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 puzzlesThe tale has been stolen; if detected 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