Chute Lurker

ChuteChute: the Transport Tubes of Metru NuiA Chute was a pipe of liquid protodermis held together by a magnetic field, used across Metru Nui to carry Matoran, cargo, and Rahi. The system was run by the Le-Matoran, wrecked in the Great Cataclysm and repaired when the city was restored. Lurkers were amphibious, omnivorous RahiRahiThe Rahi were the biomechanical wildlife of the Matoran Universe, built largely by the Brotherhood of Makuta, ranging from background fauna to engineered war beasts. that hunted inside the protodermis chutesThe Chute SystemThe magnetised liquid Protodermis transit network of Metru Nui, controlled from Le-Metru's Moto-Hub and carrying Matoran, cargo, and Rahi across the city. of MetruMetruIn the Matoran language a metru was a single district of Metru Nui; the city was divided into six such districts, one for each element, and the term covered both the place and the elemental community that lived in it. Nui. They could breathe liquid protodermis as well as air, and preferred to stay within the chutes, venturing outside them no more than they had to. (BIONICLE: Rahi Beasts; BIONICLE: Encyclopedia Updated)

Habitat and decline#

ChuteChute: the Transport Tubes of Metru NuiA Chute was a pipe of liquid protodermis held together by a magnetic field, used across Metru Nui to carry Matoran, cargo, and Rahi. The system was run by the Le-Matoran, wrecked in the Great Cataclysm and repaired when the city was restored. Lurkers preferred to hunt within the chutesThe Chute SystemThe magnetised liquid Protodermis transit network of Metru Nui, controlled from Le-Metru's Moto-Hub and carrying Matoran, cargo, and Rahi across the city. of MetruMetruIn the Matoran language a metru was a single district of Metru Nui; the city was divided into six such districts, one for each element, and the term covered both the place and the elemental community that lived in it. Nui and avoided leaving them whenever possible. Their ability to breathe liquid protodermis as readily as air suited them to life inside the chute network. (BIONICLE: Encyclopedia Updated)

When the Great CataclysmThe Great CataclysmThe day Makuta Teridax put the Great Spirit to sleep, the Great Spirit Robot fell from the sky, Metru Nui flooded, and Voya Nui tore loose from the Southern Continent. struck and left the Chute SystemThe Chute SystemThe magnetised liquid Protodermis transit network of Metru Nui, controlled from Le-Metru's Moto-Hub and carrying Matoran, cargo, and Rahi across the city. damaged, the disruption cut off their food and forced them to abandon their usual hunting grounds. Once out of the chutes, the displaced Chute Lurkers became targets of the VisorakThe Visorak HordeThe Brotherhood of Makuta's spider-Rahi army under King Sidorak and Viceroy Roodaka, summoned to Metru Nui after the Great Cataclysm to free Teridax and pacify whatever survived in the abandoned city.. (BIONICLE: Rahi Beasts)

Hunting and behavior#

A Chute Lurker hunted by locking itself in place inside a chute with its arms, favoring a sharp corner where a traveler would be less likely to spot it in time. There it waited for a RahiRahiThe Rahi were the biomechanical wildlife of the Matoran Universe, built largely by the Brotherhood of Makuta, ranging from background fauna to engineered war beasts., a Matoran or anything else to pass within reach, then seized it. Once a Chute Lurker had caught its prey there was rarely any escape, unless someone else came to the captive's aid. (BIONICLE: Rahi Beasts)

The Chute Lurker was released as a 2005 combiner model, built from the Visorak sets 8745 and 8746. It carries a Rhotuka launcher on its back, and pressing its head makes its mandibles pinch. (Chute Lurker combiner)