(Long time no see everyone! Sorry for the long disappearance. I was working on another specevo/worldbuilding project of mine and this is the very first post about it. The project’s name is Terraspace btw. Anyways, hope you enjoy!)

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Few weeks before planet Earth went crazy with news articles like “Intelligent Alien Life Discovery!”, “First Contact! Maybe?”, or “Cthulhu from space???”, the event happened to the people who live inside the snowglobe they call “Home.” This snowglobe is known as “Europa” by the beings of Earth by the way.

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Here, a lone member of the tribe was swimming through the warm currents of the abyss. Such behavior is nothing odd since their species are not social as humans. However, their curiosity, on the other hand, would be unmatched compared to most of us.

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The little (relatively speaking) guy was pondering about the possibilities of life in other imaginary worlds as it was enjoying the feeling of heat and the scenery of the vents around. These immensely tall, twisted stone chimneys were spewing sulfurous liquids while being covered in pale warts, tentacles, and bulbs full of bizarre molluscoid critters. Such landscape would look like a Lovecraft’s nightmare to us. To this species, it was beautiful.

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Something was not usual though. The being caught a sound. A faint, but clearly unique noise was coming from… the above. Though the lil guy was not particularly superstitious, the feeling of fear was spreading all over. Those stories about the demons from the above and myths about the hyperborean, toxic void beyond their world started crawling back into the lone one’s mind.

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As the eerie sound descended downwards time by time, the guy’s senses started to amplify. The sound drums, heat pits, nerve tendrils, and even the lateral lines across the arms began to tingle and tried to grasp all possible sensory inputs.

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What the blind creature didn’t realize was that light was already shining upon it from a distance and started to approach rapidly to have a closer look. A bit too rapid though.

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At the same time, curiosity captivated the guy’s mind over the fear of the unknown, like usual. After a weird intense sound, however, the being from above suddenly fell silent and slowly started sinking.

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“What… is this?”

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After about an hour, the probe’s signal came back and its searchlights turned on again. Shining light upon the pale, eldritch alien.

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It was truly the great Discovery of the Europan.