Lately I've been trying to flesh out the imaginary world of my ninja characters. In the biggest park in the city, there's a lake called Rudard Pond (they call it pond, but I'm pretty sure if it has an inlet and an outlet, it's a lake). Lurking in the "pond" is a lake monster known as Rudy. The civilians of Animalburg don't really know what the monster looks like, so they make cute little salamander and sea dragon-like figurines of him for souvenirs. The people never get a good look at their monster because Rudy only hunts at night. Turns out Rudy's nocturnal and reclusive nature is for everyone's own good.
The ninja of the city are perfectly aware of what the monster looks like. Their unnofficial list of rules has "don't feed the lake monster" as #12 on the list. In reality, Rudy is a ten foot tall cross between a salamander, a sea monster, and a mutated experiment. It has no teeth, and it's completely blind from injuries and cataracts on its eyes, but anything that floats in the waters of Rudard Pond after dark has a good chance of being eaten. The monster brings along a trail of pondweed stuck to useless extra limbs caused by pollution. The end of its tail is missing from when it tried to eat a ninja that strayed too close to shore.
I had way too much fun inventing this thing. Can you tell?
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