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Pressure-Based (Vacuum/Hydraulic)

Filaments (Standard)

[Zecro_The_Scourge]

TBH I thought we were gonna end up like the sea aliens in abyss, albeit extremely sociopathic and with a god complex.

Care to elaborate on this jethro?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

i'm so derpy even I go offtopic, sorry guys.

[Tidal]

Spoiler: Offtopicness (click to show/hide)

Jethro is a mind-controlling omnipotent fungus that evolved from the ocean to conquer space.

It's from this.

[zomara0292]

  *Long whistle that reverberates through the ages.*

[Zecro_The_Scourge]

I think we should become like jethro in the ability of mindcontrol or some sort of involuntarily muscle control of some sort. but thats for the todolist! I agree with the guy/girl above me about feeding our new baby nutrients and such!

[Tidal]

Turn 31

     You beam a light pulse full of information at the ephyra several times. You seem to be able to transfer simple ideas at close range, given clear water and an unobstructed path to the other Vitascinti. A [12] large shape suddenly plunges [89] past you, deep into the depths. You quickly secure the young ephyra, pulling it inside, shortly before you are drawn downwards as well by some sort of current. No sooner than you are pulled down are you sucked back up in the wake of the object as it is pulled back, presumably above the surface. You can actually see it up there, a distorted silhouette against the light.

     You wait a bit, until the shadow disappears and the threat seems to have passed. After secreting some of your nutrient supply, you once again release your ephyra. Hopefully, it will grow faster with additional supplements from you. In the meantime, you suppose that you could either keep protecting it, or let it fend for itself.

Spoiler: Organism (click to show/hide)

Name: Vitascinti cuspis, "Spiky Spark of Life"

Size: about 1.5 mm (a bit visible)

Body
- Spiky Armor Plates
     - Toxin Channels
     - Chloroplasts

- Bell Cavity
     - Weak Digestion
     - Snare Gel Coating
     - Bladed Guard Cells
     - Budding Chamber (Ephyra: 0)
     - Feeding Flagella

Mind and Senses
- Data Processing
     - Laser Processing Matrix
     - Light Information Transfer

- Photoreceptive Patch
     - Black/White
     - Infrared

- Laser Focus
     - Flawed Silica Crystal

- Sensory Cilia
     - Detects motion and chemicals

Manipulation
- Injection Pepweseadeopod
     - Membrane Piercing

- Attack Pepweseadeopods
     - Blades
     - Stingers

Production
- Chemical Factory (Moderate Complexity)
     - Membrane Solvent
     - Cell Wall Solvent
     - Protein Denaturing Enzyme
     - Paralytic Toxin
     - Snare Gel

Movement
- Flagella
- Jellyfishy Motion (Water Pulsing)

Communication
- Infrared Light Pulses

Spoiler: Nearby/To-Do List (click to show/hide)

Location:
Near a large, roundish plane and close to the surface (?).

Visible:
Several patches of algae, light from above, a Vitascinti ephyra.

To-Do List or Nice things that you can't have or remember.
1. a. Laz0r Guns! (Too much energy to be viable any time soon.)
    b. Laz0r Brains! (Fiber-optic nerves already implemented, brain is not yet suggested.)
2. Photoreceptor Upgrade (Should be easy enough now, giving your current level of complexity.)
3. Hivemind (Part of the way to laser-communication already.)
4. Torpedoes (Not particularly sure about this... unless what you're shooting is inorganic.)
5. Host Control (Controlling/influencing host's bodily processes and muscle systems.)

Spoiler: DNA Storage (click to show/hide)

- Stubby Pseudopods
- Simple Digestive System
- Simple Circulatory System
- Simple Poison Glands
- Long Body
- Segmented Body
- Cartilaginous Skeleton
- Light Muscles

Spoiler: Size Comparison (click to show/hide)

Size in comparison to other organisms. Subject to change and adding of new organisms.

[Zecro_The_Scourge]

That thing is basicly our only hope if we die, I say we defend it until our last breath!

Also try to follow whatever made that wave, perhaps it could secure our ephyae dreams

[10ebbor10]

Look around for more things to eat. We should try to develop some safe version of the attack Peweaseadeopod-thingy that we can use to pass along small freefloating pieces of DNA, like bacteria do.

[Tidal]

Look around for more things to eat. We should try to develop some safe version of the attack Peweaseadeopod-thingy that we can use to pass along small freefloating pieces of DNA, like bacteria do.

Like a pili?

Also, I'm going to be updating a bit faster, possibly multiple times a day if there's an interesting suggestion. Combat will also be several smaller posts to get suggestions on what to do, rather than me just narrating the whole of combat. Because that's no fun.

[Reudh]

Perhaps we should pull the Vitascinti ephyra into us while we search for more food and nutrients. This would protect it and allow us to continue to divert nutrients to it. When we are satisfied that it will survive in the outside world, we should release it and somehow communicate to it to follow us.

[10ebbor10]

Look around for more things to eat. We should try to develop some safe version of the attack Peweaseadeopod-thingy that we can use to pass along small freefloating pieces of DNA, like bacteria do.

Like a pili?

Also, I'm going to be updating a bit faster, possibly multiple times a day if there's an interesting suggestion. Combat will also be several smaller posts to get suggestions on what to do, rather than me just narrating the whole of combat. Because that's no fun.

I suppose so. The look isn't important, the important fact is the ability to spread genetic changes horizontally across the population.(Greater immunity against diseases and stuff like that)

[zomara0292]

Perhaps we should pull the Vitascinti ephyra into us while we search for more food and nutrients. This would protect it and allow us to continue to divert nutrients to it. When we are satisfied that it will survive in the outside world, we should release it and somehow communicate to it to follow us.

We should also work out a way to make them in batches. I don't quite agree in storing it in us, but, we could to it carrier ship style. Have an area where young are "stored" withing and fed, or have their DNA edited for specialization. Send them out like a swarm around an enemy. That would require a vastly  increased size, though. I think.

[Vorthon]

Perhaps we should pull the Vitascinti ephyra into us while we search for more food and nutrients. This would protect it and allow us to continue to divert nutrients to it. When we are satisfied that it will survive in the outside world, we should release it and somehow communicate to it to follow us.

We should also work out a way to make them in batches. I don't quite agree in storing it in us, but, we could to it carrier ship style. Have an area where young are "stored" withing and fed, or have their DNA edited for specialization. Send them out like a swarm around an enemy. That would require a vastly  increased size, though. I think.

Expanding on that, we should try to develop a Metaorganism like the Festuca Sophonce from Kemmerer in Orion's arm. Only with the mobile subspecies being less... planty.

[Tidal]

Expanding on that, we should try to develop a Metaorganism like the Festuca Sophonce from Kemmerer in Orion's arm. Only with the mobile subspecies being less... planty.

Fascinating. That sounds a LOT like Jethro. Heh.

[Vorthon]

Doesn't Jethro rely on mind control? I'm pretty sure the Festuca Sophonce doesn't rely on mind control.

[Tidal]

Oh. See, Jethro his a bunch of minions that it crafted from biomass. It only mind-controlled in it's earliest proto-stage of development as a way to move around. It was kind of rooted.