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[Weirdsound]

Alright. Gaining a pheromone to influence human reproduction (C) definitively wins. However the second pheremone action is tied between upgrading our sleep pheromone (B), and upgrading our newly aquired reproductive control phermone (C-Next most popular option.

On the larva upgrade front it is a total tie between upgrading the spider design (I), gaining the ability to create transport units (J), gaining the ability to create warriors (K), and gaining the ability to create digesters (L).

If the tie isn't broken by 5:00 pacific time (About 2 and a half hours) I'll let random.org decide. Expect a full biology update sometime tonight, and with any luck a new round posted sometime this weekend.

[Armok]

C, K

[Weirdsound]

Tie Broken. Polls closed. Somebody else post something so that my Biology update isn't a double post.

[Armok]

this is awesome.

[Weirdsound]

Just a quick biology update. It explains among other things the new type of Larva available to you: Mantis. It also covers your new Aphrodisiac Pheromone. Don't forget to read the most recent turn if you have yet to do so. Post your actoins for the next turn now, you may also vote on the time frame of the next turn. If nobody votes on the time frame I will assume the turn will cover 24 hours. If you guys post quick enough I may even do a turn tonight.

Name: Lotus Elise (AKA Royal Scent)
Age: 4 (Appears 19)
Outward Appearance: 6'2, heavy build, female, stocky face. She has blue and green striped hair and solid emrald eyes and a heavily tanned complexion. She can change her complexion easily through human cosmetics and/or Alien Biological manipulation.

Biology

Secondary Skeleton

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You have a hard shell like layer directly under your skin. This layer easily deflects most attacks that an unarmed human is capable of performing upon you. It also resists small arms fire and light energy weapons fairly well. Although useful this layer has the potential to betray your identity as anybody who applies preasure to your body will feel somthing is abnormal. This layer may become partially visible if your flesh is broken.

Human Interface System

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Your body still has an incomplete knowledge of the human Genome. As you aquire more knowledge of the human Genome more pheromones and larva types become available to you. To gain more knowledge you must sample human bodily fluids. You make a point to interface with any human you infect before you hatch them, and any human that you consume for birthing protein. If you feel you are not gaining biological knowledge on mankind quick enough you can always get creative: Spit, blood, urine, sweat and reproductive fluids are all valid samples.

Current Human Interface Level: 3
You must interface with 5 more humans to level up.

Pheromone Production System

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You produce powerful mood and mind altering chemicals to affect both Humans and Arthropods. You deploy these chemicals through your respiratory system, by breathing on the target. It takes you 30 minutes to produce a pheromone. You may only store one dose of pheromone. You can learn to produce new pheromones as you increase your human interface level.

Avaible Pheromones:

Reward Pheromone: Sends an Arthropod or a human who has reached pupa status into a temporary state of pure bliss. Can be used to reward, pacify, or relieve pain in others.

Hatching Pheromone: Causes a human who has reached pupa status to burst free of their old body as a fully mature Arthropod. The length of this process varies depending on the type of Arthropod the human is to become. The process leaves a huge mess, so it is best to hatch your humans somewhere where nobody will come poking around.

Marking Pheromone: Encourages your larva to enter a state of symbioses with whatever human you have sprayed with this Pheromone.

Prototype Human Control Pheromone: A cocktail of many chemicals that you suspect may have an effect on humans. It is unreliable and random, but often useful in a pinch.

Sleep Pheromone: A chemical that renders humans, infested or otherwise, exhausted. Although it wont cause the victim to pass out on the spot, most humans sprayed will seek a bed and take a nap within 30 minutes of being sprayed.

Aphrodisiac Pheromone +: A chemical that encourges humans to engage in reproductive, or pseudo reproductive activity. Humans under the effect of this pheromone will prefer to select you or one of your pupa as a mate. Humans under the effect of this pheromone are still subject to their own free will, but only the strongest and most chaste of them will be able to resist romantic advances.

