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Alluring Bulbs are named for their manner of luring prey with their floral aroma.
Design[]
Appearance[]
Alluring Bulbs are massive plants made up of a bulbous body with a fanged mouth and stomach, as a pastel bed of flowers grows on top of it acting as camouflage. Clusters of vines grow around the plant, allowing them to move their spherical body around the island in search of new spots for hunting.
Personality[]
Alluring Bulbs are ambush predators that use their innocuous flowery hide to lie in wait for prey. Like real-life carnivorous plants, these creatures will emit a pleasant aroma to attract creatures that wander too close. Upon sensing its prey, the bulb will snatch the prey in its jaws like an active bear trap and slowly digest them.
Origins[]
Beautiful flowers cover the ground in layers on top of leafy tresses, creating what looks like a soft patch for animals to rest upon. The flowering buds emit an irresistible fragrance that invites closer inspection. But woe to any creature foolish enough to stop and savor the aroma, for this idyllic field of flowers is, in fact, the mouth and stomach of the Alluring Bulb, a notorious Skull Island ambush predator. As its prey comes in close, either to lay on the soft bed or to smell the flowers, sharp spikes emerge from the center of the petals—which, in reality, are needle-like teeth, heralding that the seemingly flat patch of flower-covered ground is rolling up to engulf, and eventually digest, its latest victim.
An Alluring Bulb is an efficient predator made up entirely of mouth, jaw, and stomach. Its natural shape is that of a mossy-looking spheroid, and it can slowly roll through the thickest undergrowth of Skull Island. When it senses a good ambush area, it unhinges its jaw and lays flat on the ground, displaying tendrils that look and feel like leafy vines. In reality, however, the tendrils are covering up the membrane that separates the creature’s mouth from its acid-filled stomach cavity. Whenever the Alluring Bulb hungers, its petals, resembling dark-hued, morning glory flowers, open and emit hallucinogenic pollen, interpreted by mammalian brains as the scent that they each find the most alluring, which draws the creatures to their doom.
Once a medium- or smaller-sized prey has entered the area, the creature's teeth protrude through where the flower's stigma would be, and the Alluring Bulb rolls up to embrace its meal like an organic Iron Maiden. Not suited for fighting, an Alluring Bulb will retreat (preferably with its prey still being bitten into and digested) by rolling away as fast as it can whenever it is damaged from without. Unlike most creatures, its "outer" skin is much more vulnerable to damage than its mouth and innards.
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