A region older than most ancients buildings, clearly poorly built... Separated from most of the world, only entrance that does not cost karma 10 to enter is in industrial, which unfortunately needs a multiple cycle trip through long hallways purely just to get to the karma gate. As soon as the somehow moldy water pours down on you, you faint for a second as the spores fill your lungs, once you wake up you realize this is going to be a horrible journey... The Crust/Crusted Ascent/Crusty Pillars is a region that is infested with dangerous mold and rot, along with rust and maybe a bit of void fluid. It acts as a shortcut to the depths (because no one likes farm arrays or subterranean,) Garbage wastes, Drainage system, and maybe a few modded regions. The mold itself has 2 types, the brown mold is called Bark Crust, and is named after usually feeling like tree bark when you touch it. It is made out of a special type of mold which is extremely harmful, rust, and broken down parts of food and metal. This crust is spread by the winds at the end of a cycle or molding fruit. During a pre-cycle, this mold fills the air giving you the starving effect but amplified by 2 (im sorry.) The second mold is Sprouting Crust, which is made out of mold and tied together by the roots of the Void Flowers. Void flowers spawn on the Sprouting Crust, and after a cycle begin growing their fruit which slowly gets bigger over the cycle. Once the cycle is over, the fruit drops to the ground. If not eaten or disposed of via death pit or thrown into water where it will dissolve, it will begin to grow sprouting crust if at least 3 rooms away from its original plant, or bark crust if not. The only slugcats that can fully digest the fruits are Artificer, Hunter, and Gourmand, Monk can also digest it but immediately gain a debuff that is literally just the fainting and seizures and weird visual and audio effects hunter gets at cycle 0. The region also contains Crusty Long Legs (CLLs,) which are usually found as protos but mobile CLLs can be found in underground tunnels near drainage system and garbage wastes. The tentacles of the CLLS are pointy and retractable, 2 of them are always out to walk along, and the rest are retractable. They can make threat displays by swaying back and forth and shooting out small tentacles rapidly (will be shown in a future project.) There are also special variants of creatures such as the Crustflies (batflies but just brown, lame but they give you a full pip and a half so its worth it,) or special lizards like the waterspitters, or Spine lizards. The main part of the region is a large tower, similar to the wall but less steep of a climb, looking like your average room but with pipes mostly only connecting to the top and bottom unless it connects to another tower. The region is accessible to all slugcats, but with different conditions. Rivulets campaign has stronger weather that still goes on before a cycle ends, plus more CCLs and Crust. Gourmand has a lot more food spawns, Artificer has more random acid (oops forgot to mention the ACID PITS that jumpscare you,) Monk and Survivor has less crust, Saint has Ice crust (more on that soon.) Saint is also highly sensitive to the crust, dying during pre-cycles as soon as they go outside, worse effects when they touch crust, always has the starving effect with random coughing (poor saint :( ) There is also void fluid puddles around the path to the depths that kill you if you enter them. Not only that, but there is also a sub-region called The Frost that is just your average cold snowy region but with Snow Long Legs (SLLs) and Ice crust (really cold crust that makes pre-cycles even worse.) Generally, despite giving you a free skip into the depths after seeing pebbles, providing you with LORE during rivulets campaign (some pearls and a special part that lets moon read through all the information about THE CRUST,) and an echo for saint, its literally just agonizing pain the whole time your there so yay!!! pain!!!
say thanks to @DontAttackSoggyDogs for creating The Frost and attempting to keep their computer alive the whole time i built!!!! also, we are eventually going to create a studio probably about this region with like art and things and then eventually post some artwork on steam (not me because i cant for some reason?? why steam, why) and get some people to make a modded region so hhhhhhhhhhh yAYyyyy fsdjhdsjfkkjdhlsf also click to look at the images i took the build was made in BaA:R (be an alien renewal) also oops text wall hehe erm there may also be a special slugcat for the region >:)
