M22: Minyak

The Minyak is a creature from the Deep Sea of the Monster Dimension. They are an offshoot of another monster, the Orang Minyak.

## Background

### Appearance and behavior

Minyaks appear vaguely similar to human females, although they are much taller and have disproportionately long arms. While they are not totally animalistic, their intelligence is limited, and they seem to be incapable of verbal communication. They are capable of subsisting off of ordinary meat, but their preferred meal is the uteri of young women.

### Early game

Kenny and James are both empowered by Minyaks off screen.

During her fight with Clark and Alexis, Ella spills an entire bottle of Minyak pills across the city. This causes large numbers of them to swarm the sector.

Clark and Alexis are tasked with following a Minyak in order to see what it is after, but Clark fails the mission by killing it to save the life of a woman.

#### Dead End 4

If MC loses his fight with Kenny, the Minyak that empowered him rapes and converts him by force feeding him large quantities of oil.

### The Minyak hunt

After obtaining a sample of the Minyaks oil and inadvertently feeding it to Bailey, Tiffany and MC are able to track a pair of Minyaks to the sewers underneath Bills park. The fight is complicated by the pair heading topside and fusing, but MC ultimately prevails and kills one of the Minyaks. He then places a tracking chip in the survivor which is taken to H.E.R.O.'s underground laboratory.

#### Dead End 16

If MC chooses to use speed to fight the fused Minyak he is overwhelmed by the massive amount of oil that it bleeds and is consumed. He nearly escapes but the Minyak is vaporized by Clark while he is still inside it.

### Training

MC fights several Minyaks in the sewers during his final training missions before joining H.E.R.O. The first Minyak he fights is much older and more powerful than the ones he fought before, but he still defeats is with varying ease depending on the players choices. The rest of the sewer Minyaks are killed off screen. In his final training mission with Ella, MC is ambushed by several Minyaks. He easily kills all but 2 of them, which are killed by Ella after they try to fuse. This is heavily implied to have been the last of the Minyaks in the sector.

## Powers and Abilities

### Normal

Minyaks are capable of spitting a black oily substance that allows them to control any organic matter it touches. They use this oil against the living to make their bodies betray them, or on the dead to turn them into zombie slaves with enhanced strength. They also have the ability to turn into oil, although doing this severely limits their mobility.

### Fused

Minyaks have the ability to fuse together. Doing this greatly increases their size and power level but reduces their lifespan and render them infertile. They also cannot turn into oil when fused. In addition to having the ability to spit up larger quantities of oil, their oil also gains the ability to seek enemies out.

## Trivia

* Minyak is a Malayan word for oil. Similarly, Orang Minyak means "oily man" and is derived from the real-life cryptid of the same name
* When Alexis and Clark are sent to find one, Bramon Xanthe initially referred to the Minyaks as M27 instead of M22. This has since been changed.