sooooo this is weird. and by weird i mean

yeah no this time it actually is weird. antgutgem batteries don't

nope wrong way to put it. certain stuff doesn't like antgutgem batteries is the thing. like lasers hate them. shields aren't too happy with them. teleportals seem okay.

but all of that is bonkers. because it's energy. it's power. electricity. relationships don't come into it. right? or at least they shouldn't.

i mean half the reason i chose this solitary superscience genius girl life is because

yknow

relationships are

gross

but now i have to deal with this? being some sort of technical relationship counsellor between my flipping shield and its crapping battery?

this is not what i signed up for

then again i didn't exactly sign up to be the last living human in a city of ants either

guess you eat the pudding you're given

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maybe if i put a teleport in the middle of things. maybe that somehow fixes it.

or just forget that whole sticky deal and move on to more important stuff

like hive assaults

weird but i'm actually pretty wired about this junk. i mean i already lost an arm to these insects. so it kind of feels like the worst has already happened. and that wasn't so bad. now i got a robot arm. i can stick notes to it with magnets. which is actually pretty bizarre because it's not made of any kind of ferrous metal.

anyway #4 found the hive for me. sent him out stalking ants. lot of activity on the big road north of biscuit fort. more activity in the mall over that way. the most activity in toystar, which at least shows that the ants have good taste.

oh and i put the quad crudlauncher on #4. modified a bit. less barrel length. also its technically an octocrudlauncher now because it fires forwards and backwards at the same time. brute force solution to the recoil problem. equal and opposite reactions etc etc maybe next i'll put some on the sides or point them out in all directions except if i do that then i'll probably end up getting crudballed in the shin. that'd be embarrassing. also i don't have a robot foot just lying around. hmm yes better to leave it like this. just have to be standing next to #4 and not eg in front or behind him.

keep getting distracted. do i want to get distracted? being wired about something and actually doing the thing are pretty different. still feel weird about walking around like

dunno

easier to get excited about superscience junk. easier to muck around making stuff. instead of using the stuff to get things done.

so yeah. gotta gear up. gotta go check out that mall. guess i could send scamps in. guess that's a thing i could do. kind of want to do it myself. some kind of test maybe. some kind of like. proving something. to myself. self reliance, right? self reliance.

kettle's boiled

tea time

and then

war