Idea for a Treasure Goblin-style kaiju:
Goldbacker Gobbo
Goldback goblins are small, relatively tame space creatures that feed on currency in order to grow a lustrous golden shell on their backs. This shell is prized for both its aesthetic value, as well as its properties as a highly conductive alloy material. Almost anything recognized by a large group of entities as "currency" can be used to feed goldback goblins, though this process is not entirely understood.
Feeding on currency of any form will cause a goldback goblin to slowly grow in size, along with their shells. Typically, a standard goblin is anywhere between 6 inches and 2 feet tall. Once they reach this point, they are considered "mature," and begin exhibiting increased aggressiveness, to the point that they will start to violently attack things in order to obtain more food currency. Thus, while they are sometimes kept as pets, particularly by the vastly wealthy, they are also a type of creature that is "farmed," being raised to the point of maturity and then slaughtered for the shells.
Gobbo was a goldback goblin once owned by as a pet by a wealthy merchant's daughter. During a trip between planets, tragedy struck their spacecraft, in the form of an unpredicted space anomaly, sending the spacecraft through a portal to crash land on an unidentified planet. All passengers were killed in the crash, with the exception of Gobbo. This planet was extremely rich in crystals and precious metals, allowing Gobbo to feed uninhibited, quickly growing much larger than the initial maturity stage. As he grew, he became progressively more violent, and continued ransacking the planet for all of its mineral worth.
Years later, now a tremendously enormous size for a goldback goblin, a strange storm struck the planet that Gobbo was residing on. Due to the nature of his shell, the storm mercilessly struck Gobbo over and over, horribly wounding him, and seeming to follow him even as he made his way into underground tunnels to escape it. Maddened with pain, Gobbo unleashed a power he never knew he had, opening a portal to another place. The space anomaly that had struck the merchant spacecraft all those many years ago had also triggered this power.
Arriving on this new planet, still in extreme pain, Gobbo rampaged around, until he finally came in contact with the local inhabitants - the Gatestriders. The Gatestriders successfully fought Gobbo off, until he once again created a portal to run away from their attacks. However, before leaving, he had noticed that the planet was replete with "food" for him, and vowed to himself to return and exact revenge on these tiny creatures that attacked him.
Having used his portal power twice, now, Gobbo slowly gained a sense of how to activate it at will. He was thus able to travel to various other planets, finding new sources of food. Always, however, he remembered his promise to return to the planet with the Gatestriders, and devour everything there.
While the Gatestriders did not know where he came from, they recognized Gobbo as a form of goldback goblin, and simply assumed that he was brought to Em-8er in the same manner that the Tsi-Hu summoned other kaiju. Afterwards, they simply called him the Goldbacker Kaiju
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Goldbacker Gobbo is an event kaiju, opening a portal to random locations on Em-8er to exact his revenge against the Gatestriders. Due to the strange nature of what goldback goblins consider "currency" for their food, nearly all of the resources that players interact with would be considered as a form of "currency," and are thus a target of Gobbo. He will be extremely attracted towards large structures such as forward bases, to destroy and eat them.
At the same time, due to his large size, the material of his shell is extremely valuable in crafting. Players must split their attention between damaging his flesh - to drive him away - and damaging his shell - to obtain crafting materials.
As Gobbo is nearly impossible to actually kill, since he will run away through a portal once enough damage has been dealt, he will always be back to eat another day, each time larger than the last.
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Special Properties -
Grows larger, deals more damage, and has higher defenses the more currency he eats (numbers can be altered, these are examples):
- For every $1 spent backing the game during pre-release (including packs, skins, crowdfunding, etc.), Gobbo's in-game size will be increased by 0.01% (every $10,000 is a 1% increase)
- For every $1 spent on the game at launch/post-launch (including box sales, skins, etc.), Gobbo's in-game size will be increased by 0.001% (every $100,000 is a 1% increase)
- For every $1 spent on the game at any period by certain special community members *coughcough*GIGABEAR*coughcough*, Gobbo's in-game size will be increased by 0.1% (every $1,000 is a 1% increase)
Goldbacker Gobbo
Goldback goblins are small, relatively tame space creatures that feed on currency in order to grow a lustrous golden shell on their backs. This shell is prized for both its aesthetic value, as well as its properties as a highly conductive alloy material. Almost anything recognized by a large group of entities as "currency" can be used to feed goldback goblins, though this process is not entirely understood.
