TTRPG creations: 7/365: The Stars Yeti

 The Stars Yeti

On top of ancient mountain tops, a sea of never breaking white. Thick clouds roll through, slowly sloshing against cliff faces. Most fear to tread within the thin air, nature grows odd so high up. 

 

Plants lacking food grow slowly, what does is best left alone. Animals also survive and even thrive within this bizarre alien environment. The high altitude human tribes have developed a way to eek out a living. 

The tribes don't take visitors often, so different is the environment most others find it difficult to survive for more than a few days. Some that do come back with stories, stories of odd ape beings. Of cosmic orders older than time. Of strange religious practices that pre date man made empires. Of beings that strain the mind and trigger primal fears.

"Before the tribes climbed the mountains the yeti lived. The yeti taught the tribes with time, hunting, weaving and live stock. After many moons a star fell upon the mountain side, the yeti went to investigate. The yeti came back sickened, they forbid the tribes from the sight. With time the yeti became sullen and angry, staying within the caves they called home, coming out on fewer occasions. 

The village growing worried with every passing year finally investigated. The sight of the star fall had been transformed into an unnatural inhuman waste. Tall ebony tower had grown out of the land pulsing with a shadowed rainbow hue. As the tribe approached they heard terrible screams on the winds, looking around they saw coming from the mountains caves horrible beings. All eyes, tentacles and growths. The mountain was not the only thing to have changed.