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Pressure-Based (Vacuum/Hydraulic)

Filaments (Standard)

[kaian-a-coel]

i disagree with Armok, since becoming the amoeba will mean returning to unicellular state. better absorbing all we can, multiply, and use the shell as protection.

[Ibid Straydrink]

i disagree with Armok, since becoming the amoeba will mean returning to unicellular state. better absorbing all we can, multiply, and use the shell as protection.

Armok's suggestion is not to literally become the amoeba, but to essentially replicate ourselves with it's advantages at it's scale, using it's ready body rather than going through the grueling an time-consuming process of breaking it down and building ourselves up.

[Armok]

Yea, exactly, the amoeba will become yet another cell in our multicellularity.

[NRDL]

So...we're going to assimilate the amoeba?  Connect to it, feed off of it like a parasite, then control it to become a secondary cell? 

[Armok]

Sort of, yea.

[kaian-a-coel]

umm... this seem cool. if feasible, its awesome indeed.

[Elvisdogs]

Why don't we use the amoeba as a little breeding ground/nourishment by eating enough until we can divide. Then rinse and repeat.

Make it our lair until its completly bled dry and then move on

[Armok]

Because we can accomplish the same thing much more efficiently by assimilating it, then making it directly divide into those cells. And there are all sorts of added bonuses.

There is literally no possible advantage to digesting and then rebuilding it all. It'd be a senseless waste.

[Ehndras]

I agree with Armok.

[Ibid Straydrink]

There is literally no possible advantage to digesting and then rebuilding it all. It'd be a senseless waste.

[Tidal]

     

Turn 16

     You poke your cilia around the amoeba and search for the cell's nucleus, following the cell's RNA trail back to its origin. You can't see any sort of data processing organelles anywhere- it must not have needed to evolve much intelligence with the heavy-duty shell it has. Using your processor, you cap a sample of its DNA and RNA with some storage code so that your cell will not read it and pop them in a vacuole. With the DNA/RNA backup safely squirreled away, you inject the amoeba's nucleus with protein-eating enzymes (+9 Amino Acids). You think about making a new data organelle attached to the amoeba, but you realize that you could control the amoeba just fine using your existing facilities. Without the control center of the cell, the amoeba's organelles will respond to your input. Unfortunately, the only organelles you haven't seen yet that it possesses are one that extracts minerals from water and a contractile vacuole. While you're at it, you try to plunder the amoeba's supply of glucose before realizing that it is about the same size as you.

It is essentially under your control, but you have yet to integrate yourself completely with it.

Spoiler: Cell Status (click to show/hide)

Common Name: Lifespark
Scientific Name: Vitascinti basus
Sentience: 8/10
Number of Cells: 3
Size: ≈8 μm
Energy: 20

Spoiler: Cell Organelles (click to show/hide)

Basic -> Improved -> Complex
Basic Cytoplasm
Basic Cytoskeleton
Complex Flagellum
Basic Enzyme Injector (Basic Organelle and Membrane Eating Enzymes)
Improved Membrane
Basic Ribosomes
Basic Sensory & Chemical Cilia
Basic Mitochondria
Basic Nucleus
Basic Photoreceptor
Basic Cell Wall
Basic Data Processing Organelle (with Labeling System)

Spoiler: Materials (click to show/hide)

DNA: 7
RNA: 4
Amino Acids: 31
Fat: 9
Glucose: 6

Spoiler: Nearby (click to show/hide)

A field of ice chunks.

You are inside a large armored amoeba.

[NRDL]

Become Symbiote.

[Tidal]

It's essentially dead (you dissolved its nucleus), so you can't really be in a symbiotic relationship with it.

[NRDL]

It's essentially dead (you dissolved its nucleus), so you can't really be in a symbiotic relationship with it.

...Assimilate it?

[Tidal]

6) start customizing it, this be the turn after since exactly how to do that should be player determined, but it probably involves giving it, that is now us, all the old stuff we had/have.

You are in the process of fully assimilating it, and are on step 6 of the plan set forth by Armok.