Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
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Dodo Tales S4 Ep4
A lonely man reached into a leather bag, pulling a revolver from it, and inspecting it to make sure it was full of ammo. Crawling out from rocks, the man, revealed by the light to be dirt-covered and scratched up, with a long unshaven beard. He whipped out his revolver, aiming it at his attackers. As a spear barely missed him, he pulled the trigger and one of the bandit's heads burst with blood and his corpse slipped off the rocks, his old cowboy hat falling off his head. Another bandit jumped to the man, attempting to punch him. The man dodged the punches, pistol-whipping the bandit across the face. He grabbed a knife from his left pocket and plunged it into the bandit's abdomen. The man turned and shot at several other bandits, some of them retreating. More bandits fell to the ground as time went on, none of them able to successfully hit the man. As the last bandit in sight rode away on an aberrant equus, the man aimed at his head, hesitant. The bandit resembled someone he had once known. Images of his old friend's death appeared in the man's mind, and he lowered his revolver. As the man rode away, the area once again fell into silence. "How long has it been since I've seen another person (before today)?" He thought, although he didn't have an answer. Those bandits may have been trying to kill him, but they were at least people, and not like the monsters in the darkness.
Rick was never a politics person, but still followed relevant events and people on this new ark. He knew enough about the completely dominant Abyssal Empire to tell that the bandits weren't associated with them, as the empire preferred more organized and standardized soldiers, not bandits from some time in the 1800s. Following the bandit attack, Rick continued his daily search. He had no home, and had traveled across the ark, through the darkness and through the light, learning everything there was to know. Still, he had made little progress tracking his old friends. On this day, however, Rick spotted a lazily put together house made from metal, and thought he recognized the design. Approaching the house, Rick discovered tracks in the dirt; some from a dodo, and others from a human. He stared up at the house, and started to walk toward the door. He pulled out his revolver once more, and burst through the door. "Hello!?" He shouted, met with nothing but the static whirring of machinery. Rick moved carefully and quietly through the house. When he reached another door, Rick tightened his grip on his revolver, finally slamming into the door. He stared in shock at what was in front of him, dropping his revolver as his arms fell to his side. It was Jerry's dodo. After grabbing his gun, he lifted to the bird slowly and gently, and walked through the front door. Jerry was gone, but why? Rick walked down from the porch, pondering whether he should stay and wait for Jerry, or continue his search and find him directly. As he was lost in thought, the dodo stared up at him, and he pet and offered it food. The dodo ignored the food in Rick's hand, continuing to stare in the same direction. Rick suddenly realized that the dodo wasn't staring at him, but over his shoulder. He grabbed his pistol and quickly turned to see a man atop a basilisk behind him. The man lifted a rocket launcher and started to destroy the house. Rick turned and ran with the dodo as small metal debris cut him and the first explosion gave him minor burns. He crawled to a nearby bush, his clothes covered in dirt and stained with sweat from the heat of the explosion and constant humidity of the cavern.
Jerry opened his eyes at a two-person table. It was made of high quality wood, and decorated nicely, much like the room around it. There was a fireplace too, but no doors or windows. There was a loud ticking noise coming from a large white clock on the wall. Jerry turned to the figure sitting across from him. He was strangely familiar. "Eden?!" He yelled in shock. "Yes, Jerry. Would you like some tea?"
"No thank you."
"So, is there anything you want to tell me?"
"No, why?"
"Oh I don't know, I just wanted to hear from the man who killed me."
Jerry stopped, growing visibly confused, and a bit concerned.
"What? That's not true. That's a lie!"
"No it isn't. Don't you remember, Ares?" Eden asked, turning to Ares, who was in third chair that was not there just a minute before. Jerry stared, realizing what this was.
"It's not real, it's not real, it's not real." Jerry repeated, closing his eyes and looking down.
"It's not real? Are you sure?" Asked the voice of Henry. Jerry kept his eyes shut, but heard familiar whispers from several others.
"You killed us."
"You killed us."
"You killed us."
Jerry finally awoke, breathing heavily from the safety of his bed. He was late for the speech.
