"The footprints upon the ground were puzzling. They were scattered like grapeshot from a cannon and filled with puddles of noxious slime." "One of the men put a small branch into one of the puddles and it dissolved in a hiss of smoke. He fell ill later that day and died screaming as boils erupted on his skin in a shower of pus and blood. We burnt his corpse in the pyre alongside the dead villagers." "It looked like a horde of different beasts had rampaged through the town, but each set of tracks only went on for a few steps. There were hoofprints, claw marks, small circles from what appeared to be tentacles, misshapen human feet." "Whatever it was that made these tracks, it weren't any beast I've yet seen." - Captain Sabrina Geltz of the Wolfenburg Forest Vipers
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