Familiar Submission: Rumble Bee
Posted: Sat Feb 14, 2015 4:40 am
As apparently insect familiars need approval because they're monstrous in class to explain their larger size and intelligence, I'm submitting a bubble bee familiar.
Rumble Bee
"The Bumble Bee Familiar"
Size: Ranges 6"-1.5'
Type: Insectoid Companion
The Rumble Bee is called such because it for all intents and purposes, is a large bumble bee. This larger size means that those wings sometimes not just buzz, but rumble. They have a large football shaped body that is covered with soft fuzz in rings of yellow and black and six spiked black legs. Their wings are small, just like their counterpart bumble bee's, but just like them as well they defy logic with their ability to fly and hover.
Rumble Bees feed on nectar and fruits, as well as flowers. To them a sugar cube is quite a treat! Unlike massive wasps and spiders, Rumble Bees are calm and not often encountered in the wilds as killer predators. Despite they do not die if they sting someone, they avoid stinging others until it is a last resort, so their 3inch curved stinger is often tucked away hidden in their abdomen. They live in communities and serve no queen, instead building paper and wax nests for their homes and food stores. Their gathering of nectar and flower petals is a good source of pollination for plants and flowers, especially monstrous ones. They are favored by fae and small races like pixies and nixies for their ability to be used as mounts and their affinity for sugar.
Ability Outline:
Produce - Rumble Bees, when given proper food and lands to forage, can over time produce wax. It's not good for candles without being processed, but very good for carving and melting for building things. They can also create honey with the same opportunity. Both are good for many uses, including healing.
Gatherer - Rumble Bees like to gather things. They gather what they want, what you tell them, and what they think they should. They destroy gardens by doing this, but they're also useful for harvesting fruits from high trees. A Rumble Bee can carry a maximum load of 5lbs before it becomes hindered. They can't lift more than 8lbs at all.
Dance - Not quite an ability, but what it does. Rumble Bees love music and happily raise their forearms in the air and dance around in circles. Some think this is somehow communication. Others thing they're just party animals.
Fine Hairs - Beyond the soft snuggles, Rumble Bees are able to purposely shed fine hairs from their body that act as terrible irritants to those they touch. It's a good defense mechanism. Some people collect these and add them as ingredients to itching powder.
Rumble Bee
"The Bumble Bee Familiar"
Size: Ranges 6"-1.5'
Type: Insectoid Companion
The Rumble Bee is called such because it for all intents and purposes, is a large bumble bee. This larger size means that those wings sometimes not just buzz, but rumble. They have a large football shaped body that is covered with soft fuzz in rings of yellow and black and six spiked black legs. Their wings are small, just like their counterpart bumble bee's, but just like them as well they defy logic with their ability to fly and hover.
Rumble Bees feed on nectar and fruits, as well as flowers. To them a sugar cube is quite a treat! Unlike massive wasps and spiders, Rumble Bees are calm and not often encountered in the wilds as killer predators. Despite they do not die if they sting someone, they avoid stinging others until it is a last resort, so their 3inch curved stinger is often tucked away hidden in their abdomen. They live in communities and serve no queen, instead building paper and wax nests for their homes and food stores. Their gathering of nectar and flower petals is a good source of pollination for plants and flowers, especially monstrous ones. They are favored by fae and small races like pixies and nixies for their ability to be used as mounts and their affinity for sugar.
Ability Outline:
Produce - Rumble Bees, when given proper food and lands to forage, can over time produce wax. It's not good for candles without being processed, but very good for carving and melting for building things. They can also create honey with the same opportunity. Both are good for many uses, including healing.
Gatherer - Rumble Bees like to gather things. They gather what they want, what you tell them, and what they think they should. They destroy gardens by doing this, but they're also useful for harvesting fruits from high trees. A Rumble Bee can carry a maximum load of 5lbs before it becomes hindered. They can't lift more than 8lbs at all.
Dance - Not quite an ability, but what it does. Rumble Bees love music and happily raise their forearms in the air and dance around in circles. Some think this is somehow communication. Others thing they're just party animals.
Fine Hairs - Beyond the soft snuggles, Rumble Bees are able to purposely shed fine hairs from their body that act as terrible irritants to those they touch. It's a good defense mechanism. Some people collect these and add them as ingredients to itching powder.