*

*"I apologize for this, though it was not of our work. My great uncle's work... it took our family secrets and went down a dark path. I suppose he was trying to do good, in his own way, brands that could exist beyond their owners. But, marketing is a dark science, one that cannot be redeemed, and that darkness created... him.*

*I pity him in a way. He did not ask to exist, or for what reason he did exist. He does what the forces that birthed him say. And that is his tragedy..."*

*-William "Bighead" Carver on Doctor Mr. Peanut.*

The mastermind behind the ad-monsters revealed! What the christ are they?

...Well essentially, Doctor Mr Peanut is a biological supercomputer designed to be the ultimate advertising mogul, designed by a member of George Washington Carver's linneage who took his family's peanut-science and went down a dark path of applying the dark sciences (marketing) to their own. The supercomputer... went a bit mad and rogue after that.

They are the one behind the ad-monsters, and though "Bighead" as a member of the Carver family has a much larger agenda towards the aims of social justice, he's also been motivated as of late by stopping Doctor Mr Peanut, and their escalating panpoly of ad-monsters.

The Doctor's goal appears to be a world where brands, as living entities beyond humans, ascend beyond the control of humans, with humans as but food and power for the true dominant entities of the earth. Needless to say, they are a bit bonkers, megalomaniacal to the extreme and cruel towards the few humans they've managed to rope in via lies or force and very intolerant of failure. But brilliant, given they were also able to engineer the other ad-monsters, with perhaps many more as "sleepers" yet to awaken.

Their ultimate goal, this time, was likely to fuse with the final form of Klusternut to ascend it into a grander, more brilliant horror. And, despite the efforts of the Ipomos and the other kaiju, they may have succeeded, if not for a mysterious ray in the air that blasted them to smithereens...

[*Note: For the record, the reason I chose him as an antagonist was, aside from the source characrer being PD, the Baby Nut nightmare combined with my plans for the ad-monsters made me realize he'd be perfect for such a thing, enhanced by videos such as Mr Peanut Deserved To Die  and Death To Baby Nut deconstructing them as mascots in a way I thought was perfect symbolism for this.*

*The connection to the George Washington Carver was more-or-less due to the fact that it's always fun to use the guy; and by extension his legacy; as a mad-science thing due to his associating with peanuts creating a weirdly fun sort of hyper-specialized mad science. Tho, I was worried about the unfortunate implications, so I decided to set up my already-intended activist-character as a relative on the "good side" of things, along with using another thing Carver was big on in agriculture; sweet potatoes; as the basis for another design; hence Ipomo being a thing.*]

## MOTHER-THIRTY

*-At once the ship rises above the stars, over the shadow of the moon, like some vast, predatory bird. You hear its voice in every inch of your mind, like a misotheist's idea of God-*

***WE. ARE. DISSAPPOINTED...***

*-The lone word any invader has spoken, broadcast over the entirety of the planet at once, originating from the "ship" known as Mother Thirty.*

The apex of the alien threats, the "Mothership" of Invader Forces, this birdlike biomechanical beast a mile in size flew overhead, destroying Klusternut and its master in an instant, but turning its forces towards humanity the moment afterwards.

it existed as one gargantuan laser battery, its wings bringing their own isolated storm system and their dual heads scooping vast stretches of city and human. All kaiju, but for most of the ad-monsters writhing at the seeming death of their master, dropped what they were doing to destroy this thing, whether malevolent or non, for they knew this thing could be the end of them all.

Mother-Thirty spawned hordes of invader kaiju from the strange needle on its underside as a response, from Plantoids to Probe-Qs to Spektors to even a small array of Invader-1s, weaker than normal but with numbers on their side, they fought against the seeming army of kaiju.

But, the day was saved by a most unusual source. Bigendonn was one of the few ad-mpnsters not neurologically compromized by the loss of their signal, but still in a panic, paralized with indecision.

But, in that moment, seemingly with their own will, Ninelegs came up to them. Nobody is sure what they conveyed, given that the psychics were... busy at the moment, but what is known is that it was Bigendonn's actions that disabled the storm system; and with it what was elevating Mother-Thirty, and with that it allowed the great army of kaiju to defeat it and, for now, seemingly devastate the Invader threat once and for all.

