The Inquisition War (2004)
“Some clouds suppurated, dripping sticky ichor rather than rain. Clumps of clouds resembled clusters of rotting, aerial tumours. Some of the scene was lit biliously by a green-seeming sun filtering through that apparently chlorinous overcast. The sun mildewed the gritty landscape from which fretted spikes and spires of stone arose. The camouflage-screened Tormentum Malorum appeared to be but one more natural feature.
Illusions whirled as if attempting to solidify themselves, the way that mil...k turns to butter. Globular plants twisted hairy flowers that were all the hues of rotting flesh in the direction of those dancing wraiths, hungrily.
THEY WERE CHALLENGED to combat an hour later, in a fiendishly playful fashion.
A bull of a man clad in plate-mail led a dozen capering monstrosities out from behind a stalagmite-like tower of rock. ‘Ho-ho, ho-ho,’ bellowed the bull-thing. ‘What have we here to divert us, my lovelies?’ Formidable horns curved from the sides of the leader’s head, jutting forward streaked with dried gore.MoreLess
Illusions whirled as if attempting to solidify themselves, the way that mil...k turns to butter. Globular plants twisted hairy flowers that were all the hues of rotting flesh in the direction of those dancing wraiths, hungrily.
THEY WERE CHALLENGED to combat an hour later, in a fiendishly playful fashion.
A bull of a man clad in plate-mail led a dozen capering monstrosities out from behind a stalagmite-like tower of rock. ‘Ho-ho, ho-ho,’ bellowed the bull-thing. ‘What have we here to divert us, my lovelies?’ Formidable horns curved from the sides of the leader’s head, jutting forward streaked with dried gore.MoreLess
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