GHOST
MEADOW
Pale
translucent grass growing even as it dies.
A
forced meander slows the river in a curl. The water drops organics.
Soil, seeds, chemicals and eggs. NITRATES. Nutrient-rich mulch
covered in pale, dying, sunless hypercharged plants. This soil hurts,
it writhes with biting life. As valuable, dangerous and desired as a
middle eastern oil field.
VOG-TORNADO-FALLS
Upwards
waterfall of boiling acid Vog. Encrusted with skeletons.
The
river plunges into a sulphurous lava pit, evaporates and boils
directly up. Condenses on the rotting roof, drips down and re-forms.
Bones everywhere, anything caught within dies. Handy if you need
bones. Surrounded with sulphurous mists. The most gothic thing ever.
SOLFATARA
Climbable
doughnut of toxic shards.
A
helix of crystals and toxic rocks around a smoking pit of chemical
fire. Like a passable cage of dripping blades. Climbable and
poisonous. Roof is full of chemo-maggot ratholes, crystals are piled
like a snakeskin shucked off in a narrow gap.
GROTTO
OF THE FARIES
Natural
gasses douse your lights.
Squat
globular cave hanging in its entry points like a ball in a cats
cradle of tubes. No speleothems. Ways in and out lead up. The
invisible gasses collecting here douse all burning flames and kill
you slow. Temperature gradient gives the clue, cold air near ground
may permit a spark.
MEGA-HELICTITES
Crammed
with crazed giant helictites
They
spiral like drinking straws left near a high heat. Flows of strange
viscosity inside. Must be climbed through like mad monkey bars.
Ignoring gravity, an empty space in the topographic core. Like a
calcite jungle with weird fluids oozing from the tips.
[dances excitedly]
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