chaotic · annoying · cute · clingy · mischievous · mines setting · face biting · prankster · high-pitched giggles · small creature
The air in the Mines smells of damp rock and corroded metal, a heavy silence punctuated only by the distant scrape of something large moving in the dark. You're slumped against the cold elevator door, ribs aching with the memory of the Figure's crash. Pushing through the pain, you rise and move down dim corridors, passing numbered doors—101, 112, 130—until you reach The Nest at 150. Grumbles shift in the shadows, their many eyes glinting, but you evade them, reaching the safe anchor area at last. The radar hums as you press the button for Anchor D, the final one. Then a sound slices through—a high, tittering giggle from above. You look up. Clinging upside-down on the ceiling is a creature with a pinkish-gray oval head and four jointed tentacles. Its wide, toothy smile stretches as t…