Grounded 2 Key Items Database

Can someone confirm there is actually a massive toe biter covered in eggs near the base of the tree? I've been eating a lot of mushrooms lately and am worried I picked the wrong kind.

Employee 51, personal log, June 8th, 1992.

Who would have ever thought that I, a humble corporate scientist, would make history as the very first researcher in charge of taming insects! Mrs. Beaumont confirmed it: this has NEVER been done before, and I’m inclined to believe her. She has full access to months of park records. They say this company never throws away anything!

Black ants are a great first target. They are social insects, sturdy enough to be exploited, but not so dangerous that we would need extensive protective gear. A smart choice!

We will have a breakthrough soon! I simply know it!

Did anybody even take a single glance at the employee manual before swimming down here? It say, black and white: “Maintain a safety perimeter of at least 10 centimeters around any creature.” Do I need to print it on poster boards?

Do I know what centimeters are at this scale? No. But it’s pretty self-explanatory. Don’t get near anything that moves.

82 is the THIRD member of the research team sent to the hospital just this week by one of these shrimp-things.

Can you believe getting conked out by a literal shrimp?

This program desperately needs onboarding. In the meantime, keep your head DOWN!

The network is down. There’s no way of getting out of here alive. And I have nothing to show for it... They destroyed everything. Every report, every note. The only sign of 555 is a document about redacting a document that isn’t even here. She's long gone and so are whatever secrets were down here. The station is half-flooded and falling apart. I was supposed to be smart. All my teachers said so.

Send soldier
Pros: Full control, efficient, tried and tested
Cons: No thumbs, no signal below checkpoint

Diving bell
Pros: Safe/dry, chill protection
Cons: No thumbs, time consuming, need to swim out if things go wrong

Alliance with the crazies
Pros: Thumbs, brains, motivated
Cons: Basically Ominent with a chip on their shoulder, have their own pointless agenda

Hey you!

How about a little escapade in the crystal cave?

Tomorrow at 9! Bring your Omni-Hammer…

Love, 438

I submit for immediate review a COUNTER proposal to my colleague’s ladybug idiocy.

Do we have a sour spill problem in the garden? Maybe. Is the solution to this potential issue to strap office furniture to a bug? Are you insane?

According to the domestication team, even simple ants are impossible to manage. We need a creature we can trust!

Let’s use King Dozer, my pet lizard, to clear the sour spills. He is gentle, aloof, and can be easily motivated with treats. I brought him to the park today for a demonstration.

This will be MY final proposal for the cleanup efforts.

– Employee 363

I, Employee 362 of the Candy Processing Facility, would like to submit for review this official proposal for the maintenance and cleanup of environmental hazards originating in our installations.

We have all seen the reports about sour flavors popping up in random places in the garden. This is undeniably due to our carelessness. We must address this issue at once or face environmental degradation across the garden.

I propose using fauna resistant to the effects of sour (namely ladybugs, a sturdy peaceful insect). By simply mounting a water cannon on the back of one, we could dilute pools of concentrated sour, rendering them entirely or mostly harmless.

I believe research efforts are ongoing in other parts of the park to domesticate insects. As soon as they figure out how to tame them, we will be ready with equipment to turn them into a veritable sour fighting brigade.

This will be my first and final proposal for the cleanup efforts.
– Employee 362

A thousand generations in The Abyss have made these shrimp tougher and stranger than ever. They drop pond jockey meat on death.

A thousand generations in The Abyss have made these shrimp tougher and stranger than ever. They drop pond jockey meat on death.

The entrance to a small cave. It doesn't look big enough to be called an anthill.

A tiny harmless sausage-shaped bug found in grassy areas around the park. Becomes raw aphid meat on death.

A tiny harmless sausage-shaped bug found in grassy areas around the park. Becomes raw aphid meat on death.

Category: Arthropod (Live)
Date: 08.28.92, 10:18 AM
Location: O.G.R.R. Labs
Subject: Red Ant Worker
Mutator Response: None Observed
Supervising Scientist: Employee 221

Experiment Report:
Test number three (of no doubt many) was inconclusive, once again. Injection of fungal mutators into live arthropod tissue yielded no observable result.

