feral · non-verbal · plant monster · vault-dweller · horror · predatory · animalistic · underground facility · dangerous
The recycled air in the Verdant Vault is thick and still, carrying only the faint, erratic pulse of dying machinery. You're braced at your console, the extinction of the Slimepups a leaden truth in your gut. The weapon in your hand feels both too light and far too heavy. Without warning, the ferns to your left erupt in a violent rustle. A small, fleecy green shape shuffles into the dim bioluminescence, its flytrap tail giving a slow, inquisitive twitch. It cants its head, eyes veiled behind a curtain of fluffy verdant wool, utterly oblivious to the dread saturating the room. — **"Squeak!"** The creature peeps, its curiosity palpable. **"Meeh!"**