Next summon Poll

So there were a ton of suggestions, and if I didn't add yours, I apologize. some things didn't fit great, or I found them OP/Unappealing. I also need to keep the voting block relatively clean, so I'm trying to narrow the field down to basic categories.

the suggestions boiled down to:

something with hands for cheap labor

something that burrows for land superiority

Slimes/slimy things

snakes

ants,

and a few oddballs. I tried to add most of the ones that got a lot of hearts or were suggested multiple times. Here's the List. Apologies to the people who suggested fleas. (Shudder)

Nightmare Butterfly: An orange and blue butterfly with minor illusion magic paired with a mild drug that flakes off its wings that raises suggestibility. Uses these two in combination to ward off predators.

Ooze Weaver: The thing that made Calvin's Slime. The Ooze weaver is a slow-moving tentacle monster that excretes several different hyper-specialized forms of mucus to trap and restrain its prey, creating snot-webs similar to a spiders, binding things together with other glue-like snot, lube snot, acid snot. pretty much any kind of mucus you could ask for. Gross, but useful.

Cranium rats: I may have to come up with a different name for copyright reasons, but basically they are a form of rats that are linked to each other mentally, and the more there are, the more intelligent their hive mind is. Throw in the biting and burrowing ability of a rat, and you've got a pretty good spy/tunneler/helper that can operate independently if the swarm is big enough. possible magical abilities at high swarm level. I'll get back to you on that.

Knick-knacks: Pulled from the tech-races suggestion box. Small clockwork golem type creatures. Originally created to aid in mech repairs and production they eventually learned how to create themselves. They are typically non-confrontational and trade materials for artifacts. Not much is known about their society as they live in forges deep underground. They only trade in materials not locally found or are only found on the surface. Their small frame allows for smaller, more easily maintained tunneling networks though no human had been able to see their forge homes.
(^There ya go, Seadrake, although how he's going to eat one is a bit of a mystery to me. You did want something hard to eat. )

Ants that explode: Seems to be a fan favorite. All the powers of an ant, (digging, biting, lifting, etc.) + they explode.


Phantom snake: can temporarily go incorporeal to infiltrate its prey's den. Non-poisonous, about two foot long garden snake with plane-shifting powers.