If you are struck on the head with the flower staff, flowers instantly bloom all over your face and even in your brain, and you die instantly.
If you are struck on the arm, your arm gets covered in flowers. If you're unlucky and they also bloom in your nerves, you lose movement in that arm.
It's a measurement that takes the fairy-tale-like property of "Cause flowers to bloom on whatever it touches" and turns it into a fiendish weapon...
If you defend yourself with a crowbar, then flowers will just bloom on the crowbar, but if it's struck several times, then too many flowers will bloom on it, the crowbar will become structurally fragile, and it will break apart.
Considering the Otters were doing the exploration for fun, I wouldn't put it past them to designate one of the anomalous clone as a monster just for the sake of having an immediate physical threat. So the limitation is self-imposed, because it's just a game.
Considering the Otters were doing the exploration for fun, I wouldn't put it past them to designate one of the anomalous clone as a monster just for the sake of having an immediate physical threat. So the limitation is self-imposed, because it's just a game.
it seems far more likely this is either an old, possessed/infected/hijacked clone, or the original. While their exploration seems like its for shit and giggles (probably because what the fuck else is there to do), this otter appears to have been cordycep'd by some sort of flora that is driving it to attack the others. I'd imagine it can't go to those rooms either because of needing to stay within a certain area or... incompatibility with the physics going on here.
it seems far more likely this is either an old, possessed/infected/hijacked clone, or the original.
I would say high probability that she was the mask member of a team (probably were no survivors) given that she is wearing the mask and the ”flower stick” appears to be a corrupted crowbar. Would make sense, since the mask member is the point man and the one most likely to be hit by and corrupted by some entity or force.
I would say high probability that she was the mask member of a team (probably were no survivors) given that she is wearing the mask and the ”flower stick” appears to be a corrupted crowbar. Would make sense, since the mask member is the point man and the one most likely to be hit by and corrupted by some entity or force.
Makes me wonder how or which part in the apartment that happeened.
I would say high probability that she was the mask member of a team (probably were no survivors) given that she is wearing the mask and the ”flower stick” appears to be a corrupted crowbar.
Not just that, the "flower stick" anomaly appears to actually be an extension of her infected arm in part; the vines or whatever they are that wrap around the crowbar to form the stick appear to grow out from the arm first.
Not just that, the "flower stick" anomaly appears to actually be an extension of her infected arm in part; the vines or whatever they are that wrap around the crowbar to form the stick appear to grow out from the arm first.
Yeah. She appears connected to both the flower stick and elevator control board, as her breathing tube links to the control board and we see at least one of the cables is seemingly connected to her front.
Makes me wonder if the two are separate anomalies or actually part of a single one. My guess is separate, and that the control board got her first and the flower stick is a later pick up. Could possibly explain more the behavior of not going into the elevator or cloning/elevator floor due to something to do with proximity to the elevators if it is the control board possessing the body.
I do think possession is heavily suggested due to the flower stick and the infected arm. Given the explanation of the flower stick, wouldn’t be odd to assume the infected arm might actually be otherwise totally useless except for a possessing force on the body manipulating it to move regardless of how damaged it is.
...her breathing tube links to the control board and we see at least one of the cables is seemingly connected to her front.
...Could possibly explain more the behavior of not going into the elevator or cloning/elevator floor due to something to do with proximity to the elevators if it is the control board possessing the body...
On a curious note, it looks like the tube on her front infiltrates her body into either the liver or the base of the left lung via the inferior lobe. Really hard to tell exactly where with the clothes though- it could also be infiltrating the heart, depending on just how baggy that jacket is.
If it's controlled by the elevator panel, there is a very simple explanation for why it won't enter elevators; if that stick touches the control panel in a struggle, the elevator could break, the anomalies vanish/ cannot be accessed by anyone except for anomalous otter and anyone now trapped on those floors. Though it's a mystery as to why it would avoid the safe zone or the cloning room because by accessing those it would wipe out the team forever.
Though it's a mystery as to why it would avoid the safe zone or the cloning room because by accessing those it would wipe out the team forever.
Because its job is to facilitate the otters' fun. Wrecking the cloning room or killing the backup otter would be both uninteresting for the game and unsportsmanlike.
And how do you know that for sure? Does the artist say so?
Nah, it's armchair theorizing, but it makes sense as a reason why it wouldn't do anything about the cloning room or safe zone -- there's nothing supernatural about the safe zone, as far as we know, or at least nothing that'd dissuade an otter specifically.
... This shit? This shit right here is the same reason Yuuka's power is fucking terrifying.
Indeed, truly someone to be feared! There's a lot of Touhous with amazing abilities. Heck, Yuugi or most of the underground group are terrifyingly strong.
Makes me wonder if the two are separate anomalies or actually part of a single one. My guess is separate, and that the control board got her first and the flower stick is a later pick up. Could possibly explain more the behavior of not going into the elevator or cloning/elevator floor due to something to do with proximity to the elevators if it is the control board possessing the body.
Looks like you called it, at least for the former. Hopefully we'll see about the latter.
Might be possible that the reason they stay away from the cloning room and the elevators is that it messes with the control board on them. It shouldn't be a surprise that the elevator itself messes with space and time, and that the inputs right now are likely only for movement through space along a fixed time. We should probably also consider if the elevators operate in such a manner, that the cloning/elevator room itself creates the copies through a similar messing with space and time.
Could probably expect that they don't appear outside the apartment complex is likely that the entrance into the apartment itself is a rift through space/time and that the outside is separated from the interior of the building. Or at least the interior is separated from the exterior in their world. Who knows what other worlds might be connected to the interior.
As for avoiding the standby floor, not sure. Perhaps it's just simply considered too dangerous trying to go to the heart of "enemy territory".
It looks like the flower stick was made from a crowbar.
Anomalous Giant Otter
/Appears now and then and relentlessly attacks only the Giant Otters.
/Since it has mastered all their tactics, all the Giant Otters can do is escape while waging battle.
/Will not follow them into elevators.
/Does not appear on the cloning floor, the standby floor, or outside the apartment complex./Unknown
Flowers instantly bloom wherever it touches./A simple, sharpened iron bar.
