Reenact Saving Private Ryan in order to get them back.
If we are currently near the surface and not protected well, the highest priority would be to dig tunnels.
unluckily, the Heartful emotion won the poll.
in case of conflict thus, we go with the more Rp of the options.
Your precious children snatched away?! this shall NOT stand!
you order the two hivespawn3 to go search him together with the hivespawn1. You soon receive a message from them, and they come back with the munched upon rests of the hivespawn1 which went missing...only pieces of them. you would cry had you tears to throw. Who did this will pay, dearly. the hivespawn3 have seen the possible perpetrators, or their vibrations. they were bigger than the ants, but not much. you do not know, but most probably a praying mantis took it upon herself to feed with the unlucky hivespawn1.
We must make a creature that's small, expendable, and can't be taken alive or dead. So, let's make something about the size of the ant, that will begin to pour acid of of it's skin in an attempt to destroy itself when it dies. Then send them to scout.
you realize you need to explore this place, before this places enemies come upon you.
and they must not take any more prisoners. your childrens must survive or kill as many as possible before dieing.
hivespawn6 "Kamikaze scout"= (cost to create)
-1 filaments -4 food1 cm size un-armoured
mental:0.0001
physical: 0.0001
Powers:
none (too small)
Capacities:
acidic thermo-Pouch (rudimentary)=goes fizzle fizzle when death comes.
Legs: you have obtained basic ant-like movement! this makes you stable, and makes you capable of withstanding far higher weights
Cosmetical change: you know look like a long chain of small segments each very similar to an entire ant. each about 1 cm of diameter sphere.
Defenses:None
movement Type:Ant-fast
Sensors: Vibration (you feel vibrations through the earth)-air waves-chemicals
you feel unsafe out here, and start digging down vertically until earth covers you up once more. your single hivespawn starts digging it's way around, and after hivespawn4 returns from the food hunt, with grass food.
meh, you do realize we can't fight those pesky little vibrations without enough strength do you!?+12 food +12 filaments (since it's not a full day worth search)
the tunnels are dug and you feel certainly safer, they are quite wide, but not much tall, after all, you are the biggest one around here, and you are the one they serve. so you must be able to move around easily. creep and armour is spread all around, and in the end you have a "cozy" lair...
you do however turn the four remaining eggs into scouts.
-4 filaments -16 foodas they come out, their flesh pulsing green from the acid crackling through their cells, you feel...
Choice time! (wait for the poll)
HomelyPlayfulFatherlyMotherlyStatus-External:
Width:15 CM which can be armoured at one food cost.
Heigth:1 Cm (due to legs, NOT to extra filament)
Powers:
Acid Spit= Spit away at the enemies!
Capacities:
Stomach (acidic-rudimentary)=6 food for 1 energy (at will), once a day (forced)=12 food for 4 energy
Pouch (rudimentary)=can store up to three units of food for later use.
Complete Rock-like armour: No longer filaments, but you do need to "activate it" by spending three food.
Legs: you have obtained basic ant-like movement! this makes you stable, and makes you capable of withstanding far higher weights (in the process of atrophizing them for +0.0008 mental, three days to go, process can still be stopped)
Mouth (rudimentary): a bonus in filaments while eating organic materials.
hibernations protocol (rudimentary): you kill-switch everything useless until you feel something worth eating.
Cosmetical change: you know look like a long chain of small segments each very similar to an entire ant. each about 1 cm of diameter sphere.
Defenses:None
Energy Storage:1
Food Storage:245
movement Type:Ant-like Normal
Sensors: Vibration (you feel vibrations through the earth)-air waves-chemicals
Status-Internal:
Mental: 0.0012
Physical: 0.0010
Number of cellular filaments acquired thus far: 32+36=68+20=88+12=100
number of specialized Cells: 33 of which 12 are needed for full body armour, 4 are the mouth. 1 in the acid pouch, 3 are stomach, 2 are pouch, 1 in the acid stomach, 2 in egg sac, 4 in filament assembler, 8 in the legs
Feeding way: Mouth (rudimentary) = Bonus in filaments in eating organic.
Egg sac: you produce eggs by spending 2 energy and 1 filaments. You fertilize the egg by spending 1 extra filament.
hivespawn2=1 filament 1 food
hivespawn5= (cost to create) 1 food 1 tendril
Hivespawn4= cost to create 6 energy 4 food 4 tendrils
Hivespawn3 = cost to create 9 food 6 tendrils
hivespawn6 "Kamikaze scout"= (cost to create) -1 filament -4 food
filament assembler:30 food for 1 filament
heartful: You produce "THE CREEP" (or Name to be chosen)