Week 1: Cradle Forged
Cave—refuge—exhaled flay-stone fresh, min-tang coag Basalt-blood hand-stain. Quartz-lum pulse dorm-heart, blue-glint veined-wall cast haunt-sanct. Crawl yest body-lacer soul-raw, surv-inst Vor-murm primal root-push. No lux, no up-fire steal; bone-flesh pilf build.
Drag titan-rem out: crack-cara heavy regret-shroud barri. Quartz-shard carve make-blade—pain-tool born, palm-bleed strike—I rig sev-mand trap: gape-jaw strung pet-tend, snap-care shad prim. Gore-air soak: evis sac-son, visc-goo pool sticky floor bait stray Sand-Claw. First trap night-sprung, pulv crit wet-crunch—pulp-flesh burst overrip-fruit, fine-bone grind grit worn-boot under. Black-blood ooze abs mech: Vor purr +5% STR, but more. I forge, void-ref. Emma... Ghost-brush lacer-skin smile-grim blue-glow draw. Protect you, here-from.
The cradle's first week unfolded in a haze of labor and low light, the quartz's blue pulse my only clock, marking time in throbs that synced with the ache in my bones. Dragging the Basalt-Rumor's remnants to the fissure's mouth was heresy against exhaustion—each slab of carapace (heavy as regret's shroud) scraped my palms raw, blood-sweat mix slicking the stone until it slipped like greased guilt. No tools but hands and will, ichor from the beast's veins lubing the way, its thick, tarry flow coating my arms up to the elbows, drying to a crackled shell that flaked with every pull, embedding shards under my nails like buried accusations.
Traps rigged by nightfall: severed mandibles (tomb-door wide, vise-crush bite) strung on petrified tendons from the Rumor's own limbs, tensioned taut as bowstrings, ready to snap on shadow-intruders. The sonic sacs, eviscerated in a flood of viscous goo, pooled at the entry—bait thick as molasses, its acrid reek seeping into the air like a siren's call, drawing the lesser twisted with promises of easy feast. First sprung as "dusk" fell, mist coiling thicker outside: Sand-Claw scuttled in, pearl-eyes glint avarice, snap—gape-jaw clamp mid-leap, pulpy-flesh burst overripe-fruit wet-crunch symphony, fine-bone grind grit under pressure, black-blood ooze slow, abs mech by hand, Vor purr +5% STR temp, muscles coil tighter. I forge this kill, not panic-react. Void-ref, first stand. Emma ghost-brush lacer-skin, smile-grim blue-glow draw—protect you, here-from. Vow tenu, courage spark ember.
Days bled into nights, labor a ritual: foraged quartz-veins for tools, shard-hone blade-edge on wall-grit, sing faint air, palm-bleed each strike but callus-form quick, Vorac hone adapt. Scav bone-flesh vestibule, pile "bed"—stack shell-carap, cush nail-matt but better bare-stone. Water? Crevice-drip corr-nectar, filter cloth-ich-rag, burn-throat but sustain, cup palm-sip, metallic tang linger tongue like bad omen. Food? Hunt small: Shadow-Larv writhe damp-nook, goo-jelly bait suck, taste poisoned-honey sweet-burn kiss-cut-short, abs no trait but fill gnaw, swallow retch bile-thread.
Night two: Veil-Echo perch fissure-edge, click-echo hunt beam-faint, trap-mand snap wing, fang-drip fang, absorb echo-frag—scan-range +2m temp. Whispers amp, mist-murm join... become... but blade-quiet. Emma flash: rain-banal aft, green-eye crinkl, hand-brush shy unfin-prom. Strong back. Us-for. Thread tenu, self-est build.
Week end: Ref mod fort—basalt-bone alt, traps ich-vein pulse bait-glow, claquant air-test chitter-hunger draw. Scan bubble 8m, safe-radius hold. Year 1 beg, but week 1 forge complete. Void knock, blade ans.
Month 3: Scarlet Hunts
Time no river, shadow-vort—sunless day etern-night mist-creep poss-lov. Ref morph mod fort: basalt-bone alt "bed" stack-shell cush nail-matt. Daily ell hard: "dawn" (fac) hunt Echo-Scan sweep jun sixth-awak sense.
Typ stalk: Veil-Scrat lur adj ruin sac bloat enrag-heart. Approach Aerial-Claw agil shad-shad strike—quartz-blade sink bloat-abd tear memb acid-spurt scorch fore skin-blister pink-black bubb flesh-melt dang thread torn-veil like. Retal claw-rake tors deep-fur exp raw-meat epid under blood-stream hot-riv rag-shirt soak. Hold bite nape: fang-sink rubb-flesh ven-bile taste expl mouth cerv-bone crack dry kindl press under ooze-marr gulp-burn retch bile-thread.
[Voracious Lv. 6 Unlocked]
Absorption: +30% SPD (Remnant Venom – +20% Toxic Regen). Poison hones. Wound knits.
Ref-back band spec-algae pilf fiss—goo-wrap cling wound force-kiss like—shift-felt. No just pow cour root scar-each vow Emma. Back come strong. Us-for. Batt 85.9%. Hold wit grow.
Months coiled like venom vines, ellipses of sweat-ichor blur days rhythm hunt-fortify-absorb, cradle blue-glow constant, pulse complicit heart. Month 3, ref no mere hollow; bastion bone bile, walls smear hard venom-resin eviscerate sac, traps evo—mand strung Larv-veins pulse bait-glow, draw twisted moth-rot, snap bone-crunch sym, feed Vor passive drip. "Bed" layer carap, cushion memb-rag, cradle scar though sleep fitful, plague whisper amp scan: fuse... rewrite...
