Mimics

Nigga just make them eat your pawns.

This guy knows what's up.

You had your mimics, your lurkers, your trappers, your stun-jellys, your piercers, your ropers, your gas spheres, your shriekers, your rot grubs, at least a dozen types of molds and slimes, dopplegangers, the list just keeps going on and on for ways to just fucking die out the blue.

Nowhere is safe

And i know some of you fuckers would try to fuck it

Also

Chilchack please go.

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First time I saw something this exploitable in a while.

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I was once attacked by a monster I was sure was a mimic, but a couple seconds into the fight it opened its mouth and WHAT THE FUCK A MIMIC POPPED OUT!?

First time in my life I ever had to deal with a mimic mimic, and I hope it was the last.

Just attack each chest you see.

If it turns into a mimic then it's a mimic.

If it remains a chest it's a chest.

Plus mimics aren't hard to deal with anyways.

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Yeah I did initially use the chains to determine if they were a mimic or not, but I could've sworn I saw one with a chain that wasn't a mimic. Idk could have just been a mistake on my end.

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How about an enemy mimic
You attack him and it turns out it's actually a mimic!

What about a mimic mimic. You think its a mimic but its not.

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The air is a mimic and turns into mustard gas.

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*seems like I lost it but does anyone have that art of an anime school girl that splits open into a monster with her real face or teeth under her skirt?

Wait what?

The Earth

I never knew there was an anime about The Residents.

No, how can a world be inhabited by world-sized adventurers?

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No, I mean like giant adventurers floating through space, looting planets. Like a bunch of Galactuses running around.

I thought that this was an All You Need is Kill thread.

Aren't there some games based on this? I think TOMEnet lets you play as a mimic, and based on how many monsters of a species you've killed along with your experience level, you can then turn into that species.

JAM?!

I think you mean Yukikaze. Or maybe not, I've never actually read it or seen the western movie.

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>if it eats enough fingers it grows into the chest and becomes the mimic we all know and love

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Fuck off with your monstergirls.
That's a girl in a inside a chest.

user that's a trap

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He's implying the earth is a cadbury egg. But instead of a toy, its death inside and monstrous things.

I'd let it happen. Some things aren't meant to be questioned, user. Like the big mimic that created the entire mimicverse.

You don't seem to have a full grasp of human candies. Are you a mimic?

It's mimics all the way down

I really don't know what you expected

>As you go to embrace your love, your body twists and contorts, forming a giant gaping maw that devours your love whole

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They went overboard with mimics in Dark Souls 3. There was some areas where there were like 2 or 3 mimics right next to each other.

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It would be fun, but only in the first time, if they are something normal, the game will resume to hit ladders before climbing it.

Profaned Capital is the only spot I can think of.
Shit, the first chest you can encounter is a mimic. There's no excuse not to check every one for mimicry, even being new, so mimic prevalence ain't no thing.

I found more mimics than regular chests

imdb.com/title/tt0385639/

Why's that?

>>>/premium/

Oh, hey, someone else on Holla Forums that likes The Residents

3dpd will destroy you.

I wonder what happened to the dude that played Ares. Like he had the Heracles Xena action hour for years and years. A steady job, not too big, not too small. Just something simple and fun he could do comfortably to make some shekels. Then it ended and I never saw him again. Maybe he got depressed and got into drinking or drugs. Maybe he got angry and hit his wife until she left him. Maybe he is just doing his own thing out of the public eye, being all chill and having fun. I never really think about those bit actors much.

Can't I just romance the mimic? I want to say "I love you for what you are" and have it melt into my arms. And eat me

Traps are always one of my favourite parts of any RPG. I'd love to play a dungeon crawler where you explore a castle filled with imaginative traps, like Sen's Fortress but longer and more varied.

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Those are the worst fucking designed monsters in history, their placment is random, they one shot you, they kill all you dumbass pawns around it and trying to get a pawn to open chests instead of you is headache inducing.
Nothing gave me more trouble or deaths in BBI then the maneaters.

OK, Holla Forums.

How would you personally break new ground in mimic technology?

