by Lantern » Thu Feb 11, 2016 4:22 pm
Name: Viper Slime
Describe appearance (optional drawing of your slime): Dark green with large yellow eyes and a mouth that normally, vaguely, resembles the striking mouth of a viper via fangs when it smiles. It has an odd yet aesthetically pleasing lighter green scale-like color pattern all over it's body, intended for camouflage in the tall grass. It's face will change to be more animal-like depending on how hungry this slime is.
Joke: There's a snake in my vac!
Food type: Meat
Favorite food: Elder Hen/Roostro
Passive or aggressive?: Passive-aggressive, will bite if threatened or hungry.
Where are they found?: They can be found anywhere where there's a forest that has tall grass, but the earliest a Rancher will find them is in The Moss Blanket.
How rare? 1-10: 3, they're all over the Moss Blanket, but aren't as common as the pink or tabby slimes.
Notable attributes and features: They have a venomous bite, but it quickly goes away. The venom is intended for paralyzing chickens before devouring them, and doesn't last in humans. Viper Slimes can spend a maximum of three (in-game) days without food after a large meal. During this time, they will not produce plorts, and will only do so after the meal has been fully digested. When they do make plorts, they make many to make up for the time they didn't make plorts. This is good for Ranchers who explore more-so than other Ranchers without much worry about keeping their slimes fully fed. Happy Viper Slimes have a flat face, placated and satisfied. They also shake their bodies at times, which rattles the suspended chicken bones still digesting in their bodies. This semi-muffled sound is oddly familiar, sounding like the shaking tail of a rattlesnake on Earth. This is the attempt to scare off Boom Slimes from getting too close to them as they sit. Nobody wants to be flung into the air after dinner. Hungry Viper Slimes have a more pronounced, serpent-esque face, designed to deliver the venomous bite. The hungrier they get, the more pronounced their faces get. When they move, they have a loosely proportioned slither to their movements, a slime's poor mimic at the complex movement of a snake.
Yes, they do make largos, but the largos are even slower in making plorts, stretching the time between meal and plort creation. They also eat a lot more than normal slimes and normal largos to make up for it, but still not as much as a Gordo would eat.
Anything else: Their plorts are being used as anti-venom catalysts back on Earth, to shorten the time in creating different antidotes for different animals. Anti-venom for all snake bites have been already researched. Venom from spiders, scorpions, and other venomous animals are still being tested with these plorts. Other researchers are testing Viper Slime plorts for medicinal purposes.
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