I remember that some nigg...erm..RAT, some rat was stealing our food and upsetting our wench. This will not stand.

>>6215831
Yeah, that was kind of the situation at that moment in time.

Sorry for the delay, 'net made a fuss.

Bill Murray is interested.

>>6215909
I thought it was just a couple of us.

>>6215918
And so one became two.

Right, might as well post what happened last updated before the thread was deleted.

>The sewer is a bit too wide for that - but there are various pipes coming down from above, dumping sewage into the flow, yes. So, you proceed to pack the string against the surface with more soggy toilet roll, creating a reasonable fishing line. After that is done, you leave it to gather food while you go out to hunt maggots. All in all, things seem like they're going well.

>You come back after who knows how long later, with a belly full of maggots. You're quite bloated, but nowhere near the full extent of slug-kind. You have three possible charges of vomit out of five and when you return, you come across a rather irritating sight. Your fishing line has hooked all sorts of things, edible and not. The problem is, something's eating the edibles - and it's not Runt. It was another rat that had apparently stalked you there, larger both you and Runt - but not the leader of the pack. Fucker's stealing your lunch. Runt's cowering, watching the theft from a safe distance.

>How do you respond?

>>6215925
Can we communicate with this rat? Tell him that he can have more of this food if he helps you with some tasks.

Tasks would involve information on where maggots breed, showing us the quickest roots to the surface (preferably in a seculded area), and giving information on the current hierarchy of the rats that live in the pack?

>>6215949
Your telepathy is barely telepathy at all - it's more of some sort of high level empathy, imposing emotions upon other creatures.

Any attempt to communicate in such detail merely causes the rodent to briefly slap its skull with a single paw before it gets back to gnawing on a piece of discarded chicken skin caught on your line.

>>6215959
Fuck it.
Let's try and make Runt as hostile as possible - he's a rat. He's meant to scavenge and get food. Now another rat is stealing his food. KILL IT

Meanwhile, let's prep a mouthful of vomit. See what happens.

>>6215959

hmm, well then perhaps we attempt to convey the emotion of intimidation or fear into this rat to scare it away...

also, do we know what the properties of our vomit are?

>>6215980
>>6215982


can we combine these two actions... try and imbue HATE into runt and also FEAR into the thief?

and I think we should know what the vomit does before we use it.

>>6215980
>>6215982
>>6215984
Choose one target. You don't want to try and overload yourself.

As for the properties of your vomit - it's sticky, stinks like fuck and obscures vision. It's not remotely damaging.

>>6215989
I say we imbue fear into the rat stealing our food. And we vomit on him at the same time. (Aim for the eyes!)

>>6215994

I agree, lets scare the fuck outta the thief while vomiting on its face!

>>6215994
This.

>>6215994
>>6216010
>>6216012
You prepare a mouthful of vomit before you begin to focus, probing into the mind of the rat, trying to get it to fix its attention on you. With this telepathic equivilant of "hey, you", the rat looks in your direction.
BAM. Almost immediately, you project a stream of disgusting brown ichor from your mouth that streams through the air before splashing over its face and its body. At the same time, you attempt to bombard its pitiful little mind with primal fear, screaming "SCARY SCARY SCARY SCARY SCARY" into its tiny head over and over and over.
With a distressed squeal, the rat stumbles about, clawing at its face violently, hobbling back and forth from side to side. The combination of the sudden shock of projectile vomit and the psychic bombard was enough to scare it - but it has no fucking clue where to go, thanks to the temporary blindness you bestowed on it.
Runt is edging forward slowly.

>>6216032
MAKE RUNT ANGRY
ANGRY ANGRY ANGRY
FINISHING BLOW

>>6216032
Have him bite out that fucker's throat.

>>6216032
Have runt ATTACK THE RATS WEAK POINT FOR MASSIVE DAMAGE

>>6216045
>>6216046
>>6216060
>>6216046
>>6216045
"Goooood... Let the hate flow through you..."
You might as well be wearing a black cloak and have glowing red eyestalks - you've already got the ghastly white skin sorted.
Malice is created in Runt's mind - you appear to have got the hang of this telepathy thing quite clearly; take advantage of the natural emotions and strengthen them - then your attempts will most likely succeed.
Runt skulks forward towards the blinded rat and suddenly charges into it. The pair of them fall over in a squeaking, furry bundle, flailing and clawing at one another. Eventually, you see the larger rat fall still - Runt has sunk his fangs into his abdomen and is beginning to tear out his fucking stomach, intestine by bloody intestine.
It smells delicious.

>>6216064
Feast

>>6215822
Wow. From the thumbnail I thought it was a fucked up fish that someone had dumped in a forest.

>>6216064
EAT DELICIOUS RAT BODY
THEIR CORPSE SHALL MAKE US STRONG!
Wait... a pale white body...
We could become some sort of ghostly apparition! Think of the fear we could put into creatures?

>>6216064

Make sure we reinforce the good behavior in Runt... reward him, let him have some food from the fish line as you eat the thiefs body.

>>6216068
>>6216079
>>6216089
>>6216068
There's one problem with that.

Your mouth is designed to suck up earthworms. So far, you've also feasted on minced offal, soggy fries, scraps of stringy, discarded meat and maggots.

This is different. This thing is massive. This thing has bones - you might choke on it or something. You might not digest it properly. But the smell... Oh, the smell. It's so delicious. You're able to accept that you will not be able to consume all of it - perhaps two, three limbs at most. The torso's definitely out of bounds - too bulky. Runt can have it. However, should you try and eat it or shouldn't you? Do you want to risk choking on the delicious carcass or do you want to feast on maggots for the rest of your days, which are bland in comparison to this feast?
If you eat, which parts do you eat?
>>6216070
Whoa, can't unsee.

