Chrysalis

[Is there a particular reason why you Sophos are so loud?]

[LOUD? WE’RE TALKING MENTALLY YOU CRETIN. NOT A SOUND IS MADE!]

[Formo! You know exactly what I mean! Every time I form a mind bridge with a Sophos I’ve had my head rung like a bell! Can you tone it down a little?]

[WE ARE SIMPLY EXUBERANT, MY BOY! FULL OF BEANS!]

[I seriously doubt you eat beans, Formo.]

[WELL, NOT UNLESS IT WAS A BEAN MONSTER I SUPPOSE!]

[Just, take it down a notch, please?]

[I SHALL- ahem. I shall try. I must say young Anthony, I didn’t expect that I would see you again. Judging by your change in size, you’ve been quite productive over the course of the wave.]

[Well, once the colony got rolling, the wave was almost more help than it was harm.]

[Hmm. I wonder if you understand why that might have been the case.]

[I’m not sure what you mean.]

[No matter. Come, my boy, let us wander this way. My domicile is found near the forge.]

I’m not sure what I expected, but the place is much more humble than I had assumed it would be. After my first meeting with Formo, I envisioned the Sophos to be an all-powerful community of core shapers without compare. I’d assumed that they would live in the lap of luxury, but that isn’t

the giant worms and such lived and had been informed that most of them lived in holding areas beneath the village. I’d been a little surprised at that. I’d expected that they might treat their pets a little better, considering how much they relied on them. Tiny and Crinis have been sent down there as pets

The walls are bizarrely clear of them, light instead being provided by a series of core powered lighting installations. I was pretty darn interested in learning how the heck they did that but Formo was cagey about it when I

real defining feature I could pick out was the mottled colouring of their skin. Most of their skin was green, but some had patches of red, or

of your people around Formo. Is it a market day or something? People sleeping

not! There just aren’t many of us! We’ve worked hard to ruffle the Dungeon’s feathers and it doesn’t appreciate it, not a whit! So the spawn rate for Sophos is

how bitter he is

just up and decided your people were

about, but when the opportunity to rant about the Dungeon pops up, who am I

sure I wouldn’t

ours, we were the first to come into contact with monsters and battle them. The

[That’s terrible.]

After hundreds of years, we were so steeped in the mana of the Dungeon

boggled. What a tragedy! How the heck did

alive from that time. We were nearly wiped out, I’m afraid to say, it was a close run thing. Luckily we’d relied on our pets from the outset, and they did not desert us.

a thing that you can

should share about my conversations with a mind that seems to think it runs the show around here. The Sophos may already know about it, or they might pin

it doesn’t want you to. It’s also possible to work against the interests of the Dungeon, once you know what it wants. For example, have you seen the Expert Profile

her Biomass, considering there was only one of her the Expert Profile was unlocked straight away. I haven’t been

damn

Formo nodded his head.