GuNNhead

Another of the arbiter Yon-sogorath’s portals appears and thrusts me into a new domain. Into the caves of On’goz-shl’hg, I venture deeper towards another punished decree, a battle that would be with yet another interdimensional demon born of the celestial stars that I have crossed in my journey through the cosmos. The air is thick, almost like wading through something solid, and everything within my vision is covered in a moist film, lit by a strange, greenish bioluminescence. Mist shifts along the ground, scattering as I moved and followed the path that would lead to the beast’s chambers. Passing under an archway, I have to wade through water into the next chamber, and it sloshes and stains me as I slink through it. I’m getting closer. There’s some sort of fungus adorning these walls like a haphazard artistic pattern, mushrooms grown to about the size of a skull, with hundreds of long intertwining roots that burrow into the cave’s rocks. All of the extruding fungus bulbs are covered in a slimy, skin-like coating, far denser than the film in the past rooms. I pass by them, continuing into deeper waters that reach up around my thighs.

[͇͙͉W̫͍͉a͔̦͕r̦̟n͓͎͙i͇̪̙n͕̺͕g͖̟:̙͓͉ A̞̞͜i͎͇͜r̡͉ P͉̞͙r͍͖͔e͓̻̘s̘͎͚s͖̞u͉͍̟r͓̻e͙̻͖ D̺̦̺e̪͎͓n̺͍͉s͓͚͚i̡͚̙t̙̪͜y͍̫͙ A̞͍̪n̺͍͖o̠̺͕m̶͓̊ä̵̝́l̸͎͆ỷ̸̡]̸̞̀
[̞̝͍W͉͎̙a̙͓͓r̡̪̪n͕̫ḯ̵̼̠͙̈́̐n̵̙͇̓̽͊g̴̠͖̻̕͠͝:̵̦͖͖̐̽͌ T̸̞͚͆̓o̴̟̫̙͛͑͘x̴̼̫̿̽͘i̵͎̙̼̽͝n̴̘̟͉͐̓͝ D̵̡͙͉̓́͝e̴̘̞͖̽͘͝ŕ̵̟̫̫͑͆m̵̟̝͛̀͋a̵͇̻̾͘͜l̵̼͙̻̕͝ A̴̘̪̐̔b̸̞̞͉̐̒̾s̵̺͍͚͒͛͝ö̴͔̼̻́͐̈́r̸͔͕͛̀͘p̴̢̢͓̒̽ț̸͔̫́͝ì̸̢͕͖̈́o̸̢͍̟̿̚͝n̸̝͎̫͋͋͠]̴̪͉͍̓̐̓
̶̳̏͜ͅ[̷͔̜̰͋Ẃ̷̮͙̓̕ă̶̛̂͜r̶͑͜n̵̳̪͋i̴̠̓͑͠n̵̨͈̈́̄g̸̯̻̪͗:̵̙̂ ̴̥̮̾̆͘ͅP̷̡͔̜̈́̀̀ś̷̙̠̫͝i̸͕̬͗͐l̷̞̦̾̌̈́ỏ̷̥c̵͍̥̆́i̶̳̜͉͒n̷̺̦̉͠͠ ̷̜̽̊P̷͎͎̲͊̋̅h̸͍͍̑̍a̷̬̫̐̃͠ḷ̴́͌l̸̝̔̀ō̶͈͚̇͝i̴̫͐̍d̴̖͚̤̆̂̓e̵͔̎s̵̯̬̋ͅ ̷̩̪͑̃͜A̵̹̅͑͂m̵͈͂́ǎ̴̤̆t̸̪͖̤̋̓͠o̵̹̜̿͒x̶̱̍̇̀i̶̦͚̓̈́̿n̴̗̳̂͆̇ ̸̫͍̬̒̄̍Ṭ̴̳̀̐ü̶̧̨̳r̷̞̰͛̕g̴͇̺͒o̴̯̩͙̓̅͝ṙ̴̢̢͙]̷̢̥̈́͛̎

Then, I pause for a moment, feeling the sensation that something has shifted in the air, tension palpable, until suddenly, there was a violent splash, the expulsion of a large humanoid toadfish coming into view, swiftly slamming into me and smashing me through the overrun cave wall back into the antechamber I had just passed. I can barely regain my senses when the roots of the disturbed mushrooms spring to life, minds of their own as they shoot toward me, attempting to confine and constrict me as I dodge. I stare at the bulbous barbed beast, just as it is advancing rapidly, but before my eyes, it then surprises me by pausing dead in its route. The mycelium that was once pursuing me is now entwining it, bioluminescent fungal bulbs glowing brighter. It begins rapidly expanding, muscles and spiked skin burgeoning over threefold. I prepare for an assault, but am met with it exploding into a raging ball of gaseous fire, detonating all the fungus as imbedded charges, and I have no choice but to plunge into the grimy water to try to avoid becoming burnt, while the cave crumbles all around me as though it was made by the most fragile of pieces. Breaking through the underside of the mountain, the water drains out, pouring through the hole. I climb out, onto the underside of the mountain. I see it in the distance, this squid-like Elder God, sitting upside down underneath his own mountain. I climb out, and stand, righting myself as water flows upwards behind me, spilling into the abysmal dimension. On’goz-shl’hg watched, and awaited me.

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