Fire Goby, Elegant Firefish, Yellow Prawn-Goby, Monkey & Bighead Gobies, Tadpole Goby, Mudskipper.
GOBIES
Role: Horde Animal
PL 0 (15)- Minion Rank 1, Sidekick Rank 3
Normal Version: PL 0
STRENGTH -5
STAMINA -5
AGILITY -1
FIGHTING -1
DEXTERITY 0
INTELLIGENCE -4
AWARENESS -1
PRESENCE -4
Skills:
Athletics 8 (+3)
Expertise (Survival) 4 (+4)
Perception 4 (+4)
Advantages:
Close Attack 4, Improved Initiative
Powers:
"Animal Senses" Senses 2 (Extended Scent, Low-Light Vision) [2]
"Lateral Lines" Senses 1 (Ranged Touch Underwater) [1]
"Sea Creature"
Swimming 2 (2 mph) [2]
Immunity 1 (Drowning) [1]
"Fun Size" Shrinking 12 (Feats: Innate) (Extras: Permanent +0) -- (6 inches) [25]
(-3 Strength, +6 Defenses, +12 Stealth, -6 Intimidation, -1 Speed)
Offense:
Unarmed +3 (-5 Damage, DC 10)
Initiative -2
Defenses:
Dodge +5 (DC 15), Parry +5 (DC 15), Toughness -5, Fortitude +0, Will +0
Complications:
Disabled (Animal)- Fish cannot speak to humans, nor use their fins to easily manipulate objects.
Disabled (Aquatic)- Fish typically will not last long on land- they are borderline immobile, can't defend themselves, and will slowly dehydrate or suffocate.
Weakness (Small Size)- At their natural size, these fish are vulnerable to large creatures- even without good accuracy. Anything of Size Rank -2 or more (human size and up) using a melee attack on these fish effectively strike with Burst Area Damage at their strength rank naturally.
Total: Abilities: -36 / Skills: 16--8 / Advantages: 5 / Powers: 31 / Defenses: 7 (15)
Era: Modern Day
Range: All waters of the Earth.
Stereotypes: Emotionless, blank creatures.
Colouring: White, grey, brown, black
Size: Up to 12 inches long (less than a pound)
Encounter Groups: Hordes of two to thousands.
Diet: Tiny plankton.
Tactics: Flee at all costs. "School" together for defense.
-The Gobies (order Gobiiformes) are a group of 2,000+ species of mostly burrowing fish. Lacking a gas bladder, they cannot control their buoyancy in the water, and so most of them dig into the seafloor and strike out at prey from there. A few can change their sex, and others practice "kleptogamy"- females prefer large males, but sometimes tiny ones will sneak in and shoot their fish-stuff as soon as the female releases her eggs, leaving the larger male (who cannot tell eggs he fertilized versus those of the thief's) stuck raising all the eggs equally.
-There are various groups within this huge order, but most are of similar stature. It includes the True Gobies, Dartfish, Wormfish, Firefish, tiny-tailed Tadpole Gobies, and Infant Fish- the latter are so named because they retain many larval characteristics, such as transparent bodies where some bones never develop. One family of 50 species all has elongated pectoral fins, like the Monkey Goby. The most famous are probably the Mudskippers- among the few amphibious fish, capable of crawling on land and even CLIMBING TREES, albeit slowly, via front-placed pectoral fins that can act as rudimentary legs.