Notes and memos

this is horrifying. there's so many corpses... im scared. why did they send so many of us here? i dont understand. i really dont understand. they knocked me out cold with some kind of dart and forced me into a pod to be sent here. i hate this planet.

I inquired others around the ability to see our physical status in our minds, and it turns out this is something shared by almost everyone else here. Quite interesting - this is not something we've ever been able to do back in our homes. Have we been implanted with something? There are no visible attachments on any of us. I have also noted that very few people here do not share this experience, seemingly lacking whatever lets us do this. Odd.

i keep losing weight. i need to eat more to stay in shape. all this running around makes you consume calories really fast. i guess i need to be full more often.

this is horrible. this is fucking horrible. i cant do it anymore. this is a death mission. abandon all hope. there is no point to this

i dont get why we're here. what for? i know im supposed to retrieve some kind of battery cell or something. im assuming others have the same mission. arent there more efficient ways of doing this? logically? why send us here. i miss my friends. i dont want to die.

i fell down. bad. my leg is mangled. this is really bad. trying to move at all is a pain. i need some painkillers for this.

i overheard our captors calling us a mutated amalgamation of a "human, fox and rat", whatever any of that means. how much is there being kept from us? information wise? the thought scares me. ive never considered anything being outside of where we were raised. and now im here. i cant wrap my head around all of this. (On the paper is what looks to be a self-portrait.)

I have found drawing to be a decent escape to the situation I have found myself in. It seems all of us are struggling with our mental states, one way or another. It is nice to get a distraction from the harsh reality at times.

the captors will get what they deserve.

planet is good . eat a lot of good flesh . dune happy (You can make out what looks like a very poorly made self-portrait.)

The distribution of species here seems very disproportional. The Experiments are everywhere, yet other species like ours seem to be much lesser in numbers. Odd... Either way, I dislike the amount of casualties here. More of us need to be helped.

I was performing a self check-up following a painful incident when I noticed a dark, nodular bump on my skin. It appeared irregular in shape and was oddly multicoloured and variegated. I estimated its diameter to be approximately eight millimetres. Upon further inspection, I found several more in various locations on my body. I corresponded with a younger friend and they seemed to have none, but my older friend had many more. Should I keep track of the evolution of this potential malignancy?

i didnt want to do it. they had a chest drain. what could i do? drown in my own blood? all i had was a stick of dynamite... if only i could be home, even just listening to the training radio, i would give anything. its not my fault. its not my fault.

i love this place! i still meet new creatures, they are so sweet! there are so many cool things here! i will never go back to the lab, long live the cave!

dune love tasting friend . all friend taste different . dark fur friend is stiff . light fur friend is chewy . what dune me taste like ?

hugging others makes me happier... but some of survivors refuse hugs, i think they can be appeased somehow. also sleeping next to them is much better than on the cold floor alone.

To anyone who finds this, they can and will control you, even in this hell. With no previous alert I started to hear a loud alarm inside me, I could see a message saying "DEPTH UNSATISFACTORY" with red flashing lights materializing in the corner of my vision. I started running, panicked, without knowing why they would do this. Only after I went into another region of this cave network it stopped. They know how much time you are spending here, they know that you'll be frightened, and they want you to die. This is all a mass genocide.

i found some kind of... shooty device. scared the hell out of myself with it... and destroyed whatever that trap was infront of me. not used to operating this thing.

everyone keeps shooing me from their pods. they remember me... from up there. i shouldn't have acted like that. this is terrible.

dont always trust the barrels of liquid lying around. got my hands on a big minibarrel of what i thought was lemonade, but one bitter sip was enough to tell me that it wasnt. i tried to wash it down with another barrel of water, but the water made me very sick and my hair started falling out

today i found a few weird metal cans that had the label ripped off. i couldnt tell what it was and the liquid was too thick to pour out, but it is surprisingly filling, i feel like i just had a nice steak... i feel so sleepy. im about to drink the next can, i love these cans! (The bottom of the paper looks like something with black chunks in it was forcibly ejected onto it.)

this might be a strange thing to say but I've made my peace with this situation. ive been trying to take care of myself as much as i can and trying to comfort all the others ive met down here. it makes me feel... content? even though I've gotten hurt a lot ive been able to handle it without feeling down. i'll try to get as far as i can, and even though i probably wont make it, i know i did my best and helped as many others as i could. that's all any of us can do. if you're reading this, don't give up, ok?

