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[NRDL]

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.

+1 This sounds pretty good considering our current situation

[Ukrainian Ranger]

I have a very different plan actually

1) Gain the split ability

2) Split ourself to the size when stylet and legs will become effective again

3) Spread all over the tree. Some copies will consume oak leaves, some will hunt for small creatures, some will find nice places for photosynthesis

4) use gained biomass to build more copies

[10ebbor10]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Build a complicated web, to catch those wasps

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.

+1 This sounds pretty good considering our current situation

You create a new web, hoping to catch wasps on another day. It's not spectacularly strong, but it is less visible without the mycelum in the way, and hopefully should be able to catch an insect, perhaps even a wasp. The web has been placed on the same location where previous web was, as you saw no reason to change it.

Next, you examine the tree for some kind of wood eating insect or beetle. Finding them is a bit hard, considering most of the time, these beetles spend their life either inside the wood, where you can not reach them, or flying around between the trees. Thinking about it, you'll probably need a better plan to catch them.



Name: 
Energy: 10/40
Biomass: 4.096 cm³
Abilities : DNA assimilation, Epigenetic Tags, Despecialization
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)

Library has been cleaned out and moved to the post below the OP.

Spoiler: Note (click to show/hide)

So, I've been keeping the mechanics very abstract for now. Does this work for everyone, or would you like to see more numbers, such as specific costs for specific abilities and such?

[Detoxicated]

Work to build five further webs in trees surrounding the tree we inhabit

[NRDL]

Can we still eat leaves?  We need energy, so let's just munch on some leaves on the top of the tree while we wait for our trap to be filled.

If that's not possible, +1 to Detox's plan.

[kopout]

Can our Mycelum pull water and nutrients out of the tree? If it can then I say we dig in and photosynthesize while we wait. Otherwise Go with what NRDL said.

[MoonyTheHuman]

Lets wait for something to get caught in the web, that we can eat, if we cant eat it, let it go

[MonkeyMarkMario]

Can we still eat leaves?  We need energy, so let's just munch on some leaves on the top of the tree while we wait for our trap to be filled.

If that's not possible, +1 to Detox's plan.

+1 we need energy

[TheBiggerFish]

PTW!

[TopHat]

PTW.

[10ebbor10]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Can our Mycelum pull water and nutrients out of the tree? If it can then I say we dig in and photosynthesize while we wait. Otherwise Go with what NRDL said.

Sure can. Parasitic Fungi exist

Can we still eat leaves?  We need energy, so let's just munch on some leaves on the top of the tree while we wait for our trap to be filled.

If that's not possible, +1 to Detox's plan.

+1 we need energy

You climb higher on the tree, looking for a spot where you can both overlook your web and consume some succulent leaves. Having found residence on a branch, you start to attack the leaf, but find that the tiny stilet is hardly effective. As a matter of fact, you hardly get any energy out of it. After a prolonged amount of slowly sucking on leaves, you notice a butterfly getting caught in the web.

You get back down to it as fast as your form allows it. By this time, luckily, the butterfly has already exhausted itself, and is thus an easy prey. As you do not posses any offensive weaponry, you coat it in a bit more webbing, allowing it to suffocate, before you slowly set to absorbing the butterfly. It reenergizes you, giving you more than sufficient energy, which is great, as your current form is beginning to become increasingly unworkable.



Name: 
Energy: 32/42
Biomass: 6.140 cm³
Abilities : DNA assimilation, Epigenetic Tags, Despecialization
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: Surroundings (click to show/hide)

--Close--
Tree
   - Upper Tree
          - Wasp Nest
   - Mid Tree
          - Web
   - Lower tree

--Far--
  - Lake

Spoiler: DNA acquired (click to show/hide)

Butterfly
    - Cocooning : The butterflies lifecycle involves the creation of a cocoon, followed by the liquefaction of the form, and rearranging of body parts
    - Proboscis : A long, coiled mouthpart, which can be extended to reach food
    - Irriscendent layers : A complex interplay of light gives butterflies many kind of colours.

Don't forget there's a library near the OP at the beginning of the thread, where all the DNA is kept. This is just a buffer for new stuff.

Spoiler: New Note (click to show/hide)

So, I've been keeping the mechanics very abstract for now. Does this work for everyone, or would you like to see more numbers, such as specific costs for specific abilities and such?

[NRDL]

Improve our stilet, and also grow some mandibles or pincers so we actually have some friggin fighting capability.  Also improve our leg length.

[High tyrol]

Improve our stilet, and also grow some mandibles or pincers so we actually have some friggin fighting capability.  Also improve our leg length.

1+

[10ebbor10]

Uhm, you can do none of those things.

The abilities you have are :

- Basic chapechange : Integrate DNA you have
- Epigenetics : Set up preprogrammed rapid shifts.Meaning that for predefined forms, you can shift much faster
- Despecialization : allows you to reabsorb parts efficiently, and fast

I mean, you can try, but the last time you did you ended up with malformed wings.

On a side note, responses to the note are appreciated.

[Ukrainian Ranger]

Despecialization is another rather strange choice of talent.

Absorb stilet, absorb wings, develop proper moth wings, build many new webs, wait for a prey