This is the entry thread for the "Design A New Monster" art contest! You can find the announcement and discussion thread by clicking here.
When posting your entries, be sure to use the following format:
Knight Name:
Discord Name: (Optional)
Twitter Name: (Optional)
Link to entry:
Monster Backstory:
Any Other Details: (Optional)
Let's see them monsters!
Knight Name: Ainogommon
Discord Name: - Ð IΞ ᐻ ł Ĺ -#4809
Twitter Name:Ainogommon
Link to entry: Deviantart, Imgur
Monster Backstory: An elite version of Howlizer, Creepier, and more sinister than ever! Its original skull barely keeping intact. Instead, they accommodate bones to reinforce the base and its energy orb. Watch out for the ground!
Any Other Details:
Attacking:
General: Instead of shooting a projectile, the Bonemounder used ground-spikes attack followed the player's position (similar to ground-spikes attack from jelly cubes). Give a warning signal from the shaking dirt particle on the ground, indicating the spike position. Initial timer 1 second. This bypasses the obstacles, so watch out!
Tiers:
Tier 1: Spawn only 1 ground-spike
Tier 2: Spawn 3 ground spikes, one spike at time. Other spike appeared after 0.7s interval after the first spike appeared (see snarbolax ground spine-spike attack).
Tier 3: Spawn 5 ground spikes, similar to the tier 2 but has 0.5s interval for following spikes
Upon defeated: Skull falling aparts before the energy orb in the rip cage become unstable, expands then exploded. Dealing Shadow damage from the explosion.
Tiers:
Tier 1: Explosion radiance cover 1 tile radius fuse timer 2 seconds (don't hug it)
Tier 2: Explosion radiance cover 2 tiles radius fuse timer 2 seconds
Tier 3: Explosion radiance cover 2 tiles radius fuse timer 1 second
Status varient names:
Poison: Blighter
Shock: Charged Spine
Freeze: BoneChiller
Fire: Forged mounder
Knight Name: Ainogommon
Discord Name: - Ð IΞ ᐻ ł Ĺ -#4809
Twitter Name:Ainogommon
Link to entry: Deviantart, Imgur
Monster Backstory: Upon the tragedy of the Citadel. Some soul cannot sattle with the hatred from its loss. Seeking for a revenge ,instead got teleport into an unnatural place "Graveyard". Forgot its origin and former self. Hungry and want to strike down any live soul that pass through. Some might bring the "fire" from the Citadel with it. This monster can respawn (similar to Phantom).
Any Other Details:
Attacking: The Grave-Stalker will haunt the gravestone which appeared to have shadow under it. After knight walk closer within its attack range, the ghost claw will spawn from the gravestone, swipe at the nearest knight (Tracking the position). Tier 3 Grave stalker swipes has chance to inflict "Strong" fire status on the target. Attacking the claw might lead the Grave stalker to jump off and haunt the nearest gravestone, making a distance from them and the attacker.
Behavior: The Grave-Stalker will spawn at the nearest gravestone when there is at least one gravestone present nearby. If there's no gravestone nearby, the Grave-Stalker will appeared as a thick shadow underneath the knight and will hope off the knight as soon as they can located a gravestone nearby its warp range. If the Grave-Stalker haunted the breakable gravestone and the stone got destroyed while being haunted, this will reveal its true form. In the true form, the Grave stalker cannot turn back into the shadow form for 3 seconds but still walking toward knight and attemp to claw swipe them.
Knight Name: Statiicz
Link to entry: https://i.imgur.com/rsLmJRh.png
Monster Backstory: Snipe Experiment Gone Wrong [Boss Monster, type: Beast/Unknown?]
Hera has attempted to clone herself while in snipe form and accidentally created this monster which escaped into the clockworks.
Any Other Details: As a boss it has 3 phases;
Phase 1; In her lair she is peaceful and having fun, playing with dangerous fireworks which harm players hit by them [Elemental damage]
Phase 2: After attacking the snipe she has gotten angry, growing in size and expanding her wings into large dangerous blades.
