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Tynan is the guy with the code, not the art. He's also not the only guy doing the code for Ludeon. I mean I get he could totally just change the description, but hey.
In fairness, I did the code and art and writing for this, so it's entirely my fault.
Real reason is because we rebalanced it and in order to make the damage not too concentrated (annihiliate one toe with 50 damage) and not to spread out (3 tiny scraches on 25 different body parts) dividing it 5 ways was the best balance. So the fiction became that it was 5 spikes. But - the art was done for a previous version and I didn't change it.