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  = The Place Without Recourse =
  http://imago.hitherby.com/2006/04/hitherby-annual-2-maundy-thursday-ii/

  = Ii Ma =

  Uses the pronoun "it". Consists of a great horrid bulk.  Has body
  parts like hands and eyes.  Doesn't seem to leave its redoubt.  It
  can whisper questions at you from a distance, so you can get asked
  your question even when Ii Ma isn't actually there.  Doesn't seem to
  speak, otherwise.  Drives people insane.

  http://imago.hitherby.com/2006/02/the-ragged-things-1-of-1/

  The warden Ii Ma dwells in its redoubt. It wallows in its mud.

  One great hand moves, shifting its weight in the murk.

  Now there is little mud in the place without recourse; the soil
  there is for the most part clean and dry. But where Ii Ma lives the
  blood and ichor that pours from it at all times soaks into the
  soil. When Ii Ma moves he churns the soil and the blood, creating a
  thick unwholesome poultice beneath it for its wounds that never
  heal.

  ...

  Yet still it is there, dripping with its great black blood. Still it
  is their keeper, holding them there by the will of Ii Ma’s masters,
  and it is no proper thing.

  http://imago.hitherby.com/2006/06/the-island-of-the-centipede-the-isnt-ii/
  
  Ii Ma’s surface is great plate-like scales. Its shape comes
  bulbously forwards and its neck is differentiated to only a limited
  degree. Its maw and its ears are great gaps in the substance of Ii
  Ma. It has six flippered legs and its face drips black blood. Its
  eyes are cadaverous. Slime covers it. Muck covers it. At its center
  is the organ by which it confuses the cartographic process of the
  place without recourse.