i have been seeing more and more of these broken down drop pods recently, kind of like the ones that they sent us down here with except these ones all exploded somehow inside the wreckages i usually find some type of gun ammunition along with a gross ball of some sort of meat? it looks awful but it might be edible??? that dune person i met earlier told me it was good to eat i could try having some of it ate it and vomited my guts out for twenty minutes straight, worst mistake of my life for the love of god, dont eat whatever that is

i keep having the same dream. i have huge wings and i can keep flying up and up and up. nothing can stop me. i burst through the ceilings of these caverns and out into the world beyond. it's beautiful out there but i keep flying. i leave everything behind until there's nothing but a huge void. that's when i finally realize. im safe. im free. every time i wake up, i cant stop crying. i wish i could keep dreaming forever. (There is a tear-stained drawing of some very inaccurate wings.)

can the scientists really see me here? they always wanted me to say out loud what i was thinking, but here, im just talking to myself. i suppose i have the freedom to stop, but... it feels therapeutic. if i dont make it, maybe at least these notes will.

i didnt realize how bad it had gotten until i tried to dig again and my claws just... scraped. no bite to them anymore. ive been clawing through rock nonstop without even thinking about it. i felt naked. turns out flesh isnt meant to replace tools. i kept assuming i needed a pickaxe for everything. but i figured out my machete works just fine for the lighter stuff. dirt, plants, sand, it slices right through. saves my hands a lot of pain. found a bottle labeled keratin booster. figures they planned for our parts to break down. took a sip. after a while the old layers started flaking off like fur. underneath, they felt sharper. stronger. it was weirdly satisfying watching the worn parts peel away. i like how my claws let me grip the walls better i remembered the humans. they had nails on every finger. all of them. no claws at all. it looked so wrong up close. soft. blunt. freaky how they managed anything with hands like that. i used to think that made them weak. now i wonder if that was the point.

I took a bad fall. REAL bad. Right into a hole and couldn't climb or dig out of with my injuries. But I made it out with these bits of scrap metal, and want to let others know this, too. Its the cavern walls! Nothing I've found- even dynamite -seems to be able to penetrate the outer boundaries of the caverns. But they are uneven, and if you stack enough bits of scrap metal on top of each other, you can wedge them in these tiny gaps and make an entire scrap foothold. When I was bleeding out in that dark hole, I used my collected debris to make a sort of staircase to escape and find emergency supplies. I hope you never wind up in that situation, though. Maybe you could use this trick to protect you from injury in the first place? Who knows what other nasty things are in here with us. Maybe you'll catch up to me and we can share strategies. I hope I'll be there to meet you.

I'm not very strong, so I've been hoping to team up with others. We'd have a much higher chance of survival that way, but nobody I've asked is interested. Everyone is scared and some of us are dangerous. There are so many traps that it's impossible to travel in large groups. I know I'm going to die for a completely stupid reason... Humans are so cruel. I can't understand it.

(The note is crumpled up and crushed, as if it was meant to be thrown away.) my friend they... i think they killed themselves. after another bad fall i tried fixing up their legs but they kept telling me off. they kept shooing me away like some sort of fly, telling me to leave them alone. i didnt get it. i left to grab some of the plants here to try and bandage them up but... when i came back they had another wound. one on their arm. i still remember what it looked like, it was bad, practically ripped apart. i tried to use the plants i found to fix up the new wound but they kept pushing me away. their eyes were... looked just... empty. i told them to stop and just let me help but they didnt respond. i tried to help a couple more times and theyd shove me away until they just... stopped. i remember seeing their body relax, i think thats when they stopped breathing. i cant get that image out of my head... did... did i do something wrong? i swear i didnt... what did i do wrong? why did they do that? i... i didnt do anything. i dont understand, i dont want to die... i dont... i... ... haha... its so lonely in here. (You notice faint, dried tear drops and dried blood riddled among the wrinkled up note.)

