Catch that goddamn rabbit.

harpoon it

Psychic Impulse: CATCH IT!

CATCH IT ALIVE, we need to interrogate it!

And THIS is why thumbclaws would be useful.

No, I'm NOT gonna drop the thumbclaws. That shit will be so effective it's insane.

>>6692664
We've tried that on lower life-forms before. Doesn't work.
EAT IT

Catch it!

>>6692664
"alright rabbit, we know you were in mr mcgregors garden last night but we'll let you go easy if you tell us who was with you..."

i think we found our new breeding stock if that is indeed a rabbit

btw what happened to our rats?

Interrogate it? It's a rabbit. Where do you find leafy green plants and hump? TELL US!

>>6692686
We might discover things about THE ENEMY that gives us tactical advantages.
It's always best to interrogate before killing.

"CATCHITCATCHITCATCHITCATCHIT."

You race towards it. So does Tank. So does... Well, almost a hundred of your people. The creature quickly find itself encircled and within a moment, is transformed from a living breathing bundle of fur into a pile of gore as it is shredded.

Pop. Pop pop pop. Suddenly, more of the lop-earred things are popping up from other holes, trying to sprint into the forest in fear.

Have Athlete establish the "hive." Have him and the swimmerspawn use their spinnerets to bind up dirt and make trapdoors.

>>6692694
We've tried that on lower life-forms before. Doesn't work.
EAT IT

>>6692694

It's a fucking rabbit, yo. They're not the smartest of creatures.

>>6692685
You have your four rats with you, too.

CATCH THEM! They might alert THE ENEMY!

psychicly stun them all

>>6692698
Oh YUM! Let our spawn go to town on them but try to secure one creature alive.

>>6692704
It's not a rabbit, it's a slugspawn. And you should know, in case you haven't read previous threads, that intelligence doesn't change.

>>6692713
This this this OH GOD THIS

>>6692698

Catch as many as possible, and try to take some of them alive with webspinners. Breeding stock = good.

>>6692718
i'm pretty sure they're just rabbits

>>6692719

Seconded. The more we use it, the better it gets.

Swimmerspawn take the lead, suddenly jumping forward and spitting out their harpoons, lancing the things. Tank jumps on one and mauls it while Athlete impales another by throwing one of his knives.

"Don't kill them all! By Slul-Huggoth, don't kill them all!"

However, that's rather difficult - casualties are still inflicted but by the time all of the rabbits are out of their warren, you have a total of...

12 dead rabbits and 4 alive, one with a broken leg.

Interrogate the faggots and eat the dead ones before they rot.

>>6692759
Seconded.

interrogate the rabbits!
if they dont speak torture the wounded one in front of the others until they give in

>>6692753
Eat a bit of one. Do we taste any of THE ENEMY in them?

>>6692753

Probe them with our minds.

How smart are rabbits, compared to rats? Could they be trained in the same way that our rats have been trained? They'll need to be let out to feed, how can we make sure they don't just run away?

>>6692759
>>6692765
They emit only one emotion. Compared to these things, rats are fucking geniuses. These motherfuckers are DENSE.
"Fear."
You torment the broken leg of the injured one.
"Fear."
You twist it and crush it further.
"Fear."
You smash it, break it, do all sorts of horrible, horrible things to the injured rabbit, before its heart finally gives out.
What's the response?
"Fear."

>>6692773
Can you read ? Bio clearly said they are slugspawn.

>>6692778
You also have two males, one female.
The dead one's a male.

lol
eat them and continue
1. expanding our new burrow and
2. exploring

Have we even asked some questions?

>>6692779
... Slugspawn is the name for the children of Guy and Girl. What are you on about? These are just rabbits. The Slugspawn just helped dig.

>>6692779
...Bio called them Rabbits.

>>6692779

Can you fucking read?

>>Suddenly, something pops up from a hole, knocking back a surprised Slugspawn. The furry object tries to dart away, with strong back legs, a pair of long ears and a furry bob of a tail.

>>The furry object tries to dart away, with strong back legs, a pair of long ears and a furry bob of a tail.

>>furry object
>>strong back legs
>>a pair of long ears
>>a furry bob of a tail.

It's a fucking rabbit. The only slugspawn here are ours.

Make a hole and put them inside, maybe they will breed.
Keep on digging.

>>6692814
You dig a hole, shove them in and give the telepathic command of 'stay'.
They have no reason to do it, but they just do it. They refuse to leave the hole for reasons they don't understand.
You leave them there and return to digging. Maybe they'll mate. Maybe they don't meanwhile, you need to make the burrow large enough for everyone to fit in, so digging commences.

