SCORPION HORROR

Rides a Scorpion-Mole mount, custom creature. Creature is slightly larger than a horse. Some empathic link with the creauture, slight telelpathy. Creatuire is fairly intelligent. Cat-like. Consult notes: biology. MS spits jelly as breath weapon. Acidic/dissolves and/or hallucinogenic stupor. The shaman kings of hthe lands gathered and extracted and purified the jelly for ritual use. * Local ecosystem is tied into poisonous flower/nectar and a beast who feeds on it. Bluish-purple thorned plant which grows all around the slopes of the mountain, all around Elves' area. Mauling thorns protect the nectar sac in the center, the size of a cabbage head. Thorns are super-poisonous (1 drop=Death). Nectar is hallucinogenic/magical. In caves and burrows lives the horrid beast, the Mole Scorpion, which has intricate and mysterious connections to the purple flower. Tribesman harvest the nectar from where its stored in the esophagus. A team of tribesman/young braves make ritual sport of hunting down MS to gather the juice. They know the creatures well. When braves corner one, they musically charm it, sync up with its 'rattlesnake rattle'. Some use hands and mouth ( re: Renegade movie), some have hand-instruments. They time the beat to anticipate when MS will spit. Then they must strike to get the goods in a flash. Blue flowers toxin coats a large tangle of thorns around the honey-sac. The MS's thorny, tough snout snakes in past the thorns unaffected. It reaches the juice with extendable tongue/mandible. (re: water bear) Heroes role in this: a) influenced by Illithid dreams (re: Call of Cthulu, called there) or b) influenced by by rumors the Elves plant, trying to draw out some greedy adventurers to break the stalemate. MF can't be reached, can't be killed. He continues to warp their people. He can't escape. (Githyanki shock-troops search for him) Local legend/Character idea: One of the tribesman who tamed and rode a MS and fitted it with chitin armor. MS sprays blobs of poison/nectar when attacked or cornered; loogie/spitballs. Concentrated nectar/nuerological toxin