“You cannot grasp the true form of Giygas’s attack.”

There’s a post I’ve misplaced describing the comforting lie of seeing a “big squid.” ‘The most alien beast of the murky depths is our beloved brother compared to this.’ They’re not tentacles. They’re veins. Or the substances flowing through them. Like if you reached into a two-dimensional world, all the inhabitants would see is a cross-section of things that shouldn’t exist outside a body. And if you decided to trap one of them in a glass of water, or stick a pin clean through them, there would be absolutely nothing they could do about it.

From the other direction, there’s that post about ants spelling out your name in sugar. It doesn’t hold any power over you… but it’d certainly get your attention. You might do as they ask, because their desires are trivial. You might completely eradicate all traces of their colony. You know they don’t belong there, but they cannot understand why. And if your flatmate’s being a dick, you could instruct them to pick the lock to his room, while the ants don’t even perceive the door as an obstacle. They’re just ants, and they can walk right around it, on all sides. How could anything as freakishly powerful as you be restrained? They try not to think about it as they move these enormous gears and the whole goddamn world suddenly rotates around them. You’ll surely be even more dangerous, once you’ve retrieved this immense artifact, your “PS5.”