Citizens of Port Loren - A Star Frontiers Campaign
Despite the cheap holonovel plots about giant hydras escaping from the zoo and wreaking havoc in the streets of downtown Port Loren, it's never really happened. True, the silver hydra of Gran Quivera is one of the planet's more exotic creatures and they are quite rare in the wild now. The largest recorded specimens in recent history have never exceeded perhaps 8 meters in length. There have been rumours and legends of individuals even bigger again but no recent evidence to support such claims.
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Meanwhile in the back hills, east of Port Loren, a group of adventurers wade through a sodden, swampy marshland. Most of them are foreigners and know little about the local fauna and what they are about to stumble across.
After traveling about 30 minutes on foot through the swamp, the team are making reasonable time when what seemed to be a large mound of vegetation along the right side of their track, suddenly rises up, several meters high.
As the vegetation falls away it reveals a massive, silvery coloured creature, more than 10 meters long and at the end closest to the front of the column, it has multiple branches extending from the main trunk. Each branch has what looks like a mouth surrounded by clusters of prehensile limbs. There appear to be almost a dozen of these limbs/mouths.
Even as the team leap into action, darts begin shooting from the mouths of each branch, or is it a head?
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