Ill Tidings by Kublakhan
A 15-foot-wide spillway tunnel is carved 20 feet down a steep shoreline cliff. The manmade opening sits nearly level with the water line. The ocean rises above the lip of the entry, and thick, churning water spills out of the brick-lined doorway. Thick sludge floats on the current, and green streamers of putrid moss hang from the rounded ceiling 10 feet overhead. Water marks stain the brick walls from past high tides. An iron gate designed to bar entry into the spillway lies underwater inside the entry. The smell of rot fills the tunnel mouth, and dark crusts of fungus cling to the bricks. A thick carpet of shells washed in from the ocean fills the first 20 feet of the hallway, creating a crunching carpet on the stained stone.
