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[Mr. Palau]

+1 to the suggestions above

[Urist McDwarfFortress]

How do we communicate with our clones?  I doubt that ant pheromones work well in the water.

[Naryar]

I suggest most fish-ants go into the lake and zerg rush other lifeforms for food and DNA, and we transform one or two into flying ants as an aerial predator (maybe we'll get other insect DNA), and another as a plant, calmly photosynthesizing stuff and maybe absorbing a plant or two. So we'll get far more DNA than just specializing in fish ants.

Although it is unlikely, if something really bad happens in the pool, we'll be able to survive in that way.

[killerhellhound]

so the plan is have a few flying ants hunting in the air a plant dig into a tree and steal lots of biomass and most of the horde do A if attacked do C and dig into the large fish for the parasite path ...or eat from the inside out
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[Mr. Palau]

so the plan is have a few killing flying ants a plant and most of the horde do A if attacked do C and dig into the large fish for the parasidce path ...or eat from the inside out

sure lets od this, sounds good.+1

[killerhellhound]

my post above just got edited to sound better

[Deny]

so the plan is have a few killing flying ants a plant and most of the horde do A if attacked do C and dig into the large fish for the parasidce path ...or eat from the inside out

sure lets od this, sounds good.+1

+1 becoming big will make us easy to detect and we/you are not yet big enough to fight against the humans

[Ukrainian Ranger]

Why do you think that we have enough biomass and energy for creating new kinds of clones? Big NO to that waste of resources in a form of flying ants, and, especially, plant.

Go in the pond and create mayhem with all forces that we have

(A.  but move in a large group, and if attacked by fish switch to C)

Another important reason for no - micromanagement is bad, don't force the GM to make rolls for pond, for air predators, for plant... Many good games died because of such developments

[10ebbor10]

Why do you think that we have enough biomass and energy for creating new kinds of clones? Big NO to that waste of resources in a form of flying ants, and, especially, plant.

Go in the pond and create mayhem with all forces that we have

(A.  but move in a large group, and if attacked by fish switch to C)

Another important reason for no - micromanagement is bad, don't force the GM to make rolls for pond, for air predators, for plant... Many good games died because of such developments

At the moment I'm making 4 rolls /turn. While I don't encourage you to make hundreds of different clones as small plant (Just a flat energy production)  and some other thingies would work. Btw, infiltrating an animal or tree won't really work. They'd notice you since the assimilation process is way too slow.

[10ebbor10]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

 Feeding option A. Pack tactics

You decide to look for some waterinsect to eat. In a large swarm you dart towards the surface, eating as much as you can before retreating between the weeds. The second run is less succesfull, and you barely break even. The third time went remarkably well, you managed to overwhelm a large group of insects gianing you some biomass, some needed energy and some valuable DNA pieces.

Suddenly a shadow hangs over the lake, and you can barely make out a human figure throwing things into the water. By the reaction of the other fish you guess it must be some sort of food.


A. Attack water insects: Good source of food, might be attacked by larger fish. Try to get food: High gain, quite a large risk. Chaotic
B. Eat weeds: Low energy return.  +-Safe
C. Attack large fish. High risk, high gain
D. Look at the bottom of the pool for burrowed animals like frogs and such. (Energy intensive, might gain nothing)
E. Other

Name:  Deoxys
Biomass: 63 (59 clones(63))
Energy: 30/50 (actions cost one or more energy)
Nutrients: 25/25 (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:  Antfish (5 cm long, 1 high, 1 broad)
Status: Near a pond

Spoiler: Current form (click to show/hide)

-Chloroplasts(1)(4nutrients-->1energy per turn)
Insect eyes (Allows you to see)
Insect stomach (Can turn biomass in energy)
Ant carapace (+1 to defense)
4 * Ant acid gland (Succesfull attacks are followed up by a +4 poison attack. 10 energy and 5 Nutrients to use)
Enlarged Ant mandible (+2 to attack, -1 energy)
Fins (+1 to water movement. -5 energy)
Gills (Allows you to breath underwater. -2 energy)

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
-Insect egg/larvae(Non splitting reproduction)
-Cocoon (Reduces risk of being eaten while changing. Extra energy cost)
-Ant mandibles
-Ant carapace (Notes,relatively light but strong)
-Ant pheromones
-Ant acid gland
-Other bits of butterfly DNA-Chloroplasts
-Fins: (+10 to water movement. -50 energy) Depends on size
-Gills  (Allows you to stay underwater. -20 energy) Depends on size
-Cell wall
-Large vacuole
-Roots
-Chloroplasts

Spoiler: GM note (click to show/hide)

You can turn energy into biomassa and vice-versa

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[killerhellhound]

watch and latch onto a big fish eating all the food that passes by

[NRDL]

Attack the smallest fish scrambling for the food, while they're caught unawares. 

[Ukrainian Ranger]

Attack the biggest fish (preferably a predator)

Big are not as mobile and less likely to catch fast swimming ants, and other fish will not distrub our attack, because they are busy eating. And bigger = better DNA\ more food

[10ebbor10]

Attack the biggest fish (preferably a predator)

Big are not as mobile and less likely to catch fast swimming ants, and other fish will not distrub our attack, because they are busy eating. And bigger = better DNA\ more food

Poison or not ?

[Ukrainian Ranger]

Definately poison, the biggest requires all our resources to bring it down