Thread: Excavating Ecstasy

The creature she saw was nothing of this Earth. It stood 8 feet tall, only inches from touching the cieling. It's head was bulbeous, and rested ontop of the torso, vertically aligned with the body and the legs underneath it. It had four limbs, a pair of strong carapace legs, and a pair of arms that where long and no doubt muscular, but the brown, chitninous armour made it impossible to know exactly how much muscle was contained under its bulk. The head itself had two eyes, or what was assumed to be eyes, as its eyelids where shut. It seemed to be made out of soft, leathery skin. It had a pair of small mandibles, which had a large batch of brown bristles which covered the mouth. It seemed to be resting, standing on a small platform. It was this... Metallic surface that the cables where connected to. As an archeologist, this would be a striking find. This sort of metal working would not be seen until recent times, yet, these tunnels where pre-roman. Perhaps even Etruscan... There where no Etruscan letters on the platform this bug was standing on, or anywhere inside the room itself. It was dotted by small markings, forming complex patterns unlike anything she would have encountered. No man had ever seen these markings for well over two thousand years. This last room was three thousand years old at least, and the latin giving her a warning would suggest that this 'bug' had been visited, or at least known of, for a long time. Alanna's footsteps disturbed the catacombs. Her motions where monitored, by some ancient system that was still active in this unnatural chamber. This creature was not supposed to be here, but there he was. Whatever she did, she did something to stirr this place. Only moments after her incredible discovery, there was a flicker of lights. Around her, she would see small red dots of light comming alive. Electric lights. This was accompanied by a low, mechanical humming, and the wheezing noise comming from the platform on which the bug was standing on. Then, before her eyes, it awoke. This incredible creature was first surprised by the stinging sensation in it's joints. It knew these where the symtoms of prolonged assisted-hibernation. This displeased it, and it's eyes started to wander. Red and white, they scanned the room... And saw a woman. It spoke, it spoke latin. It had a dialect which was either a sign it didn't speak the language fluently, or that she was the first person to hear real latin as it was meant to be pronounced and spoken, which was impossible. If this was true, then this... Monster would have learned it from the ancient romans. What Alanna heard might have been surprising, as the chittering, deep voice expressed its displeasure at her failing her duties. It stepped down form the small elevated platform, and took a step closer. It demanded to know why she was here, as it always did when a woman entered its domain. While it noticed her volupteous shapes, its senses where stirred. For the first time in millennia, this room was being filled with an odourless drug, that would make her feel safe, relaxed... And abnormally aroused. The creature was releasing these pheremones, which had been the cause of its godlike status among women in the now extinct forgotten pre-latin tribes which worshipped it.