As soon as the Fierce Ones arrive in the shadow of massive Uluru, Ayers Rock, they cannot help but notice the shrieking winds that whip around the rock formation, creating madly capering dust devils in the desert sand, and echoing forlornly and hideously in dark cave mouths evident in Uluru and elsewhere around the great rock. As they take in the impressive and somehow oppressive sight and sounds, what at first give the impression of huge leafless trees with branches that whip and flail insanely in the howling winds, stomp into view from around the nearer side of Uluru, spreading out from a single file into a wider clump.... They stomp nearer on a trio of elephantine legs, their black, slimy flesh constantly opening as slavering mouths, toothed, fanged, beaked, sucker-like, or proboscis-like, or eyes of a staggering variety, which then close and give way to a new generation of organs.... There are 12 approaching! Knowledge (dungeoneering) checks to identify the monsters approaching.... |