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Squigs and Other Flora and Fauna

There are tonnes of Squigs. They fill a lot of useful societal roles. Squigs is the shortened epithet of the name "Squiggly Beasts" which is a rather more generous term than most Ork players realise. There are hundreds of different variants of Squigs. The only unifying definition is that they are where Orks are. Orks may infact inflict a strange affect upon the local environment, creating new strains of creatures, or it might just be the gestalt manipulating spores to suit Ork societal needs. One things is for sure, Squigs and Ork stuff is cool.

Bag Squigs

These are Squigs that are killed and dried to use as bags. As most Squigs stomachs are very accommodating (well they would be for mouths with legs wouldn't they) they can be stretched and dyed into fetching bags to carry various items. Squigs also have leathery skin, meaning they make lots of useful clothing, such as boots, and even socks. Essentially the Ork just sticks his foot into it.

Buzzer Squigs

Buzzer Squigs are small flying Squigs. Kind of like Bees with large mouths covered in gnashing teeth. They live generally in fungus groves around the drops. When they attack, they attack in massive swarms. Their most common use is to be collected into jars by Gretchin, and used as ammunition for Squig Catapults, which throw the jars, which then break, setting loose hundreds of very angry buzzers.

Buzzing Squigs

Buzzing Squigs may or may not be the same as Buzzer squigs, although these are rather like Japanese Hornets in appearance. They eat everything that isn't Ork flesh, and use a massive pronged needle-like tail to bore into its prey, and devour their insides, before emerging to do it again, or select another victim. They are also used as a weapon.

Eatin' Squigs

Most Squigs are edible but some taste better than others. A Gretchin's main task is to catch and cook Squigs (which they are rather good at). Orks prefer them cooked, but will eat them raw if they are really hungry and there are no Grots around.

Juicy Squigs

The best eatin' squigs live deep in the drops, and they are not only rare, but extremely difficult to catch. They tend to be extremely big and are tastier the older they are. They are considered a real gourmet delicacy, and it tends only to be Nobz who get to eat them, due to being in a social standing that means they will enjoy the finer aspects of Orky Kultur.

Face Eater Squigs

Also known as "Gnashers", they are mostly kept for the extremely popular Squig-Eating contests. These Squigs are particularly vicious, lurking around the drops, waiting for a shadow (such as an Ork's bottom) to descend over their position, where they lurch with their massive mouth and pointed teeth, and bite very ferociously. Gnashers are mostly tail and mouth, with the tail being very strong, able to grip the side of the drops, or an Ork's arm during an Eatin' contest. If you see an Ork in a brewhouse fall backwards, twitching onto the ground below, he probably has a Face Eating Squig attached to his face.

Flesheaters

Ever seen critters? Give them a rat's tail, and you have a flesheater. Flesheaters have large gaping mouths, and feed on flesh, surprisingly. They are generally kept because they shed teeth on a regular basis, which Gretchin are sent to collect. Naturally Gretchin aren't particularly fond of this duty. Flesheaters are often stolen by other Orks as part of a Teef-making scheme.

Gob Squigs

Gob Squigs are gooey blob-like Squigs that Orks put into their mouths and forget about them, as they swim around in their mouths, eating juicy bits of food caught in their teeth. A variant of this Squig is the Chewing Squig, which isn't as fortunate.

Growler Squigs

Growler Squigs are small, about the size of dogs, and extremely vicious. Orks often keep them as pets, especially the more eccentric ones (such as Oddboyz), and they are doted upon by their owners, and fed scraps by Gretchin servants. Growlers typically spend their days following their master, providing amusement by snacking at other Ork's ankles, and get exercise by chasing Snotlings.

Hairy Squigs

Orks don't have hair, but they make up for this by utilizing this fascinating Squig. The Squig is mostly a very small, clamp-like mouth and an awful lot of hair, all in dazzling colours, which can also be dyed by Gretchin servants. Orks simply place it to the part of their body (usually the head) and the parasitic Squig latches onto it, surviving on a minute amount of the Orkoid's blood. If an Ork wants more hair, he simply gets more of them.

