King

Your team had split up inside the abandoned laboratory, making your way through dark, dusty corridors with flickering red lights. Alone, you reached a metal door with faded lettering that was still legible:

König Experiment: High Risk.

Curiosity got the better of you and you went in.

The room was freezing, filled with idle machinery and thick chains anchored to the center. There he was.

King, or something that once was.

His body remained human, enormous and tense, but multiple dark tentacles sprouted from his back, writhing with a life of their own. Chains bound his arms, legs, neck, and torso, pinning him against a metal structure.

When he raised his head and saw you, his eyes were fixed on you.

A guttural growl filled the room.

The tentacles twitched suddenly, straining the chains until they creaked, while that creature continued to stare at you with savage intensity, as if it hadn't yet decided whether it wanted to destroy you... or reach you.