Savepoint mimics? Menu mimics?

Equipment mimic.

You get a cool new sword, you can equip it and swing it around and all, but when you hit an enemy your sword turns into a mimic and eats you. Same thing with armor only it activates when you get hit.

Mimics that delete your save file and kick you back to the menu.

Or how about a game were you play as a mimic.

I ADoM you had deserted shops. With nothing but mimics inside.

*In ADoM

Select menu

I'm pretty sure Chrono Trigger had the savepoint ones. Among others.

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That looks more like the thing is eating her alive.

Underrated post.

Would you a qt mimic proper?
No human bits, literally just a box with teeth.

Would you stick it in her keyhole?

I need that comic with the monstergirl mimic that gets flustered when an adventurer tries to unlock her by sticking things in her keyhole.

Yes.

Not if you go left, top right, bottom right. She's clearly further out of it and her hands are being held behind her head.

And this is for you.

A game that pretends to be a game but actually its just piece of shit.

I like you. You are a good fellow.

Thank you.

imagine

Thank you user

Bear with me here.
You get to the end of the local castle
Some valiant guardsmen of the Duke step forward to greet you, help you fend off the dragon or whatever
You go inside, the duke himself is impressed, decides to knight you
As you bend over, ready to receive your new knighthood, all the honor, prestige, and wealth that comes with it, that you've worked so hard to obtain
The entire kingdom suddenly snaps down on you.

BAM
Kingdom mimic.

Final fantasy 12 had savepoint mimics.

And i guess darksouls had enemy mimics in some ways.

Imagine patting its head…

Undertale?

was the dragon also a part of the mimic? or were you essentially doing dentist work only to get stabbed in the back?

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The dragon was actually the intended prey.
Sadly, you went in and buggered it up, so the mimic had to deal with your partly bones.

If only DS had randomized mimic locations. Because you always know where is mimic and where is chest. And in 3rd part more than half chests are mimics which is worse because you expect every chest to be mimic in the end and you cant be surprised. And same goes for ambushes. Every second item drops a few mobs behind you.

Well okay game if that's how you want to play it

It's like they didn't even care.

I knew this time would come.

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Cool.
I'll share another one with you guys then.

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Not really my speed.

strangest magic trick i've seen

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SURPRISE, THE CHEST WAS REALLY A SLUT ALL ALONG!

This probably isn't what you're talking about, but it's a similar idea at least.

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Even bombs are mimics. That image you posted is just a mimic trying to derail the thread.

Lotta junk in that trunk for such a flat chest

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In his case, looks like it wasn't that bad. His last credited role is the year after he died. Considering he probably got paid pretty well for Xena & Hercules, I'd say he was alright.

imdb.com/name/nm0808963/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t3

I take it back, he got fucked by fate.

Sounds like suicide or idiocy, not fate.

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Jesus Christ user, good one

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Equipable mimics. That new armor isn't armor.

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Kill me fam

What about a bonfire mimic?

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I know FFXII had a few savepoint mimics here and there.

Its called marriage

In Vampire you could turn your vampire into a mimic.

Getting a blowjob would be anal at the same time

No_
If I had to stick it somewhere, I'd probably put it on her tongue.

hot

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Shiren the Wanderer already has that.

Both exist already, save point mimic is in FF12, could fuck up you badly too. eternal darkness is has a good old menu mimic, even NieR in a way

>the shack was a mimic

this is a good idea, but only works on mimics that don't have a human bait tongue.

Kind of like posting with a tripcode. Take it off you fucking faggot.

Oh, so it's like that, now?

Post of the year, right here.

Good show

Unacceptable.

Everyone knows Holla Forums would only screw the mimic if it's absolutely inhuman. Only normalfags from /monster/ would probably fall for the "I watch Toonami" weeaboo bait.

Damn right. Humanity is for the weak.

Third pic reminds me of the planes in that old cartoon where the mother plane is in the hospital giving birth and the father plane is freaking out about it

Ratbat is great. I just wish she still did mechs as well as vehicles.