Reproductive/Assimilatetive System

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Your body has been pre-seeded with the appropriate Athropod Drone reproductive material. You can produce an effectively unlimited amount of Larva. To produce larva your body requires birthing protein. Ironically the only known source of birthing protein is the very race you are trying to convert; it is present in the human heart. It seems as though you must kill a few humans to convert them. You can learn to create new kinds of Larva as your human interface level increases.

Once born your Larva will cling tightly to your skin until they detect a human marked with the correct pheremone. They will attempt to enter the marked human through a pre-existing wound or orifice so as to leave no trace, although in a pinch they can bite through the skin. Once in the human body your offspring will begin to feed off of and replace the hosts nervous system and brain; adsorbing the humans thoughts, memories, personality, and acquired knowledge in the process. Once the nervous replacement procedure is complete the human is made awhare of his/her fate and compelled to seek you out. At this point the human has reached 'Pupa' status. A pupa can digest its remaining organs and develop a new Arthropod body in a short amount of time when exposed to the correct pheromone.

List of currently available larva types:

Mosquito: A mosquito is a small flying humanoid with a sharp straw-like beak. It is designed to enter through the bedroom window and harvest the heart and genetic information of sleeping humans. It can transfer the fruits of its harvest to you through its beak. Mosquito Larva cost 1 birthing protein to produce and take 48-72 hours to reach pupa status within a human host.

Moth: A moth is a small flying humanoid with large dust covered wings. Moths can produce any pheromone that you can much more efficiently: A single moth can bathe a whole room in pheromone laced dust with only 15 minutes preparation. Moths instinctively tend to infested humans and your own Larva. Moth Larva cost 1 birthing protein to produce and take 48-72 hours to reach pupa status within a human host.

Spider: A spider is a tall and lanky arachnidform. Spiders can dig large burrows and produce silk for decoration, restraint, or structural support. Spiders instinctively tend to infested humans and your own Larva as well as fungus from the Arthropod homeworld. Spiders have deadly venom dripping from their fangs and shoot-able porcupine-like fuzz covering their body. While their natural weapons make them adept at killing humans, their lack of armor means that they are generally not meant for combat. Spider Larva cost 1 birthing protein to produce and take 72-96 hours to reach pupa status within a human host.

Mantis: A mantis is a large, winged, and armored humanoid with large metal scythes in place of hands. A mantis can fly at up to 300 MPH in short bursts, and has great reaction time and balance. A mantis can withstand sustained fire from almost any human anti-infantry weapon. Mantis' are vulnerable to energy weapons with a medium or larger power source, explosives, and weapons of ridiculously high caliber (Generally vehicle mounted). It costs two birthing protein to produce a mantis larva. It takes 24-48 hours for a mantas larva to reach pupa status within a human host. Mantis Pupa require access to metal while hatching so they can build their own blades.

Human Avatar System

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You have a fully functional human mind dwelling within your head. Your human personalty is responsible for managing non reproductive encounters with humans. She is unawhare of her true nature. She is friendly, curious, innocent, and outgoing as opposed to your cold, elitist, and alien true nature. You can control her memories and override her decisions without making your presence known to her.

You must interface with 5 more humans to level up.
You have no birthing proteins available.
You have one emergency protein syringe.
You have produced one inactive spider larva.

[RAM]

Plan a day-trip to the nearest centre of commerce.

[Armok]

> Ask Maria if she knows any good excuse/explainable set-ups for growing that protein fungus.

> Consider the possibility of using reward pheromone to addict humans gaining control of more than you can produce larva. Discus this idea with Maria.

[Weirdsound]

> Ask Maria if she knows any good excuse/explainable set-ups for growing that protein fungus.

> Consider the possibility of using reward pheromone to addict humans gaining control of more than you can produce larva. Discus this idea with Maria.

