ants ate my power plant

farewell once more

laser shotgun

we had fun

but now

bleg

also

antsiege is here

bit bigger than last time

came while i was out gathering numbers

so now i can't actually get back to biscuit fort

which is

problem

power plant outpost already gone

ants ate it

most of my drones got eaten or just mangled

toxic agro eyespiders did their best but just too many ants. just kept coming. should have made more eyespiders. at least you learned a life lesson huh jin. always make more eyespiders than you think you'll need. that's a keeper. you could embroider that one on a pillow.

river outpost is still okay

except it's not really an outpost

just a little box with a microteleport for water

not for people

never got around to upgrading

maybe mistake

so

here i am

camping inside tea room

v sad place

humans stole all my doilies

who steals a doily

who would do that

at least i have secret biscuits

nobody solved any of my puzzles

The tale has been illicitly lifted; should you spot it on Amazon, report the violation.

so

well

just thinking

should have decentralised

especially weapons

teleport ammo system is v convenient

unless your base gets eaten

then all your guns stop working

not just guns

all my stuff is there

my precious mareo

secret source of all my powers

making things just by hand is so

boring

still have antswords. antblades on roboarm. heatglovedrone but without recharge limited fireballs available.

everything dies

entropy you rascal

up to your old tricks

so yep

not doing so good over here

at least i have minicomputer

still have my weapons and shield and stuff

ants haven't actually eaten biscuit fort

yet

so well i don't know just don't want to go charging through thousands of ants. i mean it is crazy over there. don't even know what direction they came from. assume suburbland. reaction to all those anthouses i destroyed.

weird how they hit the power plant first

especially when no ants even went near that place before

almost like they knew i needed it. for laser shotgun. and backdoor teleportal to biscuit fort.

did they know

or did someone tell them

and how. why. so many ants. where from? where were they hiding? just in houses i guess. lot of those in suburbland. underground too. all over the city. finally figured out i'm the biggest threat maybe. you got lazy jin. you stopped thinking. too distracted by humans.

don't really want to fight a thousand ants

that sounds exhausting

also don't want to get more bits of myself eaten

especially if i cannot make new improved parts

like if an ant eats my knee

and i cannot make a superknee

then that's just

sad

so

so

well okay let's stop being pathetic and think a way through this mess. what is the actual problem here. what do i want to happen. well of course i want to defend biscuit fort. remove ants. no no. ants are fine as long as biscuit fort is okay. ants are good because ants discourage humans. but ants are bad because ants eat biscuit fort.

jin you are just going in circles

got to break through

okay so if i could get into biscuit fort i could start defending properly. in a way that maybe doesn't kill all the ants but which stops them from eating my home. use antcandy and buzzers and stuff. maybe make and deploy a few scrapbags if necessary. cannonball pistols so good for destroying massed enemies. fighting a thousand ants from inside feels more viable than trying to fight my way through them all from here. also even if it gets hopeless i can at least maybe teleport my best stuff out. like the mareo. really can't lose that.

okay

so

okay here's a radical thought

if i could make a new teleportal i could link it in to a portal in biscuit fort. i got the keys so syncing wouldn't even be hard. doesn't have to be a fancy teleport. and i am great at teleports. jin why do you always forget that. you don't need a mareo. i mean how did you get it to begin with? did you use a mareo to make stuff? no of course not that's a paradox. time travel was not involved. you made a teleport with your own two human hands because you had two human hands then and you teleported yourself inside that government research lab with nothing but your toolkit and you built another teleport there around the flipping mareo and then you teleported everything back to your treehouse. and the treehouse collapsed because mareos are heavy as flip but that's not the point. they never caught you. probably still scratching their heads about it. how did this big heavy matter reorganiser just vanish? and where is most of the floor and part of a wall?

early teleports were a bit

indiscriminate

anyway if i make this the thing then there is one question

where can i find the bits to make a new teleport

okay that's a pretty big problem actually

not like teleport parts grow on trees

except the lemons of course

i guess maybe that same government research lab

back to the beginning

not exactly in the neighbourhood

way across the city

through the unknown

probably can't get there before biscuit fort gets eaten

but i don't have any better ideas

so

here i go