The Coral Archives - Unwinnable https://unwinnable.com/tag/the-coral/ Stories about Culture Thu, 17 Jul 2014 20:36:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://unwinnable.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-icon-1-32x32.jpg The Coral Archives - Unwinnable https://unwinnable.com/tag/the-coral/ 32 32 Killing the Worm https://unwinnable.com/2014/05/12/killing-the-worm/ Mon, 12 May 2014 05:38:14 +0000 https://unwinnable.com/?p=50185 It happened beneath a castle. Dozens of miles underground, sheltered from the wintry wastes of the forgotten surface, in the world of Arx Fatalis. Sprinting past humanoid rats stabbing at me with rusted knives, I make my way through dark tunnels encrusted with car-sized Venus flytraps and hanging cocoons pregnant with God-knows-what. I light a torch, checking my paper map to note that I’ve entered a maze of narrow tunnels, pitch with darkness and inebriating in déjà vu. Ahead of me, a shaft narrows and turns from black to red. A slick wallpaper of human organs cakes the entrance, wet

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