Thousand Teeths
The night was still and calm on the seas. Though the old sailor twisted and turned in his hammock. Unable to get but a crumb of sleep. With the others out cold as rocks, he shifted his weight out of the hanging bed and slowly ascended to the deck.
There, within the shadows of a cloudy sky, he thought himself to be alone but at the other end of the deck he saw a broad shouldered figure. The Captain, was he also sleepless?
A kindly man, the Captain was. The old sailor did not hesitate to approach, until he had crossed half the ship. Then he froze in his step. It was not the captain, but something out of his wildest nightmares. A large sack of flesh on two legs, covered in spikes. Nay. Teeth. The thing now turned towards him, its lips parting like a corrupt flower to reveal layers of toothed mouths, arms and an eyeless face with several hollow holes. All buzzing with larvae and flies.
Without hesitation, the sailor pulled out his blunderbuss, took aim against the creature's head and then fired.
Anatomy
This creature known as the Mordices is a foul and souless cancerous tumor that somehow walks among the living lands. They have no spine and no bones in their body, rather consisting of a mold of muscle and flesh.
From their waist and up, they are made up of five layers of maws that shut around the squishy and weak head of the monster, as well as its two weak and boneless arms which it can’t even move.
Within the flesh skull of the creature, it carries a hollowed out brain crawling with larvae that are put in a sort of stasis. At a given command from its hivemind, a psychic shockwave goes through across the head, evolving the larvae into a bunch of disease spreading mosquitoes.
Behaviour
The Mordices is a mindless slave to its overmind. Serving only as a disposable mass of flesh and stored infections that carries the role of a living swarm spreader.
They are strategically placed out in groups among swarm units and mainly move the mosquito broods to attack supplies, civilians and wounded soldiers behind enemy lines. These monstrosities also remain after a battle is settled as flesh collectors. Devouring the dead before spreading tainted roots into the soil. Afterwards, they perish themselves to decay into a biomass which makes up a newborn Glôh'krakh colony.
Weakness
Despite their horrid appearance, the Mordices are not hard to kill. While bullets and projectiles tend to be bad at piercing through the five layers of muscle and teeth, most stabbing or hacking weapons can easily force open the layers and take out the head of the creature.
Explosives and fire are also efficient at scorching away the husks, as well as the most effective weapon against the bugs themselves.
The bugs also tend to live only up to five seconds after the host dies, before having their tiny heads explode in psychic overload from the magical withdrawal.
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