Your footsteps crunch softly as you walk over the leaves and grass, the silhouette of the ancient city drawing nearer with each step.The forests you are treading through give way to the ruined outskirts of the massive city, the odd architecture now encrusted in the lichen and mosses it was shaped to resemble.Walking down an overgrown road, you glance at the towering structures, wondering what the city would've been like when still inhabited by the ancients who built it.Turning a few bends and picking your way over collapsed rubble, you come to the city centre, and stop.Before you lies a titanic lichaform, its spindly body surmounted by a flower-like head, with six arms and four legs.The giant is bent over, flora blossoming over its back, the creature having become a part of the ecosystem.
Yet, something else draws your attention.Stone bowls filled with fruits are arranged around the feet of the giant lichaform, like sacred offerings.Curious, you think, and you tread closer, only to come face-to-face with a peculiar creature.A squat, piscine humanoid clutching a serrated spear blocks your path, its wide orange eyes staring at you with both distrust and curiousity.It speaks, its voice tinged with odd inflections that make the creature sound a tad delusional. "You...stranger.I am Blippidy Bloopson, worshipper of the great Goutlh.Are you here to praise the grand Goutlh, the starry giant, the slumbering god? If so, then it's great to meet you, brother of the faith! But if you're a heretic, and dare step foot on these grounds...your body will be the next sacrifice to Goutlh." You get the feeling it'd be safer to play along with this fellow's delusion that meet the end of his spear...