Nugget (Project Moon) Rule 34

Nugget is a fan-created term for the customizable employee characters in Project Moon's management simulation game Lobotomy Corporation. These employees are the player's primary workforce, tasked with containing and researching monstrous abnormalities within a sprawling facility. Their names and appearances are randomized at the start, though players can personalize them, and they don the various E.G.O. suits and weapons derived from the abnormalities they manage. This gear often gives them distinctive, eerie looks, ranging from armored plates to flowing robes. In personality, they are blank slates, defined by the player's choices and the game's emergent narratives of stress, camaraderie, and sudden death. Fan artists gravitate toward depicting these employees in their E.G.O. outfits, often highlighting the contrast between their ordinary humanity and the bizarre, dangerous equipment they wield. Scenes of daily life in the facility, interactions with abnormalities, and the grim fate that awaits many of them are common subjects. The term also encompasses the transition of some employees into librarians in the sequel, Library of Ruina, where they gain new identities and roles.