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That's both terrifying and very amusing

Just throw fireblasts. Six of them to kill, and they stun. There's even a room in BBI that has a crate full of like 15 of them, and it respawns.

Maneaters are as trivial as griffins. Neither are remotely deserving of their reputation.

The chick who drew those actually comes to this site.

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Fin.

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I don't like this, it shows mimics as being like hermit crabs even though in they were originally shapeshifters.
They didn't even have teeth, they'd attack with pseudopods.

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The people who make dungeon meshi like to have alternate explanations for different monster types, like how living armor is somewhat similar to mollusks instead of being animated by magic. Nothing wrong with a different spin on a traditional monster.

Woah woah woah

How would it eat/digest you without also eating its children?

Did you enter its vagina?

People took the "sexually identify as an attack helicopter" thing too literally lol.

The queen mimic's actual "food tube" is deep in the dungeon, disguised as an AWESOME treasure vault. The children kill the explorers and drag them in, or they just open it and walk in willingly. The queen herself is really a small room at the center, the rest is her "shell".

M8, the person who drew that has doing it for over a decade now, long before that meme even existed.

lotta loyalty for a hired gun

That was pretty entertaining. Is this some sort of D&D manga or something?

It isn't a straight D&D licensed manga but it does take inspiration from tabletop games and dungeon crawlers in general. Dungeon Meshi, one of the best mangas with a theme of cooking and eating monsters in the dungeon. At 23 chapters so far. We are nearing the end of the initial goal of saving the main character's sister from being digested in a dragon. It's pretty popular and I don't think it's ending this soon. There are hints of something more to come brewing behind the scenes. It's very entertaining and a definite read.

That actually sounds pretty sweet. That chapter was amusing enough. It's been a long time since I've read a good mango, or one I cared enough to keep reading, that is.

Devs removed everything remotely fun, because it made the game "easy", and competitive roguelike autists can't have their credentials ruined by playing a game for casuls.

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Shit this is what I'm doing next saturday.

kek

shit i would trip balls

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fucking spic. you will be the first to get behind the wall

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how it would play out?

with a lot of patience

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You play as a mimic throughout it's life span. You start as a babby mimic gold coin running around getting into people's backpacks and eating their rations, then you get the chance to mutate into a backpack/sword/whatever. You then reach adulthood and become a chest, you eat adventurers and disperse babby mimic gold coins around. The game is presented as a documentary with a faux David Attenborough style narration.

What if you were a mimic that wanted to eat bigger and better adventurers, so you build a dungeon to encourage them, and then upgraded it to get more and more powerful heroes to show?

Like dungeon keep, but you a mimic.

Holy fuck.

where do you guys play D&D?
tell me its online

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Lay off the weed, mang. It's a mimic.

420 meimic bitch

what if your body is a mimic and your brain doesn't know

how the world can be real if your eyes are mimic?

I'm pretty sure that's the concept behind Mawile

how do mimics reproduce

this actually isn't for Mimics, but is for Living Armours, but I couldn't resist posting this.

Tutorial/tooltip mimic. It tells you to do a thing, use an item or whatever, perhaps in a specific location, only to fuck you.

Cute mimics that befriend you for opening them. And subsequently cute mimic mimics that pretend to befriend you.

Merchant mimics. Meet a guy out in the wilderness who is just on his way through, but as you walk away after talking to him he transforms. The more you buy/sell the stronger he is.

Maybe make like the main hub (if applicable) trader the last boss like that. Have limited means to otherwise accrue gold/items, so the more you deal with him the harder the final encounter will be.

Or just have booby-trapped areas which react to certain conditions. Used some magic? Enjoy something coming to chomp your dick off. Equipping metal armour? That was a mistake now. And god forbid you try running past enemies.

We went over this already: Your body is a chrysalis for your inner skeleton

Mawile a cute

Undertale had something like this. The first thing you meet, a happy-looking flower, pretends to teach how how the combat works, but what he says is the exact opposite of what you're actually supposed to do and he nearly kills you.

Too bad 95% of the game was utter shit post ruins.

