WHALE: NARWHAL
Original Animal Characteristics
Description: The narwhal, also known as the moon whale or reamfish, is an arctic whale notable for it's extraordinarily long tusk. A few even have two tusks.
Size Level: 21
Height: 23-26 feet (7-8 m) long, not counting the tusk which adds up to 10 more feet (3 m).
Weight: 2200-3500 pounds (998-1588 kg).
Build: Medium
Mutant Changes & Costs
Total BIO-E: 0
Attribute Bonuses: +4 to I.Q., +4 to M.A., +1 to P.P.
Human Features
Hands: 5 BIO-E for Partial hands at the end of the flippers (applicable even with arms and hands).
10 BIO-E for full hands at the end of the flippers (applicable even with arms and hands).
20 BIO-E for Extra Limbs; a set of fully developed arms and hands.
Biped: 5 BIO-E for Partial feet at the end of the fluke.
10 BIO-E for Full fluke develops into legs and feet.
Speech: Partial Speech is automatic. 5 BIO-E for Full Speech.
Looks: None; Rounded head and body, tiny eyes, thick mottled grey skin, awkward, flat legs and arms.
5 BIO-E for Partial; Thick rounded head, small eyes on side of head, thick, mottled grey skin, short, fat arms & legs.
10 BIO-E for Full; Rounded features, hairless, mottled grey skin, short stubby arms & legs.
Natural Weapons:
5 BIO-E for 1D8 Bite
10 BIO-E for 1D10 damage Forehead Tusk
20 BIO-E for 2D10 damage Double Forehead Tusks.
Mutant Animal Powers:
Automatically receives Hold Breath: Basic and Swimming: Basic
Recognize Family Heritage (Whales can recognize their family relatives and descendants through song, appearance/physical traits, and markings, without ever having seen them before. Base Skill: 53%+3% per level of experience. Automatically
gets this ability.)
5 BIO-E for Sonar
5 BIO-E for Thick Blubber (protection against cold, � damage) and +40 S.D.C.
5 BIO-E for Extra Intelligence Quotient
5 BIO-E for Electroreception: Passive (Detect Electrical Fields)
5 BIO-E for Swimming: Acrobatic
10 BIO-E for Extra Mental Endurance
10 BIO-E for Extra Thick Skin (protection against cold, 1/4 damage) and +60 S.D.C.
10 BIO-E for Sensory Forehead Tusk (It is widely believed that the long tusk of the narwhal also acts as a chemoreceptor, allowing the narwhal to detect temperature, salinity, pressure, and the particulate makeup of the water in which they are
swimming.)
10 BIO-E for Swimming & Surfacing: Whale
Vestigial Disadvantages:
-5 BIO-E for Webbed Hands & Feet
-5 BIO-E for Limited Buoyancy
-5 BIO-E for Nearsighted
-10 BIO-E for Diet: Carnivore
-10 BIO-E for Reptile Brain: Predator
-15 BIO-E for Dehydration: Severe
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