Dompaklops: The Devourer

Dompaklomps is the name of the giant octopus worshipped by a forgotten tribe of Kuo-Toa. They worshipped the Octopus as Dompaklomps: the Devourer.

## Appearance

Dompaklops is a giant octopus, making him quite a large beast. His appearance is that of a normal octopus - that is giant. He has eight long and dexterous tentacles. His skin is slimy and at the base of his tentacles is a large beak.

## In Combat

Dompaklops uses his giant tentacles to constrict, grapple, and throw opponents. He also uses his tentacles to dislodge stalactites and hurl them, or let them fall onto enemies. When all else fails he can use his tentacles to smash the walls, creating cracks and holes in the walls of his summoning chamber - flooding it and killing anything that needs air within.

When fighting underwater, he can blind enemies using his ink cloud to make the water black.

Additionally Dompaklops has a number of psionic abilities. Ablities which can cause confusion, fear, and other stressed mental states.

## Kuo-Toa Cult

Dompaklops inexplicably gained a large Kuo-Toa following, a following which would offer sacrifices, praises, and their lives to Dompaklops. The leader of this cult was a 'holy' Kuo-Toa named Gulfnin. The Kuo-Toa were clearly a Theocratic race. They worshipped this Arch-Priest, Gulfnin. Every time he used magic or showed his force all the other, lesser Kuo-Toa would kneel and genuflect.

The Arch-Priest seemed to be the only one of them capable of performing the ritual for the summoning of Dompaklops. Once Dompaklomps is summoned, all Kuo-Toa will kneel and bow in repect, even the Arch-Priest, clearly showing that they took the Giant Octopus for a God.

## Interactions with the Seekers

The Seekers were tasked by an old spirit to acquire an Octopus Ink Sac. This task eventually led them to a coral reef near the coast, where Mithral Tagata turned into a fish and found a mysterious cave. He, Cleo Malachi, Dior Malachi, and Gilheart the Fallen went to investigate and found a room full of Kuo-Toa doing all sorts of rituals beyond an eerie hallway.

Cleo turned into a panther and took killed all the enemies that had been weakened by Dior and Gilheart, while Mithral hung back and shot spells from a distance. They fought valiantly, but the Kuo-Toa were experienced trappers and were able to get two nets over Gilheart and one over panther Cleo.

Both Cleo and Gilheart after some struggle were able to escape their trap but not before Cleo had been used as a blood sacrifice on the altar in the room and Gilheart had been dragged to a mysterious dark hole in the corner, a hole previously which had been guarded and from which arose the sound of rapidly moving water.

In the meantime Dior was taking care of their leader and Mithral helped from behind. After most had fallen, a poor small Kuo-Toa tried to shove Gilheart down the hole in the wall. The final two fish-men jumped down the hole and immediately Dior had rallied Cleo to join her in descending down into the abyss. Mithral took some convincing but within minutes they were ready to jump in after their lost friend. It was then, just in time to see their friends about to descend, that Cleo Malachi Jr. and Valok Firefiend arrived, come to check on them.

Together they descneded where they arrived in time to see Arch-Priest Gulfnin kick the bound Gilheart into deep water. It was then that a giant slimy tentacle came shooting from the water, grabbing Gilheart and raising him way into the air. The Collectors' first priority was defeating Gulfnin and his followers, but Valok also made sure to keep Dompaklops distracted.

At one point Dompaklops tried to eat Gilheart using his mighty beak, but was stopped by an icy explosion caused by Cleo. Dompaklops reverted to using Gilheart as a weapon, throwing him at enemies and bludgeoning others with him.

Once Gulfnin and the oother Kuo-Toa were killed, The Collectors who were still standing began to focus all their attention on Dompaklops. Cleo, Dior, Cleo Jr., and Valok all fought bravely, but Dompaklops was able to cast a psionic confusion over Valok and Cleo Jr., leaving only Cleo and Dior to fight this behemoth.

At one point late in the fight, Dompklomps tested his luck and using his eight massive tentacles maneuvered himself onto the ground, Gilheart still in tentacle, and began trying to fight for barely more than several seconds before being overwhelmed and retreating back to the water.

Dompaklomps used its mighty tentacles this time to propel it towards a large cracked bit of cave wall in the back of the cavernous room, and tried to squeeze itself through. A natural escape instinct for an Octopus or squid.

However it was then, while the might Dompaklomps tried to retreat that Valok, in his forced psionic confusion was able to dizzily fall into the water and swim towards an altar that extended into the water, right to where Dompaklomps was trying to escape.

Valok then clumsily walked down the length of the altar, took his sword, and stabbed straight into Dompaklomps' flesh, killing him once and for all. It was The Collectors who brought about this mighty creatures death, and Valok who made the killing blow