man there is way too much actual stuff going on lately. way too much plot getting in the way of my sweet loving superscience. all this stuff i have to do to y'know not die or whatever. it is harshing my zen.

but anyway

vortex bomb scrapbags kind of worked pretty well. decoy drones are now called buzzers. buzzers work really well. ants hate those guys. or love them? have to upgrade mobility. speedy buzzers required. so they can just like pull ants then zip away like little stinkers.

aggby heat blast shield works pretty good. except it gets pretty hot. for me i mean. need to put some heat shielding on my heat shield. or no wait just had an idea to reverse the reversal like a kind of feedback loop except expressed externally okay problem solved. theoretically. still have to actually make it and test it and etc

oh anyway ants do not like heat. even the ones that spit fire. you'd think those guys would have some kind of elemental resistance but nope. they burn just as good as any ant. lightning guys were the real buggers. fried my junk. not my junk junk. i mean my gear. 12yo shield is goneburger. i spend a moment in silent respect for my fallen ally. f.

so yes need a new proper shield. have to get into the guts of aggby stuff again. starting to get a handle on that nonsense maybe. did a thing to the battery maker and got efficiency up to like 14% which is a decent jump.

oh right the actual mission. kind of blocking it out. wasn't my idea of a good time although i did get such a bunch of antgutgems and the fire ants drop red ones which is so appropriate. so satisfying. lightning ants just drop regular antgutgems as far as i have seen. acid ants do not drop gems. such a rip off. what is even the point of them. those guys are the worst.

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right. so i went out. and i dodged ants and shot some and heat blasted others i guess. dunno. stuff happened. i got through and used my scrapbags and buzzers and the ants got all interested in the buzzers and chased after them and once they were far away from my precious biscuit fort i blew them all up. well most of them. had to pick off a few stragglers. that part was pretty fun i admit. shardrifle is good because it just keeps shooting and i don't have to worry about running out of ammo. the thing about using compressed dense little bits of dirt and rocks is that well y'know dirt and rocks are basically everywhere.

oh hey wait

wait a second here

oh man can't believe i only just thought of this but i should totally be using ant bodies for something. like that goop blood maybe that can be used for something and also their thick shiny chitin could totally be useful

man

i got distracted by the shinies

without thinking

that an ant corpse

could be somehow turned into a bullet

i got to get on this. i mean there is no shortage of ant bodies around this place. not the ones that got shredded by the vortex bomb. antgutgem battery + teleportal malfunction = not much left to sift through. maybe it's actually a mass-teleportation thing? huh yeah that is a possibility. not destroying stuff. just teleporting it somewhere else. but where though. man i hope i didn't give people a nasty surprise. bunch of roads and buildings and v annoyed giant ants just dropping down into a nice normal neighbourhood. haha. that is if there are any nice normal neighbourhoods left. could be giant ants have taken over the whole entire world and not just this one city. but oh well. doesn't do to dwell on nasty biz.

time to go rob some graves

experiment on corpses

this is such classic mad scientist territory

i mean they're ant bodies instead of human but eh details

also never really thought of myself as a mad scientist

more like

sad

sad scientist

well anyway

science time

muhahahahahaha