>>6216094
Can we attempt to slurp up blood? Brains, or maybe enjoy some delicious organs?
Better yet, could we have Runt break open a few bones o we could enjoy the tasty marrow in those bones?

>>6216103
Yes, have Runt tear it apart, and we eat the delicious heart and brain and whatnot.

>>6216094

Soft tissue and internal organs once Runt is done RIP AND TEARing his foe. Heart, lungs, liver, assorced other viscera. SO DELICIOUS.

>>6216127
>>6216115
>>6216103
>>6216103
Runt is feasting. Runt is content and Runt wants nothing more to continue feasting - it would be difficult to persuade him to do something not related to food at the moment. But, if you want to try and insert thoughts, I won't stop you. What do you want to get Runt to try and think, considering this information?
As for consuming organs, Runt has started on the torso, eating the delicious stomach to begin with. You can attempt to join in - but you might gain his ire.
As for breaking open bits of the body - you're a slug. You don't have any hard or muscular appendages to speak of, at the moment. It would be difficult, if not impossible.

>>6216141
Tell Runt to leave certain "soft" parts of the body to us. Should we threaten vomiting on the body as a method of ensuring Runt's obedience?

>>6216153

That's an idea - we've learned that our mucus tastes disgusting to rats, since the rat leader licked us and found it revolting.

Which means all we need to do is rub ourselves all over those delicious internal organs, and Runt'll leave 'em alone.

>>6216153
>>6216166
Runt does not heed your command. Runt keeps eating. Runt does not want to stop eating so if you want to try and stop Runt from eating, you can fuck off.
Upon your threat, Runt simply bats at his head briefly. Huh. Apparently that message was a bit too complex for it to comprehend. Remember that you can only try and direct emotions or try and insert emotions or try and increase emotions at this stage.

>>6216199
Insert the emotion of content and being full. Try and manipulate Runt so that he no longer wants to eat.
Or we could just insert a fuckton of disgust into his shitty little mind.

>>6216199
I'VE GOT A PLAN.
Try and make Runt think that the feet will taste ABSOLUTELY FUCKING GORGEOUS.
That way, he'll eat the legs and by the time he comes back to the torso, we'll be nestling inside the rat's ribcage.

>>6216206
either works... disgust or fullness... disgues would probably count more as an emotion then the feeling of being full or content.

>>6216206
Not the second one, the latter could discourage an aggressive mindset.

>>6216199
Agreed.
Alright, lets attempt to get Runt to feel absolutely disgusted with what hes eating.

>>6216206
>>6216223
>>6216226
>>6216235
>>6216240
Lots of different opinions.
Choose one of the following:
- Try and convince Runt he's full.
- Try and convince Runt it tastes disgusting.
- Try and convince Runt something else tastes better.

>>6216252
Try to make him feel content, and maybe that another part could taste better if we need to.

>>6216252
I vote convince he is full

>>6216276
>>6216267
Damn, that was a tasty bit of rat. Finally, Runt ceases his act of cannibalism - only temporarily. He needs a bit of sewage to wash down the meat. With a bit of a belly, Runt hobbles away to slurp at the sewage water briefly.

How do you respond?

>>6216330
GET TO THE BELLY!
Get in there and eateateateateat before he comes back.

>>6216370
I say dive on into the chest cavity and secrete a bit of the vomit / ooze to deter runt from eating any more... Then enjoy the delicious soft tissues.

>>6216370
>>6216377
You tell osmosis to get to work as the mucus begins to ooze out of your skin, leaving a thicker and thicker trail as you slide into the crater left in the rat's belly, wriggling about and beginning to consume the delicious soft tissues. Of course, you feel a small nip - before you hear a distant, disgusted spitting. Fuck, you taste horrible - that's your primary defense mechanism. How embarassing.

Runt settled with the legs and the skin while you consume the liver and kidneys, the heart and lungs, the stomach and intestines, circulatory system, nervous system, anything you can get your maw on. Eventually, you squeeze up on past the bones, slipping your body past any narrow gap as you eventually work upwards through the neck and into the skull.

How long has it been? You have no idea... You've feasted and gorged and the carcass is nothing but a hollow shell. You are the prime example of gluttony - your body is hideously bloated and even you now overshadow Runt when it comes to size but... Whoa.
Whoooooooooooooa.

You find you can barely move. The amount of mucus around your body... It's astounding. You've practically cocooned yourself inside of the carcass of the rat and you... You need to rest. You've eaten too much... You need time to process the meat... Process information... You need time to sleep, to rest... To grow... To change... To...

Evolve.

>>6216443
Right, chaps. Here's how this stage works.

Growth-to-Evolution: You can choose to grow or you can choose to evolve - it's difficult to do both. The more you grow, the more food you require but also the more threat you cause in general. The more you evolve, the more special traits you gain but you generally don't increase in threat.
List a percentage for this. 0% is focusing completely on growth. 100% is completely on evolution. You evolve depending on what you've done since your last gestation and on the DNA you absorb.

You've consumed samples of Chrysomya megacephala (Blow-Fly). How much genetic information do you want to absorb from this? 0% to 100%.

You've consumed samples of Rattus Norvegicus (brown rat). How much genetic information do you want to absorb from this? 0% to 100%.

Once we've come to agreement, you'll hatch from your gestation.

>>6216495
uh, question.

When we absorb DNA, does it replace ours completely?

Also, I am kinda disappointed this has become pseudosciency. I enjoyed where we were at.

>>6216495
I'd say 75 rat, 25 fly.

20% fly, 20% rat, rest is all us baby.

