How am I supposed to win... dammit...
>Hm? What's wrong?
Acting all happy-go-lucky outta no...
*whap*
*crack*
>Hanyah?
*kerthump*
>An old tree~?
>Inside's all patchy.
>It rotted away...
>Wait, that's wrong.
>There're spines coming off his back that're stealing the tree's nutrients.
>A defensive mechanism of the Thorns of Guilt!? (italicize Thorns of Guilt)