52.2 Puzzle Mechanics?

"Any information on the debuff?"

Quickly searching through my HUD, the debuff was something that, while I wasn't entirely unfamiliar with, came up so rarely that I even forgot they existed. Sure, the burns and the regens were status effects, which were technically just debuffs, they were also a dime-a-dozen effects that existed in any other normal game or RPG. Hell, they were so common that they really shouldn't even be questioned anymore.

This, however... Oh, this was different.

[OBSERVED: The Head Intellect is observing your movements, her keen mind jotting down any and every movement you make...]

Okay, that didn't help one bit.

"It's just a bunch of flavor text," I replied to Guidance. "Says that she's observing our every movement."

"What?! That means-"

[EXPEDIENCE: 42%]