_The hatch pneumatically-hisses, slowly easing down, it's opposite side ridged like a stepladder... Peering out from the hatchway, the three find themselves on
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_At the chamber's center, they're seen drawing corpses from a central pile holding many creatures and beings the three've encountered on their journey; notably many smilers, along with quite a few of those behemoths that'd attacked Grimm._
_In a routinely manner, they stab hooks through the napes of the larger bodies, dragging them off this way toward one of the many impromptu "recyclers" merged to supply the vat-like meat printers, then carefully push the bodies in feet-first into the bladed machinery until the head's all that's left, tossing the remnant apathetically into one of several surrounding piles._
_From those printers with their batches finished, the mutant fish extract fully-grown slabs of muscle, oversized organs, coats of live skin, among other viscera out from the vat-waters, docking the printers' feeding umbilicals off, then hooking the bodyparts unto "devices":https://youtu.be/36lSzUMBJnc?t=68 feeding "dark-pinkish fluids":https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFFpMqs9kbI into them. While organs are tossed into a large pool, the muscle-slabs are meanwhile stretched across open-aired racks, then clipped on the edges with what look almost like jumper-cables._
_Flipping a switch, the suspended muscles all begin to contract and loosen, as if these autonomous parts are_ "_being exercised._":https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/532653195319574543/777532780535873556/Carniculture.png
_Continuing their bizarre rituals in repetition, the creatures don't seem to've yet noticed the three observing..._