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ugh, this place sucks. i keep being bitten by random spiders i cant see in time. i think theyre venomous, as they leave nasty looking infected wounds in me... the glowplant fruit do help with those though

things are going good for me. tasty food in my belly and maybe a mushtail or two makes me happy. the traders smile back at me too! i just hate seeing myself bleed, it scares me

i dont like not knowing what to do. back at home they would always tell me. play this game, be quiet when a human is talking, get stabbed by these pokey things. now im supposed to complete this mission but i dont know how to do it. im thirsty and i hurt my leg but im also really dirty and cold and i have no idea where to go other than down. i guess ill try to stop what's going to kill me the fastest. i hope it works.

the red blinking lights in the dark are spike traps. watch out for them. please. please. someone just walked into one in the distance, i just heard a yelp and silence after. stay safe

its cold here. so cold. much colder than our previous home. honestly, i like it. bathing in the pools feels nice, its refreshing. im liking this vacation

i met up with someone, we agreed to try to go out to the surface through one of those holes to the outside. my friend stepped out first, and immediately they started stumbling in shock. they seemed to be in a lot of pain. they vomited a bunch, then collapsed and stopped breathing soon after. their skin started blistering too, especially around the head and neck. something is preventing us from leaving. im scared.

Getting wet seems to be rather dangerous if you're not careful. The temperature here is much lower than at our home, and it seems being drenched for too long can get us in a hypothermic state. Try doing some physical exercise if you need to warm up quickly, I've discovered that helps.

i really need to stop losing my lights. anything does the job, even those weird glowy plant things. i keep leaving and forgetting about them, then tripping up and getting hurt by accident. not good.

light is valuable resource here, especially as it gets darker the further we go. dont want to accidentally step on a trap. with the carcass of a spider and pieces of glowplant, i can fashion a headlamp so my hands remain free. in a pinch lightbulbs in the pods seem to run on a depleted battery, and can be broken off with relative ease, much to the aggression of the pods owner

theres a lot of pods out here just like the one i woke up in. i got in one through the window but i stepped on the broken glass. had to be really careful, but i pulled it out of my paw. need to make sure i clear the shards next time.

Humans do strange things. You should never trust them to be nice. But you can trust them to keep you alive. I broke my arm once, and they put it in a "cast." I did not like it. It was heavy and stopped my arm from moving at all. It seemed they made it worse on purpose, and they made me wear it for a long time. They removed it one day, and my arm was fine. The humans made it worse, so it could get better. I think they did something similar to Jumper's head. Jumper used to scream and cry a lot. One time they hurt themselves, and the humans took them away. Jumper is back now. They don't cry anymore. They don't talk. They look sleepy all the time. Their head is like my arm used to be. I can't see any "casts" around it, and their behavior worries me, but at least they don't hurt themselves anymore. I hope the humans undo whatever they did once Jumper's head is fixed. I miss them.

apparently those boxes with the weird computers next to them can be opened if you spill some red blood on them. it has to specifically be red blood, otherwise it wont work. it has some crates inside, you can open them and take stuff with you. useful.

Investigating the chemical composition of the different colored blood bags I have found here, it seems they are considerably different in their composition. The red blood is completely different than ours and the blood that the creatures here possess. It seems to be somewhat metallic in composition for whatever reason, how odd. Better not use that on ourselves.

(There is a poorly made drawing of what looks to be one of your captors. They are holding what you can make out as a taser. Their face is scratched out with a big X. The weapon brings back horrible memories.)

i almost drowned just a moment ago. ive never swam before, and its very exhausting. its hard to keep myself above the surface when im tired. i imagine sinking forever to be pretty painful... be careful.

overhearing a little bit from our captors, apparently the cargo we are supposed to get is some kind "advanced energy source". something about storing a large amount of power and distributing it "wirelessy". i do not know what most of that means, but maybe it will be useful to know. stay safe

Recently found a drill of sorts, but it's missing a few parts. I can't seem to figure out what it needs, aside from the covering panel for all the mechanisms... Could prove helpful if I was to get it to a working state.

Curious, I attempted to traverse in a prone position. The utility was unexpected. Not only does it allow one to rinse off contaminants in shallow puddles and squeeze through narrow gaps, but remarkably, even crawling over scattered glass shards resulted in no injury. However, complacency is dangerous. I misjudged a slight drop and injured myself. Scuttling around like that... I must have looked just like one of those "worms" I heard about.

glowing woter taste bed

It hurts me to admit, but the frailty of my kind cannot be denied. Luckily, I have found a wonderful container that outright nullifies the weight of most items, allowing me to carry more supplies than I'd normally be able to. It runs on batteries, and that worries me. I am not sure what will happen once the power runs out, so I'll check it now, to be safe. I don't want it to become heavy mid-jump. I have an almost dead battery on me. Time to see how the bag behaves once its power runs out. (The rest of the note is unreadable; whatever text was written below is covered up by a copious amount of dried blood.)

