Swamped

This is an awful lot of water. If it was brought here deliberately, maybe there's something in here beyond muckweed. You circle the pool, poking your mudpike in to see if you can find any clue as to what.

Mostly you find more muckweed. You could probably make a real potent net out of this stuff, if you had the right tools to weave it together without getting tangled up in it yourself. As it is, you think you're better off just keeping it out of your way, so you keep tossing it back in.

Theoretically, you could dive in - your uniform's designed for it, after all. But it'd be dangerous with that much muckweed, even if your pike is good for clearing it out. If you had someone to watch you, that would be another matter...

Oh hells, did Rider dive in? You double-check your mask is on tight, and poke your head into the waters.

You don't see Rider. What you do see is a muckdiver swimming around... no, wait, it's not moving at all. It's just drifting, motionless.

It's dead. But it's too light to fall into the muckweed, and too dense to hit the top of the water. And there doesn't seem to be anything else around to eat the corpse.

You pull your head out. You've learned a bit more, but it's not too clear how useful it is to you.

Now what?