TTRPG creations: 122/365: Benign Shambler

Benign Shambler

 Fungi covered feet slowly muddle through the cave mulch. Shuffling stompers slip through grotto streams. A garbled, distorted hissing slowly erupts. A large wet barrel of a chest barks up sticky spores. Giant, rounded twin horns sway two and fro. The body, white and rubbery stretches out and in with disgusting distortions. Patches of mold and moss stick to every inch of the beast giving a lichen camouflage. 

Bugs, birds and biological lifeforms flock around the benign giant. All matter of life lives on its limbs. Nests form between its horns, colonies upon its mighty back. a living breathing ecosystem within an ecosystem. It sustains itself on corpses and rot. Always peaceful and calm until the wafting spores detect undead flesh. 

It will rush into a frenzy, spending any energy to consume the decaying biomass. Afterwards it lays dormant often fusing with the surrounding environment until it must feast again.