Tasty Meat A healing item is needed to exit 0HP glitch state later to zip up to Floating Gardens. While any healing item would work, and Tasty Meat is the only one available at this early point in the game. There is one sitting at the end of the long waterway screen, but it's much faster to manip one from the first Killer Fish instead.

Enter Reservoir and slash the Tiny Devil twice to kill it for 8 XP. Equip Baselard, unequip Casual Clothes, then suspend and reload. Holding left, perform a full jump at the top of the stairs over the Tiny Devil to fall into the corner below. Don't jump too late or the manip will break, which you can notice if the Skeleton's attacks are hitting you too slowly. Buffer right during the hard landing, then stop holding right after you run into the Skeleton. At this point, the manip branches into two variants depending on whether the Skeleton's bone throw knocks Soma back a short distance or a longer distance.

This version of Tasty Meat manip is roughly 2 seconds slower, but does not branch into any variants like the standard version. It also allows for collecting 6 extra XP by killing the Skeleton twice before suspending. TODOexplain + video