Feeding on currency of any form will cause a goldback goblin to slowly grow in size, along with their shells. Typically, a standard goblin is anywhere between 6 inches and 2 feet tall. Once they reach this point, they are considered "mature," and begin exhibiting increased aggressiveness, to the point that they will start to violently attack things in order to obtain more food currency. Thus, while they are sometimes kept as pets, particularly by the vastly wealthy, they are also a type of creature that is "farmed," being raised to the point of maturity and then slaughtered for the shells.
Gobbo was a goldback goblin once owned by as a pet by a wealthy merchant's daughter. During a trip between planets, tragedy struck their spacecraft, in the form of an unpredicted space anomaly, sending the spacecraft through a portal to crash land on an unidentified planet. All passengers were killed in the crash, with the exception of Gobbo. This planet was extremely rich in crystals and precious metals, allowing Gobbo to feed uninhibited, quickly growing much larger than the initial maturity stage. As he grew, he became progressively more violent, and continued ransacking the planet for all of its mineral worth.
Years later, now a tremendously enormous size for a goldback goblin, a strange storm struck the planet that Gobbo was residing on. Due to the nature of his shell, the storm mercilessly struck Gobbo over and over, horribly wounding him, and seeming to follow him even as he made his way into underground tunnels to escape it. Maddened with pain, Gobbo unleashed a power he never knew he had, opening a portal to another place. The space anomaly that had struck the merchant spacecraft all those many years ago had also triggered this power.
Arriving on this new planet, still in extreme pain, Gobbo rampaged around, until he finally came in contact with the local inhabitants - the Gatestriders. The Gatestriders successfully fought Gobbo off, until he once again created a portal to run away from their attacks. However, before leaving, he had noticed that the planet was replete with "food" for him, and vowed to himself to return and exact revenge on these tiny creatures that attacked him.
Having used his portal power twice, now, Gobbo slowly gained a sense of how to activate it at will. He was thus able to travel to various other planets, finding new sources of food. Always, however, he remembered his promise to return to the planet with the Gatestriders, and devour everything there.
While the Gatestriders did not know where he came from, they recognized Gobbo as a form of goldback goblin, and simply assumed that he was brought to Em-8er in the same manner that the Tsi-Hu summoned other kaiju. Afterwards, they simply called him the Goldbacker Kaiju
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Goldbacker Gobbo is an event kaiju, opening a portal to random locations on Em-8er to exact his revenge against the Gatestriders. Due to the strange nature of what goldback goblins consider "currency" for their food, nearly all of the resources that players interact with would be considered as a form of "currency," and are thus a target of Gobbo. He will be extremely attracted towards large structures such as forward bases, to destroy and eat them.
At the same time, due to his large size, the material of his shell is extremely valuable in crafting. Players must split their attention between damaging his flesh - to drive him away - and damaging his shell - to obtain crafting materials.
As Gobbo is nearly impossible to actually kill, since he will run away through a portal once enough damage has been dealt, he will always be back to eat another day, each time larger than the last.
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Special Properties -
Grows larger, deals more damage, and has higher defenses the more currency he eats (numbers can be altered, these are examples):
- For every $1 spent backing the game during pre-release (including packs, skins, crowdfunding, etc.), Gobbo's in-game size will be increased by 0.01% (every $10,000 is a 1% increase)
- For every $1 spent on the game at launch/post-launch (including box sales, skins, etc.), Gobbo's in-game size will be increased by 0.001% (every $100,000 is a 1% increase)
- For every $1 spent on the game at any period by certain special community members *coughcough*GIGABEAR*coughcough*, Gobbo's in-game size will be increased by 0.1% (every $1,000 is a 1% increase)
