| Class: | Beast |
| Hab: | Privies or inside sewer beasts |
| Fre: | Uncommon |
| Num: | 1-6 per commode |
| Lair: | 90% |
| Size: | 1-3 yards; highly elastic |
| Move: | Serpent strike + swift pulsing undulation |
| Def: | Tough skin covered in slick slime, most of length buried inside something else (sewer beast or "patient") |
| Att: | If provoked, bite, or spine-maned head = battleaxe |
| Int: | Basic beast |
| Spec: | Recommended by physicians |
| Posns: | Ick. |
Not true eels, these creatures are actually advanced invertebrates. They are commonly found in privies and similar places. Some inhabit the interiors of sewer beasts, which SEE. While the shy may fear the enema eel, many doctors praise them. If, when one sits upon a commode-mouth, one feels a sudden strong vacuum sealing one on to the "throne," one should brace for a visit by an enema eel.
Loose eels may dive completely within their dining hall, and so be safely protected by their temporary host. These eels are generally under a foot long.
Anchored eels can be up to a dozen foot long. Their tail-tips are rooted within their home chamber. As they plunge their narrow heads within the intestine, a suddenly swelled lump is formed, preventing the eel from sliding back. This lump slides down the eel as the eel slides up, and is deflated when the eel is ready to withdraw. One function of the lump is to keep its subject sitting, unable to access the length of the eel which remains external to the subject but still safe within the privy chamber.
The eel slides swiftly yet gently all the way up the lower intestine and part way up the upper the upper intestine. Its passage is eased by its coating of mildly anesthetizing slime. As it slides back down, the eel leaves a completely cleaned interior. In an ideal form of symbiotic behavior, the eel, while extracting the maximum amount of what is for it nutritional matter, also sucks out any and all harmful parasites from the intestine it is visiting while at the same time depositing a healthy mix of beneficial colonic microbes such as will aide future digestion. Anyone visited by an enema eel will have an improved health for at least a week, even in otherwise unsanitary conditions; in sanitary conditions, the benefits last even longer.
Enema eels are able to sense whether a visitor is ready for a cleaning; only the most ravenous of starved enema eels would visit a visitor who didn't need it, as that would stress delicate tissues unnecessarily. To further ease their visits, enema eels secrete a soothing slime. Alchemists value this slime, as it makes a superb wound dressing, numbing pain while providing very effective antiseptic protection.
If a sewer beast is attacked by predators or vandals the enema eels show quite a different face. From out of each commode-mouth strike 1-4 eels, each flashing a trio of keen-edged shearing blades. The eels can reach as far as fifteen feet from the commode-mouths they are rooted in.
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