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Words fail to contain the paradox of =pronouns.possessive= domesticated immensity.

Drifts on the cultural seas have swept a particular fable to your attention. Long ago, far away, folks supposed all of everything rested on the back of a world-tortoise. Surely that flight of fancy came to someone gazing on a Great Saltback... or does your own vision echo through the past to partake in its creation?

Evolutionary pressures have reshaped the anatomy of the voider: fangs have descended from =pronouns.possessive= basal segment, the arciform chambers of =pronouns.possessive= shunting gland have fractalized, and =pronouns.possessive= frame has grown an order of magnitude to match the predatory potency of =pronouns.possessive= other advantages.

A greasy sac of goo gyres over the floor in spiral-step. Under =pronouns.possessive= membrane, a shoal of spitbright eels slither for freedom.

=pronouns.Possessive= fingers are stained with soot, the devil's ink. Scars criss-cross their way up =pronouns.possessive= arms.

The mess was combed out of =pronouns.possessive= nape by a doting companion, and =pronouns.possessive= forelegs are stiff in vigil.

Oiled and brushed mail hang across =pronouns.possessive= crooked spine and salient jaw. The color too was sucked out of =pronouns.possessive= irises by =pronouns.possessive= tangled lineage, and =pronouns.possessive= wet rosy lips catch the light and toss it back across a sharp sneer. =pronouns.Possessive= hands stick to the cold barrel of =pronouns.possessive= gun.

Orbed goggles smeared with blood impart an insectoid aspect to =pronouns.possessive= face. =pronouns.Possessive= apron is stained with a rainbow of pinks, tans, and nickel -- the palette of machine and folk guts -- and spare wire shoots from =pronouns.possessive= sleeves like cuffs.

This mopango cuts as strange a figure as any other, a hunched and plated creature with a long tail and a slow gait. In =pronouns.possessive= movements, however, this one is distinguished by a smooth grace, an aura of calm.

A figure is marked by star orchid robes as a votary of the Gyre and reveler in the metamorphic numen. Nails filth-black flash from out =pronouns.possessive= sleeve in a gesture-poem to say that plague is but transmutation, death is the ladder to life, and the existence of children proves the prelacy of raw growth. A rank and acrid smell clings to =pronouns.objective=.

A figure is marked by star orchid robes as a votary of the Gyre and reveler in the metamorphic numen. Nails filth-black flash from out =pronouns.possessive= sleeve in a gesture-poem to say that plague is but transmutation, death is the ladder to life, and the existence of children proves the prelacy of raw growth. Cool and luminous moisture clings to =pronouns.objective=.

A figure is marked by star orchid robes as a votary of the Gyre and reveler in the metamorphic numen. Nails filth-black flash from out =pronouns.possessive= sleeve in a gesture-poem to say that plague is but transmutation, death is the ladder to life, and the existence of children proves the prelacy of raw growth. The rhythm of =pronouns.possessive= steps contain no pattern.

White and black shag sheds off =pronouns.objective=, and =pronouns.possessive= paws tap the ground with a working itch.

Deer legs paw nervously at the ground while human hands clutch in sweaty tightness. =pronouns.Possessive= expressive face and muscular torso show a clear human threadline, but the thick fur over dappled flanks, the flickering and pointed ears, and =pronouns.possessive= antlers of majesty speak to another genetic strand.

Deer legs paw nervously at the ground while human hands clutch in sweaty tightness. =pronouns.Possessive= expressive face and muscular torso show a clear human threadline, but the thick fur over dappled flanks, the flickering and pointed ears, and =pronouns.possessive= antlers of majesty speak to another genetic strand.

Anxiety personified, =pronouns.subjective= stands in poised tension, =pronouns.possessive= shanks taut and =pronouns.possessive= long ears twitching. Narrow eyes dart hither and yon in search of intruders. Here in the body of the scout, the high nerves of the hindren farmers are heightened to a pitch.

Anxiety personified, =pronouns.subjective= stands in poised tension, =pronouns.possessive= shanks taut and =pronouns.possessive= long ears twitching. Narrow eyes dart hither and yon in search of intruders. Here in the body of the scout, the high nerves of the hindren farmers are heightened to a pitch.

Deer legs paw nervously at the ground while human hands clutch in sweaty tightness. =pronouns.Possessive= expressive face and muscular torso show a clear human threadline, but the thick fur over dappled flanks, the flickering and pointed ears, and =pronouns.possessive= antlers of majesty speak to another genetic strand.

=pronouns.Possessive= leafy lobes flush and dampen with liquid.

