The Beast of Nurgle is a type of Chaos Daemon that has begun to appear in Tertium due to the arcane rituals performed by the chaos-worshippers and Cult of Admonition.
These Nurglish Warp-beasts are enormous, slug-like mound of rotting flesh propelled by two pudgy green arms. It is covered in all manner of eyes, teeth, oozing sores, pus-filled blisters, gashes, and leathery rotten flesh. It has a large yellow boil on its back that is weak to incoming damage. Upon dying, the creature will violently explode in a shower of pus, blood, organs, and putrid gas before fizzling out of existence and returning to the warp as all Daemons do.
A random encounter boss that may burst out of a nearby wall or appear from around a corner. It can move surprisingly fast for its size and will periodically vomit a putrescent slime that slows players caught in the splash zone. Being hit by the yellow vomit will slow the player and cause corruption damage. However, more importantly it allows the player to be eaten by the Beast of Nurgle.
The Beast of Nurgle will hit players who go in with melee, typically by flicking its tail when attacked from behind. The Beast can eat any player who has the slowing slime debuff applied to them, causing them continuous Corruption damage. A player can be freed from a Beast's belly by hitting its weakspot. An alternatively way of forcing the Beast ti free
a player is Veteran: Sharpshooter grenade, Ogryn: Skullcrusher Bull Charge, weak spot damage, and other sources of stagger will cause the Beast to spit out the eaten player.
Strategies[]
The Beast will beeline for one player in particular, attempting to vomit on and then eat them. Other players should take advantage of its exclusive attention to attack the glowing boil on its back for massive damage. It will eventually lose interest if it is unable to eat its original target and will then re-target to a different player.
Like other bosses, avoid fighting the Beast nearby ledges or on bridges. They can very easily melee players off of ledges, leading to an insta-kill.
Also take care that the Beast can eat players who are on a ledge above them (they can reach upwards!)