>>5347248>>5347167>>5347139>>5346912>>5346769You pet the scorpion with your pickaxe, but you pet it a little too hard and kill it. You decide to equip its shell instead and the gerbil pelt is ejected from your spot, destroying the pelt.
Leveling up the scorpion shell, you gain access to its special skill, the "Spectral Sting". You still have 1 XP in the bank, but it looks like leveling up the shell to Level 3 will take 2 XP. Also, it seems like you can't eject the shell until level 5 so you might be stuck in the desert until you can eject the shell. At the very least, you're pretty sure going back to the icy biome will kill you since the shell you have equipped preps you for the harsh temperatures of the desert
You dig down and find a family of scorpions dining on a particularly juicy grub. You might be able to convince them that you're also a scorpion, or you can ignore them and keep digging down. You could probably rest here until they leave you alone.
Also, you notice that there's some papery substance all over the walls that prevents the sand from caving in and killing all the scorpions.