Zontaní Skiá(Greek for living shadow)
Have you ever seen you're shadow move on its own out of the corner of you're eye? Then that, my friend, was a Zontaní Skiá. These living shadows control people and creatures shadows, helping or hurting them. The Zontaní Skiá could help by pointing out food, or it could hurt by giving away you're location or possessing you. Zontaní Skiá are deadly foes, as they can kill you easily, or, if they're feeling evil, they can make you're life pure pain and misery. They mainly take the form of a creatires shadow, but when they arent, they look like a featureless ghost thats dimly glowing and erie black, with dimly glowing white eyes. These creatures home land is the lost ark Nova, but they eventually asended off and now roam most arks.....
#FF4L
-Shadow
Blood Moon
Blood Moon was a very dangerous bloodstalker. It would be quite stealthy, and shoot it’s webs quickly. Once the prey got up to the bloodstalker, there was no escape. The webs were far too strong, not even tek could break it! The only way to actually hurt Blood Moon was to try to stab its sharp spike on its leg when it came through the webs. It was said somebody once tamed this bloodstalker, and caused chaos. Luckily, a group of people with gillie armour and snipers were able to shoot the rider. After that, it is unknown what has happened to the bloodstalker. These days, it is only said it appears on blood moons, looking for your base where you keep all of your creatures, ready to get some blood.
-Lamprey
(Anyone can use this. Do anything you want to Blood Moon, I don’t care what happens.)
Goliath on Extinction
On Extinction, Goliath was faced with more threats then ever. He made his home in the ruins of a building in the sanctuary and hunted its many creatures, including the defence units and enforcers. He used their tek parts to create his own partial armour. He then ventured out into the wasteland, battling hordes of corrupted creatures as he travelled to the desert dome. Once there, he battled the many creatures there before facing the Desert Titan. The battle was hard. He used a giant chunk of building from the sanctuary to knock the Titan to the ground (after many attempts) and then constantly bludgeon it to the point of near death. He then tore off its bottom jaw, punched into its skull and ripped out its brain.
The victorious Goliath then journeyed to the snow dome to battle the Ice Titan. He fought through the many managarmrs and mammoths before finally facing it. The two wrestled ferociously for hours, until Goliath pushed him to the ground and used his club to stun the Titan. He tore off one of its horns and used it to slice open the Ice Titan and punch into its heart.
Goliath then travelled to the Sunken Forest and battled its many creatures, before facing the Forest Titan. Unfortunately for the Titan, Goliath was much bigger and stronger, allowing him to overpower it and tear it apart, completely destroying it.
While out in the wasteland, Goliath encountered a player, his mek and his many tames. Goliath battled through the players army of tames before facing the mek. Goliath quickly tore off its arms and punched into the cockpit, killing the pilot. He stripped the mek of its tek and used it to create his own tek armour. He then tore out the insides of the players tames and splattered the blood over his armour, before facing the king Titan. After a long and epic battle, Goliath brutally ripped open the King Titan, destroying the corruption and saving the world and everything else. Goliath was a god, and he was happy about that.
-Apex (by the way this guy is actually gonna be my crossover character)
The Great Albino
This is actually canon, check the Leedschithys (I think that’s how you spell it) dossier.
The great albino was a Leedschithys that was very big and five times more deadly when it attacked rafts than a normal Leedschithys. It was pale white in appearance. Many hunters try to hunt this creature, and it drives many hunters mad because of its elusive nature. It is incredibly hard to find and incredibly powerful. Those that have survived an attack, often become traumatized and don’t dare venture into the water again.
-Red Dragon
Goliath on Scorched Earth
So, remember Goliath, yeah well, when he defeated the bosses on Valguero and he ascended, he ascended to Scorched Earth. Here’s what happened:
After ascending, Goliath had to adapt to his new desert home. He made a den in a cave under the gladiator in manticore town, and fed upon the many insects and other creatures surrounding the town. Goliath was shocked by the weakness of the creatures around the town compared to what he encountered on Valguero, so he went out into the dunes looking for a fight, and he soon found one... it was an alpha deathworm. The two wrestled for nearly an hour, until Goliath finally ripped the giant worm in half and devoured its remains. Goliath travelled to the World Scar to battle the wyverns that lived there. He was only familiar with ice wyverns, and since they were nonexistent on Scorched Earth, he was in for a challenge. Goliath received many burns from the different wyverns as he tore through the giant trench. Eventually he encountered Thunder, a lightning wyvern and the leader of the wyverns of Scorched Earth. The two battled next to the lava river, but Thunder tried to escape. Goliath grabbed his tail and dragged him to the ground, before swinging him around and throwing the wyvern against the side of the trench. Goliath grabbed the stunned wyvern and shoved its head into the lava river, melting its face. He then victoriously ripped off the still alive wyverns head, killing the king of the wyverns. Goliath then had enough confidence to face the Manticore, and he did, after an epic battle with its army of death worms and rock elementals, he faced the manticore, pinning it to the ground and grabbing its poisonous tail, he brutally stabbed the scorpion tail into the manticores neck, before snapping it. The victorious Goliath then ascended off Scorched Earth, heading to Aberration. He had conquered another Ark...
