# Earth Pelagic > EXAMPLE WORLD DOSSIER · PROVISIONAL FICTION > RECORD: WRLD-PELAGIC-002 · VERIFICATION: UNCONFIRMED ## I. Reality Summary A warm ocean covers nearly every former lowland. Floating settlements follow currents between mountain islands, and drowned city towers serve as mooring posts. Civilization survived by becoming mobile. ## II. Divergence A prolonged greenhouse episode began centuries earlier than in Prime’s industrial history. Coastal states collapsed gradually; rescue fleets became permanent communities. The exact initiating event remains unresolved. ## III. Physical Conditions Breathable, humid air; approximately 1 g. Violent storms and salt corrosion are routine. Warm seas support luminous surface blooms. Freshwater exists as a traded industrial product rather than an assumed public resource. **Temporal behavior:** Local calendar runs 112 years ahead. **Proposed stability index:** 83/100, an authoring value rather than an established instrument reading. Dates, dimensional frequency, and confidence remain blank until the story establishes evidence. ## IV. Sociological Conditions Raft-cities are governed by rotating water stewards. Citizenship follows a vessel instead of a birthplace. Navigation charts are communal property, but intact pre-flood archives are guarded as strategic assets. ### Places and encounter possibilities The Bell Reef contains submerged towers whose bells sound during pressure changes. The Meridian Flotilla maintains seed vaults and desalination barges. A tide archivist can read old coastlines from wave interference. ### Field precautions Secure the rig above spray height; carry independent flotation and drinking water. Locals interpret unregistered salvage as theft from the dead. Do not dive into buildings without a return line. ## V. Linked Records - [[Earth Prime]] — reference reality and return comparison. - [[Earth Verdant]] — comparative world; similarities are a research lead, not proof of a shared cause. These are ordinary links so the dossier and graph work in Obsidian Publish. Places, people, and phenomena mentioned above are story seeds within this world, not additional record categories or separately confirmed records. ## VI. Personal Notes *Proposed Ned voice, not a numbered outgoing transmission:* > They asked where my boat was. “I walked here” was the least believable thing I have ever said. **Open investigation:** Why do the bells sometimes ring before a storm forms? Does one drowned archive contain a record of Ned’s arrival?