X4-H

**X4-H** is a Thanager in the Industrial Pollution Department of Death Inc., and a mini-boss in *Have a Nice Death*.

## X4-H

### Affiliation

Death Inc. / Industrial Pollution Department

### Occupation

Thanager (Uncontrollable Production Manager)

## Description

**X4-H - Uncontrollable Production Management Mutagen**

Some of the minions that roam the halls of the Industrial Pollution Department may be even more monstrous than usual. This might be because a non-negligible quantity of an extremely toxic substance was misplaced in 1959. Known as "Solution X4", it is a complex mix of fungal acid, oleum, and the terrifying *Chemical X*. Formulated to achieve peak production capacity, its secondary effects on cognitive ability can be measured by the volume of drool produced by a Blobby after mistakenly ingesting X4.

Once an employee has ben infected, X4 annihilates all ability to defy orders - which is very useful, from management's point of view - although it also makes the host more emotionally unstable. In one instance, a host (or as they are known in administrative lingo, an X4-H), devoured his superior's legs to show his gratitude after receiving a laughably low Soulary raise. It was around +0.05%, so nothing worth losing one's head. Meanwhile, said superior actually did lose his legs over it. Yes, yes, it's also a problem among ghouls.

One very clever suggestion was sent up to the management by Jerry, Death Inc.'s union delegate, in 1990: "Couldn't you stamp 'WARNING, SUPER DANGEROUS X4, keep away, idiots!' on the cases of X4 vials???" This suggestion was unanimously approved by the company's permanent employees, but Mr. R.J. Barron ordered Mr. Grimes to exercise his veto. "Imagine the possibilities, Gordon ... Today's unstable mutagen *could* become tomorrow's most high-performing pollutant! THAT'S what the industry needs!"

## Appearance

X4-H looks like a mutated Blobby. It is noticeably drooling, is quite misshapen, and has several more than the usual number of eyes.

## Mini-Boss Battle Attacks

X4-H has several attacks which it uses at any stage of combat:

* X4-H will turn into a giant bouncing ball and bounces around the area for a few seconds. This can be pretty easily dodged if you can get in sync with his motions.
* X4-H will create a small spike ball which also bounces around, though to a lower height. Similarly, this one is also not too hard to dodge, but can complicate dodging his other bouncing attack.
* X4-H will roll around the floor, walls and ceiling of the arena. Ending the attack by falling forcefully from the ceiling.
* X4-H might occasionally melt into the ground, following the player around in an attempt to bite them "Flytrap style".

## Strategy

The strategy for X4-H is simple enough: dodge all the bouncing projectiles. The attacks are all pretty slow-moving and are telegraphed reasonably well, so as long as you can get a handle on the arc of the bounces, it should be a pretty easy fight.

## Trivia

* Oleum is a highly corrosive solution of various compositions of sulfur trioxide in sulfuric acid.

* Chemical X is a reference to the Powerpuff Girls and is the chemical which gave them, and many other characters in their universe, their super powers.

* According to Bubbadoom’s advanced insight (unlocked by killing a certain amount), X4 is an upgrade to X3, and Bubbadooms use X5.