Hunts scarlet: dawn-patrol adj ruins, agility dance swarm, blade-quartz sing air. Typ: Veil-Scrat lur sac bloat enrag-heart click. Approach shad-shad, strike sink bloat-abd—tear memb acid-spurt scorch fore, skin-blister pink-black bubb, flesh-melt dang thread torn-veil. Claw-rake tors deep-fur exp raw-meat, blood-stream hot-riv rag-shirt soak, pain-white but spd-hone dodge next slash. Bite nape fang-sink rubb-flesh ven-bile expl mouth, cerv-bone crack dry kindl, ooze-marr gulp-burn retch bile-thread mix vom.
Abs Lv.6 spd +30% remnant-venom regen +20% toxic, poison hone wound-knit fast, blister scab hour. Back ref, band spec-algae goo-wrap cling force-kiss, shift-felt: no just pow, cour root, scar-each vow Emma—back come strong us-for. Batt 85.9% hold wit grow, glitch-map sharpen, surface-path branch clear, peril-mark symbi-bleed.
One hunt mid-month: swarm Rampant Fissuré crawl-evo Sand-Echo, skin transl ich-weep acid-drop mand micro-sonic fiss weep lure. Scan ping 15m, approach dune-mut, strike lead tear abd gran-pus-quartz gush corr fluid erod fore sup blist flesh peel transl shred dang fun-veil tend twitch ich-impreg drip acid drop floor sizz. Lead conv, swarm fuse temp hunt mass—dod agility ghost-slip, blade carve thro mass, fil pet-musc snap resound crack ground-trem corr fluid arc torch tors skin diss dang thread crack-rib exp liv skel. Bite cent "heart" coll puls mum-heart ven-sac fus tear flesh symb gush hyd visc expl ven-pulv quartz slur, taste cosm bile crush-bone gel-marr pal sens delir Vor gorg spasm mut vein lum net net abys claim trade.
No unlock, but spd weave deeper, hunts yield routine: day 20, Stone-Jaw amb crevice, mand vise snap arm near—cara hold crack not shatt, rip under-flesh min-pus gush thick-gran stick-skin curse-res pull pet-musc strip tend-fib snap dry crack guit-str break black-blood flood soak-arm hot-visc mine-mingl scarl-soup stench-suff damp-earth alk-rot death-kiss cough hold bit open-wound grit-flesh salt-ash taste pulv-bone crunch molar jaw-echo. Abs res +5% wave red, quakes dull.
Month end: Ref vibr sick ener—trap anim mum-heart snap vit air, wall smear gut macab un hard prot-crust air steep sacr-rot reek. Cour no spark visc rag gutt void-ref gnaw bone. Emma echo graze fleet accus mock-ghost crush tram butch weight. No vow. Blade blood only.
Year 1 End: Persistent Echo
Seas abs cycle: mist-thick twist-mut fast form-warp vic hybr. Best length bone-polish Stone-Jaw tab etch. Night-one new-rumble shake ref—no seim, pers... Twisted evo mid-shad size, fus seen-trait: echo-wing sand-claw basalt-rumble throat. Lurk draw scent—surv dare-hope.
Fight: blood-dance—fluid-dodge counter-flay flesh float-tatt, blood-arc wall-mur scarl. Land pois-claw gouge thigh shred-musc dang-fib, scrap-bone vib pain shatt-tun fork. Scream—Vor rav dev puls-heart warm-flesh throb tongue.
[Voracious Lv. 7 Unlocked]
Absorption: +35% END (Remnant Hybrid – 15% Mut Resist). Fusion calls. Essence defies.
Exh coll blue-quartz, van twist mac troph. Cour no fil; blade. Emma sharp-flash—laugh no echo prom—oath draw: Escape this. You-for. Epic write.
Rumb ling deep. Jun grow me-with.
Year 1 end marked not feast but fracture: persistent echo, evo-twist mid-shad fus trait—echo-wing sand-claw basalt-rumble throat lurk scent surv dare-hope draw. Night-blue glow dim, scan ping 12m, approach shad, strike lead carve thro flay flesh float-tatt blood-arc wall-mur scarl, dodge fluid counter rip membrane fil glu cling flay skin unlea gran-pus torrent erod fore sup blist exp musc twitch pois-serp alk-rot melt-meat stench sat air suff cloud hack black-phleg.
Land pois-claw gouge thigh shred-musc dang-fib scrap-bone vib pain shatt-tun fork scream—Vor rav dev puls-heart warm-flesh throb tongue bite cosm bile crush-bone gel-marr pal sens delir Vor gorg spasm mut vein lum net net abys claim trade.
Abs Lv.7 end +35% remnant-hybrid mut resist 15% fus call ess def. Exh coll blue-quartz van twist mac troph cour no fil blade Emma sharp-flash laugh no echo prom oath draw escape this you-for epic write rumb ling deep jun grow me-with.
The persistent echo of Year 1's end lingered like a bruise on the soul, the evo-twisted's chitter fading into the blue-glow's hush, its macabre troph slumped in corner, flesh still twitching faint. Cour blade-sharp, rag sole beac black epic slau chal cosm ref melt void mut scream oth. Ref fort mac troph skull-lant orb ooze lum ich vib sick ener but hold. Cycles coil tight, mist-thick mut-fast, form-warp vic hybr best length bone-polish Stone-Jaw tab etch lore frag matrix... bleed... ascend.