thinking abt how fucked up steam engine boiler explosions can look. theyre just pipes under there
gives me the idea of a ghost/monster engine that looks normal, albeit a bit battered, only to swing their smokebox door open and a myriad of pipes come bursting out like fucked up tentacles
I didn’t know a train could be an eldritch horror, but here we are.
The monster eats rocks, with teeth made of flame.
A snarling beast that rides with steam and the squeal of metal on metal in its wake.
Bound to lines of metal that cross the land, mountains having been leveled or bored through to make way, or timber and steel piled high to let them cross chasms.
Should it slip from the appointed path, fire and death ensue.
A single glowing eye the last thing those who stand before it see before the end.
Tendrils of water, fire, and steel, bound tightly within its heart.
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is that enough horror for you?