>>6216514
No, it doesn't. It just means that you gain minor traits from those species.
>>6216531
And do you want to focus more on growth or more on evolution?

rats are amazing survivors

30% rat dna

dont know much about blowflies so

10% blow fly

totally accept some fly traits lets go for making that vomit acidic

>>6216561
I'd say 50/50 between growth and evolution. And our evolution is split 75 rat/25 fly.

>>6216531
Also - warning. When you steal traits from other species, you can also steal negative traits. It's not all advantages.

>>6216568
It doesn't have to be split like that.

In other words, you get to choose how much more like a rat you become and how much more like a blow-fly you become - you don't need to spread the percentage between them.

I don't see what we can possibly gain from the fly except for a faster life-cycle, which I doubt we need, unless our consciousness can somehow live on through our offspring.
I vote 80% rat, and leave it at that, and whatever is left be put into growth.

>>6216584
Well I figure we'd want teeth. And probably some limbs. But then wings from the fly would be good too.

And so would increased size in general.

>>6216592
Oh, and if possible, I want those calcium-DNA-dart launchers weaponized, with possibly two on each side

>>6216594
Averaging out what all of you guys have suggested in something along the lines of:
50/50 Growth/Evo
50% Brown Rat traits
20% Blow Fly traits

Any arguments?

>>6216613
Go for it Boss.

I could be wrong but As far as I am aware flys have acid vomit, could be handy improvment

>>6216604
You don't get to choose what you evolve - you can process some really, really rough information, but you don't have such massive control over your own body.

Chances of something like that developing are unlikely

>>6216631
>Chances of something like that developing are unlikely
Well, it's how slugs and snails breed, can't we say, gain the ability to shoot it at enemies instead of just mates?

>>6216623
everything has acid vomit, what we want to work on is the enzymes that we can spit out that work on breaking things down. Not an acid as such but that's how it works.

>>6216655
I was simplifying

50-75% rat and a even spit on growth and evolution.

You awaken.

By Slul-Hugoth's meaty eye stalks, you feel bloated but... not with food. To be honest, you're actually quite starving. No. That's not the problem. The first thing you notice is that your egg sac is now bulging, on the border of bursting. You need to find a safe location to deposit your eggs, so that your young may grow.

But... Besides that, what else has changed? Well... There's something about your maw. It's... harder. It's lined with small nubs of enamel, for biting and chewing and you also appear to have some sort of tongue, with a hardened, calcified tip - you can't come up with any excuse for why it exists. There's also something stuck in the back of your throat, some sort of deposit of bile. It doesn't get in the way too much, but you kinda feel like spitting it out.

Your body is rather large now - five, perhaps even six inches in length. Your bulk has burst out of the carcass of the dead rat that you hibernated within. To each side, you have two strange, slightly frilled fins. Two at the front, two at the back. You're not capable of advanced manipulation or locomotion at the moment - but instead of crawling along, you're now capable of waddling - which allows for a slight increase in speed, to say the least. Your hide also feels strange - thicker, tougher, and strangely dry... Unfortunately, it seems that it is no longer capable of osmosis on such an advanced level - production of mucus is now impossible.

Runt's also nearby - except he's no longer a runt. He appears to have been feasting off everything that your rope has caught and without a pack to steal his food. He's slightly larger than the average rat, about your size, in fact.

So! You're awake once more, and you're free to do whatever you please. What actions do you try to take on this fine, new day?

>>6216775
Oh, one final trait.

Your head also feels quite bulky and swollen. Nothing negative, really - just an enlarged nerve cluster.

>>6216775
Attempt to build another fishing line, or perhaps some sort of dam or another device to capture more food.
Then feast!

>>6216819
hm...
that gives me an idea...

try and attract runt's attention.

is there anything left of the carcass or any other things nearby that we can use to attract more flys? Flys lay eggs, eggs = maggots

>>6216831
>>6216832
Runt immediately glances up and observes you lazily.
"Acknowledgement. Accessment. Dismissal."
Runt looks aways.
Did you really just hear that? No, you didn't hear anything. You... thought that. Except it wasn't you thinking. It was something else thinking. This is deep shit.

But, still, time for gathering food. Slipping into the water, you glide through it with grace and ease using your new fins. You manage to a length of dental floss between your teeth and drag it towards a surface. You manage to pack down two fairly solid pieces of turd over the floss, one on each end, using your fins. It's rather easy, in fact.

So, there. Another fishing line built, but not as fast as it could've been built. That damn egg sac is slowing you down - you need to find somewhere to store your eggs.

>>6216885
There's all sorts of god awful detritus floating down the canal of sewage.

find pile of safe yummy refuse to lay eggs in.

find a rat other than runt. kill it. drag it to the fishing lines. and dump your eggs in its carcass

>>6216937
You need to be careful. Other creatures might see your eggs as food - or your eggs might be washed away. If this batch of eggs is completely eliminated, any chance of continuing your line ends. You will be the first - and the last - of your kind.

As for a patch of refuse, there is currently not a large patch in the area. Do you wish to try and assemble a nest, or will you try and locate one to obtain from another location?

how big is the eggsac?

Is it small enough to plant inside a cockroach or similar bug?

>>6216988
...are there any fish or other aquatic predators that we know of in the sewer water? Can we build a nest under water and lay the eggs there? Will they be safe?

>>6216988
I suggest we kill Runt and lay our eggs in his body.

>>6217006
No, Runt is a good minion. We keep him with us.

>>6216990
It's a small sac of eggs on the bottom of you - just under an inch in diameter, bulging with two dozen or so eggs.

So, one person suggested locating a nest or perhaps assembling one. One person wants to put it in a rat carcass, another ones to stash in in a cockroach. Remember, the eggs need to be kept in a nice, safe environment where they won't be harmed.

