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[Aklyon]

I'm not opposed to us getting hueg, I just don't want it to go from ~60 to 25,000 in a turn before the swarm has an objective to go for. (besides the normal "Become huge" one. That was an exaggeration on how many we'd get from the guy and his bull, btw.)

Edit: I like the flawless ones, but what does the worth mean?

[Conrad]

If you want to nerf it, the whole process could have a chance to fail (since we don't know what we're doing) or just not work perfectly and give diminished returns.

I say after all this human/bull stuff, we head back to the tower (leaving a small swarm or two behind) to go find an objective with the wizard!

[lemon10]

How useful they are compared to regular crystals, especially if we ever get the ability to transmute our crystals (so we could turn 16 small into 1 large for instance).

[Aklyon]

Crystal: general swarm. 1 kg, 1" by .75". will be gained all of the time unless you guys want more Major crystals. Worth 1 spark.
Major Crystal: Command hubs, space fillers, other important things. Or just for heavier ammo if theres quite a lot of them. 4 kg, 4" by 3.75". Worth 2 sparks.
Flawless Crystal: Excellent at utilizing magic and good at intelligence/memory, however are extremely fragile and highly coveted by the other sentients. 2 kg, 2" by 2". Worth 8 sparks, Rare.

Going with this.

The swarm sends a duo to poke the bull in the ass to distract it, but not kill it, while the rest form into a Small_flyer and divebomb the human, (20) Piercing through the skull and lodging in the brain! The swarm then carefully extracts all but a quad of crystals before the guy actually realizes he is in major pain from the crystal-filled hole in his head and starts screaming loud enough to put a chalkboard scratcher to shame.

Knowledge:
Forms: Human (requires many, many, more swarm to correctly detail), Dog_Small
Other Knowledge: Crop names/shapes, vague map of the area (not really any better than you already knew, except for the village to the north), cow.wav
Ignored: Fear of Wizard

Cryswarm:
61 parts, 4 inside a Farmer.
Creativity: 96 (+1)
Logic: 4 (-1)
Forms: Walker_Twoleg, Nonform, *Small_Flyer, Walker_Quad, Human, Dog_Small
Memory: cow.wav, vague map, Crop knowledge.

[lemon10]

Could we have a list of the different types (and ammounts of those types) of crystals that we currently have, instead of simply having it say 61 parts?

Also, consume the human (since I doubt that he will be able to survive since he has a large whole in his head, so no point in trying to take him over), then when the human is done try to consume the cow.

[Aklyon]

I'm going to get to that after the bull (the organized list), but if you guys can keep your luck going you might be able to keep the guy alive for a couple turns, this could be a useful skill later.

[kaian-a-coel]

mmm... yes, perhaps.
I'd like us to create sortofa railgun/sparkgun. I mean, we could project through a rough tube either crystals or raw "sparks", making it like a plasma gun.
Then we go all through the seraphim tech tree and crush the world with swarms of Ilshavoh and Ythotha!

Soon or late, we'll need better weapons than just STABBITYSTABSTAB with our own, er, parts.

[scout890]

watching

[Conrad]

Leave the farmers skull, leaving those 4 crystals behind to control for the cryswarm. Focus on the soon to be rampaging bull.

[The Merchant Of Menace]

Attempt to play cow.wav

[Armok]

once we're smart enough we should do experiments and figure out enough about the mechanics and forces of our "body" to invent certain kinds of forms from scratch. I'm thinking things like "crane", "catapult", or rapidly elongating from a small clump to a long pole for massive jumping.

[Evergod41]

Attempt to play cow.wav

Yes, force the human to contenue his repeat cycle...

[Aklyon]

The bull, having finally shaken the duo off it, smashes the cutout to pieces and then stops, rather confused at not seeing anything as the Cryswarm recollects the duo before flying back up. It then fall atop the bull in Nonform, but bounces off rather harmlessly as the bull turns around and charges at the shiny thing that hit it. The larger crystals quickly split off to the side as the slightly slower normal ones slide the opposite direction, and lose several under the trampling hooves. The larger ones then as quickly as possible reconfigure to Walker_Quad and jump at the bull's backside, and land right on it, then spreading out into a more circular thing. The bull, in great pain from having more than four sharp things embedded in it's backside, crashes into a large tree, managing to tilt the tree over slightly before losing momentum.
The Cryswarm then takes some time to regroup and properly consume the beast, but several wolves arrive after some minutes and start attempting to bite the Cryswarm off the meat, so the swarm takes what it has still inside it and leaves, attempting to make the human moo again while it does so.
(7) His well done mooing attracts the wolves attention, but they are more interested in the bull than him right now.

The swarms feels quite sizably more intelligent now.

Cryswarm:
Swarm: 850 crystals (+800, -11), 4 inside a Farmer.
Sparkmind power: 1086
-616 Crystals (616 mana sparks)
-235 Majors (470 sparks)

Forms: Walker_Twoleg, Nonform, *Small_Flyer, Walker_Quad, Human, Dog_Small
Memory: cow.wav, vague map, Crop knowledge.

[lemon10]

Ohhh, 850 thats nice.
Consume the wolves.

[Aklyon]

The wolves will have a size advantage if you split up to face all of them, or a flanking advantage if you stay as one swarm.
Trying to smush one wolf with the whole swarm would be 1556 kg of weight, but you'll be awhile regaining the height since the swarm will very quickly make the Small_flyer form inefficient for flight if it keeps growing well. (You guys need a larger flight form or decent luck as a walker to win, basically Or flee/think of a ranged form)