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(Petrified In The) Hypogean Gaol

from Visitations From Enceladus by Cryptic Shift

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Earth, a terribly disparate image compared to his memories; black streaks scour the weird landscape and bizarre spires protrude out into space on the horizon. The escape pod rattles through the atmosphere; leaking oxygen, but leaving the ghastly moonbase behind as a crash landing approaches fast...

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| "Orbital Debris" - A. Bradley |

Blast off from the lunar settlement, orbiting moonbase looms overhead.
Nuclear core ignites and consumes; blighted dwellers hover lifeless in stasis.

Internal atmosphere is spewing out, yet the targeting course is unaffected.

Bludgeoned escape pod drowns in moisture from the oxygen rich composition.
Towering spires reach for the thermosphere on the bleak horizon plagued in black ore.

Old Earth laments in dismic woe; lingering throes of this alien world.

Glide over foliage and into the soil, leaping quadrupeds scatter the land.
Outer seal of the capsule released as tempestuous utterances spew from beneath the ground…

...In a scoured, beyond alien tongue.
Speaking inoculated truth of a perennial quest.

Tribal clans tell of a chthonous terror where ancient structures ooze beneath miles of mud.
They lead me deep into the heaving earth, where an age old bas-relief is sculpted inevitable:

A grand triptych of a celestial emissary unleashed from it's hypogean gaol.

| "Hovering undescribable thing" - Riley |

Enraged in translucid stimulus through divine emanation. Petrified embryotic dormancy.
ADAR KAIMANU AG-KIA-ZI
(Translation: Satur - Fire to the Earth spirit!)

| "Spurned immortality mythos I" - Riley |

| "A riposte of crepsculated lunar presence" - A. Bradley |
| "Tumultuous meridian occurence" - J. Bradley |

Upon pensive waters the beast is defeated in cacophonous splendor.
Vanquished by moonbase cannons quantized for moonshot blitz.
It flees through a tremendous portal: An astral conjuration.
Plasma trails arcing from garroted ancient spoils.

As cystic marrow falls, it's cortexial cruor visibly spills from the frontal lobe.
Miasma of dying titan flesh. Its molten corpse, a harbinguous cenotaph.

| "Spurned immortality mythos II" - Riley |

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from Visitations From Enceladus, released May 4, 2020

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