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Flying polyps are one of the most terrifying species emanate winds which pull a target back toward them, Lovecraft created, with a history to back up their rather than push a target away Typically, a hungry reputation They are genius-level predators with polyp emits a strange sucking wind to hamper a terrifying abilities target while at the same time flying forward at top A single polyp is a terrifying threat: a creature with speed By concentration and focus, a flying polyp can multiple bodies, each shifting in and out of existence become totally invisible, and anyone trying to strike at While it has in theory a size and weight, this is difficult the polyp must be guided by other senses—typically to measure because it keeps moving in and out of sound, as flying polyps emit a continual piping noise our dimension and does not seem to be affected by Damage from a polyp's tentacles looks like gravity as are beings of normal matter When grouped desiccated tissue, almost like a mummified patch of together, the mock-flesh of a single polyp body is at flesh least 16 feet across When killed, the remaining flesh usually weighs a few thousand pounds at least Ecology History When the flying polyps first arrived from space, they occupied four different worlds They built cities of Flying polyps don’t obey known physical laws They basalt with high windowless towers and fed horribly shift in and out of mortal reality, and at any given time on the native life They were eventually defeated in war much of their existence is on other planes of existence with the great race of Yith and forced underground (though they feed on creatures on the material plane) The ingresses to flying polyp habitats are typically With their polypous, gestalt nature, the various parts old ruins, within which are huge pits sealed with stone of their form in our dimension don’t even need to The polyps live deep below these pits, waiting and be adjacent, which may help explain how they can deadly " the basis of the fear was a horrible elder race of half-polypous, utterly alien entities which had come through space from immeasurably distant universes and had dominated the earth and three other solar planets about 600 million years ago." —H.P Lovecraft, The Shadow Out Of Time 336