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Carontius Áplistos - Virus Infected

As an aditional info, Carontius’s height revolves around 2 meters, or 6,56 ft.

But if they extend the tail straight, they can reach 2,70 meters, or 8,85 ft.

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In the Virus form, they starts to “sweat” the black goo in their whole body, causing them to become magically stronger and gain new abilities…

Plus, their “oar appendices” twitches madly and go all the way forwards. Their golden claws grows too, and bows down, creating then a terrifying mouth.

If an enemy is caught in one (or both!) of the mouths, not only the physical damage is granted, but data damage too. The victim can be fully erased from the world forever if stay in the grip (or bite?) for too long (about a minute), and Carontius HP is raised by some points (it’s not something that big). When Carontius erase and consume a victim this way, a reddish light and corrupted data is visually seen around the “mouth-arms”

And the last new power, as Carontius have the black goo all over their body, even if the tail is cutted, they still can fly! (they would be very weak, but still able to float away)

Psychologically, they become a lot more vicious, and throwing gold is not a safe way to survive against a virus infected Carontius.

Carontius Áplistos, or just Carontius, is a monster from the Water Biome.

Behind the Monster:

Inspired heavily on the Greek mythology. Carontius is a reference for Caronte or Charon, the boatman that takes the souls of the dead through the Underworld rivers. The arms of Carontius have appendices that grows from their elbows that just looks like oars. They uses these appendices as well as their normal arms to attack enemies, smashing with their raw force or cuting with the golden claws.

As well as Charon, Carontius have references to Naiads, the river spirits, what brings them their female characteristics (while Charon is the male characteristics).

But despite being a river spirit as a reference, Carontius can’t swim. Actually, they are usually seen floating slowly above lakes, big pools or any other water course. Carontius is very agressive if someone aproaches their lake. They are formidable fighters, quick and strong.

But there is a way to successfully flee from a fight. If you have any gold or any precious item, throwing it in the ground between  you and Carontius will make them stop pursuing you.

As the name of the species says, Áplistos, they are greedy by nature. Áplistos: Greedy, in greek. This is a reference of how only souls that gives a gold coin to Charon have the opportunity to travel between the Underworld rivers safely. (Plus, GOLDEN claws they have hah!)

If you throw the gold or precious item in a deep lake, you can have a chance to drown the Carontius to death.

Carontius don’t speak a lot. Usually, they are identified moaning, sobbing, crying and sometimes screaming. They have a really deep voice. But they can speak when they really want to give a message.

Their upperbody is white and have a thick skin, like a lizzard, but there aren’t any scales at sight. The skin looks like porcelain, and their face are normally paralyzed in the same expression a lot of time. They don’t blink too.

Their lowerbody is sea-serpent-like. It’s always wet and dripping some black strange goo. This lowerbody is imbued with heavy magic, and is the member that keeps them floating. Carontius don’t feel pain if hitted in this tail-thing, but if around 70% of the tail is cutted off, they can’t fly anymore, becoming an easy prey. But they won’t allow this happen easily.

They are cunning, intelligent, quick and strong, but are greedy, and this weakness can be explored by enemies.

Virus Infected Carontius coming next.

Omnýchta

Ichor biome

This creature has two great wings which emit data devouring smoke draining life of surroundings adding it to its own. Depending on its hospitality it can control the output but when entering a fight it’s Omnýchtas main weapon making it a close range fighter.

The monster possesses a Chrystal embedded into its chest which constantly emits waves of magical nature. These work like a Sonar, giving the otherwise blind creature the ability to have a precise depth perception of its surroundings. Never underestimate it for its lack of normal eyes, chances are if you spot one, it has been long aware of your presence.  Though this makes its weakpoint obvious turning an Omnýchta into an easy target for precise long range attacks.

 Its body itself isn’t very strong and very light but any lacks in armor are made up for in speed and high vigilance. The tail - often mistaken for a weapon - is only used to grab hold for rest. Since for its lack of legs it never stays on the ground if can prevented, otherwise it keeps to higher places from where it is easier to take flight.

Virus Form:

In addition to the overall heightened stats, when an Omnýchta is infected the old weakness is gone, since it now possesses a strong robotic Eye and the Chrystal is strengthened to near unbreakable.

The mist starts to consist of reddish glitches and is constantly sent out at full capacity. It is so strong that the outlines of its range can be seen which is about triple of the creature’s size.  However since not even a machine can function at its utmost all the time, the virus’ mist will flicker out from time to time needing to recharge for a few seconds. Then and only then is your chance to strike!

 (Virus eye texture)

Received this two days ago, and Tumblr did not inform me. Sorry, Patch. I’m doin pretty okay today ^^ I’ve been sick all week, but am getting better now.

Uh.

Alpha also isn’t very good with ‘updates’. He doesn’t know how to answer questions that aren’t more specific. But he’s about the same as always.