Minuscule skin crystals shift and sort light to pattern match whatever is outside the body boundary. A narrow bone extrudes from =pronouns.possessive= head.

Wet nostrils flair at the seat of =pronouns.possessive= dropped snout, and furry arms wave in unpredicted motions. =pronouns.Possessive= eyes are full of stony mischief.

Swathing the frail frame of this waif is the habit of =pronouns.possessive= order: grey matter robes and a blindfold over =pronouns.possessive= eyes.

A mess of burnt hair drapes the jowls of a snarling mean mastiff, and two lengths of sharp canine bone drip =pronouns.possessive= bleaching saliva.

=pronouns.Possessive= leafy lobes flush and dampen with liquid.

The long lathe of time shaved the prospects from beneath a reptile's feet until =pronouns.subjective= hid in a shell of plastron and carapace, brooding and peevish.

=pronouns.Possessive= body may be underground, but Iseppa's mind travels with the stars. Most of =pronouns.possessive= body is so still as to be a statue, but =pronouns.possessive= hands blur, mechanically sorting fasteners and screws with no conscious thought but remarkable efficiency. =pronouns.Possessive= eyelids rest low in weary contemplation of impossible questions.

=pronouns.Possessive= kitesail fin and broad countenance poke out in the stone relief of friezes, in the smudged ink of margins, in the photonic bones of light sculpture. Everywhere the mediated gaze turns, the ixlthyxl materializes. But to see one in the thick and natural world of wood, coral, and ivy? What does it mean?

=pronouns.Possessive= face is small and shorn of all fur, and a gleaming silver rondure adorns =pronouns.possessive= right ear. All =pronouns.possessive= quills are trimmed to impeccable precision.

A hoary humanoid slumps beneath the weight of =pronouns.possessive= broad and cragged back. Soaking fibers of inky, unkempt hair enswathe the great pale shoulder-rocks, and crossed over =pronouns.possessive= wide chest are two carbide axes rotting with rust. Rumpled lids lay half-shut over the discs of =pronouns.possessive= sluggish eyes, glazed in the respite of a convalessence bath.

Current jumps up the length of a needle proboscis, and the circut veins etched under =pronouns.possessive= wings gleam.

Velvet hairs warm the radial penta-cake, and a powdery dust hovers like atmosphere. Something gleams inside =pronouns.possessive= mouth.

Muscle and hide, a face fixed in an unthinking glare and a weapon upon =pronouns.possessive= hip. =pronouns.Possessive= face-fur aligns itself along the edges of =pronouns.possessive= square-jawed scowl. You might feel guilty for thinking =pronouns.indicativeProximal= hindren a rank thug, were =pronouns.subjective= not so clearly enamored of the role.

Oiled and brushed mail hang across =pronouns.possessive= crooked spine and salient jaw. The color too was sucked out of =pronouns.possessive= irises by =pronouns.possessive= tangled lineage, and =pronouns.possessive= wet rosy lips catch the light and toss it back across a sharp sneer. =pronouns.Possessive= chest is exploded upward in emulation of =pronouns.possessive= advanced peerage.

=pronouns.Possessive= leafy lobes flush and dampen with liquid.

Reticle dots lattice =pronouns.possessive= gooey wormback, and sucker bells pinch the air with blooditch.

The leech farmer slouches in the heat. A beaten, leather hat is pulled low over =pronouns.possessive= eyes and sweat glistens on the scruffs of hair on =pronouns.possessive= cheeks. =pronouns.Possessive= hands are caked in mud, blood, and salt.

Shifting in the darkness, a web of scattered light struggles to remain singular. Though bound to the shape of a monster, =pronouns.possessive= form is rendered soft by millions of voxels avulsed from place, drifting down in waves of fresh static snow.

There is little more to this being than a bundle of spindly limbs, patchy pale-green fur, and bone-white skin. The severely mutated deerkin surveys =pronouns.possessive= surroundings with languid eyes; one of Qud's most delicate creatures living unconcerned among the saltworn and toughened.

A troika of monstrous, gleaming wheels orbit a center sphere of xenon clouds and gallium lightning. The spokes are laminated crysteel bled of their emerald imperfections, and the rims are milky epithelium -- a single iris stretched to the topology of a torus -- and checkered on the underside with pupils. =pronouns.Possessive= movement traces the carpentry of worlds.

A toga wraps =pronouns.possessive= hulking, bright-fur frame, and a broad brim shades =pronouns.possessive= wise and wideset eyes. A sedentary life has sapped some of his ape strength: burly shoulders slouch their weight onto a walking stick, a belly swells the linen around =pronouns.possessive= waist, and plump, sloping cheeks rim a warm and welcoming grin.

