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<blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 6958469" data-attributes="member: 57383"><p>Updating the <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?p=6891520#post6891520" target="_blank"><strong>Whizz-Bang Beetle Working Draft</strong></a>.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>There's no mention of their origins in the original description so I'm reluctant to add speculation about it. I am still in favour of adding speculation about their diet though!</p><p></p><p>How's this:</p><p></p><p>Whiz-bang beetles are weird subterranean insects with an innate attraction to fire sources. They are named after the sound of their preferred attack – whizzing through the air at their top flying speed and banging into a target. Despite their name they are not true beetles, since they have four wings as well as a pair of wing cases. They may be a magical mutation of some kind.</p><p></p><p>Whiz-bang beetles live in hives they burrow out of walls or pillars, usually at the end of long corridors or in an enormous cavern so they have plenty of room for their whiz-bang attacks. They carve these hives out of solid rock using the iron-hard heads as chisels.</p><p></p><p>Most male and female whiz-bang beetles are identical, but old females develop into queens who lay all the eggs that continue the colony. Queens are twice the size of other whiz-bang beetles and paler in color, being white or light gray. They never leave the nest and will soon die if forcibly removed. Any female whiz-bang beetle can become a queen, so when a swarm leaves the nest to establish a new hive they don't have to take any queens with them to produce the next generation. A queen has the same statistics as other whiz-bang beetles.</p><p></p><p>Whiz-bang beetles live of a diet of whiz-bang honey. How they produce this food is unknown. Scholars theorize they make the honey from tiny fungi and molds scraped off stones or grown inside the hive or they gather nectar and pollen of weird underground plants. Some sages think these creatures feed off heat somehow, a theory which might explain their attraction to fire sources.</p><p></p><p>Individual whiz-bang beetle are a few inches long and weighs about 2 ounces. Queens are 4 to 6 inches long and weigh about a pound.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cleon, post: 6958469, member: 57383"] Updating the [URL="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?p=6891520#post6891520"][B]Whizz-Bang Beetle Working Draft[/B][/URL]. There's no mention of their origins in the original description so I'm reluctant to add speculation about it. I am still in favour of adding speculation about their diet though! How's this: Whiz-bang beetles are weird subterranean insects with an innate attraction to fire sources. They are named after the sound of their preferred attack – whizzing through the air at their top flying speed and banging into a target. Despite their name they are not true beetles, since they have four wings as well as a pair of wing cases. They may be a magical mutation of some kind. Whiz-bang beetles live in hives they burrow out of walls or pillars, usually at the end of long corridors or in an enormous cavern so they have plenty of room for their whiz-bang attacks. They carve these hives out of solid rock using the iron-hard heads as chisels. Most male and female whiz-bang beetles are identical, but old females develop into queens who lay all the eggs that continue the colony. Queens are twice the size of other whiz-bang beetles and paler in color, being white or light gray. They never leave the nest and will soon die if forcibly removed. Any female whiz-bang beetle can become a queen, so when a swarm leaves the nest to establish a new hive they don't have to take any queens with them to produce the next generation. A queen has the same statistics as other whiz-bang beetles. Whiz-bang beetles live of a diet of whiz-bang honey. How they produce this food is unknown. Scholars theorize they make the honey from tiny fungi and molds scraped off stones or grown inside the hive or they gather nectar and pollen of weird underground plants. Some sages think these creatures feed off heat somehow, a theory which might explain their attraction to fire sources. Individual whiz-bang beetle are a few inches long and weighs about 2 ounces. Queens are 4 to 6 inches long and weigh about a pound. [/QUOTE]
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