![]() ![]() ![]() The next few seconds would pass in agonising horror as I turned to see the biggest creature Id ever come across. With a quick scan, I had what I needed to fabricate my escape from this watery nightmare. I slowly made my way up again and to my relief, there was the fragment I so desperately needed. I should be dead, but by a sheer miracle, I’d floated down and landed next to one of those glowing plants that could feed my suit with O2. I’d bitten my tongue when I rammed my head into a piece of rock jutting out from the cave wall. I awoke with stabbing pain on my temple and a salty taste in my mouth. I was just about to set up a beacon when a roar from my right caused me to panic and I instinctively swam up, sporting one of those stupid faces you pull when you drop something: then blackness. Finally, the channel opened up to reveal a colossal cave with many smaller tunnels leading off towards darkness. As I sank through the narrow gap in the rock I could see a faint glow below and for a second I remember the scene in Abyss when Bud discovers an alien city. With a newly acquired rebreather, I would now be able to reach what I needed and hopefully avoid whatever had been making those spine-tingling roars. A Seatruck would get me to the radar station, but I still needed one more piece of the blueprint from that deep ravine below my feet. This was the day we would make a break for it as the editable fish seemed to be getting wise and had started avoided my refuge. While in this relative safety I’d still been aware of a shadow moving just out of sight in the distant gloom. That had been a week ago and since then I had managed to use it to craft some basic survival tools and then knock together a working base of operations. With chunks of hail the size of footballs seeing me off I had made my way to the Life Pod and to my relief the fabricator was still functioning. After narrowly avoiding frostbite the bracing ocean had been the lesser of two evils. ![]() Surviving an orbital descent gone wrong had seemingly just been the start of my troubles. ![]()
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