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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Old Drew Id" data-source="post: 3983312" data-attributes="member: 12175">You could just about come up with a list of animal features and then just roll randomly to add them to other animals, and most of the stuff would be either creepy or silly. Remove the silly stuff and you would have a good list. For instance:whip-like tongue (like a frog)beakvomits to digest food (like a fly)wall-crawling abilitydistended jawpulsating egg-sac ready to bursta LOT of extra limbs (like a centipede)chelicerae (like a spider's mouth)insect eyesexcessive teethFur and claws are less creepy when added to animals that do not start with these features, but tentacles, wrinkled human-like skin, eyeballs, visible veins, and tongues tend to be creepy when added to animals that do not start with these features. Maybe making an animal more mammalian just is less creepy than going in the other direction. Sound is also important. Replace normal sounds with foreign sounds, like chittering, laughter, wheezing, or moaning/whimpering.As mentioned above, weaknesses can make something creepy. Good weakness include:tremorsbleeding, oozing, drooling, or other excessive liquid-generationloss of balanceslow movement or complete loss of mobility (even planted into the ground)asymmetry, particularly of the face (if it has one eye, for instance, put that eye off to one side, not in the center. same for the mouth.)self-injury, like fangs that are so long that the creature's lips are ripped to shredsand just one specific idea that came to me:rat-sized flying leeches with cockroach wings (basically stirge rules, but played up for the eeeew factor)</blockquote>

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