Lightning Grease

Lightning Grease is a status effect that spawns lightning slimes on pegs when the player loses health. It is applied in discrete stacks: for every specified amount of health lost, the effect grants a set number of Lightning Slime attachments to the affected peg. Pegs with Lightning Grease become Durable and gain an electrical reaction on hit that zaps nearby pegs.

Lightning Slime attachments behave as small electrical charges attached to a peg. Each stack is created in groups as defined by the effect parameters: when the player loses the configured HP threshold, the game adds the configured count of Lightning Slimes to the board on that peg. These slimes visibly cover pegs with a lightning motif and have dedicated sprites for normal pegs, rectangular pegs, Critical pegs, and Refresh pegs.

Functionally, pegs covered by Lightning Grease are marked Durable, meaning they withstand being cleared by fewer or weaker hits than usual. When a pegged object with Lightning Slimes is hit, the slimes discharge and deal electrical damage to nearby pegs, chaining the effect outward from the impact. Critical pegs covered by Lightning Grease use their own converted sprite variants when affected.

Practical notes and interactions:

• Lightning Grease activates on player HP loss in fixed increments (every X HP lost grants Y Lightning Slimes to the relevant peg).
• The Durable property makes affected pegs harder to remove immediately, so plan shots that either exploit the zapping or bypass the durability through stronger hits or critical conversions.
• The zap effect triggers on Hit; positioning shots to strike a Lightning-covered peg near dense peg clusters maximizes collateral electrical damage.
• Visual variants exist for different peg types; Critical and Refresh pegs display distinct Lightning sprites when coated, which can help identify opportunities for high-value chain reactions.
• Because the effect spawns additional peg attachments rather than removing pegs, it can both aid clearing by chaining damage and hinder progress by increasing peg resilience—use it in combinations that convert or amplify hits (e.g., critical conversions) to turn the durability into an advantage.