-Apex
Furball
The furball is a tiny descendant of the pegomastax that lives on the twilight ARK,
As the name suggests, it resembles nothing more than a small ball of downy feathers with a pair of big eyes.
They are intelligent and live in colonies inside trees, although they appear helpless,
Furballs have some tricks that can turn the tables on predators foolish enough to attack a furball den tree;
Although it exhausts them, they can release a devastating EMP pulse around them that can temporarily paralyse and knock back predators.
Hidden under their down is a very sharp little beak that can slice through weak metals and dismantle a small tree in minutes,
And in swarms they may well reduce a predator to a pile of mincemeat before it can even react,
The one thing that they fear is the terrifying spikers that prowl the skies above.
Poecilotheria metallica
Anomaly-62
12/7/2021
Object class: [AWAITING CLASSIFICATION]
Anomaly-62 also know as the “Glow bug” is an anomalous insect entity that is aloud to freely wander the world of aberration in all most just as long as it doesn’t attempt to enter restricted areas of the map or attempt to breach the underground and wander the surface.
Special containment procedures, There are none. Other than it is to never attempt to breach the underground and venture into the surface. Population check are too be done every month to ensure they are not wiped off the map. Any “glow bug” wandering the surface is to be immediately transported to the underground and run a medical checkup to make sure is not harmed. If anomaly-62 is unharmed it is to be released away from the site as far as possible. If injured it is to remain under site-care until it is Able to survive again. If an anomaly-62 is found dead at the surface it is to be transported to site and the body is to be incinerated.
Anomaly-62 is 2 feet long and 1/2 a feet tall and is equipped with several insect-like features. Six legs, short antennas, a glowing abdomen and of course large wings. Any personnel including d class are aloud to play with anomaly-62 if they are on break or have no tasks at that time. Anomaly-62 has shown no signs of aggression towards humans and tends to ignore them, if they are harmed or threatened by any being they will immediately attempt to flee, flying at a quick pass to avoid its attacker. The fluid inside of its abdomen appears to be able to power electronics, and even provide fuel for glow sticks it is a natural source of light inside of the dark undiscovered areas of aberration.
Oh you know what, ignore what I said about keeping the amount of stories I write at the same time at a limit of two. I’m going to start a new story in Yuty.
The story will be called Fallen World and will be about an ark that malfunctions and collides with an unknown planet, fusing with its crust. The creatures on the ark then venture out and enter a stage of rapid evolution to adapt to the planet. The main characters will be dinosaurs for a change, here are their names:
Ember claw (orange yutyrannus, leader of the group, main character)
Shadow Walker (pure black therezinosaur, very mysterious past with a dark twist, very good at lying and keeping secrets)
Slime back (green diplocaulus, cleverest member of the group, really scared about getting eaten by carnivores, never fully trusts Ember Claw)
Pearl scale (pure white iguanodon, stupidly poked a glowing green crystal when she was a baby and now has strange powers)
Gizmo (cute little swampling*, literally follows Ember Claw everywhere after he saved her from a hungry Swamp Badger*, but always finds a hiding place at the slightest sign of danger)
* A lot of species went into a state of hyper evolution. The jerboa evolved into the Swampling, and the purlovia into the Swamp Badger. Not all species did do it though, the main reason there are still yutys and theris.
-Apex
The Ferociraptor
The ferociraptor is a species genetically engineered for Project:Domination (you’ll learn about that soon) it’s designed to be fast, durable (the purple ferociraptor is a good example) and strong. The ferociraptors were created from raptor DNA (Jurassic world elements here) infused with BIO-X (again, you’ll learn more soon). This resulted in a combination of intelligence and terror, resulting with the apex predator of the Islands forests.
APP
Sorry but you can’t use this, it’s exclusive to my ARK universe, unless you plan on doing a crossover of some kind.
The Sound
Deep in the aberration, down by the element rivers, only the brave would go to there. When rock drakes came down there, they would hear a spooky sound, and then mysteriously disappear. It is unknown what would take the creatures or what is making the sound. Only very few survived this, and here’s what they said.
