Just Roll With It: Riptide Creatures

## Creatures in the Riptide campaign

### Dancing Sea Lemur

The Dancing Sea Lemurs show up physically in the episode "Chipwrecked!" and are mentioned in various episodes afterward. By 'dancing' in a circular motion, they can create a small whirlpool and can breathe fire in small bursts. They tend to be around 8-11 inches long and have short fur and fin-like wings to help them swim. They make small, chirping sounds and are incredibly friendly with people.

### Golden Fire Beetle

The Golden Beetle is a common species of beetle in Loffinlot. It appears in the episodes: "Chipwrecked!", "Off With His Head!" and "A Mist Opportunity". These beetles are small, with a golden shell. Its underside glows orange. It can breathe small amounts of fire. In small numbers it is harmless, but when a large group is threatened, they can form a formidable foe.

### Dolphin Postal Service/Dolphin Pelican Service (DPS)

This service appears in the episode "Return to the Open Sea". This service is a delivery of mail and newspapers from a pair of dolphins onto ships. In order to deliver this, the dolphins jump over the main deck and deposit the post from a watertight tube on their stomach. Opening the tube is controlled by their dorsal fin. Pelicans may also be used if the receiver is far inland or if the mail is light enough to fly with.

### Royal Jellyfish

These jellyfish are seen in the episode "Fish and Chips". The Royal Jellyfish is a species of jellyfish who migrate in massive groups and have a distinctive beautiful blue glow. To watch a migrating group of these jellyfish is a rare but magnificent sight, as they also seem to be docile or harmless creatures since Gillion is able to swim amongst them without being stung.

### Gurdy

Gurdy is a plant monster present in the ruins of Alveros' sanctuary, seen at the end of the episode "The Sanctuary" and in the episode "An Act of Love". It lives dormant attached to the ceiling of a booby-trapped room filled with plants and vegetation, with eight thick bundled tentacle-like vines that are able to elongate at will. Its main body is a strawberry-shaped, bulbous flower that emits a red glow, with two lanky eye-stalks like a snail’s that detach from the flower and can swivel or elongate slightly as well. Within the flower are rows of sharp teeth but it has gentle eyes. When watered by Gillion in an attempt to make peace, the red glow from Gurdy's flower turns blue. Gurdy is at first perceived as a threat but turns out to be a very gentle monster who only wishes to help visitors of the temple make it to the room's exit.

### Coffin Monster

This creature was a possibly magically born monstrosity that laid dormant in the final chamber of Alveros' sanctuary, first appearing in the episode "An Act of Love" and the episode "True North". It served as a guardian of Alveros' remains and the object he held, which rested inside of its main body while he held onto the black and gold cursed compass. The face of the coffin is a large skull with glowing green gem eyes, vines that wrap around the chamber walls able to snap into multiple vines covered in thorns. Trunk vines sprout from the bottom of the coffin, and the vegetation of the vines forms limbs around the body of the coffin. Its vines are able to inflict poison damage, and when disturbed the eyes first shoot out a wave of green energy that causes those who make direct eye contact to begin transforming into stone.

### Frogtopus

The frogtopus is a small, semi-aquatic creature that can take different colors and personalities. They are sentient and seem to have empathy and intelligence close to that of humans or other sentient races, and they can understand those who speak to them though they are not able to speak Common and possibly most other known languages. They are immune to having their emotions or thoughts read and are difficult to magically charm. They have round main bodies with three to eight tentacles and frog-like faces and are able to both remain in the water for long periods of time and also on land for long periods of time. A shining example of a frogtopus is Pretzel, the beloved pink pet of Gillion Tidestrider. They are often kept as pets and live around 25 years on average.

### Yackie

These creatures have black, tar-like skin with long skeletal limbs. They have hollowed-out eyes and are oozing out a black visceral liquid. In the center of their chest is a silver/golden circular object embedded. They shoot sharp black tar-like sickles from their stomach. They are referred to as "Yuckies" or "Yackies" by the JRWI crew when asked what name they should be given.

### Chronomancer Construct

The Chronomancer Constructs are large machines that look similar to Warforged. They look like a twisted machination of brass metals. They are made out of all kinds of intricate brass and other metals. Right in the center of their abdomen is a sphere with thin bits of metal and orbs floating around in it. Their heads look like tomahawk-shaped helmets with slits for the eyes. They seem to have paralyzing magic powers and can shoot rays, with one of these rays being able to rapidly age targets until the intruder is reduced to dust. There are multiple versions of these Constructs, one for example is more agile and has a head that looks like an Egyptian headdress.

### Dooke

Dooke is a massive dragon turtle titan who travels through the seas, appearing as a floating island. He is able to host a very large expanse of life on his back, as seen when he is lived upon by the witch Rowina. While being extremely massive, he is unable to shake her from his back until she is defeated by the Riptide Pirates. He is an appreciative titan who shows kindness towards those who show him kindness, and he seems to just be content with swimming through the ocean.

### Hezrou

This Hezrou is a fiendish and monstrous, reddish-purple Ogre with bulky arms and legs. It is covered in spines, warts, and spikes that run down its back and it excretes purple smoke. The creature's head is similar to that of a toad, with a wide maw full of rows of blunt teeth. The Hezrou is able to let out a frog-like, deep croak that causes its throat to puff out like a toad or frog. It lives in one of the many rooms of The Block.

### The Meat Room

It is as horrible as it sounds. The meat room is one of the hundreds of rooms within the Navy prison The Block, first introduced in "Death March". A harsh contrast to the red brick walls of the hallways, this room is a large, horrible chamber made of pulsing flesh and meat that smells disgusting. It appears to be alive because of the heartbeat-like pulsing of the floors, and the ceiling of the room closing down slowly when prisoners enter. The room infects those inside with fanged mouths that tear open onto their skin, laughing maniacally and shouting hateful insults as they move from limb to limb. The mouths pressure the infected to reveal their deepest secrets, and only by sharing those secrets will the prisoners be allowed to leave the room.

### Owlcas

This creature is an intelligent, aquatic entity that lives deep in the Undersea in the Graveyard of Ships. Able to speak and understand common, he is a talking owl-like creature with deep, black hollow eyes and a silver dagger-like beak that is filled with serrated teeth. He has jet-black feathers flecked with gold and a gaping hole in his chest. He speaks in an almost robotic-like voice and he is able to change his form, either to hide his body and just leave his head or to make himself much larger or smaller than usual. Owlcas often follows those who enter the graveyard, possibly setting them down dangerous roads if they are still alive when they arrive at the bottom of the sea. He forms deals with spirits and people with certain desires, and deals in their hearts or souls once they have been 'ripened' (once the heart has felt a lifetime of joy, pain, suffering, hope, and experiences).

### The Elusive Crawfish

A very large crawfish, maybe up to 20 feet in length. Very rarely seen near the surface.