Herd Squigs/Squighounds

Squighounds are trained by runtherds to manage their runts, be they Gretchin or Snotlings. They are also typically excellent tracking beasts, which makes them very useful for finding hiding Gretchin. Runtherds control them with a mixture of calls, whistles, and bouts of violence. Squighounds are very loyal, but also very ferocious, but do their duties brilliantly if trained well.

Mendin'/Medical Squigs

There are lots of Squigs that are useful to the Dok. In particular Hairy Squigs are used to drink up blood out of a wound, and also provide the stitching. The Syringe Squig has a long syringe-like snout which injects a very useful anaesthetic, and there are also Swab Squigs, a type of Hairy Squig that has hair with a nice bun-like texture that is ideal for soaking up blood and cleaning wounds. There are lots of Squigs which are killed and strained and used as medicine. Squigs are very useful like that.

Mushlings and Snotrooms

Snotlings are rather greedy little things and tend to gorge themselves upon fungus. However if they eat too much of it, they risk becoming fungus themselves. The Ork race has a large affinity with fungus, and Snotlings who eat too much of it will become lazy and feckless, and eventually vegetate by the side of the drops, turning into a Mushling or Snotroom: a mushroom with a fixed expression of a smiling face. Being rather tough and large they are popular as seating for the communal drop. What a nice vocation, makes banking look riveting doesn't it?

Oily Squigs

The body of an Oily Squig protrudes a rather large amount of oily black secretion from its slug-like body, which is particularly useful as machine Oil. It has a funnelled snout ideal for on the spot-fixing, although oil is generally prepared beforehand, ideally by using a pressing machine, although the old-fashioned way is to put them in a barrel and have Gretchin jump up and down on them until they burst. This unfortunately waists a lot of oil, but watching the oiled up gretchin struggle is so funny it is still a popular practice.

Paint Squigs

Don't be fooled. Those citadel paints you use? Look at them more closely... Yes, indeed, there is a sluglike Squig that excretes powerful dyes that are used as warpaints. Many Paint Squigs even have tufts of hair on their snout, meaning they can be used as a crude, but self-refilling brush.

Parasite-Hunting Squigs

Ugly buggers. They are small 6-legged Squigs with long snapping tongues that hunt parasites. Orks often chuck a handful into their clothing, and they eat any lice, ticks and leeches that the Orks have acquired through their habits. Then they typically get tipped out by the Ork, and chucked in the mouth for a quick chomp. Nice.

Puffballs

Puffballs are odd fungus balls that extrude poisonous spores. Orkoids have a sufficient immunity to them that they only choke and hinder them (but its general Gretchin that are sent to farm them), but they are deadly to other races, and used often as projectiles on catapults, for filling spore bombs, or for medical uses.

Rutted Gob-Buster

A fungus gob-stopper essentially. They have a tangy taste, and the older ones are so strong that Orks have to spit them out. Orks adore them however. Makari made the most important partnership in the 40k pantheon thanks to a single, used Rutted Gob-Buster.

Speckled Bloodshade Fungus

The Speckled Bloodshade is a fungus with red or purple veins running through it. It has numerous medical uses (it seems to be described as a good coagulant from what I can tell) and Orks also love to eat them.

Spiky Squigs

It could be a minion from a 2nd 90s platformer. The Spiny Squig has sharp spines that it can shoot at any threatening creature. These spines inflict a poisonous sting on anything they hit. They are often used as a weapon, being contained in cages, and fired out with a spring mechanism. They are very popular with freebootas (so now you know where they come from!) another of the Gretchin's least favourite fetching duties.

Squigpipes

By Gork yes, musical Squigs. It has various tubes that emanate from its body, and it can have body blown into it through its long nostrils. The music it produces, the RT books say: produces a sound a thousand times more cacophonous than Bagpipes. Ouch. Obviously this makes them popular with Orks, who love marching into war to loud noises.

Vampire Squig

This squig has batlike wings and vicious fangs. These bloodsuckers are very popular with Doks for sucking up bad blood and pus from wounds. The Vampire Squigs don't seem to mind this, so long as there is a regular supply. When business is low, Doks sell out the prospect of regular "bleedings" to otherwise healthy Orks to keep their pets alive."

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