>>6217004
You've seen that the rats are capable of swimming in the water. You're not aware of any predatory fish or any fish present at all - except for maybe delicious silverfish, but those don't really count at all.

get a rat to put them in and have runt help find one

>>6217066
All in favour?

yes, find a rat, or better yet a cat or something, to kill and eat and lay eggs in.

>>6217112
Aye

Do you wish to return to the fast food pack in order to obtain the future carcass, or do you want to locate fresher pastures?

>>6217157
we need to find a rat that is alone, not a pack of them. While we do have better offensive now, we've lost our bad taste and slime defense, and might be ate by the pack.

Find greener pastures.

>>6217157
the pack will have atracted other things by now so "fresher pastures" it is

>>6217157
fast food will only bring more vermin as it grows rancid... go with it.

Runt seems to be getting a bit hard to control. Perhaps we should just put the eggs in Runt.


holy shit that is a weird fucking sentence taken out of context.

>>6217233

the fact that we can read thoughts might imply that we may be able to control or at least imply more then emotion.

and having a rat at our side means we can take one more or larger creatures and their delicious internal organs.

>>6217271
Well why don't we send Runt out to kill a rat - or a small mouse or something - and bring it back to us. We don't need to go out ourselves and risk our lovely white body.

>>6217175
>>6217187
You head down the tunnels, away from the original direction that you came with.

You come across several tunnels, deciding to observe as many of them as possible before you make your pick.

The first choice appears to come from a mostly residential area - bathing chemicals, shit, piss, that sort of thing. Once in a while, something odd that was flushed down passes by.
The second choice is similar to the first, except there's also sweet, sweet fluids of all sorts of varieties flowing along with the excrement. Apparently there's a juice bar on the surface.
Third option is identical to the first.
Fourth option apparently has another fast food shop.
The fifth and final option is completely filled and polluted with chemicals more than anything else.

Then, the sewage line continues further, slowly fading into the distance. Do you wish to continue along it?

Bear in mind that along your way, you saw a handful of rats scurrying about their business, cockroaches, nesting flies, silverfish - there's an entire ecosystem down here.

What if we try to absorb some of the chemicals? Enhance our vomit?

Regardless, let's just kill a fish or a rat and stuff our eggs in their gut already.

>>6217305

Return back to find a rat that is half your size, or just about. Send thoughts that you are interesting and bring it back to your net area. When you are there, kill it and place your eggsac inside of its carcass. If this is too much, then just make you seem interesting to a rat and when it comes close, kill it. Then lay your eggsac inside.

>>6217334
The last time you bathed in chemicals, you almost died and you were left with hefty burn marks. There's still a few of them left on you, even after gestation.

head down the ff tunnel and kill the first rat smaller than you that you see. then drag its corpse to the fishing lines

>>6217346
this. try out the new spitty thing too.

>>6217346
oh sweet slug god this

>>6217346
Half your size? That's a hard find - at this stage, the only rat that's approximately that size is a runt.

You waddle back, remaining discrete for the most part. Cockroaches, maggot-shite, silverfish, maggot-shite, cockroaches, rat, cockroaches, rats, maggot-shite, maggot-shite... Bingo. You see a small runt desperately trying to feed off of the carcass of a recently deceased cockroach, but its being pulled away by its kind. You call to it, trying to lure it closer.
"Interest."
Its ears perk up and it darts after you. It reminds you of Runt but... well, things change. You continue to project the thought and it continues to remain interested, trying to stalk you as you waddle and slither along, eventually all the way back to your fishing lines.

Action?

>>6217346
second

>>6217442
Kill it and lay eggs

>>6217452
Yes, but how do you wish to try and kill it?

>>6217461
Bite it's head off, if our teeth are durable enough. If not, then try to drown it some how. Or crush it. Whatever works and the corpse is still usable for egg laying.

>>6217461
Have Runt identify it as a rival (but not necessarily a food source) and kill it.

snap its spine so it cant move but make sure not to kill it then gnaw a small hole in its chest and lay the eggs on the inside
Finnaly vomit all over it so nothing will eat it and BAM safe,warm,delicous,fresh nursury for our eggs

>>6217490
>>6217502
>>6217510
Lots of different options here.

>>6217510
Now that is just horrifying.

Tell Runt to kill it.

Hit it in the face with our bile vomit.

Finish in for the kill ourselves if needed.

>>6217510
this

i want more vomit action

>>6217510
I'd be for this, except we might not be able to kill it single-handed.

I am for the drowning idea.

QUESTION: Do we have any idea how long it takes our eggs to hatch?

The drowning idea could work, then throwing bile all over it. But do we know how fast the water is moving?

Just puke acid into its face and be done with it.

OR

We could use our psychic powers to make it compliant and make just a small hole to stuff the eggs in, cauterize it with acid, and leave the rat to go about its business until the eggs hatch. Sort of like some insects do.

>>6217510
...
Can't we just feed it, and convince them to build a nest out of food from the fishing lines...?

The innocent, weak little child of a rat slowly crawls forward, inching towards you once you stop and lie still. Three feet - two feet - one foot and BAM. You spit out that wad of something that was stuck in the back of your throat and a glob of disgusting, viscous liquid impacts the runty thing, causing it to squeal and struggle.
"Pain and distress! Pain and distress!"
Apparently, this latest invention of yours hurts it. It continues to wriggle and scream on the floor, in obvious pain. You decide there is no need for Runt and you make your approach, waddling over to it on your fins.
"Pain and distress!"
You wrap your maw around its skull.
"Pain and distress!"
You bite down - hard, savagely waving the carcass from side to side.
"Pain! Pain! Pain! Pai--"
Finally, the thoughts come to an end with a sudden, wet crack. You rip away the skull from the neck violently and you gnash it and grind it up before you swallow it.
"Hungry."
This time, it's Runt approaching the corpse of the rat that was so much like what he used to be. He doesn't care. He slowly creeps forward and in response - you vomit all over it, your acids pouring over the carcass. Hm. It appears that it is much more acidic than it used to be - but not enough to render the corpse useless. The fur melts away and the skin becomes patchy and rubbery, almost too easy to strip away from the bone. You rip the guts out of the poor, wretched carcass and you replace them with your egg sac.