“It sounded like something from a horror movie... when I heard it I couldn’t see anything. I just ran, scared and hoping to survive.”
“When I was down there exploring, I heard music that I like. I went to go explore further until I heard the sound. It was scary, and I could feel something underneath the ground following me.”
Only the human who jumped into the element rivers knows what it is! Too bad he isn’t friendly though.
-Lamprey
I will allow anybody to use this, but this creature cannot be seen or killed. It can get damaged a bit, but that’s all.
Máng Nù
[For free use but you must stay true to the character. Máng Nù are mindless creatures and attack whatever isn't one of them. I will allow the killing off of a few, but not all ~CL1]
Discovered by explorer Mei-Yin Li, Máng Nù is a swarm of an ancient species of Onyc, usually identified by its pale skin and lack of eyes. Because of this, Li named the monstrosity "Máng Nù," meaning "Blind Fury." Their adept noses can bypass bug repellent and their fangs can easily pierce through armour. However, Máng Nù always go for the biggest meal, bones and all. Many humans have survived their attacks by having one of their larger tames with them. All reports claim Máng Nù can consume creatures up to the size of an Allo in under 7 seconds, depending on how many Onycs there are. Many attaempts have been made to find a weakness for these monsters, but their ferocity and speed makes them almost invunerable... almost.
Upea näkymätön(Finnish for great sightless one)
Upea näkymätön is a terrifying creature living in the deepest parts of Abberation,
Completely lacking eyes, instead with just two huge empty sockets, the great sightless one has such fine hearing that it can literally hear a compy breath from half a mile away.
Those who have seen it describe a creature resembling a giant nameless with thousands of tiny but incredibly sharp teeth arranged in several rows, five arms burst from around it's neck, used to grab prey even as it tears them to pieces, it's saliva is said to contain a deadly pathogen that mutates human prey into nameless even if they escape, it often prefers to take live prey back to it's lair instead of eating them, there it will blue them to the ceiling, leaving them for months until it becomes hungry, before eating them bit by bit, deliberately leaving them alive as long as possible.
(Yep, there is no denying it, this thing is a horrible monstrosity that makes a very fitting pet for
Sir Edmund Rockwell)
Poecilotheria metallica
El chupacabra
El chupacabra is a bizarre archaeopteryx descendant from the twilight ARK. in the wild they can often be spotted killing and eating small animals by using their suction cup tipped feet to tear holes in their skin and then lap up the blood as it wells up, leaving totally drained corpses with a distinctive mark of three small punctures from the suction cups, this habit has earned them the name of "El chupacabra" after the cryptid, notably it's supposed habit of sucking farm animals of their blood, leaving three small marks in similar fashion to this creature.
But some chupacabra have turned to a more sinister lifestyle, living as total parasites forever latched to a host's flesh, supping on small amounts of blood for weeks on end until the unfortunate animal finally collapses from lack of air and is suffocated by El chupucabra's continued feasting,
However, not all of these parasitic chupacabras have such a one sided and deadly relationship with a host, some chupucabras latched to humans have turned to symbiosis, feeding only on small amounts of blood and in return using their wings to allow short periods of flight for their host, although at the cost of temporary exhaustion to both members of the symbiosis, as an attached chupie will need a lot more food for a few minutes after the effort of lifting both themselves and their host.
~Poecilotheria
(Look, I know literally everyone is going to say "Archy? This is more of a microraptor!", And to be fair I couldn't agree more, but doesn't the electrical piranha pompom that is actually a pegomastax and the giant wyvern-esque predator that is really a ptera prove that life on the twilight ARK adapts in interesting ways? Not meant to sound rude, although it's pretty hard to make that noticed when you can't hear my tone of voice)
Sundew Den and The Keepers
[For free use. I will allow the killing off of a few of the Keepers, but not all of them ~CL1]
A small, uncharted forest, Sundew Den is filled with only carnivorous plants. While most are only large enough to catch insects, some have overgrown to sizes that allow them to eat creatures up to the size of a raptor, humans included. Deep in the heart of the den is a mass of these oversized plants tangled into each other; they seemingly make up one aggresive plant with many mouths, often called, "The Den's Keepers" or simply "The Keepers." Few survivors have even seen this forest, and even fewer have escaped the Keepers. Those who have found they were unable to find it again.