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[Detoxicated]

Take Ingestion Juices, Web Making, Chitin off of the Spider, Take Wings from each flying insect#
Develop Web Making Glands, and a Mixture of All Wings, and begin building a web to attract prey.

[NRDL]

Take Ingestion Juices, Web Making, Chitin off of the Spider, Take Wings from each flying insect#
Develop Web Making Glands, and a Mixture of All Wings, and begin building a web to attract prey.

Sounds like a plan +1

Once we hit the size of field mouse then the ball will really get rolling.

[10ebbor10]

Spoiler: Action (click to show/hide)

Take Ingestion Juices, Web Making, Chitin off of the Spider, Take Wings from each flying insect#
Develop Web Making Glands, and a Mixture of All Wings, and begin building a web to attract prey.

Inside your body, a number of cells starts slowly changing, developing into some small glands capable of extruding spider silk. Other parts of the body, numerous cells are activated, starting to form wings. Partially the translucent wings used by flies and wasps, partially the different wings used by moths. The combination of both however, is less succesfull, and results in a somewhat deformed, though still functional wing.

Not discouraged, you set to expand the web, adding additional strands and in general somewhat expanding the web.


Name: 
Energy: 42/92
Biomass: 0.080 cm³
Abilities : DNA assimilation, Epigenetic Tags
Current look: A sturdy green blob of cells, vaguely resembling a creature with a bunch of legs, eyes, wings and a stylet for a mouth, stuck inside a web covered with fluffy strands of mycelum.

Spoiler: Current Form (click to show/hide)

Eyes, Mycelum, Stilet, Tiny legs, Photosynthesis, cell walls, wings, web making glands

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

Fungus :

Spores : A reproductive method emphatizing quantity over quality
Mycelum : In inaccurate terms, the fungus's roots

0.01 cm³ class

Gallwasp:

Gall : A parasitic reproduction method where the eggs are protected inside plant tissue
Insect eyes : Tiny compound eyes
Insect wings : Delicate wings which allow for flight

Common fly :
 
Insect wings :  Delicate wings which allow for flight

Firefly :

Insect wings : Delicate wings which allow for flight

Moth:

Insect wings : Delicate wings which allow for flight

Spider:
Ingestion Juices : Lacking a digestion system capable of dealing with solid objects, spiders, amongst other creatures, rely on dissolving prey outside their stomach.
Web Making : Spider web strands count among the strongest materials
Chitin : A somewhat stronger shell, though still flexible


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.

[Detoxicated]

Wait and eat

[NRDL]

Wait and eat

+1 Yeah just acquire more body mass.

[Detoxicated]

Id like to see us going in a flying centipede direction, with the ability to split up in many pieces.

[10ebbor10]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Wait and eat

Time passes slowly as you wait for insects to end up entrapped within your web. You observe your web structure, a fine network of spider silk widers, albeit with a somewhat conspicuous blob of mycelum near the center. You watch while the world slowly darkens, until suddenly a lone wasp, seemingly hurried, blunders straight into your web. You approach carefully, trying to avoid it's stinging, and are just about to strike when a flash of light blinds you.

Thunder resonates through the air, and all the light is drained from the sky. Your web starts vibrating in the sudden galen, but holds perfectly, for now. However, the still struggling wasp is making some slow successes in it's steady escape, and in doing so is inflicting some structural damage. It's slightly larger than you, but visibly tiring, and still somewhat constricted. However, it may be better to vacate your web, and instead seek shelter elsewhere.

The oak tree in which you reside is fairly large, and it's bark has several visible hollow. In addition, high in the branches there appears to be some kind of wasp nest. Down below, near the lower branches, there's no particular cover, but the wind is probably far more benign.


Name: 
Energy: 42/92
Biomass: 0.080 cm³
Abilities : DNA assimilation, Epigenetic Tags
Current look: A sturdy green blob of cells, vaguely resembling a creature with a bunch of legs, eyes, wings and a stylet for a mouth, stuck inside a web covered with fluffy strands of mycelum.

