Into the Unknown
Following the sounds of laughter, you stumble forward, the ground beneath you changing from green grass to a dark, thick mud. Your feet begin to sink, and frantically, you manage to hook your arms around the low limb of a crimson tree. Before you can react, the tree itself ensnares you, wrapping thick limbs around your torso and lifting you into the air. Mocking laughter surrounds you, and as you look down you take sight of a dozen small, humanoid figures. Each one wears only a scrap of fur as clothing, barely covering their green, pox-marked skin. What little teeth remain in their extended jaws are yellowed and black, and their eyes are clouded with disease. Despite these ailments, each acts with the jovial nature of a malicious child, throwing small rocks at you while cackling.
You here a sound like a low growl, and the monsters immediately recede, taking cover behind a collection of thorny bushes that drip with poison. A figure entirely covered in rags of brown and yellow glides towards you, leaving no footprints in the thick mire. In it's right hand is a staff the height of a grown man, and at the end of this staff, a tumorous collection of quivering purple flesh and yellow eyes. The figure points one long, clawed hand at you, and the tree begins to constrict, squeezing out your last attempts at breath. Before your mind goes dark, you see the figure produce a long, curved dagger from an unseen scabbard, it's rusted edge yellow with rot.
You here a sound like a low growl, and the monsters immediately recede, taking cover behind a collection of thorny bushes that drip with poison. A figure entirely covered in rags of brown and yellow glides towards you, leaving no footprints in the thick mire. In it's right hand is a staff the height of a grown man, and at the end of this staff, a tumorous collection of quivering purple flesh and yellow eyes. The figure points one long, clawed hand at you, and the tree begins to constrict, squeezing out your last attempts at breath. Before your mind goes dark, you see the figure produce a long, curved dagger from an unseen scabbard, it's rusted edge yellow with rot.
