#cave crawler

[naiadic]

Thinking about something my therapist told me today when I mentioned I've been feeling super into Horror lately-

They said that horror is a really great way to feel a controlled fear when the world is giving so much uncontrolled fear. Thinking about horrible monsters and situations that you *aren't* facing makes what actually is at hand a little more manageable

[honksilly]

goodbye

[rotary-supercollider]

[lovearoundzero]

When you turn into a crystal while dying in a cave 😝😝✨✨🙏🙏

[scorittanius]

i know a lot of ppl like iron lung but i personally prefer cave crawler. quite similar, but with more bodies Crystals.

[springfallendeer]

Cave Crawler Encounter (2)

Well. Ayala survived.

And she makes use of what she has. This one may gross you out a bit.

||A relieved sigh escapes the woman as she allows her body to slump against the examination table.||

||Not venomous. Not poisonous.||

||Just an ambitious carrion eater that took advantage of the dark to try and get a free meal.||

||But instead, it would be her meal.||

||Scans determined it to be edible.||

||She would need whatever food she could get if she wanted to recover from these wounds. A series of painful punctures, courtesy of its mandibles lined her body. Plenty on her back. Shallow and painful. The worst being on her side, where it had latched on and set out to devour her alive.||

||She's stopped bleeding thanks to emergency medical care.||

||That was unpleasant in its own right. Creams that burned and clogged the wound to disinfect broken flesh and stem the bleeding. Serums to promote fast cellular growth, to assure that these wounds closed in a timely manner.||

||But there would be no healing without energy to fuel that rapid cellular growth.||

||The processer made quick work of turning the corpse into cooked, edible matter.||

||Its just a big bug.||

||A big water dwelling bug… Like a crab. Or a lobster.||

||Perfectly edible. Gross as it looks.||

||The same knife used to deliver the lethal blow is used to pry open the thick, rigid shell that protects the inner flesh of the creature.||

||Cave Crawler. That's what she'll call it.||

||The perfect name for a perfect little pest.||

||One at a time, she pries the legs off of the body. Bending the segments at the joints snaps the shell. In prying each segment apart, long strips of cooked inner meat are pulled from the shell.||

||Pink and white.||

||Just like crab. It'll be just like crab.||

||That first bite reveals that she's not entirely wrong.||

||It has such dense, stringy flesh. Flesh which is softer than she would have imagined once actually bitten into.||

||It tastes a little like crab. Only a little.||

||Salty and briny. Like the sea. With notes of crab and shrimp.||

||Strange, but not unpleasant.||

||Salty, but otherwise bland.||

||She doesn't hate it. But she can't say that she likes it either.||

||Edible is the best word to describe it. Cave Crawler is edible.||

||If she had more resources, certainly it could be made better. But for now, this is enough.||

||Its a sizeable meal, given that its a big arthropod the size of a dog.||

||Plenty of meat in the legs. But what about the center? The head and body?||

||She has to taste everything. She has to determine what is and isn't palatable.||

||She uses her knife to carve around the rim of its massive, deflated eye so that she can pry it out of the head.||

||Soft and gelatinous. With a hard, inedible mass in the center.||

||This was going to be gross.||

||She uses her knife to collect a dollop of the translucent blue goo.||

||It smells pungent. Fishy. Briny.||

||She gags at the taste.||

||Salty slime with an overwhelming fishy smell that assaults her tastebuds.||

||Inedible. The eye is absolutely inedible. At least in this state. It was like eating a potent, fishy cooking condiment.||

||She quickly retrieves water to wash the offensive smell out of her mouth before it makes her retch.||

||Cave Crawler eye might be better suited as a fish bait. So many sea creatures absolutely adored potent foodstuffs such as this.||

||Maybe it could be diluted in water to be made into a stock. But she didn't even have the supplies to attempt such a thing.||

||The mass of gooey green innards that line the interior of the body prove equally as potent. Fishy and briny.||

||Clusters of vibrant orange roe, on the other hand, prove to be less offensive. Still potent. Still salty. But the eggs strangely taste more like crab than the actual flesh of the creature does.||

||Edible legs. Edible eggs. Offensive internal organs and a disgusting eye. The latter might be suitable for soup, but for now, it would be better off used as bait.||

||She scoops the gelatinous remains of the eye into the main body and seals that away in storage for the time being.||

||Later, she'll find out if anything in the open water actually finds those offensive offcuts appetizing.||

||For now, she'll focus on her meal. With the healing serum in her system, her appetite has been heightened. Her body is digesting food faster than it otherwise would, because the calories are needed to assure rapid healing.||

||The interior of her small, mediocre attempt at a base smells fishy. She'll have to disinfect and clean everything to get the smell off of her and her belongings.||

||The last thing she needs is to venture back out into the open ocean smelling like food.||

||What a horrible day.||

||But she's survived. And she's learned from her mistakes.||

||Don't trust the caves. Don't venture into the darkness ill-equipped.||

||Don't eat Cave Crawler guts or eyes because they taste like concentrated sea water and fish bile.||

[manifold-updates]

Jack uploaded the ‘Cave Crawler’ VOD!