Spoiler: Current Form (click to show/hide)

Eyes, Mycelum, Stilet, Tiny legs, Photosynthesis, cell walls, wings, web making glands

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

Fungus :

Spores : A reproductive method emphatizing quantity over quality
Mycelum : In inaccurate terms, the fungus's roots

0.01 cm³ class

Gallwasp:

Gall : A parasitic reproduction method where the eggs are protected inside plant tissue
Insect eyes : Tiny compound eyes
Insect wings : Delicate wings which allow for flight

Common fly :
 
Insect wings :  Delicate wings which allow for flight

Firefly :

Insect wings : Delicate wings which allow for flight

Moth:

Insect wings : Delicate wings which allow for flight

Spider:
Ingestion Juices : Lacking a digestion system capable of dealing with solid objects, spiders, amongst other creatures, rely on dissolving prey outside their stomach.
Web Making : Spider web strands count among the strongest materials
Chitin : A somewhat stronger shell, though still flexible


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: Note (click to show/hide)

I screwded up some size estimates in recent encounters, resulting in what I realize now was abnormally slow growth in size, and excessive growth in energy. Expect that to be resolved soonish.

[Ukrainian Ranger]

Why exactly we went for epigenetic tags? So far it is not used

Avoid the wasp, try to find a shelter inside the Oak, develop chitin armour covering our upper half,  wait for morning.

[NRDL]

Why exactly we went for epigenetic tags? So far it is not used

Avoid the wasp, try to find a shelter inside the Oak, develop chitin armour covering our upper half,  wait for morning.

+1

[10ebbor10]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Why exactly we went for epigenetic tags? So far it is not used

Avoid the wasp, try to find a shelter inside the Oak, develop chitin armour covering our upper half,  wait for morning.

+1

I was not expecting epigenetics as the first pick. It can be usefull in later situations, for example, by giving members of the swarm some limited adapting abilities.

You quickly abscond from your web, abandoning it and the wasp to the winds. You reach the tree shortly before the torrential rain reaches you, and hide in one of the crevices. There appear to be no enemies in the hollow, and the outside danger can not reach you. As such, you once again start making a small adaption to your ever more complicated form, and then rests till the sun rises in the morning.

The world outside is not much different than it was before. The sun shines, and though several trees show damage, by and large the forest appears unharmed. The hive higher in the tree above you has survived perfectly fine. The lake you noticed in the distance appears now slightly larger than it was before, though it's still rather far off.


Name: 
Energy: 20/40
Biomass: 4.096 cm³
Abilities : DNA assimilation, Epigenetic Tags
Current look: A strange green creature with a chitin chield, about the size of a large insect. It has stranged malformed wings, and tiny, almost ineffective legs. It observes the world through it's tiny insectoid eyes. Beware it's webs.

Spoiler: Current Form (click to show/hide)

Insect Eyes
Stilet (Ineffective)

Chitin armor
cell walls

Tiny legs (Ineffective)
wings

Mycelum
Photosynthesis
web making glands

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

Fungus :

Spores : A reproductive method emphatizing quantity over quality
Mycelum : In inaccurate terms, the fungus's roots

0.01 cm³ class

Gallwasp:

Gall : A parasitic reproduction method where the eggs are protected inside plant tissue
Insect eyes : Tiny compound eyes
Insect wings : Delicate wings which allow for flight

Common fly :
 
Insect wings :  Delicate wings which allow for flight

Firefly :

Insect wings : Delicate wings which allow for flight

Moth:

Insect wings : Delicate wings which allow for flight

Spider:
Ingestion Juices : Lacking a digestion system capable of dealing with solid objects, spiders, amongst other creatures, rely on dissolving prey outside their stomach.
Web Making : Spider web strands count among the strongest materials
Chitin : A somewhat stronger shell, though still flexible


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.

Dormant gene reactivation : In many species, genes from old, previous steps of evolution are still present, but dormant. More advanced epigenetic techniques can be utilized in an attempt to reactivate these phenotypes.

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 or choose your own abilities. Suggest anyway even if you don't want to choose them (but make that clear)

Spoiler: Note (click to show/hide)

I screwded up some size estimates in recent encounters, resulting in what I realize now was abnormally slow growth in size, and excessive growth in energy. Expect that to be resolved soonish.

[Detoxicated]

Build a complicated web, to catch those wasps

[Ukrainian Ranger]

Am I wrong or we got another choice of ability?

[crazyabe]

Look for Creatures that Eat Trees, Termites and Some forms of Larva Are What we Want to find in other Words, Consuming them will give us the Capability to Consume 'our' Tree.

Gain the Despecialization Ability.

[10ebbor10]

Am I wrong or we got another choice of ability?

You did.

[kopout]

Build a complicated web, to catch those wasps

+1

Gain the Despecialization Ability.

I think that Gaining The DNA Manipulation Ability Is a better choice at the moment.That way we can grow a new set of legs/Stilet  that are the right size for us. Sure we have to kill and reabsorb the old ones but we wil have replacements already waiting.