Pickup Station

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Pickup Station is a place operated by Narii-Ta at Headquarters, where players can pick up free stuffs everyday as well as collect limited pickups as they become available.

Function

Daily Pickup

Players may pick up two things from the Pickup Station everyday: one of any Ammo (excluding Venom), Rare Chroma, or Chroma Serum (only Masc or Femme) and one Food Cube. RAR will remind players of daily pickup if they haven't visited for the day yet. The daily pickup reset at midnight server time (PT).

Limited Pickup

When a limited pickup is available and hasn't been claimed, RAR will inform players that one is available. Limited pickups tend to run for about a month. More often than not, new items, and occasionally creatures, are released through this first before other ways to obtain them are eventually introduced.

Past Limited Pickups

  • September 29, 2020 - October 8, 2020
    • Reward: Baby Selm x1
    • "They found something new deep inside of Mining Site S. Careful, these guys are pretty slippery."
  • October 16, 2020 - October 25, 2020
    • Reward: Baby Barkback x1
    • "They brought me a bunch of giant pinecones. I was told they're creatures, but I'm not convinced. Either way, I gotta get rid of 'em now I guess."
  • November 16, 2020 - November 28, 2020
    • Reward: Baby Cassidice x1
    • "Someone found a huge nest in the forest. Naturally, they brought back a ton of eggs. No idea what it hatches into but hey—it's free!"
  • February 14, 2021 - February 28, 2021
    • Reward: Baby Matmadyur Heimsins x1
    • "Apparently a whole bunch of Heimsins eggs washed up on the beach. I don't want to think about how that happened. All I know is that they're huge and take up too much space. Believe me, if they'd let me give you more than one, I'd do it. I can barely turn around in here..."
  • March 21, 2021 - March 31, 2021
    • Reward: Baby Shadowspewer x1
    • "Some group of field researchers apparently got deep enough into that old lab that they found a whole bunch of little guys. Steele was telling me about how brave they were... I think 'stupid' is probably the word I'd use instead. At least these things are good at sitting still."
  • April 11, 2021 - May 31, 2021
    • Reward: Baby Lightcatcher x1
    • "A team of people scouting out a new place brought back a whole bunch of these shiny eggs. Light keeps bouncing off of them and getting in my eyes, I've been seeing spots for hours now... please help me get rid of these things.."
  • June 6, 2021 - June 30, 2021
    • Reward: Rainbow Chroma x2
    • "They ended up with a bunch of extra materials to make more Rainbow Chroma than usual. Bet you're happy you get to have more than just one this time, huh?"
  • July 7, 2021 - July 31, 2021
    • Reward: Energy Drink x4
    • "Feels like the IA will take money from almost anyone... there was this whole spiel the company that makes these energy drinks wanted me to give you, but I lost the paper. How would they even know if I told it to everyone anyway? They taste good, I guess. There, that's my endorsement."
  • August 24, 2021 - September 24, 2021
    • Reward: Juice Box x6
    • "Have you ever read the back of one of these? It just goes on and on about the straw being made of paper. If they're gonna give me another thing to hand out they could at least give me some good reading material too."
  • October 29, 2021 - November 29, 2021
    • Reward: Venom x4
    • "Looks like the labcoats made a new toy for you to play with. Makes me wish I could try it out. You wouldn't mind lending me one of your guns for a moment, would you? Think of all I've done for you, pal."
  • November 10, 2021 - December 10, 2021
    • Reward: Baby Dysonette x1
    • "That team of higher-up field researchers brought back a bunch of creatures from some marsh. They look like those little lights humans put on trees for some holiday. One of them kept going on about how there was something special about these but I'll be honest, I just tuned the guy out."
  • October 1, 2022 - November 1, 2022
    • Reward: Baby Matmadyur Heimsins x1
    • "Y'know, I was kind of enjoying how quiet it was for a while. I caught up on a lot of reading. I should've known it wouldn't last forever... those bastards came and filled this place up with Heimsins eggs they found somewhere. Where? Honestly, I wasn't really paying attention to what they said. Can you just take yours so I can turn around in here again?"

Trivia

  • If the player visits Narii-Ta while he is sleeping and a Limited Pickup is active, there will be an extra dialogue of waking him up.
You gently tap Narii-Ta's shoulder in an attempt to wake him up.
"Hnnng... huh? Limited pickup? Oh, right. That is a thing right now, I guess."