D4 alternate mimics

 So I don't know why but I don't really "like" mimics, something about them just rubs me the wrong way, maybe its that they just seem so arbitrary, a creature that can cause itself to look like stone wood or metal but nothing else, or maybe its something else, that undefinable "thing" that just turns me away from it.

Either way I decided to make a table of alternate versions of the mimic, these new versions change a few things about it but not much.

roll a D4

1 mimic but more realistic

The mimic has always been a strange creature that dose not make much sense, though it has a clear game play purpose (punishing players that are not careful) the lore reasons, at least to me, have not been that good. So lets start with its appearance, mimics are amorphous brown creatures almost similar to a ooze in some respects, there body works in such a way that no part of it is truly vital to its survival as it has no organs, you can cut it in half and most likely it will just form 2 new mimics though it is much more fleshy and as you hack off parts of the mimic it will lose blood and slowly die. Secondly it has teeth and eyes, as it is amorphous it can just spend time creating and moving around its eyes and teeth and it can make new throats by opening up a new pathway to its stomach. Now time for the mimics main ability, the mimic can transform its flesh to look like and feel like wood, stone, or metal and the mimic is smart enough to transform into something that a person would go near such as a chest or door. I should note that all of these actions do take a lot of time and energy so a mimic can't be a chest then be damaged and retreat and then reaper as a door, it stays a chest.

2 mechanical construct

This mechanical creature appears to be a normal piece of furniture like a chest, crate, chair, even something like a chandelier could be a mimic. The object appears normal but as soon as you come near the clockwork starts working and soon a clockwork creature is lurching towards you trying to kill you.

3 mad man 

So I have not played Dark Souls nor do I know about this specific creature lore but I do love the look of them, just this crazy guy wearing a chest on his head/is a chest. These mimics are actually mad men that live in a chest, they worship FAH'EOXX a dark elder god of greed. Most FAH'EOXX's followers sleep a dreamless sleep inside of their chests, others cut out holes in there chests and bury themselves in the ground, to these cultists there chest is there most prised possession along with the treasure that they store in it. FAH'EOXX has few cultists and they rarely meet together.

From Dark Souls

4 mad house

Some houses are haunted and are then abandoned, but some houses are abandoned and then become haunted, these houses you should fear. This can also happen to objects, a chest left in a old barracks abandoned by its creators, this chest was caringly crafted and used to store supplies, it did its job dutifully, it loved this job, it was made for this job, but then it was abandoned and forgotten by its own creators, the chest grew rage-full waiting for years to lash out at humanity for abandoning it. When you encounter this creature it rattles and shakes and then it bursts, splintering itself, twisting its metal into claws so that it can kill you.