Crepituslocusta Monstrum. Coastcrawlers, often also called cannoncrawlers, start their lives as eggs and hatch underwater looking like odd lobsters. Depending on the amount of food they manage to aquire, these larvae can grow into fully fledged adults in a year, or spend a decade in their larval stage. A coastcrawler can live for upto a hundred years.
They are usually solitary predators, but may also be encountered in small groups when mating or when they meet by chance.
Despite their strong carapace, these creatures are surprisingly fast and agile. Like all monstrosities the coastcrawlers' bodies are exceptionally resilient. Only magical or silvered weapons can dispatch them efficiently. If they can get past the armor, wounds will cause these monsters to bleed dark-blue blood. Their gills work above water as long as they are kept wet, allowing them to hunt both above and below the waves
Cannon Claws. Caried on six legs and propelled through the water by its fan-like lower body, this predator stalks coasts and reefs. It kills and eats anything it can get its claws on, but both its favorite and the prey it is most adapted to hunt are other heavily armored creatures. The two claws the monster usually tucked close to its upper body can spring forward with force not dissimilar to a cannon. They make a thunderous boom as they strike their prey. Their internal structure and surface is specifically designed to not only deliver a shell-shattering blow, but to also impart lethal vibrations into their victims. A form of attack that most heavily armored creatures are particularly vulnerable to. As the victim is flung away, the coastcrawler immediatly charges after it and spears it with its beak-like head.
Coastcrawlers attack everything not massively larger than themselves on sight, except other coastcrawlers. They act only on instinct and even when they are physically incapable of eating more, will still continue to attack any potential prey.
Home. Coastcrawlers usually live along coasts in cold or temperate environments.