=pronouns.Possessive= hunch-back is meadowed in tattered robes the color of slate. Strands of matted chin hair splay against =pronouns.possessive= chapped lips, and =pronouns.possessive= eyes dart at nearish trinkets.

=pronouns.Possessive= eyes are wide, =pronouns.possessive= lips quiver in rapture at the recitation of chromaic liturgies.

Eight rings of pointed teeth rasp away tissue, and =pronouns.possessive= suction-cup mouth latches onto the exposed spinal column and sucks out the raw nerves. =pronouns.Possessive= glands are fat with stolen memories.

Digitigrade walkers sit at a cross-angle and support a fluted lasermount. =pronouns.Possessive= tinsel shell shatters on impact and reconstitutes away from danger.

Like =pronouns.possessive= greater kin, =pronouns.subjective= trudges slowly, carrying =pronouns.possessive= dusty white dome low to the ground on stubby legs wrapped in cracked-salt hide, a boar leather travel pack fastened firmly to the shell's crown. That pace carries some measure less majesty than an 'ordinary' saltback, as =pronouns.subjective= stands no taller than a dromad calf, but Mniq Mnaq has a secret weapon: a theme song.

=pronouns.Possessive= cap droops and the creases in =pronouns.possessive= gills look like a hundred wry smiles.

A ternion of transformations are given sharp shape against the fuzzy physics of earth-time. The triangle is inert and of an algebraic substance, but stillness slides off =pronouns.possessive= colorless arms; objects around =pronouns.objective= are forced into sets unfamiliar.

A small creature is swaddled in crushed leaves across the forest spectrum of emerald and ash. A satchel hangs from =pronouns.possessive= shoulder.

A small creature is swaddled in crushed leaves across the forest spectrum of emerald and ash. A satchel hangs from =pronouns.possessive= shoulder.

A small creature is swaddled in crushed leaves across the forest spectrum of emerald and ash. A satchel hangs from =pronouns.possessive= shoulder.

A small creature is swaddled in crushed leaves across the forest spectrum of emerald and ash. A satchel hangs from =pronouns.possessive= shoulder.

White lips hang from =pronouns.possessive= hooded and overly jawed face in the asymmetry of disappointment. =pronouns.Possessive= brow crunches the softness out of =pronouns.possessive= color-sucked eyes. =pronouns.Subjective= looks at =pronouns.possessive= newchildren with a mixture of sharp fondness and disgust. To =pronouns.objective=, they are small puppets; their limbs must be curled around their joints with loving precision, or they are splayed open by their own wills, useless and broken.

A powdery kittel curtains =pronouns.possessive= thin shoulders, whose relative bulk along with the keenness of =pronouns.possessive= eye marks =pronouns.objective= as attentive to this timeplace, and so lower rank than =pronouns.possessive= seeker-kith.

From the great, sloping forehead of this man-ape sprouts no hair, though rich black fur courses over the rest of =pronouns.possessive= body. Broad knuckles bear the brunt of =pronouns.possessive= weight as the beast =verb:saunter= forth in search of something to clobber.

=pronouns.Possessive= leafy lobes flush and dampen with liquid.

Is it a coincidence that the knotted, erumpent throng of organ that is Pax Klanq is shaped in the vague form of a humanoid, or is the prodigy fungus welcoming =pronouns.possessive= extradimensional anthropoid visitors with a warm gesture? In either case, =pronouns.possessive= splendid orange cap looks like a fancy hat. The semblance ends there, however; in place of a face, there's only a trio of undulating tentacles.

At the edges of your field of vision, more tentacles writhe over tools, books, circuitboards, frog cadavers, and saltwater pearls. You realize just how many things Klanq does at once, and you wonder at Nature's decision to bestow peak organic wit to a fungus.

"He who dons the chrome mantle is as one with =pronouns.possessive= Fathers." Argent trestles spill forth from =pronouns.possessive= scalp to =pronouns.possessive= waist. Years of proximity to the baetyl have blanched =pronouns.possessive= irises to a chrome hue. =pronouns.Possessive= glistening lips are parted. The priestly mantle of =pronouns.possessive= station is embroidered with a thousand stitches. In the grip of each of =pronouns.possessive= sinewy hands are chrome-plated pistols -- bequeathments of the Argent Father who inhabits the Rock.

Dirt-dappled flesh hangs from =pronouns.possessive= pouch belly and nearly slaps =pronouns.possessive= chipper trotters.

