Joan Alonso’s Reviews > Annihilation > Status Update

2 Integration

The anthropologist has disappeared. The psychologist is the main suspect. They return to the tower, the biologist can see it’s a living organism, it breathes.

Golden spores, the Biologist inhaled them.
Words made of fungi.
The anthropologist was on edge,
Fleshy aspect of the walls, the gullet of a beast.
The psychologist and its hypnotic suggestion.
Consolidation of Authority.
To see a structure of coquina and stone
The biologist is immune to the hypnotic suggestion because of the spores.

The lighthouse drawn by the previous expedition members

The idea of the lighthouse reassure reality, anchor. The tower none of those.
Precision
The vines and the words they formed
What are they made of?

The wild boar toward the expedition, surveyor ready with her riffle. The boar in pain, its eyes sparkled electricity. It veered and disappeared.

Second expedition commited suicide by shotgun and third one shot each other.

Current twelfth expedition.

All four of them returned to the tunnel (tower), the surveyor went first. Clear to this level, tower.

Group of 5, Linguist didn't pass final test (?). psychologist uses hypnosis for certain orders within the group.
Biologist specialized in transitional environments.
Area X, pristine, forest to swamp to salt marsh to beach.
Discussion about the tower, 3 to 1, rule out as a threat, a tower (tunnel) that headed straight down.

01: Initiation

The tower, the expedition to Area X.
4 women: Biologist, Surveyor, Anthropologist and Psychologist

Low moaning at dusk.