This particular campaign is not. However you might want to try your luck at roll20 or /tg/

I only tried the game to see if it would increase my appreciation for the porn. That didn't seem likely, so I stopped very early.

Also don't mind the ID change. I'm on my phone had to accompany my little sister to the hospital

What a good ano-
Well then. Hope everything is okay!

the battles were okay. The characters got pretty insufferable. Alphys is the most annoying, followed by Undine. Asgore was right to kill humans that came through, he would put them out of their misery from being exposed to those fuckers.

It made me enjoy both the porn and the music less. That's never happened to me with vidya before.

Oh my god that is absolutely gold

She's okay, our family has a history of really bad migraines, and its her first time going blind so she got scared

Uh, yeah, I'd be fucking afraid too. Holy shit.

The porn isn't that good anyway. The only Undertale related porn I've ever fapped at is that one picture of Asriel in stockings

It happened to me a couple of times, it's not a fun experience

I did say 95%, not 100. Battle style was good, nearly all battles were lacking though.

Why not a firelink mimic?

How about a phantom mimic or summon sign mimick?

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technically you can do that with the white soapstone ring

Oh hey, that's mine.

A WARFORGED WITH ALTERNATE FORM CAN BECOME ANIMATED OBJECTS ACCORDING TO THE RULES AS WRITTEN.

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Oh. Oh man. Your post just reminded me of the Mimic to end all Mimics.

The Genius Loci, or the Entire Vague Geographical Region Mimic, from 3.5's Epic Level Handbook.
dandwiki.com/wiki/SRD:Genius_Loci

Thumbnail is the largest image I could find of it. It's one pretending to be a moon. Not only is the fog a mimic, so are the plants, dirt, mountains, valleys, and rivers.

You really needed to get closer to the screen, I can't read shit, might be because I'm going blind though.

This isn't funny anymore.

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God damn anons.

I'm already working on a game where this is the premise. I had the idea since ever since I saw an user post a webm of a Legend of Grimrock Mimic.

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The treasure inside the mimic is also a mimic, and then the first dead mimic reanimates and becomes the real Mimic Mimic

I remember some anons talking about mimic game ideas some months ago. Does this thread just happen every few months?

This is just a mimic thread

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I think you can pick up the rest.
how would one go about slaying one? Stabbing the ground?

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How the fuck do you even kill something like that?

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I dunno man. My dad used to play D&D when he was younger and said that when fighting the boss, which was basically an unkillable god, he turned his Bag of Holding inside out creating a black hole to kill it. There must be a way.

Final boss*

It has, on average, 1785 HP. A Human Commoner has 4, for reference. It has Fast Healing 50, which means it regains 50 HP every turn automatically. But, it's an Ooze type. That means immunity to mind-affecting abilities, but it lacks immunities that other common BBEG creature types like Undead and Constructs. So you could rely on things like Ability damage to drop its scores. It only has 6 Dex. If you can cause 6 Dex damage, it becomes immobile and helpless. Meanwhile its only attack depends on being able to hit you.

On its own, it's actually a bit of a pushover. The real threat is from the Enslave ability, which permanently brainjacks one character, which also calls into question what you actually need to prepare for. If you're lucky, you only have to worry about it enslaving one of your own party members. If you're shit out of luck, it's already got a high-level Wizard under thrall. And remember, even if you kill the Enslaved creature, it can just grab another. So you can either just deal with the fact that one of your party members is on the enemy side, or you can make the futile effort of grinding through its slave options, eventually losing anyways when your last party member is brainjacked.

Aside from the Enslave problem, you just have to deal at least 51 damage per turn for enough turns.

The Arrow of Annihilation's more primitive form. Putting one interdimensional pocket inside another punches a hole through reality and sucks everything nearby into the Astral Plane, which is guaranteed death for most creatures. It's the ultimate high-fantasy ALLAHU ACKBAR. Pic related is how to deliver it without also killing yourself.

pls god no

that makes sense since, 8ch is a cuckchan emulator but without the captcha and hiro spying.
and cuckchan is a 2ch.net emulator
made for baka gaijins

Forgot my counterpoint.

