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[Facekillz058]

*Formulates witty comeback...*
Use our grinder organ to slowly file away some croc scale.
Ingest croc scale.
Evolve croc scale.
Victory.

[Aseaheru]

evolve=sleep
grinder=getting consumed.
your plan=no.

[Thecard]

evolve=sleep
grinder=getting consumed.
your plan=no.

Asea=smart.

[GreatWyrmGold]

evolve=sleep
grinder=getting consumed.
your plan=no.

Asea=smart.

GreatWyrmGold=Agrees

[Imp]

How about this guys?  We can't tell if the nose is really possible for us - we don't even have dimensions on this 'log'.  It could be 2 feet long, with correspondingly narrow nostrils, to narrow for us.  Or it could be 20 feet long... and we'd fit pretty easy.

We can eat organic matter, and we couldn't eat through it's hide.  It wasn't a log, maybe it's not even a (biological) crocodile.... maybe it's actually a robot or something.

There's SO much we don't know... Heh, my plan for 'go back and get us some grub' that we wasted an entire hunger point on, and that so many people agreed with, was totally based on the assumption that the mice around our centipede were similar to the mice we players know; unable to think like an organized and delegating defensive army without individual curiousity ( it takes some serious self control or some serious obedience to outside orders to NOT go investigate something new that seems nonthreatening/dead.... our mice will walk right up to an unmoving snake to check it out after a time.... this world's mice are SUPER different and unnaturally organized and careful.... for all we know, we EVOLVED here and all these critters have evolved to survive being hunted by stuff exactly like us  )

Right, back to the point.... We actually don't know yet what our best plan of attack for this beast is.  It could be the nose, the mouth, the... unwanted option that I won't name again, or a wound we don't even know it has... maybe even the 'earlid' that crocodilians posses and the very thin tympanic membrane that are the only barriers keeping us out of its ears will prove to be a great opening for us.

So... I suggest that we explore the log and let 'it show us' where we can attack it best.  Or let 'it show us' that that's a bad idea.... and if so... we move to plan B, which might be to drift away from our AWESOME (and AWESOMELY ARMORED) meal, and accept the vegetation that we're getting carried to.

Move slowly along/around/over the log, searching for a natural opening into it.  Move inside to feed.

If there's just no place to enter our ride, or it isn't actually organic material, plan B:  When close to the opposite shore and its vegetation/debris, drift from the log towards this organic material, and start to consume

[GreatWyrmGold]

Alright, let's do that.

[micelus]

Finding the hide too difficult to break through, you decide to try and find an opening somewhere on this 'log'. After some scurrying about, you find one. The hole was halfway between the water and the log's highest point, which was slowly sinking into the water. You entered the hole and found yourself in a moist and soft little crevice, not at all what you would expect out of a log. It gets smaller the deeper you go in, small enough that you cannot fit any more of your body. Your movement seems to have disturbed the creature. It begins violently shaking and grunting, as well as making several rolls. Soon enough, your underwater, a fact you can prove with the majority of your body still being outside the creature. Your probably going to drown if you can't get back to the surface.

+1* Hunger

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..."

*The centipede does not have the time to absorb as much food as with other hosts. Keep holding onto the log for more food and evo.
Basic Status:
Health: 2/2
Hunger: 3/7
Thirsty?: Nope
Evolution Points: 1
Current Thought: Uh, water....

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: Somewhat 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.
Omnivorous Digestive Tract (Sewer Mouse): Simple digestive system with an interestingly large-for-an-omnivore caecum and several organs for increased digestion of food matter.
Skin: Weak and defenseless. Covered in fur.Can digest organic matter that is in contact. Somewhat inefficient.

Genetic Material Available:

Sewer Mouse
Ruthenian Cave Lichen
Fermroot
Welf

Spoiler: Past Evolutions (click to show/hide)

Fur: Hair covering our whole body except for our underside.
Omnivorous digestive tract: Simple digestive system that allowed us to eat plants, animals and the odd fungi. Evo is much easier to acquire from organisms native to <starting area>
Increased Metabolism I: Food now fills up hunger quicker.
Energy Stores II: More energy can be stored. +2 maximum Hunger.

[wer6]

num num mouth furiously.

[GreatWyrmGold]

And get out of the water!

The welif sounds like a mystical interpretation of a crocodile.

[Tsuchigumo550]

Bite at the fleshy bits with your grinder, and if the water won't stop coming in, drift back out. We can't just let ourselved drown for evo because it's useless if we die.

[weenog]

Lungs or not, we've instinctively sensed we will die if we don't get out of the water.  Try to escape the killer environment first, worry about food after death is less imminent.

First step: release our suicidally greedy hold on the log's interior.

[Imp]

We have no idea how long we can wait before we must breathe, which is a bit tricky. 

We want our loggy to be in so much pain/so injured that it makes no attempt to do anything but escape, or even be unable to coordinate itself through the pain and damage enough to do that.  If we could wound it enough that it dies, either during or at any point after our attack, even better - we might be able to return to it for many meals, from either the carcass itself or from the other scavengers drawn to feed from it too.

Use the grinder, use our digestive skin to cause as much damage as possible to as large an internal area as possible (more food for us is great, but the goal is to incapacitate our log through pain and damage), until we feel like we must escape.  I'd love to say '40 seconds until we must breathe', but I don't think our critter can tell time or gauge its ability to hold its breath that well.  Then, withdraw and head for the surface, move for safe-looking shore.  It's possible that we ALREADY need to withdraw

[Kazymir]

Use the grinder, use our digestive skin to cause as much damage as possible to as large an internal area as possible (more food for us is great, but the goal is to incapacitate our log through pain and damage), until we feel like we must escape.  I'd love to say '40 seconds until we must breathe', but I don't think our critter can tell time or gauge its ability to hold its breath that well.  Then, withdraw and head for the surface, move for safe-looking shore.  It's possible that we ALREADY need to withdraw

Agreed. Eat our way to gory freedom!

[wer6]

If i under stand basic biology some creature have uvulas: or what ever those dangily things on the back of the roof of your mouth is: if we bit it we can deal large amounts of pain and make it vomit: so we can eat dat vomit.

[Aseaheru]

OOH! DNA! DNA!

because vomit=dna+food+acid+stink.