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Greetings, survivor. You see before you the Mei long, a dinosaur designed for our return to Earth in Extinction. This creature is fused with the power of element, allowing it to absorb the destruction many attempt to cause with this dangerous material. Who knew that this small, sleeping dragon could bring so much balance to the world scrouged by Titans? Presenting the Mei long aka Sleeping Dragon… Friends, I believe this is what we need to finally get a useful shoulder pet into the game. We’ve already gotten our share of big carnivores and OP dinosaurs (not that they aren’t cool, mind you). The use of shoulder pets has been overlooked in these creature votes, so lets finally get one into the finals. Thank you for your support. Artwork. Common name: MEI Species: Mei long Time: Early Cretaceous Diet: Carnivore Temperament: Aggressive (tired) In the Wild. The Mei is small dinosaur. Although aggressive toward survivors and other small creatures, they are also at risk themselves of attack from large carnivores like Tyrannosaurus rex. Mei spawn in around the Snow Biodome, the Wastelands, and also the Sunken Forest, but more rarely in the latter. The power of balance the Mei has prevents it from being corrupted by Element, so Corrupted Mei cannot be found. Wild Behavior. In the wild, Mei usually spawns in groups of 2, increasing the chance of being killed by attackers. Although they will attack smaller creatures, they will flee if attacked by a larger creature. The aggro range is small, around the same size as a Theri’s. Occasionally, if a Mei has not taken damage or slept for the last 2 minutes, it can go to sleep. If the “sleeping dragon” goes to sleep, it will curl up and cease to aggro onto anything. While sleeping, it regains health 10 times faster than normal, as well as recharge any lost Endurance (see below). After two minutes, or after being damaged by anything, the Mei will immediately wake, and begin aggroing or fleeing as normal. Taming + Food. To tame a Mei, you must wait until it is sleeping. It is suggested that survivors watch from a distance, and killing off Mei predators will help prevent it from dying easily or being attacked in its sleep. While a Mei is sleeping, you must approach and pet the sleeping Mei by pressing [E] like normal. This will begin the taming tracker. After petting a Mei, you must wait for it to wake up and fall asleep again to pet it again (wait from a safe distance, preferably). Make sure no predators are nearby. Not only can they potentially kill the Mei, but damaged Mei also wait longer to fall asleep, and therefore increase the time it takes to tame. Damage only ruins taming effectiveness if inflicted onto the Mei while it is asleep – damage to an awake Mei does not ruin taming effectiveness. Food. Although food is not required to tame the Mei, it is still a carnivore. It must eat meat just like any other carnivore. It IS pretty efficient at harvesting hide and meat, especially considering it’s a shoulder pet. Breeding. A baby Mei automatically inherits the highest stamina stat from its parents. This is to increase its level of Endurance (see below). Other stats are random as normal. The Mei are born in eggs like any other dinosaur, and they cannot breed while asleep (see below) Appearance. Mei long is on the colorful side of things. They are densely feathered, with colors ranging from, white, grey, greens, black, and purples. The majority of their body is one color region, meaning Mei is mostly one color, with different colors in little stripes or spots on its tail, head, or arms. Egg Color. The color of a Mei’s egg is dark purple with black spots. Attacks/Abilities. Primary Attack: The primary attack of the Mei is a claw slash and bite. Its base damage is 25. Endurance. The Mei long can absorb Elemental attacks directed toward allied Mei in the wild, or allied creatures tamed. While tamed, this effect only works while mounted on a survivor. The Mei automatically absorbs 50% of damage from any Element based attack dealt to an allied creature within range. This includes attacks made by Titans (not titanosaurs), TEK weapons, MEKs, and Corrupted and TEK Creatures. The absorbed damage is instead dealt to the Mei’s Endurance. Via the option wheel you can set the Mei to absorb “only damage on creatures”, “only damage on survivors”, or to not absorb damage at all. The base Endurance for the Mei is 100. For each level into Stamina (wild or while tame), the Endurance stat increases by 100 for the first level, and then 50 more for each level from then on. Example: First Stamina level increases Endurance by 100, next by 150, next by 200, next increases it by 250, and so on. There is no limit to the Endurance a Mei can have. If the Mei does not have enough Endurance to absorb 50% of an attack, it instead absorbs what damage it can with its last Endurance. When Endurance is at 0, the Mei is automatically set to “absorb no damage”. Endurance does not regenerate unless the sleeping dragon sleeps… Sleep. Much like telling a Chalicothere to sit, you can force the sleeping dragon to sleep via the option wheel. While asleep, Endurance regenerates at 10 Endurance per second. A sleeping Mei also regenerates health 1000% times quicker than normal. Wild Mei have Endurance much like a tamed Mei, except they cannot be set to “absorb no damage”, unless they run out of Endurance. Wild Mei regain Endurance while sleeping the same as a tamed Mei. Element Dust. Tamed Mei long can have Element Dust placed into their inventory. If a Mei long is sleeping with Element Dust, it will automatically consume the Dust at a rate of 1 per 10 seconds. Each consumed Element Dust increases the Endurance and Health regained by 5000% for the next 10 seconds. If a Mei long wakes from a sleep in which it consumed at least 1 Element Dust, it will become affected by the Element Fury condition. This condition causes it to glow white and lose 1% of its max Health value every 1 second. Element Fury lasts for 24 hours (real-time). The Mei also has a 50% chance of losing Element Fury if it is force-fed Blue Crystalized Sap while sleeping. This sap pleases the Mei and allows the corrupting powers of Element to flee from the Mei’s nervous system.