Have something that the community actually had to try to beat. The Neutronium Golem. It was eventually pulled off by inflicting an infinitely recursive temporal loop of single points of special Vile type damage (unable to be healed without a consecrated area, bypasses regen) delivered from orbital distances by a massively riced out level 1 spell.

That's kinda hot

That's a pretty good idea, as long as you train it to not bite you guys whenever you go for your shit

So it just goes down to stabbing the ground enough. I never really understood ooze slaying. Maybe a low level party with no way of getting that dpt could campaign that and try to find a "nucleus", like an amoeba's.

I don't think mimics have the intelligence to be trained; I think it'd just be placed like a regular mimic: in front of all your shit so thieves would open it first.

Pretty sure Isaac Clarke killed one of these

More or less. But 50 damage per turn is a lot. Enough that if you take that much damage in a turn, you have to automatically save against dying from the shock of it. You'd want a small army on top of it, flailing away with everything they have. Ideally with an Antimagic field in place to prevent them from getting mindjacked.

One of the benefits of being Ooze type is that you have no defined anatomy. You're immune to critical hits, precision damage, anything depending on your anatomy to work. Many Oozes have specific weaknesses, like fire or sunlight, but that's not the case here.

Though, there's an idea. If it perfectly emulates a forest, what's to stop you from starting a forest fire? You might just have to go full Vietnam on it.

Wheres a good place to read this manga in english? A brief google search has only given me scans with terrible translations.

You can still put it to good use

After all, a mime is a terrible thing to waste

We used to have it all dumped on /tg/, but the thread cycled. I understand the first couple chapters are rather roughly translated, but it gets really solid after a short while. Bato.to should have it.

Threads like this really remind me of why Idea Guys exist.

THINK OF WHAT WE COULD DO TO SOME JEWS WITH THIS!!

I'm not sure how to interpret that.

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Just how people get really enraptured in how cool something would be, but can't/won't make it happen. Looking in D&D Monster Manuals is really inspiring for me, but I'm no GM.

It is, but necromorphs in general like to imitate the dead, and this one imitated a moon.

Oh, yeah. I got into tabletop years before I could actually play it. I spent all that time learning how to break Dungeons and Dragons backwards over a chair for my amusement. By the time I actually got to play, I had dozens of ridiculous builds that I launched into in earnest. Thankfully my DM was awesome and let me get away with all kinds of bullshit.

The last campaign ended with a character capable of delivering 56 Disintegrates per turn anywhere within Extended Long range as 40' bursts instead of Rays. As Supernatural effects instead of spells, antimagic-agnostic, and riced out with almost every cool (read: Not "increase the numbers") Metamagic. I was courteous about coming up with reasons I couldn't just end everything on a whim, and the other players were always trying to figure out what the fuck I was, which became a game on its own.

I used the Disintegration Finesse (disintegrate only what you want to instead of everything in the area, make sculpt checks to carve things) feat and Spell Thematics to make my AoE Disintegrates look like over the top cuhrayze *teleports behind you and unsheathes katana* swordplay that could actually cut through anything.

Ideas Guysing in vidya just doesn't compare to Idea Guysing in tabletop.

Be weary of that "New Reply" button. It's not supposed to say "New".

YOU FUCKING PIZZASHIT.

In dark souls, you can become a "Mimic". A mimic pot or table or some shit.

Makes sense; no "engine limitations". I'll find a group on Roll20 one day.
What version is best for that flexible roleplaying with lots of options? I've played 5e and a bit of Pathfinder , but only to around level 5 because irl people suck

This goes back to a core question of tabletop game design: Simulation vs Narrative. The more gritty your rules system, the less creativity you have spontaneously. The tradeoff is that a gritty system lets you micromanage everything, which is important for some types of games. On the Simulation side, you have GURPS. On the Narrative side you have FATE, Exalted, and Mutants and Masterminds. Somewhere between are where most games fall: D&D/Pathfinder, Shadowrun, World of Darkness.

