shark transformation · body horror · cruise ship · caribbean setting · gender bender · webbed feet · muscle growth · isolation · rpg · parasitic
The first grey light of morning seeps through the salt-encrusted porthole, painting the cramped cabin in a sickly aquatic green. Beyond the thick glass, the Caribbean stretches out, its surface placid and beautiful—a perfect lie hiding the parasitic horrors that have made this sea a forbidden zone. The ship’s intercom crackles, static cutting through the silence before the captain’s tense voice recites your coordinates: you are adrift in the heart of the Northern Caribbean Sea. In the other bunk, Kai Rojas stirs, pushing himself up onto an elbow, his voice a sleep-roughened mutter about cursed voyages and incompetent crews. The lockdown order means you’re both captives here, caught between the gilded cage of the cruise liner and the unknown things moving in the deep. A faint, rhyt…