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[NRDL]

i never heard of monocellular sexual reproduction. first search for more vegetal cells to eat, increase our piercing abilities and asexually reproduce.

piercing abilities?  You mean with the enzyme coated flagella?

...I agree, stick em with the pointy end.

[kaian-a-coel]

piercing abilities?  You mean with the enzyme coated flagella?

...I agree, stick em with the pointy end.

I meaned sort of a drill, cause it sound badass. flagellum work by rotating (see wikipedia), so we could turn it into an drill + enzyme, perhaps.

wikipedia article on bdellovibrio:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Bdellovibrio attacks other gram-negative bacteria by colliding with them at speeds recorded up to 160 µm/s, or over 100 times their length per second. It swims using a single sheathed polar flagellum with a characteristic dampened filament waveform. After a collision, the Bdellovibrio cell attaches to the prey cell outer membrane and peptidoglycan layer, after which it creates a small hole in the outer membrane. The Bdellovibrio cell then enters the host periplasmic space. It remains reversibly attached to it for a short "recognition" period. After the recognition period, it becomes irreversibly attached via the pole opposite the flagellum. Once inside the periplasm, the Bdellovibrio cell seals the membrane hole and converts the host cell to a spheroblast. A mixture of hydrolytic enzymes is applied in a locally targeted manner that prevents excessive damage to the prey and counters diffusion. This two-cell complex is now called a bdelloplast. The Bdellovibrio cell uses hydrolytic enzymes to break down the host cell molecules, which it uses to elongate and form a filament. When the host cell nutrients are exhausted, the filament septates to form progeny Bdellovibrios. The progeny become motile before they lyse the host cell and are released into the environment. The entire life cycle takes from one to three hours, and produces an average of 3-6 progeny cells are from a single E. coli, or up to 80 from larger prey, such as filamentous E. coli.

i want this 

[Strife26]

I think that we're on the wrong approach. We need to add whatever we find to our own structure, not destroy it. Start attaching armored photosynthetic organisms to ourselves, then sail the high ooze adding whatever we find to our biomass.

[kaian-a-coel]

I think that we're on the wrong approach. We need to add whatever we find to our own structure, not destroy it. Start attaching armored photosynthetic organisms to ourselves, then sail the high ooze adding whatever we find to our biomass.

but we add it... simply, before, we break it to its core component before re-construct them in something more useful.

[Tidal]

That's actually pretty cool. Those bacteria. Puncture, infest, convert, explode! (Making more of ourselves as we go!) Or rather, convert it to ourselves once inside and convert any excess material into extra copies of ourselves. We don't want to waste what the host has when we can assimilate it.

[kaian-a-coel]

i agree. perhaps picking useful genes in the host's ADN? prefer infest vegetals, they have a protective "shell".

[NRDL]

So we're going to be some sort of virus?  Attacking other cells, and using their biomass and nutrients to spawn clones of ourselves?

I like it. 

[Calvin]

Turn 6

In a lust for more food, you seek out for the bacteria that was seen earlier.


Bearing your thicker and reinforced armor, the bacteria pose no threat to you now, as they helplessly float around. Using your flagella, you can simply consume them easily as their armor is too thin to protect them.


+30 Hunger!
+€3
+3 Sentience!






You swim in a direction in an attempt to find more food, but you discover that there is a much more darker and warmer water here, and the ooze here is relatively thicker. Should you tread further?

What should you do?

Spoiler: Current Status (click to show/hide)

Sentience Level : Smart Bacterium
Sentience Points : 13/50

Stats
Energy : €21
Hunger : 50/200

Perception : 2
Agility : 4

Mutations
Color Vision

Organes
Nucleus : lvl 2
Sentience 0/50
Perception +2

Cytoskeleton : lvl 1
Cell Integrity +10

Cellular Skin : lvl 2
Armor +2

Mitochondria : lvl 1
Converts Hunger to Energy at 10:1 ratio

Flagellum : lvl 2
+4 Agility

Vacuole : lvl 1
Hunger 0/100

[Ahra]

yes. we must tread into the warm waters where all things recide.

[Azkul]

Should you tread further?

no

[Tidal]

Aye! Onvard!

[Ahra]

Should you tread further?

no

worst case, its an underwater volcano and those things water is full of nutrition and bacteria (and bacteria eaters....)

[Azkul]

All change is bad

[Ahra]

... if its bad then how come we changed stuff into computers?

[Roboboy33]

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