Descend (The Abyssal Depths)
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From: Spiralling Deeper with the (Diving-Bell)
Unlocked with Hull Health 5
Success
Diving deeper
Description summary:
The description changes as you lose Hull Health
Hull Health | Description |
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41 | […] you couldn't adjust its descent anymore if you wanted. Its fins are aligned so precisely with the […] currents that, with the slightest deviation, opposing rip-tides would shred the zubmersible […]
One of the gauges […] explodes. Broken glass […] Your own blood […] |
32 | Time warps in these lightless trenches. […] Weeks are years, and years are fleeting moments. You mark their passage […] by counting the bolts that pop loose […]
The […] Naturalist is quick with emergency caulk […] More caulk. More fumes. More decades in the dark. |
23 | Living gills pump fresh air into the diving-bell. […]
Until the metal begins to buckle. […] Nineteen, twenty – more bolts popping; more noxious caulk […] What is that caulk? "F.F. Gebrandt's Superior Postal Adhesive […] Illegal without a licence, obviously." |
14 | You haven't eaten in ages. The […] Naturalist is nothing but skin and bone. […]
No sign from the compass that you're any closer. The needles still hum with the same frequency. They still point directly downward. The crack in the porthole continues to grow […] |
5 | The Unterzee is an abyssal fist around your diving-bell. It squeezes, and metal crumples. […] All the surviving gauges burst. By now, the porthole is fully fractured. Only some impossible tension still holds the shards together […] |
0 | […] You can't breathe without inhaling fumes. (Seventy-two. Seventy-three.) […] one valiant fin still flutters to keep the diving-bell on course […]
"It occurs to me," […] "that we might not make it." His expression is ghastly. […] […] the last light-bulb goes pop. |
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- Rivets pop and metal groans. (Lowers Hull Health by 9)
- Troubled Waters is increasing… (+17 CP)
- Wounds is increasing… (+4 CP)