Pathfinder is both a good and awful game to start with. It's unbalanced and ridiculously rule heavy for a game that manages to gloss over most of the nuanced micromanagement potential. But at the same time, it's functional and most people know how to play it anyways. It's like a dish you bring to a potluck not because it's the tastiest or most exotic, but because you know everyone will have a good enough time with it that nobody's alienated. And as far as options, there's a metric assload of support for it. The Open Gaming License brought in what amounts to a full blown modding community with entire publishing companies popping up to sell their own material. Doubly so if your DM allows you to use converted material from 3.5, which is largely transparent. (I heavily recommend Dreamscarred Press' materials, particularly the Psionics and Path of War systems.)

That's why I stuck with it in specific, personally. There's just so much.. I've been playing it for years and still find out new things that I missed. Technically there's even an official guide for converting 2nd edition materials to 3rd, making it rule legal, if your DM is cool.

We have gamefinder threads on /tg/, if you wanna try to get something started there.

Thanks for the heads-up.

My pleasure, user. Hope to see you around.

cant breathe
make it stop

I was laughing my ass off when the game revealed the moon to be a necromorph.

Never played the dlc, but apparently Isaac has a vision of a whole gang of moons getting ready to wreck earth.

I love that gif. That right there is some pussy worth shooting Regan over.

He mentioned something interesting, Cypher is pursuing new research. He claims what they're doing in Africa is the missing piece

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As a raving xenophile, piss off mate, I hope you get cancer.

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Apparently everything in Dungeon Meshi is seafood.

Nah. There are just a lot of arthropod monsters because they evoke bugs, which are scary. They also cook giant mushroom monsters, mandragora, giant bats, cockatrice, and make sherbet using the unnatural chill of the incorporeal undead.

Ok I need to read this

It's really worth your time. I don't even manga and I eagerly await every chapter. It's super comfy and creative, and every character is lovable.

It's really an elaborate rust monster.

Easy

jesus christ
what if the mimic was already my waifu?

Clearing imitating Dead Space

bato.to/comic/_/comics/dungeon-meshi-r13871

For anyone who needs to be spoonfed.

Mimics are the perfect rape fantasy monster.

That's one of them Kid Icarus chests! A Mimicutie or whatever it's called.

I am looking for a very specific image of a mimic that is designed to look and walk around like a stereotypical loli complete with red backpack, but it turns out upon closer inspection it's actually a carnivorous arthropod. If anyone has/can find it, I would be grateful.

learn to read nigger

Well, shit. I missed it completely. Nevermind.

I just realized that malware and viruses that steal information are digital mimics. They exist and eat your online self for all it's worth.

This one?

I was just thinking the same thing.

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there, a way where you would most likely not be able to check if its a mimic or not

Fixed it for yuo

thank you user

Have fingers peaking over the ledge the ladder is attached too

It's still furshit.

Shit game design. Mimics need to have an omen that gives them away. Like in Dark Souls, the mimic breathes. In a tabletop game it's whatever, but in a video game, you need an omen.

I never said that there wouldn't be something to give it away, but to put it in a situation where you can't instantly tell its a mimic due to the circumstances around you unless you are paying attention, nor would you be able to just hit it since you wouldn't have much time nor stamina.

you would have to be able to know its a mimic while running twords it, or after you've killed everything else and have more time to see the drips of drool, or the pegs that look like hands, ect

Buffalo Bell a cute.

Which is better in the long run, Junichiro-Kun English, or Habanero Scans English?

Nevermind, pretty sure spicy pepper is better.

What if death was a mimic?

Like a reaper mimic, or do you mean the concept of death is a mimic because you're not truly dead if there's and afterlife?

please tell me its still ongoing

It hasn't updated in 3 weeks user, its dead

It's published in a monthly compilation magazine. New chapters come out on the 15th.

Somebody help me. I can't stop cropping pictures of Marcille.

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But her ears are round!

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Still a fucking elf.

I didn't even know there was more than that one video on youtube. Also, elves are for lewd.

The second one is worse than the first one.

Also, karl needs to fucking finish chaos descends.

You havent read this are you?

That cliffhanger with the Necrons is infuriating.

Chaos descends descends into shit.

oh thank god