Hazer



Hazers are small, squid-like creatures often found lying on the ground near bodies of water. They can be picked up and eaten, or thrown to create a smokescreen.

Appearance
Hazers have small bodies with colored splotches, a varied amount of tentacles (ranging from two to six), and a colored eye with a black pupil. When a Hazer dies, its skin darkens, its eyes turn grey, and its body deflates.

Abilities & Behavior
Hazers actively propel themselves around in water, and sporadically wriggle when stranded on land. They can be fed to to tame them.

When thrown on land, stabbed, or bitten by a creature, they spray a large cloud of navy blue smoke, which temporarily blinds aggressive creatures and masks from view. This can be used to pass aggressive creatures safely, and is especially useful for crossing s and passing under s without detection. Smokescreens fade shortly after emission, leaving the hazer permanently deflated. Deflated hazers can be eaten for one food pip and living ones can be swallowed and regurgitated.

When not moving on land, Hazers blend into the background similar to s and Mimic Beetles, leaving only an eye and their colored splotches visible. Hazers can still blend into the background when held by the player.

Variants and Attributes
Hazers eyes and splotches vary in color. Hazer skin can be blue or green, which determines the color of other features. Blue Hazers have red, orange, or yellow eyes with splotches ranging from grey to blue. Green hazers have purple or pink eyes with splotches ranging from green, grey, and turquoise. Hazers can also have tentacle gradients with the color of their splotches.

Trivia

 * Hazers, despite being defenseless and slow moving on land, do not spawn in water, only on land near bodies of water.
 * Five out of fourteen total Hazers spawn into the game world already dead, six out of fifteen for both and.
 * Though they are creatures, they are placed in the rooms as objects. As such, they are swallowable (when alive), and respawn after 7 to 10 cycles (with variations up to 38). Among these variations, living hazers tend to take more time before respawning than dead ones.
 * When regurgitated, live hazers have a 40% chance to copy the player Slugcat's colour.
 * Hazers cannot be picked up while spraying ink.