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[Glass]

Well, we can teleport small objects, and jalapenos are relatively small. Fill in the gaps.

[Screech9791]

>Yell sauce and use mind control again.

[RoseHeart]

Guys, remember to include your number with your turn.

@0rca_tr0per
Tip: check out "animal mind control". Some interesting stuff. If sauce is posted I will retroactively upgrade XPs earned.

[PaPaj]

002
Get the ability to camouflage
This ability is located in my abdomen,and it makes it so my chitin...ah fuck it,i basically want to become a ant with a ability of a chameleon
does that work?

[RoseHeart]

Eh, before I do the next update I need you(all) to choose your first physical mutation on your(choose 1)head, thorax, or abdomen.

Let me take a moment to explain what the importance of this choice is. For example if you choose a stinger for your abdomen(rear) then all abilities you assign to your abdomen would have to do with your stinger in some way. So you should do this now choosing something that is a physical representation of the ability you have just created.

This is the one physical mutation you will have with this ant later you'll be able to be reborn with the one you have now and an additional one which will give you another tree of abilities. You probably want this first one to be a bit flexible so be creative

[Glass]

My teleportation ability is in my head, based around my antennae.
I'm planning on stuff associated with psionics, at least for this part. But less constrained.

[PaPaj]

I guess my ability is in the Thorax

[Puppyguard]

004: My war mandibles would be assigned to head.

[RoseHeart]

My teleportation ability is in my head, based around my antennae.
I'm planning on stuff associated with psionics, at least for this part. But less constrained.

Would you say the physical mutation for which all your head abilities will come from is... Psionic Antennae?

I guess my ability is in the Thorax

Prismatic Chitin can be the physical mutation. This would mean any abilities attached to your thorax would have to do with color changing. Perhaps to hide perhaps to intimidate or whatever.

004: My war mandibles would be assigned to head.

 

(Do you want your first ability to be called Bite then?)

[Glass]

Yeah, psionic antennae would work. They'd probably be noticeably different from normal antennae; forked, maybe, or longer.

[Puppyguard]

(No, it would be called war mandibles to sound cooler than bite.)

[RoseHeart]

(No, it would be called war mandibles to sound cooler than bite.)

But "war mandibles" is a mutation, which is what I'm asking for right now. Bite would be a descriptive action which is what an ability is. So it would seem you'd want to call the mutation the war mandibles and your ability something if not bite some other action like "war bite" I guess or whatever.

An analogy would be that if you had a ray gun you wouldn't call firing it "ray gun" again. You'd probably call it "laser".

[Puppyguard]

((Alright, call it bite then.))

[Screech9791]

I'm going to consider my mind control to be linked to my brain.

[RoseHeart]

C2: 003
C4: 002, 004
D3: 001

Here we we see an enlarged set of mandibles, being used to capture this ladybud. No purchase and it gets away. She is still learning to make the most of them. Let's see how others are doing...

Fig. 1-1


Fig. 1-2


Enlarged jaws are seen in several ant genus, such as the trap-jaw ants (Odontomachus, 1-1) and the dramatic "Supersoldier" morph believed to be dormant in all species of the widespread Pheidole genus. Fig. 1-2 shows two members of the same colony. Surprisingly, soldiers more appropriately called "major workers" are often shy and use their jaws primarily to carry and break down larger food items like seeds.

Now, you may be surprised to notice the others, do not have enlarged jaws. That is what is truly unique. While all known ant species have a caste system with different roles, Horsemen have such specialization within a single cast of soldiers, you will never know what you will find between individuals.


Cleaning

When you use an ability you improve its' accuracy. You can now clean one of your body parts to improve the speed of the last used ability associated with that part. Both cleaning and using gain experience.