#Future Predator

[doctorfriend79]

James Lester Fights A Future Predator

[soylent-crocodile]

Chiropterex (Monster)

(artist unknown)

(Back in the distant era of the early 10s, my family got Netflix as a novelty. Nowadays streaming has consumed film and television like a rabid beast, but back then, my brother and I found a little British show called Primeval. Weaned on BBC nature documentaries from a young age, this was an exciting new spin on Walking with Dinosaurs, and we loved it.

The future predator is no question the most iconic creature of the series, a future bat that is both inspired by earlier spec evo and has gone on to inspire many other monster designs, including the earlier moorkutlot. It seems only fitting it be translated to Pathfinder.

By the way, I'm abandoning the proposed evolutionary history the later seasons provide- that these actually evolved to eat humans in a post-apocalyptic cityscape- and make them what I think is most obvious to me.)

CR3 TN Medium Animal HD5

Chiropterex are an aberrant species of roughly wolf-sized terrestrial bat, an arboreal, nocturnal apex predator of the islands it calls home, where no other land mammals have reached. They live in small family groups of about four to six members, typically consisting of a mated pair, a nest of about six children, a few children of previous years who stay around to help, and maybe one or two aunts or uncles. Typically, however, they hunt alone, feeding on seabirds and large moa-like ratites who evolved alongside them. These family groups keep in contact with each other using echolocation, and if a lone hunter runs into a struggle, it will call on the dissembled family to help.

Chiropterex are notorious man-eaters, and many a shipwrecked crew has met its end at a family of ravenous land bats. Many peoples of island cultures consider chiropterex to be evil spirits, and indeed there is at least one island where the magic of The Abyss has infected the local population of these predatory beasts.

Some outsiders have tried to domesticate chiropterex, or at the very least use them as weapons. They are a tempting subject of domestication; they are mobile, intelligent, fast-growing and have large clutch sizes, but all attempts so far have ended disastrously.

Chiropterex Companions

Starting Statistics: AC: +4 Size: Small Speed: 30ft, Climb 30ft Attacks: Bite (1d3), 2 Claw (1d4) Ability Scores: Str:10 Dex:22 Con:8 Int:2 Wis:12 Cha:7 Special Qualities: Blind, Blindsight 90ft, Scent Lv 4 Advancement: Size: Medium Attacks: Bite (1d4), 2 Claw (1d6) Ability Scores: Str +4 Dex -2 Con +2 Special Qualities: Flurry of Strikes

This hunched over creature has long, clawed arms and a bulbous head that ends in a short, needle-toothed mouth.

Misc- CR3 TN Medium Animal HD5 Init:+5 Senses: Perception:+6 Blind, Blindsight 90ft, Scent Stats- Str:14(+2) Dex:20(+5) Con:10(+0) Int:2(-4) Wis:12(+2) Cha:7(-2) BAB:+3 Space:5ft Reach:5ft Defense- HP:25(5d8) AC:19(+5 Dex, +4 Natural) Fort:+4 Ref:+9 Will:+3 CMD:21 Immunity: Gaze and other visual effects Weakness: Vulnerability to Sonic  Offense- Bite +5(1d4+2, 18-20/x2), 2 Claw +5(1d6+2) CMB:+6 Speed:30ft, Climb 30ft Special Attacks: Pounce, Flurry of Strikes +3/+3/+3/+3(1d6+2) Feats- Dodge, Mobility Skills- +11 Climb, +10 Stealth, +6 Perception(+8 Racial to Climb) Special Qualities- Flurry of Strikes Ecology- Environment- Forest, Urban (Warm) Languages- None Organization- Solitary, Family (2-4 Chiropterex, 6-8 Young Chiropterex) Treasure- None Special Abilities- Blindsight (Ex)- A chiropterex’s blindsight is echolocation-based; it cannot sense within areas of Silence or similar spells. Flurry of Strikes (Ex)- A chiropterex may, as a full-round action, give a flurry of stabbing strikes from its claws. It makes four Claw attacks at a -2 penalty each. 

