Roster round-2, batch 2 — three new archetypes, mostly reusing existing behaviour branches:
- virion (norovirus): a tiny fast swarmer, its own pool of 40 so a cloud reads as a swarm.
Shares the seeker branch (chase + dissolve on contact). The arithmetic threat. -> L5.
- driller (H. pylori): a TANKY corkscrewer (hp 50). Seeker chase + a rotating perpendicular
drift (the helix), and it does NOT dissolve on contact — it grinds you and keeps drilling,
so you must out-damage it. A new behaviour branch. -> L3 stomach; previewed in L2 at s2240.
- beacon (Faecalibacterium): the reward-state commensal. Shares the commensal branch, heals
AND gives the biggest standing (25) with no coat cost. A bright cyan octahedral gem, the
special one of the family. -> L5; previewed in the L2 breather at s1580.
Verified in-engine: driller corkscrews + survives contact; virion is tiny + dissolves; beacon
heals coat and spikes standing to 50% in two tends. Three clean distinct silhouettes (gem /
cone / dot-swarm).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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