The pig farmer slouches in the heat. A beaten, leather hat is pulled low over =pronouns.possessive= eyes and sweat glistens on the scruffs of hair on =pronouns.possessive= cheeks. =pronouns.Possessive= hands are caked in mud and salt.

=pronouns.Subjective= secreted worm resin that hardened under the pressure of shale into armored plates. Inside, a thick cord of bristly segments are capped by a cuspate break for breaking through rock.

=pronouns.Possessive= tendons were wound over ragwheels and sheathed in fiberglass. A bio-clock metronome causes =pronouns.possessive= muscles to spasm and eyes to snap at regular intervals, leveling out the intrusive Song, and recentering the concentration of =pronouns.possessive= mutant mind.

A chrome obelisk bedims the floor in =pronouns.possessive= gigantic shadow, and metal comes screeching to genuflect at =pronouns.possessive= base.

Once quartz crystallized on the skin of a monkey bathing in the steaming pools of the subterrane. =pronouns.Subjective= was sculpted by the rasp of pressure and the hand of time, and now =pronouns.possessive= throated vowels bounce toward the ear of the void.

=pronouns.Possessive= body is a clotted, finned cord that hovers and strums the air with magnetic force. Barbels crack out of =pronouns.possessive= mouth then sizzle and fry =pronouns.possessive= saliva.

A chiliad chitter-totters bugcrawl the S-shaped lifething across the ground. =pronouns.Possessive= chitin discs sharpen to quill points in tufts along =pronouns.possessive= back, outnumbering even =pronouns.possessive= legs by hundreds.

Polyps grow across =pronouns.possessive= torso and shoulders like a tallith; fullerite and chrome and glass pop out like fins. The eremite is a walking piece of reef.

=pronouns.Possessive= hull is time-decked in verdigris. Rotator armlikes driven by gears are endcapped instead of hands by a shovel and hacksaw.

Reprogrammed by the Mechanimists

Ovoid spots, crimson and coral and citrine, scatter like an island chain across =pronouns.possessive= back and neck.

A mass of flesh two stories high, the salt kraken dominates the landscape, churning the earth beneath =pronouns.possessive= inexorable advance.

=pronouns.Possessive= leafy lobes flush and dampen with liquid.

Like a tangle of neglected cable, the stems of =pronouns.possessive= body wind and curl between, around, and through one another to form a looping body-maze. Where these cables meet the crook of Chavvah's limb, a pinkish tint creeps in. On the other side of =pronouns.possessive= tangled body, little round leaves and white berries gently sway to an unseen beat over a stock of rare goods and waterskins.

=pronouns.Possessive= leafy lobes flush and dampen with liquid.

Steel treads turn around a drive sprocket, toting a chrome spine and featureless sensor array. Stuck on =pronouns.possessive= grooved, steel arms are two big rotary saws, rust-dulled.

Spectacles rest on =pronouns.possessive= pointy nose. =pronouns.Possessive= nails are caked with graphite, and reams of graph paper are splayed across =pronouns.possessive= desks.

=pronouns.Possessive= hull is time-decked in verdigris. Rotator armlikes driven by gears are endcapped instead of hands by a shovel and hacksaw.

=pronouns.Possessive= spectacles are fogged and =pronouns.possessive= hands are stained with ink.

Circular gills on =pronouns.possessive= tongue-slick and finned bodypipe suck air out of the surrounding foul liquid gunk.

Shem has augmented =pronouns.possessive= body beyond the chromeling's basic form by welding on a dissymmetric ruffled coat of scrap metal. It's too big and grandiose for =pronouns.possessive= little figure, but Shem shuffles about confidently, as if =pronouns.subjective= expect to grow into it.

Wet nostrils flair at the seat of =pronouns.possessive= dropped snout, and furry arms wave in unpredicted motions. =pronouns.Possessive= eyes are full of stony mischief.

Sharp leaves burst forth from a decorative pot like a verdant geyser frozen in place. The leaves twitch with an irritation at every offending stimulus, an assumption you might consider conjecture if not for the strong telepathic aura of frustration exuding from =pronouns.possessive= leafy form.

=pronouns.Possessive= leafy lobes flush and dampen with liquid.

The snail farmer slouches in the heat. A beaten, leather hat is pulled low over =pronouns.possessive= eyes and sweat glistens on the scruffs of hair on =pronouns.possessive= cheeks. =pronouns.Possessive= hands are caked in mud, mucus, and salt.