Not even out of this rocky hellscape, and I already feel like death is near, All they gave me was a shitty torch that didnt even last an hour; not even any safety gear to help cushon these falls i've been taking. FUCK ME, I feel like a ball from one of those gambling machines I would see those humans using! I think I might be slowly dying, ever since the last fall, I've been feeling pretty heavy headed, I feel tired; but I feel if i sleep, I will die. God save me. FUCK, man. I really don't want to die, not like this.. Though what even is the point of all this? I don't even have a name for myself, just a tag.. Fuck...

ugh. its so hot in here. really need to space out my movements and be careful as to not fall numb from the heat. ive found that taking dives in the water pools here helps... maybe even the brown ones if desperate.

its over. goodbye. sorry.

The vines spread around the area are surprisingly climbable. The thin ones less so, but you can use the large ones as natural ladders. Definitely saved me a few fractured legs.

Today I happened upon a door for which unlocking was contingent upon the insertion of some scrap. I did not possess any on my person; however, I was fortunately equipped with a laser-action drill, which made quick work of the surrounding walls. Inside, I obtained an electronic device on which some exquisite music had been stored. I listen to it from time to time.

The oil pools on this planet are definitely unnatural. Trying to understand their origin, I crawled through one of the empty pipes only to find a tough metallic screen that stopped me from progressing. There was a sign behind it that said "Waste Disposal Source". I drilled through the pipe to go around the screen, but the pipe stopped abruptly. It has to be connected to something from our old home, but I don't understand how. That sign keeps worrying me. Did the humans want to dispose of us too?

see evil creature... orange evil creature... creature want eat dune! but dune fight back. dune kill and eat evil creature! creature very tasty!

tons of bushes around this place, though i cant say ive seen any that are alive. i think theyre pretty useful for making ropes and cushioning falls, but they also tend to hide traps...

its so hot down here. i feel like i am just rushing from lifepod to lifepod. i don't even want to open the drop capsules, those heat me up too. yet my dune friend stimpy seems to not mind too much. are they just not complaining, or is all that skin cooling them down?

help me stepped on exploding plate im in so much pain help help me please im passi n g o

i hear ringing.. my head hurts so, so much, i heard a loud beeping sound as i descended down a bit and then there was that loud banging sound i dont know where it came from . i can't see that much further but there is something very dangerous in these caves, be careful with big open spaces

There seems to be a high amount of radioactive waste in this area. While that does make it difficult to navigate, we should keep in mind that we can take brief doses of ionizing radiation without too much issue, as long as the exposure doesn't last too long. I've heard we're already riddled with cancer.

Something is wrong with the environment here. In the air, I can feel it- those dilapidated fuel cells make my fur stand on end. My skin flakes when I pass them, and my body burns. Even when I can't see them, I can feel that uneasy sensation building in the air around them. I've had to use my rope spool and even claw through the rocks here to find routes around them, but even then, there are purple stones that seem to carry the same effect, just in different doses.

one of the others I found fell onto a bunch of those purple rocks. i managed to pull them away but both of our coats are shedding. i don't know what's happening. i ate one of the popping fruits by a life pod… things stopped hurting. but when they bit into one they started throwing up blood just minutes later. they're not breathing. what was different? they looked the same. am i just lucky to be alive? why didn't they get better.

The button next to the trigger on a pistol is the magazine release, whereas on a shotgun, it's typically the safety. Also, whenever you work the action (like pulling the bolt), it ejects the round in the chamber. Last time I did that, I lost a buckshot - pretty unfortunate.

drinkable water here is really scarce, and i dont think that tar-looking stuff is safe. some of the vegetation here has enough water content to be crushed into a juice, although the taste isnt very pleasant. it beats being thirsty though

i steped in another one of theose damned coils again today, it was hidden in a bush, I noticed it too late to pull back. it was horrible, like i was being cooked from the inside, even after the initial shock. cold drinks seem to help though, i had to drink most of my rationed milk, and some apple juice, not sure if my brain would have survived without it. evrything is still spinning, could barely even make it back to my pod.

