Teek Gobys
The fiersome teek gobys are known for having teeth and claws they can grow at will. This makes it difficult to avoid being skewered by one; it also makes it hard for the beasts to avoid skewering themselves - the most common form of death for these creatures being accidental brain-toothing.
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| Teek goby by Zuza Gruzlewska |
In the city of Leaden the lesbian dungeon known as She-RARGH! has regular nights with teek gobys. They make interesting opponents as beyond brute force they can parry against sword fighters using a constant onslaught of teeth and fangs.
Despite their brutish strength, teek gobys in the wild will often deploy stealth to catch their prey. They deploy it by hiding and then skewering said prey when it gets close enough. This makes for a particularly grizzly death. It also sometimes ends in an awkward situation in which the prey is dangling just out of the teek goby's reach.
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Creature Facts
- If it's unclear why teek gobys would evolve an ability to extend their teeth and claws at will, it's because monster evolutions don't follow logic. They basically just evolve something horrible, and if people find it unsettling it sticks.
- A group of teek gobys are collectively known as a 'mouth'.
- When their teeth extend, they make an unsettling, porcelain squeal.
- Other than that they just grunt.
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Creation Notes
The teek gobys get a brief mention in Game of Plagues when Ayesha and Iris visit a lesbian dungeon (that's 'dungeon' in the adventuring sense). My image of what the venue looked like reminded me of when I saw Kaki King at Night and Day in Manchester. As King is also a lesbian, it seemed apt to name the monster there after one of her songs.
There's actually a video of the performance of Goby I saw in Manchester. This version is even better, and features a guy called Dan Brantigan on an instrument called an EVI, which is a synthesiser you play like a wind instrument. He was there when I saw her, just not on that version of the song it seems.
Teek is another one of her songs - one which released when I was working on the book. I added it to the name, and as 'teek' sounds a bit like a mispronunciation of 'teeth', I ended up drawing a toothy monster. I should probably point out that I designed the monster going off what the name made me imagine. This tooth-extending gorilla-rat is in no way a reflection King herself!
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