Adult Male
Name: unnamed
Species: Impcap
Birthday: Thursday, December 25, 2025
Owner: peachyvoid
Element: Life 
The adult impcap is only slightly longer than your palm, and seems completely happy spending its whole life in the same little shelter without ever venturing out. It is a funny little thing, always busy tending to the sticky webs it has woven in its home, and creates excellent compost for a garden. Despite this, keeping an impcap companion is an aquired taste. If it is not happy in its den, it will start wandering, foraging, and rotting any organic material that comes into contact with its slime. Finding food for it to eat is easy, but the impcap won't eat until its stockpile is sufficiently rotten, and its den will quickly begin to smell. Unfortunately, keeping it outside is not a good option either if you live somewhere that gets even remotely cold. These creatures will make their way inside houses at the first sign of a chill, and if they can pick freely, they sually go for the pantry. They can breed quickly, and if space gets too tight or food too sparse, the young will start roaming, so it is recommended to keep a close eye on the nest and remove any eggs one might find. The impcap's slime can be used for a few niche purposes, and is being studied further, but whether magi find them worth keeping or not usually comes down to how cute one thinks the little critters are.
Once mistakenly thought to be a strange, warped variant of nisscap, the impcap is an only distantly related creature that moves into empty nests if a nisscap family has left in a hurry. They are smaller than the nisscap and prefer not to wander, so it may take a while to notice if they've moved in. They will start with eating whatever food the nisscaps have left behind, quickly building a sticky web in the hollow and laying many eggs. First when all food is gone will they dare leave the safety of the old nisscap nest to go forage in the house, at which point, their numbers will most likely have grown to several dozen, and they will be a pain to get rid of. They, too, will eat crumbs and spoiled food, but unlike the nisscap who leaves the place spotless, the impcap leaves a thick, sooty substance everywhere it goes, which speeds up up the growth of decay in anything organic that is no longer alive, be that food or woodwork. An impcap infestation can completely destroy a wooden house. Some people claim that a particularly unhappy nisscap family may leave their nest after stocking it with extra food, hoping an impcap colony will move in next, to punish people who did not appreciate them enough.
Sprite art: MyopicDinobird (adult) | Description: MyopicDinobird