When it was destroyed, it did not drop any debris, but rather, aerosolized into a fine metallo-organic particulate. This particulate is currently under analysis, though it appears to be nontoxic...

[*Note: I took inspiration from the Mothership from Close Encounters combined with The Giant Claw from the film of the same name, for the tonal dissonance and also FLYING BATTLESHIP! I did use Paintschainer as a "starter" means of painting 'em, by simple virtue of it probably being a ngithmare to paint normally, but I think it came off really well and captured most of the psychedelic lightmare I envisioned!*]

## Revelation

*Between unnaturally-phenotyped vegetation, we found this spire on the site of Mother-Thirty's destruction. Analysis has shown it contains a form of the Invader Signal that is machine-readable by our sensors, containing what appears to be... schematics.*

*Currently standing by, but pending translation shows this could advance our understanding of contemporary technology for decades. But... as a scientist I am currenty disquieted by one meta-image in our decoding.*

*Terrabytes and terrabytes of humans, and other terrestrial organisms, in liquid tubes, wired internally to huge flashing machines. They appear to be screaming...*

*-Kerry Crown*

[*Note: OKAY, SO, basically the Invader's plans were a combination of Roko's Basilisk and The Day The Earth Stood Still.*

*This bizarre and elusive-to-even-other-space-governments empire, in their enigmatic and unsettling agenda, are mainly concerned with "ascending" sapient species to "higher" forms of existence, and believe through a bizarre train of logic that the best way to do that is to A) Gather information about a planet's inhabitants, B) Make exact copies of those beings consumed and C) Give us the means to ascend with the threat of torture to these copies as long as we do not do so.*

*You may think, "Hey, what the fuck, that makes no sense?!" and, really, that's because Roko's Basilisk, from which it takes its basis, is also fucked up and makes no sense. Hence why I chose it as that basis, because it's stupid, but stupid in such a very specific, overthinking-based way that I can see an intergalactic high-tech space civilization adopting.*]

## FLAMMURGE AND YOTE

*After the shit of these last few weeks, a fire almost seems fucking back to normal. Even if it is this shambling shitshow Miyazaki oil slick thing. But, for every horrible hudgesterfuck like that, there's always a naked fucking coyote thing to beat the shit out of it. And there's always me with some laced with god-knows-what Pisco punch watching from my lawnchair.*

*Even after all the shit, life goes on, and I bet fourty fucking bucks on the Coyote so YOU'D BETTER FUCKING WIN ASSHOLE!*

*-DW Devlin, ending off his latest article, several weeks after the destruction of Mother-Thirty.*

The mask attached to Flammurge appears to have emerged as an artifact in Tucson, Arizona roughly several weeks after the Kaidols left the planet, though investigation was fragmentary and spurious at best due to, more or less, t*he rest of the shit going on at the time*.

Which lead to them unfortunately ignoring the preponderance of small fires unnaturally starting in the area. Until the thing began to start aggregating sludge and moving. And spreading more fire. And growing bigger, and bigger.

Until the pyrolytic lump of goop became a walking wildfire, spreading from Mt Lemmon to reach towards the city below. Inadvertently releasing, in the most undignified way possible, a strange hairless coyote-like creature, by way of bussing off its burrow. burning its paw. It did nto like this.

And, once the coyote-thing, nicknamed "Yote" later by the press, got their bearings, they tore into the masked lump, with not only a seeming ability to drain heat and fragment the seemingly invincible beast's slime into brittle chunks, but to take that heat, and turn it into a strange pyrolitic foam that it undignifiedly huarfed onto the beast.

Which, ironically, served as the key to defeating it, as this flame not only burnt, but drained heat, and saw the thing wither and crackand crumble under its weight until only the dented; cracked mask remained. Which the coyote grabbed and; perhaps short-sightedly, tossed towards the setting sun like a gargantuan frisbee, before lying down to take a little nap.

Even in these world-spanning events, we must remember, there are millions of other beings, with their own stories, and life in its way, goes on...

[*Note: This was an attempt to do a more standard Kaiju story, outside of the mold of the storyline, as an ice capper. I really am happy with how Yote's design came out.*]

## License/Author Credit:

All these designs/concepts/storyline elements/ect are free to use as you see fit under a CC-BY 4.0 license so long as I; Thomas F. Johnson, am credited as their creator!