20k Leagues Under the Sea: Alcheme

[idolpro]

[The elevator deposits you in the interior of a spacious submersible with a decidedly steampunk aesthetic. All of the metal is brushed bronze, and the navigation tools look to be turn of the century]

[Through the periscope, you can still see the sky; the water visible through the circular windows is a pale blue-green, kissed by filtering sunlight]

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ROUND 3 RESULTS

[idolpro]

"Through the portholes, before your eyes there quivers a horrible monster worthy of a place among the most farfetched teratological legends."

"It is a squid of colossal dimensions, fully eight meters long. It gazes with enormous, staring eyes that are tinted sea green. Its arms (or more accurately, feet) are rooted in its head; they stretch a distance twice the length of its body and are writhing like the serpentine hair of the Furies. The monster’s mouth—a beak made of horn and shaped like that of a parrot—opens and closes vertically. Its tongue, also of horn substance and armed with several rows of sharp teeth, flickers out from between these genuine shears. What a freak of nature! A bird’s beak on a mollusk! You can plainly see its 250 suckers, arranged over the inner sides of its tentacles and shaped like semispheric capsules."

[While the lava looked extremely dangerous, unfortunately its distraction allowed those suckers have taken hold of the side of the submersible; each one is large enough to obscure a window on its own, and the metal of the vehicle creaks and groans in protest. There is a snap, and a ping, perhaps of a rivet giving way]

[And perhaps for a moment, you feel assured that somehow, miraculously, the pressure inside and out reaches equilibrium as nothing happens.]

[But that reassurance would be short-lived, as the tiniest piece of glass shoots forward into the vehicle, water spraying into the breach with the full power of the ocean's depths behind it, all apparently singularly focused on meeting you in its watery embrace.

It proves to be very, very good at such a goal, unfortunately for those of you who require air to live]





[Who can say exactly what happened? But eventually you wash up elsewhere...]