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Re: Mutagenesis Team Thread | Alpha Hive
« Reply #60 on: January 19, 2021, 10:16:15 am »

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Re: Mutagenesis Team Thread | Alpha Hive
« Reply #61 on: January 19, 2021, 10:30:16 am »

This is a thing that would help in the entire middle lane and the Forest (by burning a path through it). It's a silly idea. But maybe it's also a fun idea? (For reference, the bottom section is based on how extremophile bacteria actually survive in boiling water)
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Ember: T1 Organism (Evolves from Grub)
The Ember is a Grub-shaped critter. However, it is clearly distinguished by the charcoal-black exterior carapace, which is broken up by cracks which typically glow a dull red, but can become brighter depending on the Ember's internal temperature. For the primary difference between the Ember and the Grub is that the Ember's internal temperature exceeds 80 degrees Celsius, a condition that would be exceptionally fatal for a normal organism, but is in fact necessary for the Ember to survive- the primary function of its carapace is actually insulation.
The Ember is, needless to say, extremely at home in hot environments. It can sit in baking sunlight all day long, crawl along the banks of a lava river without working up a sweat, and wriggle through raging fires without a care in the world. In less toasty environs, it can still function, but requires more calories to maintain body heat.
The Ember is defended by being extremely hot to the touch, and can furthermore spit scalding sulfurous 'saliva' a few meters to burn foes/obstacles.

One may well ask "How is it remotely possible for such an organism to exist?". Well, you see, the Ember's internal biology is actually sulfur-powered, not oxygen-powered. Chemical processes that use sulfur can work at much higher temperatures. The Ember has a special external (not as ludicrously hot) organ that functions as the oxygen/sulfur system connection; it 'burns' food with oxygen, and uses the energy to unbind sulfur-compounds, which can then be recycled back into the Ember's body to power its internal organs.
That explains how the Ember is powered, but the cells also need to survive at high temperatures, to which end it uses alternative enzymes and proteins, as well as specialised proteins that rapidly repair any cell structures that are damaged if the Ember overheats.
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Re: Mutagenesis Team Thread | Alpha Hive
« Reply #62 on: January 19, 2021, 02:48:56 pm »


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I can live with a flier, And I am a bit unsure on the alphaling, But the Ember is more fun to me and Burning Man grub sounds like it could lead to interesting possibilities.
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Re: Mutagenesis Team Thread | Alpha Hive
« Reply #63 on: January 19, 2021, 04:10:39 pm »

We should get a difficulty quote on the Ember

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Re: Mutagenesis Team Thread | Alpha Hive
« Reply #64 on: January 19, 2021, 05:06:26 pm »

We should get a difficulty quote on the Ember

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The Ember is a Hard design. While it is a complete departure from your current biology, that is something I'd like to enable you to do. The actual changes and adds are not overwhelming from a gameplay standpoint, and I'm not going to hang you up too much on how the evolution works when you yourself are a giant psychic alien swarm-queen from beyond the stars whose hobbies include weaving DNA like a Sri-Lankan grandmother at an eXtreme basket-weaving competition.

 Its incidence rate may be somewhat lower than an ordinary design, compensating a bit for it being esoteric, but not dramatically so.
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Re: Mutagenesis Team Thread | Alpha Hive
« Reply #65 on: January 20, 2021, 03:43:09 am »

Well, a number of folks indicated on Discord that they'd vote for the Ember... so what the heck, sure.

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Re: Mutagenesis Team Thread | Alpha Hive
« Reply #66 on: January 20, 2021, 04:56:37 am »

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Theoretically a fire creature should be resistant to heat damage
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Re: Mutagenesis Team Thread | Alpha Hive
« Reply #67 on: January 20, 2021, 11:15:48 am »

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Re: Mutagenesis Team Thread | Alpha Hive
« Reply #68 on: January 20, 2021, 01:27:58 pm »

Lets Burn

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Re: Mutagenesis Team Thread | Alpha Hive
« Reply #69 on: January 20, 2021, 10:38:22 pm »

Let's make it unanimous and pretend powder and kash don't exist

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Re: Mutagenesis Team Thread | Alpha Hive
« Reply #70 on: January 20, 2021, 10:40:31 pm »

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There is of course nobody disagreeing with the idea of breathing fire all over everything. Nobody. Nobody at all.
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Re: Mutagenesis Team Thread | Alpha Hive
« Reply #71 on: January 21, 2021, 04:10:46 pm »

Design Phase 2 - Alpha

Ember
[Efficacy: 6]
-Evolution Chance: 35%
-Incidence Rate: 20%
 -Available Evolutions:
 -- Ember+ 100%
 -Mutagenic Potential 3
-Description: The straight jump to a hybrid sulfur-oxygen based energy cycle is a feat of evolution that, under normal circumstances of evolution, would be utterly impossible. Under the guiding talons of your intelligent design, however, it’s merely difficult. Externally, the Ember isn’t much to look at. If not moving and in bright light, one could mistake it for a heavily armored grub that was set on fire and burned black. In dim light, or when in motion, the tell-tale cherry glow of the Ember’s internal structure can be seen through the more flexible sections of its carapace.

