Pitviper

Story so far

Pitvipers are the serpents that curl through the darkness of the deep tunnels of Mars, drawn to the warmth of a drill or a body. Descended, like the Reds, from Earth stock and changed by Mars and the deep tunnels, they bite through a frysuit and burrow toward the warmest place, often the belly, to lay their eggs. Grown ones can be as wide as a thigh and long as three men, but it is the babies that are feared, for they cannot ration their poison.

Darrow has been bitten before and still dreams of them.

Appearance

Thick, oil-black tendrils of serpent; adults as wide as a thigh and long as three men; venomous young.

Role

The lethal fauna of the deep helium tunnels.

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