After a couple days of not touching my parasite, it mysteriously stopped inflating as well. I sealed up the ports again and checked for holes but still couldn’t get it to retain as much air as I wanted. I changed the code to have the motors run for longer, but that was all I could do.

For more immersive documentation, I shot a short video of the parasite in action. I’m imagining the parasite chooses a host and immobilizes them slowly as it works on sucking out all of your life force. It has subtle and slow movement, but it takes time to get everything out of you.