Considerably better armored than the grub by dint of the insulating carapace that keeps it from freezing to death, the Ember is a nightmarish demon when compared to its progenitor. Any assault by a grub would result in only slight damage to the Ember’s armor while the grub receives serious burns in return. While concerted efforts by multiple assailants could gouge through its carapace, this would also intensify the local defensive heat - though at the cost of dangerously chilling the Ember. While its heat makes standard grubslime much less useful, the Ember is capable of secreting a thick coat when injured. This rapidly plugs the injuries and dries into a new insulating layer -if one much weaker than carapace. In offense, the Ember retains the grub’s bite unchanged but also gains the ability to expectorate a stream of sulphurous bile. This spit can be projected up to ten meters and is scalding, mildly acidic, and slightly toxic. While not enormously fatal, it is extremely painful.

It is very important to note, however, that while a nightmarish demon when compared to a grub, the Ember is still bound by many of the grub’s failings. Its locomotion is slow and simplistic, its vision is poor, and it doesn’t really have any other senses to write home about. Its spit attack is laughably inaccurate at its maximum range, and its body is still quite capable of overheating if exposed to temperatures significantly more extreme than itself.

Ember+
-Evolution Chance: NaN
 -Mutagenic Potential 3
-Description: The elite form of the Ember features an alternative cellular structure, integrating silicon-based anatomy with normal carbon-based structures. The usage of Si-S instead of C-S molecular bonds allows for considerably higher internal temperatures, while cell-walls incorporating hybrid silicate organics tolerate this heightened temperature with much lower thermal degradation. As such, while the Elite Ember is unchanged in size and shape to the standard Ember, it has a resting heat in the low hundreds (Centigrade) and a commensurately brighter glow, higher heat damage, and a sludgier high-temperature spit.



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Re: Mutagenesis Team Thread | Alpha Hive
« Reply #72 on: January 21, 2021, 04:41:32 pm »

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Driller Revision: Digestion v3: Digest Harder
Drillers are starving. Drillers are getting infected with fungi and exploding. These are both sub-optimal situations. By cranking up the potency of the Driller's stomach acid (primarily in the intake stomach), it is able to kill ingested fungal spores, and extract (a small amount of) nutritional value from a wider variety of sources (ie, things that were previously too difficult to digest, or not profitable to digest).
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Re: Mutagenesis Team Thread | Alpha Hive
« Reply #73 on: January 21, 2021, 05:30:20 pm »

Driller's Iron Gut.

After observing the success of the grubs toxic slime in dealing with the small spores of the fungi menace, changes have been made to the digestive system of the driller.  Combining Stronger acid in the stomach, So as to gain as many nutrients as possible from the spores that might otherwise survive the acid bath, With a series of changes in the Mucus membranes that protect the drillers guts and stomach lining.

By changing the tissue lining to be more toxin resistant, The Mucus of the digestive system can be changed, taking inspiration from the success of the Grubs slime. By making the Mucus that the Membrane produces toxic, It should prevent Spore infestation by killing the spores when they come in contact with the mucus membrane, Thus preventing it from burrowing into and infesting the Tissue walls Protecting the Driller and any evolutions from the dangerous spores. .
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Re: Mutagenesis Team Thread | Alpha Hive
« Reply #74 on: January 21, 2021, 05:34:33 pm »

Quote from: Ember+ Revision - Ultimate Defence of the Hive
The Ember will be able to eliminate almost any threat we have currently encountered, as well as the subpar evolutions our sister has leaked through the mind link, however there will come a time when it is not enough. If an Ember+ is critically wounded, or if it is others deemed necessary, it can simultaneously deregulate its metabolism to overheat whilst secreting it's slime to harden the carapace. The Ember+ will eventually reach a peak temperature, causing the organism to violently rupture, spraying its high-temperarure, liquefied innards across the local vicinity.
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