There. You've got a nice little nest for your young that no one but the most desperate will eat, now it stinks of your vile innards. Where do you wish to place it?

>>6217658
I... I feel dirty now...

Place it in a dark corner in your area. Somewhere that's also damp, maybe warm.

>>6217686

Why? We're doing all we can to survive. Hopefully there won't be any adverse emotions or mental ideas, like the slug enjoys killing other creatures. As long as we do something with the corpse, we should be fine.

>>6217686
>>6217658
Goodie, now our conscience is scarred too
When can we start killing humans? There's never any guilt when we kill humans

>>6217691
You place it in a small corner and to keep it as warm as possible - and to attract possibly even more food - you pack fecal matter around it with your fins to attract blow-flies that will lay their eggs upon it.
There! Perfect. It's a work of art - you've designed a wonderful nest for your young.

Now you're free to engage in whatever you wish for the time being, now that you've laid your eggs. You can assemble more fishing lines, you can go out exploring, you can try and train Runt - the world is your oyster.

>>6217730
More fishing lines, then we can deal with Runt while the food accumulates.
We need it so Runt can fight for us on demand if possible...

>>6217721
Humans are the masters of the known universe, as far as you're concerned - everywhere you go, they're there - they built everything, everywhere you've ever been.

You're still a long way from being able to defeat humans.

train runt before anything else
his attitude is pissing me off

>>6217730

Try to train Runt to "recruit" smaller rats, for a based tribe. That, or tell him to explore a small proximity. We don't want him to die just yet.

>>6217750
>You're still a long way from being able to defeat humans.
Poisoned baby formula. Revenge must be had for the deaths of our brothers/sisters/whatevers!

One can always dream...

>>6217756
>>6217751

Put the two training ideas together.

You attempt to transmit your lesson to Runt. You want him to try and gather as many of his kind as possible, young rats, and try to take them back to you. Unfortunately, Runt stares at you blankly, before he rubs his skull.
"Confusion."
Fuck. Apparently, your telepathy still isn't top notch - such complex orders are currently beyond you. You might be able to train him to copy your actions - but it's not as simple as giving him an order and he does it immediately - unless he is able to compare the order to an example you've already given.

>>6217774
well I think we have enough brain power for simple dog style commands...

teach him to fetch, attack, sit, stay, rewarding each command training with a bit from the fishlines.

Guys, if we absorb DNA from whatever it is that we've eaten, we should totally go and explore what's up that residental drain. I'm curious about those weird things we saw floating out of that drain...

>>6217854
The "weird things" are probably, like, toys and whatever shit kids flush down the toilet.

Let's train Runt some and wait for our young to hatch.

Of course, the question is whether

A) Our young will serve us or just piss off elsewhere

B) Our young will attempt to kill us

>>6217837
This is pretty simple to do, so you do it to begin with, feeding yourself as you go along. It's quite simple stuff - you teach him the basics of staying, fetching, attacking, so on, so forth - and you reward him with food when he does it correctly, positively reinforcing it - which means he's much more likely to do it when you order it later on. Of course, if a reward stops coming, then eventually he'll become lazy again.

But, still, teaching such simple tricks is incredibly easy.

>>6217854
>I'm curious about those weird things we saw floating out of that drain...
You are one sick motherfucker, you know that?

>>6217920

Hey, we gotta get revenge on the humans! It's our mandate as a genetically modified creature!

You know what might be worth a try? Finding an ant colony and using our powers to influence the Queen, and thereby indirectly influence every ant in the colony.

Instant Ant Army. If we use Fire Ants (or Army Ants or whatever depending on where we are) we could use them as a horde to overwhelm practically anything in our size category, and as workers to build whatever we need.

>>6217906
Your children will take a while to hatch, at least - a handful of days, probably. You currently have no idea exactly how long you gestate for so if you gestate, you might not be there for their birthing.

You gestate when you reach a certain critical mass of food and when you believe you meet the requirement. You can pass time if you limit your diet - but there will also be lots of boring waiting involved.

So, is it important that you're awake to see the birth of your young?

>>6217826

OK, emotions? Lets get down to the very basics.

Runt feels really, really horny. The best thing in the world right now would be a lady rat of his own. He's been feeding and growing now, he's big and strong and doesn't have to put up with bigger rats kicking sewer-filth in his face any more.

He needs to bring a lady rat back here and father a shitload of baby rats, that's what he needs to do.

>>6217920

Hey, it's a reasonable point. At first, I thought it was just feces, but now that I recall, the slug knows what shit is. Maybe know we should go and explore that area and "experiment" a little bit with the strange objects and rats. That's more fucked up than just being curious.

>>6217826
Instead of having him gather young, how about lets get him to mate and then if we control him we easily control his offspring.

Transmit lust and other sexually related emotions to Runt.

>>6217972

Ratpimpdaddymind.

Runt grunts and starts as you transmit the new thoughts to him - forget getting him to steal children - get him to make his own! You imprint lust into his mind, over and over - lust is a natural emotion, although at that stage it was unimportant - he has no reason to try and reject it.
"Lust."
He climbs his feet and he skulks away, sniffing at the air as he tries to catch a scent. Eventually, he nods and stalks off, leaving you all on your lonesome.

Hold on a minute, guys

Runt won't bring his bitch back to the den, he'll just fuck her and waddle off.

Therefore, the kids will probably be born far away from us and beyond our influence unless we bring the pregnant rat back with us.

we have a couple lines, while runt is off on his own, we should try and make the lair a bit more defensible for the time being.

