Muttation Contest XI

Name of Mutt: Platypus Bear
Brief Summary: The Platypus Bear was originally created to entertain Capitol guests at parties however it proved to be to temperamental to be safe for party use- so was put forward to the Game Makers as the next up and coming mutt. When stood on it's back leg, the Platypus Bear can be up to almost 9 feet in height, with large clawed paws and a platypus tails that it uses to knock prey (and tributes) over. Though its beak may seem freindly and not dangerous, its mouth is filled with tiny razor sharp teeth that causes paralysis if bitten. They are usually very territorial and with attack if you wonder into their territory.
Poision, Edible, or Neither? Edible I guess, if you can take it down

Name of Mutt: Boreas (pl. Boreas)
Brief Summary: Boreas have been useful to the Capitol ever since The Dark Days. When the country was still on shaky ground and the fences around the forests had only been implemented in two districts at the time, citizens used to be a lot more daring, many people venturing out into the Capitol woods, despite it being a crime. The Capitol’s attention was slowly brought to this, but they didn’t immediately put fences around the woods in all 12 districts- not yet. They decided on a more devious punishment for lawbreaking citizens, a punishment that would seemingly ensure that no Panem citizen would go out into the woods again. Thus, the Capitol created the Boreas. They were tiny creatures, the size of gnats, and virtually invisible. But they were deadly, and didn’t come in swarms. The Capitol released them into the forests to prey upon unsuspecting criminal citizens.The Boreas didn’t attack the citizens who remained in their districts, since they were not “wired” to do so.
The Boreas’ attacks were simple. All a Boreas had to do was bite a Panem citizen in the forest, which was easy, as the Boreas’ small size made it undetectable, the bite upon the citizen’s skin made without pain. At first. The true pain came days after. The virus the Boreas carried was dormant 3 days after contracting it. And then the terror began. Citizens who were bitten experienced intense agony, their screams keeping their districts up all night. They also experienced hallucinations, dehydration, and vomiting blood. 10-15 days after infection, the diseased person died. Soon, the citizens of every district realized just how dangerous the forests could be, and left them, never to return.
The Capitol put up the fences and secretly destroyed the Boreas population. But they still have a tube of them lying around somewhere...
Poison, Edible, or Neither? Poison- besides, why would you want to eat something you can barely see?

Name of Mutt: Troctopus

Brief Summary: These creatures (the Troctopus [singular]/Trocopi [plural]) are what most people could call a mix between a crab and an octopus. They are often brown, many different shades and patterns of brown, and they prefer land over water. They have eight legs and are actual vertebrates. They look extremely similar to an octopus, but only averaging in the size of an average adult male’s fist. The difference is that although squishy and seemingly plush and flexible, their skeletal makeup forces them to be less flexible than a boneless creature and they also have pincers that average in about five centimeters in length so that they can better be equipped to snatch up beetles, their favorite food and main diet. These pincers also serve to inject poison in their prey/predators. Though this venom is deadly to many things smaller than 60 pounds, the venom/poison is not deadly to humans. It will cause extreme nausea and pain as well as some hallucinations if you're unlucky. It lasts a maximum of a day, depending on the size of the Troctopus and how much venom it was able to inject. In the most severe case, in which the victim of the bite was allergic, the person was paralyzed. The paralysis only lasts for a few hours, though.

The reason that the Troctopus is able to stay out of the water for prolonged periods of time is because it has water-storing organs. It can go in the water and after about an hour they can come back out and have nearly 72 hours worth of water to last them as long as they would like to stay on land. They do prefer trees, where they drill and climb and chase after their prey, and even hide from predators. Their predators include birds and other land animals that are small and fast enough to catch the Troctopus before it can hide. The Troctopus also has been known to eat small fish, such as minnows, but it can also be preyed on by nearly all fish larger than itself. The Troctopus is not particularly aggressive, but prefers to stay hidden unless it is hunting.

The original purpose for the Troctopus was to get information/data on marine life. The Capitol thought it easier to create this than anything else, because they could plant sensors in the bones while growing the creatures. The Troctopus also has a cavity in it's small skull that allows a camera to be placed there, which the Capitol scientists would use to receive video feed of where this creature was. They put the venom in the Troctopus to fend off preying fish that might want to make a snack out of this expensive invention that allowed the Capitol to get most of their information on marine life to this day. When the organization that paid for and ran the operation to use the Troctopi to acquire information, the Capitol scientists totally abandoned the species, seeing as they no longer had any use for them. This is how the Troctopi were able to evolve to prefer land over water, as it was safer for them in the tropical islands they inhabited. Now you can commonly find these small creatures curled up in trees or under rocks in the water when touring tropics on vacation.

Poisonous, Edible, or Neither? It is edible and poisonous. But only edible if you don't eat the poison sack, which is located next to the pincers.


Name of Mutt: Sniper

Brief Summary: The sniper (so cleverly, but wrongly, named by the rebels) is a muttation version of the spitting cobra. It was genetically enhanced so that it's venom would project to farther distances, it's venom is has more severe effects, and that the cobra was more aggressive. Other than that the only difference that you can physically see is that it is slightly larger than the average spitting cobra. This cobra is able to spit up to thirty feet away and prefers to hide under rocks so as to be able to ambush any approaching troops. Though these creatures do not have venomous bites, if their venom touches your skin, it will burn the skin. Often times it will burn off a few layers before it wears off, but that is plenty, because the venom also will burn into blood streams and carry itself throughout the body. This venom will at it's absolute worst, kill you, but more often than not it will render you incapable of doing anything physically active for about a day or two. If the venom touches clothing, it burns right through the clothing, rendering it useless. This muttation was created for the sole purpose of defending the Capitol. More so from the mountainous and rocky side(s) than the flatter side. This would imply that the sniper is better adapt to living in the Earth or Fire zones of the arena. The sniper would (as stated previously) hide under rocks and then spit venom at anything/one who approaches. Obviously this backfired, because the snipers would "snipe" Capitol warriors as well as rebels. The Capitol ended up killing off as many as they could and then leaving them in the wilderness outside the Capitol. This is where the species flourished in the more prominently "rocky" parts of the Rocky Mountain Range.

Poisonous, Edible, or Neither? It is poisonous and not edible.