“Abandon All Shit Ye Who Enter Here.”

-The Inrisus

“She had been on the ground in a grid of tents practicing a sermon when alarms had blared, telling them to find their guns, because things had appeared on the horizon … weeks later, Lar would learn that another missionary camp had technically made first contact with the Inrisus hours before her group.”

“A strange pink froth had been staining the beaches up and down the coast near their landing site on the Filth Scape, presumed to be an algae bloom … by night the sewage-slick on the beaches had solidified into the Golems: the cheapest caste.”

“What had happened at Colchis was known in the Noir Scape only by the most general traces which had leaked out. She almost told him that he knew nothing of cruelty and insanity, almost strove to insult him with a litany of awful things … heads rent from bodies and violated in their necks … Holes smothering lines of men with their gargantuan breasts, squiring urine and diarrhea and acid and napalm … creatures fulfilling the weirdest forms of paraphilia delighting in the mixture of monstrous parts, irrummating and suffocating and howling, some canine and some insectoid and some equine and some reptilian and all horrific enough to defeat the most committed fetishist.”

-Terra Incognita