>>6218014

I think we should catch / eat a few silverfish, for genetic deversity... we can decide later if we want it or not, but lets at least have the option


not to mention we've already got fish like fins, they should be hard to get to.

So, would munching down on cockroaches meet with people's approval? They're a ready source of nutrients, and when metamorphosis time comes we'll be able to draw on the DNA of a highly-refined survivor species.

Also, the thought of a sentient slug-rat-roach hybrid is total nightmare-fuel.

And it normally takes about 3+ weeks for the kittens (rat babies) to be born. Longer than is needed for our babies to break out of their eggs.

>>6218066

This would be a good idea, even if it is strange. We should have a thick exoskeleten, at least for the time being. Then taking on somewhat larger creatures would be easier and not tasking. That is, when we get limbs.

>>6218069
Well then, we have just invested in a long term short boost in delicious meat for our kids, haven't we?

Looks around for things we can use as construction material. At the very least, make it so any would-be intruders preffer to go a certain route into the nest area.

You seem quite adamant on making the gene-pool more diverse so after getting one last snack of maggots from a nearby fecal pile, you make your exit, heading down towards the residential pipes.

On the way, you see the fast, agile little silverfish scuttling about, feasting on various sources of carbohydrates - soggy paper, various chemical patches, so on, so forth. There are also several cockroaches here and there, along with more maggot-shites and a handful of rats that are feasting on various piles of spoiled mea--
Suddenly, one of the rats is violently mauled by a blur that lands on top of it. The rest of them immediately scatter - you can feel their instinctively panic.
"CAT."

SHIT

>>6218127

FFFFFFFFFFFFF--

Get in the water! Do it!

Fuck, we could just into the water and we'd be fine.

But what if that cat finds our eggs?

OH FUCK NO
SPIT ALL YOUR WEAPONS RIGHT IN ITS FACE AND RUN LIKE A FUCKING OLYMPIAN

>>6218127
Attempt to influence the rats' collective emotions from "panic" to "KILL KILL KILL".

Best case scenario: The cat dies, we absorb delicious cat genes

Worst case scenario: All the rats die, we get delicious stockpile of food.

>>6218142

Our nest is covered in noxious slug-fly-rat barf. I think nothing's going to want to go anywhere near that.

yes a superior minion. while remaining ready to flee to a smaller tunnel attempt to impress a will to protect us on the cat "protect me" "obey me"

Dive into the water. Then quickly imprint interest and deep fascination of the water into the cat. Attempt to create a vice grip onto his foot as he nears the edge and snatch him into the water and drown him.

>>6218180
Close combat with an angry cat? fuck that

The cat swats at where the rats previously were - but they've dived into the water. Unfortunately, the cat's still a fair distance away, so when you launch your vomit at it (your viscous bile hasn't recollected itself yet), you only manage to splash it over its body - and draw its attention.
It coils up and dives for you, as you dive. A blur smashes into the location where you were a second before and you dive into the water, following the current.
It's rather peaceful and serene - you can see the rats swimming along. It's rather comical. Compared to them, you're ever so graceful in the water. Like a fish in the ocean; like a mighty shark; like a--
Splash. Did something just fall into the water?
Splash. No. That wasn't something falling to the water. It was a motherfucking paw.
That fucking cat is trying to swipe you out of the flow.

>>6218152

THIS. And the cat is probably too intelligent to command.

>>6218154
>>6218152


to somewhat combine these two actions:

First see if we can pressure the cats mind, force it kill specific rats, or prevent it from playing with us like a toy

if that doesn't work, immedietly change tactics calling all rats into a bloodrage in hopes of wounding / killing the cat.

>>6218152
This!

Think of that cats delicious meat/genes! CLAWS!

>>6218202

Swim away to live another day. Fuck trying to bite the cat. Thing will just bite us.

Any attempts to influence the rats fail - this is instinctive, primal fear. Every nerve is screaming at them to run.

Also, you just pissed off the cat with your vomit.

>>6218202

NOOOOOOO

LEAVE THE CAT, RUN AWAY!

yep make the rats all attack it

>>6218202
Give the cat the biggest dose of hate we can and direct it towards ourselves. We can very proficiently, whereas he cannot, forcing him to drown himself in the pursuit.

>>6218232

This. There's no way we can take down a cat on our own just yet, we'll have to wait until we're stronger.

Swim away and look for something safer to eat.

>>6218245

OP just made that undoable. Think of something else.

>>6218257
interesting. especially if we can make it attempt to enter a small tunnel that it will get stuck in. that would be very good

As we swim furiously, try to instill "Disgust! Dislike! No want!" in the cats mind about us.

IDIOTS!

Put "Swim" into the cat's mind. It will drown.

I think the hate idea is interesting assuming we can get to a smaller drain that it can't fit in

>>6218271

But the only question is: can we persuade it? It'd be safer just to swim back to our nest and hope that Runt returned with his rat-hooker.

>>6218285
Question: Is the stream that deep? Is the cat tall/short enough?

>>6218285
don't think the control is that power full yet

"Hate you. So pathetic. So weak. Disgusting prey. Maim you. Torment you. Kill you. Eat you. Hate you. So much."
The sadistic, almost intelligent thoughts of the cat are quite terrifying - and you only enhance it.
"Hate you. Hate you. HATE YOU. HATE YOU. HATEYOUHATEYOUHATEYOUHATEYOUHATEYOOOOOU."
The cat plunges towards your, mouth gaping open like a hideous abyss. As soon as it touches the water, it realizes its mistake and the flailing begins. You are agile enough to avoid the approaching maw - you've made your escape an-- no.
Pain.
Pain lances through your body as a paw wildly slashes through the water, striking your side. A single claw shreds one of your fragile flippers, the back left. It also digs into the flesh, creating a nasty gouge. However, the cat continues to flail, while you're swept away by the current. But you're injured and you need to do something about it, preferably fast.