I could’ve said that myself.

But you didn’t~.

Quiet.

- The contest will end on May 10th, 2017 at Midnight EST time. Winners will be announced the next day or two after.

Please at least read through the rules section before submitting.

The Monstertale world was created when a flash drive of games was unintentionally introduced to a computer hosting an advanced artificial intelligence. The flash drive just so happened to also harbor a virus that almost immediately grew to rival the artificial intelligence in strength. This dangerous combination caused the original Undertale game to be shredded into pixels. What remained in the black void was one of the only characters capable of fighting the virus, now gifted with sentience. Spending months alone in the darkness, with nothing more than his own fleeting thoughts and empty memories, Alpha eventually began to create a new world, corrupted and dark and nothing like what he imagined. But what he created was not a world of living, thriving creatures. He created a dying world, where every monster has a limited number of resets before they're permanently erased. Including him.

As a living person in the real world, you have a crazy amount of control in the monster world; everything from who lives to who dies, to what your avatar looks like, to changing Alpha's personality completely, depending on your actions.

And now we want to give you the opportunity to put your own original creation in the Monstertale world.

There are many different regions in Monstertale, which are notably known as "Biomes" that are separated by extreme firewall doors, requiring keys to be granted entry. For the sake of this contest, we will only be opening a few for submissions, and each Biome name may or may not be it's final name. A list of Biomes you can submit a monster to in this contest are as follows:

1. Snow Biome - Village of krýoméros. Thick snowy forests and vast fields, seperated by floating islands of varying sizes. Surrounded by the vastness of the void around it. Monsters here are accustomed to the cold, and limited light. Monsters here are also never dangerous, and are more intelligent than much of the rest of the world.

2. Water Biome - A region that covers a good 40% of the entire map by itself. Everything here is accustomed to the dark caves and illuminated waters of the underground, that usually stream from the hidden ocean deep within. Everything here glows somehow and is accustomed to the almost constant darkness.

3. Mainframe Biome - The center of the world. This place is littered with robotic/android-like monsters. Generally made of metal, or synthetic fibers, and lots of wires, these monsters usually, but do not need to, have important jobs around this region, tending to important machines and computers that require upkeep and constant reprogramming, due to the virus.

4. Ichor Biome - Monsters here have a strange composition, and sometimes 'bleed' data from their orifices. Some species occassionally radiate a darkness that devours data around them. This is one of the more dangerous biomes, though the danger is not always intentional.

Important DO NOTS:

- We can not accept any characters that are similar to original Undertale characters. This includes no AU OC's that resemble original UT characters either. - If anyone is caught submitting more than two monsters with other accounts, they will be forfeited and reported to DA.

Important DO'S:

- Submitting a concept art piece of your monster is required. It doesn't have to be good, but if you think you can't draw, get someone who can. This is required. - You may include what biome you are submitting to, but this is not required. - You may include any other details about your creation that you wish to share, but this is not required. - Each person can submit, at most, two monsters, however only one is necessary to enter. - Try to be original. New and inspiring ideas are where it's at.

General Info:

- The contest will end on May 10th, 2017 at Midnight EST time. Winners will be announced the next day or two after.

- The number of winners depend on how many monsters are submitted and how many best fit the Monstertale world. - Winners are chosen by the discretion of Monstertale's creator, Edissero (elli-leimone), and the help of her team. The winning monsters will be chosen depending on how best they fit into the world and can be utilized in the story. - First Place Winner may also aquire a free, Official monstertale poster (Release Date To Be Announced).

- Key note 1: The constant theme of Monstertale is a sci-fi, cyber-grecian setting. You'll see Greek and technological influence through the entire game. Two other common aspects you will see are crystals, and then disease and illness,which may be observed in the Monsters Astrocytomas and Tinnitus. Your monster is not required to fit these themes, but it may help you win. - Key note 2: Any monster is capable of being infected by the virus without a moments notice. Though not necessary, it may be fun to think about what your monster would be like when infected, which generally amplifies their looks and abilities, taking on a redish hue. However, please submit monsters before infection, for a better chance at winning.

- It is crucial for you as a submitter to understand that if you are a winner, that certain aspects of your monster may or may not change, which includes the name, the stats, or any other info given about the monster, including what it looks like. <b>You</b>, however, <b>will still be credited for the concept art</b> like every other concept artist on the team, in the Art book and in the Monstertale Comic and Game.

S U B M I S S I O N S:

Please respond via comments to this journal with entries, or via asks/submission to the AskMonstertale Tumblr. I will also be searching #MTAprilContest on both sites throughout the contest.

Monster Examples:

Oneiric ( @edissero​ ) Astrocytomas ( @edissero​ ) Diatheke ( @edissero​ ) Tinnitus (Its-Captain-Senpai)

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