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Author Topic: Hivemind-Let's Slither some more.  (Read 8644 times)

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Re: Hivemind-Let's Slither some more.
« Reply #30 on: February 08, 2012, 12:57:45 pm »

Yes, we must connect ourselves to more trees!
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Re: Hivemind-Let's Slither some more.
« Reply #31 on: February 08, 2012, 01:08:25 pm »

> eat the giant bipedal things.

your fools jump forward, but something prevents them from eating them...the big vibrations have something as armor! are they maybe a force of invasion!?
still, they run away. You hear through your antennae's.
Oh my god!!!
THEY BITE. OUCH. THEY ARE
HELPP HELPPPP
CALL THE POLICE THE ARMY
HELPPP I'm going to dieeee

though a couple of fools did manage a bite, most of them were unluckily stomped.
-23 fools +pissed off mob running away

you strain yourself in an attempt to attach yourself to all the possible roots around you.
And that you do.
-30 filaments +3600 food it actually came easier, since it seems many of them are intertwined by themselves at a lower level underground.

||,.,.,.,..TTTT,.,.,.,
||,.,.,.TTT,.TTTT,.,.,
||,.,.__,_,.TTT,.,.,.,.TT,.,.
|X|__________,.!TT;T:;.,..
|X|___O__(T)(T),.,.,.TTT,.,.,.
|X|_____(T)(T)___,.,.,TTT;.,.,.TTT

in the meantime, the remaining scout is running in your direction. He seems followed though, by a smaller vibration. Still enormous, but smaller.

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Now...decisions, decisions decisions...something is coming you way. you could either build up you filaments and keep them to try and fight it, or order the scout to commit suicide, or do something else entirely...in any case, your size is now smaller...merely a 16 circa cm*3 sphere.
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“Well,” he said. “We’re in the Forgotten hunting grounds I take it. Your screams just woke them up early. Congratulations, Lyara.”
“Do something!” she whispered, trying to keep her sight on all of them at once.
Basileus clapped his hands once. The Forgotten took a step forward, attracted by the sound.
“There, I did something. I clapped. I like clapping,” he said. -The Investigator And The Case Of The Missing Brain.

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Re: Hivemind-Let's Slither some more.
« Reply #32 on: February 08, 2012, 01:13:55 pm »

> send down a root to maybe 5 m beneath the trees, start growing a backup brain there.
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shadenight123

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Re: Hivemind-Let's Slither some more.
« Reply #33 on: February 08, 2012, 01:18:13 pm »

> send down a root to maybe 5 m beneath the trees, start growing a backup brain there.

the -60 and -30 filaments were the distance your roots di per se covered to reach the first tree roots.
to go 5 m underneath, it's 1 filament per cm*2.
so basically...you need more filaments.
now, do you want to make more filaments?
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“Well,” he said. “We’re in the Forgotten hunting grounds I take it. Your screams just woke them up early. Congratulations, Lyara.”
“Do something!” she whispered, trying to keep her sight on all of them at once.
Basileus clapped his hands once. The Forgotten took a step forward, attracted by the sound.
“There, I did something. I clapped. I like clapping,” he said. -The Investigator And The Case Of The Missing Brain.

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Re: Hivemind-Let's Slither some more.
« Reply #34 on: February 08, 2012, 02:28:49 pm »

Yes, make more filaments and do the brain thing.
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Re: Hivemind-Let's Slither some more.
« Reply #35 on: February 08, 2012, 03:01:58 pm »

we got A LOT OF food, so yes, moar filaments, backup, and order the scout to escape underground, or if impossible, lure the biped far away.

Also dig deeper, and get that grass unnoticeable (turn it normal-green). And move at night.
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Re: Hivemind-Let's Slither some more.
« Reply #36 on: February 09, 2012, 04:15:41 am »

now, since you have the rough filament assembler, it costs 30 food per filament you have at present
4224 food.
you can either go with 140 filaments, reducing your food supplies to 24. (this would give you a range of 148 cm*2 which is one meter and half.).
Please notice though that you yourself can be moved.
that is...
-1 energy +1 tutorial info
you could ameliorate your roots to make them "mobile" thus retractable, with that done you could either literally "fly" away (as long as you power up those wings of yours) Or have your underlings dig deeper for you.
-2 energy+different pigmentation
you realize being red in the middle of green is counterproductive. Too many racists around.
so you become naturally camouflaged. at the moment. and your grass seems normal. Now if it weren't for the purpleness of your underlings...

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“Well,” he said. “We’re in the Forgotten hunting grounds I take it. Your screams just woke them up early. Congratulations, Lyara.”
“Do something!” she whispered, trying to keep her sight on all of them at once.
Basileus clapped his hands once. The Forgotten took a step forward, attracted by the sound.
“There, I did something. I clapped. I like clapping,” he said. -The Investigator And The Case Of The Missing Brain.

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Re: Hivemind-Let's Slither some more.
« Reply #37 on: February 09, 2012, 04:17:13 am »

MOAR FOOD!!! 
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Re: Hivemind-Let's Slither some more.
« Reply #38 on: February 09, 2012, 04:29:21 am »

Camo. After that, try to assimilate in the core of a tree. This part is dead, anyway. try to leech from the tree.

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Re: Hivemind-Let's Slither some more.
« Reply #39 on: February 09, 2012, 09:53:20 am »

Why do we have so short range? do we need to make the roots ridiculously thick?
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Re: Hivemind-Let's Slither some more.
« Reply #40 on: February 09, 2012, 10:45:55 am »

Why do we have so short range? do we need to make the roots ridiculously thick?
no, it's just that it costs 30 food per single filament.
so for every filament it's 1 cm*2
five meters underground is still five meters.
it's a line of 500 Cm.
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“Well,” he said. “We’re in the Forgotten hunting grounds I take it. Your screams just woke them up early. Congratulations, Lyara.”
“Do something!” she whispered, trying to keep her sight on all of them at once.
Basileus clapped his hands once. The Forgotten took a step forward, attracted by the sound.
“There, I did something. I clapped. I like clapping,” he said. -The Investigator And The Case Of The Missing Brain.

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Re: Hivemind-Let's Slither some more.
« Reply #41 on: February 09, 2012, 02:49:00 pm »

one 1cm costing that much is ridiculous. A thin root thread 5m long might weight 100 grams or something.
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Re: Hivemind-Let's Slither some more.
« Reply #42 on: February 09, 2012, 02:50:30 pm »

one 1cm costing that much is ridiculous. A thin root thread 5m long might weight 100 grams or something.
Yes most roots are only a milimeter thick, and often less.
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Re: Hivemind-Let's Slither some more.
« Reply #43 on: February 09, 2012, 02:52:33 pm »

Yea, so one filament shold be able to make maybe a meter not a cm of root thread.
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Re: Hivemind-Let's Slither some more.
« Reply #44 on: February 09, 2012, 03:34:53 pm »

make our underlings black, cold resistant and go out at night only. move yourself deeper.
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