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Piper 90: Mods ([personal profile] goneawaymod) wrote in [community profile] goneawayworld 2021-03-23 05:24 am (UTC)

The inside is...strange. There are large containers within that seem reinforced with some kind of heavy duty material - plastic? Metal? Something in between? The material is a silvery gray, with an almost iridescent quality.

Opening the containers is a bad idea, judging from the single container that has a slight crack. Over time, little bits of liquid - or a particle sand-like solid? - have oozed out of it in miniscule amounts into a little puddle.

They've seen this substance now and again on the rig - sometimes in little puddles from leaks in the rig's structure, quickly cleaned up by hazmat janitors. Sometimes looking out on the grey storms sweeping over the landscape.

And if they had any doubts at all about what it is, skittering around the edges of that puddle is a strange creature - a massive spider with legs too spindly to be like a normal spider's. It has large butterfly wings, the size of a dinner plate - but too many of them, layered over one another, like the overlapping petals of flowers.

Who knows what started out as as - one bug dreaming of the other, or two of them merging together. It's always hard to tell with Stuff.

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