>>797283552
You get there and cover the mound in CLEANSING FIRE
They're still coming out, though they get slightly singed as they leap out of the mound.
It seems like their nest is underground, below the mound.
>>797288765
You begin running away from the refugees and the maggot, back to your home.
They don't seem to notice you.
Now that you're travelling on foot, you get a better impression of what the "shallow" arume biome looks like.
Purplish leaves scatter tinted sunlight all over the humid floor, and a smell somewhere between the acrid stench of a wattle forest and the sickly sweet smell of a corpse left out on the sunlight wafts all over the place, though it's diluted just enough to not be nausea-inducing.
A bird, an actual bird and not one of their mutated abominations, flies past you.
It's a FUCKING seagull.