Send people to collect branches and attempt to reinforce the hole as you go.
We don't want cave-ins!

>>6692837
Can we leave just a couple of spawn to keep an eye on the rabbits?

Idea: seal the hole with webbing from some of our spawn.

>>6692837

We'll need to spread out the excavated dirt a bit once we're dug in, so there's not a big fucking mound of fresh soil for anyone walking their dog to wander across.

>>6692855
the hole in which we shoved the rabbits in, that is.

>>6692851
This. Herderspawn. To look over what may be our rabbit den/feed pit.

>>6692861
Just toss it in the river.

get flyer to explore the surrounding area

Definitely keep zapping the rabbits with psychic commands. The rats too, come to that - get them to associate this place with "home" now, so they don't range too far - the rats have more autonomy than the rabbits, since they're smarter and can understand that where we are is where the food is. We'll soon have a meat farm up and running.

Meanwhile, get the scouts exploring the local area for signs of other interesting wildlife.

>>6692892
Yes.

Send out flyer to look for any major features we might have missed and to look for other animals, dens, caves, etc.

>>6692855
You send a pair of Swimmerspawn to web over the rabbit hutch, then you assign a pair of Slugspawn to watch over it closely.
The expansion of the den continues. It's supposed with branches gathered from the outside, reinforced so that it doesn't cave in.
Hours pass and it becomes quite impressive - you're building yourself quite the warren. It's already large enough to contain your current population. Athlete also came across a handful of snacks that the rabbits left behind and ate them. How you interpret his meaning is up to you.

Nonetheless, you have constructed a successful warren. Light's approaching.

>>6692892
I agree, but flier has to be real careful for owls or dangerous shit

>>6692906
How close are we to gestation?

>>6692899
>>6692892
Flyer goes up in a spiral, looking for what you requested - various other locations of importance.

>>6692906
Continue expanding.
MAKE A TEMPLE FOR OUR GOD AND IT'S PROPHET!

>>6692911
You're satiated. You require quite a feast to reach gestation state.

inb4 wait until dark again

we dont need to hide unless there's something to hide from. we're relatively hidden in the forest anyway, lets go out ourselves exploring with some scouts or someone exploring in other directions today, get the lay of the land

>>6692927
We ARE the temple. They can worship at us.

>>6692927
You bring water from the lake and you gather soil. Using your hands, both your larger ones and your more dextrous ones, you slowly construct and pack together an effigy of Slul-Huggoth.

Rabbits can burrow their way out of that hole.

>>6692958
We have them dominated. They don't want to.

During the day, take a few hours off to let all your spawn rest and preach the word of our god.
We must induce fanatism.

>>6692966
You gather your spawn into your chamber, except for Flyer. He's currently off scouting.

Time for a good old fashioned preaching - you haven't done this for a while and you need to inspire zeal much more - you need to give them reason to follow you, you need to inspire them.

>>6692966
Allowing them to believe in something greater than us was the single stupidest thing we've done. it gives them something else to serve and it gives them something else to QUESTION.

>>6692906
Snacks that the rabbits left behind? Like, veggies? Do we have herbivores/omnivores in the group?

Tell Athlete that while his initiative is valuable, as one of the strongest and brightest it is his (god-given) duty to care for those weaker than him. Which means not just scarfing down food as soon as he sees it.

>>6692982
We are the incarnation of Slul!

>>6692994
... Nevermind. It's best you don't know.

Poor, naive little Anonymous.

>>6692991
shut up, we're the ones who believe in something greater than ourselves, it was shul-huggoth who got us out of the science lab in the first place and granted us our gifts

>>6692998
And the second they stop believing that we're fucked. When they question it we kill them... but they began questioning pretty early. Now any questions are left unspoken. We have dissenters with us RIGHT NOW they are just too scared to admit it.

>>6692991
Nah, they won't question our motives if they truly believe that our word is the word of God.

I think we should pick a hunting-ground.

Find a spot that's got plenty of cover from which we and our spawn will be able to easily strike from ambush. Somewhere that's close enough to be convenient, but not right on the doorstep of our lair.

Broadcast a psychic summons to the woods - bring stuff there, wait and see what shows up, and take it down if it looks to have useful genes.

Saves on the legwork.

>>6692994
This.

Slul-Huggoth has decreed that the most powerful shall lead, but it is the duty of the powerful to put the weak before themselves.

>>6693015
Stop that.

>>6693018
...but they already have done!

>>6693015
Tell me a better method then.

>>6692991
We believe in Slul-Hugoth too. We didnt invent him to trick the younguns, we invented him as our powers of thought expanded far enough to think about the origination of the world.

