Thursday, 19 April 2018

Worldbuilding/Literature experiment: The deep cave


There were accountings of a strange cave located in the dephs of the atlantic ocean. It was an area was located where the pressure was at its near-apex. This cave was dotted with crystals all over, the azure rocks were incredibly smooth, polished with bits of strange goo matted. The rocks had small patterns of green lines, supposedly from the chloroplasts of dead plants.  

The rocks were concave-shaped, often branching towards other rocks .They were alsohard to break – hence why the cave has looked largely the same for centuries. The most damage that any man could ever do to those rocks was a few scratches, if even that.

Algae and plants engulf the lower parts of the cave, the rocks are also weaker at this point due to this. The algae on the other hand are as sturdy as the rocks higher up in the cave. They are near impossible to cut off due to this, the small portion of animals though years of evolution have grown to eat this.

The wildlife that resides here are strange eel-looking creatues with tounges that have holes in them, this is for sucking up the algae with such intense force, that it is plucked out of the rocks. Their average lifespan ranges from over thirty years, they reportedly only reproduce once in their lifetime and given that they often leave the cave a decade into birth, into the seas – they can be found anywhere … yet they are rarely seen.

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