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[Ukrainian Ranger]

Return to house, raid food in ants form, make more Deoxys

Ants don't swim, so no fish, yet

[Atilliano]

Return to the ants and try to get the DNA of a soldier ant by swarming him, then retreat and rest.

[Mr. Palau]

Return to the ants and try to get the DNA of a soldier ant by swarming him, then retreat and rest.

[10ebbor10]

After some internal discussion you decide that trying to attack the ants again would be a good move. And so you set off.

After a short treck you reach the vicinity of the antmound. You can spy the different ant trails from here, and after a while you find a lone ant soldier. It's not much larger than you are and is quickly overwhelmed. You manage to get quite a good bit of it's DNA, allowing you acces to pheromones and minor acid glands. You haven't got the entire ant DNA yet, though.

What do you do now? And what do you do with the corpse?

Name:  Deoxys
Biomass: 20( Clones:20*99)
Energy: 9/15 (actions cost one or more energy)
Nutrients:4/5 (Turned into energy. Partly returned when said energy is used for actions, but not for transformations)
Abilities: DNA assimilation, splitting, Minor DNA modification (Can change size of parts, can try to modify DNA)
Current look: Miniature group of ants (2 cm each)
Status:Near ant mound, not noticed. Yet.

Spoiler: Current form (click to show/hide)

-Chloroplasts(1)(4nutrients-->1energy per turn) You can have more chloroplasts.
-Mandible(+1 attack)
-Carapace(+1 defense)
-Insect legs(1 energy= +1 to move)

Spoiler: Dna library (click to show/hide)

-Antennae
-Planttick mouth(allows you to suck nutrients and energy out of plants)
-Insect eyes
-Insect legs
-Butterfly wings
-Dragonfly wings
-Insect stomach
-Ant mandibles
-Ant carapace (Notes,relatively light but strong)
-Ant pheromones
-Ant acid gland
-Other bits of butterfly DNA-Chloroplasts
-Cell wall
-Large vacuole
-Roots
-Chloroplasts

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[Atilliano]

If we haven't been noticed, get another one, otherwise, retreat from antmound.

[Ukrainian Ranger]

1) Attack ants
2) If suffering heavy loses (more then  25% of our clones) go to 6
3) Eat ants corpses
4) Make more our copies
5) Go to 1
6) Retreat

[racnor]

can we use the pheromones to cause this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mA37cb10WMU
or some variant?
failing that, +1 to Ukrainian Ranger,

[10ebbor10]

can we use the pheromones to cause this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mA37cb10WMU
or some variant?
failing that, +1 to Ukrainian Ranger,

You can try. Note that ants are quite good at determining who's from their colony and who's not.

[killerhellhound]

but the pheromones are from there colony and we should sneak in some ants to assimilate the queen quickly then turn into one and own the colony

[Mr. Palau]

1) Attack ants
2) If suffering heavy loses (more then  25% of our clones) go to 6
3) Eat ants corpses
4) Make more our copies
5) Go to 1
6) Retreat

+1

[Naryar]

Eat the soldier corpse, try and get more nutriments or DNA from it. If it's still a corpse it must have more DNA in it, unless it's just a pile of ant exoskeleton, that is hardly an ant corpse anyways.

Grow formic acid glands, then use ant pheromones to infiltrate the colony without getting attacked and try to eat and assimilate it progressively, eating the queen so we may add egg laying to our additives, and maybe go eat an ichneumon wasp or something to get a giant stinger and go parasitoid (Parasitoid = species that lays his eggs into another species, and that egg hatching results in the death of the host) ala Alien.

And of course, some human may decide to go boil the anthill or poison it or try and destroy us unwillingly, so it should be safer if we keep one or two clones outside the ant hill at all times, possibly living as free predators or simply plant-feeders.

[Trapezohedron]

1) Attack ants
2) If suffering heavy loses (more then  25% of our clones) go to 6
3) Eat ants corpses
4) Make more our copies
5) Go to 1
6) Retreat

+1

+1

[10ebbor10]

FYI: It is possible to have clones with different forms. They don't need to be all alike ( Don't go make hundreds of differnt ones though.

[Unholy_Pariah]

merge some clones
make merged clones sprout dragonfly wings and big grabby legs
then

1) Attack ants airlift ants to feeding area
2) If suffering heavy loses (more then  25% of our clones) go to 6
3) swarm and kill ants then Eat ants corpses
4) Make more our copies
5) Go to 1
6) Retreat

alternatively use airborne clones to drop blob clones on insects from above to gain new DNA sequences.

[10ebbor10]

You decide to attack the ants. First you find a small group of ants, and easily overwhelm them. The second attack run doesn't go so fluidly, as you attack a large group of ants. Your initial charge doesn't work out, and you end up loosing quite a lot of ants. You barely managed to kill a single one of them.

((Well that was anticlimatic. I thought you'd be able to raid the hive for multiple times, but what happened was that the first time you met only 4 enemies, and then you ran into 64 of them, and botched your attack and defense rolls.))

Name:  Deoxys
Biomass: 20( Clones:20*67)
Energy: 7/15 (actions cost one or more energy)
Nutrients:4/5 (Turned into energy. Partly returned when said energy is used for actions, but not for transformations)
Abilities: DNA assimilation, splitting, Minor DNA modification (Can change size of parts, can try to modify DNA)
Current look: Miniature group of ants (2 cm each)
Status:Near ant mound, not noticed. Yet.

Spoiler: Current form (click to show/hide)

-Chloroplasts(1)(4nutrients-->1energy per turn) You can have more chloroplasts.
-Mandible(+1 attack)
-Carapace(+1 defense)
-Insect legs(1 energy= +1 to move)

Spoiler: Dna library (click to show/hide)

-Antennae
-Planttick mouth(allows you to suck nutrients and energy out of plants)
-Insect eyes
-Insect legs
-Butterfly wings
-Dragonfly wings
-Insect stomach
-Ant mandibles
-Ant carapace (Notes,relatively light but strong)
-Ant pheromones
-Ant acid gland
-Other bits of butterfly DNA-Chloroplasts
-Cell wall
-Large vacuole
-Roots
-Chloroplasts