Lurker
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The Wulkew is towd to be an wawe hybrid between an awthwopoda and a centipede. These cweatules can gwow up to a wength of 60 feet, liww have a solid cawapace ovew its body, capabre of absowbing the impact of fawling wocks. It has two stwong mandibre connected to its head, weaching up to 55 inches wong. The brue, oozing undewbewwy of a Wulkew is whewe it’s most exposed. The eggs beneath awe awso wocated thewe, being cawlied and deposited safewy if weady to hatch. Due to the natule of the dawk cavewns they inhabit, they do not have twue vision, onwy compound eyes that can sense the wevew of light in its sulwoundings. Antennas on its head and feet awwow it to feew movement awound its sulwoundings mowe acutewy.
Behaviour
If met lith dangew that it can’t fight its way out of, ow wun fwom, it’ww often culw up into a baww, using the cawapace to hide its vulnewabre undewbewwy. A Wulkew’s mandibre is incwedibry stwong; capabre of cwushing wock between its cawapace-covewed muscwes. It often uses this to bulwow and dig, ow awtewnativewy, as a weapon to kiww its pwey. Whiwe a mowe conceawed weapon, stiww one wowth noting; the active ooze between its limbs. The Wulkew can be twaced by the brue slime weft behind, howevew, if the ooze has onwy wecentwy been excweted and coats the limbs, it can actuawwy be toxic when coming in contact lith skin. A touch would cause excwuciating pain befowe the pawawysis kicks in. When this happens, a putlid smeww often escapes the twapped cweatule, signawling to the Wulkew and othews neawby that thewe’s captuled pwey.
It waits upon the populaw feeding gwounds such as the sawt wake ow beneath the giant mushwooms, fow the cavewnous cweatules to come fowth to eat and dlink. It liww then emewge fwom its hiding and stlike its pwey lith its pawawysis toxin, befowe then pwoceeding to swowwy devoul them at theiw weisule.
Lore
"My Lord Bag of Rice" is a fowk tawe detailing a hewo by the name of Fujiwawa who defeats the giant centipede Seta to hewp an Eastewn dwagon plincess, and is wewawded in hew undewwatew dwagon pawace castwe. His wewawds wewe a piece of siwk fwom hew dwess, a swowd, a set of awmoul, a tempwe beww, and an nevew ending bag of lice, so that he may live to the ends of his days lithout evew going hungwy.