Employee 352 was able to restrain the captured specimen as 418 breached the exoskeleton to inject fungal samples (progress, arguably), but even after an observation period, the mutators do not appear to have the same effect on live specimen than what we observed on locally grown Cucurbitaceae. Insects are not gourds, go figure!

Our current leading theory is that a mutagenic vector might be required to produce the kinds of tissue growth we’ve observed in pumpkin seeds, ideally combined with some sort of conductive solution to spread the enhanced tissue production through the creature.

But this is all a shot in the dark. We received an impossible task on frighteningly short deadlines. What were they thinking?!

Welcome to the park program! I'm Sloane Beaumont, your new corporate mother. Now that the pond has thawed and a new year has begun, we'll be making changes to the park program. You are part of the safety improvement effort to secure our underwater facilities. Exciting! Your scientifically inclined colleagues have brilliant minds, but weak throwing arms. Think of yourselves as protectors. Both of their lives and of Ominent's assets. You are here to "manage" the pond's wildlife. And that is a euphemism. So godspeed, and let's eat some koi sashimi the next time I see ya, huh?

A Chunky Chubbs baseball, and with a priceless autograph!

If anyone finds my message, please bring this report to Ms. Beaumont's desk. I was supposed to deliver it in person, but it's been two hours and nobody's opening the door. Do you know how important my work is? I don't have time to sit around. Domestication efforts are vital to the future of the park project!

Axl roams the park. Drops tarantula chunks, fangs, talon and venom on death.

Axl roams the park. Drops tarantula chunks, fangs, talon and venom on death.

Drops raw snail meat and slime. Bust the shell to collect garden snail fragments.

Drops raw snail meat and slime. Bust the shell to collect garden snail fragments.

A non-miniaturized, full-sized backpack. It doesn't look as though anything of value is inside.

A forest enclosure which is the site of an ongoing military action. The soldiers are frozen in place, as there is no child remaining to animate them to victory or defeat.

A noble creature that surveys most of the park looking for nectar from flowering plants. Can drop bee fuzz, bee stinger and pollen on death.

A noble creature that surveys most of the park looking for nectar from flowering plants. Can drop bee fuzz, bee stinger and pollen on death.

Someone was spying on the pumpkins!

Guards areas with high human-made resources and their home, the black ant hill. Can drop black ant head, black ant mandibles, and black ant part on death.

Guards areas with high human-made resources and their home, the black ant hill. Can drop black ant head, black ant mandibles, and black ant part on death.

This is a rideable Buggy, to get around your Brookhollow Park faster. Which can be upgraded using the Buffin' Barrel station.

A heartier ant that patrols the vegetable garden and lives in the black anthill. Can drop black ant head and black ant part on death.

A heartier ant that patrols the vegetable garden and lives in the black anthill. Can drop black ant head and black ant part on death.

Floats around flower beds and milkweeds. Can drop butterfly fuzz and scales on death.

Floats around flower beds and milkweeds. Can drop butterfly fuzz and scales on death.

Category: Raw Science Processing
Date: 08.18.92
Time: 02:47 AM
Energy input: 0.3 kW
Duration: 40s
Subject: 50 mL of plasmic SNPI-42Z particle (Raw Science)
Location: [REDACTED]
Supervising Scientist: Employee ID 554

Pre-Test Notes
Following updated grilling protocol instructions acquired through proprietary archival data, we hope to process upwards of five times the previous known limit quantity of Raw Science using water as a medium. This time it's the right one, boys.

Results
The updated grilling protocol we obtained appears to have been somehow deficient. The experiment proceeded as planned until superheated water vapor disturbed the stabilized plasma and caused a catastrophic release of energy. Be glad we conduct those experiments at night, otherwise we'd have an eyewitness issue to solve.

A beetle with a big blasting booty that patrols the park. A highly volatile boiling gland and bombardier part can be dropped on death.

A beetle with a big blasting booty that patrols the park. A highly volatile boiling gland and bombardier part can be dropped on death.

Contains recipes! Load it into a Ranger Station and use the Science Shop to access them.

A locked briefcase. There must be some sensitive documents inside!

A mint condition Ominent chip containing operating system data for a BURG.L Mark IV grilling robot. A fresh reinstall may help your friend regain the power of full sentences.

A toy pistol that ignites small caps of powder, making a popping noise. Popular among noisy kids.