Game Thread: Harmia

You push against the door but it doesn't budge.

You try to examine the door in detail but it is too dark. You can feel there are some groves carved into it but without a complete understanding of the pattern you can't make heads or tales of it.

With her eyes fully adjusted to the dark Harmia sees that the has 5 hemisphere inlets arranged in a cross shape, each connected to all but the opposing inlet via an channel. If she touches the central inlet it lights up for a fleeting moment with a strange black flame with white tips, similar to how the humanities appear. If she touches one of the other inlets it will light up with a feeble white whisps of light which quickly fades.

The word path is ill used to define any of your potential directions of travel. The forest grows quite thick very quickly if you move away from the solitary path that connects the tomb to that collapsed tower you just came from. Past the depths of the forest (though you need not go through the forest's center to get there) is the squat square building you saw from the wall, your new vantage point reveals that a collection of small houses surround that building, all of them have the air of decay to them, as if the forest has reclaimed them all.

As Harmia sneaks through the wood she avoid the majority of the forests wrath.

As you climb the tree it suddenly cracks beneath you and you walk into the great tree. Inside the tree is covered with a dark blue ichor, the corruption that killed this tree in the first place. An overwhelming sense of fear and despair fills you. You'll need to act fast to escape, but you are to lethargic to do so by force.

With acrobatic grace Harmia springs out from the the decayed trunk. The scene beyond is a depressing landscape of corruption, pools of the dark blue taint have coalesced in the open and the trees visibly show sign of sickness.

In the distance the square rectangular building you saw some time ago is revealed in detail for the first time. A low castle, surrounded by a decaying village. You also spy horrid monstrosities mindlessly walking about the decaying woods. Grotesque humanoids with large toloned feet, extended and clawed fingers and where their heads should be a hard leathery carapace covered with numerous glowing red eyes.

You move the the Forrest approaching the town without attracting the attention of the creatures that wander the area. But the woods seem to muddle your sense making it hard to navigate.