She spins towards the players harming anyone hit by her wings [Piercing Damage]
Phase 3: She becomes enraged, losing all sense of thought and starts chasing the players with the ban stick [Player gets banned for randomised "x" amount of time"]
Knight Name: Neocathero
Discord Name: NeoCatHero#0214
Link to entry: https://imgur.com/a/GrMBp26
Monster Backstory:
"Field report #37:
Week 4, day in and day out we are getting reports of missing coinage or materials from all of our recruits at camp. We can not pin point as to why this is happening or how. The beasts in this area shouldn't be able to come so close to our possessions without us noticing, right? And slimes have no interest in coinage, at least not the kind we posses..
Regardless, the Aurora Isles camp Beta has been getting more and more poor, we need to get to the bottom of this.
Wait, what is that jingling sound? ALERT! There is a unknown gremlin in our camp ALE- HEY GIVE ME BACK MY RECORDER!"
-Recorder recovered from a fleeting gremlin of unknown origin. The gremlin vanished into thin air after minutes of chasing.
Other details:
Money, material, rarity and token versions of the gremlin exist.
(Treasure Tycoon, Scrap Scoundrel, Anomalous Aristocrat and Memento Mogul, in order of previously mentioned versions).
Knight Name: santer-samurai
Discord Name: Kaibaman (PETTHETORTODRONE)
Twitter Name: ----------
Link to entry: https://imgur.com/a/NUPnxdr
Monster Backstory:
THE JUNKSHARD
The junkshards are widely known by the geo-knights for causing trouble during mining operations, these construct monstrosities are formed when a mineral rock absorbs nearby pieces of machinery and form a sentient amalgamation of rock and metal, the energy stored within the rock is enough to power every part of the junkshard and its attacks can have different status effects depending of the mineral type.
The geo-knights discovered that the junkshards appear when a mineral ore is destroyed, revealing the monster underneath. Geo-knights also report that for some reason junkshards only appear on rooms with a high number of mineral ores.
Junkshards can perform a variety of attacks depending of at what depth they are found on: the ones found close to the surface explode on contact like a Bombie but leaving some shards scattered around, the ones found at moderate depth perform a close range meele attack and will explode after being defeated scattering many shards around and finally the ones found between emberlight and the core are able to use the energy beam of a retrode, perform a poweful meele attack and will explode after death leaving a lot of shards on the floor.
Other Details:
//Warning//: these monsters like to explode on contact or after being defeated, be sure to always bring your safety goggles to avoid shrapnel wounds!
Knight Name: Arstor
Link to entry: https://imgur.com/8r0o1ax
Monster Backstory: Originating from foreign lands far beyond Cradle, these lichenous foes are no joke! Once a Lichen Colony has reached its peak capacity, it becomes a Lichen Hive, diverting and multiplying its unicellular drones to fight any and all intruders crossing its path! Oozing with drones, its soldiers individually pack a punch, and will not hesitate to defend their home. Defeat the Hive itself to stop drones from spawning, but beware, as the Hive will take back units to restore its health as a last resort!
Any Other Details: Sightings indicate that close relatives to the lichens have appeared to combine into hives as well - more information is still pending from Spiral HQ. Knights journeying to the slimiest parts of the Clockworks are advised to carry some Rock Salt -- not as a defensive measure, but for good luck.
Knight Name: Geomec
Discord Name: Pringle#8837
Twitter Name: N/A
Link to entry: Two links below.
Imgur + Differences: https://imgur.com/a/q53n2vO
Deviantart: https://www.deviantart.com/geomech/art/Speed-Demon-867832746
Monster Backstory: Back when the roads weren't in ruin and the sun still rose, these cute machines were used to traverse the vast many streets of Devilte City. As the beautiful metropolis befell hard times and corruption, the neglected streets began to crack and crumble and devilites couldn't afford fuel. With many years of abandonment (and a small hint of black magic) these restless fiends were raised to their rightful place to raze the ruined roads once again. Bystanders be warned, it will not yield again.
Any Other Details: This fiendish vehicle attacks primarily through running into players and issuing out bite attacks similar to Grimalkins. Capable of sweeping drift attacks and devastating head-on collisions. The devilite in the passenger side may also throw projectiles at the player. Be prepared to dash! Upon defeat, it may spawn up two devilites correspondent to the Speed Demon's status.
Knight Name: Bittersweet Death
Discord Name: Bitters#5879
Link to entry: https://64.media.tumblr.com/60dbbf939b92f3e179dc7bc560e992b0/6737d654d3e...
