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Boris Bacic
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March 2 - March 2, 2024
There were, altogether, one thousand, three hundred and seventy-six bulbs on the walkway, which Raymond counted once when he was bored.
The guy was found eight hours later, and it was then determined that he died not of drowning but of stabbing. Apparently, when he realized that he wasn’t going to make it, he used his dive knife to stab himself in the heart to avoid the gruesome death of drowning.
this bothers me because down there food is scarce so the deep sea life should have been all over him. how'd they find his body..
“Did you find what the problem was?” “I think so,” he said as he tugged at a particularly larger rock. “Just give me a—holy shit.”
noopee, I would leave
realized that those weren’t scratches at all. They were writings.
welp that's not good
It has symbols, it’s glowing, and it’s in a hollowed-out underwater mountain.
totally not normal at that frigging depth
bubbles dispersing upward and disappearing in the overwhelming blackness. But that wasn’t the only thing Raymond saw.
monster monster monster
Lora’s voice persisted, drowned out by Raymond’s horrific screaming. His visor spider-webbed. A horrible crack came from his helmet, and by then, Lora’s voice was long gone, turned into pure static. It was all over. This was how he was going to die, Raymond realized—alone, in the abyss of the oceanic depths too hostile for any human to tread through, his corpse left to rot in this godforsaken, lightless void. Before he could contemplate that thought properly, he hit the ground hard, and his vision went dark.
Marco’s athletic figure came into view.
ahem
Because of this, many of the creatures adopted something called counter-illumination, which was essentially reducing the contrast between their figure and the background, camouflaging themselves from both predators and prey alike.
foreshadowing I think
The jellyfish didn’t care that they were in such predatorial depths. They were just there, existing, gliding, like nothing around them mattered. They were their own light in a world full of darkness.
I wanna be as unbothered as jelly fish
4912 Feet
as they keep ticking the depth as I read it's a bit intimidating
5023 Feet
see it's pretty creepy
“We lost Raymond,” Chief Roberts said.
“What time?” Ellie threw her hand up in frustration. “It’s been twenty hours. The guy’s suit is long out of oxygen. He’s dead.”
“He’s not dead,” Lora calmly said.
“She’s right. Something is up,” Andres spoke in a soft tone. The chief looked at Ellie with his stern working face and said, “We received a distress signal from Raymond five minutes ago.”
at that depth wtf
“I don’t know how, but he’s still alive,” he said. “He sent a distress signal from a depth of eleven thousand feet.”
jfc 11 thouuussssand
“I think it’s clear,” Ellie said, already hating her next sentence. “We go deeper.”
one of the stupidest things ever
“I wonder what kind of creatures we’ll run into down there,” Andres said, breaking the silence. “I mean, it’s only going to get more dangerous the deeper we go, and I can’t help but wonder about the life that manages to survive down there.”
why would you say that. it's such a horror trope
“Look at the pattern,” Ellie said. “He panicked and ran.” “Yeah,” Trevor nodded. “The question is why did he run?”
oh totallyyy
“Are you okay?” Ellie asked. “The hell is wrong with you?” The alarm inside her started to subside now that she saw that Andres was at least not catatonic. “I… I saw something out there,” he pointed in front of him.
it beginsss
Just as she prepared to make her own climb, she heard a whirling sound to her right. She jerked her head in the direction of the noise with a gasp. Her suit’s torch shed light on something large and flat disappearing out of view. The tail of a sea creature, maybe? Ellie spun in a half-circle to illuminate the surrounding area, but nothing came into view. She quickly brought out her panel while ignoring the elevated heart rate display in the corner of her helmet. She entered the sonar and waited for the ring to scan the area. “Ellie,” Trevor called out from the top of the ledge. Ellie ignored
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ooh I loveee thisss. but also oh fug no. this kind of reminds me of GTFO and the bio scanner
“They’re here, they’re here, they’re here…” Raymond repeated over and over.
oh no poor man I just want him to have his date with lora
A deafening pop ensued.
:(
Ellie still saw the yellow dot representing Raymond, growing more and more distant. She thought she saw the dot slightly moving, and couldn’t help but wonder if an animal had already reached his corpse and started nibbling on it. His body would stay there, adding to the numerous bodies at the bottom of the ocean, until nature stripped the flesh off his bones and
only the skeleton remained.
“This wasn’t caused by the pressure,” Ellie said. She looked at the rest of her coworkers. “Something down here destroyed it,” she added at last.
“A creature broke through,” she said. “We didn’t see any big animals anywhere,” Sasha said. “Not even on the sonar.”
“There’s something out there,” Ellie said. “Andres saw it, and I saw it back when we climbed that one ledge. Something that’s been following us ever since we entered the hollow seamount.”
nope nope nope it's so creepy when something g is actively intelligent
“Boys? Where’s Marco?” Ellie asked. Andres looked at Trevor and then around himself. “He was with me just a moment ago,” he said in a stupor.
polo
leathery foreign object suddenly retracted.
Just fifteen feet in front of the group on the ground lay Marco on his back, spasming uncontrollably while an animal feasted on his abdomen with its head buried in its victim’s open stomach.
yup holy shiieeeee
Its mouth contorted into a grin, and Ellie didn’t need to be a scientist to understand that the creature wasn’t smiling at them—it was trying to threaten them by showing them its spiky teeth.
??? Feet
that's bad
A gray oval shape emerged from the water, causing it to ripple again. Andres recoiled and fell on his rear as
he stared at the two black saucers that stared back at him. The mermaid!
only thing on his mind right now was—don’t scare the mermaid.
“Friends,” Andres said complacently. The mermaid looked up at him. And then she pulled him under the water.
good. hope he died
Trevor didn’t try hiding anymore that he was caressing Ellie’s hand now. “You know, I never got to know you how I wanted to,” he said. “I was gonna take you out for dinner, but then that thing happened, and I couldn’t.”
She was so weak that she thought her legs might collapse under her. She ran a hand through Trevor’s hair while they explored each other’s mouths with tongues, getting more and more daring with each passing second. She dropped the SFOG canisters on the floor, where they clattered loudly. Trevor dropped his rifle, adding to the noise. Soon, Ellie and Trevor were not only passionately kissing but panting heavily in each other’s faces. The cold in the room seemed to disappear entirely, and Ellie couldn’t get out of her suit fast enough. Trevor helped her out of her suit, and she helped him out of
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did not need the random trauma snusnu
As much as he cherished what he and Ellie shared, he had to return to the surface alive. He had a life up there. Friends and a girlfriend who he had been long-distance dating for a few years now. He never told Ellie about Sharon. She didn’t need to know about that. In fact, he hadn’t told anyone on the SEALAB about it. He and Sharon were wobbly at best, but he didn’t want to ditch her just yet until he figured out what would happen between him and Ellie.
bitsh better die
and when he looked at the screen, he saw a big message that made his eyes widen. WARNING! POD INTEGRITY BREACH DETECTED!
yih fuk u
