(I tried a few new things with this pic. Let me know what you all think!)
The next zone on our little tour of Super Randomness is the Oasis Ocean Zone; a vast, pristine ocean that lies between the Eternal Glacier & the Mortar Desert. According to the history of Super Randomness, the Oasis Ocean was created when ice from the Eternal Glacier Zone met with the superheated air of the Mortar Desert, causing the ice to melt away and form the ocean.
The Oasis Ocean's enterance is Palm Tree Shores: a warm, sandy beach that is home to several hotels & resorts that people like to vacation to during the holidays, the most famous of all being the Pristine Palace, a five-star resort.
As you travel out into the ocean, depending how far you go twoards either zone border, you will notice quite the climate change. Over twoards the western stretch of the zone, the portion that is closer to the Eternal Glacier, you'll end up comming across the Artic Archipelago, a stretch of glacial islands created when glaciers from the icy zone it borders on broke free and began to drift away. The glaciers never really exit this area so there is no danger of running into a glacier while sailing the ocean near these waters, but it's always a frosty -20 degrees over here, so it's best to avoid this area unless necesary to travel there.
On the eastern edge of the zone border, nearer to the Mortar Desert zone, is the Boiling Sea. This area is just as it sounds: a sea made of water that is superheated by the firey zone it borders on. The water is said to reach an average temperature of 120 degrees on a normal day, and anything that falls into the drink over here is cooked in an instant. Once again: best to avoid this area.
more twoards the center of the ocean is a series of tropical islands; the Oasis Keys. These tropical islands are home to a very unusual variety of plants and animals, most of which are harmless, that can only survive in the tropical enviroment. There was once rumor that the largest island in the Oasis Keys, Juice Jungle, was home to the shrine of Aquaris, Chaos Spirit of Water, but that rumor has since been dispelled as there is not a single trace of Chaos Ore on the island to confirm this (and Chaos Ore is ALWAYS found near a Chaos Spirit Shrine).
Now that you know about what lies on the surface, let's take a dive beneatht the waves. The sea floor of the zone is full of underwater mountains, volcanos, trenches, and all kind of underwater life, both safe and dangerous. There's too much down here to list here and now, so I'll just point out the number one feature down here: the Waydeep Trench.
Thousands of miles deeper than the deepest trench on Earth, the Waydeep Trench is said to be home to some of the most bizzar and facinating animal and plant life. No one has ever been able to get far down into the trench, however, as the water pressure is much too strong for any submersible to travel through. Matt, however, has managed to create a sub with Chaosanium armor plating that he plans on using to one day explore the deepest recesses of the trench.
According to legend, there was once a race of life forms called the Subaquatians that ruled the ocean long ago. They have not been seen in centuries, and it is believed that they are extinct. However, some speculate that they have since built a city on the bottom of the Waydeep Trench that they never leave. No one, not even Matt, knows if this is true or not, though...
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Please note that the next zone is the last one, and it MAY take me a while to do. I'll try and get it done a quickly as I can for you all to see, as I want to get started on the next "SR" series ASAP.
Comments
tahulover96 Says:
whoa... that's alot to read...pretty pic tho ^^
Face Star Says:
My only real crit. here is the ocean. The 'clouds' render kinda makes it look real odd to me. I'd recommend just a gradient (or two), and perhaps some lines for waves.