Terror Of Ukulam Creature 22

When a massive ooze-like being emerged from the polluted caverns of Castrovel's industrial moon, Elindrae, the planet's leaders made the mistake of assuming the ooze posed no threat to Castrovel itself. When the ooze destroyed several of the moon's shipyards, then launched itself through space to the remote reaches of Ukulam, they made the mistake of assuming they had time to quarantine the threat in that continent's remote wilderness. When its radiation began to spread, and longdead elindrian cultists rose from their nest-necropolises beneath the Singing Range to worship the ooze, the planet's leaders finally understood they couldn't ignore it. They called it the Terror of Ukulam. They still don't understand quite what it is, why it exists, or what it wants.

The Terror is an enormous ooze-like thing, somewhat resembling layered flaps of oily dark green flesh. It conceals its only anatomical feature—a large purple eye— beneath its undulating surface. The creature spends most of its time floating in deep subterranean caverns or ocean trenches, remaining immobile for days at a time, then suddenly traversing a great distance, almost always in a straight line, before stopping again. These stops are seemingly random, but they've displaced settlements with increasing regularity. The vengeful worshippers who follow the Terror's path are almost as dangerous as the radiation it spreads, though their reasons for following it are as inscrutable as the Terror itself.

Thanks to the nature of atomic energy and especially atomic weapons, Castrovel's scientists have deduced that the radioactive Terror is likely to cause as much destruction in death as it has caused in life—or perhaps more. Even if the combined military might of Castrovel and its allies was sufficient to defeat the Terror, these scientists have warned that they need more time to study the Terror and assess the risks of destroying it outright. Of course, every day that passes is another day that more elindrians flock to the Terror, and yet more victims cross its destructive path.