DEEPLINE

One lamp. Nine hundred metres of dark.

You ride a submersible down a midnight trench behind a glass bubble. Your only instrument is a steerable lamp. Sweep it across the dark, hold a creature in the focused beam long enough, and it enters your field journal. Some of them run from the light. One of them comes toward it.

Controls

In VRYour right hand is the lamp. Trigger focuses the beam — that is what catalogues. Grip vents ballast to slow the descent. The journal rides on your left forearm.
On screenDrag to look; the lamp follows your gaze. Click or Space focuses. Shift slows the descent.

Read the dark

Faint pinpricksBioluminescence. Something is there. Put the beam on it to see what.
Lamp powerFocusing drains it. Let go and it recovers. You cannot hold the beam forever.
BallastFinite. Spend it to linger where something rare is passing.
The floorNine hundred metres down. Something large lives just above it.
 
WebXR · seated · no locomotion input, so no motion sickness · no download
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Sunlit
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LAMP
BALLAST