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Bah! Hogwash and balloney I say!!

And yet, after exploring more or less everywhere I felt I could up to this point of the game I couldn't help but wonder. Was there something down there in the deep? Was there some horrible dweller of the depths awaiting a determined or gullible gamer?? Even if there wasn't, the time spent getting there without game crashing cheats could prove to be equally horrifying!

So I took the plunge (Literally) and ten minutes south of the floating island I began my descent in creative mode. I figured I would use the heinously named PRAWN suit for the bulk of the journey and then console spawn a Cyclops when I'd reached the desired depth.

Some time later....much f'ing later mind you and roughly 750,000m down I ditched the exo..'sigh' PRAWN suit and watched it vanish into the inky black void. Cautiously I spawned my Cyclops, thankfully there were no crashes or glitches at this depth but even as I boarded the trusty roll-on deodorant shaped versitile submersible, I felt a pang of uneasiness clawing at me almost like a little voice that was whispering "go back you fool".

Atleast another hour of maddening descent passed and I realised my depth gauge had also frozen at 800,052m. By this point I had become accustomed to the strange groans of pressure when I heard it..

That haunting melody, it came out of the abyss like some eerie sirens song luring me on and sending shivers down my spine. If gaming has taught me one thing about that kind of music, it was that now was an appropriate time to crap my Aurora issued underwear.

My heart was racing, excitement mixing with a tentative fear, knowing I was near what I was seeking I pressed on. Further down I went until the music stopped completely accompanied by an abscence of bubbles and  exterior sounds of any kind except for the sub's engines. I carried on for a bit more but with some forward motion and was considering my next move when it happened...

Something brushed past the sub.

She rocked ever so slightly but it was enough, I decided to wait a little bit and see if it would happen again when the power to the sub died.

Darkness enveloped me, I was completely unnerved. The ships power readout still said it was full and yet here I was in the middle of a power out, I switched to my flashlight and noticed immediately the unwelcoming sight of the dead interior, like I had intruded on some long lost ghost sub no longer meant for any living creature but now property of the abyss outside. I thought I would try playing with the ships energy cores and attempt to restore power when I heard a wheezing moan that sounded like it was filtered through water fill the ship, my mind raced. I imagined something in the ships pitch black hold waiting to ascend the ladder when my back was turned, or something charging out of the darkness of the engine room into my flashlight beam but there was nothing but the moan.

Hesitantly I directed my flashlight towards the observation dome, but was met with nothing but glare. As I headed for the engine room I noticed a faint green glow was steadily growing in strength from behind me, I turned to see what seemed light green fireflies dancing in the distance getting closer and closer, I stood mesmerised when the ship was brushed again, much more violently this time, so much so that the hull was breached and she began to take on water. I felt her listing and decided to abandon ship rather than hunt for the breach and risk getting stuck.

I managed to get to the hatch before traversing the interior became impossible and felt so vunerable outside the ship, a plaything to whatever monstrosity was lurking out there. I realised that the green lights, although spread out could be seen all around me. The moaning continued loader now than before, and I had lost all sense of direction. Feeling truly helpless by this point, I then heard the sound of the Cyclops colliding with something nearby..I shone my flashlight in the genral direction of the sound and my heart skipped a beat.

There it was... a humongous bloodshot eye and a mass of tentacles covered with mouths, the moaning was so loud now it's menacing alien eye seemed to be fixed on me drawing ever closer, I knew there was no point in trying to get away. I had no sense of direction, and so I decided to swim towards it when one of the tentacles seemed to poise and strike in my direction the game completely froze. Non-responsive and black screened I had to restart my whole rig, shamedly I realised that in my excitement and deisbelief I had totally forgotten to screenshot any of it let alone make a save point nearby.

I've been back down several times since and each time (so far anyway) my search has yielded no results, maybe Azathoth Jnr is in constant motion down there or maybe it spawns randomly one thing is for sure though, I will never ever take this game for granted again and to those of you who go fishing for Lovecraft's goldfish be careful what you wish for, you'll never look at this game the same way again.