man #4 is really close

  want to wait for him to get home

  but computer keeps bleeping

  scout scamps keep telling me stuff

  like giant ants are definitely going to attack me

  lots of giant ants

  they've been banking them up. worrying. because that's pretty smart. like first they sent a big bunch against me. and i killed those. then they sent just constant ants for days. and i killed those. then everything just stopped. because they were saving up ants for this one big horrible assault. could be coming from other places too. i put all this ant strategy data into my bff computer and computer was all like 'uh oh this isn't good' and if you can't trust a computer to have a rational emotional reaction then i don't even know what.

  am i making sense right now

  panic/fear/dread combo might be affecting my ability to rationally boop

  am i even smarter than an ant at this point

  i mean that was the thing

  i was holding on to that

  jin at least you're smarter than an ant

  that's what i'd tell myself in times of trouble

  now though

  are these insects actually pretty clever? are they doing superscience? are they over there in that hive writing their own weird little journal teleport science somethings? what's the tech level is what i'm saying. man if they have their own waterpark it's all over. give up humans. ants got us beat. game over. final score: 7

  probably should have anticipated this. giant ants have giant brains. and also crystals! antgutgems! those things probably do all sorts of crap i don't even know about. man what have i been doing over here. wasting my time on all this survival stuff and weapon stuff. should have been investigating ant brains. rookie mistake jin. i mean what kind of superscience genius are you. not even thinking about brains. that's like a science crime. you are no longer a mad scientist. you are back to just being a sad scientist again. big demotion there kid. gonna have to work your way up the insanity ladder to get that mad title back. maybe one day you'll be a dad scientist. you must have goals. who can tell what future be.

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  what the flip am i even writing now

  stressed jin is nonsense jin

  focus up now buddy. we got ant problems. survival stuff to do. you want to keep breathing right? yes you do. so how you gonna deal? huh? how. you. gonna. deal.

  shield. yes. finished testing. got all the numbers. good numbers. bad numbers. sad numbers?

  bloody hell jin you are such a little oddbag tonight. you have the spirit of applesauce in your idiot brains. you have to think of really solid practical solutions to current looming problems. that is what you have to do. so come on. go.

  could i build like power armour

  is that an option

  future jin. future jin it is your past self. did you build power armour? if so please also invent time travel and send it back to me. i could use a boost. come on. do it now. now. now.

  now.

  nuts

  future jin hoarding that power armour all to herself. when do i get so selfish.

  have to settle for shields. oh yeah shields! i solved the power overload problem. well not solved. hacked a hacky hacky hack for it. instead of one big shield now i have seventeen little shields. like layers of an onion surrounding me. and it also kind of smells onionish? like a real noticeable motor oil onion burning hair smell. anyway so i got those shield layers and yeah basically anything makes them pop but i got seventeen of the suckers. if they get low i can just reboot the whole thing, get seventeen more. until i run out of batteries of course. but is that likely? i wish i knew. really do wish that. anyway there's still the aggby heat shield. so if i'm lucky maybe nothing will even get close enough to pop my onion shields.

  oh jin

  you cutie

  thinking you might get lucky

  don't lose that innocence kid

  for weapons i got my shardrifle with swordgun switch and also heat drone glove which i haven't used enough. i just forget about it. i also have ten scamps armed with superhammers. also three scrapbags with vortex bombs. they get to trail behind me. do not want a vortex bomb going off in my face. that would be a very embarrassing way to die. being telefragged by a thing i accidentally made myself. no. i will die by being eaten to pieces by giant ants like a dignified person thank you very much.

  could possibly use laser shotgun but i didn't hook it up to the telepower system and i'd be scared that i'd like fire it once and it'd drain every antbloodbattery at once and my shield would just switch off and twenty ants would just instantly jump on me. that is definitely what would happen. sorry laser shotgun. you are amazing but so impractical. too good for this unworthy world. also you are a laser. lasers still make me feel complicated in terms of emotions. we all have our issues to work through.

  i have lasers on my robot arm

  i mostly use them to burn my name on things

  #4 is still out there. still not home.

  can't really wait any longer

  computer keeps bleeping at me

  'come on jin what you waiting for girl ants ain't gonna splat themselves'

  so yep

  here comes antwar

  here comes jin