Quote Originally Posted by Metastachydium View Post
See, the Monster never ever once exhibits any clear sign of shifting its shape, which is odd, given how (as you have just cited), it changing its features is a trivial non-action, whereas maintaining them has an actual action cost. So… What do we even have here?

a. The Monster has no control over its shapeshifting whatsoever, because he doesn't understand it. In this case, how he always has two eyes and an appendage at a fixed position, the former having a fixed appearance, as well as always having a mouth-equivalent orifice seemingly at a fixed position when he appears to insert things into it is mighty odd.
I'm sure I've said this many times before, but "Why doesn't Rich draw the MitD in a way that makes it obvious what he is?" is an argument that's easily rebutted by the whole concept of keeping his species a mystery.