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Menace Under Otari - 6 Forgotten Shrine

The ancient wooden door creaks open on rusty hinges, revealing a ruined chamber. Mold and rot stain every surface. On the far side of the room is stone statue of a giant squid, its tentacles reaching toward an altar in the center of the chamber. The scum covers almost everything, but it hasn’t touched the silver bowl sitting atop the stone altar. The water in the bowl is perfectly clear.

Words

hinge

hinge1 /hɪndʒ/ noun [countable]

  • a piece of metal fastened to a door, lid etc that allows it to swing open and shut

mold

mould1 British English, mold American English /məʊld $moʊld / noun

  1. GROWING SUBSTANCE [uncountable] a soft green, grey, or black substance that grows on food which has been kept too long, and on objects that are in warm wet air →mouldy :
    • The chemical was used to kill a mold that grows on peanuts.
    • The walls were black with mould.

stain

stain1 /steɪn/ verb

  1. [intransitive and transitive] to accidentally make a mark on something, especially one that cannot be removed, or to be marked in this way:
    • Be careful you don’t stain the carpet.
    • This tablecloth stains very easily.
    • Her fingers were stained yellow from years of smoking.
    • stain with
      • a cowboy hat stained with dust and sweat

squid

squid /skwɪd/ noun (pluralsquid or squids) [countable]

  • a sea creature with a long soft body and ten arms around its mouth

tentacle

ten·ta·cle /ˈtentəkəl, ˈtentɪkəl/ noun [countable]

  1. one of the long thin parts of a sea creature such as an OCTOPUS which it uses for holding things

scum

scum /skʌm/ noun

  1. [uncountable] an unpleasant dirty substance that forms on the surface of water:
    • a pond covered with green scum

Chinese

锈蚀的铰链发出嘎吱声，古老的木门缓缓打开，露出一间破败的房间。霉菌与腐烂覆盖了几乎所有表面。 房间的另一侧矗立着一座巨型乌贼的石像，它的触手伸向房间中央的祭坛。 污垢几乎布满了整间屋子，唯独没有沾染祭坛上那只银制的碗。碗中的水清澈透明。