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Re: The Beast of Helmoth (Tassadar)
As you head into the cave you notice that the walls never truly hinder your movement. If someone were to try an ambush you would have plenty of room to duck to the side and counter. The ceiling is high enough for even an ogre to walk through safely, and the occasional weathered yet sturdy looking frame tells you this may have once been an abandoned mine.
Your trip is short, however. A large chamber can be seen in the distance, and a vaguely human figure can barely be noticed. You can't be quite certain as its abdomen seems far too large for anything even remotely possible, but the shackled arms held up and away as well as the mess of dark hair falling down in front of this being's face and chest say otherwise. It's only when you finally begin to enter the chamber that you finally realize you've been staring at a woman. You can barely make out the fine lines of her face behind her brown locks, but they can do nothing to conceal the swell of her bosom.
Had you found her elsewhere you may have considered her a rather lovely lady, but it is impossible to ignore the almost disgusting bulge of her stomach. Her belly has inflated to such sizes that border on the impossible. Her body looks as if it were pregnant with a litter of full grown humans, and you can quite literally see her flesh straining to hold itself together. How anyone could grow to this size and not burst was beyond reason. Any normal person would have died at this point, and by the looks of this she already has. You can't hear a heartbeat, you don't see her breath, there is nothing there to say she still lives. But if this were true you would not have felt her. Her presence is the only thing your mind can find within the tunnels, and even within your mind's eye she still appears as bloated as she does now.
Before you can close the distance to confirm her well-being her arm twitches in response to one of your steps. You watch as she takes a very long, labored breath, and after a couple more she finally starts to lift her head. "H..." Her voice is weak. Exhausted. It sounds like Death could take her any second, but she still fights with every bit of strength she can muster. "Who's...there...?" Her hair parts a bit to reveal her face, and the first thing you notice are her eyes. At the moment they seem unfocused, but you can see them trying to adjust to the darkness that surrounds you both.
A moment later you notice something else, something that draws your attention even more than the stomach that looks as large as she is. Across her chest you can see a faint pattern that doesn't reveal itself well in this faint light. At first it doesn't look like much, but eventually you can see it almost as plain as day: an odd tattoo bearing a cross merged with the blade of an axe.
As you head into the cave you notice that the walls never truly hinder your movement. If someone were to try an ambush you would have plenty of room to duck to the side and counter. The ceiling is high enough for even an ogre to walk through safely, and the occasional weathered yet sturdy looking frame tells you this may have once been an abandoned mine.
Your trip is short, however. A large chamber can be seen in the distance, and a vaguely human figure can barely be noticed. You can't be quite certain as its abdomen seems far too large for anything even remotely possible, but the shackled arms held up and away as well as the mess of dark hair falling down in front of this being's face and chest say otherwise. It's only when you finally begin to enter the chamber that you finally realize you've been staring at a woman. You can barely make out the fine lines of her face behind her brown locks, but they can do nothing to conceal the swell of her bosom.
Had you found her elsewhere you may have considered her a rather lovely lady, but it is impossible to ignore the almost disgusting bulge of her stomach. Her belly has inflated to such sizes that border on the impossible. Her body looks as if it were pregnant with a litter of full grown humans, and you can quite literally see her flesh straining to hold itself together. How anyone could grow to this size and not burst was beyond reason. Any normal person would have died at this point, and by the looks of this she already has. You can't hear a heartbeat, you don't see her breath, there is nothing there to say she still lives. But if this were true you would not have felt her. Her presence is the only thing your mind can find within the tunnels, and even within your mind's eye she still appears as bloated as she does now.
Before you can close the distance to confirm her well-being her arm twitches in response to one of your steps. You watch as she takes a very long, labored breath, and after a couple more she finally starts to lift her head. "H..." Her voice is weak. Exhausted. It sounds like Death could take her any second, but she still fights with every bit of strength she can muster. "Who's...there...?" Her hair parts a bit to reveal her face, and the first thing you notice are her eyes. At the moment they seem unfocused, but you can see them trying to adjust to the darkness that surrounds you both.
A moment later you notice something else, something that draws your attention even more than the stomach that looks as large as she is. Across her chest you can see a faint pattern that doesn't reveal itself well in this faint light. At first it doesn't look like much, but eventually you can see it almost as plain as day: an odd tattoo bearing a cross merged with the blade of an axe.