This urshiib has particularly long and slender fingers even beyond the likes of those of =pronouns.possessive= kin. Littering =pronouns.possessive= workshop are all sorts of implements of battle, from shoulder-mounted cannons to needle-pointed vibroblades. =pronouns.Subjective= turns =pronouns.possessive= focus upon you as you approach, and that focus coalesces to your mouth when you speak.

=pronouns.Possessive= sensory palps crackle and pop off of moontime, and =pronouns.possessive= six legs flare with sparklight. The bug caroms from spot to spot, galvanized by raw biocurrent.

A giant, spotted keel pushes against =pronouns.possessive= acid-moist membrane. Burnt air puffs down the radula, and =pronouns.possessive= pores leak a digestive liquor.

A full-scale continental shelf of half-calcified, star-orchid body mass creeps over the earth, sending stone, chrome, wood, and brass to quivers. Hundreds of thousands of underspines convey =pronouns.possessive= quincunx of cyclopean arms into motion, and a delta of subducting stomach muscle sticks and subsumes matter into =pronouns.possessive= somatic star-bounds. In =pronouns.possessive= wake an arcology of disarranged world-fragments is raised.

A crystal sponge-chime shivers in acicular panic. Sharp tones ring off =pronouns.possessive= needle points and shatter in zeniths.

Smooth crystal glitters with soft light and renewed purpose across =pronouns.possessive= eight facets. Prism-limbs shatter out of =pronouns.possessive= torso and narrow each to a pentacle of sharp points, and a thrum beats at the air around the walking crystal being. The chime becomes.

A godsuit of chrome shines in the baptism bloodoil of the Great Cistern, where even standing at the lowest basin =pronouns.subjective= broke the cavern rafters. Uuflax braids cinctured with ties of offworld goldleaf spill from the crown radar and over =pronouns.possessive= deltoid chassis. Every piece of =pronouns.possessive= glass and chrome was sourced from the arcological heart, encased in resin, pullchained up and hotbrushed in the temple foundry. The entry hatch is hung with a sigil rug of the pilot, who climbed in to anchor here years ago and communes now with the Godhead.

This creature doesn't heal naturally and must be repaired.

A million etches across the parted leaf-chime speak the sense of touch. A sap-like substance drips off the crystal tip and attenuates =pronouns.possessive= vibrations to the bass range.

Rust-flaked trash from a cross-section of eons functions as =pronouns.possessive= habit, contoured to =pronouns.possessive= body by a lifetime of wear.

Rough burred shoulders damp with birth slick anchor arms too long and awkward, and =pronouns.possessive= broad back tenses with newly-flexed dorsi.

Folds of coarse-weave physician's cloth hang off =pronouns.possessive= lissome frame like a gunslinger's shawl, and the crinkled brim of an old hat blots the sun and starlight.

Wet scood trails from =pronouns.possessive= snouts in wishbone shape, pooling on the floor. =pronouns.Subjective= retches hair knots in alternating harmonies, and =pronouns.subjective= stomps split-hooved feet in irritation.

Horse hair carpets =pronouns.possessive= beautiful brawn like white rain on the Pale Sea, and then it's battered by streamers of magenta mane. That and =pronouns.possessive= tail are pennants of a Lost and Never kingdom. Ofer the head a dream is promised: bone races itself to a nothing-point and is sheathed by Time's breath in the keratin of glitter.

Spin belts whirr in gentle tones as the chromaic cask wanders. =pronouns.Possessive= rasped-flat top acts as a steady surface for vessels, and folded into its body-barrel are instruments of inurnment: broom, shovel, and duster.

Overlapping arches of glossy shell huddle into an impenetrable hemi-ovoid. Traveling slowly on an inadequate series of brush-shaped appendages, the surest way to tell which way this simple body faces is by the cross of light shining faintly from =pronouns.possessive= front plate. Faint voices speak from within the dome-being, too distant-sounding to comprehend.

Fine crushed herbs dust the old =pronouns.personTerm='s pestle knuckles.

Red welts dot =pronouns.possessive= skin where the soldering iron nipped it. Rings of ash stain =pronouns.possessive= apron, and =pronouns.possessive= vest pockets sprout stem-thin rods of glass, strands of wire, and metal rivets.

Anxious legs, grown longer in the vacated space around =pronouns.objective=, ply the mineral dirt. A drop of gastric flux sloshes inside =pronouns.possessive= stomach-orb, powering =pronouns.possessive= instinctual rotation of the local ley.

Smooth crystal glitters with soft light and renewed purpose across =pronouns.possessive= eight facets. Prism-limbs shatter out of =pronouns.possessive= torso and narrow each to a pentacle of sharp points, and a thrum beats at the air around the walking crystal being. The chime becomes.