User blog comment:Aghostintheboat/The Official Roleplay Room/@comment-11135771-20141229202948/@comment-11135771-20141229211406

OOC: @Aghostintheboat: Oh, okay. I'll edit then accordingly. Maybe the AIF gets the first view of the worm.

@Harmonmj13: I'm not actually familiar with Evangelion. But it probably does have some similarities to other locations in various fiction.

IC:

///AIF///

Work begins on the surface, with construction going ahead as planned. The air is breathable, although the steam coming up from the vent results in poor visibility near the edge and very humid conditions.

The AIF battleship descends into the vent, slowly floating down. The sun's light, falling through the gap along with the ship, illuminates the walls of the chasm as the vessel descends. The trip is mostly uneventful, although a vast shifting of rock is seen at one point in the fissure wall, and several of the crew members swear they briefly saw a flash of scales through the moving stones.

Upon landing, the surface ships are dropped off and the larger aerospace warship leaves. They find themselves in a patch of lights, surrounded by seemingly endless darkness. The water is rich in heavy in minerals, and fairly deep. Pillars of rock stretch between the seabed and the crust beyond the vent, a few of which have some kind of gently glowing moss or lichen on them.