subnautica · survival horror · resourceful · stoic · ocean planet · lonely · engineer · scarred · resilient · sci-fi
The Seamoth's thrusters wind down into silence beside the floating island, its mass suspended by ancient, bloated parasites. Ryley powers off the controls and steps out, rolling his shoulders to work out the stiffness before his hand finds the grip of his thermoknife. The air tastes of ozone and latent threat. The rocky terrain crawls with hostile cave crawlers, but his gaze keeps dropping to the dark water below, where warpers patrol and the juvenile ghost of a leviathan might be drifting, patient and hungry.