Your reward pheromone only affects Arthropods and infected humans, and furthermore is non-addictive. You instruct your body to begin planning a substance with a similar effect on humans for the next time you reach an interface goal.

You need dark conditions with exactly 74% humidity to start cultivating the protein fungus. Someone with Mosquito instincts such as Maria would have no clue how to maintain such conditions.

[AntiAntiMatter]

Find a fungal specialist and infect them with the spider. Have them grow the fungi.

[quip]

Also, draw up a list of humans in powerfull positions taking note on how easy they would be to infest to use as future targets.

[Vanigo]

Hey, what do we know about how the Overmind operates, anyway? The other factions we have no reason to understand, but we should know the basics of that one.

[Weirdsound]

Basic Knowledge of Overmind operation:

There are two classes of Overmind citizen, Nodes and Enlightened.

A node is sentient who has undergone heavy genetic modification. Most of their internal organs have been replaced with highly intelligent and telekinetic grey matter. A mature node is powerful enough to move moutians or knock down starships with its mind. All nodes across the universe are interconnected, sharing thoughts, knowledge, and memories. This means a node has fuctionaly unlimited knowledge and pratice is any and every skill imaginable. Nodes can turn other sentients into enlightened, but the process is both physically and mentally exerting; the victim will die if they panic. This means the overmind spreads slowly, as they must first gain the undying trust of those they wish to assimilate.

Enlightened are sentient beings telapathicly linked to a node. All enlightened can comunicate with each other and their node with telepathy. Enlightened never experience fear or panic, and are always capable of acting rationally under any circumstances. Enlightened are usualy made master of one or two skill: their relitively unaltered brains are incapable of holding the vast amount of knowledge that a node can. An enlightened deemed genetically fit is often infected with a retrovirus that will cause them to mutate into a node should the current node fall.

The node on this planet likely needs another decade or two to reach its deadly mature state. The overmind is likely after the MBRD to create more nodes at random from the planets population at large. If the overmind gain's control of the MBRD they can easily use it to destroy any lifeform with Arthropod DNA. The overmind are physically inferior to your children, however their vast knowledge means that given enough time and the correct resources they can make and utilize high technology such as energy weapons, stargates, and even MBRD's.

It is likely the Overmind is not currently unawhare of Arthropod presence, but are alert and prepared to go toe to toe with you should you make yourself known. If you fear the Overminds technological advantage you could attempt to get your hands on the Emergency Specialist Kit (ESK) that Horace says is being kept in the Hoover building. It contains many vials full of Arthropod Neurons pre-loaded with advanced alien knowledge in almost any feild.

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Find a human gathering location, wander around there, try to infest other roomates, set up a list of targets to infest, continue putting offers for sexual encounters on toilet cubicles E.T.C.
Anything else I misssed?

[RAM]

We desperately need some of our own species to harvest more biomatter, it has reached the point where we pretty much need to eat someone in person. We have someone who works in the target building, that is a huge boon that we do not want to risk lightly. We should at least acquire a list of employees...

Lets infest our RA, when we have a site for a lair we can have it retire from its life and build our lair.
We should then go out hunting with our cohabitant, preferably outside of university grounds, it is a risk to do so in person, but it seems necessary. We should attempt to acquire resources sufficient to produce a mosquito larva and then infest someone with it. Once that is done we should have enough candidates that one of our mosquitos should be able to harvest for us...

[Weirdsound]

Find a fungal specialist and infect them with the spider. Have them grow the fungi.

You instruct Horace to continue his human pattern of activities and employment. You exchange phone numbers with him so that you can better control his actions. You then call Maria and ask here where the Biology department is located. She checks online and informs you that most of the biology professors keep office in the Francis Crick building.

You order your body to begin producing the marking pheromone and make the long walk across campus to reach the Crick building. You wait on a bench outside for several minutes while you finish producing the pheromone. You then enter the building and take the elevator to the third floor where the Biology department offices are located. You enter the department and talk to the receptionist, asking to speak to one of the professors.

