Droopy Flip

+| Property | Details |+| :--- | :--- |+| **Type** | Anchored |+| **Category** | Anomalies |+| **Biome** | Tar Delta |+| **Scan Tool** | Bioscanner |+ +![Droopy Flip](Droopy Flip.png)+ +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.+ +1. **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.+ +2. **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.+ +3. **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.+ +4. **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.+ +## Gallery+ +### Development+ +![Droopy Flip depicted in Tar Delta Concept Art](Scorpius_Concept_Art.jpg)