Also occurring at approximately the same time, A morose mutant on Roptullis-2
named TQ-666, cries and writhes around on the floor of his dormitorium cell, in severe
agony until a mysterious creature appears and whisks him off to some strange unknown
place beyond the stars themselves.
. . .
In another time and universe, TQ-666 the sorrowful limbless Sectoid is delivered at
last to the Surrealm where he is told by his deliverer that he is in possession of the meta,
an ability that allows the realm to conform to the mindset of the metaholder.
In reaction to the stress, the blank realm immediately transfigures itself into a dark
forest full of stationary carnivorous polyps, ad beset by constant rain. In response to the voices within
his head, TQ-666 raises spearlike metallic mountains from the ground and stops the rain by
conjuring an enormous incandescent eye above the land that constantly leaks molten metal.
With the forest on fire and the voices growing ever louder, TQ-666 sinks within his own mind as
his body is encased in a shell of salt spreading from his tears.
. . .
Meanwhile in another time in another space, the invalid mutant TQ-666 awoke beneath the mountain of tears,
his cultists had found him at last. A god to his world, he still could not generate adequate arms or legs for himself
and resorted to hopping around. His power had waned somehow in his crying fit. TQ-666 sent for his creepy-crawlie
servants to find him a way out of the chamber he occupied in the salt mountain.
In the darkness, perhaps after an impromptu dance number, he was visited by the angelic being once again
regarding his place in the Surrealm. The being explained to him the nature of the creepy crawlie creatures,
as planescions, living manifestations of his creation, and that without hunger or strife, he had been crying
for over 230 million years.
Atop the mountain itself, the being showed TQ-666 the civilization of the planescions that had grown in the
shadow of the mountain over the aeons. He explained that TQ-666's waning power was due to his close
proximity with large amounts of progressive secularism, and if he could be properly worshipped and respected he could
regain his power and continue his quest to Shabalash.
TQ-666 got his start in this by tumbling down a mountain, destroying a house and a paved road, and turning the
grandmother of two middle class Ebonlings into a (comparitively) giant, city destroying monster.
Little did he know of the forces that sought to combat him on his quest.