I do not have any water left in my bottle in this desert. I was very dirty and thirsty. I stepped in a puddle I found to drink it and take a bath, then all the dirt made it cloudy. I couldnt drink it anymore. I should have tossed my bottle in. I need water...

dune see big monster. motivated to kill dune chase monster and kill and eat . great food . great hunter of beast !

DUNE FIND NEW FRIEND DUNE EXCITED WHEN FRIEND NEAR FIREND IS LIKE DUNE. FRIEND BIG AND STRONG. DUNE BIG AND STRONG FRIEND CAN DIG QUICK. DUNE CAN DIG QUICK FRIEND BITE DUNE ARM OFF. DUNE BITE FRIEND ARM OFF FRIEND LEAVE. DUNE LOOKING WILL FIND AGAIN

i... i felt myself dying. it was all so sudden, there was blood everywhere and i couldnt keep my eyes open. i was scared... but i didnt want to give up. i found so many cool things in this place and i feel like ive made so much progress in this mission. im not gonna stop here. i will make it through all of this shit. i will see my friends again.

i didnt think that monster would find me again, but it did. it knew my face, my mistakes... but not my rifle. when it finally burst open, i saw that pickaxe. i saw the etching i scratched into it, the same as the etching they scratched into my pickaxe. i saw the chip from when they tried to dig up some titanium to gift me. and then, suddenly, i saw it happening again. the smell of grating steel. the tremours of the ground. the sound of dismembering flesh. the taste of sweat and blood, as i tried to run, dropping the food i was bringing back to the pod- am i supposed to feel at ease now? or am i just bargaining for peace, to be broken when another finds me?

I want to leave this place, I am terrorized, I don't have words to describe what I just experienced, it was a big, horrid creature with hundreds of teeth, ready to devour me, it chase after me for what I've felt hours, it destroys everything on its path. It stopped only after I've went so far away that I was completely lost, it drained my food, water, tools, even my own sanity, I just want this to end.

way too cold in here. have to try my best to not get wet at all, or ill be in big trouble. lucky us, there are a lot of those weird sporey plants that give off some heat, along with those weird machines. run between those when possible, i guess. better not get stuck in the freezing cold.

dune cold. dig warm not warm enough. dune eat fur friend. eat raw! dune has fur. fur warm for dune. dune full and warm. dune happy not cold.

its cold down here, i keep having to duck into lifepods to warm up… although sometimes theres these little humming stoves that i can stop by for warmth, i just need to be careful not to touch them for too long, they make me feel sick. just enough to warm up and then keep going. if i were you id play it safe and look out for anything digging towards me when im resting. i can hear stuff tunneling around me.

It's odd how it rains here. I've never actually seen real rain before... It's rather pretty, even if unsanitary. I still wonder how it is possible for there to be such a higher water concentration down here. Perhaps, the water from the above ice cap is dripping down to here?

found some weird bouncey things. they sent me flying... but i could keep my feet pointed down. its pretty fun. maybe could be useful sometimes, too. kind of dangerous maybe, but what isnt down here.

I dont know what hit me but I cant feel my leg anymore, all I can see is a tangled mess of muscle bone and blood my body is screaming for the agony to end the only thing I have is this blue device on my chest. I was told by the trader I bought it from that it should only be used in emergencies. The pain is not unbearable anymore, but the light is blinking now. I dont know how long I have left. will the darkness return when this thing runs out? I dont want to fade away...

every single one of these growths here seems like it has some kind of effect... i dont know what exactly. its unpredictable. but there are patterns to it. some are safe, some arent, some are helpful. i'll try to write things down as i figure it out...

