You look at the Anaconda. Then you look at Chemista.
"We will play God!" you bellow.
"If that is the Overlord's wish," Chemista prepares yet another syringe. "I admit...I have no idea what might happen."
The Snake hisses. It coils and unclasps. It wracks itself up in pain. It spins on itself. Tentacles start to form along his entire being as he appears to be choking. Quickly, Chemista grabs a water tank and pulls it inside. The thing now breathes, his skin turning translucent until...
Until he disappears in the tank.
Chemista jolts down a few notes, before grabbing a nearby wooden stick and dropping it on the water's surface.
You take a step backwards, because it's like staring at JAWS. The Anaconda jumps out of the water with its tentacles flailing, snapping in half the twig and hissing-spitting ink around before falling back in the water.
Where it disappears again.
"Uhm...I think we can train it for war," Chemista deadpans. "I mean...he looks like a nasty little bugger."
There's a hiss, as his water becomes black from the ink. Then, the tail slaps against the glass.
FOODAppears written on the sand the moment the ink disperses the next second.
"And, apparently, he's intelligent."
In that moment, Psysquid enters the room of tests. "Ehi! I felt a disturbance in the force!"
You stare at him. "What?" he retorts. "I felt somethiiiiiiihhhhhhiiiiiii!"
The snake, the aquatic snake, lunges out of the water tank with a speed that quickly make you think he was coiled all along and just waiting for the chance.
He wraps itself around Psysquid, and then...starts to nuzzle him fondly.
"Get it off me!" Psysquid screeched as he starts running around the lab. "Get it OFF ME!"
The Squid-Snake jumps back in his water tank, but this time wags its tail continuously at Psysquid.
"What was that, you evil Overlordness!?" he asks then, settling himself back into his normal demeanor.
You blink for a second, before replying. "The proof that you are one of a kind, Psysquid," you give him a complimentary pat on the shoulder, smiling as if you've got an inside joke in your head.
"It's mostly the equipment," Chemista sniffs loudly. "I know some of this stuff might be improved, but we'd need Scientific Equipment, and those require raiding a laboratory and...there are bad things in laboratories. I know because in mine there is an extremely ugly snake-squid."
"HISSSSSSS."
"Shut it or I'm welding your Water Tank close!" she snarls back. "I'd certainly need some
Safety Equipment to prevent Horrible Bad Things from happening, or some
Better Chemicals to make things run more smoothly with Mutagens..."
You nod and promise you'll find a way to give her some of that.
You order Four more Cog-Minions created. (You do have a full complement after all)
You now have Fourteen Cog Minions.
Fifth Day of the First Year. Chapter Three: And THEY came and THEY saw and THEY screamed.He was peacefully sleeping.
It was such a nice, fitful rest.
Then the noise became louder and louder.
"DANCE. DANCE. DO THE DANCE!"
You groan, before slowly cracking open an eye-lid, and then the other.
You put on your stuff, and then head downstairs.
"THANKS OVERLORD!" Gamington yells out loud at the newly minted machine you bought through Evil-Net for him. You do have quite a bit of Cash after all.
And Luxurious Items. And Mountains of Cash.
"Overlord," Psysquid appears extremely serious, "It pains me to say this, but there is a mission we must absolutely avoid doing."
You look at him perplexed.
"It's this one. I have an
extremely bad feelingabout this one."
That said, he points to mission number one.
1) Kill the Circus Clowns. Destruction. "Circuses are evil spawns of the Good to make children laugh!" he snarls, "I abhor laughter! This mission is extremely dangerous, and I will not participate in it! No matter what! My Squid-senses are tingling about untold and frightening things to happen if we take it!"
Extremely High Chance of Heroic Hero Intervention2) Raid the Supermarket. Mixed. "This might be over quickly with little fuss, provided there aren't any females participating...you know how much they tend to stop and look around and shop?" he rolls his eyes. "But with everything we find there, we might build ourselves another steam engine!"
Small chance of Police. Small Chance of Hero. Security not mentionable.3) Kidnap some scientists. Control. "This isn't because Chemista asked or anything!" he tsundere-blurts out, "It's just because I managed to find it, and that's why!"
Moderate Chance of Hero. Security Present.The first suggestion was of SQUID+Anaconda. If you wish to proceed with Human+Squidconda just say so.