Hey Rookie! Yeah, sorry for the sudden wake-up, but something weird’s going on. Again. No, not the coffee machine this time—well, also the coffee machine—but that’s not your concern.

We just picked up a signal from our waste disposal vessels. Emergency-type. Origin’s... below us. Like, deep down. Somewhere it really shouldn’t be. No idea how it ended up there... let's just hope the retired biomass it was carrying hasn't leaked... who knows what effect that'd have on the environment... and our paychecks.

Anyway. Someone’s gotta check it out. Guess who’s next on the roster?

Grab your suit, take a deep breath and find that trash sub ASAP! Oh, and whatever you do — hold on to that flashlight!

Good luck down there. Try not to die, yeah?

You were hired as part of the Ludum Dare 57

Theme: Depths

[LOG-ECHO 069.B | Recovered Fragment – Origin: Ludum Whiskers]

"Personnel Manifest? Or just another pile of names carved into the biomass?"

SYSTEM RECORDS: (Handwriting partially corrupted, assumed translation below)

TheWhiteShadow – code engineer, responsible for most of the system logic. Blamed for the flickering lights on Floor 3. Still denies it.

Mervvel / Marvin – also coding. Often found arguing with pipes. Pipes never respond.

lensu – environmental visual specialist. Designed the walls. Possibly also lives in them now.

idk some itchio guy / Nadine – creature concepts. No one has seen her, but her designs keep showing up.

MissSpelled / Anouk – responsible for cutscene structuring and narrative fragments and soundeffects. Rumored to speak directly to the vents.

HowToBeHayes – designed the diver’s suit and built the game pages. Left mysterious coffee mugs everywhere.

Milumalu – reshaped the outside zones. Plants, rocks, stuff that might be breathing. Good eye for spooky things.

END LOG (If found, please return to the nearest station. And stop reading other people’s files.)