Ammolus
In the bowels of Tel, where shadows cling and echoes sigh, lurketh a creature of nightmare visage and ravenous hunger, known to miners and cavern delvers as the Ammolus. This foul spawn of Abythos, kin to spiders and scorpions yet monstrous beyond ken, scours the cavern floors, a scavenger of death's bounty. But let not its taste for carrion deceive, for the Ammolus is a fiend of cunning and malice. Like an owl in the gloom, it waiteth, armed with six long venom-slick tendrils, ready to snatch the unwary and inject them with a paralyzing ichor. Mark well, adventurer bold, for the Ammolus is not content with scraps; it hungereth for the quick, and should thy torch flicker, or thy footfall falter, thou may becomest its grim feast.
The beast's hue is not one befitting of nature's bounty. Its flesh, the color of stagnant pond scum, doth sicken the eye, upon which a pox of palest yellow festers and crawls. It is a tapestry of blight, a canvas of decay, a sight that chills the soul and turns the stoutest heart to water. Let no man mistake this sickly sheen for camouflage, for it speaks only of the vile rot that festers within this monstrous form. Beware, for the green and yellow hues of the beast are a herald of pestilence and death.
This creature, twice the length of a stout man, crawls upon a segmented body like that of the scoloprendra. Upon its underbelly, forty pairs of nimble legs doth grant it purchase upon cavern floor, wall, and ceiling with the grace of a shadow flitting across a moonlit wall. From its bulbous head, a fearsome visage stares out: six long, sinuous tendrils, dripping with venomnous slime, writhe around a gaping maw tipped with fangs like daggers. And let none be deceived by the cloak of darkness, for on each side of that monstrous head, two eyes the color of polished onyx pierce the gloom, granting sight where sight should not exist. Be most wary, for this is no mere crawling beast but a fiend of the deep, born of nightmares and shadows! Fear its silent slithering, its sudden pounce, and the paralyzing venom that drips from its accursed mouth, for it hungers for the light of life, and takes grim pleasure in extinguishing it.
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Anatomy
This creature, twice the length of a stout man, crawls upon a segmented body like that of the scoloprendra. Upon its underbelly, forty pairs of nimble legs doth grant it purchase upon cavern floor, wall, and ceiling with the grace of a shadow flitting across a moonlit wall. From its bulbous head, a fearsome visage stares out: six long, sinuous tendrils, dripping with venomnous slime, writhe around a gaping maw tipped with fangs like daggers. And let none be deceived by the cloak of darkness, for on each side of that monstrous head, two eyes the color of polished onyx pierce the gloom, granting sight where sight should not exist. Mark well, traveler, for this is no mere crawling beast but a fiend of the deep, born of nightmares and shadows. Fear its silent slithering, its sudden pounce, and the paralyzing venom that drips from its accursed mouth, for it hungers for the light of life, and takes grim pleasure in extinguishing it.
