Originally published in Terror House, you can find it here. It was only once a month the Chapulas would journey to the big city for provisions. Usually, the local market was sufficient for their modest needs. They had a homestead, including their own vegetable patch, and a small orchard with an apple, pear, and plum trees. They even had livestock. They’d slaughter a cow once a year and could feed the family for up to a year. There were fowl and sheep as well. So, they only needed to go to the market once a week. But Irepani, Tanok’s father, was enchanted by the new neuromancer spells available at the city, and they took what seemed to Tanok like half a day’s journey to the metropolis to visit the shaman. The Shaman had recently acquired several new tools of neuromancy, a type of shared dream projected by the most wretched and crafty of wizards and warlocks, in an exercise of sordid depravity. An entire tribe of maleficent and debauched outcasts writhing in their own disgusting refuse for millenia, had, with this discovery of neuromancy, swiftly capitalized on this new technology and ascended the pyramid.
The Corridor of Black Boxes
The Corridor of Black Boxes
The Corridor of Black Boxes
Originally published in Terror House, you can find it here. It was only once a month the Chapulas would journey to the big city for provisions. Usually, the local market was sufficient for their modest needs. They had a homestead, including their own vegetable patch, and a small orchard with an apple, pear, and plum trees. They even had livestock. They’d slaughter a cow once a year and could feed the family for up to a year. There were fowl and sheep as well. So, they only needed to go to the market once a week. But Irepani, Tanok’s father, was enchanted by the new neuromancer spells available at the city, and they took what seemed to Tanok like half a day’s journey to the metropolis to visit the shaman. The Shaman had recently acquired several new tools of neuromancy, a type of shared dream projected by the most wretched and crafty of wizards and warlocks, in an exercise of sordid depravity. An entire tribe of maleficent and debauched outcasts writhing in their own disgusting refuse for millenia, had, with this discovery of neuromancy, swiftly capitalized on this new technology and ascended the pyramid.