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

  You might be reading a stolen copy. Visit Royal Road for the authentic version.

  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