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(created 2012-03-17 13:24):
Once, Way back in the depths of time, there was a hero named Quidius. Quidius was as you might expect of a hero;Manly, arrogant,stupid and always up for a challenge. Throughout his entire life, Quidius Explored the land, killing all manors of beasts and crushing evil wherever he went. There came, however, a day upon which he realised that he had slain all of the beasts, and crushed all evil. All but one.Everywhere he went, he had heard tales of the greatest, most fearsome beast. one unconquered by anything: The Kraken. Quidius decided that he must kill the kraken, setting off from port immediately and travelling the world, asking for it's location.
4 Years later, and Quidius was getting close, he could feel it. His last tip off had been from a poor fisherman from an obscure village on the coast, saying that he had often seen the beast, rising from it's underwater cave to hunt, just off shore from the closest beach.This was it. He got up to leave and the fisherman shouted after him "wait! Wearing those robes, if the kraken doesn't kill you, the sea will! Go out onto the beach and wear the skin of what you find".
Confused, Quidius set off for the beach. Upon reaching it, he took a backtake, for there, on the beach, was an animal of colossal size, It was Shaped like a whale, but 5 times bigger, and a dark, murky green. All along it's sides were bright,red, Sucker marks, the kind made by giant tentacles. each one was the size of his head... Nevertheless, he got to work and began to skin the animal, making himself a suit out of its rough, scaley skin.
Finally he was ready. Taking His boat out off shore, he sucked in a deep breath and plunged into the icy water. Peering through the clear water down into the depths, he could see a darkness uncharacteristic to the rest of the seabed. 'there' he thought. As he got closer to it he made out the features of a giant cave. Undettered. he swum closer when suddenly, a monstrous black Smashed past him out of the cave, ripping open his suit and tearing a deep cut into his torso. He tried to swim after the shape, but the water it had displaced soon came rushing back into the cave, sucking him with it.
He was dashed against the walls; his head smacked against stones he couldn't see as he was being spun in a disorientating repeated circle. his held breath was forced out of him and as the ongoing torture continued his chest felt like it would burst and white circles began to appear before his eyes. Finally, after what seemed like an age, he was deposited roughly against a stone wall. He lay there, in a foetal position until his senses began to recover, one at a time.
First: Smell. The hideous stench invaded his nose and seemed to corrupt his very thoughts, causing him to gag and awaken his next sense;
Taste:The horrible taste of the bile flooding his mouth made him sit up, smacking his head and receiving the next:
Touch.
His eyes seemed to force themselves open. Looking around him he saw that he was in a cave of colossal proportions, Seemingly natural apart from the infrequent Pulsing white objects hanging from every ceiling.
'What...are they?' he wondered, and soon noticed that one had been displaced from the roof by the water and had fallen to the ground. He wandered over to it, feeling stings of pain from his various cuts and bruises. When he reached it, he tapped it, and noticed it sounded hollow, along with noticing the area at the top having what looked like an opening. He pushed his hands into the grips of the opening and pulled. There was a crack, a squishing noise , something jumped out of the pod and everything went black.
Quidius had become a victim to one of the abilities of the young kraken; to be taken over. Every facet of his old mind was wiped, only to be replaced by the need to do anything to protect the kraken and it's young, which, as he now too late realised, were eggs. The Newly born 'Squidius' was set around his tasks immediately.the kraken was having to leave its young too often to find food. Squidius was to build a trap for humans on the sea.
Squidius built up from the cave with dirt, creating an island in the empty sea. Upon the island he built a beautiful building that could be seen from miles around, made only from driftwood. Inside the building, sailors would find a bountiful garden, with stairs leading down to a place in which Squidius would force them to either be eaten by the kraken or converted into mindless slaves like him.
One thousand years later, and humanity had progressed muchly. they had large amounts of technology and it was likely that the island would soon be discovered. Squidius decided that in order to protect the group of kraken, many of whom had now hatched, he would be forced to utilise his army of slaves that he had now gathered.Thus began a war of the like of which humanity had never seen before. As there was a possible endless supply of Slaves, Humanities war with Squidius would never end.
This skin and back story are for
The Lair that goes with it can be found HERE