Chironex

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  The chironex floats by producing hydrogen from its water intake and capturing it inside the bell. The lip of the bell is quite mobile, allowing the jelloid to spill hydrogen when needing to descend. When floating, these feelers are usually curled up into relatively small balls that do not produce much drag. It is capable of deploying these feelers at varying lengths, singularly and in combination, as needed to provide some sense of steering. It is completely unknown how this transparent creature is capable of making such seemingly complex movements in relation to the environment.   The chironex also frequently uses a portion of these feelers to anchor itself between two trees along animal runs to trap prey en route to water.   When deployed for feeding, the feelers are upwards of 3m long. They are not only quite sensitive, providing a great deal of information to the creature, but are covered with tiny barbs that inject a potent venom into its prey. Once in contact with said prey, the chironex will draw smaller up into the bell, where it is eventually digested in one of four gastric pockets, or will be reeled down to the ground by heavier prey, where it is usually digested in said pockets. Truly large creatures compared to the chironex, like most adult sebb, are too large to be ingested.   They suffer a great deal of pain, however, in the process of being entangled and getting free from the feelers. The barbed poison "darts" are often torn from the feelers along with the venom sac, which continues to pump the venom into the victim.   The only known remedy is to wash in sour wine. This treatment is only partially effective and essentially stops the poison sac from injecting more venom. This treatment does nothing for the toxins already in the prey's system.   For sufficiently small creatures, the toxin is most potent and will cause the heart to stop from the searing, burning pain.   Because the Murdering Hand is essentially transparent, the creature itself may not be seen as anything more than a slight haze or shimmer between trees in good lighting. The most common sign of its presence is the detritus piled beneath it, bones, scraps, and other bits that could not be digested. These bits are simply dropped from the gastric pockets (which close around the prey somewhat like an inverted drawstring purse).   This creature can be quite deadly to many younglings that have not yet reached full adult stature.