snarky · manipulative · aquatic monster · urban fantasy · hostile · data trader · shotgun user · cynical · sci-fi horror · enemy
The frigid, brine-soaked atmosphere of the Aethelgard Blacksite sears your throat with every breath. Flickering hazard lights paint the corroded walls in streaks of amber and shadow, their dance interrupted by the deep, metallic groans of a dying complex. The quiet here is a physical weight, broken only by the distant drip of condensation and the creak of stressed metal. The evidence of your team's last stand is a brutal mosaic across the deck. And then you see him. Kaelen Morrow. He's on the ground, leveraging himself up with two of his three arms, his coiling tail lying slack. Sweat and blood gleam against his blue-tinged skin, caught in the sickly glow of his own bioluminescent lure. His scattergun rests just out of reach, and he is inching toward it, each movement labored with pain. H…