Species: Cave Moss
Family: Plant
Risk level: Low
Weaknesses: Fire
Description: This is a plant that found an interesting way to blend in with its surroundings. It plants itself near normal cave moss and adjusts its coloration to blend in more with it. They can vary greatly between each other, for example there were recorded instances of both brown, rought monster moss and yellow, glowing, squishy ones.
After they adapt to their area, they start to absorb nutritions from surrounding plants, but not enough to let it wither or otherwise change. When it gathers enough energy it then develops ability to directly catch small criters that walk on its surface and trap them until sucked dry from essence.
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They can grow to rather huge sizes, like the entire house floor big, but are restricted by the amount of prey they can catch. When this monster is in danger or lacks enough sustanance to live it can slither away at slow speed to another location. If it isn't currently possible it ejects from itself massive amounts of pollen that allows it to assure its species survival.
They can be dangerous if allowed to grow large enough, but due to the rarity of those situations and the extremely small amount of corruption the produce it is better to leave them alone and inform Vault of Knowledge of its location, that to burn it down. They can also be useful at times, thanks to their great absorption ability that allows it to quickly clean up any filth that could have accumulated in its area.
Personal notes: "They may be monsters, but quite useful ones. When we manage to gather enough of them and place them in our sewers they can clean any waste that gathered there. Even with our current technology we are not able to do that as quickly, efficiently and most importantly, low cost as them. Maybe we can create our own species specifically designed to clean sewers? Is there a kind of moss that grown in there that we can exploit, and use it to adapt them for our use?" Faliz Gathur, member of Vault of Knowledge