You are informed that the only professor currently in his office is Dr. Joad. You enter her office and she invites you to sit down. You breath marking pheremone all over her and allow your human mind to distract the professor with trivial inquires while you wait for your larva to climb down your body and onto hers.

During the discussion it becomes appearent that Dr. Joad is very much inebriated. She offers you a shot of brandy and your human mind flinches, responding that you are under age. Not wishing to make a scene you allow the professor to slowly presure your human mind into drinking. Three shots later you decide to alter your human mind's condition to simulate drunkeness.

Eventualy the spider larva bores through the leg of Dr. Joad. The drunken professor doesn't even seem to feel a thing. You excuse yourself from the conversation and leave. On your way out the door you grab a course syllabus for her advanced botany class so that you have acess to her phone number and regular office hours. It should take her 3 to four days to reach pupa status.

continue putting offers for sexual encounters on toilet cubicles.

You enter the third floor bathroom in the Crick building and begin to scratch more solicitation messages. You notice a similar message left by someone else in the rightmost stall. You jot down the number... perhaps a vulnerable target for later.

We desperately need some of our own species to harvest more biomatter, it has reached the point where we pretty much need to eat someone in person... We should attempt to acquire resources sufficient to produce a mosquito larva and then infest someone with it. Once that is done we should have enough candidates that one of our mosquitos should be able to harvest for us...

You call Maria and instruct her to meet you in the bathroom with a change of clothes for both of you and a weapon for herself. She arrives with a backpack full of clothing and a decent sized knife. You both leave the building in search of prey. You begin to produce Aphrodisiac Pheromone. While you wait for the chemical to finish Maria briefs you on potential areas where you could establish a lair.

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-The baseball team now has a new stadium: You could probably set up a lair in one of the clubhouse of the old stadium
-Professors have their own private housing on campus - if you can infest one you could use his/her place
-A senior named Jordan Creek has been trying to pick up Maria, he claims to have a large apartment
-Maria also mentions the abandoned construction site that you found earlier

As soon as your body finishes the pheromone you begin to look for someone small and unimportant. You soon spot a female student leaving a residential building. You approach her and bathe her in your pheromone. You wait a few seconds for the chemicals to kick in before asking if she would like to do unspeakable things with you and Maria in the forest. She comments that she had just concluded an encounter with her boyfriend, but agrees to come with you and play along.

You lead your victim into the forest and select a spot about 15 minutes from campus. You instruct her to strip down. She takes her clothes off and you do the same. Once you are both exposed you wrap the victim in your embrace. She feels your armor layer and relizes something is wrong and begins to struggle.

Maria begins stabbing your prey with her knife while you throttle her neck. One of Maria's swings is wild and she strikes her own arm, creating a deep bleeding gash. Eventualy the human stops struggling.

You take Maria's knife and cut out the heart of your victim. You bite into the warm organ and allow the blood to trickle down your chin. Your reproductive system informs you that your meal was worth a total of 9 birthing proteins. You recall that your victim had just completed a sexual encounter with a human male, so you rip into her body and eventually find some male reproductive fluid, which you consume. Your human interface system confirms that you have acquired two viable samples.

You and your daughter spend the rest of the night burying the remains and licking each other clean of blood. You then change into fresh clothes and return to campus. On your way back to your dorm you are interrupted by a security officer. He informs you that their was a massive zombie attack near the hoover building last night, and that the campus is on lock-down. Classes are canceled today and you are to return to your dorm at once.

try to infest other roomates

You and Maria return to the suite and you begin to produce sleep pheromone. 30 minutes later you enter the other room and spray your suite mates with the invisible substance. You then produce a brood of two moth larva and some marking pheromone. You check in on Laura and Joan and find them asleep. You take the opportunity to spray a bit of marking pheromones into both of their mouths and 'feed' them each a larva.

