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[RulerOfNothing]

Make a stomach and get more energy. Also use up one filament to improve our mental ability.

[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.

...a kangaroo pouch?

No not exactly. This compartment will be inside the stomach. We will be able to regurgitate anything within this compartment for later use, such as ant eggs or our offspring, etc.

[kaian-a-coel]

Maybe not now. I suggest to steal some eggs, eat them, and hide in the wall. Avoid being attacked by hundreds of soldier ants.
Repeat, grow, profit.

[Tidal]

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

Also, I don't think they could really harm us. They would run up, try and bite us, and be absorbed. Then we would gain immunity to their poison and become completely invulnerable to them. Muahahaha. But yeah, go with the worm idea of filtering living creatures out of the soil and eating tubers. Subterranean hivemind for the win.

[shadenight123]

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

you realize that by splitting food you can generate heat at a molecular level, which can then provide you with energy!
it's still rudimentary as a stomach though.
and to create it it does require some internal retinkering. but you eventually get through it.
-1 energy -3 filaments to build
Added: Stomach (rudimentary) = consume six food for one energy


You eat the eggs, which are quite nicely still and provide a nice boost to food.
+25 food +2 filaments
however you receive sensorial note that a great quantity of small vibrations are coming your way.

Make a stomach and get more energy. Also use up one filament to improve our mental ability.

-6 food=+1 energy
-1 filament=+0.0001 mental
you realize now that you need to actually start using your brains. one of your tendrils atrophizes as it's muscles are replaced with nerves and the likes. It gets stored inside protected from the rest. You now have the brains to control 0.0001 hiveminds. Not that you know about it. Obviously. And furthermore 0.0001 hiveminds would be useless, you could use them as lawnmowers, but you'd have to know of a way to create one. So it's not the case.

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

-6 food =+1 energy
you also create a pouch through internal rearranging, you can store food in it, but no more than three units of it.
-2 filaments=3 Pouch space

Maybe not now. I suggest to steal some eggs, eat them, and hide in the wall. Avoid being attacked by hundreds of soldier ants.
Repeat, grow, profit.

you seep again through the rocks, and crumble them as you pass to close the way. The mass of vibrations comes to were you were once, but after a while they leave. After frantically searching around too.

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

Also, I don't think they could really harm us. They would run up, try and bite us, and be absorbed. Then we would gain immunity to their poison and become completely invulnerable to them. Muahahaha. But yeah, go with the worm idea of filtering living creatures out of the soil and eating tubers. Subterranean hivemind for the win.

no, actually they'd harm you quite a bit. You have the strength equivalent of a fetus right about now. You can struggle against a couple of ants, a colony of ants would smash you to bits. you're a wriggly altogether of flesh after all. You can suffocate some of them, it doesn't mean others can't ride on top of you and tear you to pieces. even without poison.

remember you can use energy points either to understand one of the many possibilities your form can give you (basically, Tutorial mode!) OR you can guess one and spend the point/s needed for it.


Status-External:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Width:4 Centimeters
Heigth:Not considerable
Powers:None
Capacities:
Stomach (rudimentary)=6 food for 1 energy
Pouch (rudimentary)=can store up to three units of food for later use.
Defenses:None
Energy Storage:2
Food Storage:13
movement Type:Digger-creeper
Sensors: Vibration (you feel vibrations through the earth)

Status-Internal:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Mental: 0.0002
Physical: 0.0001
Number of cellular filaments: 4
Feeding way: Now you can decide
No reproduction ways (at the moment)

[kaian-a-coel]

use energy to think about how you could kill ants, also dig dig dig tomake MOAR filaments.

subterrean hivemind FTW

[RulerOfNothing]

Spend energy to think about defenses.

[NRDL]

Use filaments to create a basic defense system.  This defense system would consist of a slime that would trap ( by sticking to them ) and kill ants on contact.

BTW, you gain filaments through food right?  And with the stomach, you can instead change this food into energy if you wish?  Just wanna make sure.

Edit: Got Ninja'd for the first time ever.   

[shadenight123]

Use filaments to create a basic defense system.  This defense system would consist of a slime that would trap ( by sticking to them ) and kill ants on contact.

BTW, you gain filaments through food right?  And with the stomach, you can instead change this food into energy if you wish?  Just wanna make sure.

Edit: Got Ninja'd for the first time ever.

it always happens.
food filaments are earned in the near similar way. If you eat a patch of grass, since vegetal cells are bigger than animals cells you "grab" the skin of those cells and "wear" it as your own, thus increase in filaments is better, but they also give much less food. On the other hand, proteins and animal cells are "filled" with goodies, but have "low" skin quantities, thus lots of food, but low filaments earnings.
for the defense "slime trap" you'd need to build a "sticky slime generator" and a "venom slime" generator and stick them together for a "sticky-venom generator" but since this ants have no poison, you wouldn't be able to figure out how it's made. and ant natural poison against ants wouldn't help. before creating something on yourselve (big hint coming this way) you need to have experimented/assimilated it. you can't have a shock trap unless you feel electricity for the first time. you ate a couple of ants, so you know how to build a stomach, which resembles them. and the pincers for digging also comes from the ants.

use energy to think about how you could kill ants, also dig dig dig tomake MOAR filaments.

subterrean hivemind FTW

Spend energy to think about defenses.

-2 energy

You come to two important realizations, as your mental cells start to buzz and think and move, and your synapses start going fuzzy.
You could absorb minerals to harden your external shell, at a low filament cost.
You could kill ants by suffocating them, even though not with your body. You deem doing that would be unsmart. Maybe...a cave-in?

[Azkul]

You could absorb minerals to harden your external shell, at a low filament cost.

do it

[NRDL]

You could absorb minerals to harden your external shell, at a low filament cost.

do it

DO EEET!

[RulerOfNothing]

You could absorb minerals to harden your external shell, at a low filament cost.

do it

I agree. Also burn some food to get energy.

[kaian-a-coel]

NOT NOW! we're already low in filaments. go eat grass until we got MOAR FILAMENTS!

[Azkul]

NOT NOW! we're already low in filaments. go eat grass until we got MOAR FILAMENTS!

at a low filament cost.

[kaian-a-coel]

we have 4 filaments. so even ONE is a big cost (1/4 of us, precisely). we'll shrink by 25% AT LEAST.