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[Azkul]

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

We can always get more filaments after, it doesn't really matter

[kaian-a-coel]

Its safer to get more filaments before. Cause spending something before having it is BAAAAD.

[shadenight123]

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.

while some dissident little mind tells you not. You do it.
By spending one filament to strenghten the minerals absorbed to your skin, you now have the remaining filaments armoured.
-1 filament=3 armored rock-like armour filaments
it's sort of like a chitin armor, it could be improved, but against bug bites it would work marvelously. however this "weight" takes it's toll on your speed, you can still crawl, but more slowly.
you then burn food for energy, your stomach is quite useful. how could you live without it?!
-12 food = +2 energy

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

you then proceed to go dig upwards, towards the grass, which you reach. You realize there are some big vibrations all around the area, but while many are far away, you realize they are incredibly fast in movements, and go always in pair. (you do not know, but it's the vibration made by feet stomping on the ground).
you start eating some patches of grass to increase your filaments.
+2 food +2 filaments

(since many orders were in plurality, i went with pairs. if you want to be more specific on quantities (like, eat grass till 10 filaments earned) do say so)

the rock-like armour and your little size provide you with some sort of camouflage: you look like a little rock. not that you know about it.
a little rock with really little pincers.

Status-External:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Width:5 Centimeters of which 3 armoured with rock-like armour
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.
Rock-like armour: for 1 filament, 3 filaments get rock-like armour, useful against insects.
Defenses:None
Energy Storage:2
Food Storage:3
movement Type:Digger-creeper-slow
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: 5
Feeding way: Now you can decide
No reproduction ways (at the moment)

[kaian-a-coel]

Eat grass from under to gain 10 filaments, then spend 2 into armour.
We'll have 13 filaments, with 9 armoured as a securized core.

[Azkul]

Eat grass from under to gain 10 filaments, then spend 2 into armour.
We'll have 13 filaments, with 9 armoured as a securized core.

and grow legs

[Geen]

Eat grass and make armor until we have a solid skin.

[kaian-a-coel]

we'll have 4 unarmoured filaments. use them as "legs"?

[Azkul]

we'll have 4 unarmoured filaments. use them as "legs"?

Yes

[shadenight123]

Eat grass from under to gain 10 filaments, then spend 2 into armour.
We'll have 13 filaments, with 9 armoured as a securized core.

no risk no gain say some.
but luck rolls on your side 11 out of friggin 100!? why!?, small rocky formation that nobody seems to care about even though those steps might as well be looking for you.
you stir the way of grass like a lawnmower on it's garden, all in the centimeters scale, but still, you chew as fast as an cheetah, or as a ghepard, not that you know those terms obviously. or the animals related to them.
+10 food +10 filaments
you solidify yourselve some more and then...you suddenly come to an alt.
No-oh.
No moving for you anymore young hivemind. You cluttered yourself with too much weight. you want to move? you better damn make some muscles.
(for every 0.0001 of strength a maximum of 9 cm can be armoured with this. now you can't budge until strength goes up)

Eat grass and make armor until we have a solid skin.

There's no more grass were you stand still, but you realize you could always dig in a "down" line with the only variation being the "down" direction and absorb minerals as you descent...you notice the vibrations are going farther away from your spot. Maybe they were made by some really big ants...not that you know you've been pestering ants recently.

we'll have 4 unarmoured filaments. use them as "legs"?

Yes

you realize something, with the moving of your synapses...and a really strenous effort
-2 energy
those tiny things you consumed had a chitinous armour like yourselve and yet moved! maybe...maybe...but 4 is too little. you need eight.
-8 filaments
you stretch yourself, and suddenly, you POP UP. you haven't realized it, but you assumed the motor functions of an ant. you now have four tiny legs per side, four of which are armoured four of which are not, for sake of equilibrium. the remaining five armoured tie themselves in the center of the body, protecting the atrophised for thinking cells.
With this new weight distribution, and cellular specialization, you just manage to stand up once more.
Fascinating. You stop for one moment in this brief fascination and...

Choose: +0.0001 Mental Or Ant-like antennaes for ant-communications
(poll will be added, when i see it reach 5 votes it will be closed, to make it quick)

Eat grass and make armor until we have a solid skin.

you quickly start churning more grass to transform in filaments to transform in solid skin.
you quickly realize you just need to eat three more grass quantities...to completely armour yourself. And now you keep the weight of everything!
+4 food +4 filaments
-2 filaments +6 rock-like armour to filaments
the two extra armour-like filaments get's added to the protection-core.
(legs are specialized cells, that can no longer be used to "buy" things, but can be "added onto" by spending "non-specialized" cells, so to say, you can add claws to the legs, or wings, or testicle sacs if you enjoy suffering eternal pain while walking(funny pun, no offense must be taken))
armor-like and capacities do not count as being "specialized" so you can still spend armour-like filaments to obtain things...or do things.

Status-External:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Width:7 Centimeters of which 7 armoured with rock-like armour
Heigth:1 Cm (due to legs, NOT to extra filament)
Powers:None
Capacities:
Stomach (rudimentary)=6 food for 1 energy
Pouch (rudimentary)=can store up to three units of food for later use.
Rock-like armour: for 1 filament, 3 filaments get rock-like armour, useful against insects.
Legs: you have obtained basic ant-like movement! this makes you stable, and makes you capable of withstanding far higher weights
Defenses:None
Energy Storage:2
Food Storage:17
movement Type:Ant-like Normal
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: 7
number of specialized Cells: 8 of which 8 are armoured with rock-like
Feeding way: Now you can decide
No reproduction ways (at the moment)

[Azkul]

Create two eyes

[shadenight123]

(made a mistake before, energy is 0 updating also to close the poll and tell what was chosen)

Create two eyes

Eyes are far complex things. and you have no idea how they are made.
but your illumination has granted you a marvelous power: antennae's!
you hear a buzzing all around you know, a buzzing made of quick signals, meaning "keep to the trail".
"this way"
or similar. you have no clue who, or why, or which, but you can understand that the little vibrations, some of which you ate before, are the ones sending this signals...

