>>5570832If nothing else, you’re feeling fine. Your injury is dealt with at a minimal cost, now, you have to turn to the summoning of the Wurm. Unlike the other entities you’ve dealt with so far, the Wurm doesn’t require a summoning circle and if anything would be offended by the notion. If you want to call on the Wurm, you need two things. Wet soil, the darker and loamier the better, and a couple of sticks, one to plunge in the ground, another to rub along it to make a vibration. Your mother was a master at this. Worm-grunting, she called it. The thing about the Wurm is that, according to myth, it’s the progenitor of all lesser worms and can manifest through them. Once you have a worm, all you need is the intent to bring the Wurm. You don’t need to speak. The Wurm can sense your thoughts. If your call is genuine and the Wurm feels your offer is worth the effort, it will come. You know these corpses are more than enough.
You dump them out onto the ground, strewn about piecemeal, and find a patch of mud. A suitable pair of sticks is always close to hand if you know where to look. Your mother taught you well. She forced you to worm-grunt until your fingers bled because she said you would need it one day. Maybe she was right. You sink one stick into the mud, deep, and clap the other to the side. You start rubbing, loudly, vigorously, and shake the bottom as much as possible. Minutes later, an old ache begins setting in and you can almost feel the lesser worms stirring in the mud. It’s only a matter of time now. You dwell on the corpses.
>How do you want to offer them to the Wurm?>Give them as a gift. Such an amount from a first-time summoner is rare and the Wurm is generous when its hungers are sated. It would give you some measure of chthonic power, you can’t know exactly what, only that it will relate to the Wurm’s portfolio. You could receive a freakish pittance of its strength, the knowledge to speak to the slithering things below, potentially even a hideous wurmspawn to devour your foes. The problem is that if you feed the Wurm this much once, it will expect to be fed like this when it’s called on in the future.>Keep them distant and haggle. You are no stranger to negotiations like your mother had. They were something deeper, far more primal and fundamental than any market stall. The meeting of your mother’s hatred and the Wurm’s own hunger. No words in human tongue were shared, flesh and gruel given only on the expectation of future pay. To do this for your first summoning will mark your relationship with the Wurm. It will be like your mother’s, strictly transactional, and while the Wurm won’t take more than you give unless its aspect senses weakness and goes for the kill, it will give you nothing that isn’t paid for. 