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[Eotyrannus]

We have shearing jaw bits, don't worry, we can eat larger prey. I just forgot to mention that in the main description.

[Remuthra]

It's war now. The sighted infidels dare to challenge us.

Develop a substrain of poison that acts as an aerosol. We'll poison their eyes if they dare to get close.

[Eotyrannus]

VOTES-
Tool use x5
Blinding venom x1
Light x2
Domesticate sightmace x1
Venomy pepper-spray x1

[weenog]

+1 to tool use
+1 to blinding venom
+1 to venom pepper spray
+1 to domesticate our lesser kin (fortunately we're colour-blind, so unfortunate implications should be reduced, slightly)

[Mesa]

Then we'll use sightmaces as guide dogs of sorts!
And we'll rule the world! Muahaha!

But until then, death to the sighted ones!

[Helgoland]

+1 to tool use
+1 to blinding venom
+1 to venom pepper spray
+1 to domesticate our lesser kin

This and -1 to unnecessary flashiness. Not only does it conflict with domesticating the eyediots, it would take tremendous amounts of energy to significantly impede their vision.

[Urist McDwarfFortress]

+1 to tool use (especially weapons, perhaps darts or blowguns used to deliver our own poison at greater range!)

[Urist McDwarfFortress]

Oops. Double post.

[GreatWyrmGold]

You can only +1 once.

[Xantalos]

Why not symbiotize the sightmace?

[Carnwennan]

Why not symbiotize the sightmace?

I had a pretty long response to this, but I lost the post, frustratingly enough.

One of the nicer points was that domestication may imply a degree of control over the development of the domesticated species, whereas a symbiote would be pretty much free to evolve however they want to.

Mechanically, they would probably be very similar. But we haven't tried domestication before and it is a process that by nature would require intelligence, right? Maybe something cool might happen

[Harbingerjm]

VOTES-
Blinding venom x1
Domesticate sightmace x1
Venomy pepper-spray x1

+1

[wer6]

VOTES-
Tool use x5 +1
Blinding venom x1 +1
Light x2 -1
Domesticate sightmace x1 +1
Venomy pepper-spray x1 +1

Mrowl.

[kopout]

VOTES-
Tool use x5 +1
Blinding venom x1 +1
Light x2 -1
Domesticate sightmace x1 +1
Venomy pepper-spray x1 +1

Mrowl.

Is this just bookkeeping or are your votes included?
Domesticate sightmace +1
Venomy pepper-spray +1
Tool use +1
Blinding venom +1

[weenog]

While we're upgrading our biological weaponry, why not combine it with another biological tool we have, and our clever brain?

Adapt behaviour to spin and hold elastic web net, and "throw" it using the crystals from our venom spray as weights.  Think a combination of an ogre-faced spider's short-range projectile web, and a bolas.