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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 6645832" data-attributes="member: 57383">These things are supposed to be based on termites, and termites don't have proboscises, but ant-like jaws. Still, the picture does shows them with a really pointy head.Still, there's an obvious solution. Some termites (the Nasutitermitinae) have a caste with a pointy tube-like head for shooting nasty gluey stuff at their enemies. (Like <a href="http://www.americaninsects.net/bl/nasutitermitinae-guyane.html" target="_blank">this one</a>). So the pointy nose is what the Warrior Isopterite shoots acid out of.A giant insectoid being that stands upright on two rather humanoid legs. Its legs emerge from a horizontal thorax below four arms equipped with lethal-looking serrated blades. Protruding from behind the legs is a segmented abdomen. Atop the thorax is a large gourd-like head, which tapers into a long pointed nose set below and between the creature's black segmented eyes. A thick, bulbous antennae hangs below the eyes, resembling two giant strings of beads that dangle alongside the nose. A shorter, thinner pair of antennae emerge from beneath the base of the nose, flanking the being's hidden mouth, and hang between the bead-like antennae. A third pair of antennae juts from the crown of its head.Hmm, that seems way too wordy.This giant insectoid has a vaguely humanoid posture. It stands upright on two legs set below four arms than end in serrated blades. A segmented abdomen juts behind its legs. The insectoid's bulbous head has two black segmented eyes above a long tapering nose flanked by two pairs of antennae, the outermost pair is so thickly bulbous it resemble two strings of beads. A third pair of antennae crowns its head.That seems a lot better, and has pretty much the same information content.</blockquote>

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