Voice of the Harvest
A radio mast still on the air
- Health9000
- Height15 m
Where it lives
- Boss hall: Ravaged Earth, floors 2, 5, 8 and on
And the tower spake on the Day of the Harvest: open your doors, look them in the eye. And it speaketh still. — Chronicle of the Ruins 8:1
The civil defence mast above the factory outskirts broadcast one thing on the Day of the Harvest: stay home, open your doors, look them in the eye. People listened. Now it strikes with voice and current: the voice rolls out in rings with gaps of silence, lightning charges you — carry the charge to a lightning rod or give it back to the mast, and the current strikes the mast itself. Once it falls, it lies there: hit the crown of horns.
The Seven gave it the words; the apostles only read them into the microphone. And there was one district it kept silent over that night: it was told not to call them — the stage needs those who were not taken. The heat of hell got into its wires, and now it calls that district loudest of all.
Phases
I · On Air — from the start. II · Static — from 60% health. III · Snapped — from 25%.
Lattice and Crown
Standing, it lets 35% of the damage through its trusses. Fallen, it lies 3.2 s: hits land in full, and on the crown of horns at its top — ×2.
Thou shalt not fell it with a sword; wait till it lieth down itself.
Sermon
The horns glow — wedges of silence on the ground. The voice rolls out in 2 rings, 3 in Static: 16 and a push. Each has 2 gaps of 60°, and the next ring's gaps are shifted by 38°. The voice is taller than you — no jumping it, stand in the silence.
Where the voice is silent, there stand; and follow the silence.
Lightning
It strikes from the top: 6 and a charge for 4.2 s. When it comes due by the mast (within 2.4 m) the current goes into it — it loses 5% of its health; by a cold lightning rod — into the ground; in the open — 32 to you and everyone within 3.2 m.
The current it lent thee, give it back.
Lightning Rods
4 poles in the corners of the hall take the current within 1.7 m, then cool for 9 s.
Iron in the earth receiveth what thou canst not.
Relays
A 4.6 m circle burns around you — 3 spikes, 4 in Static, stitch a cage of current. The fence burns 1 s and goes dark for 1: 14, a jump saves you. Break a spike (160) — the cage opens and the backlash strikes the mast for 2%.
Leap the cage of current; better yet, break it.
Fall
It leans back — a strip as long as it is tall burns on the ground and freezes 0.5 s before. It falls: 46, no jumping it. It lies 3.2 s, 2.4 when Snapped.
The tall falleth far; step aside.
Breakdown
Hug its foot (within 4.5 m) and the hut sparks, a 4.8 m circle crackles at its base; the current goes into the ground: 20 and a push away. Jump.
At its foot the current goeth into the earth; stand not upon it.
Whip
When Snapped, a broken cable sweeps a 11 m circle along the very ground: 1.5 turns, 18 a hit. Jump as the cable comes.
The cable goeth low; lift thy feet.