The Burrower Beneath

Legend: The Burrower Beneath

This legend tells the tale of the Burrower Beneath, a sinuous and silent predator which lies below the surface of all things. It takes great vigilance and awareness to spot the tell-tale signs of its presence, as it is a voracious, merciless assassin of great stealth and guile.

Many of its victims are completely unaware of its proximity beneath their very feet until it is too late and their entire lower body is already enveloped in its voracious maw, paralyzed by the secreted poison in the creature's saliva, and agonizingly dissolving in the acidic bile which it then proceeds to vomit over that which is being ingested and digested alive.

A slight sloughing sound and a vague fleeting sense of imbalance are all that might warn the alerted pedestrian to use that jetpack immediately, or be dragged down to a slow and excruciating death in the undulating belly of the great worm...