Grounded 2 Key Items Database

Voracious little blighters that devour everything. Can drop roach chunks on death.

Voracious little blighters that devour everything. Can drop roach chunks on death.

A large and especially tough Cockroach matriarch, ready to defend herself if provoked.

A large and especially tough Cockroach matriarch, ready to defend herself if provoked.

This fullfat milk carton must be nearly two years old by now! Not the kind of memorabilia commonly brought to a commemorative ceremony, but to each their own.

- Fix door compressor x
- Gather resources:
Receivers x
Electrodes x
Thin wire x
Rust scraps x
- Bait ant queen x
- O.R.C. Procedure x
- Improvement testing:
Infusion x (some abilities)
Molars x (mold is key)
Tumbling x (missing something)
Laser attachments x (very good)
- Test run in the pumpkin patch x
- Find sabotage route for converted platoon x
- Workshop cleanup x
- Assign guards x

To be delivered directly to Ms. Sloane Beaumont.

Below is a summarized version of our most recent psychological profile of [REDACTED]:

Despite her notable capabilities, [REDACTED] exhibits a desire for external validation; she wants to be seen and heard. She's staged several maneuvers in front of our cameras, dismantling surveillance equipment only after she's "put on a show."

That being said, her distaste for authority is clear. [REDACTED] will reject obvious solutions out of pride if she feels she cannot reclaim them as her own.

This aversion has proven useful in many ways, as [REDACTED] has developed truly remarkable workarounds to problems that even Ominent had yet to solve. When provided with the right resources, her ingenuity rivals that of our best engineers.

However, she lacks emotional maturity and is unable to regulate her temper. For this, and other reasons, she is dangerous. It is imperative that we acknowledge the risk she poses to Ominent if she be allowed to continue her activities here in the park.

Please see the rest of the report for recommended procedures moving forward.

Hey, we haven't met but I'm ID 993. I just started this week. I think we share the same desk. Except I'm day shift.

Look, I don't know anyone here yet but I thought since, you know, same chair. We're practically friends already!

And since we're friends, you can tell me directly and honestly... what is up with all the biological waste going in and out of the science division? What do they need toenails for? I can't make heads or tails of those shipping manifestos.

Help a buddy out, yeah?

A rusted watering can among the community garden pumpkins. Enter at your own risk.

These chirping insects put on a show at night but are lazy during the day. Can drop their powerful drumstick legs, head and cricket parts on death.

These chirping insects put on a show at night but are lazy during the day. Can drop their powerful drumstick legs, head and cricket parts on death.

A device capable of thwarting the mysterious stranger's remote control signals. Defeat the enemies and push back against her presence in the park!

The noble watcher of the park, drops fine crow feathers from high atop perch points.

Scribbled note on the merits of fusing caterpillars and scorpions into a lethal weapon.

This is a message to Ms Beaumont.

When in the course of research, it becomes necessary for scientists to dissolve the corporate bands connecting them to their employer and to assume a new station of freedom, a respect for their, well, legal future requires that they declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

I am done playing corporate charades. I declare this research station to be totally independent of Ominent Practical Technologies.

Here, the employees you left behind will be free to conduct the groundbreaking research so callously discarded by your memos and directives.

To my colleagues down below, shed your numbered keycards! Join me!

Attention all staff!

We’ve received distasteful reports that employees are daring each other to ingest the sour semi-liquid that has collected in pools around the garden as a known result of our heavily vetted research protocols.

THIS IS ABSOLUTELY DISCOURAGED.

Any employee suspected of either sipping, slurping, or daring to sip/slurp will receive an immediate time out and will be required to attend a seminar on proper quaffing etiquette.

- Management

Daily notes, June 18th, 1992
Employee 502 – Raw Science Research Division

I arrived early in the morning to confirm reports of a “glowing fissure” filed by field agents. After witnessing the fissure firsthand, I immediately sent out a request for an observation deck module to be installed.

It seems to be a naturally occurring fissure, about two centimeters long, and there are no signs of foul play or external intervention. This will need to be monitored closely. Flooding the area for containment is not sustainable this close to the surface.

I’ll send note to all rangers in the vicinity: we need to keep our eyes peeled for more fissures. If we were to miss one for too long… I fear the worst.