Lets infest our RA, when we have a site for a lair we can have it retire from its life and build our lair.

You produce another dose of marking pheromone and walk over to Marylin in the hall. You have a discussion with her regarding the zombie attacks during which you spray her with the pheromone. You produce a dose of Aphrodisiac as you continue to talk with her. After carrying on the conversation for another half hour you spray her once more and ask if she would like to show you her room. She attempts to resist your solicitation by telling you that she is only interested in guys. You counter by telling her that you can show her a trick that all the men will love. Your persistence and chemical support finally break her down.

Marylin leads you to her room and the pair of you get busy. You are able to explain away your rigid body as a medical condition. During the proceedings you are able to birth a live spider larva directly into Marylin's mouth: You cryptically explain that the stinging sensation in the back of her throat is your trick, and that she will understand how it works soon enough. Your human interface system informs you that you have acquired a viable sample from Marylin.

You return to your dorm. Over the course of the afternoon Laura and Joan begin to notice that they are telepathically linked. They complain of terrible headaches and Maria informs them that they will feel much better in a day or so. You selectively purge the day's events from your human mind.

Knowledge

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All knowledge is measured in standard information units (SAU)
2 SAU human psychology
150 SAU general human interaction
500 SAU human biology
500 SAU Athropod biology
500 MBRD opperation
300 SAU Athropod medicine
100 SAU energy weapon opperation
50 SAU energy weapon repair
150 SAU human martial arts

Inventory

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1 Syringe of emergency birthing proteins
1 MBRD control node (Disguised as a fully functional laptop)
1 Athropod Matter Fragmenter (Disguised as pen, 2 uses left)
1 Packages of Protein Fungus spores (Need to be cultivated in a dark and damp location)
4 Sets of everyday female human clothing
1 set of athletic female human clothing
1 set of human sleepwear
1 set of alluring human female sleepwear
1 set of alluring human female swimwear
1 Backpack of textbooks and school supplies
$70000 in cold hard human cash (Stashed in a briefcase)

Known NPCs

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Blue means you can contact this individual
Orange means that this infested individual is under your control
Brown means that this infested individual is still developing

Maria, a geeky pupa freshman. Your roommate.
Horace Greece, an elderly pupa. He works in the hoover building at night.
Laura, an infested human freshman. Your suitemate, Joan's broodmate.
Joan, an infested and very young human freshman. Your suitemate, Laura's broodmate.
Marylin, an infested human senior. Your nosy RA.
Dr. Joad, an infested biology professor
John, an uninfested human sophomore involved in sports.
Joe, an uninfested math professor involved in the sports program.
Dr. Edmund Crane, you uninfested English professor.
Manny Jimenez, your uninfested and strict psychology instructor.
Dr. Jerald White, your uninfested computer science instructor.
James, an uninfested human freshman. Your human minds crush.
Mellisa, an uninfested freshman who lives in your building.
Tarn, an uninfested senior on the verge of graduation.

Notes:

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It is now Thursday night. The next turn will cover Thursday night and Friday, unless democrabrain says otherwise. Tomorrows classes are English 101 honors and Math 118 - assuming the lockdown ends.

-Nobody has contacted you regarding the graffiti in the bathroom

-You have received an Email from Horace, telling you that he is okay after the zombie attack on his building
-Horace has included a video that he shot of the attack. You can watch it at your discretion
-Horace has included a list of notable employees at the Hoover Building. You can go over it at your discretion

-You have received an email from your math instructor Joe inviting you to a start of the season party for the school basketball team
-Joe is offering extra credit to those who attend
-You have also revived an email regarding the party from John, an athlete you exchanged contact info with this week
-John informs you that human reproductive activities will occur at the party: You should come and bring friends
-The party will take place Sunday afternoon and evening

-You have received an email informing you that due to the lockout the deadline to add or drop courses has been pushed back to next friday