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[micelus]

You have become aware. Up till now you have not known nor felt anything. You have little idea on what you had been doing previously or if you had even existed before this moment.

After a few moments of thought, you flex your body. You notice that you have several hundred pairs of tiny thin legs all attached to a long curvy body. It seems to end in a large orfice, inside of which are several small jagged bones. You are able to move these bones at will, adjusting their positioning. It might be possible to detach these bones. On the other end of the body, are two moveable flaps of skin. You open them. Suddenly, new thoughts come into your mind. Blurry light overwhelms your mind. Pain! The light hurts you!. You close your eyes. Far too much pain. You instinctively know that your body is quite soft and has no natural defenses.

As you flex and feel out your body, there is an ever-continuing thought in your mind, besides the pain of the light. Eat. Eat. Eat. It is a strange concept to you; what is "eating"? As you ponder this, you notice a growing emptiness in your lower body. It is as if it needs to be filled.

Having enough knowledge of your own body, you turn your thoughts once again to the outside. You feel heat above you and a vast movement just in front of you. It feels colder in that direction. The ground feels hard and moist. There are small lines between the ground you can't fit through.

What do you do?

<Intentionally left vague for now.>

Spoiler: Notes (click to show/hide)

Yes, I do use 'you' far too much.

[micelus]

Bestiary

Spoiler: The Welif (click to show/hide)

The animal known as the welif is a peculiar creature, seemingly appearing to be a log, and yet, once disturbed or in hunger, quickly becomes one of the most deadly creatures in the world. During its dormant state, the creature does nothing more than drift around its territorial waters, defending its borders and in the mating season, calling out for mates. In active periods, the creature will usually stay to a single spot and wait days for a single morsel to pass by, be it a tiny fish or the elusive creatures called 'squid' that occasionally haunt the swamp waters. The creature does not use intricate poisons or grappling techniques to take its prey; no it merely uses the strength and speed of its jaw to clamp down before the poor victim understands what is happening.

The structural state of the creature would by itself take several pages of paper to explain, but I shall condense it here for curiosity's sake. The welif, while a juvenile, resembles a kind of aquatic lizard with a sac of yolk. As it ages however, it learns to secrete a substance that allows it to weld objects to itself. For the most part, a growing welif will try to attach wood to itself. This is as a strange thing happens when it does: the very wood becomes like a carapace to the welif, becoming like hardened flesh. How this happens is still a question being answered by many today..."

Spoiler: Fermroot (click to show/hide)

This small tuber is a common weed in the many lands and countries. The plant only grows to a short length; the length from one's foot to knee. It hold several slender leaves along its stem with a sort of crown on the very tip. This plant holds few useful properties beyond the its use as a poor-mans bedding and for is strange ability to force most creatures that eat it to empty their insides. The plant is often an enemy of citygoers, due to its tendency to grow in every nook and cranny and spreading far if allowed to grow. The fermroot multiplies in number by a simple method of spores, much to many a sick-mans' distress. 
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[micelus]

I never do use these.

[Xantalos]

Move toward the heat. Eat heat. Heat good.

[micelus]

You try to move towards the source of the heat, but find it out of your reach. You eventually notice that there is a wall behind you. You try climbing up, but find that you unfortunately, cannot walk up walls. You can sense light vibrations to your left, not too far away.

[Guardian G.I.]

Look at the source of the vibration

[Xantalos]

Look at the source of the vibration

And envelop it...nom it. Sohungry

[micelus]

While the sensation of light is still very much painful, you are able to see through it. You turn your head and see a small..furred animal with 4 stubby legs and a naked tail. It seems scrawny and even hungrier than you, although its recently caught something-you can see something in its mouth. Looking at it makes you even hungrier. Very hungry.

You sneak up on the creature and are able to make a small leap as you near it. You land on the thing's back, and wrap your legs around it. Instinctively, you open up your orifice, and envelop the creature's head. You reposition your bones, your "teeth", slicing and dicing the thing to death. Hungry. It struggles for a short while, almost throwing you off, but you sever its head soon enough. You spread your whole lower body along the animal and feed. Seems that you feed through your skin.

After thoroughly devouring the creature, and the small animal it itself had been eating, you feel extremely bloated. Impossibly bloated. Something in your mind  keeps repeating 'change'.

5 Hunger Filled
2 Evolution Points gained.

Yep, its an evolution game. We are a quickly evolving organism that can hasten evolution via devouring biotic matter. As can be seen below, the organism has stats. Health is a simply a measure of how long the organism can survive if attacked. Since we are currently very squishy, a small scratch will kill us. We also have a hunger stat. Actions will require using up this stat and it is replenished by eating. Certain actions will require more than others. Having 0 hunger for more than 1 turn will result in death. Evolution points are also gained by eating and the amount of evolution points gained will vary from organism to organism. Note that we can only evolve certain adaptions after acquiring the genetic material from other organisms. Suggest adaptions and I'll decide if it would be possible from the genetic material acquired and a cost.

Further rule explanations later.

Basic Status:
Health: 2/2
Hunger: 5/5
Evolution Points: 2

Spoiler: Current Body Status (click to show/hide)

Description: Centipede-like creature with an opening at the end.

Brain: Poor. Cannot conceptualize beyond sight and a few scant thoughts that occasionally come up in its head.
Senses: No sense of taste, smell or hearing. Vision is relatively excellent.
Movement: Slow but may make short leaps
Metabolism: Inefficient metabolism. Less food is acquired from organisms.
Special: None
Size: 30 cm

Current Organs

Legs: Multiple thin legs capable of limited movement and small leaps. Cannot make continuous fast movement.
Eyes: Two advanced eyes that see in varying spectrum of black-to-white in a 180º radius.
Grinder: An orifice capable of cutting up tissue for digestion.
Skin: Weak and defenseless. Can digest organic matter that is in contact. Inefficient.

Genetic Material Available:

Sewer Mouse

[Gamerlord]

Lets grow eyes and a brain to use them!

[kaian-a-coel]

make yourself faster! (and color your skin red! because red goes fasta!)

[Heavy Weapons Pony]

> Evolve to become smarter.
> Toughen up our hide.

[Ultimuh]

> Evolve to become smarter.
> Toughen up our hide.

I vote for this for now.

[Wrex]

As we only have rat genetics avalible, I would toughen our hide up with a nice fur coat, except for a location we can feed with, and give ourselves a rat's keen sense of smell.

[Trapezohedron]

As we only have rat genetics avalible, I would toughen our hide up with a nice fur coat, except for a location we can feed with, and give ourselves a rat's keen sense of smell.

+1, because same thoughts, bro.

[OREOSOME]

Undergo extreme mitosis and metamorphosis.
Multiply thyself! Then Zerg Rush nearest non-whatever-we're-called life form. Rinse and repeat.