As Emily says so, you all watch and nearly fall over as under your feet...
VLOOORSH!!!
With a wave of motion and a wave of nausea you all blink and find yourselves standing on... somewhere else.
You look around - half fearful for a moment that you were transported to another world AGAIN - but find all the surrounding discs are identical to how you left them.
The only difference... is where you're standing!
Gone is the strange, pink and gray folds of the 'sweatrag' disc... instead, you find yourselves standing in a thick mass of brown and muddy sludge!
Furthermore, you are ankle-deep in it. You can also all see that the disc itself has expanded longer outwards, and the terrain has become even more hilly, with the immediate hill that was before you now reaching up to the shoulders of your tallest, and probably shadowing your shortest.
However, you can all see that in addition to the mud are ponds of what looks like extremely brackish and filthy water! And, underneath those, you can see the original fold-like material of the 'sweatrag' disc, but their color has gone a dark gray ashen hue, also they have become soggy to the point of looking like they'd fall apart at being poked, and they are now many times more wrinkled than a prune.
Another thing is that in the five places Arjun had mentioned there were plums, you can now spot larger lumps, which are stretched thin and greenish, like disgusting boils. They seem to sit on the edge of the brackish ponds, and you can also see the hint of strange roots connecting them thusly.
Perhaps strangest of all, floating above the island, is a window that you all can see!
As the group discusses possible names for the disc, Emily tries to specify any parameters.
After a fairly long moment of no response, a window emerges.
Sweet-Smelling Swamp
(previously: Unnamed ??? Disc)
The first land to be granted a Name. A long expanse of thick muddy hills sitting atop a layer of Prummage, interspersed with small ponds of Rot Nectar in some of the valleys.
Two species of MONSTER inhabit this land; the Padded Prunes of Preceding, and the Prune-Smellers. The former exist alone within cursed cocoons on the edges of the ponds, while the latter stalk the land and dig burrows.
A nauseating but bewitching smell lingers in the air.
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And just then, you all hear a sound from the previous location of your target.
"Ngaaaahhkkkk!!!" though it doesn't come from human vocal cords, it is very clearly a scream of distress and pain.
You all watch in that moment, as the being you had previously chased stumbled and sways from behind the hill, straining and spasming from some sensation...
The creature is pudgy and purple, about the size of a medium dog, but with six legs and bulging eyes the color of shit. It is fairly wrinkled, covered in dirt and has a tubular snout like an anteater on it's face...
You watch as it screeches before falling back and beginning to... change shape...
In that moment, Dmitri gets a very quick message, completely shattered yet clearly filled with utter shock and horror
'{[Declaration of pain]} ghikniaak gaggaa- {What did you do}?!!?!?!??!?'
And in the next moment, you all cannot help but stand still and shocked as, like a wave, the entity before you changes to match your surroundings.
It's skin becomes a deep and dark brown, it's snout thickens into a full on trunk, now with four nostrils with three layers of membranes, and lots of little cilia (?) inside.
The eyes bulge off the head and roll back, completely changing position to that of a hippopotamus on cocaine. The color changes to a putrid dark green , like rotting compost.
The feet of the six legs become thick and stumpy, while the legs strangely become thinner and then shorter to support the body... The actual being is less wrinkled now, yet more... lumpy? It looks like it lost weight - well proportionally, as it is now up to your waists easily instead of by your knees.
The knees become sharper with a strange scaled plating, and a tail emerges from the back... slime drips from it, and it is also made of some sort of dark chitinous material...
Then, lastly, a thin layer of perspiration appears on it as it's pores engorge, and it stumbles once before raising it's head to all of you.
A deep, bellow, guttural voice that sounds halfway between a grumble and a noisy belch emerges, "BUHRAWWAKK" gone are the noises of 'gah' 'nak' as it's facial structure has totally changed. The creature flares it's nostrils then, which unbelievably stretch to nearly the size of Emily's torso, each orifice large enough to insert a basketball.
Then, it takes a step back and with a change in posture as the shadows cling and linger to it's body...
BWASHooooooom!
The creature does not charge you all, but instead disappears faster than you can track it. It leaves a trail of some kind leading up and around the hill, and then some more away... but your vision is blocked.
Well then, what shall you all do?