Liver

Who you meet here

BossKupffer CellThe liver's resident filter, a lumpy macrophage that nets you in crossing lashes, engulfs you and charges. It attacks…Key guardianPolyploid HepatocyteA two-nucleus liver cell (Awakened) guarding the Fusion Peptide. Its rings turn toxic one after another.GeneFusion PeptideSlips through tight junctions. Your dash damages cells you pass through.CancerHepatocellular CarcinomaA liver tumor fed by satellite lobes through pulsing vessels. Kill every lobe before the first regrows and the core…AssassinHepatoid RegeneratorA hexagonal cell threaded with green bile. Leave it alone for a moment and it heals itself.

Organ facts

Objective

"Survive the Kupffer Cell's filter"

Boss

Kupffer Cell, "The liver's resident filter"

Key guardian

Polyploid Hepatocyte (Awakened), holding the Fusion Peptide

Cancer

Hepatocellular Carcinoma (it regenerates from its lobes, so kill every lobe before they regrow, then strike). Its assassin is the Hepatoid Regenerator

Hazards

bile ducts that spray jets across the room

Local cells

Neutrophils, Stellate Cells, NKT Cells, Macrophages, Monocytes and Complement. Deeper rooms add IgA Plasma Cells, antiviral capsules and vaccine vials

Look

a dark rust floor tiled with hexagonal lobules and central veins, inside walls of hepatocyte plates, rows of boxy cells with round nuclei

Music

B minor at 104 BPM, a triangle pad under a sawtooth lead

Size

20–24 rooms

Threat

enemy damage ×7.5, enemy health ×19, rewards ×4

Also in the Liver

Tissue Hazards & TerrainOrgans & Bosses

Bile DuctsDucts in the walls spray a corrosive jet of bile straight across the room after a flashing warning line.LiverClots & Scar TissueSticky patches of clot left by dying platelets, fibrin attacks, goblet mucus and stellate scarring. They bog you right down.Bloodstream & deeper

Tumor PartsCancer

Liver coreA dark red-brown mass built of hexagonal lobules flecked with green bile, fed by its lobes.LiverSatellite lobeA smaller hexagonal nodule joined to the core by a pulsing vessel. It feeds the core and spits bile.Liver

Tumor AttacksCancer

Bile arcsGlobs of bile lobbed at you and around you, each landing in a warned circle and leaving a bile puddle.LiverBile sprayA line of 7 bile splashes sweeping out from the core toward you.LiverBile gobEach satellite lobe spits a slow green gob of bile at you.LiverCirrhosisBring every lobe down at the same time and the liver tumor's regeneration breaks.Liver weak point

Organ MilestonesViruses

Retrovirus: LiverCaptured cells get +60% damage and toughness, and Latency and Integration Surge hit 80% harder.Organ 6

The Organ MapIn a Run

LiverSurvive the Kupffer Cell's filter.Organ 6

Boss SetsGear & Store

Polymerase EngineThe Kupffer Cell's set, built for rate of fire.Organ 6 · Liver

Audio & PresentationGame Modes

Liver themeBrooding.Organ 6

Found in every organ

Abyss PitsBottomless gaps in the tissue. Falling in is a heavy blow, not instant death.Any organDrop ShaftsA rare glowing shaft in one of an organ's deeper fight rooms. Walk in and the current sweeps you into a freshly shuffled layout of the…Rare

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