A Tentacle Monster from Beyond

It came for the call of the bell.

Like a dead tree slitting in half, a loud crack echoed in the room. A plume of fire leaped from the floor at the foot of the bed.

A vaguely humanoid shape -- lumpy and hunchbacked, yet lankey and asymmetrical -- came out from the hole of fire, its entire shape obscured by a burlap hood that look like it had been dyed dark colors from a muck-filled ocean floor.

The figure belched deep-throated nonsense from Amitiel assumed was from a mouth. Past the echo, the language it spoke sounded like someone was speaking English Pig-Latin backwards.

Abbadon spoke something back to it, though it was less muddled, as though her one speaking orifice gave her an accent that made the fact that it was a second-language obvious.

"Amy, meet He-Who-Swallowed-His-Own-Name, though I call him Albert."

The creature gave a low gurgle.

"Uh, nice to meet you?"

Amitiel wasn't all that accustomed to Infernal Etiquette, so she put out her hand to shake.

From under the strange cloth, a greenish-blue tentacle emerged as it slapped itself onto her outstretched hand, coiling around her arm, leaving a slick substance on her skin. It was warmer that she initially thought it would be.

The creature said a run-on sentence in his strange language.

"Albert's actually really nice. We're old college friends. He only speaks Oblivious."

"Oblivious?"

"Yeah. He's from Oblivion."

Amitiel's blood ran cold.

If Heaven and Hell were islands, Oblivion was like a deep, dark ocean, filled with nightmarish things. Eldritch horrors with nothing but tentacles and eyes. Sure angels and demons had tentacles and eyes too when they wanted them, but the things from Oblivion were a whole other breed entirely.

If angels were vanilla and demons were chocolate, then Albert was like a meatloaf. Not a perfect metaphor, but things get lost in translation.

"S-So you and Albert..."

"We've done it a few times. Nothing too serious. He's a favorite at orgy-night. This tentacles can stretch for miles and he has a lot of them."