Fourth Floor
Location
This is the fourth floor of the Damaged Buildings in The Slags. It can be accessed from the Second, Third or Fifth Floor.
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Location Details | Indoors, Aboveground, Hard to Enter | |
Resting | See: The Slags |
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Encounter types | Conditionals | |||
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Combat Encounters | ![]() |
Etheric only | |
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Noncombat Encounters | ![]() |
Non-Etheric only | |
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Choice Encounters | ![]() |
Requires Fishing pole | |
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Gang Warfare Encounters | ![]() |
Can lead to a Hacking Encounter |
Combat Encounters
Opponent | Encounter Text | Notes | |
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![]() MIDGARD SCIENTIST |
A voice in the distance screams, "No one is ready! None of you are ready!" A madman with a syringe charges you moments later. |
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![]() TWISTED HOUND |
A crate near you shakes, then explodes, leaving a swirling, oily mass floating in the air. A twisted creature lopes from it, baring its teeth. | ||
![]() RAT KING |
MISSING TEXT | Does NOT require etheric. Appears if Bloodied Scientist dies and remains unburied. | |
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![]() WATERLOGGED CORPSE |
Without an air filter: As you make your way across the fourth floor, your nose is suddenly filled with the scent of sea water. Sea water? You turn around to see a corpse behind you with one arm raised over your head, ready to bring it crashing down. Otherwise: You make your way across the fourth floor, irritated by your air supply growing continually stuffier. You stop for a moment when you realize it smells strongly of sea water. Puzzled by this fact, you almost don't notice the corpse shuffling up noiselessly behind you. |
Only before starting Ship of the Damned quest |
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![]() WATERLOGGED CORPSE |
As you make your way through the ruined offices, you notice water beading up on the walls. You hear an animalistic grunt behind you and turn to see a decaying corpse moving towards you with alarming speed. | With Servant of the Mask |
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![]() WRITHING MASS |
A voice in the distance screams, "No one is ready! None of you are ready!" As you look to see who's shouting, you catch a glimpse of the man folding over backwards while a tentacled mass rips itself from his abdomen. Gore splatters the area as it extracts itself. It rests its bloody bulk on the remains of the corpse, far smaller than itself. |
Choice Encounters

- Give him an antidote (Good) - If you have Slags Antidote: lose 1 Slags Antidote, save him and unlock Back Down with the Living encounter in the Midgard Laboratory; otherwise, if you have MBR antidote: learn Slags antidote recipe; otherwise: unlocks Scientist's Corpse encounter
- Treat him medically (Good) - Lives if you have Trauma Tech. This then unlocks Back Down with the Living choice encounter in Midgard Laboratory. If he dies, unlocks Scientist's Corpse encounter.
- Steal his helmet (Evil) - unlocks Scientist's Corpse encounter, you get heavy containment helmet; triggers cool coin
- Leave him - unlocks Scientist's Corpse encounter
Scientist's Corpse - Only if you fail to save the Bloodied Scientist
- Loot the corpse - get heavy containment helmet, Midgard MK9, 4 of: egg salad sandwich, battered cred chip. Unlocks Rat King combat encounter?
- Bury the corpse - Buries the man (uses energy, prevents rats from swarming); triggers Warm Coin
- Leave it for vermin - Make progress across the floor, unlocks Rat King combat encounter.

- Cut it free - Helps you get to the stairs?
- Kill it again - Fight a waterlogged corpse
- Run for it - Nothing
Fourth to Fifth Floor (western stairs)
- Fifth Floor - Go to Fifth Floor
- Stay here - Nothing
Third and Second Floor (eastern stairs)
- Third Floor - Go to Third Floor
- Second Floor - Go to Second Floor
- Stay here - Nothing
Notes
TO PASS THIS FLOOR: Defeat 3 enemies?
Reached the stairs immediately after 2 instances of Far Above the Sea -> cut it free. Have repeated this several times after falling from the fifth floor.
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