by aerangis » Tue Oct 04, 2022 8:10 am
USERNAME + ID: aerangis + 1014583
SPIDEBON NAME: Falco
PROMPT:
There is a tall stone wall surrounding a whole block in my neighborhood. The only enterance is a small, wooden door with a knocker shaped like a roaring lion. Whoever made that thing was a skilled craftsman, I tell you. Some people tried to bang on the door of course, but there was never any answer.
We're all curious as to what is behind those walls. I'm sure it is something very strange. Sometimes these wines come crawling over the wall. Strange plants. Never seen the like. Huge leaves, unnatural colors. Once a pink tendril covered in tiny white flowers came crawling down the street before it was swiftly reeled back over the wall. I swear to you that some of those flowers had eyes in them. They blinked at me, believe it or not. And a friend of mine says that a purple wine had a jaw that snapped at him. He always walks on the other side of the road from that place nowadays.
Now, where was I?
Yes, so what I wanted to tell you about is the strange noises we've been hearing lately. Odd scraping sounds, even roars and hisses. And voices speaking in a strange language. The speculations vary, but we have no idea what is going on. Some say that a cult have somehow found their way in and are working some dark magic. Others believe it is a meeting place for monsters and demons. Most hush and say we shouldn't be talking about it. It's bad luck they say. But I need to know what is going on. However, I'm much to old for such adventures. Could you investigate?
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As you climb nimbly up the stone wall, feeling your way in the encroaching darkness of a swiftly approaching nightfall, you hear the noises your patreon spoke about. A slow, scraping sound, as of wood being dragged over stone. It seems to be coming from the other side of the wall, right at the point where you're currently holding your position.
You feel your heart beating as you reach the crest of the wall. The sparse light from the stars reveal something truly marvelous in the expanse within. Bellow your feet a root, thick as the trunk of a large tree, is moving, almost gracefully against the wall, making the scaping noice you heard. Myriads of fireflies swarm within the space around twisted wines, strewn with flowers in strange shapes. In the middle of the garden you glimpse a water surface, covered in what seems to be glowing waterlilies. Enormous leaves stretch out and create impenetrable pools of black shadow where they prevent the light from reaching the ground.
You jump and almost fall of the wall as a sudden movement at the edge of such a shadow startles you. A strange creature emerges. It has six legs, like a spider, and from its head another pair of shorter legs protrude. They're holding scissors and as you watch, one paw reaces out and starts pruning twigs of a writhing plant tentacle. The creature wears a skull mask and their spotted fur is covered in succulents which seem to be growing out of their body.
As you lean in to get a closer look, a pebble loosens from the wall and tumbles into the garden. The creature stops pruning and turns slowly towards you, it's one eye glowing softly green in the reflected moonlight. You notice an empty hole where the other eye should have been, partially covered by another succulent.
A voice, with a strange accent that you've never heard before, greets you. "Welcome to my garden."