Teaghan started off with the water vines. She placed five large groupings of these vines around the room, with multiple smaller water vine groupings on top of the water vines. Teaghan watched as the vine islands grew and drifted along with the current. Teaghan also created one more big island, but this time it was centred right in the middle of the room. Still, she had to figure out how to anchor it so that the floating island stayed in the middle.

Teaghan, remembering a recent acquisition that came out of one of the underwater experiment rooms, grew a steam tree. She grew the stem tree so that the roots could anchor to the bottom of the floor, which resulted in the tree growing huge, as the middle of the floor was the deepest point of the room.

Teaghan decided that adding steam trees would work great with the floating islands. So she created dozens of them, making the islands look like floating forests. But there was an interesting effect with the steam trees. When the trees were placed, the air around them heated up, creating a small amount of steam around the trees. But what was interesting was that after watching the steam trees for a while, she saw that some of them randomly produced a haze of steam that was boiling hot. Even though Teaghan watched the trees for a while, she could not find a pattern for them releasing the hot steam, giving her the impression that it was random. Still, the trees also gave her unpredictable traps built right into the terrain. Even the water vines could open up, creating a trap that would drop an adventurer into the water and close before they could resurface.

The next thing that Teaghan did was add plants onto the living islands that had the ability to grow on trees. She added many plants like all her fern species that can live on top of the roots and added flowers like the lightning bat flower, which should be a lot more effective since the adventurers will probably be wet in some way. All of the plants that she added to the living islands could survive one way or another without the need for soil.

Wanting to continue with the floor’s ambiance, Teaghan decided to add sunglow to the ceiling to induce rain falls randomly. She also placed light crystals along the top of the ceiling, including place some in spots under the water. Teaghan placed some of the crystals underwater to create a mysterious environment that would allow adventurers to see the light and dark areas within the water.

Teaghan then went to populate the water section with plants and corals. She made two areas: an area of coral that encircled the island that holds the boss monster, and the rest covered in types of seaweed and other plants. In the meantime, Teaghan focused her attention on creating the coral reef area. She mixed the area with all the coral types that she had: sun corals, mana enhanced sun corals, and heat corals, creating a coral reef with very few open spots, even under the boss’s floating island.

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Teaghan placed tape grass, blue tangle grass, water snapper plants, waterwheels, and transparent waterwheels for the other section. This created an underwater green forest with little areas that have no plants.

With the plants added to both the floating islands and underwater, Teaghan moved on to adding the floor animals, starting first with the creatures living outside of the water. She created large praying mantises and calleta caterpillars, spring peepers and anchorite spiders, calleta butterflies and death stalkers, to red foxes and tree lynxes. She basically populated the islands with small and light creatures and creatures with the ability to fly. Teaghan decided that she would play around with the animals after she finished setting up the floor.

Next, Teaghan worked on placing creatures that would reside in the water section of this floor. This floor’s water section is split into two areas of the coral reef and the seaweed portion. Some of the creatures that will be placed into the water would reside only in these separate areas, while others can cross over as they like.

Teaghan placed vixen stingrays, cave crayfish, and armoured cavefish as the creatures that will only be in the seaweed section. She then placed light crayfish, coral crayfish, flare trahira, and vulpen stingrays in the coral reef area. The only creatures found throughout both regions were the kuhli loach, teleost, toothpick fish, trahira, and shedding teleost.

Now for the monsters of the floor. She did not really have any monsters that could do well within a semi-aquatic area, but she figured that kobolds should be able to do well on this floor. So she summoned thirty kobolds onto three of the five living islands.

Teaghan pondered what other monsters she could add to her floor, then it hit her. She had a couple of ancient creatures that she created from fossils that lived in semi-water areas or could be adapted. She pulled up the blue screen descriptions of her fossils to see her choices.

Petonx Lizard

An extinct species of lizard that lived in a swamp area that occupied where Outrey Forest is now standing millions of years ago. This lizard species had a large skull, small body, and stocky limbs. It had razor-sharp curved teeth and clawed toes.

Herrera

A long-extinct species of giant lizard that lived in forests. This species stands at one foot tall and three feet long. It has long, powerful hind legs for running and short forelimbs with three recurved claws for grasping and raking. Its lower jaw possessed large inward-curving teeth, and it was flexible for holding prey.

Mesonyx

A long-extinct species of large canines that is built for speed. It has evolved its features for active running. It grows between 1.25 to 1.5 metres long and is a very keen hunter. This species hunts by sight and hearing alone as it has a poor sense of smell. This canine has a large narrow skull with powerful jaw muscles and a dangerous bite.

Lysiad

A long-extinct species of snake that grows 6 - 10 feet. It is a burrower, and it detects predators and captures prey using low-frequency ground vibrations. It will lay in wait until its prey comes into its vicinity before it strikes, biting and strangling its prey to death.

Teaghan didn’t have many fossils to choose from. But before she decided on which should be added to this floor, she thought to check on Jack and the excavator kobolds to see if they found anything that could be placed on this floor.