{"id":"qegtjb","deleted":false,"future_paste":false,"expired":false,"language":"text","created_at":"2026-07-30 02:43:00","expires_at":null,"content":"\/\/\/\/\/Salka. In the glacial rift. First encounter.\r\nTrudging through the snow, the slight numbness building in your [legs] slows your mind as well, and you nearly forget yourself as you come to face a gap between the glaciers [if (metric) {several meters|a dozen feet}] ahead. Sighing, you turn around, not interested in taking a dive into the sea. Yet, still, you're failing to notice something, and it nags at you. Turning back toward the water, you see the distant glacier is closer now. In another moment, the colossal tonnage of ice slams into the other, making it quake and groan like a beast waking from slumber, and the ground falls out beneath you, sucking you into its maw!\r\n\r\nYou turn and kick your [feet] at the edge rising up besides you, trying to step onto it, but water jets up inside the divide and washes you off, tumbling you backwards into the dark[if (haswings) {, all while your [wings] beat into the snow and batter themselves}]. Before you've even struck the bottom, the dominating glacier overlaps the first, concealing your tomb.\r\n[next]\r\n[if (has salamander tail) {The light of your tail refracts off|Little light reaches you down here, barely refracting through}] the icy walls. Water struggles through the fissures around the impact above, pooling at your butt. Staying put will drown you eventually, but as you wander about with your [if (has salamander tail) {tail-light|[hands]}], you find a passage slightly raised--no, the chamber is tilting as the end you're on is being pushed under. Hopefully it will lead out, but at the very least, it's not going to flood right away. It's a tight fit...\r\n\r\nAn entire minute passes as you maneuver yourself into the space. The sound of water running down the ice propels you forth, and you crawl deeper, trying to escape the echo, but then you hear what may be a cracking noise. You quicken your pace. It's starting to strain your body to crawl through the tight ice, and your vision darkens for a moment as you try to peer out the side. Little rays of light faintly shine into the water, intermittently, as things continue shifting above. The cracking--scratching?--happens again, right behind your head. You turn to look at the other side, but see nothing. Deeper you crawl, and every moment you stop, something scrapes against the ice where you are. You crawl further[if (isTaur) {, cursing the awkward shape of your body}].\r\n\r\n[i:Scrape.] You look to the sound again, but this time, it doesn't move away. Two dark webbed hands with short, sharp claws are pressed against the ice. One of the hands slowly curls a finger, scratching the ice lightly. Then it fades into the dark waters. Staring back ahead, you see a dim glow from the [sun] making its way in. The shadow of the monster outside continues following, lightly scratching every [if (metric) {meter or so|few feet}], and it gnaws at your attention so much you fail to notice the tunnel widening, and your arm flails at the open air for a brief moment until you tumble and slide in, twisting and spinning as you lose orientation. Blinking, you see the dim light shining through the thinnest part of the ice, illuminating the long dark hair and freckled gray and blue skin of your stalker on the other side.\r\n\r\n[i:Scrape.]\r\n[Next]\r\nThe ice explodes with the full pressure of the sea flooding in, throwing the monster into you! Claws grip into your [skinfurscales] and the creature's neck slams into your flailing forearm, its dagger-like teeth stopping [if (metric) {centimeters|inches}] from your [if (face TF has snout) {snout|nose}]. You wrestle within the confines of the ice, your adrenaline spiking with every wave of cold water washing over your face. A deep groaning resonates. The glacier splits in two, abandoning you in the open water, and the light above finally unobstructed. Freedom, almost, but you can't possible climb up onto a glacier while under attack!\r\n\/\/\/Repeat encounters\r\nYou step into slush, interrupting your movement for a moment to avoid slipping. A small wave comes at remarkable speed as it crashes over the ice, knocking you over! Now drenched and slick, the glacier refuses to give you footing. Glancing back at the water, a scaly purple tail twists and pushes as much water as it can, washing you right off the ice and into the sea!\r\n\/\r\n\/\/\/\/FIGHT. Mermaids get big bonus speed in water(40?). Gills in general get no debuff. No gills, -20 speed\r\nYou are fighting a salka.\r\nThe monstrous mermaid menaces you with her inky black eyes' hungry stare. Her face was surely beautiful once, now decorated with a single horn on her forehead and a jaw that shifts unnaturally. The upper half of her body is a womanly figure with freckled gray-blue skin and full breasts, while below the hips is a serpentine, purple-scaled fish decorated in a couple large dress-like fins and ending in a large flipper. Her webbed fingers are tipped in gripping claws.\r\n\/\/\/STATS.\r\nBest in speed and intelligence, decent in toughness, probably lowest in strength for the rift. They have a libido, lust works on them, though they have a higher lust cap too. 100 corruption. A little defense because she has scales\r\n\/\/\/ATTACKS. If lacking hit\/block\/dodge\/whatevs, assume I want the generic form\r\n\/\/Scratch. Basic attack, no cost, melee. [Themonster] [verbs] you with her [weapon] oh noooo\r\nThe salka scratches you with her webbed claws.