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[shadenight123]

so...yes. i'm throwing myself into the pit of roleplaying games too.
Welcome...Hivemind.

you can't recall exactly how you ended up being formed, maybe you once were a cell, then you split into two. Then three, four...but all around you was empty, and you were confined, by plastic walls, maybe you were in bottle? not that you know what a bottle is, you can't even recall much that happened before you.
You did realize something was moving, and in a second, not that you heard the crash, obviously, you don't have ears, you were out. And food was all around you. Green food.

Status-External:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Width:5 Centimeters
Heigth:Not considerable
Powers:None
Capacities:None
Defenses:None
Energy Storage:None
Food Storage:None
movement Type:slow-creeping through assimilation. Not actual movement, you eat thus you grow and may "move" your intelligence-conscience
Sensors: Basic movement (You feel if something moves On top of you/touches you)

Status-Internal:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Mental: 0.0001
Physical: 0.0001
Number of cellular filaments: 5
Feeding way: Absorption-meager but speed-High.
No reproduction ways (at the moment)

hivemind guide to understanding your new future fleshy overlord:
Cellular Filaments: This are the basic "blocks" of a hivemind! you can "spend" them to improve yourself, (but this WILL shrink you in size, remember!) mentally (becoming brain cells, thus becoming useless for anything else) or by strengthening the existing ones, BUT for everyone you keep free you have 1 centimeter! in width or height, you decide.
Feeding way: What's the difference between slowly chewing away or fastly engorging yourselve? the quantity of filaments you absorb! this is more dynamic. It depends on the time and on your food quantity/reserve. Right in the beginning, you are quite hungry, they starved you those damn government bastards! but then you can decide to chew slowly, so to earn more filaments!
Mental and Physical stats: these determines everything. i kept this simple because probably the rest is going to get far more complicated. it's selfawareness/quick thinking/fast acting/strength/excetera
Energy storage: energy is that cozy things that make your cells go about DOING SOMETHING MENTAL, energy is earned through Heat, or, even better, through electricity, after all, the human minds Neurons work and transmit signals through electricity impulse. You have no energy? you can't make reasonable thoughts. just EAT-SLEEP-EAT-EAT-EAT. excetera.
Food storage: food is that cozy thing that make your cells go about DOING SOMETHING PHYSICAL, no food? you get starvy. you get starvy, you get weak. you get weak, i'm sorry to say but you'll have to eat grass, because you wouldn't have the strength to fight an ant.
Powers/capacities/defenses= the first is intended for active powers, the second for passives ones, the third for "buildings" ones. (you merge with a gun, it's a Defense, you have the Power to spit a concrete block at an opponent, it's a power, your flesh is hardened because of calcium absumption, you have a capacity.
sensors: eyes, ears, excetera.

Geographical location (not that you know it)
You are on a patch of grass on a road-side, and a couple of meters away from you, a supersecret government van just crashed against a Tir. (bigger van) the crash throwed you out of the van, and broke the glass container which kept you closed in there. You landed on a patch of grass, with a couple of ants which have yet to start taking notice of you.

Possibles futures:
you may become a Fixed Hivemind (First zerg overlord, to say) or a Moving Hivemind (kerrigan, anyone?) but even before getting thralls...you need to get yourself together, and bigger!
or maybe smaller, but mobile, to move away?

and most probably more things/rules will get added, so review the first post sometimes. Every FIVE SUGGESTIONS i make an update. For somethings random i'll throw a d100 dice.

so...community, who wants to play? :3

CASTES:
WORKER= costs 1 filaments to create from a batch of eggs.
GATHERER= Stronger worker version, it can fight off ants. costs 1 filament and 1 food to create
SLAVE=non-acid GUARD, 6 cm armoured, 0.001 strength
SCOUT= acidic, non armoured, costs 1 filament and 1 food.
ACID-GUARD/PRAETORIAN= costs 13 food and 6 filaments, 6 cm of acid-spitting, acid exploding goody
OVERSEER= 6 energy 4 food 6 filaments. You need someone to control many? call this guy 0.001 mental.
PLANTSPAWN= oh looky there, FLOWERS. generate energy and random food.
 

[micelus]

I woud love to play...I guess.

[shadenight123]

I woud love to play...I guess.

suggest away. >.> it's the usual game style i saw all around here.
Go and do this.
>.>

[RulerOfNothing]

I would like to play.

Also, I suggest eating the grass and acquiring a visual sense of some kind.

[micelus]

Approach the ants. Devour.

Acquire digging abilities.

 Acquire immunity to ant stings.

Acquire ability to copy DNA ( If possible)

Dig through the ant colony and devour the queen. Copy DNA (again, only if possible).

[Yoink]

Uh... Assimilate some ants?

Edit: Micelus beat me to it.