[endlessvoiq]

Soooo. guess who got into a random obscure horror game again ✨

CW FOR : BODY HORROR (probably, the game itself is body horror so)

ALSO SPOILERS FOR THE END OF CAVE CRAWLER and also please click on the images for better quality tumblr scrunched it a bit

[giffypudding]

The Velma spinoff we deserve

[youlooklikeabigdoll]

[mysteamgrids]

Cave Crawler

[apple8ees]

lighting/fire practice in the form of a sort of @comicaurora redraw... unfortunately, void erin cool

[springfallendeer]

Cave Crawler Encounter (1)

Ayala has ventured into a cave on 4546B.

There, she has a near fatal encounter.

||Caves were dangerous. She should not have come here.||

||Caves were dangerous. She should not have come here.||

||In the absence of light, it was near impossible to see. Near impossible for her to tell what it was that had taken to lunging at her from the darkness.||

||There were flashes of vibrant, disorienting blue. Then twinges of pain as something pierced into her wetsuit.||

||All that she can do is blindly swing at these disorienting lights as she forces herself through the darkness back towards the safety of the outside waters.||

||Sometimes she connects with something. Sometimes she feels the end of her blade come into contact with whatever it is that's attacking her.||

||Most of the time she misses.||

||Most of the time, she feels the unpleasant sting of something puncturing her flesh.||

||Inevitably, whatever it is that's attacking her lands a solid hit in her disorientation.||

||What feels like claws envelop her torso. Long and powerful. Thick and sturdy.||

||She wraps her free hand blindly around one of these claws and struggles to try and pull herself free as she uses her legs to propel herself forward. Only now she's slower, due to the added drag of whatever it is that's wrapped itself around her body.||

||Something punctures her side again.||

||And again.||

||And again.||

||Fighting against the pain of being eaten alive, she ushers herself towards the security of the light.||

||Tempting as it may be, she dares not aim the blade towards her own body. Not while she's blind to what it is that's wrapped around her.||

||She has to resist the urge to stare into the enormous, cyan eye which studies her suffering form.||

||One last desperate thrust of her legs pushes her out from the darkness and into the security of the light.||

||A bug.||

||There's a giant, one eyed bug clinging to her.||

||Mandibles relax briefly, only to immediately sink deeper into her flesh than before.||

||With one powerful motion, she drives her blade into the center of its singular, massive eye. She pierces the one vulnerable part of its body was mercilessly as it pierces her flesh with its mouth parts.||

||It hisses. Angrily and in pain.||

||Segmented limbs abruptly uncoil to flail about as the arthropod attempts to retreat.||

||But there is no retreat now. Not with her knife buried deeply in its eye. Not with her pressing that blade in deeper still out of desperation to kill the creature that had latched onto her.||

||She couldn't let it get away.||

||This wasn't a malicious kill on her part. But a desperate one.||

||She had no way of knowing if it was venomous. She would need a sample from the source to craft an antivenom if it was.||

||It hunted to survive.||

||She killed it to assure her own survival.||

||Two entirely different lifeforms. Two equally valid fights to be had.||

||Two lives on the line. One of which is lost.||

||The strange, hostile creature eventually goes still.||

||Blood forms a cloud in the water around her, establishing the seriousness of her own injuries after having been chewed on by the beast.||

||She gathers it up and stows it away in her storage, ignoring how its mandibles continue to twitch faintly from nerves firing off inside of its body.||

||Straight to the seamoth. Straight to her one means of getting back to shelter alive.||

||Blood pools in the seat as she races towards home.||

||If there's venom in her system, she's not experiencing any symptoms yet.||

||If there's venom in her system, it might not even be able to interact with her tissues the same way that it might the tissues of the native flora.||

||She has to make it back.||

||She has to survive.||

||After lasting this long, she can't go out like this.||

||The fight isn't over yet.||

||She can make it.||

||She can make it.||

||She has too.||

[manifold-updates]

Jack was live playing Cave Crawler a few days ago!