PHEMOS /SPIKER
The Phemos also known as Spiker for its tendencies to shot spikes and its body surrounded by them.
They are some species native to the Red Mist Forest and they are perfectly adapted to this place. Their body is composed by 4 soft and malleable arms that can take some different shapes and a harder center shell similar to an exoskeleton along with a protected neck and a long head with 2 extensions to each side.
About their movement, they can move slowly with their arms, also their arms are able to produce sticky substances that let them even stay on walls or upside down, which gives them an edge in their hunting.
They have 2 main ways of feed, both as important, although they have less needs of hunting than from the spikes of the plants of their forest. Using their soft part in their body they are able to devour the spikes of smaller size to extract some nutrients from them and after the chemical process in their body these spikes become even more dangerous for other lifeforms. Then these spikes are able to travel inside the Phemos’ body until they reach the little holes of its body to protect themselves.
But the ones that are in the head can be ejected at high speed to be used as a lethal ranged weapon. When these spikes manage to kill their prey, they start a chemical reaction that let the Phemos consume the body of its prey. This also is used for self-defense, sometimes they cooperate with each other to surround a prey or protect each other from different sides.
They can communicate with each other producing some sounds. They mostly cooperate for convenience. Their reproduction is sexual and there isn’t any major sexual dimorphism in this species.
Phemos are a species that is better to stay away from, because if there are one there might be more and they are cunning enough to be able to trap a prey from many different angles. Some people had tried to do some weapons using the same spikes, which are very effective against other organic creatures, so some hunters or explorers use them.