Status-External:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Width:7 Centimeters of which 7 armoured with rock-like armour
Heigth:1 Cm (due to legs, NOT to extra filament)
Powers:None
Capacities:
Stomach (rudimentary)=6 food for 1 energy
Pouch (rudimentary)=can store up to three units of food for later use.
Rock-like armour: for 1 filament, 3 filaments get rock-like armour, useful against insects.
Legs: you have obtained basic ant-like movement! this makes you stable, and makes you capable of withstanding far higher weights
Defenses:None
Energy Storage:0
Food Storage:17
movement Type:Ant-like Normal
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: 7
number of specialized Cells: 8 of which 8 are armoured with rock-like
Feeding way: Now you can decide
No reproduction ways (at the moment)

[Azkul]

ants have eyes 

[kaian-a-coel]

we dont. and we have two extra legs. Plus, we seemingly are a rather flat disc of 7cm diameter. waaaay bigger than an ant.
so grow mouth and teeth and CRUSH THOSE ANTS LIKE ANTS THE PUNY INSECTS THEY ARE!!! 

[Roboboy33]

Follow the signals

[shadenight123]

you're ONE cm tall! thanks to your 1 CM legs! >.> you're like an hovercraft, but with legs instead of hover-materials.

ants have eyes 

you have not consumed an australian bulldog ant species. Spoilers regarding ant anatomy.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Like most insects, ants have compound eyes made from numerous tiny lenses attached together. Ants' eyes are good for acute movement detection but do not give a high resolution. They also have three small ocelli (simple eyes) on the top of the head that detect light levels and polarization.[35] Compared to vertebrates, most ants have poor-to-mediocre eyesight and a few subterranean species are completely blind. Some ants such as Australia's bulldog ant, however, have exceptional vision. Two antennae ("feelers") are attached to the head; these organs detect chemicals, air currents and vibrations; they are also used to transmit and receive signals through touch.

you antennaes receive signals through...touch!? you come to this realization after a couple more bumpings against this small vibrations. As they come to bump against your antennaes...

grow mouth and teeth and CRUSH THOSE ANTS LIKE ANTS THE PUNY INSECTS THEY ARE!!!

Follow the signals

you grab them, and start assimilating them as you move following there line, back to their nest. When you reach it, you are greeted by their soldiers ant, but even though they are many, you make quick job of them, you notice how they seem to work in strange way to protect something especially the strange round things you continuosly eat away from their dead bodies. Some are bigger, but still they can't produce a threat to YOU.
sometime, your antennaes touches theirs, and strange things come to your mind.
protect egg
protect queen
protect food
and usually sometimes also
THEY KILLED KENNY!
oh ant god, my legs!
mommy where are you?
please have mercy!
oh sh...
you didn't realize they had such colourful expressions. And you strife to assimilate many of them. After a while, you realize you are again in that strange underground complex, but this time, there are many, many less vibrations...and you feel quite better...your food storage is at it's brim, and in the end you went on slaughtering them even when you were not hungry...just because...they annoyed you.
they were quite many, maybe too many, but at a certain point it didn't matter.
at the end of the day...
of the long, long day in which you managed to escape from the container...
you earned 200 food and 8 filaments in total.

You automatically convert food in energy, to obtain better future results...and to not waste food. and because you couldn't hold it all
you thus convert 120 food in energy, obtaining 20 energy
the bulk of it all is that you end with 80 food, 20 energy and 8 filaments.
and the ant colony, with it's egg, is completely yours.
you are now bigger, but the new filaments are after all free and weaker...you ponder at how you could have obtained more filaments with a better way to assimilate organic things...and you realize there is a way...it's a really nice way.
-12 energy -4 filaments = Mouth (rudimentary) it's like the pincers, just...smaller and in front of your antennaes...a series of really small pincers that can keep the ants still as you suck their cells out...yes, you can do that too. and then you wrap their own cells skin and you just swap a couple of nucleus and voilà, the ant cells are your own. more filaments!

Status-External:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Width:15 Centimeters of which 7 armoured with rock-like armour
Heigth:1 Cm (due to legs, NOT to extra filament)
Powers:None
Capacities:
Stomach (rudimentary)=6 food for 1 energy
Pouch (rudimentary)=can store up to three units of food for later use.
Rock-like armour: for 1 filament, 3 filaments get rock-like armour, useful against insects.
Legs: you have obtained basic ant-like movement! this makes you stable, and makes you capable of withstanding far higher weights
Mouth (rudimentary): a bonus in filaments while eating organic materials.
Defenses:None
Energy Storage:8
Food Storage:82
movement Type:Ant-like Normal
Sensors: Vibration (you feel vibrations through the earth)-air waves-chemicals

Status-Internal:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Mental: 0.0002
Physical: 0.0001
Number of cellular filaments: 15
number of specialized Cells: 12 of which 8 are armoured with rock-like, 4 are the mouth.
Feeding way: Mouth (rudimentary) = Bonus in filaments in eating organic.
No reproduction ways (at the moment)

the day has passed, and you spend food all around "your lair" for mantaining you specialized cells: 12
plus your mental and physical cells: 3
You consume 15 food.
and you must now decide what to do...or you can always spend energy to ameliorate yourself, or to think about one of the possible many things you could do...