Two yellow tentacles emerge from a Colossal eye. It melts all it touches, including the very earth it walks upon. Its six pairs of huge green eyes close in a semicircle, and its eight yellowish antennae shoot up in a column to rest upon a ring of thick, pink, webbed tentacles which dance around its membranous neck like fan palms. The gilled, flexible arms reach out tentatively, and its whole body distorts like a sort of python's trunk. But wait! It isn't a python at all! It isn't any animal that we know, because it has been dead for two hundred million years! How did it get here? It says in the Book of Eibon that a god brought the corpse of a primal reptile a thousand cubits underground, fro...