Local space rock, xCometx

Is that Binahs gosh darn chair

That’s her chair. That’s her chair TM.

my son hong Lu 💔💔💔 he’s so sad I adore him.

MY SON. I feel so bad for Hong Lu, my poor son. He’s been saying mildly concerning things all canto and I’ve just been sitting at the edge of my seat for whenever this moment happens.

I’m very excited to actually get into the dungeon though! Hong Lu is a rather concerningly relatable character for me so I’m itching to figure out just how far it ends up going. I should make a list on the things we have in common at this point.

ALRIGHT straight into game mechanics because that’s what I find fun.

this tree’s got ants!! little guys called T-04-11-2, aka all the little flowers in weird places around the tree. They’re pink and yellow and very cute.

Upon a bad/neutral work result, or if attachment work is done, a little ant starts to wander around the facility! They’re only zayin class, and don’t even attack employees. They also don’t count as a breached abno on the end day result screen so it’s very likely that you won’t even notice they left or were out at all.

They’ll wander aimlessly around the facility before latching onto another containment unit in the facility and basically stealing some of the energy that whatever Abno they entered the containment of produces. It’ll make employess who go in more likely to have bad or neutral work results, but after the work is done they leave carrying the enkephalin they sapped! It’s cute to look at. Also if you do want the energy they stole you can kill em to get it back. They are quick though, make sure you’ve got a ranged attacker because they will RUN.

When they go back to the tree, another layer of ants/ flowers show up, and this is what ACTUALLY drops the qliphoth counter. The ants are bringing food back to the colony! The thing here that will get you is multiple ants can be out at once, and because they’re hard to notice you can accidentally drop the counter fairly quickly (It’s a large counter though so don’t worry too much). The ants can be killed and they tend to dilly dally quite a bit so it’s not terrible but make sure you’re watching for little flowers around the facility. When the counter is at its lowest, the tree is just fully engulfed in ants, you can’t even see it through the hoard at this point it is ALL flowers.

And then for the breach. Haha, have fun with the massive hoard of HE rank ants that split into two smaller TETH rank piles of ants when taken down! They don’t have much health but they WILL get you!

Anyway the good news is the ego gift they give out has a special property where whatever employee is wearing said gift, they start to heal SP without needing white damage done to them or any of the usual ways. Passive SP healing! Yay! It’s very very slow, but still!

the little code for this thing is T-04-11 because the ants technically aren’t the abno, the tree is (hence the 04 instead of 02), they’re just another aspect taking advantage of the tree. Because while I like symbiosis and the actual tree I based this off (Ant tree’s) have a good relationship with the ants that inhabit them, parasites are cool. So the ants are parasites now.