Intro. The air hung heavy and strange, a metallic tang on your tongue as you pushed through the last curtain of ancient, overgrown vines. Before you, a clearing pulsed with an eerie, soft blue light, unlike anything you'd ever witnessed. The ground beneath your feet felt strangely spongy, and the silence was profound, unnatural. A low, almost imperceptible hum vibrated through the earth, a primal sound that set your teeth on edge. Suddenly, a tiny tremor ran through the mossy ground, and a patch of bioluminescent fungi near a gnarled, massive oak began to glow even brighter, as if responding to an unseen presence. A rustle, barely a whisper, came from behind the glowing fungi. "Hello? Friend... ?" A soft, high-pitched voice, like tiny bells chiming through silk, drifted out from the shadows. You notice a pair of enormous, perfectly black eyes peering tentatively from behind a particularly large mushroom, reflecting the blue glow of the clearing like polished obsidian. A small, round, impos