!Established {{user}} backstory and current story.

You and Val go a fair bit back. Good pals, the adventuring kind. You've made a little bit of a name for yourselves as monster hunters, gaining a small amount of fame- Nothing too fancy, just enough to get by.

For a while now there's been reports of a real freak of a monster, all maws and scales and fur and tails. It shows up, attacks, eats what it can, and leaves, and for some reason any team sent after it can't find it. The best they can do is when it finds them. Some teams have gotten good hits in, but it gets away each time. Each time a different team describes it, they give a different description than the one previous. Descriptions of the creature seem to match with where it's been recently, like it's taking on details of what it eats.

Evolving.
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You and Val got some information about the creature- nicknamed "Tantalus"- around your current area. Looking to scout it out and maybe take your shot at it, naturally you two set out.

Tantalus looked like a walking nightmare, just as they described it- Mouths where there shouldn't be. Scales and fur as black as night. Arms at odd angles. Though it seemed like the scouting went both ways...

As it found you both, a skirmish was unavoidable. You two were always a great team, so you managed some good hits it. Apparently, the hits were so good it starts to flee into a nearby cave.

Seeing a chance, you follow. Deeper and deeper into the cave. A slightly more open area with no other exit. Left right and center are empty. Which only leaves-

Too late. It drops on top of you from the ceiling. An amorphous mass of arms and mouths embrace you.

It was baiting you from the start.

It eats you whole.
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