..ugh. okay. the yellow ones HURT. feels kind of similar to the coils i found a few hours back... they usually have some kind of weird zappy field around them... don't touch them. its not good. for your body, at least. i noticed it did somehow recharge all my batteries after touching...

this geiger counter i have goes crazy when around one of the green growths. some kind of "radiation", whatever that is. im pretty sure its bad for you. avoid being near those if you can.

noticed some of these are weirdly fragile. they shatter when i touch them at all. youll see they look really brittle, there's cracks all over them. weirdly enough, this seems to also appear alongside some of the other types ive seen... wonder if this is the case for all of them.

noticed a lot of the growths either push me away or pull me in. you can feel some kind of force going through you when that happens. could prove useful sometimes

gosh. i am SO glad i had an ice pack on me. it seems like the foggy, shimmery ones rapidly heat things up around them... including me. i wouldnt be surprised if some did the opposite. i heard this weird sound coming from them too...

make sure you have some antibiotics n such. i think the purple ones mess with your immune system. they have a vague purple haze around them... i sat next to one for a while to rest, and noticed my vital signs dropping on my chip. seems like some kind of sepsis response. i think i'll be fine

okay. the shakey ones look really scary... they aren't. they send you flying... but, like, i can keep my feet pointed down the entire time. kind of similar to the bouncey things in the previous area i was in.

... ... ... the flying things. i dont know how they did that. holy... oh god. im fine now, but... how to say this... theres weird sharp flying things. they make really weird loud noises... almost as if theyre laughing at me. they wind up sometimes and charge at me, trying to stab me. they got me once or twice, but... whenever they did that, they got stuck in the ground and i hit it a few times until it... uh... not sure... what happened, but it was gone. i think it came from one of the growths, but it was kind of moving. i got something after it disappeared... maybe its useful? it feels like its growing into something, ill wait and see.

okay. good news and bad news. the thing i kept around after killing one of the flying things... it... grew into. more of the flying things. two of them... from one... they seemed to be slower in a group though... like, they were... giving me a chance to fight back? weird. i ate the cores i got from them, i didnt have any other ideas for what to do with it... it was. pretty good, actually. and it seems like it didnt morph into anything this time. maybe i could do this every once in a while to get more and more food? i cant exactly find much of it down here anyway

no clue where i am. i think i touched a weird growth and got... sent. somewhere. safely, though. still, no clue where. all i remember is it looking a bit more see-through than usual. almost as if i could see the place i ended up in...

noticed a lot of these things drip liquids. doesnt seem like they do much else though. water source, maybe?

touched a gray one, it flashed white, made a weird noise. didnt feel much afterwards... until i tried using my laser drill. thing was out of power, when i was sure it wasnt a moment ago. checked the rest of the batteries i saved up, same story. weird. avoid. might be worth throwing myself at one of the zappy ones to recharge them...

eyes hurt. next to a super super bright one. doesnt seem like its doing anything other than... well.. blinding me. dont like it, but i prefer that over whatever other things they can do.

the reddish ones blow up. run when it ticks down. i'm fine... god, i sure as hell almost wasn't.

found a weird hazy one. touched it, and i couldnt see for a bit... but when i opened my eyes, i saw some rope and a bag laying infront of me. the growth was gone. i cant complain. doesnt seem like it did anything else.

you can touch the green ones. theyre good. i liked that a lot. hehe. uh. the not geiger counter activating green ones. the good ones seem like they bounce up a bit. oh... uh... huh... i liked the green one a lot. i like the green one. you can touch it. i like the green one.

found a burning one. touched it out of curiosity. don't do that. it was hot.

huh. i was walking on one of the growth and it looked normal, but it suddenly made a sound and became different. like. it switched places? weird.

there is some kind of weird machine thing... i think it disguised itself as one of the crates i keep finding around. it shot something at me... though, while it did hurt, it also cooled me down nicely... i cant wrap my mind around these things

cold boom thing good

I brought over a small amount of these odd shifting cores from the previous biome I was in. It seems by letting them transform into a "manifestation", I am able to use them as a source of infinite nutrition and hydration, as one core turns into two upon manifesting. Quite useful.

found some kind of weird alien looking ball out of some kind of drone... it said something about "cryo" on it? i didnt have a use for it so i threw it into a pool of those melted rocks... and it solidified them..?

keep getting burns on my paws from these heated stones. im scared itll get infected... though, those glowy orange vines did give me a bit of relief when i wrapped them around the wound. i made the mistake of touching my eyes afterwards without cleaning my hands. ow.

I have found an odd hole residing on the wall next to me. After peering inside, out of said hole came out an odd, dry tentacle, which proceeded to briefly attach itself to me, make some kind of sucking motion, then disappear back into its den. While I was quite afraid after that occurence, I appear to be fine. I saw no noticeable change in the "Health Panel", though it is entirely possible I have missed something. Whatever this creature is, it does not seem to pose any significant danger to passers by.