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Black Catacomb

The first Black Catacomb was established in the ancient network of rocky tunnels located beneath the Imperial Palace on Feyla, late in the year 4612, at the personal direction of the Empress Morie Avaya Feyla. Intended to house the biogel infatuated Empress' ever-growing collection of biogel transformed individuals, the ancient tunnels were expanded into a vast complex that would eventually span six levels over area of more than two square kilometers. It would quickly become one of the Palace's most popular tourist attractions and set the pattern for other Black Catacomb's to follow.

Entrance into any of the two dozen current Black Catacombs is free to the general public. Each Catacomb has multiple entrances, each located at a convenient location where the public routes through the tunnels begin, end, and intersect. Public routes typically run through about 2km of tunnel, and each Catacomb has at least six such routes. Waystations are provided with food and rest rooms for visitors. The larger Catacombs also provide sleeping alcoves for the more dedicated sort of visitors who desire to make a make a full, multi-day tour of the tunnels without returning to the surface.

All Black Catacombs contain four distinct types of tunnel in addition to the aforementioned waystations. Most visitors only see the first type: the public tunnels. These are the vast, vaulted, multi-level tunnels where biogel transformed individuals are displayed in artistic fashion for public viewing along the high walls, on the broad, clear resin floors, and even embedded within the resin itself. Different sections of public tunnel, and sometimes entire routes, are decorated to a different theme. There may be trophy displays, erotic displays, abstract biogel art displays, and such. The only limit is the imagination of the biogel clad artist and art students who oversee the displays.

The second type of tunnel are the manufacturies. These are small tunnels located in various places along the public tunnels, where visitors are periodically encouraged to offer their bodies to be included in the Catacomb's collection. Most are equipped for basic glistening and encasement. Some, however, are equipped for more artistic transformations. Most popular are lover's copulation, where couples are encased in a state of permanent erotic union within a solid block of crystal clear biogel. Anonymous unions are the norm, with parties having no knowledge of each each other beforehand. Purely artistic transformations are also quite popular with visitors.

The third of the tunnel types are the Catacombs proper. There, gummies encased in solid biogel sarcophagi are stacked neatly in alcoves, sealed in by more decorative, partially encased standing sarcophagi.

The final type of tunnel are the worker housing tunnels. These are similar to the waystations, but are located amid the Catacomb tunnels and are furnished for more permanent habitation. Each biogel clad worker has their own private alcove, and it expected to reside exclusively within the tunnels for their full four day work week.

Visitors to any Black Catacomb who complete a full tour are gifted with a basic biogel suit kit at the end of their visit. This comes with a bonus invitation to the Catacomb's annual ceremonial induction. Those who don the biogel and actually come for the induction are voted upon by the viewing, VixNet and/or GeliNet account-holding general public. The winners get to become sensual trophies to be displayed in an appropriate area of the public tunnels.

Black Maze

The Black Catacombs at the Imperial Palace on Feylin, and in the city of Mashiva both have publicly accessible areas known as a Black Maze. A Black Maze is a complex series of tunnels fashioned into a proper maze. Anyone who makes it through to the end gets a fancy biogel home lifestyle kit, with biogel suits for the whole adult household and a selection of top tier furnishings and accessories. The rest succumb to the Maze's many tricks and traps, becoming part of the Maze itself, or being added to the Catacomb's ever-growing collection.

When it comes to transformation peril games, the Black Maze is among the most risky. Most traps in a Black Maze are similar or identical to those deployed during Biogel Games matches and are well concealed by the glistening black biogel that covers the ceiling and sections of wall, and the black glass that covers the floor. Biogel sheening panels in the floors, walls panels that might be doors or catalysts for glistening, suckers on the ceiling, roaming hunters ready to absorb unwary explorers, and even crystal serpents to turn caught and consumed wanderers into little puddles of liquid biogel goo. The chances of making it through the maze are slim to none, but that doesn't stop dozens from trying each week during peak tourist season.