i think i've finally figured out what the central questline the second half of the game is going to look like in broad strokes and unsurprisingly the primary goal of the main character is going to be doing massive industrial sabotage for ecological reasons
the setting of the second half of the game takes place in civilization on it's last legs before it's swallowed by the expanding desert and the sea, but in it's final gasps it only pushes the gas harder and the player's goal is to dismantle some of the biggest machines that are doing the most damage which will often result in things in the overworld changing as a direct result