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Ticking Tumbler

2025-12-04T11:39:49Z

Rikmach: Making a similar update as the tourist page

[[Category:Anomaly]]
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{{Anomaly|name=Ticking Tumbler|icon=HAZARD-EXPLOSIVE.png|lb-content=JOURNAL FRAGMENT, Dr. Francis Cooke, June 1st, 1966.
 
I'm not sure I like my job so much these days.
 
The amount of explosions alone is difficult to count. I never thought I'd be working in a place where everything EXPLODES so much. But after what I suppose we're now calling each Growth Event (I shall not be using inverted commas), everything gets stranger. Stranger and more dangerous. I know we were told to expect some amount of hazard, but people are dying out here and the work ARDA has us doing is putting each person at ever greater risk.
 
The latest of these Anomalies, horrific things that I swear we 've lost all control of and are now completely overwhelmed by, is some sort of mutated, volatile rock that might as well be a bomb. Hence the explosions. Are they almost indistinguishable from any other boulders lying about until they CHASE YOU? Of course they are. Are ARDA management aware of this newest danger, this most recent peril, or even addressing any of our new concerns? Sometimes I wonder if ARDA are RESPONSIBLE for all this.}}

=== Found In===
{{#invoke: Location|main|locations=smokestacks,red_spires}}

===Synopsis===
This anomaly appears as an [[Explosives Crate]] with glowing red cracks down its face and usually appears in groups. As its name suggests, it moves by slowly tumbling from side-to-side. It explodes when disturbed or on its own about a minute after its appearance.

Blacksmith anomalies may spawn a number of Ticking Tumblers within their vicinity when they strike the earth. Radiant Dredge anomalies may also spawn Ticking Tumblers in their paths.

Occasionally, interacting with a seemingly regular explosives crate will cause it to turn into a Ticking Tumbler in your hands; if it does this, simply give it a good, hard throw away from yourself and it will explode harmlessly upon contact with the ground. You can tell if it is going to do this if the hand icon appears next to the interact key rather than the magnifying glass icon, indicating that interacting with the object will cause it to be picked up rather than inspected.

===Counter===
Hitting Ticking Tumblers with your [[car]] should be avoided at all cost. Aside from avoiding these anomalies altogether, [[The Driver]] can trigger a group of them from a safe distance by throwing an item at them or by firing a [[Flare Gun|flare gun]]/[[Bioflare Gun|bioflare gun]] in their direction.

If contact cannot be avoided, activation of the [[LIM Shield]] ability before contact will reduce damage.

===Junction Conditions===
Ticking Tumblers cause increased damage to [[the Driver|the Driver's]] car when a junction has the [[File:Magnified_Explosions.png|30px|link=Magnified Explosions]] [[Magnified Explosions]] condition in effect.

Ticking Tumblers ignore the car's protection to the driver when a junction has the [[File:Concussive_Blasts.png|30px|link=Concussive Blasts]] [[Concussive Blasts]] condition in effect.

Ticking Tumblers explosions can cause car parts to come loose when a junction has the [[File:Torn_Apart.png|30px|link=Torn Apart]] [[Torn Apart]] condition in effect.

 
Contact with exploding Ticking Tumblers will sap the car's battery and gas tank when a junction has the [[File:Exhausting_Explosions.png|30px|link=Exhausting Explosions]] [[Exhausting Explosions]] condition in effect.

===Gallery===
[[File:Ticking tumbler.jpg|frame|A Ticking Tumbler.]]
[[File:Ticking tumbler explosion.jpg|frame|A Ticking Tumbler exploding after having been latched onto by an Abductor.]]
[[File:Ticking tumblers radiant dredge.jpg|frame|A Radiant Dredge leaving Ticking Tumblers in its path.]]

Tourist

2025-12-04T11:36:01Z

Rikmach: Clarified the Junction conditions effects on the Tourist's explosion. It said three conditions increased the damage, where only one of them did that.

{{Anomaly|name=Tourist|icon=HAZARD-EXPLOSIVE.png|lb-content=DICTAPHONE RECORDING, OFFICE OF DR. RICHARD PREBBLE, CIRCA 1976.
 
Hi! Christina! Hi! How are you? So, um, it turns out you were right. We've had reports from several regions of the Zone now and they're all very similar. We have these dummy things out in the wilderness and, um, we also have them inside abandoned houses. We also have them in gas stations, on the road, on top of signs... One report here says on a roof. We've spotted about six hundred now. The file catalogs each and every one.
 
Oh, and you're quite right about the other thing, too. Yeah, I know what happens when someone touches one. We all got plenty of data on that.
 
So, um, I'm going to be applying for a position in Portland now. I've done my review. It was a great time being contracted here, for sure, but I'm not sure I want to work at ARDA full time, you know? It's, um, it's very strange here. You work in a very strange place. I'm sure you're doing very important work and I respect that greatly, but I think I'd like to go back to academia now.
 
Oh God, there's one of them outside. I know for a fact it wasn't there before.}}

=== Found In===
{{#invoke: Location|main|locations=damp_forest,blistering_woods,the_mires,the_scorch,smokestacks,red_spires}}


=== Synopsis ===
'''Tourists''' are plastic mannequins that can be found scattered around the [[Olympic Exclusion Zone | Zone]]. They can either spawn alone or as a group of up to 20. They can move around slightly when [[The Driver]] is not looking at them. Upon touching a Tourist they will explode violently and may trigger any nearby tourists to explode alongside them in a chain-reaction.



=== Resources ===
Have a chance to drop singular pieces of [[Plastic]], [[Copper Wire]], and/or [[ThermoSap Crystal|ThermoSap Crystals]] upon being dispatched.



=== Counter ===
Hitting Tourists with your [[car]] should be avoided at all cost. Aside from avoiding these anomalies altogether, [[The Driver]] can trigger a group of them from a safe distance by throwing a lit [[Road Flare|road flare]]/[[Bioflare|bioflare]] at them or firing a [[Flare Gun|flare gun]]/[[Bioflare Gun|bioflare gun]] in their vicinity.
 
If contact cannot be avoided, activation of the [[File:LIM_Shield.png|30px|link=LIM Shield]] [[LIM Shield]] ability before contact will prevent damage.



=== Junction Conditions ===
These anomalies appear in greater numbers, are more aggressive towards the player, and move faster when a junction has the [[File:Somethings_Moving.png|30px|link=Something's Moving]] [[Something's Moving]] condition in effect.
 
Tourists also cause increased damage to the player and his car when a junction has the [[File:Magnified_Explosions.png|30px|link=Magnified Explosions]] [[Magnified Explosions]] condition in effect.

Tourists ignore the car's protection to the driver when a junction has the [[File:Concussive_Blasts.png|30px|link=Concussive Blasts]] [[Concussive Blasts]] condition in effect.

Tourists explosions can cause car parts to come loose when a junction has the [[File:Torn_Apart.png|30px|link=Torn Apart]] [[Torn Apart]] condition in effect. 
Contact with exploding Tourists will sap the car's battery and gas tank when a junction has the [[File:Exhausting_Explosions.png|30px|link=Exhausting Explosions]] [[Exhausting Explosions]] condition in effect.


===Gallery===

[[File:Tourist 01.png|framed|A single Tourist anomaly, standing beneath a streetlamp.]]
[[File:Tourist 02.png|framed|A grouping of Tourist anomalies.]]