"In the first weeks of what was now seen as a major global catastrophe, a literal mountain of semi-gelatinous rock had emerged from the plains of Nebraska. Once it had extricated itself from its burial in the deep earth and clawed its way to the surface of the planet, the mountain had unfolded into a roughly hexapodaial form, six giant limbs lumbering under a mass roughly equivalent to a large building. The military had been forced to fall back when the monster started to move.
The thing was walking on segmented “legs” that were vaguely like a spider’s—if the spider was made of a million tons of rock—dredging a deep trench of destruction in its wake to the tune of about a mile a day. It was slow, but unstoppable, at least with conventional firepower.
They had hit it with conventional bombs and “bunker-buster” equipped cruise missiles. These had had almost no effect on the crust of the creature. Conventional artillery with armor-piercing shells and ground mines had all been deployed to no effect. They also hit the thing several times with thermobaric fuel/air explosive bombs, nicknamed Daisy Cutters, also to no effect. The military brass, not the scientists, were speculating that the thing actually had some kind of force field that engaged whenever the monster’s body was impacted with sufficient force.
One of the broadcast pundits, a science fiction writer from Southern California, had dubbed the monster a 'Gravity Troll' (apparently after a creature in one of his own books, taking advantage of the situation in an orgy of self-promotion), and the handle was being picked up by more and more news outlets, finally appearing as a large bold headline on the cover of the New York Times: 'Gravity Troll Smashes Through the Midwest.' "
"Gravity Troll" is an animated digital painting with original soundtrack. Part of #NFTMegaColab Project, this NFT artwork is a collaboration between #NFTartists @CInvnt and @KevinWPage. .MP4 file with sound.
