Tidal Blades
Bulluburas have been known to play with injured prey, even hauling it back to the colony to help teach younger members hunting techniques.
Bulluburas are territorial creatures with massive heads and serpentine bodies. They can grow up to 6 feet (2 m) tall and up to 10 feet (3 m) long. The brightly colored tendrils along the sides of their faces are finely attuned to changes in temperature, movement, and sound, helping them sense incoming danger and hunt down prey. Normally calm and unassuming despite their size, bulluburas can quickly turn deadly to anyone who threatens them or encroaches upon their territory.
They typically live in colonies of half a dozen creatures or more, with one or two appointed to patrol the area while the others relax, mate, eat, and play. It seems as though play is a particularly important part of life for bulluburas, particularly play that mimics hunting and protecting the colony.
Motive: Hunger, defending territory, reproduction, play
Environment: Anywhere in the sea, but especially near their main mating ground, the small sand patches around the Cay of the Bullubura
Health: 21
Damage Inflicted: Moderate wound (7 points)
Armor: 2
Movement: Long when swimming
Modifications: Sensing danger, initiative, and hunting as level 8
Combat: Bulluburas can go from calmly swimming and lazing about in the water to attacking a perceived threat in a matter of seconds. Their first attack is typically a bone-crunching bite with their strong mouth and sharp teeth, which inflicts a moderate wound (7 points).
Alternatively, they can use their tendrils to capture a victim, rolling it up tight until it's immobile and then stinging it repeatedly for a minor wound (3 points) each round (until the victim succeeds on a level 7 Might roll to escape).
A bullubura can keep up to two victims held fast in their tendrils and attack a third victim at the same time.
Interaction: Someone presenting themselves as a non-threat could attempt to interact with a bullubura. The creatures react and interact much like dolphins when they feel safe in someone's presence. Some people say they can even be trained similarly.
Use: Being near a colony of bulluburas is considered to bring good luck, and many fisherfolk, fighters, and others make their way to the Cay to try to get blessed by seeing one or two of the creatures. Of course, it's almost impossible to know what will cause a bullubura to consider someone or something a threat, so doing this is not without its risks.
Loot: Bullubura tendrils and back fins are believed by some to bring good luck, virility, and wealth.
GM Intrusion: One of the young bulluburas attempts to play with a character, getting the attention of a nearby adult.