In the brief moment that Magma ponders
the idea, he is distracted. Magma doesn't notice something fly up to him, from the direction he was running in. He is startled by the forumite's voice. A scratchy, almost nasal voice, dripping with acid—stating
"Playing dollhouse with caricatures of other people is kinda cringe, don't you think?". Magma turns his head- or whatever- around to look at the disruptive—and rather ill-mannered—individual. Magma is only half shocked to find
him—
the vulture—hovering there, flapping his black wings. Though, Magma still
physically shrinks in size slightly at the sight of him. No wonder Magma didn't hear, sense nor see him approach. No one ever does. No one ever notices him, but his influence is felt by all.
Almost as soon as Magma lays eyes on him, the vulture transforms. In a whirlwind of black smoke, it takes it's true form. There he is—
The Carrion Lord, Strif3—a mysterious entity, cloaked in black and wearing an engraved mask. Once dead, but now returned, the only known one of Strif3's spheres is that of [DEATH]. His mere presence has the tendency to cause things around him to wither. Forumites are
generally immune to this aura, but the things they make are not. Thankfully, he appears rarely, even more rarely in his true form, in which even the sound of his words reek of wilting death.
He stands there, upside down,
on the ceiling, looking at Magma. Whatever expression on his face, it's hidden behind that inscrutable mask.
But if
he's here, what does this mean? What has the unknowable forumite planned? Perhaps he's just here to entertain himself? To simply make his presence known, as he most commonly does when he appears?