Virus Isolator

The Virus Isolator was introduced during the Halloween Event 2020. To help cure the Fade, the player could play the mini-game. To play the game genetic samples were needed. At first they could only be picked up in batches of three on the side (appearing randomly on the pages). Later the option to buy them for 2 gold were added.

### Game mechanics

The Virus Isolator worked like the game Minesweaper. The following rules applied:

* Each sample has between 10 to 12 virus cells.
* Identify the non-virus cells by clicking on them.

* If you click on a virus cell you will ruin the sample and need to start again.

While solving the puzzles, the player would earn gold for himself (with a daily cap), fill up their achivement bar (for getting a trophy) and fill up progress bar to find a cure for the Fade. The system used a set of different message for successful and failed attempts.

### Messages

**Success:**

* 100 capsules of samples on the wall, take one down, give it a look, 99 capsules of samples on the wall.
* Another success! You've lost count of how many samples you've done so far today.
* Congratulations, you isolated one sample. Only 11,001,001 to go.
* Despite the situation being dire, the way this analysis program is designed makes the process almost…dare you say fun?
* Having finished working on the latest sample, you go to take a sip of your tea and stop yourself just in time when you notice you accidentally grabbed a sample instead.
* Maybe it's time for a break. After a quick rifle through your cabinets, all you find for snack food is one of those sour meal bars Soza developed. …Perhaps you'd better just return to work.
* Taking out the sample, you mark it with a "done" label and then reach for the next.
* You keep saying you isolated that sample. I don't think that means what you think it means.
* You reach for the next sample, but to your surprise, there are none left in the holder. Seems you have finished the current batch successfully!
* You set aside the isolated sample and take a quick sip of tea. What a productive morning this has been.

**Fail:**

* An Okula Pikilo flies at your face, and as you bat it away, you accidentally identify the wrong cell.
* A sudden social call of your lab neighbor looking to borrow a few test tubes interrupts your concentration, leaving you right where you started when you return to the microscope.
* A sudden squeak and then suspicious crunching sounds startle you into spilling the sample you were loading. What is that Sabla Rego eating and where did that Sciuro go?
* A Suna Hundo nudges you right as you are about to load the sample. You are happy it is not yet affected by the Fade, but it has horrible timing.
* At this point you are convinced your equipment is faulty. There is no way your luck is that bad. Right...?
* As you load the sample, your hand trembles and you drop it. Why are you so jittery? Maybe you shouldn't have had that third cup of tea this morning.
* Deep in concentration, you flinch at the sudden loud hoot of a Strigosto perched right next to you and ruin your sample.
* Isolating the virus does not mean spill the sample on your workbench.
* Water drips onto your keyboard as the Abomena Pahidermo leans closer to the screen, clearly curious about what's going on. You nudge it away, but not in time to save the keyboard. Now you'll have to wait for maintenance to bring you a new one.
* You are supposed to isolate the virus not jab your finger at it. Repeatedly. Stop. Please.
* You keep saying you isolated that sample. I don't think that means what you think it means.
* You want it on record that you did not just squeak loudly. There might have been a quiet noise of surprise when that Inkuba Brulajo skittered over your keyboard and ruined your analysis.