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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thornir Alekeg" data-source="post: 5230320" data-attributes="member: 15651">This has inspired an idea for a new monster for somebody to stat up:PhisherThe phisher is a devious, intelligent creature that can be found most often in dungeons or ruins where greedy adventurers may frequent.  An adult Phisher typically appears to be something like a locked chest or sarcophagus containing significant quantities of precious metals and minerals.  The adult Phisher lies in wait in this form, and when an intelligent creature removes the riches within, it injects an egg into the unsuspecting victim.  The egg gestates within its host and hatches into the larval stage after about two weeks.  In its larval stage, the phisher emerges at night through the mouth or nose and consumes small quantities of precious metals or minerals carried by its host.  During daylight the larval phisher observes its host and surroundings, learning as much as it can.  At the end of the larval stage, the phisher will emerge, consume a large quantity of precious metals and minerals from its host, and find a hidden place in which it will metamorphisize into an almost perfect copy if its host.  This adolescent phisher will then leave, passing itself off among the general population as its host while continuing to feed whenever and whereever it can.This continues until the phisher reaches full adulthood, at which time it seeks out other phishers with which to mate, then finds a place to complete its final metamotphasis into the object it feels will lure people into which it can lay its eggs.  There are rumors of adult phishers re-emerging in the form of its host some time after laying its eggs.  These post-adult phishers are said to release large portions of the metals and minerals it consumed earlier in life in exchange for luxury items and intimate relations with young members of the host body's race.  These rumors are unconfimed but are supported  by the finding that the corpses of old phishers rarely contain any significant amounts of the precious metals and minerals it consumed.</blockquote>

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