ThemefinlandThis was an artwork done for Nimratu Nimratu :)
"Blessing the stars as they enter the crumbling town, it isn't much, but at least some of the buildings and constructions could provide some more comfortable lodging than the cold ground. However the silhouettes of the long abandoned buildings against the foggy swamp creates an unsettling silhouette and they carefully enter, making sure there isn't anything surprising awaiting them. Once sufficiently satisfied that there aren't any beasts in the building or that it wont collapse on top of them, they settle down for the night inside one of the more central buildings, a structure that appears to be an old place of worship for Umi, the moon goddess. Despite having traveled a few days together already, they set their sleeping bags quite afar from each other.
They didn't know Nimratu was still within this town.
Barely getting any shut eye as they are awoken by one of their group cursing and calling out to them. To their horror the green slime which they had thought only to exist inside the central kingdom was here too and was currently absorbing one of them. In the scant light from the moon they could see even more of them stuff oozing from in between the floorboards. The slime was slowly enveloping the floor, and would surely swallow their gear and them too, if they didn't act now. scooping up all of their belongings which they are able, they rush outside, all of them managing to get out, the one member of the party being able to quickly remove gear that was engulfed by the slime.
Outside, safety wouldn't await them as now they heard the deep and guttural voice of the changed dragonoid.
"Comme... Shed your bodies and join uss...unite with our mass, for that's all you are worth, to come thiss far from your homess..."
The beast was huge, easily twice the size of any member in the party, as it moved through the mired landscape with brutish ease. With their equipment completely in disarray, the group didn't stand a chance as the slime beast added each one of them to his legion of thralls. In only a few moments, where there stood only one, now stood five beasts, not moving towards the fallen kingdom where they were thought to have been contained, but outwards, back towards where the adventurers had come from."
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