More like the Spire was a prevalent theme in your examples and happens to be an extreme case of an Elder God you'd not want to try and sneak power away from. It is not like the average player character is half as genocidal as the phoenix, just look at the plummeting player death count. Has any player character even died since then?
Saying that a character died for being too nice while prodding the Necronomicon with a stick does not make for a very convincing argument.
Not sure if prodding the Necronomicon is an accurate comparison. You are right about that elder god being the most genocidal though. If you're character had continued unchecked, it is likely that every other player would have died had the trend continued. Yeah sneaking power away from him wasn't great for survival but I really don't think leaving it alone would have been much of an improvement to the overall expected lifespan of the average Fate Touched mortal. Bad plan but good reasons for attempting it maybe? Both of those characters were primarily interested in trying to improve or heal the world.
Also, there aren't that many "Attempted Nice Guys" to use for comparison. Most of the characters seem rather neutral to me. Who currently in the game goes out of their way to unselfishly help mortals regardless of personal gain?
Seriously though, that spire on top of you being an elder god was ridiculous. I'm genuinely surprised the other players didn't gang up on you sooner. That kind of power would have left you completely invulnerable within a few turns and broken the game. Udil might soon follow in your footsteps with his spire. I'm trying to avoid that fate by making my Catalysts more symbiotic than parasitic but if my rolls continue like this, that might not be a possibility.
In that case the Catalyst has to overcome the ultimate evolutionary being if it wants to thrive on my planet -a dwarf who ascended.
Not quite sure what your exact intentions are but let me just clarify a few things for the Catalyst.
Right now the Catalyst is primarily an opportunistic feeder. It goes after weaker or undefended life forms because they are easy prey and it can make them and itself stronger by infecting them. If you or anyone else actively tries to eliminate the Catalyst, it will cease to be an opportunistic feeder and just try to completely consume the offensive parties.
The Catalyst is also currently very agitated because it realized it doesn't actually have complete control over itself. This raises the question of what is the "Hivemind" compared to what is the "Catalyst," because apparently Catalyst organisms do not need to be part of the Hivemind.
In conclusion, the Catalyst won't care too much if you try and eliminate some of the infected that aren't part of the Hivemind. However if you actually go out of your way to kill Catalyst organisms that are part of the Hivemind without any provocation, it is likely the Catalyst will respond by trying to eat you and your followers.
On the other hand, the Catalyst is open to professional cooperation and alliances. Didn't work out so far with Feros but I intend to make up for that. Anyway, my character really doesn't have any reason yet to dislike any of the other characters but if it does it'll be all out war until either it dies or the enemy dies.
Quote applies to you to. The Catalyst went after the Seaspawn and Squiddles because they were weak and undefended. There was an opening to become more powerful and to make those other races more powerful. The Dwarves are doing fine and under divine protection and thus are not on the Catalyst's list of prey right now. If you prove to be hostile or threatening though, yada yada defend myself, etc.
Well, TECHNICALLY, Udil isn't evolved.
He ascended, yes, but that's not an act of evolution, as by definition Evolution happens due to genetic drift, not divine inspiration.
Which means that the Catalyst isn't exactly evolution either, he's a cheap knock-off of it.
TECHNICALLY the Catalyst isn't a god and thus would not be Divine, so TECHNICALLY it would probably still sort of qualify as a form of evolution by rapid DNA mutations but I don't care to argue the point.
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