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Name:Ngaxol
Description: The Ngaxol are a race of jellyfish like creatures, largely gelatinous and, but live on land. Their body structure is blobby is nature, but their main body is flat with tentacles (think of a flounder fish with tentacles) Their tentacles serve as pseudopods which enable them to crawl around the ground, at a moderate speed (avg human walking speed) They are carnivorous, but mostly scavenge for food. They will consume larger, dying creatures or smaller, living creatures, otherwise scavenge, scavenge, scavenge. Their interior organs are consistent of a gut and brain. That's about it. To survive with no lungs or heart, they need to be moist pretty much all the time. They can survive in humid environments or near pools of water, even very small ones. They ingest food through a beak like structure under their main mass, which is mostly flat. They crawl on top of whatever is edible and peck at it to eat it. They are mostly passive but will defend themselves by using their tentacles/pseudopods to launch themselves at their aggressor, or attack prey via the same method. Once on the aggressor they wrap themselves around it and bite at it with their beaks. Despite being otherwise derpy simplistic, they are fairly intelligent. They communicate with each other via pheromones or chirps. Usually they travels in packs of five or six. Finally, due to their gelatinous nature and simplistic organs, they are difficult to kill. Methods often include crushing, dismemberment, and burning application of salt. Destruction of vital organs such as the gut or brain does not lead to instant death, however incapacitates the Ngaxol utterly. If they should survive the ordeal, they may regenerate the damage depending upon severity. Extreme damage often leads to a permanent comatose state, at which point something else kills them. Their senses include strong olfactory and aural senses but poor optical senses. Their sense of touch is binary, as in on or off with no feeling, and their sense of taste only distinguishes edible from inedible.
Traits:
Pseudopods
Simplistic organs
Launches self by pseudopods
Only killed by crushing, burning, dismembering
Slightly intelligent
Communication via pheromones/chirps
Long-term regeneration
Strong olfactory/aural senses
Poor optical/touch/taste senses
Habitat:
Pools of water
Humid land regions
Beaches