Belissar stood just past the doorway to what used to be a flower meadow. Mud and pools of water dotted the room. Dead grass and flowers floated on top of the water along with lotus flowers, blending in with what plants remained in the soil and obscuring the depth of the puddles. A particularly large pool stood in the center of the room, also covered in the floating remains of flowers. The water stones had apparently done their job, he could still see bubbling He took another look at the message that brought him here.

    A room is about to shift natures.

    Bog is now available.

    Change Flower Meadow (2F) to Bog? Please reduce Water-attribute mana and features to restore room to original nature.

    Belissar made a light smile. Well, it wasn’t exactly the lake he imagined, but this worked too. He went ahead and confirmed the change.

    The entire room began to glow and Belissar could see the Tower’s mana flood the room. He could see it wrap around places where green and blue mana crashed and swirled, smoothing them out and blending them together. He could see the dead flowers sink down and melt into the dirt while new ones began to grow.

    He was so caught up in the sight that he didn’t notice the light die down at first. A few moments later, he rubbed his eyes and took in the new room.

    The shape of the room was as before, a large pool of water in the center where he had made a depression, surrounded by shallower pools and muddy ground. The dandelions and the lilies had receded to a mere handful, heather and mosses taking their place on the limited dry ground with the occasional mana flower that didn’t seem bothered by all the water. The water was covered by lotus flowers and water lilies. Belissar’s face scrunched up as he smelled a scent like rotten eggs.

    He decided to distract himself with the room’s description.

    Bog

    Type: Water, Nature, Field

    Mana upkeep: 5

    Description: An open waterlogged area with poor drainage and low nutrient water sources. The ideal environment for carnivorous plant features and monsters. Suited for many Nature or Water attribute monsters, especially amphibious types, though the low oxygen-content of the water precludes solely water-breathing creatures. As with all wetland rooms, the soft and moist terrain slows down any land movement.

    Belissar tilted his head. Carnivorous plants? A water room that apparently couldn’t have water-breathing creatures, because of something called oxygen? He guessed he had more questions for Tarwantrad and Nenavann now.

    In any case, though, he knew that bogs were not particularly pleasant to walk through and hoped the Hunger would find it the same. And since it wouldn’t be for him or the karnuq, he went ahead and added a vaporous hemlock node, pleased to find it discounted. Now he had a bog that would be filled with poisonous mist. A truly unpleasant place for any human.

    She spent the next few minutes in a happy dance that made her honey slime wiggle about. She couldn’t wait to tell her queen mother!

    Eventually, though, she calmed down and set about to her original purpose and scouted out the new land. With the mobile hive in direct contact with her honey slime, she could treat it as part of her slime hive and view the world through its senses...

    Her honey slime condensed a bit as she beheld the room. This room...was perfect. She sent one of her workers out in a ball of honey slime. The worker dropped into the water with a plop and sunk down to the bottom, protected by her honey slime all around her. She landed on the soil at the bottom and began absorbing it, rapidly growing in size.

    As the Seventh Daughter could feel through the mobile hive’s feet, the water and soil here was all full of dead, slowly decaying plants. The absolutely ideal combination to process into slime: waterlogged nutrients with everything required save nectar, which could easily be acquired from all the flowers growing or even floating about. Her worker at the bottom extended a tendril up to a lotus flower on the surface and proved the point, simultaneously drinking nectar from the flower and absorbing water and nutrients from the bottom to produce completed honey slime all in one go. No need to drag her slime from flower fields to the pond and back again.

    Before she knew it, the Seventh Daughter was spinning about, causing the mobile hive connected to her to run around in a figure eight pattern. She nearly dispensed her entire hive to start foraging from the room right then and there. Only the need to acquire the hive of hives’ permission stopped her.

    She had the mobile hive rush over to where the Conduit hovered...or as fast as it could move through the soft, wet, uneven ground. She was about to ask the Conduit when, to her shock, the King addressed her.

    “You like the room?”

    After her mind resumed from the shock of hearing the King’s voice, the Seventh Daughter tried to respond. The mobile hive’s foot got caught in spot of mud that was a lot softer then it looked. Not wanting to make the King wait, the Seventh Daughter rushed out of the mobile hive and began dancing herself.

    “Amazing! Incredible! King is best king!”

    The King chuckled and his smile lit up like the sun.

    “Then, would you like to move here after we test the poison mist?”

    The Seventh Daughter froze. The King...was granting her permission to move here? To this perfect room he had built?

    She began to tremble, sending ripples through her honey slime. A moment later she burst out into as rapid a dance as she could, causing her honey slime to wobble back and forth and send bits and pieces flying off here and there.

    “YES! WOULD! KING IS BEST KING!”

    This day couldn’t get any better.