You and Frigid find Brightfire surrounded by Originium Slugs.

Whoa! E-Endmin?! You brought Frigid along!

Why are there still so many of them?

That explains why you were so defensive.

A perk for helping out Globular Originium Slugs.

Brightfire, can you ... explain what's happening here?!

Just this morning I saw an Originium Slug rolling around like it was looking for something. I remember you telling me that the slugs are social critters, so I guess it's trying to look for its friends...

But things didn't get any better when I kicked another slug close to it. So I kicked a third, and then a fourth...

And then they got really disoriented and started digging around the place. I think they lost their way home.

I don't know what exactly went wrong. All I know is that we must get them home to stop their digging.

Then I tried returning the slugs to their tunnels, yet some of them kept bouncing back up.

I want to fix the problem myself, but the issue keeps getting worse. I don't want anything to happen to the Balepyre Tower. And then suddenly...

Ugh. The slugs release pheromones when they roll around and collide into things.

Slug pheromones are essential for their pathfinding and food acquisition... They also help other lifeforms locate water and avoid Originium formations.

You gathered slugs from different tunnels into a single place, and that really messed up their pheromones. That's why all of them are lost.

I mentioned this during the last workshop on Originium Slugs. I guess you...

Hey, I attended that workshop, okay...! I may have missed a bit because I gotta submit an EZ surveillance op proposal on the same day...

I knew it.

Yeah. It's like carrying an old gramp across a river without a bridge ... and not asking them if they wanted to be carried in the first place.

Oh, blight me. That sounds really bad! I messed up.

Well, at least you tried to contain the problem and didn't let the slugs burrow around. Now that would be serious trouble.

I'll help you bring the slugs back home. Please be extra careful when you run into a slug next time.

Before I forget! Endmin, I rinsed the slug stash! It contains pieces of ore, herbs, and other good stuff.

Slugs tend to pick up things from the ground when they roll around.

Once they return to the slug tunnel, they would store the food and get rid of things they do not need.

Treat the stash as "nature's bounty".

Well, if you run into more globular slugs, help them get back home. It'll improve the ecology and the grateful slugs might reward you with something.

You really helped me out today, Endmin. I'll be extra careful next time. Good intentions may go wrong without proper knowledge...

Before I forget! Endmin, I rinsed the slug stash! It's got pieces of ore, herbs, and other good stuff.

Globular Originium Slugs like these tend to pick things up from the ground while rolling around.