#permian basin superorganism

[hearmeoutworthypoll]

mystery flesh pit national park from the arg

Permian Basin Superorganism. Located in Gumption, Texas. Turned into an explorable tourist attraction from 1976-2007. Unique and familiar organs with its own ecosystem of ancient and evolved species distinct from the rest of the modern world. Unique organs include hot-spring-like pods containing a potent aphrodisiac. Digestive acids calcify when mixed with antacid, no real cure. Possibly ocean-dwelling in origin. Body count of at least 800 human lives

Reminder, the premise is “would a normie think it’s weird to find them attractive?” (Would they have to “hear me out?”)

[goldmanguyperson]

reminded to share this reddit post i saw (edited to contain the image cuz it was a link in the post)

[beau-rebloga-coisas]

My idea for a MFP movie goes like that: typical suburban family decides to go to a trip on there. While the trip they go camping and the typical rebellious teen that has a ton of sense more than her parents nope the fuck out of that and says nope nuh huh I am staying in the surface. Maybe the small kid is also (understandably) scared of "going into the monster" and the parents lecture the teen but then let her on the surface facility with the kid while they go walking in the entrails of that beast. Teen says they're crazy but stays there. Parents cry about her ruining a perfectly good July 4th holiday.

Cue to montage of parents being deep there when tremors start to shake everything and teen and kid having to withstand fleeing the surface facility when the tremors begun and maybe even lost each other. Teen calls parents and parents keep trying to call the kids but no luck until they find one of those scary blue phones. They have a few words before all eletric energy is cut and teen is all cut from parents.

The rest of the movie is simply playing people going crazy due to contact to gastric ejecta and teen trying to find the younger siblings amidst chaos+ the three intrapit creatures wrecking havoc after being rudely thrown up into the hostile world. The end is just the teen and the sibling meeting again, but tremors continue. After that it's just the news of that thing waking up and causing chaos and about the park closong down. It closes with Trevor (creator) asking this now grown up teen about what happened to try to put together how this place worked. His room is full of stuff from the park. The teen hands him a shirt that's in perfect state of the 2007 july 4th disaster. Trevor thanks and tries to say sorry for her parents but she stosp him because anyone that was dumb enough to climb into hell shouldn't be pitied. Trevor nods and they part ways. Film closes with trevor overseeing a collection of stuff to ve ready to descend into the flesh pit again because this gives a nice cliffhanger and I mean, what would complete a special interest better than visiting the site it all happened

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

You know I actually messaged the creator of the mysterious flesh pit when I first saw stuff from the blog. It was like “This is some of the most intricately detailed, thoroughly thought out, and absolutely riveting things I’ve ever seen. I am on awe of your dedication and skill. Unfortunately it is also the most horrible thing I have ever seen. Fantastic job.” And they responded “Yes that was the intended effect. Thank you.” Also: there is a Chilis in the park because they were inspired by the mini chilis you see in airports and stuff. They were pretty cool. Btw have they released some new stuff I haven’t seen yet?

The creator accepts questions from fans, and every few months he answers a bunch at a time. I prefer the QNAs over the rest of the blog because they go into much more detail than the regular posts of old park signs and company memos and material salvaged from the 2007 incident.

I'm also a big fan of the maps

Gumption is a fictional county that encompasses parts of the real world counties of Sterling and Tom Green (no relation to the actor)

The very nature of the permian basin superorganism means that it has never been seen above the surface, but my absolute favorite addition to the entire canon is from the most recent QNA where the author finally reveals what the damn thing looks like

This image is described in universe as an artists impression of what it might look like if it woke up and breached, but I'm willing to bet this is more or less accurate. The superorganism is in its own fictional phylum, but you can see that it's clearly designed to resemble echinoderms and mollusks; it's a big ass starfish with a clamlike mantle on top, lots of tubed feet and radial eyespots, and there's evidence it may be extraterrestrial because the fossilized remains of a similar superorganism were discovered by a Venus probe.

I've submitted a couple questions to the creator in the hopes he'll pick mine for the next QNA

Did the protrusions that burst from the surface in 2007 ever sink back below, or do they remain exposed to this day?

If the superorganism spans hundreds of miles outside the borders of Gumption and the defunct national park, what would stop anyone in the surrounding counties from digging down disturbing it themselves? I guess digging through hundreds of meters of rock is difficult, but surely there would be more than one company in the region that would want to take advantage of the superorganism.

We know roughly what shape it is from seismological data (as seen from the earthquake warning in the second map), and we know roughly how deep it extends from boreholes

Assuming I've read this image correctly, the superorganism is about 30km at its thickest point near the center, and tapers out as you travel further down its arms, though the second and third boreholes from the right show that there are deepers layers of tissue below the main body. From the surface, it goes rock, organism, rock, organism, rock, so there are limbs below the main limbs, or maybe the main limb is actually just the mantle and the lower tissue is the limb itself. I don't know, and that's what I love about it; we still have so much to learn!

[turbulent-talkbox]

Copepods

Sourced from ocean encyclopedia

Mystery Flesh Pit inspired cut-paper poetry.

Text under the cut

"Copepods

Long crustaceans

Drifting creatures

They feed.

