Baetyl

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Character

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Baetyl

Faction

baetyls (Loved100 Reputation)

Tier

5

Corpse Dropped

rubble (100%)


Extra info:
baetyl

A hideous specimen.

25% chance per turn to repel gases near itself.

Perfect

A baetyl is an object belonging to the baetyls faction. The only baetyl that can be encountered other than sparking baetyls is a unique variant found in Bethesda Susa.[1]

Baetyls are completely immobile objects with extremely high health and ♦AV, meaning they are extremely difficult to destroy under normal circumstances. If a baetyl's hitpoints are somehow reduced to 25% of their maximum HP (500 HP), it will become broken. If its HP is further reduced to 20% (400 HP), it will violently explode with a force of 25,000, dealing ♥10d10+7585-175 (Avg: 130) damage to everything in a huge radius. This explosion is considered neutronic. After exploding, the baetyl itself will disappear, leaving behind a space-time vortex.[2]

Baetyls have an inherent reality stabilization effect, while will contest reality distorting events.[3] The strength of this reality stabilization is equal to 120 when a baetyl is at maximum HP; if the baetyl takes damage, the strength of reality stabilization will be multiplied by the percentage of HP it has of its maximum HP.[4] Notably, reality stabilization will prevent baetyls from being revealed by Clairvoyance.

A baetyl's reality stabilization and gas repulsion will be disabled if the baetyl is broken, rusted, or affected by EMP; however, its explosion effect will still function.

Baetyls will passively push adjacent gases away from themselves, with a 25% chance of doing so each round.[4][5]

sparking baetyls are a kind of baetyl that can grant the player "quests".

Bethesda Susa Baetyl

baetyl

A lens of glass has crusted over the smooth stone where the heat of sacred math burned the air then cooled in Q.E.D. Under that dermis and the meteoritic layer, an electric heart grinds on the field of magnets at the earth's core and radiates a shower of sparks. This one purrs, too.

Perfect

A unique baetyl can be encountered within the Temple of the Rock, located at the bottom of Bethesda Susa. It is identical to a normal baetyl, save for having a different description. The player is also able to speak to it; however, it will refuse to speak to the player if they have sufficiently low reputation with baetyls.

This baetyl is integral to the Decoding the Signal quest. It can be spoken with to "decode the signal" if the player is in possession of the stamped data disk [with Q Girl's instructions encoded].

Trivia

  • A "baetyl" is a stone, often a meteorite, that is believed to be divine in origin and is sometimes worshipped, similarly to how the baetyl in Bethesda Susa is worshipped by the Mechanimists.

References

This information is reliable as of patch 2.0.201.75.
  1. TempleOfTheRock.rpm
  2. XRL.World.Parts.BaetylHostility
  3. XRL.World.Parts.RealityStabilization
  4. 4.0 4.1 ObjectBlueprints.xml
  5. XRL.World.Parts.PartsGas