>>5205021>>5205017>17Henzler leans over the man, tendril ensnaring and encircling him, their toothy tips opening and affixing to him. With her hands, she muffles his screams, forcing him down to the leaf-litter and grass. He trhashes, slailing helplessly, as she does her terrible work, weaving somatic gestures above him while your blood (and Dark Gods know what else) pumps into him. His body shifts and changes… But not, you must say, for the worse.
His wrinkles smooth. His blemishes recede. Where he was wounded by the vagaries of early-middle age, he is youthful again…
And scaley.
“By the Dark Gods,” Alhazred murmurs.
“It’s… It’s heresy! It’s MONSTROUS!” Roth balks.
Head Chimericist Henzler has indeed made this man—this HUMAN man—youthful anew. It takes some time, but you can already see that eh looks more vital, more boyish than he did a half-hour ago. She has also left him with traces of golden-brown scales, and greenish flecks about his eyes, and a strange blue-green tint about his lips and tongue. He stares at her, wide-eyed as if dazed, trembling and sweating.
This human hunter is, for all intents and purposes, a Degenerate… Just like you, or Alhazred.
“There!” Henzler declares, flinging the captive hunter down to the ground and wiping her hands ‘clean’ on her robes before tucking them once more into her great sleeves. “I present to you: a man of twenty!”
“Destroy it,” Roth rumbles, smoke billowing from his maw, his illusion faltering. He cringes against the pain—he is not well-enough yet to breath flames, though he wants to.
“This is… Miraculous,” Alhazred murmurs, stroking his thin beard.
“It is LITERALLY an affront to our race and our Gods!” Roth roars.
>1You can only stare. You were too utterly astonished by the sheer… SIMILARITY… To even pay attention. Even now, it is difficult to tear your eyes away from this half-man half-Reptilian, created by magical manipulation and born to human parents and yet so… FAMILIAR.
What do you do?
>Destroy your experiments—they are too beautiful and terrible to live, and they make you uncomfortable>Use ectoplasm to enthrall one [or both?] of these human chimeras for now, and bring them with you [please specify]> Ask Henzler if she can do this to OTHER humanoids as well [specify if you have anyone in mind]>Write-in 