A gaseous cloier rushes forward with surprising grace, smashing his scalding spines into you, cutting deep.
The force field around you flares, absorbing all damage.
You gasp as a headache cleaves into your skull like an axe.
You've burned out your psionic ability.

What the hell is this? Isn't it an aetherbeast? And what is it doing at the Naga?

Someone summoned it.

That's what the experiments there do.

Not all experiments are good!

Yep. Big, bad research. Blame Hallifax, like we all do when research goes bad!

Don't be silly. Of course all experiments are good. Some of them are just good in weird ways, like experiments that summon cloiers. They're good, because then you can run around and scream things like, "BUT IT'S FOR SCIENCE!!" and "THINK OF THE POSSIBILITIES!!" And then when it all goes horribly wrong you blow it up again with SCIENCE. *sagenod*

My work to make cancer airborne and contagious is going well.

SO YOU CAUSED THAT TIMEWARP THAT MESSED CULTURE AND EVERYTHING ELSE UP.

KILL.

Yeah, I'm still a bit bummed with the timethingy. I would be level 75 at 17 (and hopefully able to reach 80 at 18). But no, I'm 75 at 19.

Sad face.

Also, unwilling to aetherhunt to speed things up.

Have your 'all science is good', but not all results are desirable.

No kidding... I lost 14k to that timewarp. Sometimes having a shop hurts.

(PSST. NOT ACTUALLY MY FAULT. )

Is too.

(Also if your city was smart they'd just forgive you for two years of taxes...)

Gorgogs come from aetherspace, so I'm assuming other creatures can make their way to Prime.

Interestingly, gorgogs actually originated on Prime, as one of the Empire's projects - making scouts to explore aetherspace, based upon elemental stuffs. They just survived so well in aetherspace they multiplied there.

I believe the cloier was an original inhabitant of aetherspace, and just comes through the portal the researchers made - ie, an unintended summoning. I'd need to redo the quest to check.

Thank you for this illuminating fact. I'm writing a book on aetherspace physics right now(which is basically every mind-boggling, annoying, hard to describe thing about it) and this just gave me a bunch of ideas to expand on.

It'd be very cool if Giallyn could just blast that cloier and eat its dust.

You're the one that's killing the Tazmanian devils?

From the reports I heard it was not really airborne so much as the silly things bite each other in the face. Which is where the tumor grows. Thus, it spreads from one body into the open wounds on the other.

Breaking news: biting tumors != good idea. Especially if your species has very little genetic diversity.

You need to install cannons on her first.

She has three fully artied turrets (and the lightning bolt attack to correspond to it).

Well, she said she's still working on it. She's halfway there.