Cult of Caverns

In 2057 my site is inhabited by a cult of vast multi-generational family compounds and various medical/spiritual centers. With the nascent development of a limestone water system and the unexpected emergence of a mysterious water plant, the cult has begun to realize its dream of developing a self-healing urban micro-ecology.

The cult engineered a type of limestone, that when implemented into the reclaimed, long scarred and polluted urban landscape formed a series of small lakes and caverns with the ability to grow and adapt continuously, creating new pools and barriers, water slides, and cascades at a miraculous rate.

Above ground the system appears as nothing more than a series of small lakes and a few young plants that have begun to take root in the renewed landscape. Below, rainwater gathers and rushes through subterranean caverns where the water-plant has emerged and made its home, and where the cult scientists have set up laboratories for experimentation.

The cult members have yet to fully examine the water-plant’s full medicinal potential, but for fear of exploitation have decided to conceal its existence and already extraordinary healing capabilities from the rest of the world. However, it seems only a matter of time before the outside world—suspicious of the cult’s growing reticence—infiltrates its secrets.