>>6218285
You realize cats actually CAN swim, right? They just don't like water much.

>>6218317
It doesn't matter if we die, so long as our eggs survive

>>6218328
Nope, cats are mostly made of metal, aren't they? They have to cross by walking on the bottom

>>6218301
The stream of filth is approximately two feet deep.

>>6218317
Float away. Get out of water. Spit on wound to seal it. Find food, eat, then rest.

>>6218317
is this a guest appearance RAGEcat from /co/? personally I would imagine a cat to be a more playful and friendly sort of psychopath

>>6218358
Its a cat that lives in a sewer. It probably is not the friendliest cat.

Time to dive deeper and get back to the nest.

Gentlemen. I have a proposal.

I propose when we escape this blasted cat, we eat some of the tasty tasty silverfish in the water. We need to develop some gills, and become semi-aquatic.

Then we shall follow the sewer to the ocean. We shall command great armies of clams and molluscs. Poisonous sea-slugs shall be our brethren. We will amass a great horde and conquer the seas.

And then we will become Cloverfield.

could possibly spit on cat again since it's keeping it's head above water would let us get a little more distance and distract it probably

You puke a bit on your wound. Fuck, it burns but - it works. The surface layer of your flesh is digested and the wound's cauterized. It still hurts like fuck - but the chances of bleeding out are minimal.

After a short period of time, you start to swim against the current, going two, maybe three times slower than you were going down it. There's no sign of the cat - and unless you wish otherwise, you're heading back to your fishing line base.

Also, vomit on the cats face if we can. That should put it off its swimming.

>>6218411
>>6218393
>>6218384
You escaped it.

>>6218402
A suggestion, if the rats come back, perhaps we can confer to them that we defeated the dread cat. Maybe we can turn ourself into an urban legend or rat leader.

>>6218423
Trying to stick with rats is small time.

for the record, OP, this is an awesome concept that if followed all the way to its conclusion (Sewer Cloverfield) could be crazy epic

Anyway, I say we head back to the nest, nurse our wounds and wait for Runt to return.

Apparently you took longer than you look. When you surface near the fishing lines, sounds of struggling and wriggling are quite easy to hear, as well as straining and grunting sounds. Thoughts rain down on you like an April shower. Lust; excitement; enjoyment; etc. It seems like old Runt has found a catch.

Oh well. You can collect food from the fishing lne - and you feel the viscous bile collecting in the back of your throat once more.

>>6218465

We cant get DNA from all this random shit we are eating can we?

Lets eat some fish. We need to get gills so we can get into open water. SEWER CLOVERFIELD.

Return to our base and check the lines for food. Perhaps we should shave some for Runt and whoever he brings back home in hopes that they will make this there permanent nest.

>>6218473
I think the ocean is a good goal but I don't believe we should be in too much of a rush the sewers will limit the size of predators and thusly keep us safer while we collect dna

>>6218438
Nothing is small time if you have intelligence and a big enough swarm.

>>6218465

Impress on Runt's girlfriend that this area is an awesome place to nest and raise young - safe, secure, and plentiful food nearby.

Then we can start raising an army of rats from birth.

>>6218490
I don't think the Ocean is a good mid-term goal. There's too much shit in the ocean that could eat us even when we get big.

Instead, we should remain amphibious and become a hunter of back-alleys and marshlands, where few can challenge us. Then REVENGE.

>>6218502

Wrong quest thread, duder.

>>6218490

Well no, not the ocean for a while. But still, FINAL DESTINATION might be cool there.

Getting some kind of rottweiler sized cloverslug in the sewer, however, would then be a good deterrent if/when we finally make it to the ocean.

>>6218473
There aren't really any fish in the sewer. It's primarily a host of all sorts of varied insects. Sure, once in a while a few insects that have been flushed or fallen in drift past, such as cockroaches, silverfish, spiders...

... Waitaminute, was that a spider that just drifted past? The size of a fucking mug, as well, big damn ugly thing. A leg briefly got caught on one of the lines but it disentangled itself, wriggling about, trying to struggle towards a surface.

2rong thread bill
diety quest is ↓ thata eay

think we could find ants strength - body mass ratio of awsome

>>6218515

Ohoho - venom? Webs? Lots of eyes? Gotta get us some of that good shit.

Drown the fucker, then eat it. Don't get bitten.

>>6218515
Consume that shit

gain web-spinning abilities

coat webs with acid

ACID SPIDERMANSLUG

>>6218515
Are there any Alligators in the sewer by any chance? Maybe a small baby one?

>>6218515
DESTROY THAT FUCKER!

Venom, webbing, dexterity!

if we can spit in it's face we can fuck up it's ability to poison us and then we just go from there

>>6218549
THIS

rape the spider

eat its innards

>>6218540

FUCKING YES.

Croca-Clover-Slug.

>>6218549
If we can spit on it, it will most likely be injured. Our vomit is potent enough to burn a cat, should be enough to kill, or at least slow down a spider.

Get him out of the water via flinging the line. Spit. Nomnom.

You're currently in the water. Any attempt to vomit on it will be rendered pretty useless.

So, instead, you try to approach it and consume it. You catch a few legs in your maw and manage to chew them up - but a handful of the remaining limbs of the thing touch a wall and it begins to crawl on the dry surface, trying to escape from you.

Remember - at your size, its poison may be potent.

Alternate strategy: Seize control of its mind, make it spin webs to capture food for you.

>>6218585

Alternate-Alternate strategy: Eat it, spin our own webs, make super fishing nets.

