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[Elvisdogs]

Are we becoming the zerg swarm or what? 

USE THE DNA ABSORBED FROM THE GRASS TO CONVERT LEGS TO BASIC ROOTS

*cough*Precursor Nydus Network*cough*

[Azkul]

We're already getting rid of the legs

[Elvisdogs]

We're already getting rid of the legs

I still want my nydus network

[shadenight123]

(creep already has the function of being an armour substitute-enhancer, your Glanders (i'll call them that) mix the two and spit it all around.)
fatherly= you know when to be nice, and when to be strict. and thanks to that your children fear you naturally. and obey your orders naturally. but a father also protect it's childrens. and you know it. very well.
you grow 2 spiked tendrils as a mean to attack and defend. they are proportional to your width in a 3:1 scale, for every 3 cm, they are 1 cm.
you decide to merge guard and scout together.
the next batch of eggs you wish to fertilize will have the hivespawn7 tag

hivespawn7= -13 food -7 filaments

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

6 cm size, of which 6 armoured with rock-like and similar in aspect to you
mental:0.0001
physical: 0.0010
Powers:
acid spit
acid kamikaze
Capacities:
acid explosion upon death
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
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.
acid pouch, acid stomach, mouth.
Defenses:None
movement Type:Ant-like Normal
Sensors: Vibration (you feel vibrations through the earth)-air waves-chemicals

your orders are given, and you soldiers and scouts trail off.
your soldiers will probably return after the day.
you start wondering if letting them go and eat was a smart idea. but we will see.

BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD! Or, since we don't have blood...
H2O FOR THE H2O GOD!

I believe you mean, ACID FOR THE ACID GOD. We need acid blood.

acid seems to be the key to solving every problem. at least, it's what you think. since you begin a cellular transformation...which takes quite a while.
-3 filaments -2 energy
-6 food +1 energy
acid blood= when wounded, you naturally secern acid as a mean to keep melee fighters off. it's still rudimentary, and you do get harmed by your acid too, but maybe if you work on it for a while, you might get something not also auto-lesionist out of it.

Produce 5 energy.

-30 food +5 energy

Are we becoming the zerg swarm or what? 

USE THE DNA ABSORBED FROM THE GRASS TO CONVERT LEGS TO BASIC ROOTS

*cough*Precursor Nydus Network*cough*

who need mobility? you are next to a highly trafficked road, were most probably for a while government officers will go around searching for you, but you don't care. You make roots and are there to stay.
-4 filaments=roots (every day at the end of the day you earn 5 food)
you are harder to move, and you realize, as you absorb nutrients, that you have found another way to feed yourself. Maybe you could transform into a nice sunflower! you always dreamed of...no, you don't dream.
well, not at the present. abstract reasoning is still far away in the mental scale.
now...what are you going to do? you can't even go for a stroll anymore.


Status-External:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Width:8 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:
roots=every day, at the end of the day, you earn 5 food.
acid blood= wounding you is like begging for an acid shower.
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.
2 spiked tendrils= you have two spiked tendrils, or leashes, or what you want to call them.
Defenses:None
Energy Storage:5
Food Storage:209
movement Type:Ant-like Normal
Sensors: Vibration (you feel vibrations through the earth)-air waves-chemicals

Status-Internal:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Mental: 0.0012
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 "Acid-guard" = cost to create 13 food 7 tendrils
filament assembler:30 food for 1 filament
heartful: You produce "THE CREEP" (or Name to be chosen)

[micelus]

Create "slave" spawn. These spawn than can be directly controlled by the hivemind. They will be soldier hivespawn.

Lay a batch of 5 Slave eggs. Send them upwards and explore the above ground.

Use up energy to give us extremely basic eyes that can detect light. Equip the Slaves with this ability.

[NRDL]

Ok, i'm slightly confused, what are the different castes again? 

Regardless, continue gathering more food from the ground, spend it to get more filaments to make yourself bigger, stronger and smarter. 

[kaian-a-coel]

Create "slave" spawn. These spawn than can be directly controlled by the hivemind. They will be soldier hivespawn.

Like a detached body extension, rather than a "servant"? why not.

Also we need to DIG DEEPER N' DEEPER N' DEEPER.

I need to call every hivespawn by a name refering to its function, or i'll be lost...
Hivespawn2 will be "Gatherer"
Hivespawn5 "Scout"
Hivespawn4 "Overseer". Since they are intelligent, they deserve proper names for each. First will be Overseer Primant

So we have Gatherers,  Scouts, Overseers, Acid guards and Glanders. Make more gatherers. Give each group of 10 an overseer, and keep for us some Acid bodyguards.
Keep growing in size, increasing mental and physical abilities.

[NRDL]

In that case, create more guards and gatherers. 

[micelus]

More names

hivespawn7= Vanguard
hivespawn8= Slave
hivespawn1= Fools

Lay a batch of 5 Slave eggs. Send them upwards and explore the above ground.

