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Marongghovec aka Ale-Ox
the Marongghovec, or Ale-Ox, is a large, yak-like animal native to northern Ageratos. To keep its belligerent, stubborn, and generally annoying personality in check requires an interesting ingredient.
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the Marongghovec, or ale-ox, is a large, yak-like animal native to northern Ageratos. It lives on the tundras and plains, eating sweet grasses with its long, sticky tongue. The marongghovec's general features are yak or oxe-like, but their horns are lustrous and red, and they have aforementioned long sticky tongues. In addition, their lower bellies are a distinctive bone-white color (disguised by the shaggy fur) and are ribbed with leathery, thick skin.
The Marongghovec's meat is tough and stringy, and its milk always tastes sour. The animal's true value lies in its mighty strength, equal to that of three normal oxen. A marongghovec is also usually belligerent, stubborn, and generally inflexible beyond its will. There is a way to get past it, and that way is beer. Any good marongghovec-driver will tell you that the best thing to quench ale-ox thirst with is beer, good beer. Upon drinking beer, marongghovec become quite drunk, and are at first doubly belligerent, rearing up proudly on their back-hooves to show off their fine, white bellies; during this early drunken state, a rearing ale-ox may at any moment enter near-paroxysms of rage, and cast about to destroy. But soon afterward, the marongghovec becomes quite stuporously intoxicated, and thense slumborous and stray-minded; they are then quite easily led as a work-beast.
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I could of sworn I voted on this before. Well here it is. The critter is darn admusing and strange enough to have a strong sense of realism. After all, 'you can't make this stuff up'. :)
Come on, who doesnt first get aggressive and then later depressed (depressant-style) when drinking. And I've seen quite a lot of college kids rear up and display their white underbellies after imbibing too much as well. Methinks these animals are not so much unlike us.
The draft animal with an attitude. So if the caravan runs out of beer, it is not only the passangers that get bad mood...
A very nice piece of chrome that deserves attention.
Sigh... Bump.
I like 'em!
Colourful description and nice ideas. Made me associate them metaphorically with something too, but that might have been your intention.
They seem mighty impractical as beasts of burden...
Actually, you may be right.
For common transport needs, you could do well without them, and take the horse, donkey or whatever similar creature there is. But if you need _power_, then you have to turn to this animal.
This is not the personal car, this is the big heavy-duty truck, hard to control, but very useful for its purposes.
I think of them like I think of Musk Ox in Nepal. In the area where the Ale-Ox would be found, there would be few if any other beasts of burden. So you would be stuck with these things for everying except riding. And you may not have a riding animal available either.
Cant stop laughing! these are great! Everyone has already mentioned what I was going to add. What happens if you give one some 120 proof moonshine?
I love this OX.
Made me laugh. I love the image this conjures. Good stuff.
Good stuff. A fun little submission for a believable creature. Moo. *hic*
I hope, wherever you are, you're doing alright, Captain.