Unfortunate Development

Unfortunate Development is a subregion of Five Pebbles which reveals much of the state of the greater facility. The source of the predatory Daddy Long Legs is revealed in this infested subregion, packed not only with the previously encountered mobile versions, but also with proto daddy long legs, a stationary growth along certain walls that will readily devour slugcat if the player gets too close. To make matters worse, the facility's gravitational distortion engine is malfunctioning in this sector; when online there is zero-gravity, when offline normal gravity returns.

Travel is assisted by elastic, blue, ropelike tendrils which span from wall-to-wall, which can be grabbed as the player reaches them by holding the up button. The slugcat cannot jump from this tendrils if the gravity is active and will simply fall down if the player tries to jump out of them.

The only other subregion directly connected to Unfortunate Development is Memory Conflux.

For plot reasons, This zone is the opposite of the difficulty selected, being way harder in easy mode becasue of the addition of new patches of Poto Daddy Long Legs covering more surfaces and more Daddy Long Legs. Meanwhile, its a bit easier in hard mode because of a slightly decreased amount of Daddy Long Legs in the zone.

The layout of Five Pebbles makes most new players enter Unfortunate Development accidentally becasue the first two pipes that separate from the main path lead there and the pipe that leads to a different zone of Five Pebbles is slightly hidden after a screen transition and the two said pipes. However, when playing as monk, despite having a a way more hazardous Unfortunate Development, one of the two pipes will be completely blocked by a mass of Proto Daddy Long Legs, making the player less likely to accidentally think Unfortunate Development is the only path.



Trivia

 * This subregion is both the shortest route from the The Underhang to General Systems Bus, and the most dangerous.
 * Other iterators, after examining the deterioration in this region, refer to the infestation as "the rot," and note its severity, indicating that other iterators may be similarly plagued by troubles.