Organ Cancers

Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma

Organ 1 · Nasal Passage

A lumpy core ringed by satellite nodules that shield it and bud clone cells. Destroy the nodules, then the core.

• Hint: Destroy the nodules shielding the tumor, then the tumor itself
• 4 nodules at stage 1, +2 per stage (8 at stage 3)
• While any nodule lives, the core takes only 12% damage and looks faded
• Each nodule buds a fast clone cell every 4.5-6s (up to 10 alive, +3 per stage)
• The core fires a big volley from the six shared patterns about every 2.9s
• Up to 3 stages and 1 spread

Nasal Passage: organ 1

Lung Adenocarcinoma

Organ 2 · Lungs

A growing core that keeps healing and launches metastasis seeds. Any seed you don't shoot down takes root as a new nodule.

• Hint: Kill the growing tumor. Shoot down metastases before they take root
• 1 nodule at stage 1, +1 per stage
• The core regrows 0.6% of its health per second, plus that much again for every living nodule
• About every 3.6s it launches 2 metastasis seeds and fires a smaller volley
• A seed drifts to a pulsing pink ring; if it lands it becomes a nodule (SEEDED)
• Nodules bud clone cells, like in the Nasal Passage
• Up to 4 stages and 2 spreads

Lungs: organ 2

Leukemia

Organ 3 · Bloodstream

A crowd of white blast cells that keep dividing. One gold leukemic stem cell hides among them: kill it and the whole leukemia collapses.

• Hint: Cancer cells keep dividing. Find and kill the glowing stem cell
• 7 blasts at stage 1, +3 per stage
• Blasts divide every 2.4-3.6s (faster each stage), up to 32 at once; each new blast bursts out toward you
• Auer rods: every 5-8s each blast that can see you within 400 throws a needle-like rod at you (6 damage)
• The health bar counts the cells left (LEUKEMIA · N CELLS)
• The stem cell spawns far from you with 3 blasts around it, backs away when you close in, circles, fires a small volley every 2.5-3.6s and buds a new blast every 2.2s
• Escort: the first 6 blasts it buds circle it as a living wall; while 3 of them are within 130 of it, it takes 65% less damage (a gold ring shows it)
• Blood thickening: the more blasts alive, the slower you move, up to 25% slower at 32 (it doesn't stack with other slows)
• Up to 5 stages and 3 spreads

Bloodstream: organ 3

Lymphoma

Organ 4 · Lymph Node

A germinal centre in a crowd of identical lymphocytes. Most are harmless, but lymphoma clones hide among them, and the core is only soft while it swells to split.

• Hint: Clones hide among harmless lymphocytes. Hit the germinal centre while it swells
• 3 clones and 6 harmless lymphocytes at stage 1, +1 of each per stage (up to 8 clones and 10 lymphocytes)
• The germinal centre takes 40% damage, but 160% while swelling
• It swells about every 8.5s for 1.4s (SWELLING · HIT IT NOW), then splits into a ring of 16 shots and 2 more cells
• Every 6s a pink scan pulse rolls out; clones it passes flicker their true face
• Between swells it fires a small volley every 3.8s
• Up to 6 stages and 4 spreads

Lymph Node: organ 4

Colon Carcinoma

Organ 5 · Gut

A shell game: the core hides down in one of several crypts, surfaces in another to fire, then dives again. Polyps on the walls drip caustic pools.

• Hint: The tumor hides in its crypts. Watch where it surfaces, and dodge the polyps' pools
• 4 crypts in a ring (5 from stage 3)
• It can't be hurt while down in a crypt
• When it dives, a ripple runs under the floor to its next crypt, plus a decoy ripple to another
• The crypt flashes and a warning circle appears for 0.8s; bursting out hits you for 10 if you stand on it
• It stays up for 4.6s, firing a big volley every 2.1s, then dives
• 3 polyps at stage 1, +1 per stage (max 10)
• Up to 7 stages and 4 spreads

Gut: organ 5

Hepatocellular Carcinoma

Organ 6 · Liver

A liver tumor fed by satellite lobes through pulsing vessels. Kill every lobe before the first regrows and the core turns cirrhotic.

• Hint: It regenerates from its lobes. Kill every lobe before they regrow, then strike
• 3 lobes at stage 1, +1 per stage (up to 7); the bar reads FED BY N LOBES
• While any lobe lives, the core heals 2% of its health per second and takes half damage
• A destroyed lobe regrows after 9s
• All lobes down at once: CIRRHOSIS for 8s, with no healing and 150% damage taken; then the lobes bud back one by one
• Every 1.6s it takes turns between bile arcs and a bile spray; the bile flies fast, with its landing circle showing only about half a second
• Up to 8 stages and 4 spreads

Liver: organ 6

Multiple Myeloma

Organ 7 · Bone Marrow

A malignant plasma cell drifting in slow circles, firing spirals of Y-shaped antibodies that lock on to you and punching bone lesions into the floor.

• Hint: Dodge the antibody spirals when they lock on, and keep off the bone lesions
• The core drifts in a slow circle around the room
• Every 3.4s it takes turns between an M-protein spiral and bone lesions
• Starts with 1 myeloma clone (+1 per two stages) and buds another every 7s, up to 5 (+1 per two stages, max 8)
• Up to 9 stages and 4 spreads

Bone Marrow: organ 7

Glioblastoma

Organ 8 · Brain

A brain tumor rooted among glial nodes. Tendrils creep across the floor at you, and the core hops between nodes. Cut the nodes down to strand it.

• Hint: Tendrils creep toward you and the core hops between nodes. Cut the nodes down
• 4 glial nodes at stage 1, +1 per two stages (up to 7); the bar counts NODES
• Tendrils creep out every 3.6s from the nearest node (2 nodes from stage 3), and from the core while it's rooted
• About every 7s the core moves to a new spot by a node and comes up firing pulse rings
• While rooted it fires a small volley every 3.4s
• With every node destroyed, the core is stranded and takes 130% damage
• Like every cell in the Brain, it takes 38% less damage (blood-brain barrier)
• Up to 10 stages and 4 spreads

Brain: organ 8