Turn 11:
Plort looks around to see if it can find some decently sized rocks. It will try ingesting some rocks without trying to digest them in order to create a sort of stone grinder inside of it for breaking up plant matter in order to eat more efficiently.
Plort finds rocks and ingests them. In order for Plort to make them as a grinder it has to expend essence otherwise it's biology will auto absorb the rocks. Gained food grinder(cost .1 essence; doubles mass gain); gained 0.04 mass.
When Ciell realizes Chunky has grown nearly twice as large, it seems like an opportune time to demonstrate (and perfect) the Spit Attack mass throwing technique. Stretch is probably big enough to use it, too, moreso than Ciell.
Ciell practices Spit Attack by hunting the nearest prey larger than the 0.1 mass expended, inviting Chunky and Stretch to observe and learn it for themselves.
Chunky does indeed retreat, looking for smaller prey and briefly stopping to observe Ciell's technique. Maybe they should find something closer to the size of those porcupines?
Ciell and Chunky find 7 turtles to hunt, Ciell practices the spit attack on the while Chunky and Stretch watch the demenstration. Ciell finishes learning the spit attack, Chunky gains 17.5/100, Stretch gets 8.5/100. Ciell gains 0.26 mass, Chunky gains 0.33 mass, Stretch gains 0.03 mass(I divided the mass gained from the turtles evenly between Ciell and Chunky.
Squish the tiny zebra continues to try to use his tiny zebra legs and eating random bugs.
Squish gets better at using the his legs(+22/100) and eats 165 beetles. Squish gains 1.68 mass and has 1 free stat point.
Continue eating bugs as well as some larger things
Sticker eats 50 beetles and finds a pride of lions. Sticker gains 0.52 mass.
4 Human scouts are spotted near the human settlements, they appear to be going north. They will be at ChStCi square next turn.
Plort: 12.23cm; 0.99 essence; passive growth: 0.02; stats: (C:1, S:0, E:2, R:2); Health: 16; Combat Power: 11; Food Grinder(cost .1 essence; doubles mass gain)
Squish: 21.13cm; 1.1 essence; passive growth: 0.03; stats: (C:1, S:0, E:2, R:5, free: 1); Health: 29; Combat Power: 17.5; legs(63/100){when finished allows you to use 4 legs naturally(gives a bonus to learning how to use any other combo of legs)}
Stretch: 18.61cm; 1.1 essence; passive growth: 0.03; stats: (C:2, S:2, E:3, R:0, free: 0); Health: 14; Combat Power: 13; large animal communication{can communicate with large animals; give bonus to trying to communicate with other animals}; Spit attack(8.5/100){when finished allows you to use a range attack that adds 1CP per 0.05 mass used}
Ciell: 10.59cm; 1.1/1 essence; passive growth: 0.01; stats: (C:0, S:2, E:2, R:1); Health: 13; Combat Power: 6.5; webs(8/100){when finished can use .1 mass to make a web trap}; Spit attack{allows you to use a range attack that adds 1CP per 0.05 mass used}
Chunky: 20.50cm; 1.1 essence; passive growth: 0.03; stats: (C:0, S:2, E:2, R:3, free: 2); Health: 15/20; Combat Power: 12.5; spinky shell{increase your CP by an extra 1/10 size}; Spit attack(17.5/100){when finished allows you to use a range attack that adds 1CP per 0.05 mass used}
Sticker: 11.07cm; 0.3 essence; passive growth: 0.02; stats: (C:1, S:2, E:2, R:0); Health: 10; Combat Power: 5
If you watch someone use an ability you get half the training roll for it. Chunky, Ciell, and Stretch have humans coming upon you location.
Player Position Map:
| Sq | Si | | Pl | | Ocean
| ChStCi | | | | Ocean
| Humans