PuterPlane (an extremely tiny setting): monsters

ABC 80-WAYS2DIE

• Djinn-ish
• The tornado-like body is actually smoke coming from overheated circuits inside its monitorhead.
• It can only maintain this form for 30 mins before it shuts down and needs to cool for 10 mins
• When in cooling mode it looks like an ordinary puter, turned off
• The overheated smoke-body-mode is achieved by running this small program:
  
  10 GOSUB 20
  20 GOSUB 10

Keyed Cobra

• Snake-ish
• It attacks with its keyboardhead, trying to punch in command sequences to curse its subject
• Each successful hit will leave a mark on the targets forehead in the shape of a letter (key)
• When the last letter in the command sequence is typed into the targets forehead, the curse activates
• Some command sequence examples and their effects:
  
  FORMAT C: (memory loss)
  CHCP 864 (target changes language)
  

Tandy Tentacles

• Octupus/blob-ish
• Oracle
• Those brave enough may ask a question by typing it in reverse on its keyboard
• The reversed typing is due to the fact that the Tandy Tentacle reads from the other side of screen, much like a mirror
• Lives on cowhide

Commodoreberus

• Hound-ish
• Gatekeepers
• Each monitorhead runs its own program, that helps the creature overall
• One head runs the past events-program (e.g. remembering stuff)
• One head runs the planner (e.g. how to move its legs, shortest route to places, avoiding danger, etc.)
• One head runs the monitoring program (e.g. are we hungry? are we overheating? are we being attacked? are we hurting?)
• The three monitorheads shares the same processor (found in its body), so each head only gets 1/3 of the processing power
• Cutting off/terminating a head does not make two new ones grow out, but it will give the remaining ones more processing power (for example: from 1/3 to 1/2)