okay so one positive about the whole giant ant invasion sitch. no humans means subtlety goes right out the window. i can just go nuts with my biz.

problem is what does that look like

i mean i'm not a superarchitect genius girl

but eh that's what drones are for. called in all my scamps from wherever, #2 and #3 are missing but the rest got here okay. fitted them out with some like basic building gear and told them to bulk up the biscuit warehouse, just get freestyle crazy with their robot brains. could probably improve a bunch of stuff to make them better at building things. give them swarms of minidrones to command. all that takes time though.

felt like i had so much

now its all

HURRY UP

like all the time

anyway meanwhile i'm working on some stuff like yknow turrets and sonic repulsors and all that tower defence stuff but kinda hard to get a read on what's gonna actually work without a test subject

so yeah

gotta nab me an ant

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probably means going out

so i mean this is the point where i could just freak out textually and just write a bunch of AHGHHHHHHHs and DONT WANNA DONT WANNAs but where's that gonna get me

nowhere

fast

so instead i got to look at this the right way. like i'm going to have to go topside. probably a bunch, i mean my scrap supplies are already low, i gotta figure out how to get water down in this thing, some electricity might be nice for stuff like teleportal biz

oh yeah teleports. think i might have something there. scrounged up my old prototype emergency teleport thing. power pack still got charge in it too. did a bit of fiddling and hooked it up to the shield and synced it to the teleportal i got down here and maybe it could get me out of a jam if things go real bad

like i do not want to rely on this thing

but if it gets to that point

maybe

anyway back to whatever i was talking about. topside stuff. i got my crudlauncher, it's a failweapon but ehhhhhh dunno could just do something like slap a laser on the side or i dont know bullets? bullets seem pretty popular for weapon stuff. maybe i should try to get some. or make some.

wait

can lasers go through teleportals

or would they just explode

might test that

anyway could also focus on the shield/emergency teleport combo deal. personal protection is important.

maybe what i really want is ant repellent. repell-ant. there's a way to make that work but i cant right now

or also ant bait

for traps

for catching

an army

of ants

i mean it's a thought i suppose

just typing now because it means i don't have to actually do something that will take me a step closer towards going topside again

have to make a choice

so

[ weapon stuff + potentially explosive in a literal way laser teleportal research ]

shield teleport stuff

construction drone improvements for constructing and improving