How does a several millennium old Smoke Demon know about heavy machinery?
Did the cursed tree have cable? • I don’t think he knew what it was so much as that he reconstituted himself inside of the machine, only to realize that here is a thing that not only lays waste to the landscape, but produces an insane amount of pollution while doing so. How could he NOT take advantage of such a device? • And why does said piece of heavy machinery have a chamber deep in its bowels with a big “Possess Here” sign? It’s too small to be the main engine. • Well it’s not explicitely shown, but I guess Hexxus snooped around the Leveler for quite a while before launching his plan, enough to establish some things. First of all, he managed to label it correctly as a machine, unlike Crysta who refers to the Leveler as a “monster” (see Good is Dumb, but also Hexxus sees the thing from inside, rather than outside like Crysta does, and you gotta admit the Leveler does have a monster-like appearance with two “arms” and a “mouth” that grinds trees). He also establishes where does he ne