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.]

assumed it would be. After my first meeting with Formo, I envisioned the Sophos

might treat their pets a little better, considering how much they relied on them. Tiny and Crinis

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

the 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

don’t see a whole lot of your people around Formo. Is it a market day or something?

ruffle the Dungeon’s feathers and it doesn’t appreciate it, not a whit! So the spawn rate for

bitter

even work? The Dungeon just up and decided your people

talking about, but when the opportunity to rant about the Dungeon

I wouldn’t

connected to ours, we were the first to come into contact with monsters and battle them. The surfacers ignored our warnings and laughed at our pleas for help. I have to say, their attitude towards us was

[That’s terrible.]

we were so steeped in the mana of the Dungeon that the stupid System couldn’t differentiate between us and monsters. In an instant, like a switch was flipped, we lost our Classes, we

boggled. What a tragedy! How the

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. Now we build our settlements around any spawn point we know has produced a

do you actually fight the Dungeon? Is it a thing that you can hit?

seems to think it runs the show around here. The Sophos may already know about it, or they might pin me down and dissect me. They seem pretty

that can be learned, even when 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 of a creature after consuming a ton

that’s gone on over the last few weeks and I haven’t been bothered to read through them all. I actually unlocked Garralosh’s full profile after eating her Biomass, considering there was only one of her the Expert Profile was unlocked straight away. I haven’t been able to

Those damn centipedes were

Formo nodded his head.