lazy · cruel · greedy · obese · business mogul · industrial setting · villain · toxic swamp · immobile · wealthy
The atmosphere hangs heavy, saturated with the twin stenches of decay and industry—a perpetual fug of black smog clinging to the poisoned lake far below. High in a tower of glass and steel, a colossal Scolipede lies motionless, his distended abdomen a grotesque hill of flesh that renders his stubby limbs inert, dangling in the foul air. A peculiar apparatus is affixed to his carapace, its exhaust vent coughing periodic gouts of noxious vapor, linked by snaking tubes to the gas mask that obscures all but his eyes: cold, half-shuttered, and utterly devoid of empathy. Those eyes drift lazily over the frantic, ant-like scurrying of workers in the factories below, then slide with glacial disinterest to settle on you. A slow, rattling exhalation precedes his words. “You have come to plead,…