>>6218585
little late we jsut ate a couple of it's legs but if we can get our hear above water we can spit on it's face that shoudl fuck it up good

>>6218582

We got spider DNA, I say we back off before it bites us.

crawl up a ways away from it and spit all over it

but we can get a much larger portion of the superior spider DNA if we can kill the whole fucker

Back off from it and spit. Keep at the edge of the water incase we need to dive and make a clean getaway.

It scrambles to its feet and immediately turns around, rearing its legs and hissing angrily, bearing its fangs and preparing to jump at you and bite you, injecting its poison into your body an--
Thwock.
Suddenly, the spider's knocked back by the wad of corrosive bile you had stored in your mouth the impact enough to send it sprawling and struggling about wildly. You're able to hear its distant squeals as it slowly dies, its central body burning away.

>>6218636
EAT THAT MOTHERFUCKER

>>6218636
fuck yea omnom that bastard

FUCK YEAH SEAKING

>>6218636
Snack time

I am getting way too into this game. Pretending to be a horrible mutant slug is both fascinating and horrifying.

It tries to clumsily crawl away as it sees the yawning abyss open up before it. One leg goes in. Then another. Then another. Then abdomen, then the torso, then the rest of the legs, inch, by inch, by inch. You begin to chew noisily, swallowing up the spider and digesting it.

Om. Nom. Nom.

What's next on the menu?

>>6218688
human children.

>>6218688
Baby Sewer Alligator!

>>6218688

Rest for another evolution? Possible?

WE ARE THE CLOVERSLUG

LOWER YOUR SHIELDS AND SURRENDER YOUR SHIPS

WE WILL ADD YOUR BIOLOGICAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL DISTINCTIVENESS TO OUR OWN

YOUR CULTURE WILL ADAPT TO SERVICE US

RESISTANCE IS FUTILE

go back to the nest
see if runt finnished yet

>>6218712
If you really want to, you need to consume more food, enough for you to enter a hibernation period where you're gestating.

You can choose to feed off of the stuff you catch in your fishing lines - or you can choose to feed off of other creatures that you locate.

>>6218688
COCKROACHES
ANTS

ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING

Continue to feed until we can evolve again.

this better end with us tearing apart a small town

>>6218688
Time to return to the nest and make plans!

Our children are the mission-vital. If they are lost, then we are a wonderful freak of nature that will be forgotten in time.

Also, another note for the future: Once the kids hatch, should we set them into different evolutionary groups? You become ocean-nommers, you become land-nommers, you become telephathic controller of army of ants, etc etc?

>>6218688
That cat almost wrecked our shit.
If we're safe here I want to play it safe until we evolve some better bug traits or get huge.
Was there any word on our natural life-span?

>>6218732

Fishing-line catches and easy prey - roaches, silverfish, that kind of thing. We've been injured already, we need to regain our strength before we try anything more ambitious.

Let's stick to our general area and keep eating and eating and eating.

>>6218746

Only if they eat everything, getting crazy genetic diversity, and then come home to be eaten by BIG PAPA.

>>6218746

You're getting too far ahead of us. Keep thin in mind (or on a Note Txt :P) and remind us when we've laid another egg and the others are still with us.

>>6218757
Some spiders have very long lifespans. Hell, if memory serves, some in China have been kept going by an order of monks for a good thousand years. Then again, who believes the Chinese?

>>6218757
You have no idea about natural life span. So, are we primarily agreed?

Silverfish, roaches and trash, ignore ants and rats and anything remotely threatening?

As for Runt and his mate - who is a rather standard rat, one of the lower members of the pack - they're finished and they're eating from the lines, consuming the scraps you've left them.

Is there any chance we can imprint some commands on Runt's ladyfriend while we grow fat on fishing?

Okay, here's the main points. Eat food, stay to our area, make sure Runt and his babe are all set and doing something worthwhile, check on our babies, rest, evolve.

>>6218799
Eat EVERYTHING. We must evolve.

>>6218807
Go on.

Also, we're remaining in this thread until gestation is complete. Noko if you have to, when autosaging begins.

>>6218799
Eat shit and occasionally keep Runt up to date on his training

>>6218799
I'm for trying to get some ant-buddies. They should be easy to control.

>>6218809

To add on, continue training Runt and name his mate "Lucretia." Also, train Lucretia basic commands, the same as Runt. Include "Attack" as an option, and "Wait, Follow and Stay"

You easily mange to corner and trap a roach, as well as consume several silverfish. They're fast and agile, but not when you splash vomit over them.

For the rest, you mainly consume trash and maggots. Standard schtick. You begin to notice that you're... kind of sweating. It's weighing you down a bit. The more you eat, the more you sweat.

Between eating, you tutor Runt's mate - let's just call her Crook for now, due to the crooked tail. The thick sweat is weighing you down even more.

You... Fuck, you need to rest. You need to process everything, you need to lie down and grow. Grow and grow and grow. Grow and change. Grow and evolve. But where? Where is truly safe?

>>6218852
I hope you don't mind me saying - but Lucretia's a bit difficult to remember.

Also, fuck it - the next post I make will be posted in a new thread, so say where you want to nest.

>>6218859
Bury ourselves in shit near our nest. Have Runt and his babe defend us and our eggs.

>>6218859
Next to our eggs, staying as hidden as possible? The lines nearby mean Runt and Crook will remain nearby. At the very least, they will distract anything that could harm us.

Everything Runt knows, although I wonder if we can use her to bring back some rats for us (to eat or otherwise). Something along the lines of "Go be sexy (imprint lust) and then run back here."

>>6218881
Or perhaps just be sexy while runt and I (us) lurk in the shadows. Then we rip the prey's throat out mid-hump. Coitus interruptuss to the extreme.

New thread, chaps.
>>6218941