You headed further east down the tunnel. You were now deep enough in that there was very little snow or ice. It was however quite muddy. You would have to sometimes crawl around on all fours to get past some rather tight passageways. Your spacesuit was going to be absolutory disgusting by the time you were done with this.
As you continue walking you were looking for any side areas to explore. You found a couple of side chambers they were however rather small. Some of them had giant ceilings that went up for hundreds of feet. Others were just the size of a shed that seemed more like small resting areas than anything else.
On occasion, you would have to stop and carefully look around. There were a few massive holes that seemed to go on further than your light could display. You almost ended up falling into one of them as you were not paying enough attention and just managed to catch yourself before taking what would have otherwise been a rather bad step.
After a while the cave passage turned south and the further you went the colder it seemed to get. Even your wristwatch was issuing tempting drop alerts. You must be getting close to something.
You ended up taking a bit of a break. You found a decently large boulder that you could sit down on since sitting in the mud on the ground did not seem ideal. You took a decent look around in the area you were in but nothing but stalagmites for as far as you could see.
You then contained to walk for quite some time before heading west. This is perhaps where things started to get rather interesting. At one point you came to what appeared to be the end of the cave itself. You ran into a massive body of water.
You shined your watch down on the pool of water and it looked like there was a massive underwater tunnel that leads somewhere. It was also according to your wristwatch alarming a lot colder here than anywhere else you had been in the cave.
You could put on your space helmet and take a dive (this action requires 20 units of oxygen. If you don’t have enough oxygen or do not wish to go down into the underwater tunnel continue down below).
Not wanting to take the risk you had no choice but to head out the way you came. It was quite a lot of walking back. At one point you even stopped to take a nap in the mud. It was rather unenjoyable and the smell of the cave was starting to get to you.
In the end, you ended up walking back heading east, north, and west till you made it out of the cave itself. You walked over to some snow and did your best to wash off and remove the many layers of caked-on muck that your spacesuit was covered in.
You can continue by going back into the cave or heading to the tundra to the north, or to the tundra to the south.
Content is written by @Enjar of @Enjargames. AI artwork was created using Playgroundai.
