Datamite
datamite
Plural: jars of datamite
No, this isn't a data mite. It's datamite, a strange paste that data mites spread on your circuit boards before they eat them. Which is crazy, of course. Everyone knows you're supposed to eat circuit boards with peanut butter.
Miscellaneous Item
Autosell value: 20
Usable
Combat Usable
How Obtained
When Used
You taste the datamite. It's... pretty good, actually, but intense. There's no way you're ever going to finish the whole jar. (not consumed)
Against data mite
The jar of datamite hits the data mite squarely and shatters. As it turns out, data mites love their datamite.
It stops trying to kill you and starts eating everything the datamite splattered instead. You slip away while it's occupied. (ends combat without costing time)
Or, if encounter happens in the Ancient Computer
So much so that it eats the datamite and everything the datamite's touched, until it explodes in a storm of bad code.
Some of it gets on you. Eugh.
You got an item: string of bad code
You got an item: string of bad code
Or, rarely, while wearing a string sweater and a ball of strings in Inner Cyberspace:
It stops trying to kill you and instead gives you a piece of dust so unbelievably tiny you never would have found it yourself. Huh.
You got an item: dust mountain dust
You slip away while it's busy eating everything the datamite splattered on. (ends combat without costing time)
Other foes
The jar of datamite hits the <foe> squarely and shatters. As it turns out, datamite is strangely addictive in small doses, but an entire jar at once will do 30-50 (acid) damage.