Grocky

Grockies are small to medium-sized goblin creatures notorious for dropping groceries when killed. They have bright and colorful skin in various patterns including polka dots. Their stomachs are stretchy, so they can hold a lot of groceries inside them. Often, their stomachs will be stretched into a cube-like or chunky shape, due to the boxes and other packages inside them. They have tails, and every Grocky has a price tag on the end of its tail, indicating the worth of the contents of their stomach. Grockies can be killed by brute force, but they are very sneaky creatures, making this difficult. The most common way of catching a Grocky, is to lure it with gold coins or other items of worth. The relation between Grockies and money is kind of like the relation between dogs and chocolate. When presented with money, a Grocky will pounce on it and eat it. This will make it tired and slow. The more money it eats, the sleepier it gets. Grockies with a higher number on their price tag are more resilient to this, but all Grockies eventually succumb to the sleep. At that point, the Grocky is usually hanged from the ceiling and shattered with a club like a piñata.

Killing Grockies is a tradition in many places across the continent of Epika. In places with many Grockies, most households will kill a couple Grockies every month.

Formation and Purpose

Grockies don't reproduce. In fact, they lack sexual organs entirely. (They don't even have asses.) Instead, they spawn from purple spirally portals, which appear randomly across the Epikan continent. The appearance of these portals can be traced back to the individual Gram Otvo, the CEO of Capitalism, Inc. He invented the Grocky, and soon after started producing industrial factories called "Grocky Farms". In these Grocky Farms, the Grockies are assembled using flesh and vim, after which they're force fed groceries in a manner similar to foie gras-ing a goose. The Grockies' bodies are fortified using spells, meaning they don't need to eat or sleep, and can run really fast. Then, a cursed "gem fiber mesh" is inserted between the tubes of their brain stem, making them hungry for money but also making them fall asleep when they ingest enough of it. Finally, a small portal is welded into the lower throat, which will teleport any valuables inserted into the Grocky to Capitalism Inc's sorting facilities. After this, they're ready to be teleported into a random forest somewhere in Epikka. Due to import taxes, some regions of Epikka get less Grockies than others.

When asked in an interview with Dwaia News Network why he created the Grockies, Gram Otvo replied "To make a bunch of money, of course!" He then did a little funny dance and everybody laughed.