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NURTURE: This work entails attempting to satisfy the physiological needs of an anomaly. Food, water, physical affection, etc. Anomalies that prefer this work tend to be animalistic or impulsive in nature.
BONDING: This work entails satisfying the social needs and desires of an anomaly and to encourage a relationship. Sentient anomalies or those who need attention or acknowledgement the most desire this work.
APPEASE: This work entails attempting to improve the living conditions of an anomaly or to enable what it represents, such as offering it items or cleaning its surroundings. Anomalies who like cleanliness or loathe being neglected like this work.
SUBDUE: This work entails repressing the anomaly's desires through physical or verbal means. Anomalies who love violence and those who need to be carefully watched to not hurt themselves like this work.
OBSERVE: This work simply entails watching and studying the anomaly to see what it does. Anomalies who love attention and those who are easily to spook like this work.
"The idea is that we'll try to negotiate with each of the anomalies by doing works on them. If we can properly wrangle them without having to fight them, we can get out of here in one piece." Phi explains.
"It loathes me to say this but most anomalies do not react well to being subdued. <span class="mu-b">Though from what I've seen, those who love it will tend to be too pitiful for me to enjoy hurting...</span>" Wendy chimes in.
"I've seen anomalies here or there and I know they're...sorta like robots? Operating like they're on a script. Like Bene-" Ashley clears her throat. "These five works will probably be better than interacting with them off the cuff. <span class="mu-b">Doing the two works the anomaly likes most will most likely neutralize it as a threat.</span>"
You wonder why you didn't learn this in the P-Corp Facility mission but then you remember that the facility was long in disrepair; It probably wouldn't have helped much with the anomalies you did interact with.
>ANOMALY WORK KNOWLEDGE OBTAINED! (All DCs involving anomalies will be reduced by 2 for the foreseeable future. SEEKER will give you hints on which works are best used on anomalies.)
That's when Quentin comes back with about eight of the other ETF agents. All of them look pretty damned worried about something. You're pretty sure that there should be three more agents here. That's when Quentin drops a pretty big bombshell.
"ANOMALY WAS IN THE ELEVATOR SHAFT. WATCHING, WAITING. SPIDER WEBS WERE IN THE SHAFT." What the fuck? "WHEN IT SAW NO MORE WERE COMING, I SAW IT RUSHING AFTER THE THREE WHO ARRIVED. I TOOK TIME CLEARING THE WEBS SO WE CAN GET THERE SOON."
"Fuck. Physical description?"
"CREATURE WAS A MULTI LIMBED ARCHANID-LIKE CREATURE MADE OUT OF PORCELAIN AND CHINA. ITS LEGS WERE MADE OUT OF SMALLER DOLL LEGS SMASHED TOGETHER INTO A ROUGH APPROXMIATION OF A SPIDER LEG. HEAD WAS A HUNK OF WOOD WITH A FACE OF A 'BABUSHKA' PAINTED ON IT. NO MORE DETAILS WERE SPOTTED."
