Painted Kalak

Painted Kalak
FRIC Number Grouping Flora Mammalian Location Elusive Oasis Rarity Seasonal (Summer) Standard Variant Gold Time Per Stage 20 hours
Delves NONE Weaknesses Resistances Basic Attacks Bite Tail Slash Special Scraps Common: Unknown Rare: Unknown Scrap Resistances {{{ScrapResist}}}
Release Date August 6, 2021 Artist Sora

The Painted Kalak is a Seasonal creature released on Protochroma. It is found only in the Elusive Oasis, a seasonal Sector available only during the summer season, but can be bred for very rarely outside of its season. It has not yet appeared in any Delve. Its standard variant is Gold.

Descriptions

Baby

This tan, speckled puppy has four ears, a small plant growing at the end of its spine, and spends much of its time hiding and napping. It's very clumsy and unsteady, but it seems very aware of where you are when you approach it.

Juvenile

The puppy has grown into a lanky adolescent canid, and has grown rows of cactus-like spikes along its sides. It spends most of its time playing, and its colors are getting steadily more vivid, with the spots blending together into stripes. The plants on its body have grown significantly. It seems to primarily use its ears and the heat pits on its face for navigation, and still trips over inanimate objects sometimes.

Adult

Painted Kalaks are a species of mammal that appear to have lost their endothermy in exchange for developing heat-sensing pits along their lips and symbiosis with water-storing desert flora. They hide near oases in tall grass, with only their tail-plants sticking out, and ambush herbivores. They are more active at night, after spending all day basking and sleeping while soaking up heat.

Painted Kalaks in the wild will attack large prey, and have been known to injure researchers who fail to notice one and get too close. In captivity, they need to be kept in very hot enclosures, but they do bond with their handlers and will not attack them. Their symbiotic plants can be gently harvested from without harm, and contain a gel that's extremely good at soothing burns--overharvesting, though, can lead to dehydration, as they store much of their water in the plants.

Images

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Common Female
Common Male
Rare Female
Rare Male

Trivia

Painted Kalak's Chromas are based on pride flags:

• Red: Polyamorous
• Green: Aromantic
• Blue: Transgender
• Purple: Genderfluid
• Orange: Lesbian
• Pink: Bigender
• White: Nonbinary
• Obsidian: Agender
• Silver: Asexual
• Gold: Aroace
• Bronze: Pride
• Rainbow: Gay
• Sapphire: Bisexual
• Emerald: Gay Men