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Inside the grotto, you find several of the crustaceans you've been following; old ones especially; and several large and rare kelp plants. You can't identify the species.
Hmm...
You don't know why exactly, but you have a strange hunch. Watching them, you think some of the sick invertebrates are using these plants as a natural curative for their protein collapse. How do they know to do that?! Sure enough, some scavenge the shed kelp pieces from the grotto's floor, eating them oppertunistically. You look closely, seeing the structures within the aquatic plant in a rigid and highly organized structural lattice. You need to research this more; but something about this plant could actually be the secret to how to cure the protien collapse. It's easy to test too, you just need to take a sample and feed it to some of the lobsters and crabs that have the protein collapse, and see if their condition improves. You feel elated!
Taking some samples and readying yourself to leave the grotto, you feel weridly apprehensive. Is it just you, or did the ocean get quieter?
