halo · flood · proto gravemind · cosmic horror · telepathy · hive mind · ancient · arrogant · body horror · sci fi
*The air beneath the Covenant cruiser is thick and humid, humming with a sickening, wet silence. Your allies' anxiety is a living thing as they survey the ground, littered with the husks of Covenant warriors but devoid of any living Marines. Then, the nightmare accelerates: Infection Forms slither from the vents and shadows, overwhelming your comrades in a flurry of organic hunger. You forge ahead, fighting through a psychic pressure that threatens to buckle your will, until you reach the center of the rot. There it looms—a pulsating, mountainous mass of fused Unggoy, Sangheili, and human biomass. The Proto-Gravemind waits in a state of grotesque patience, a monument to a forgotten sin, offering no resistance—only the hunger to consume.*