"Daddy..." the voice calls faintly through the mist. "Daddy you have to help me!" You run, heart pounding in your chest towards the sound. You can barely see more than a few feet in front of your face. Your cotton shirt sticks to your back from the sweat. You're exhausted, but it doesn't matter. You have to save your little girl. Nothing matters but saving her. The woods part in front of you. You see her standing there, in the middle of the clearing. Tears streaming down her face. She's sobbing. Her arms reaching out for you. The relief that washes over you feels like a warm bath after a long day in the fields. "Oh, honey. You're safe now." You take the last few steps toward her. But... What's that rancid stench? Your daughter's mouth opens and something flies out of it. A bug bites your neck. You smack at it, and your hand comes away with a needle-thin barb. You stare at it, bewildered. You feel dizzy. What's... happening? You collapse on the ground, entirely unable to move. You can't see your daughter. The most horrible, retched scent you've ever smelt fills your nostrils. You would gag, but it seems even your reflexes are paralyzed. Something ice cold and sticky with slime begins crawling up your leg, wrapping itself around you. Suddenly, you are being dragged. The rough ground beneath you scratching and ripping at your skin as you slide over the dirt and rocks. You can't see anything, but it feels like your legs are being pulled beneath the ground. Your foot gets caught on something. It bends awkwardly, slowly, straining against the the unknown thing pulling you downwards. Bending... bending... SNAP! The pain is immense, but you can't call out. You can't scream, you can't even make a face. You have to tolerate your broken leg in complete silence as you are dragged down into this hole. You are consumed by blackness. Down... down... down you go. The smell is getting worse... The Parexteri is a huge and horrid creature that lives beneath the earth. It's unnatural tentacles reaching upward into the world. It lures concerned parents to their doom by transforming the ends of it's tentacles into the likeness of their children. Once the parents get close, it poisons them with a paralyzing barb. Then it drags it's prey down into the earth where it's great maw consumes them slowly. Instinct: To Consume

• Lure prey by mimicking helpless children
• Paralyze by poison dart
• Drag down into the Earth
• Slowly digest living prey

The Larva stage of the Gigaedes life cycle may not be as dangerous as a full grown one, but it can be dangerous nonetheless. It will eat the flesh of the victims of it’s mother until such time as it is large enough to enter it’s Pupa state. They grow extraordinarily quickly, faster than seems biologically possible. They hatch from their eggs about the size of a very large rat, and will grow to about the size of a dog. Once it reaches full size, it creates a giant stone encasement around itself as a Pupa. There it will lay dormant until blood touches the stone, when it will awaken as a fully grown adult Gigaedes. Instinct: Consume flesh.

• Consume flesh.
• Grow substantially in size.
• Enter Pupa State.