[shadenight123]

eating the grass and acquiring a visual sense of some kind.

your cells rapidly begin assimilating the patch of grass on which you are on.
the five centimeters of grass get assimilated, and through those you expand yourself to double the size.
You are now Ten cm in width, having earned 5 new tendrils
You however lack the comprension of what "visual" is, but your increase in size has guaranteed you somethings which seem to move around underneath you.
But now you can take on more strong enemies, you have the strength to do so.
3 food earned

Approach the ants. Devour.


you can't move, but having increased in size some ants end up underneath you, not that you know those moving things are ants, but you eat them too, they fight a little, but after a little struggle they end up assimilated too.
-1 food for struggle, +3 food for ants= you now have a total of 5 food
Eating those is quite nice. they do not grant you much size increase, but what they lack in giving you size...they make up for it in their dnas...you can spend one of your energy slots to think about one of many possibilities you can do with the ants...or you can try on your own what you can..."acquire" from them.


Acquire digging abilities.

you realize you could seep through the earth by moving your underneath body-cells. You rearrange your self in the effort to do so, and end up consuming a small quantity of food
-2 food

Acquire immunity to ant stings.

this require energy to think about


Acquire ability to copy DNA ( If possible)

this requires energy to think about


Dig through the ant colony and devour the queen. Copy DNA (again, only if possible).
You dig down, and when the earth engulfs you, you realize you are in utter darkness, not that before you were in broad daylight, being night, not that you know it was night time, or anything like that. But you no longer feel things moving next to you.
You can now dig your way through easy to dig terrains, using microscopic pincers you "stole" from the ants and used to place all around you. You look like a 10 cm piece of porcupine meat. Not that you know that. But now you realize something...you can MOVE by using the pincers.

Status-External:

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Width:10 Centimeters
Heigth:Not considerable
Powers:None
Capacities:None
Defenses:None
Energy Storage:0
Food Storage:3
movement Type:Digger-creeper
Sensors: Basic movement (You feel if something moves On top of you/touches you)

Status-Internal:

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Mental: 0.0001
Physical: 0.0001
Number of cellular filaments: 10
Feeding way: Now you can decide
No reproduction ways (at the moment)

[RulerOfNothing]

Consume food to get energy, then think about getting a sense to detect biological organisms at range.

[micelus]

Feeding: Develop a  way of feeding similiar to blue whales. Develop a mouth that filters dirt and stone from organic matter. I would guess that this would involve orfices throughout the body that releases the dirt and stone; in other words, a worm.

Also, invest in "ears" that allow us to feel movemement in the soil.

Afterwards, dig in the direction of the most movement.

[Armok]

> eat roots

[shadenight123]

Consume food to get energy, then think about getting a sense to detect biological organisms at range.

Food does not generate energy, we do not possess a "stomach" that can transform food in heat, which is our "energy". and we are underground.
but see further down...

Feeding: Develop a  way of feeding similiar to blue whales. Develop a mouth that filters dirt and stone from organic matter. I would guess that this would involve orfices throughout the body that releases the dirt and stone; in other words, a worm.

Also, invest in "ears" that allow us to feel movemement in the soil.

Afterwards, dig in the direction of the most movement.

Earth has minerals. And as your cells start "sucking" the stones off as you dig, your cells earn quite little food from this, you'd have to do this all day to earn something worthy
+1 food
you come to realize the pincers you are using make tiny...vibrations? clac clac clac. You realize, while not intelligent enough to create a complete ear drum it requires energy or the like, you can create small sensors that will tell you in which direction vibrations come from. You have created a Vibration sensor by using up two filaments
You now are of size 8 cm, but have developed a vibration sensor with whom you can even feel the movements from the top, were ants are all moving...they are making a line, you wonder to where. Not that you actually wonder about it.
but you start following the line from down...and at a certain point, you feel no more than air in front of you, but earth is on top. and down...a tunneL? a small tunnel too. Not that you can quite understand it, but you ended up in the ant's nest. You feel small, round things underneath you...these are eggs, not that you know about it, but they do not have the same consistencies as minerals.

> eat roots

unluckily on your way you didn't manage to find roots. it's quite saddening, but one could always go back up and suck some more grass.

This place however seem rather...heated. It must be the crawling of things everywhere.
+1 energy
you can now spend you energy point to either realize something complicated. (build a stomach! build it!) or to do one of the precedent aforementioned things you couldn't do before

[NRDL]

Build stomach  If you can do that, eat the ants afterwards. 

[micelus]

Build stomach  If you can do that, eat the ants afterwards. 

I agree with this, but make a compartment of the stomach that can hold food/objects and prevent digestion of these objects while inside.

[Armok]

> make a stomach, eat ant eggs, make more energy.

[NRDL]

Build stomach  If you can do that, eat the ants afterwards. 

I agree with this, but make a compartment of the stomach that can hold food/objects and prevent digestion of these objects while inside.

...a kangaroo pouch?