okay so one positive about the whole giant ant invasion sitch. no humans means subtlety goes right out the window. i can just go nuts with my biz.

  problem is what does that look like

  i mean i'm not a superarchitect genius girl

  but eh that's what drones are for. called in all my scamps from wherever, #2 and #3 are missing but the rest got here okay. fitted them out with some like basic building gear and told them to bulk up the biscuit warehouse, just get freestyle crazy with their robot brains. could probably improve a bunch of stuff to make them better at building things. give them swarms of minidrones to command. all that takes time though.

  felt like i had so much

  now its all

  HURRY UP

  like all the time

  anyway meanwhile i'm working on some stuff like yknow turrets and sonic repulsors and all that tower defence stuff but kinda hard to get a read on what's gonna actually work without a test subject

  so yeah

  gotta nab me an ant

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  probably means going out

  so i mean this is the point where i could just freak out textually and just write a bunch of AHGHHHHHHHs and DONT WANNA DONT WANNAs but where's that gonna get me

  nowhere

  fast

  so instead i got to look at this the right way. like i'm going to have to go topside. probably a bunch, i mean my scrap supplies are already low, i gotta figure out how to get water down in this thing, some electricity might be nice for stuff like teleportal biz

  oh yeah teleports. think i might have something there. scrounged up my old prototype emergency teleport thing. power pack still got charge in it too. did a bit of fiddling and hooked it up to the shield and synced it to the teleportal i got down here and maybe it could get me out of a jam if things go real bad

  like i do not want to rely on this thing

  but if it gets to that point

  maybe

  anyway back to whatever i was talking about. topside stuff. i got my crudlauncher, it's a failweapon but ehhhhhh dunno could just do something like slap a laser on the side or i dont know bullets? bullets seem pretty popular for weapon stuff. maybe i should try to get some. or make some.

  wait

  can lasers go through teleportals

  or would they just explode

  might test that

  anyway could also focus on the shield/emergency teleport combo deal. personal protection is important.

  maybe what i really want is ant repellent. repell-ant. there's a way to make that work but i cant right now

  or also ant bait

  for traps

  for catching

  an army

  of ants

  i mean it's a thought i suppose

  just typing now because it means i don't have to actually do something that will take me a step closer towards going topside again

  have to make a choice

  so

  [ weapon stuff + potentially explosive in a literal way laser teleportal research ]

  shield teleport stuff

  construction drone improvements for constructing and improving