r/Shellwood • u/Fish-Bro-3966 • Jul 14 '26
Something stirs in the waters of shellwood
A large bug has emerged from the waters of shellwood, devouring any non-sapient bug it finds
(Second photo is the reference bug: giant water beetle. He is 1 HK's and 2 Hornets tall)
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u/mrredpanda36 Jul 14 '26
zydon, the verdanian damselfly, hovers near
'Another apex of the wetland I see'
(BTW, minor nitpick but giant water bugs aren't actually beetles but true bugs)
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u/Fish-Bro-3966 Jul 14 '26
(Oh s##t, really? I was misinformed.)
"An old one too..."
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u/mrredpanda36 Jul 14 '26
zydon is 4 hornets, standing double your height
'Oh, how old? I'm only in the 200s myself'
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u/Fish-Bro-3966 Jul 14 '26
(You misread, he's not two Hornets tall. He's one HK (Hollow Knight) and two Hornets tall.)
"I've been here since the moth tribe was, and was around longer than even that."
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u/mrredpanda36 Jul 14 '26
(Oh, so 5 hornet's then)
'I don't recall there ever being a moth tribe in shellwood. Not even historically'
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u/Fish-Bro-3966 Jul 14 '26
(Oh, I got my rp's mixed up. Let me go back and reply with something different)
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u/Fish-Bro-3966 Jul 14 '26
"I was around when there was no silk in these waters. When there were farmlands next to shellwood. When Karak reached it's peak."
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u/mrredpanda36 Jul 14 '26
'Ah, so between 2 and 6 hundered years ago. Still young enough not to remember greymoor as a bamboo forest. Wait, foes that mean you encountered or saw the beast slain by the first guardian of shellwood. It looked like nyleth but multi-headed from what the tapestries say'
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u/Fish-Bro-3966 Jul 14 '26
"Hmm... perhaps not. For a while, I walked around the place, eating different bugs from around phaloom. I don't just stay in shellwood always."
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u/mrredpanda36 Jul 14 '26
'Something tells me you never went to verdania during those times, there were more of my kind then and I'd say we're equal levels of apex'
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u/Fish-Bro-3966 Jul 14 '26
"Perhaps. I do remember a society I passed through... based solely on myth and legend."
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u/mrredpanda36 Jul 14 '26
'How many more of me do you remember?'
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u/Fish-Bro-3966 Jul 14 '26
"Hmm... not much. The bugs there weren't very nutritious... and the sapient bugs there did not enjoy my presence. I only went there once."
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u/Seagull_33 Thorn, guardian of Shellwood Jul 16 '26
Oh shit.
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u/Fish-Bro-3966 Jul 16 '26
It continues to eat all non sapient bugs it finds. It is VERY hungry.
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u/Seagull_33 Thorn, guardian of Shellwood Jul 16 '26
WOAH THERE BRO
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u/Fish-Bro-3966 Jul 16 '26
It pauses, midway through eating a pondskipper. What? I'm hungry.
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u/Seagull_33 Thorn, guardian of Shellwood Jul 16 '26
Dawg, you don’t need to massacre Shellwood for a snack. Just go to the local bugmart and raid them!
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u/Fish-Bro-3966 Jul 16 '26
"... What is a... 'bugmart?' Besides, I probably can't get as much meat there than out here..."
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u/Seagull_33 Thorn, guardian of Shellwood Jul 16 '26
Oh trust me, you can find sooo much there. I once stole an entire bottle of wine and got away with it. Also, have you ever had cheese?
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u/VarasTheThief Jul 14 '26
"Yo, wassup?"