Arcane Benthic Umbilicus (Demo)

Shimmering scales, soft glow and bulbous enamor A smooth touch of the growths beneath the waters Doctored by interdimensional waves Caressed by the tribes, menagerie of ex-military, scientists, thieves, and prison world sentinels, sentinels Derelict ships in the aqueducts Minerals, bodies, and metals collide Bubbles erupt from lurkers below Seafoam flickering with various bodily fluids Tendril, pili, mandibular palps Antennae, chrome exopod, nanowire Nanowire dopamine Tasting another world, salivary gel synthesized Synthesized and manifested Engineers racing against the deep water fiends The evolution culminates together A world of curiosity and oddity Victorious of purpose, laborious in its pursuit To wet the brain of the fallen By the touch of here Rejuvenated By the luscious leaves Iridescent Incoherent voices murmur One must submerge A new appendage grows with a tickling sensation Unknown nerves Diatoms amalgamate Diatoms amalgamate Lighten, lighten Seek, seek the temple and the incarnations Incarnation extrapolated Tropical, hidrotic aromas emanate Whispers and chants spring To learn a new language Submerge deeper, eat the light Fins creep Creep

Syphon death Leftovers miasmic Beyond the blood, beyond any armor Exhaustive procession, a blessing gift-wrapped Hivemind social structure It’s your memories we want After you’re long gone, cinema exmortal Brain sing, preserved for our own methods Encrusted gems flicker, tinker with the fallen Dead or near-dead, no difference Abundance Of the drowned and eaten After submersible circumstance Extracting, extracting It’s peaceful No one hinders Never tired Of feeding Consuming Consign memory to our own, drone Post-mortal squelch, why Liquidity You are remembered

Anomalous trawl revealing floodpits, old creation Reel it in, large fragment of mossy steel, seafloor disguise Rows of filmy barnacles, faint glow of light beneath, slowly blinking blue Subsea Further submersion required, assemble channels of fathom seers, ruin divers, and lastly lucid dream engineers Deep operatives of reality and dreams Benthic Umbilicus Navigating the sludge Dank, root-made maze Coralsmiths lurking, approaching with suspicion Tendrils refract Enclave darting, surrounding us Scattering strokes of ambush, sinister dashes of calculated stabs Telekinetic tanglers Drowners guiding us down a gullet, fin blades locked into our suits and skin Inescapable tricksters, force feed Dream engineers stay wary, yet ready to engage in the astral slipstream Descend Blue dream Deceptive visions flood and mesmerize Dreamtide speakers Shape pseudowater Deceptive visions correlating, coralsmiths stirring, dream stones pass, high oxalate Hypnotic thirst Breathing false air and water even in this astral state, lucidity reversed causing insanity to weigh down A large gullet will be an intruder’s watery grave, forever ensnared in a benthic nightmare Swallowed by something unknown, it plumbs the depths of oceans and the Psyche Body and mind digested Umbilicus Metabolize Benthic Umbilicus Benthic Umbilicus Feed on the rest