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GLUTTONY DEVILBIRD  CLASS: DEVILBIRD BIOLOGY: The largest of the seven prime Devilbirds, the Gluttony is technically a colonial organism consisting of several ravenous feeding polyps budding from a larger mother polyp, sharing a network of digestive channels and rudimentary ganglia. Barely mobile, the colony's psychic broadcast manipulates creatures that have breathed its foul neural spores and inflicts them with an insatiable desire to gorge themselves on any organic material that they can ingest. Once full to capacity, these vassals follow the soft peeping and bioluminescence of the monster's feedng polyps, expel their stomach contents into the creature and repeat the process. Inevitably, a long-term host starves and weakens until they can no longer resist being swallowed whole by the monster or turned on by their fellow hungry vassals. Despite its seemingly bottomless appetite, a Gluttony does not actually experience the sensation of hunger and can comfortably endure many years without nourishment. The majority of its dietary intake is converted directly into its spore miasma. BEHAVIOR: Although it rarely communicates, a Gluttony possesses a sharp, rational intellect and spends much of its time reflecting on the nature of being. It usually idealizes concepts of nothingness, annihilation and the void, believing that the purpose of all life is to cancel out other life and ultimately self-destruct. Despite its cold and ruthless outlook, a Gluttony's alliance is slightly easier to win with offerings of sweets, particularly fudge. APPLIANCE: A Gluttony is willing to reign in its mental domination if willingly provided a steady supply of food, its full power all the more potent when finally unleashed as a weapon. GLUTTONY INFECTION: creatures exposed to the Gluttony's spore field are subject to its mental dominance, and will devour anything they possibly can in order to feed the monster.   DESIGN DESCRIPTION: it resembles a very fat, legless baby bird covered thickly in the very short, spine-like beginnings of feather shafts. Its large, neckless head is split open vertically into a gigantic mouth, its beak actually shaped like rows of long, curved, thick "teeth" like a Venus fly trap. Its half-closed eyes, encircled by wrinkles of purple skin, are facing viewer, one to either side of where the head splits open. Inside of this mouth are four more, less developed baby bird with fully naked, translucent, peach colored skin. Yellow trachea can be seen through the skin of their stretched necks, and their eyeballs are only blue lumps just beneath the skin of their bulbous heads. Their large, soft beaks have fat knobbly edges that can tightly interlock. These beaks glow a pale blue. The bird facing us has its beak wide open, so we can see the slimy pink throat and a thin tongue. The entire creature evokes birds in a nest, but the nest is also a bird. Contents copyright Jonathan Wojcik
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