Ancient Grudge

By Sallow Moth

On The Larval Hope

Released on January 15, 2020

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Strands of web reach far beyond the lair to alert the approach of prey

Ship's descent onto a sylvan mountaintop, but to their dismay

Everything it sees it considers food, a forest-wide network not easy to elude

Defense Grid activate, surveying the woods elaborate

Crew now detects acid from the web, a disastrous mental misstep

Prey pursued, prey subdued

None survive, bodies dissolve

The few behind, burning with anger

Engine overloaded, using its power to strengthen the grid

Communication with home has been severed and years grind away

Deconstructed ship

Main bridge became a crypt

Remaining parts forged into a steel spider

With the help of native conjurers

Treetop village in tandem with the rhythm of the wild

The Arachnoid trawls the planet seeking to compile

Signs of life from the cosmos

Signals emit from Servym's Console, intruder alarm!

Behold a light in the sky, and dusty wings foreign to the eye, natives of this world alert descendants, but what they seek is vengeance

Crash, webs lash

Fear, Servym is here

We watch the spiders weave, we haunt, you cannot leave

Flashback to our ancestors, left for dead, distress signals severed

Must avenge the fallen and abandoned, crawling steel has you surrounded

Reap the past everlast