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zomara0292

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Re: You are an Oracle
« Reply #15 on: January 31, 2015, 08:32:42 am »

To void: Actually, every choice you make will change how things will work, inventions you will run across, and even the combat ability of the Colony. With that said, yours would have been a merger of the challanges and advantages of the individualistic , long live, and swarm caste systems. It has a chance of popping up, though, depending on how things go.
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Currently it is:
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1 Long live the Workers
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I hear a piranha is good eating.  I have a spear; I'll be fine!
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Re: You are an Oracle
« Reply #19 on: January 31, 2015, 11:13:11 am »

Swarm wins. Give me a bit to write up the next post. You will quite enjoy it.


Your head fills up slowly with details and nuances that the old Oracle had told you. Her understandin of not just one, but several different iterations of colony structures. Each structure for comes to you as a whisper, slowly increasing in strength until you nearly shout it out yourself. You all are part of a swarm, there was never any doubt about it, but, you all act it.
That was the issue with the old colony. Everyone looked out for themselves. Crimes against the swarm ran rampant. Internal strife wasnt common, but, sometimes there were odd cases of ants trying to rase above their status, many going as far as murdering Queens and several Seers.
In fact, it was because of such uncanny and rampant disregard for the whole that the Oracle cursed the last hive and, with the backing of a hand full of those who agreed with him, and Queens that sought safty, you were all lead here, many miles underground, in this cave, once barred away from the terrors above, and now, blocked away from the potential threat to the integrity of the colony as a whole.
You take your time, walking around the impromptu colonial hive. Its only been a few moths since the initial separation occured, which makes you merely 4 months old. Then it hits you. You wonder if you would have ever felt comfortable in the aboveground, anyway. Do you think you would have preferred a live among the trees over this exsistance in the dirt?

DNA traits:
Elven DNA: whatever god created you made you by mixing in ants with elves.
+ your recovered dead counts towards your food supply
- you automatically take the Carnivorous trait


Dwarven DNA
+ have a petition for creating things with stone. +1 to any inventions involving stone itself
- you have to deal with the issues pertaining to a natural vertical challenge, and an unnaturally natural vertical challenge


Pure Blooded: You are more Ant than anything else, to the point that, other than the things that allow you to walk think, you all have bred all the races out of yourselves.
+ Your nearly pure ant, and ants tend to have rather large clutches. You get a 5% bonus to your new Antmen count, each breeding season
- such purity is obtained through isolation and and careful selections. Such hard work is hard to shake out of the mind, too. -10% to your chances of gaining random mutation.
« Last Edit: January 31, 2015, 03:15:28 pm by zomara0292 »
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The Pilot and their cargo handlers paused when they saw that the entire camp is covered in eldritch runes coated in blood. And rotting monkey corpses everywhere..

They decide that they didn't get paid enough for this..

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Re: You are an Oracle
« Reply #20 on: February 04, 2015, 08:23:20 pm »

We should have Dwarven DNA for the inventions.
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Re: You are an Oracle
« Reply #21 on: February 04, 2015, 08:48:22 pm »

Pure Blood Always nice to have bonus to the old tactic of ANT RUSH!
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Re: You are an Oracle
« Reply #22 on: February 05, 2015, 03:56:07 pm »

Pure Blood Always nice to have bonus to the old tactic of ANT RUSH!
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Re: You are an Oracle
« Reply #23 on: February 05, 2015, 04:38:18 pm »

We should have Dwarven DNA for the inventions.
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Re: You are an Oracle
« Reply #24 on: February 05, 2015, 05:01:21 pm »

But,But the sheer numbers!

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Re: You are an Oracle
« Reply #25 on: February 05, 2015, 05:30:35 pm »

But no. Those sheer numbers will be shit and it'll be harder for the colony to stop being shit. Also, we're becoming 10% more shit in exchange for a mere 5% increase in numbers. That's very shitty. Buzzwords!
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Re: You are an Oracle
« Reply #26 on: February 05, 2015, 05:40:49 pm »

But, we are ants! Throwing wave after wave of crap troops is how we do anything!
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Re: You are an Oracle
« Reply #27 on: February 05, 2015, 05:46:31 pm »

We should have Dwarven DNA for the inventions.
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Re: You are an Oracle
« Reply #28 on: February 05, 2015, 06:12:48 pm »

We should have Dwarven DNA for the inventions.
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Maybe we could even murder hordes of elves and enemy antmen by building traps.
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Re: You are an Oracle
« Reply #29 on: February 05, 2015, 06:21:48 pm »

Just a hypothetical, but what do you get when you combine dwarven ingenuity with the kill-crazy minds of ants? Some say that ants would destroy the world in a week if they had nukes. Others say that it wouldn't take them that long.
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