They feed on other living things and

Human beings have entered the food chain"

[dalissy]

The Permian Basin Superorganism waking up after a lil nap and finding out all the shit Anodyne left inside its guts:

[silvandar]

Mystery Flesh Pit Zoobiology My Beloved

[kade-is-here]

This is SO INCREDIBLY COOL! As someone who’s been in a pretty damn large earthquake(rrrrright on the Ring of Fire), this is also a really accurate representation of what it’s like to be in one! :]

This video captures a live emergency alert broadcast from August of 2018. For Texas residents of the eastern permian basin, these kinds of alerts and alarms are somewhat common. Though the tremors and ejecta of these small events are quite minimal when compared to the larger 2007 event, they are still a point of danger and are taken seriously by those who live and work around the permian basin superorganism.  [ Update: A Discord has been created by Mystery Flesh Pit fans and can be accessed (here) ]

[sketchy-scribs-n-doods]

went to the mystery meat cave to get some T and all i got was T (as previously mentioned)

[panthera-ephemera]

still going with the thought that floory is somehow connected to the mystery flesh pit

[lone-pylon]

July 4th 2007: *rains*

The Permian Basin Superorganism:

[mysteryfleshpitnationalpark2]

- **~14.8 M.Y.A.**

A common ancestor of both the Amorphous Shame (*Mustela subterrana*) and Long-Tailed Weasel (*Mustela frenata*) enters an orifice of the Permian Basin Superorganism.

- **11.2 M.Y.A.**

*Mustela subterrana* begins to elongate in form to better navigate the anatomical interpit environment.

- **4 M.Y.A.**

Adaptation to the caustic environment has left the Amorphous Shame hairless, toothless, and blind. Liquid bolus from environmental processes provide sustenance.

- **1.3 M.Y.A.**

A life spent sucking at nutrient nodes has atrophied the muscles and skeleton of *Mustela subterrana*. Eyes and limbs are completely vestigial.

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**Present Day**

*(Shown removed from burrow)*

*(Images show the evolutionary stages of the Amorphous Shame

[bracketsoffear]

I notice that there's a sudden insurgence of statements from... Elsewhere, for the lack of a better word. Not from this universe, but, thanks to the crack in reality, other universes. I managed to fish out some more of these statements. The main color should indicate which entity is the most present at that statement.

Shut In - Statement of Sunny, surname not given, regarding four years spent in isolation (OMORI - Sunny; Lonely, Spiral, Dark (a bit))

Devil’s Footprints - Statement of Shinra Kusakabe, regarding the supposed loss of his family (Fire Force - White Clads; Desolation)

Big Boo’s Haunt - Statement of Luigi Martinetti, regarding a mansion that he won from a lottery (Luigi's Mansion - The Mansion in general; Dark, End)

Meat Grinder - Statement of Yuji Itadori, regarding one of several events in Shibuya, Tokyo on October 31st, 2018, and the demon residing within him (Jujutsu Kaisen - Ryomen Sukuna; Slaughter, Desolation)

Earth is Blue - Statement of the entity calling himself ‘Major Tom’, regarding his experience as an astronaut and outer space itself (David Bowie - Major Tom; Vast)

Tighter and Tighter - Statement of Owaki, surname not given, regarding the geographical features of Mount Amigara (The Enigma of Amigara Fault - Mount Amigara; Buried)

Impostor - Statement of R.J. MacReady, regarding his time on a research lab in the Antarctic (The Thing - The Thing; Stranger, Flesh)

Black Blood - Statement of Maka Albarn, regarding the increasingly concerning behavior of her ex-classmate (Soul Eater - Crona Gorgon; Spiral, Web)

Immanis Colosseus - Anonymous statement, regarding a national park that was closed down and its contents (Mystery Flesh Pit National Park - Permian Basin Superorganism; Flesh)

Refraction - Anonymous statement, regarding evolution and mutation (Annihilation - The Shimmer; Extinction)

Maybe it's a coincidence, or maybe it's simply the Mother of Puppets spinning a thread onto the story's fabric, as spiders are meant to. I hope these may be of interest, archivist

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[smokee-bee]

Happy Fourth of July everypony! On this day in 2007 the Permian Basin Superorganism Natural Preserve experienced a catastrophic disaster which resulted in over 700 casualties! Stay safe out there!

[nebulaecollective]

Introjects find porn of themselves on the internet meme, ft, the Nebulae Collective's Introjects.

unspoilered under the cut. The fucking canon event a lot of introjects go through.

Please don't be weird chat.

top to bottom right to left: Permian Basin Superorganism (it/its), Winter (he/him), Viktor (he/him), Vi (xi/xer), Vander (it/its), Tsunami (she/her), Swansea (he/him), Sunny (she/they), Starflight (he/him), Silco (he/it), Saint (he/it/they), Rick (he/him), Qibli (he/him), Powder (it/its), Peril (she/her), Moonwatcher (she/they), Looks to the Moon (xe/xyr), Jinx (she/it), Jayce (he/him(?)), Glory (she/it), Glam (he/they), Five Pebbles (he/xim), Dee (mirror prns), Darkstalker (he/him), Curly (1) (he/him), Clay (he/him), Charlie (he/she), Curly (2) (he/him), Blixer (he/him), Autumn (he/they), Anya (they/she), Alexis (he/they).

fuck me. why did i do this.

[cryptic-cowboy]

ok so since the mystery flesh pit national park is in texas, and cowboys are also in Texas probably, at least one cowboy has visited the permian basin superorganism (sorry, my various hyperfixations are colliding in my brain and there’s nothing i can do to stop it)