O.1.17

They enter your mind through your Connexus. You see the Collective experimenting on them. Cutting them. Hurting them. Other experiments scream around you. Beneath the facility, magma moves under the crust. Tectonic plates grind together. Energy rises through the ground. The Collective tried to control what lived inside it. Instead, it rose. It freed them. Now it lives at the top of a ruin. Protecting it. Its offspring found your camp. Killed them all. Took the Relic to Mother for protection. It’s safer there.

In your frontal lobe, the request forms: Offer to Mother.

They offer to connect you to Mother. For protection. Otherwise, they are willing to trade. One last thought is pressed into your mind: Mother wants to meet your Connexus.

Choose:

• Fluid → Cut your hand, pour the blood into a container, and give it to them. −2 HP → O.1.11
• Material → Give them 1 Item → O.1.12
• Nothing → Refuse and leave → You may continue your journey.
• Death → Attack them → O.1.5