Tripod
Three-Legged Necromorph of the Sprawl
The Tripod was a large three-legged Necromorph assembled from several human corpses, encountered during the Necromorph outbreak on Titan Station. It struck with long arms and a bladed tongue, and a single grotesque female variant grown around a mother and infant was found within the Church of Unitology.
The Tripod was a large three-legged Necromorph form built from several human corpses, encountered during the outbreak that swept Titan Station. Like the Brute, it was one of the compound creatures of the infection, in which biomass from many bodies was drawn together into a single massive shape. Two kinds of Tripod were recorded, and both were extremely violent even by the standards of the infection. (Dead Space 2)
Form#
The Tripod was a massive creature, comparable in size to a Brute and assembled from numerous hosts. The common form was built from six bodies: male corpses making up the arms, a leg and the head and back, a female corpse forming the stomach, and an infant fused into the bladed tongue. Its malformed head was in fact a man's head twisted upside down. It moved on three legs and reached with long arms, and its only vulnerable points were three yellow pustules, one on each arm and one on the tongue. Severing both arms killed it, though after losing the first arm it would turn to its bladed tongue to keep fighting. (Dead Space 2)
It attacked by swinging an arm in a wide arc, slamming a fist into the ground, flailing its bladed tongue, or pouncing on its prey from a distance. Despite its bulk it could close a wide gap in seconds. The places where these creatures appeared were almost always large, open and roughly circular, room enough for a Tripod to throw its long limbs. (Dead Space 2)
The female Tripod#
A single Tripod of a different kind was found in the Church of Unitology on Titan Station. Though it too was formed from several corpses, its primary host appeared to be a human woman, and most disturbingly an infant's body and limbs grew out of its tongue. This creature pounced from above to knock its prey to the ground, then seized and dragged the victim while stabbing with its bladed tongue. The tongue worked much like a drag tentacle, but its weak point was the yellow sac made from the infant. When the sac was destroyed the tongue was rendered harmless, and the creature released its prey and withdrew. (Dead Space 2)
The Tripod's Nest#
The Tripods of the Sprawl had a nest, a large growth of the Corruption that spread through the station and harbored the creatures. It was here, near the end of the outbreak that consumed Titan Station, that the Tripods were encountered for the last time, and the nest was destroyed in an explosion that took the surviving creatures with it. (Dead Space 2)
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