Blood Rush

The Hunt

While the fish feasted on its flesh, an economic frenzy took hold of the corpse as it was cleansed and converted into a new city. Artificial organs originally invented for preserving a natural Fall were instead used to enable hollowing out the corpse. Massive factories filled the body like tumors, churning out more of the machinery required to convert new corpses into Falls.   A trickle of blood that leaves a trail. Letting loose the houndsharks, the hunter-colonists tracked down the kraken-whale. A bloom of blood and flesh as it is killed. A frenzy of feasting fish.  

The sighting of a kraken-whale would signal the start of a new hunt, known as a blood rush.

Mothers torn from their calves, with the most macabre case being New [Placeholder], where mother and child are tied together forever.

The Breach: a pod of whales came by a dead metropole and carried it upon their backs up towards the surface

A white whale was spotted, and not only did it evade hunters, it would bite at Falls and attempt to pull them into the depths. Eventually caught and turned into the Albino Palace.