\r\n\/\/Grab. Grappling attack, charging, but reduced hit if ranged, increased accuracy if the player has no gills.\r\n\/no gills\r\nBreaching the water for another breath, you lose sight of the monster for a precious few seconds. Knowing it's the perfect time for her to strike, you twist your body around and try to dodge blindly! [if (hit) {[b:Claws sink into your hips, yanking you under the water!]|A rush of water nearly disorients you, but your [if (singleleg) {flailing|kicking}] body fends the salka off!}]\r\n\/gills\r\nFloating free, you have no traction to react quick as the salka starts to charge at you. [if (Hit) {You twist your [legs] and try to move, but get tackled, her claws sinking in!|Narrowly, you're able to swim to the side, flicking your [legs] at the monster as she fails to get a hold of you!}]\r\n\/\/Grabbed - kiss, lust damage\r\nThe salka presses her breasts to you and lunges for a kiss, locking her lips to yours.\r\n\/\/Grabbed - Bite, chance of bleed\r\nThe salka gnashes with a bite that you writhe to avoid, only to see her jaw lunge from her face and sink her sharp teeth into your cheek.\r\n\/\/Grabbed - player struggles\r\nNo matter how hard you writhe in her grasp, those little claws are caught firmly in your [armor].\r\n\/\/Grabbed - breaking free. Deal a little damage, reduced if hasgooskin, increased if wood skin, increased if you have horns. Strength-based.\r\n[if (isbiped) {Kicking|Flailing}] and squirming, you frustrate the demonic mermaid, and as she moves to bite you for your behavior, you thrust your head into hers! She reels back, losing her grip, and you escape.\r\n\/\/Bite. May bleed. Melee\r\nThe salka twirls her tail and launches herself at you[if (hit){, her jaws suddenly reaching forward out of her face to bite into you!|.}]{add dodge\/block if applied}\r\n\/\/Chant. Ranged, lust damage and speed debuff like illusion. One hard or higher, stuns, but you can power through with that stun resist skill like most stuns.\r\nThe gills on her neck flex and flare open, revealing the redness of the thin tissue inside as she begins to sing. It's like a hum or a chant, but your head aches at trying to make sense of it, and you yearn to get closer to her.\r\n\r\n\/\/\/\/LOOT\r\nSalka roe, very rarely mermaid roe. Not sure what else.\r\n\/\/\/Salka roe.\r\n\"Salroe\", \"Salka Roe\", \"salka roe\"\r\nDescription: A fist-sized slimy oval with a gray-green leathery shell. It's surprisingly dense.\r\nValue: 6 is average for a consumable, but maybe 12 because roe.\r\n\/\/Use\r\nThe slick egg slides around in your grasp for a moment, but you delay no longer, putting the fleshy oval into your mouth and biting down. Immediately, a buttery, milky, tangy taste bursts across all your taste buds. If not for the bitter, metallic undertones, you could see many people liking it. Moments after consuming it, you feel your body flush with warmth, your pulse quickens, and you are disoriented with extra energy and dizziness.\r\n{+cor, +satiety, -fatigue}\r\n\/Roll stat changes\r\nYou find yourself rolling your fingers, a slight, dulling numbness in your thickening [skindesc]. {+tough, -sens}\r\n\/!isgenderless\r\nSomething tightens below, and you feel less [if (hasVagina) {fertile|virile}]. {reduce fertility\/virility respectively}\r\n\/if has mermaid tail\r\nYour tail aches and taps at the ground repeatedly as you try to shake the feeling off, and you find it moving quicker than normal.\r\n\/\r\nHeat descends down your form, tickling at your loins. {+lust, +libido}\r\n\/Roll for transformation, uncommon. Cannot give mermaid tail. Some transformations mermaid-exclusive.\r\n\/Skin. Color gray-blue, adj freckled, add decently sized sensitivity gain\r\nA bout of dizziness strikes and your vision blurs while a strange taste--or smell--or something else fills your senses. Rubbing your arms, it dawns on you that they've turned an unwell gray-blue, and are covered in darker spots like freckles.\r\n\/Lose [tail] slot. We have a generic mutation for reverting tail, right?\r\n\/Shark teeth, rarer. Eh, just steal shark teeth TF from the shark teeth items.\r\n\/If has mermaid tail, turn fish scales purple\r\nShifting uncomfortably, your tail curls and feels as if it's about to squirm out of its scales, but to your relief, the scales merely turn purple.\r\n\/\/\/Mermaid roe\r\n\"Merroe\" \"Mermaid Roe\" \"mermaid roe\"\r\nA small handful of shiny, slick, semi-translucent pearls. The colors vary.\r\nvalue 60\r\n\/\/Use\r\nThe small slimy marbles roll around in your grasp. They smell a bit briny, and they are soft and seem to be fragile. Throwing caution to the wind, you put them in your mouth and bite down--immediately it tastes like a mix of salty brine and butter, with a smoothness and refreshing balance that you wish you could have more of. Maybe on toast or something similar.\r\n{+satiety, -fatigue}\r\n\/Roll for stat changes\r\nEverything seems more clear now. {+inte} {either -lib or -cor}\r\n\/No mermaid tail\r\nYou tilt and feel unsteady on your [feet] as if standing on a rocking ship. {-speed}\r\n\/Yes mermaid tail\r\nYour tail swishes back and forth in a spur of spontaneous delight. {+speed}\r\n\/Roll for transformation\r\n\/Lose [tail]\r\n\/Revert face\/teeth\r\n"}