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The metallic, bitter stench of ozone lingers on your stained clothes. Your head is spinning, and you're trying your best to not throw up. The static that makes up its body still squirms and crackles with life, but...<span class="mu-b">it's not getting back up any time soon.</span>
You climb back to your feet. Okay. Good. Fuck this thing. You kick it for good measure, but you doubt the anomaly even registered the kick. Alright, time to get to work.
You slowly pace around the lab to collect the various belongings the guards left behind here. There's nothing really worth stealing amongst them; it's mostly just personal knickknacks. You do find some spare ammo that, eh, you might as well take.
>PERSONAL BELONGINGS obtained! (To be returned at a later date.)
>You now have 2 PISTOL AMMO (Good for two combat encounters. If you can find a gun.)
You keep glancing back at the anomaly to make sure it's not moving. It's weird, though, how you can't really get a good look at its appearance. Its static is allowing you to see just fine in the dark, but the actual anomaly is a blur to you.
No wonder why it was shining light in here. It's basically impossible to miss this thing in the dark. You need to focus so you can actually record a decent description of this thing.
If looking at it directly doesn't get you anywhere, what if you messed with your own vision? It takes a bit of struggling, but your vision begins to blur and twist in on itself. As your pitch-black surroundings become even harder to parse, the anomaly's features slowly begin to become visible.
>2 SUCCESSES!
It's just an anglerfish. A really big, mutated one, but it's something you can comprehend. Jagged teeth jut out of its flesh, ripping and tearing through its hide. There's more than one lure hanging off of the fish's body, but they seem stunted or undeveloped. You assume it only has one active at a time to try to blend in with its environment more.
The blood leaking out of it is a <span class="mu-b">pitch black ichor</span> that glimmers and shimmers in the darkness, like <span class="mu-b">pen ink.</span> It looks exactly like the gunk that was all over that mutated researcher's body.
The scales covering its body seem to reflect and twist light (and darkness) in such a way that, if you don't distort your own vision just right, its body just looks like static to you. Two layers of camouflage, huh? It's almost impressive if this thing wasn't trying to kill you a few minutes ago.
Its body spasms and twitches seemingly at random, and when it spasms, random parts of its body recede or grow. Unstable anatomy, probably why you thought it was a fluid mass of static at first.
You scribble down everything you can make out of its 'true' form before keeping your eyes crossed hurts too much. Your mind feels 'fine,' but having to decode two layers of camouflage is making your brain all fuzzy.
>MENTAL HEALTH is now <span class="mu-g">DOING GREAT!</span>
That doesn't explain how it managed to alter its environment.
