| Property | Details |
|---|---|
| Type | Anchored |
| Category | Anomalies |
| Biome | Tar Delta |
| Scan Tool | Bioscanner |
The Droopy Flip is an unimplemented anchored Lifeform that appears in the upcoming Tar Delta region.
Appearance
The Droopy Flip consists of a thin, dark-purple, and bony stem that attaches to a wall. This stem curves upwards and expands into a mushroom-like structure riddled with warts but with a smooth, pink top separated into multiple bulbous shapes by streaks of purple.
Behavior
The Droopy Flip does not react to the player's approach. When jumped on by a player riding a Bullfrog Workmech, the Droopy Flip falls down after a few seconds, dropping the Workmech. After a bit more time, the flip comes back up.
Databank Entry
Source: Scan a Droopy Flip
Diademimponentia ptosis, the droopy crown imponent. An extremely primitive animal, similar in some respects to Earth's Dickinsonia. It may be the sister of all Protean life with a central nervous system.
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Snow catcher The droopy flip anchors itself to walls on a flexible stalk and absorbs nutrients through its soft, sulcate upper surface. It has specialized tissues and nerve cells, but no developed organs. It cannot move or feel pain.
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Segmented body Most higher animal life is essentially a tube connecting mouth and anus. The droopy flip is not. Its only hole is its navel, from which it constantly grows new segments (or 'isomers') divided by a carbon-rich hydrogel lattice. This lattice may have evolved into the basement membrane of all higher Protean life.
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Stalk collapse To avoid stalk breakage, flips fall limp under pressure on the sensitive feeding surface. Do not place weight on the flip for more than a few seconds.
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Flip The name 'flip' was selected because the organism is an upside-down flop. The flop is imaginary. It is so theoretically tantalizing and yet so irrelevant to the immediate survival of the pioneer that it has been moved to a separate databank entry. Please indicate your consent to integrate new PDA data by selecting 'play'; otherwise disregard.
Assessment: capable of supporting weight, but only for a short time.
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