[The Scout]

Well, continue making a large tunnel network. Lay 2 vanguards, and send them outside to guard the entrance.

[shadenight123]

Create "slave" spawn. These spawn than can be directly controlled by the hivemind. They will be soldier hivespawn.

all your spawn can be directly controlled by you. just, if you don't have enough mental, you'll have to "chain of command" them to an "Overseer" (terms of kaian are now approved)
and no, "scout" and "guard" have been mixed together. creating the "acid guard". but yes, you can also have scouts and guards...
it seems the "praetorians" basic version has been underclassed to "guard of type B" since there are now new ACID GUARDS.

you burn food for energy and lay a batch of eggs, four eggs.
-2 energy -1 filaments
the another one, this time of seven.
-2 energy -1 filaments
you burn food to gain energy...
-24 food +4 energy
and then, it's fertilizing time.

the cavern complex get's strengthened and camouflaged with foliage and grass...you didn't give that order though. it came from your first Overseer. Who comments meh, this is better right! you have such a bad taste for decorations! all creep and creep and creep! and NO EATING THE FOLIAGE YOU OVER THERE!
and a gatherer yinks away as he was trying to get a leaf to bring to you.
you are at the center of it all, deep beneath the bowels of the earth. (deep as a Cm thing can say "deep")
and it's churning time!
you create 5 gatherers, and another overseer to look over them.
you create 0 vanguards, as your personal protection.
but this is damn costly.
-6 energy -9 food -9 filaments
but you realize one thing: you need more filaments. you burn some food, moving the assembler line. to create what is needed.
-120 food=+4 tendrils
and energy
-6 food +1 energy
the five gatherers proceed to depart with the new overseer to gather more food.
but you realize that you can't produce the vanguards...you'll need to wait time. and food. and filaments.

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-65 food -35 tendrils needed

the day passes, and food and filaments churn in.
20 food 20 filaments from the 5 gatherers, they work the double better than the fools
and the remaining
8 food 8 filaments that the first bunch of fools hadn't finished gathering.

and that's when you hear a series of big vibrations coming back.

Hell...they're big.
Frigging big, for your perspective but still...
they wait outside your lair, not able to enter...the slave you sent with the scouts have returned. The scouts unluckily did not. But the slaves have returned...
and you can hear the nice tale they churn out about ant nests and praying mantis, and small critters, and patches of juicy grass...and the food they brought you back is in the 5 zeros scores...but unluckily no filaments. you did tell them to grow.
+10000 food

...you have two oversized guards now. and they aren't that easy to camouflage.
at least...

Command Chain:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Hivemind "Overseer Primant":everything beneath that is not after the =
1 Overseer=10 Fool
1 overseer=5 gatherers
0 Vanguard
2 Slave "Veteran"=1 meter each
2 Glander
0 Gatherer
1 Fool
0 scout

Status-External:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Width:29 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:
roots=every day, at the end of the day, you earn 5 food.
acid blood= wounding you is like begging for an acid shower.
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 one food for 10 filaments.
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, two 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.
2 spiked tendrils= you have two spiked tendrils, or leashes, or what you want to call them.
Defenses:None
Energy Storage:0
Food Storage:91
movement Type:Ant-like Normal
Sensors: Vibration (you feel vibrations through the earth)-air waves-chemicals

Status-Internal:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Mental: 0.0012
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.
Fool=1 filaments
Gatherer=1 filament 1 food
glander= (cost to create) 1 food 1 tendril
overseer= cost to create 6 energy 4 food 4 tendrils
Vanguard = cost to create 13 food 7 tendrils
filament assembler:30 food for 1 filament
heartful: You produce "THE CREEP" (or Name to be chosen)

[The Scout]

Get the scouts to roam around gathering food for us. If anything really big comes by, they can take care of it. Also, our Overseer is kinda stupid.

[NRDL]

Turn food into filaments and energy, become smarter. 

The slaves are bigger than you?  Interesting.  Have them use their larger size to haul rocks in order to reinforce the entrance to the nest.  Begin producing acidguards, apparently your basic soldiers, you need a military. 

The praetorians are the overmind's bodyguards, we need to produce them as soon as possible.  Even with our acid, our mouth, and our tendrils, we need protection. 

Once you birth some acidguards, have them patrol around the nest, and bring back information to you and the overseer. 

[micelus]

I vote for creep to be called Amor/Love.

Spend some energy to gift yourself with extremely basic eyes that can detect changes in light and darkness.

Spend some energy to create an organ that is able to create the same pheromone of ants.

Upgrade scouts to be able to produce ant pheromones.

[Armok]

> create a kind of spawn which is almost identical to plants, and can do almost nothing and have almost nothing except for toots and maybe some grass blades. Connected through root threads and transferring food directly to you. Create lots and lots of these and plant them on the surface.