Response Level 2: [b]Overgrowth[/b]
Toxic fog and plants impair mobility across the [i]Plousios[/i], interfering with pursuit and aiding in escapes.

[b]Alexa![/b]

"Help [i]me[/i]?" Mynx said, voice heartbreakingly unchanged. "Oh, no, you've got it all wrong. Our job is to help [i]Redana[/i]."

Beneath the robe you can feel the ripple of bones rearranging, muscles aligning, poison developing. Without warning a bone needle erupts from her shoulder, an envenomed needle piercing into your arm. It falls away and crumbles to dust so quickly you could almost think you imagined it.

"She is [i]lost [/i]without her friends, Alexa," Mynx said, sounding exactly like a person even though beneath the robe you can feel exactly how far from human she is. "And once they learn what is coming they will abandon her. Her heart will break again."

You can hear the hiss of toxins escaping alongside her breath, over the sounds of Hermetics running and shouting. You can feel it dig into your body - your shining new body - as the hooks of moss add texture to your smooth curves. You can feel it in your ears, in your nose, in your throat.

"Aren't you supposed to be her bodyguard?" said Mynx. Quietly. Accusingly.

[Pay a price to act against Mynx, who is a Threat to the World. In order to talk to her further, you must first Defy Danger, paying another price for making the attempt. You are not positioned to Finish Her and you have a limited range of things she will hear with Talk Sense.]

[b]Redana, Bella, Dolce![/b]

The sound of chaos echoes out from the engine room. The cries of [i]Assassin![/i] echo down through kilometers of steel, the clanging of tocsin bells. 

If you answer the call, as I imagine you might, you will push your way through crowds of Hermetic magi in flight, through Coherent phalanxes attempting to form in defense, past ranks of cold-eyed Lanterns climbing into ambush positions. You will arrive to see the Engine Room filling rapidly with a toxic fog. It obscures and blinds, and everywhere you look seeds are sprouting with poisonous flowers already in bloom. You will need to Defy Danger to progress.