Monster Backstory:
The siege of Seerus’ Grand Arsenal marked the end of a lengthy arms race between the Spiral Order and the Crimson Order. Years after the siege however, a new weapon marks the beginning of a new arms race. One which will change the very strategy that the Crimson Order employs to face the Isoran Knights.
Additional Details:
The Gremlin Sharpshooter stays away from the heat of the fight to provide its comrades support fire. Sharpshooters wear camouflaged cloaks and use a long-range plasma rifle built for the sole purpose of disrupting Isoran shields. One shot will immediately break any shield the targeted knight is using. If a shot lands on a knight without his/her shield up, it does damage comparable to a hammer swing. Each shot requires time to steady and charge, giving a knight precious second to find and interrupt the sniper.
Strengths:
-Long ranged weapon. Shots hit knights immediately as opposed to other bullet particles (can still be dodged with a very well timed dash)
-Potentially deadly when paired with large groups of opponents.
-Camouflage makes sharpshooters more difficult to spot.
Weaknesses:
-Nearly defenseless on its own.
-Laser pointer reveals their position.
-Any damage will interrupt their charged shot. (by extension, fire and shock will render them effectively disarmed)
P.S. Be smart like this gremlin. Keep your distance and wear a mask.
Knight Name: Embron
Discord Name: Embron#7149
Twitter Name:[REDACTED]
Link to entry: https://imgur.com/a/gg9CWal
Monster Backstory:
From the Burrows from the deepest darkest compound levels emerges a new monsters the Molarr/(Demolelition/Gringpaa)! (couldn't choose between the three names sorry!). These mole enemies spends most of their life buried in the dirt surfacing only to eat the tastiest of Geo crystal and Shards. When knights are near they will Surface with an enormous amount of force that sends rocks and rubble flying everywhere! A reckless knight could easily get harmed when this happens. These Moles Claws aren't just for digging through the hardest layers of the clockworks but also the toughest of armors as well. These moles are sure to go into a slashing frenzy at any knight they see after they emerge from the ground, and don't think you can easily snipe these beast from a distance, if they don't go back underground and burrow after you they're bound to hurl any rocks or Stones directly at your face!
The Variants of these monsters can be most easily spotted and identified by the unique color and shape of their noses!
Any Other Details:
This monster is supposed to be the "Bomb" type monster that you don't really see and beasts could really use another monster to be added into the mix. I really couldn't a name but I'd like to imaging that this guy would say "Demolelition" when popping out of the ground for no real reason aside to be a pun.
I think the best way to deal with this guy would be to Charge up an attack, wait for him to stop burrowing when he's near you, move a bit back as he pops out and then unleash you're fury onto him. If you somehow mange to pull them out of the ground and on a surface that even they can't dig through they'll be almost completely helpless and will fail and try to scramble to the closest patch of softer turf.
The Surfacing attack is basically like a shard bomb in terms of area of damage, the rocks that land have a can to cause a status based on what variant of mole it is and the amount of rocks that land on the floor changes with the tiers, no rocks on tier 1, 2-3 rocks on tier 2 and 4-5 rocks on tier 3.
Knight Name: Impwick
Discord Name: Impwick#9247
Link to Entry: https://imgur.com/a/0Oqz4LH
Monster Backstory / Any Other Details:
As the Spiral Order continues to deal major blows against Tinkinzar's colony, the Gremlins grew immensely worried, working day and night trying to build defenses, but as always, it wasn't enough. Tensions grew stronger and stronger until they got a single command from the Crimson Order; Scrap everything for parts, build an army. Almost immediately, they set to work. Tearing everything apart, anything that could possibly be used, they took. Not stopping at metal, they sought to modify bodies that the Knights left behind, let nothing go to waste, y'know? And in this chaos' wake, rose an army of part organic, part mechanical monstrosities, swarming the darkest depths of the Clockworks and quickly scaling higher to the surface.
The Zom-Basher was a product of this final push, taking the remains of a Dust Zombie and working away until it was at last fully automated and dangerous. As a direct result of being more machine than undead, shadow resistance is lost, leaving only piercing resistance and a weakness to the elements. Zom-Basher can mediocre damage with heavy swipes, but the real threat comes from their charge. With a little bit of wind-up, walking backwards, they then rush forwards, shoving any knights in their way, before finishing things off with a slam into the ground, leaving a plus-shaped shockwave rippling across a few squares.