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Small Cryptogriff rant

After re-reading the Cryptogriff's page on the fandom wiki I think we should be grateful that Saturday (and the Emperor too I guess but Idc about him) only used the Cryptogriff for mind control because WHAT DO YOU MEAN THIS IS ONE OF IT'S ABILITIES

"Mindshlock - Paralyzes opponent, but makes them see creepy crawlies all over them."

I AM BEGGING FOR YOUR FINEST PARDON LIKE SATURDAY BEGGING FOR BLAKK'S FORGIVENESS AFTER HE FINDS OUT HE DISOBEYED A DIRECT ORDER WHY CAN IT DO THAT?

I thought the mind control was overpowered but this is genuinely absurd because that's basically another instant-win attack.

like how are you supposed to fight back against that? Even if you aren't scared of the bugs you're still paralyzed so it's not like you can fight back.

other than that it also has the ability to overwhelm an opponent with vertigo and motion sickness which is only a little less overpowered than the other 2.

other than The Goon and the ghouled elementals, the Cryptogriff HAS to be one of if not the most powerful ghoul slugs.

This has been a certified WildSpectre rant

Pretend i posted this a month ago

ignore the crusty as heck background i totally didn't take from the fandom wiki page

(side tangent incoming but I still cant believe they lowered the slug it out 2 skin chances I have been trying to get Mr. Saturday for months and i am going insane)

wildspectre try not to glaze Mr. Saturday every 5 minutes challenge (impossible)

WE NEED MORE SLUGTERRA CRACKSHIPS

My new original crack ship.

Blakk industries in a nutshell

(side note I changed the text on one of them so it would fit a little better)

Here are my explanations for all of them

Twist: other than Blakk he's the only one with any trauma (that we know of).

C.C: he's by far the most normal person out of ANY Blakk Industries member.

Mr. Saturday: "Okay listen, assuming somebody is gay because of their appearance is stereotyping and harmful BUT F**ING LOOK AT HIM." - Kwite

Darius Yorman: probably the physically weakest and most useless Blakk Industries member (sorry Darius fans)

Quintin: if he thought slugs were scary imagine his reaction to GHOULS.

Dr. Blakk: other than Locke and Lode, I assume that none of the former Blakk Industries members know if he's alive or not.

Omg I thought I was the only one that had this theory

(side note- while not as prominent of an example as Loki or the slugs in "What Lies Beneath", Saturday's Cryptogriff snitches on the Shane Gang's presence in Sawn Of the Slug so it clearly has some form of intelligence/loyalty outside of being a feral goblin)

On Ghouling

Something that's always tickled my brain is how most ghouls are feral and uncontrollable, with two major exceptions. Loki and all the slugs in "What Lies Beneath," with a focus on Burpy.

Loki is the first ghoul we can see that is capable of self-control. He even behaves like a normal (if slightly more malicious) slug. The only real clues we get that he's a ghoul are that his "illusion" showed up on camera and that he wouldn't touch Doc.

The other slugs, especially Burpy, in What Lies Beneath, behave similarly. We even see Burpy act like himself, just more unhinged. I have a theory on why this is. With Burpy, he was willing to undergo the ghouling process and didn't flinch once. My theory is that if a slug is willing to be ghouled, it can resist the mind-altering effects of Dark Water to a degree. I imagine the process is very traumatic for the poor guys, so maybe that mindless savagery is a coping mechanism for what was done to them. Since Burpy and Loki didn't fight it, they came out fairly unchanged, at least in the personality department.

Anyways, thought over, do with it what you will.

he was (and still is) my favourite character but DANG his betrayal was awful

“I think Rhombulus’s betray/downfall was out of nowhere.”

I like Dr. Blakk but...

"the truth is, in this life... we only have ourselves" - Dr. Blakk in Back to Blakk

Hey Dr. Blakk a word of advice, maybe you would have more friends if you stopped being mean to all of your allies for no reason.

like broski, maybe if the primary motivator for all of your allies (not just the people you hire) wasn't fear you would have more people stick around until the end other than Maurice and Nacho (and Maurice didn't even join the final fight against the Shane Gang)

Examples:

Locke, Lode, John Bull, and C.C only want to bust Blakk out of Stalagmite 17 for the rewards.

Throws Quintin out of the Titan in Upgrade for basically no reason.

Sends Nacho to the deep caverns for basically no reason in The New Kid part 2.

Calls Mr. Saturday's mind control "mind control foolishness" after he CAPTURED THE SHANE GANG and TOOK OVER THE MOST ESCAPE PROOF PRISON IN ALL OF SLUGTERRA like my brother in Brimstone is it THAT hard to go ONE CONVERSATION without insulting someone.

there are probably several more examples of this that I can't remember off the top of my head.

I understand that he is the main antagonist but being this mean to your own comrades is just bad strategy dude.

Blakk's now probably ex-allies might not be 100% sure he's alive but the things they probably say about him in their totally real group chat must be legendary

this has been a certified WildSpectre rant

Blakk being next is wild like I get that the Shane gang had to win but seeing Blakk and some of the other Blakk Industries members go through the Game Master's BS would have been awesome.

2:39am but i'm just thinking about how messed up the thrill of the game was like wtf was nerdcorps on about