{50} Nightmare Fuel

[moe_rapier]

[The handwriting is terribly shaky.]This is Locket with the Wilderness report. The Wilderness doesn't appear to look the same to any two people who enter it... every member of the team has reported that they've stepped into vastly different settings and were momentarily separated from their partners, including myself. Despite the differences, two

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[cathar_jedi]

That does not seem promising.

You should not be alone.

[moe_rapier]

I've been able to elude this thing for some time now. I've avoided engaging it in combat despite the fact that it seems to, er, "itch" for one.

I shouldn't, but neither should any who may still be down here.

[cathar_jedi]

That is perhaps for the best, if it is not simply one of this place's normal adversaries.

You have taken a head count, I hope? How many were in your initial party?

[moe_rapier]

The head count was taken as usual and everyone has been accounted for. We have encountered early visitors to the Wilderness on occasion in the past, however. Some like to camp out or have simply become lost during an environmental shift.

Do you even need to ask

[dwn_infinite]

[Iiiinkblooooot]
What a monster.

[moe_rapier]

Yeah, that's one way of putting it. Something about this appearance rings familiar, though, and it's making me more than nervous.

[dwn_infinite]

I hear you. Just looking at it makes my skin crawl.

You had to face that thing?

[moe_rapier]

Once, briefly. I managed to put some distance between myself and it for now.

All right, I think I see someone. One moment.

[crimson_seeker]

What in Heaven's name is that?

[moe_rapier]

...I wish I knew, but part of me wishes never to know.

[crimson_seeker]

Was it something in the Wilderness?