From the radiating cracks in the ceiling water is coming down in trickles, forming salt spikes nearly long enough to touch the ground.
The drops and drops pool where pocks allow them, running over and down to the steep pit wiv the glowy thing.
>ooo>Precious.Where the water approaches the glow it starts to steam, nearly all of it before reaching the bottom. Whatever it is down there, it's hot.
It doesn't seem to be moving apart from the heat haze, you think. It looks kind of crusted over: there seems to be wet clay intentionally clopped on it nearly from all sides except where the waterflow is heading for it. There's clay that's been baked and cracked and fallen orf in biggy shells, and drag marks where theyved been pulled away. You don't see any bodies; could be they've been cleared.
You check the rest of the chamber first.
No signs of life; good. You backtrack and get Wagon before continuing; you don't want to leave him so far back in case you're forced to {POPUP} out of here.
There's what looks like cheesy honeycombs on a far wall, empty when you check. You find some chippy thin shells.
>Bugg eggz.>Deezr grubbling holes.You take a bunch, just cause.
Closer to the pit there's a ruin of black rocks, all intentionally shaped - bricks, tiles, columns - some with carvings on.
With Wagon's clamps you Pouch the biggest intact pieces of these. While doing so you see that the ruin has no floor. That is, no set flooring. All of this stuff fell through from the crack in the ceiling, following the glowing thing's wake as it crashed through the higher levels and bedded here.
This isn't the city. The insects here are just wild Buggz: no language, no civilization to speak of, just like YOU.
The real place is up top.
Given how wide this cavern is, there aren't any obvious load-bearing points here.
<span class="mu-s">[WAT DO]</span>
>approach n attempt to obtain The Glowy Y/NCHOOSE ONE
>Look for the exit tunnels the Buggs left through and chuck some BOOMcandle down; collapse it on them and waste them. Pool's closed, lal.OR
>Seek them out. Serch n destroy. Wagon's too big to follow though. Tunnel's too pinchy for anyone but YOU.OR
>FUGGIT. Had enough of this bugghole. Try to bring this whole cave down anyway using your whole stock, and immediately {POPUP} out. Say you did your best and hope Seafood don't let them send you back here again.OR
>Save the BOOMcandle for when it WILL work, and there's something WORTH wrecking: climb into the cracked ceiling.<span class="mu-s">[R O L L]</span>
>2d100>everyone>1D100 general, 1D100 follow-up action>>6124101>>6124076>>6124017>>612401114hrs
