Rogue swarmer

rogue swarmer

Oh my God. It's gone rogue.

Type: combat item
Cannot be discarded

Deals Physical Damage based on how many swarmers you have

(In-game plural: rogue swarmers)

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Item number: 3101
Description ID: 280870255
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Obtained From

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A Sinister Dodecahedron

swarm a-swarming (2)

When Used

• With one swarmer in inventory:

	The swarmer darts from your hand and pokes it in the eye for X damage.

• With two swarmers in inventory:

	The swarmer darts out of your hand, and is joined by your other swarmer. They wield their tiny weapons against your foe, dealing X damage.

• With more than two swarmers in inventory:

	All N of your swarmers dart from your hand and surround your opponent, their tiny weapons dealing X damage.

• Occasionally, after the above text has displayed:

	Afterwards, the swarmer gets caught in a slight breeze and disappears over the horizon. Oh well.

or

	Afterwards, the swarmer's self-replication software kicks in, and it makes an exact duplicate of itself out of the surrounding air molecules. Neat!
	You acquire an item: rogue swarmer

Damage

# of Swarmers	Base Damage
1	60
5	80
10	100
50	204
100	301
500	824
1,000	1,308
5,000	3,933
10,000	6,359
50,000	19,516
100,000	31,672

Notes

• N is equal to the number of rogue swarmers in your inventory.
• Base damage equals floor(50 + 10 * N^0.7).
• 1 Rogue swarmer is consumed only when the "slight breeze" message appears.

References

• The concept of a Rogue Swarmer is a reference to the novel Prey, by Michael Crichton, in which swarms of nanoparticles escape the environment that they are contained in and start to survive on their own. The alleged "swarms" are capable of self-replication and are extremely deadly.

Collection

• 🥇: Papilionoidea (#1515162) - 15,028
• 🥈: EPsonIC (#230349) - 12,200
• 🥉: Beren (#1248625) - 6,000
• #4: aarkwilde (#1469693) - 5,589
• #5: MotherMary13 (#627276) - 4,495
• #6: Dcglenn (#942390) - 3,389
• #7: ScratchMe (#447613) - 3,353
• #8: Unca Jim (#845993) - 3,114
• #9: eav (#22185) - 3,025
• #10: Vacated_Cranium (#886877) - 2,730

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