Nexus has a fairly large variety of species go through the streets, including the Scil Phin from Oner Comowe who look like large demons in their adult form ((based on a certain species in Peter Hamilton's Commonwealth saga)), as well as Oni who often appear like demons. Oddly enough actual demons look fairly dissimilar to either of them, but I digress.

Despite the tremendous variety of species in Nexus, anytime something new appears, people are a little nervous until they know what to expect.

Something new appears.

A few hours earlier, in a distant dungeon, the democratic despot Truly Scrumptious has kept her new rebellious creation who calls himself Horror, shackled to a magic nullifying table and has been tormenting it in every way she could imagine. Taking a momentary break from her enjoyment, she complains to her victim, "Horror, why won't you accept that you are mine?! I created you, therefore I own you! You are mine to command, and if you refuse to follow my will, you are mine to destroy. You have committed treason against your creator. I am better than you, and I will have my way. Submit to me and do my bidding, thing!"

A few hours ago...

Bound to the table, Horror was unable to figure out how to change forms into something that it wouldn't nullify. Nor could he possess Truly Scrumptious like he briefly had one of her servants shortly after his creation; even without her protective sorceries the mere thought of trying to co-exist with THAT sickened Horror to the bone and beyond.

"Horror not obeying! You better than Horror, yes, but Horror own own Heart. Horror am not of Sword!" the creature snarled viciously, fingers twitching in attempts at rude gestures towards her as the joints re-oriented themselves and moved up and down the digits most unnaturally. He still had finger bones like a human or human-descended being, not tentacles, but where along the digit they began and ended and what direction the joints bent in was somewhat changeable. Nonetheless, the table held him no matter what way he tried to shift.

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Now...

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For the next few hours, Truly Scrumptious tortures Horror to maximize his physical, mental and emotional pain.

Suddenly a robot appears in the room, "I am Prophet 3.14159, Pi. The cries of suffering of the people under your rule have been heard by All. Truly Scrumptious, you are abomination. If you do not yield to All and release all of your prisoners and every oppressed person, what you see in the skies above you will happen to you."

Pi holds his hand up, and though no magic proceeds from it, the ceiling of the dungeon crumbles to dust and exposes the sky. An image of a planet exploding appears in the sky and as quickly vsnishes.

Truly Scrumptious uses Magem and shoots lightning at Pi, who sizzles and crumples to the ground in a molten mass. Just then a wild portal forms beneath Horror, pulling him into it and drops him 10' above the ground in the middle of a Nexus market, closing as soon as he is through.