Scribbles and Horrors

These things hover in crowded subterranean chambers and slowly make everything around them smaller.

Glubitrubabubtrubs are more like fungal growths than creatures, consisting of stalactite-like protrusions reaching down from a disc-like structure that is topped with grey furry antennae. At the base of some of the protrusions are shimmering, glowing orbs, which are the Glubitrubabubtrub’s mouths.

The Glubitrubabubtrub eats away at things by shrinking. Anything underneath one of its mouths gradually reduces size until it is about 1/12th of itself. You can tell that a Glubitrubabubtrub is around when there are dollhouse-sized miniatures everywhere. This process usually takes weeks or months, so it is unlikely to be dangerous if one merely passes under them. However, anything that directly touches one of their mouths accelerates this process to only a few seconds. They are a hazard to be avoided.

Glubitrubabubtrubs are passive things. They can be moved without difficulty with a gentle push, so long as you avoid the mouths. Turning a Glubitrubabubtrub upside-down turns it into a Burtbubabutibulg. A Burtbubabutibulg is the reverse of a Burtbubabutibulg—its mouths cause objects to grow, by as much as 12 times. Anything shrunk by a Glubitrubabubtrub can be rehabilitated by putting it into the mouth of a Burtbubabutibulg. Of course, a Burtbubabutibulg is a hazard too.

Cutting into, or breaking open a Glubitrubabubtrub is a bad idea. Basically, they explode. Burtbubabutibulgs implode. It’s not pretty.

The antennae of a Glubitrubabubtrub are very soft and make excellent tea. The spores of a Glubitrubabubtrub can also be mixed into a paste or potion that will cause temporary shrinkage. The antennae of Burtbubabutibulgs also make good tea, but their spores do not cause temporary growth.