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#1 wiki | comment Topics: Edit question: edit followyourstar asked on Test Drive Meme - September 2025/Event FAQ at 2025-09-05 Answer date: 2025-09-07	Hello, just a few questions! For the expedition in Kelesis, say your character naturally puts out a little bit of light constantly BUT (especially if they shift) the fire they're made from is made for sucking the life out of others. I'm assuming they're going to be a target, but would said fire deter the plants at all? And if not, are there any side effects to mutual life drain? And for the imprint machine... I've got a question about that regarding the Bough in Dante's noggin. Put super simply (because it gets complex and we haven't received an exact answer as to what they are in Limbus), the Boughs are said by one person to deal heavily with connection, and they've been used as a power source in the past. Do you think that would intercept/mess up some of Patho-Gen's machines at all and if so, how?	Constantly putting out a little light natively would encourage the plants' growth and generally be a poor idea. They do not like being on fire, and will still burn, but 'instinct' will have them be drawn to the light nonetheless. They're desperate to take whatever they can get, and if some burn up in the process, it's not so much that they can't grow enough to surpass it. A normal flame (or any kind of inborn light) would attract the plants and be suffocated and devoured. Dante's specific trait, especially when Shifted, complicates things as they're drained and burned, but then have a stronger entity to try and feast on... it's a cycle that could go as wildly as you'd like. It's possible it reaches some sort of equilibrium, where they're neither able to fully consume the other, keeping one another in a very delicate check. Or they could bolster one another to a dangerous degree, and were anyone accompanying Dante, the plants would be that much more able to devour anyone around them. In any case, the plants are unable to give up on them. So long as Dante's giving off light, they have to approach, to take as much of that light as they can. And the longer they're down there, the more plants will react to them, and the more aggressive they'll be towards anyone around. Regarding their Bough, it could have an effect of interfering with Patho-Gen's machines. Depending on the strength of Dante's connection to whomever they're being tested with, it could lead to distorted data, machines lighting up in ways they shouldn't, rendering whatever's being recorded into garbage (or at least with sizable gaps). Or, they might manage to short out the systems entirely, similar to the effect of a pair bond... Dante already giving out too much energy for them to properly capture.