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[Sosoku234]

After eating a few tardigrades, commence consuming of the lichen material.

[10ebbor10]

Spoiler: Actions (click to show/hide)

Start devouring other nearby tardigrades

We must acquire more biomass!

After eating a few tardigrades, commence consuming of the lichen material.

Develop tiny legs

Having found a suitable source of food you ooze slowly towards the tardigrades, and ensare a couple more. After a short struggle, they're overwhelmed and slowly digested. One enterpreneering Tardigrade attempted to attack you, piercing the soft membrame that connects your cells, but you pulled it in and overwhelmed it before it could do anymore harm.

Since the remainder of the Tardigrades slowly scuttled away during your assault, you decide to consume some of the lichen, while adopting to a form slightly more suitable to the terrain. You managed to acquire adequate material within the Tardigrades, and as such slowly add a small amount of legs to your form. The lichen however is not very nutritious. While you manage to acquire some new capabilities, it's not very plentifull.



Name: 
Energy: 8/17
Biomass: 0.005 cm³
Abilities : DNA assimilation
Current look: A blob of cells, with a bunch of legs barely visible to the naked eye.

Spoiler: DNA acquired (click to show/hide)

0.001 cm³ class

Tardigrade

Stylet : A primitive hardened mouthpart, used to pierce plant cells and consume their insides
Cryptobiosis : The Tardigrades fascinating survival strategy, where in it dehydrates and slows it's metabolism to a crawl, surviving for decades until conditions improve
Primitive : A more flexible, but far less hard and durable exoskeleton
Tiny legs : Tardigrade are jot renowned for speed, but these are functional
Eutelic : All tardigrades of the same species have the same number of cells, determined by a system in their DNA. These limits can be troubling to override.


Lichen
Photosynthesis: Free energy. With drawbacks, of course. Water and nutrients need to be provided.

[Detoxicated]

Let us wait for Acari to appear, and consume them, as they are predators of the Tardigrades.

[crazyabe]

PTW

[NRDL]

Let us wait for Acari to appear, and consume them, as they are predators of the Tardigrades.

+1

[10ebbor10]

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Let us wait for Acari to appear, and consume them, as they are predators of the Tardigrades.

+1

You wait for one of the Tardigrade's predators to appear, hoping to suprise and consume them. After quite a bit of waiting, one finally appears. The springtail is nearly as large as you are. You attach yourself to it, attempting to do the same thing you did to the Tardigrade earlier. Panicked, the Springtail jumps, propelling both it and you through the air.


You land on a leaf, mostly unharmed. The Springtail appears to have gotten away.


Name: 
Energy: 7/17
Biomass: 0.005 cm³
Abilities : DNA assimilation
Current look: A blob of cells, with a bunch of legs barely visible to the naked eye.

Spoiler: DNA acquired (click to show/hide)

0.001 cm³ class

Tardigrade

Stylet : A primitive hardened mouthpart, used to pierce plant cells and consume their insides
Cryptobiosis : The Tardigrades fascinating survival strategy, where in it dehydrates and slows it's metabolism to a crawl, surviving for decades until conditions improve
Primitive exoskeleton : A more flexible, but far less hard and durable exoskeleton
Tiny legs : Tardigrade are jot renowned for speed, but these are functional
Eutelic : All tardigrades of the same species have the same number of cells, determined by a system in their DNA. These limits can be troubling to override.

Acari


Lichen
Photosynthesis: Free energy. With drawbacks, of course. Water and nutrients need to be provided.

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[Ukrainian Ranger]

Develop Stylet and start eating the leaf to get energy

[NRDL]

Develop Stylet and start eating the leaf to get energy

+1 First a leaf, tomorrow, THE WORLD!!!

[Detoxicated]

Develop Stylet and start eating the leaf to get energy

+1 First a leaf, tomorrow, THE WORLD!!!

+1

It is nice how we seem to agree on things in this game,usually it ain't this way...

[10ebbor10]

Spoiler: Actions (click to show/hide)

Develop Stylet and start eating the leaf to get energy

+1 First a leaf, tomorrow, THE WORLD!!!

+1

It is nice how we seem to agree on things in this game,usually it ain't this way...

You develop an array of Stylets, and use the sharpened part to penetrate the surface of the leaf. This new implement allows you to quickly feed upon the plant. You pierce the cells, and then lap up the fluids that spill from the wounded cells. The energy rich fluid allows you to quickly gain a decent amount of energy, and biomass, bringing you up to full strength in a short manner, and allowing you to gain a great bit of size.

The increased size, allows for increased capabilities, and it appears that previously inactive systems are now slowly started to work again.

Following your changes, you once again survey your surroundings. Without sensory apparatus, you're still mostly blind, relying on basic chemical senses and vibrations. These tell you now that the plant you're sitting on is giving on some chemical signal, purpose unknown.


Name: 
Energy: 21/21
Biomass: 0.010 cm³
Abilities : DNA assimilation
Current look: A blob of cells, vaguely resembling a creature with a bunch of legs and a stylet for a mouth

Spoiler: DNA acquired (click to show/hide)

Generic

Photosynthesis: Free energy. With drawbacks, of course. Water and nutrients need to be provided.
Cell walls: Reinforces cells at cost to mobility

0.001 cm³ class

Tardigrade

Stylet : A primitive hardened mouthpart, used to pierce plant cells and consume their insides
Cryptobiosis : The Tardigrades fascinating survival strategy, where in it dehydrates and slows it's metabolism to a crawl, surviving for decades until conditions improve
Primitive exoskeleton : A more flexible, but far less hard and durable exoskeleton
Tiny legs : Tardigrade are jot renowned for speed, but these are functional
Eutelic : All tardigrades of the same species have the same number of cells, determined by a system in their DNA. These limits can be troubling to override.

Lichen
Photosynthesis: Free energy. With drawbacks, of course. Water and nutrients need to be provided.

Spoiler: Abilities (click to show/hide)

Split : Allows to split the main organism, creating separate organisms

Despecialization : Generally, the procedure of dealing with parts no longer considered necessary are to kill them, and reabsorb the nutrients. Despecialization reverts them to a more primitive form, allowing them to be reused.

Epigenetics : Epigenetic tags control the activation and deactivation of genes based on environmental cues. In the most basic level, this allows for epigenetic systems to be preprogrammed into the basic structure of the Creature, and allowing rapid change when needed.

DNA Manipulation : The Manipulation of DNA fragments, allowing parts to be manipulated in primitive manners, usually meaning making them bigger or smaller

Energy efficiency : Obvious

DNA gathering efficiency : Obvious

Suggest something

[Ukrainian Ranger]

Become green by adding some chlorophyll to our cells, then travel away, looking for new genes

(I want camouflage not photosynthesis)

[tryrar]

Become green by adding some chlorophyll to our cells, then travel away, looking for new genes

(I want camouflage not photosynthesis)

+1

[10ebbor10]

You do get to choose another ability too.

[Ukrainian Ranger]

Split : Allows to split the main organism, creating separate organisms

Lets go hive route.

[tryrar]

I prefer epigenetics so we can go full shapeshifter