[phantomdragoness]

When people say the aliens from A Quiet Place are terrifying and original

Let me introduce to you the nightmare fuel that is Primeval’s Future Predator.

This thing gave me so many nightmares as a kid and was the reason I have never been scared of the Death Angel.

Future Predator:

It’s extremely fast

Hunts using echolocation

Is extremely adaptive

Is the reason/one of the reasons humanity became extinct

Terrifyingly sneaky

Death Angel:

It’s fast

Hunts using sound or some form of echolocation

Is the reason humanity is facing extinction

Seems to be armour-plated

Can smash through walls

Both do face the weakness of high-pitched noises. In a one-on-one battle, I do believe the Death Angel would come out on top, mainly due to size and it’s armour-plating/thicker skin, but that doesn’t mean I find it more terrifying.

[ofowlsdinosaursanddragons]

Had a funny idea of the Gorgonapsid and the Future predator from primeval as Paradox pokemon for some time.

Gorgon tooth: “A monster before the dinosaurs?!”

Ground/fighting type

Scarlet Dex entry:

“This savage beast’s status is still unknown on whether this creature is an actual Pokémon or not.”

Violet Dex entry:

“It resembles an illustration published in a paranormal magazine. This beast seems to have a strange rivalry with another paradox creature.”

Iron Assassin: “A monstrous evolution of bats?!”

Psychic/dark type

Scarlet dex entry

“It resembles an illustration published in a paranormal magazine. It appears to have a bizarre rivalry with another paradox creature.”

Violet Dex entry:

“This creature seems to come from a distant future where humanity went extinct. Unlike the other future paradoxes, bizarrely enough, it is not metallic in any way.”

[starburstcosmos]

maybe the real sex was the chess we played along the way

[athena-vardos]

OH MY GOD WAIT A MINUTE…

THE VIKING PREDATOR COULD’VE BEEN A FEMALE?! 😨😨😨

(Source)

[doctorfriend79]

Just Another Day At The Office

[bumblingbabooshka]

Predation. [Patreon | Commissions]

[ninjigma]

Uhhhhh, yeah. Just some anatomy studies and whatnot.

[bearotonin-international]

Apex predator, my ass. I’m going to pet the dog 🐻🐻‍❄️🐼

perhaps now is a good time for some responsible bear programming to remind everyone that as cute and cuddly as they may seem, bears are lethal apex predators and should absolutely be treated accordingly if ever encountered.

DO

NOT

PET

[rileys-battlecats]

the crane wives are once again inspiring me. higher ground is SO mudpawcoded

[yautja-lair]

I always found fascinating the work that happens behind vtubing and all the art and rigging behind it

This made me think

Yautja Vtuber would be interesting, having the mandibles opening for expressions or talking, maybe some of the hair moving as the head moves, using maybe a sound board or a voice application to add the clicking sound every now and then

tho, even if i know nothing of programming and rigging, i know working on all that would be massive work, i panic just at opening task manager ah

still would be a cool

[jedivoodoochile]

° Alsta Nautoscaph - Jaws (1975)

° Seiko 6105 - Apocalypse Now (1979)

° Seiko M516 Voice Note - Ghostbusters (1984)

° Casio CA53W-1 Databank - Back to the Future (1985)

° Seiko 7A28-7000 - Aliens (1986)

° Seiko H558 - Predator (1987)

[meirimerens]

the bickering habit

[mechazushi]

It's Offical... The Kno.8 Brain Rot has reached critical levels.

I just woke up from a dream where I was running around in ancient medieval, vampire infested Venice and as I come out a side alley, I see a brightly lit stall. I walk over to it and it's FUCKING KAFKA selling KAIJU NUMBER 8 MERCH (as well as ATLA merch for some fucking reason?)

The dream ended before I could buy anything.... Still was a lovely man.

[kxllakxm]

Alien vs Predator

It's time to pick a side.