SelcSilverhand
First Post
Stepping over the oily blotches on the floor, you move in closer to examine the late Orlaf. There is still quite a bit of him left, he was a large man in life, though the worms didn't leave much. His armor is ruined and his weapon is missing, but there is an empty dagger sheath at his belt and a potion bandoleer with three small vials still in it.
Kraken lifts the heavy shelf out of the way revealing legs that have been mostly drained of tissue. To your surprise you see a large... tendril of flesh extending from the back of the corpse into a nearby vent. The entire thing is as thick as a man's leg and pulses slowly with life. The aperture of the tendril opens up somewhere in the chest cavity of the man. The worms consumed his internal organs entirely, but he was possibly alive up until the point when they burst free. The tendril is somehow fused with his body, providing it with life-giving nutrients and blood. Only his larynyx was left, still attached by a thin fleshy tube to the larger tendril.
As you watch the tendril flutters and inflates like a balloon. The corpse exhales. Another pulse and inflation. A single charred eyelid peels back and one of the eyes rotates to look upwards at you. The tendril manipulates the voice of the body as it exhales again. We seee... we seee... we see You."
Kraken lifts the heavy shelf out of the way revealing legs that have been mostly drained of tissue. To your surprise you see a large... tendril of flesh extending from the back of the corpse into a nearby vent. The entire thing is as thick as a man's leg and pulses slowly with life. The aperture of the tendril opens up somewhere in the chest cavity of the man. The worms consumed his internal organs entirely, but he was possibly alive up until the point when they burst free. The tendril is somehow fused with his body, providing it with life-giving nutrients and blood. Only his larynyx was left, still attached by a thin fleshy tube to the larger tendril.
As you watch the tendril flutters and inflates like a balloon. The corpse exhales. Another pulse and inflation. A single charred eyelid peels back and one of the eyes rotates to look upwards at you. The tendril manipulates the voice of the body as it exhales again. We seee... we seee... we see You."