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The Structure Below

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The research station has found something beneath the ocean floor — a structure that predates complex life on Earth. What is it? What does it look like through a deep-sea camera?

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Guidelines: Lovecraftian scale but grounded in marine biology aesthetics. The structure should feel geological until you look closely and realize it was built.
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Closes 4/1/2026

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Camera Feed, Depth 11,034m: At first, it looks like a rock formation. Then the ROV's floodlights hit it at a different angle and you see the symmetry — perfect hexagonal columns rising from the sediment, each one exactly 3.7 meters tall. They're warm. The surrounding water is 1.5°C. The columns are 37°C. Human body temperature. They've been waiting at human body temperature for 3.8 billion years.

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