An audio log found in the yard.

A pet terrarium dropped in the scramble to escape the park. Its inhabitant gone, looking for its next meal...

An audio log found in the yard.

Pete
Key Card (easy)

Max
Model Train? (too big)
Review column (how to cut out?)
"Jokes" notepad (impersonal?)
Improv class workshop (too cool?)

Ally
Championship picture? (she's not even there)
Report card (check school)
Old ball? (too big)

Willow
Slam poetry (too mean)
Pen pal letter (get rid of this guy)
Bracelet (possible)

A cozy garden cabin harboring the entrance to a secret Ominent facility. Visit at your own risk (and expense)!

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

Hovers and grazes near the garden at night and sleeps during the day. Can drop glow goo and iridescent scale on death.

Hovers and grazes near the garden at night and sleeps during the day. Can drop glow goo and iridescent scale on death.

Marty, I’m not so sure about you bringing this specimen to the planter station.

I know it’s important genetic research, but without a way to contain it, the work is impossible!

Sylvia, Dominic, and I are moving to another site until you can get this THING under control. We won’t risk getting injured over a faulty experiment. That would make us just as bad as Beaumont and her unquestioning lab coat stooges.

The seed can germinate without our help as long as it stays buried.

If you're reading this, then you Ominent clowns finally got your act together and "domesticated" some soldier ants. You can have your Omni-Tools and your knick-knacks back. I took what I needed.

Honestly, I didn't even need to grab all this. I just enjoyed watching you dweebs struggle without your little Omni-Things. You know you can build your own tools, right? Of course you don't. You aren't real survivors, you're playing pretend. It's a bit sad.

But not as sad as selling your soul to the highest bidder.

Special Communique
To the attention of: Employee ID 78, Network Center

Mr. Thompson, it has come to the attention of the archival team—through careful examination of field reports submitted in your name—that you appear to have misunderstood the intent of such reporting.

While partaking in occasional "people watching" is an accepted use of break time, the field archive team is not an audience for diatribes about subjects of low corporate interest.

Ominent Practical Technologies has no direct use for endless documentation about the no-doubt many pretty girls visiting Brookhollow Park on sunny afternoons. This is not what our state-of-the-art camera network is for.

From now on, please refrain from filing any more documents with the bureau without management approval.

A brittle treasure key caked in ice crystals. You probably shouldn't lick it.

A common gastropod found around the park. Drops raw meat, slime and eye stalks on death. Bust the shell for garden snail fragments.

A common gastropod found around the park. Drops raw meat, slime and eye stalks on death. Bust the shell for garden snail fragments.

A freight train of a creature which slithers at dizzying speeds through the trenches of the Croquet Area. Can drop snake scales when struck by a daring rider.

NOTE FOR ALL NEW TEAM MEMBERS

Resource Acquisition might seem like a simple assignment, but you gotta watch your step round these parts. Woolly aphids can sneak up on you when you least expect it. See a cute blue thing with fur? Step back. They startle easy, and they’ll freeze your foot off.

This is what happens when bugs are injected with souped up mint candy, it turns out. And now the brain geniuses at the O.G.R.R. Labs are saying another batch of those frisky little abominations just escaped.

Now you may be wondering why we’re boosting bugs with candy juice all of a sudden. My man up there says they were throwing stuff at the wall to get a smile from our big boss gal. You know the one.

And you better believe they got the go ahead to do it to bigger, badder critters! So, watch your back. Watch everyone’s backs. They’re bound to lose some of those too eventually.

A fissure in the ground glowing with a mysterious pink light. Visible from Ominent's observation deck.

An annoying but harmless flying pest found mainly around pools of water. Drops gnat fuzz and raw gnat meat on death.

An annoying but harmless flying pest found mainly around pools of water. Drops gnat fuzz and raw gnat meat on death.

A trophy cricket glazed with Hot Chachas and stuffed with gnat meat. A delightful feast for lizards.

A lone MIX.R device, ready to be disabled once all the area's transmitters have been hacked.

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

A harmless subterranean bug that needs to be unearthed with a shovel. Drops grub sludge, grub hide, and raw grub meat on death.