Possible Clues:

• They feel it's time to have castle refurbished
• Feelers
• Octopus' arms
• Underwater arms?
• Number here with heartless interceptions -- grasping types
• On the octopus, nearly a dozen of them are only eight to have the castle in bits
• Flexible organs on the head of some animals
• Octopus parts
• An octopus has eight. These have ten of them and about a hundred stories too
• Places where suckers are lined up