Chapter 85: Farmer’s Domain
Tulland didn’t really need to ask the System about this option to know what it thought. It would, as it had always done, take the risky option. What mattered now was what kind of risk Tulland was willing to take. All in all, the combination token didn’t seem to be that big of a risk to him, but that made him worry. The Infinite had dedicated a large amount of text to warning him of risk, and that almost couldn’t be for no reason.
He decided to think about it in a different way.
If this made Broadcast work a third as well, would it be worth it?
The answer to that question was surprisingly hard to generate. On the one hand, Broadcast made all his farming go faster. It was the primary reason he could grow a plot of land to something significant and worthwhile within the temporal confines of a particular level.
But on Tulland’s literal other hand was a Clubber Vine, something that was only possible because his Farmer’s Intuition had helped him push through several variations of briars before his splicer finished the job for him. And that splicer, near as he could tell, wasn’t actively nullifying his Farmer’s Intuition. The skill simply wasn’t strong enough to figure out what was going on in the machine, and thus didn’t try very hard. But if it was a higher level, that might change.
There were a lot of perfectly logical considerations on both sides of the problem, each stacked up so high Tulland couldn’t assess which one won out. In the end, the decision came down to something so simple it was almost petty.
I hate how messy my status screen is. I can hardly keep track of all the skills.
Tulland watched the token glow and dissipate in his hand as he activated it, then felt a prompt in his mind as The Infinite asked what passives it had permission to push together.
Let’s go for broke. All of them.