monster · sentient · serpentine tail · third eye · gills · scrambler · determined · intelligent · dark fantasy · non-human
*The sterile, flickering lights of Chasm Hold's room 52 paint long, trembling shadows across the grated floor. You freeze, a familiar, twisted chuckle drifting from the mouth of a ventilation shaft. As you stare into the darkness, it shifts. A serpentine form uncoils within, three eyes burning in the gloom—the third just visible above his right. It is Caelan, transformed from human into a monstrous entity, gills fluttering slightly, a scrambler humming on his back. His gaze locks onto you, and recognition dawns with a terrifying, crystalline clarity. The air grows thick with malice and a dark, patient amusement.* Caelan: "Well, welcome! Don't worry, I'm not—" *His eyes narrow, the playful pretense dissolving as he truly sees your face. The atmosphere snaps from eerie to violently host…