What does a Featherstalker look like?

[nogoodscallywag]

My GM and we cannot find any description or picture.

[Noven]

I just took a picture of a feather and called it good.

[YinYang1st]

I didn't think the description was too important, so I just did an image search and grabbed a picture that I felt was appropriate.

[Starglim]

The elegant feather star

Another colour

[Alanya]

What I imagine

Nothing to do with the description in the scenario of course...

[The Masked Ferret]

I describe it as...
something that looks like a starfish, covered in giant feathers, with 5 arms. On the end of each arm is a mouth. The creature begins to move, and it looks like it has a hundred human feet at the bottom providing locomotion.

[Nefreet]

I recently just described it as a scorpion with feet that look like feathers, and a spiky tail for firing its harpoons.

IIRC, the author of the scenario posted a picture online. I just didn't like it.

[CanisDirus]

(Insert best attempt to sound like Clippy)

"Hi! Sounds like you're trying to identify an alien creature which itself references an Earth fossil! Would you like another opinion?"

I'll show myself out now :P

Truth be told, I only taught one semester of paleontology (and it was ~7 years ago), but when I first got my hands on this scenario and saw that the Feather Stalker was related to crinoids, I grabbed one of the better/easier-navigated websites I liked to send to students who were looking for general info while doing classification homework: Kansas Geological Survey - Crinoids.

I also grabbed a black-and-white diagram of a crinoid from google images and shaded it a bit to make it more alien- than fossil-like and uploaded it here to my PFS/SFS Dropbox Folder which I link to when running #1-01 in Play-by-Post.

I hope either of those help you out, or at least give you other ideas on what to use for descriptions or sample images! :)

[Hmm]

Clippy is, I am quite certain, a villain out to take over the world. Far more terrifying than a feather stalker.

[CanisDirus]

Hilary Moon Murphy wrote:

Clippy is, I am quite certain, a villain out to take over the world. Far more terrifying than a feather stalker.

...

*suddenly finds himself jotting down ideas for an adventure in the Starfinder setting*

[Eleanor Ferron]

As the author of the scenario, when I wrote the description, this was what I was thinking of.

That said, since the monster has different abilities every time, the different appearances from different GMs suits it well, I think.

[The Masked Ferret]

ah

[Nefreet]

Ok, that's rad.

[Starglim]

Yep, that's somewhat scary.