>>6693023
This.

>>6693006
Oh, babies. Okay. That was my other guess, your wording just threw me off a bit.

Also, I was seeing a possible new exploit.

Oh yeah, let's talk about how smheck betrayed everyone by abandoning his duties and now he's doing a useless rebellion bound to failure.
Make him sound like he's a dick, much more than we are.

>>6693026
Seconding.

You begin to lecture Athlete about eating food that could be shared with others, and that Slul-Huggoth favours the strong, but he also supports the weak. Athlete radiates apologetic feelings - but fails to hide his irritation.

As for the rest, you lecture them about how you're the incarnation of Slul-Huggoth as his priest and as his servant. By serving you, they serve him. You are the chosen of Slul-Huggoth.

This goes on for quite some time. Perhaps even an hour or two. It should be light by now. Do you want to head back up to the surface and what do you want to do when you're there, after your little religious lecture?

>>6693062
shmeckeh is dead, we ate him ages ago

>>6693062
yes! Our own Goldstein to scapegoat!

>>6693062
Don't forget to emphasise his betrayal of us in our fight for survival. He would doom us all in his own greed!

can we get an idea of whats around us? north east south west style?

>>6693072
Speak with Athlete privately about his irritation. We can't let this fester.

>>6693072
Great! Creating our next enemy already. Thanks lecturefags.

Being an omnivore is a good thing. Satiating on plants is whatever, hell if we can learn to eat WOOD we'll be set and can focus entirely on acquiring good traits.

>>6693098
You approach Athlete.
"Yes, Patriarch?"
"You are irritated by the lessons I have for you. Do you not believe in Slul-Huggoth? Are you a traitor to our people, like Schmahkah?"
"No, Patriarch. I would never do that. However, it's just that Slul-Huggoth has never done that for me which he has done for you."
Next?

>>6693098
I agree. If he shows only one more sign of rebellion, whatever that is, impale his fucking face with our tongue.

>>6693118
explore more, follow the river farther

>>6693118
Ask him what Slul-Huggoth did for us that he didn't do for him

>>6693118
Explain that Slul-Hugoth works through us. We are the first! We are the principle of his chosen! He lifts us up that all the brood might prosper!

>>6693118
"Slul-Huggoth has seen fit to make you one of my most powerful grandspawn! I thank Slul-Huggoth for you."

>>6693136
>>6693144

Some combination of these two.

>>6693132
Excellent suggestion. I want to win Athlete over.

Personally, I think it might be a good idea to make Athlete best friends with Tank. That way favoritism of one over the other is averted, and we get two great soldiers that have emotional incentive to protect each other.

>>6693118
hahahaha

tell the greedy little fuck that you have had to work far harder and far longer than he has even been alive, and that slul-huggoth may yet reward him likewise, but only if his heart remains true to our cause.
Nothing worth having is free
hard work is it's own reward
etc etc etc

We need to get him more concerned with the safety and prosperity of our people than his own personal gain


Also, if he throws a tantrum or refuses to agree with our ideology we need to kill the little shit ASAP.

Like I said. In the last thread, when he first copped an attitude.

And will say again, as he slowly becomes more and more insolent.

And lastly, once more when he openly revolts and I slather heapings of "I told you so" all over anon

>>6693118
"Because we were the first, child. We are his will. But you are his fist."

Tell him that the gifts that you use were given to you by Slul-Huggoth. We are the manfestaion of his will.

>>6693132
"You say that Slul-Huggoth gave you the ability to leave the hands of man, Patriarch. You say that he helped you overcome challenges. There has never been a challenge that I cannot overcome by myself. I have never required the aid of Slul-Huggoth. I... I wonder if I even need Slul-Huggoth."
>>6693144
>>6693136
"So... What you're saying is that Slul-Huggoth gave me the ability to handle all the challenges that I face without difficulty? Wouldn't belief be so much easier if he was more openly? If his blessings were more obvious?"

>>6693173
"Your very existence is his blessing."

>>6693173
There was time before we could think. Before we could change. Before we existed.
His blessings are obvious in the long term.

oh fuck

we have to kill him guys

i dont know how to talk him out of this

>>6693173
"Slul-Huggoth works in ways that we might find confusing sometimes, since his mind is Superior to ours.
Don't think I had it easy escaping the humans or surviving! There is a difference between making it possible and making it easy."

>>6693188
Careful with that! If we show weakness when he feels so confident we might screw ourselves.

>>6693185
>>6693178
>>6693188
He is humbled and astonished. There is nothing false about these emotions unless he is a truly excellent liar. Athlete bows his head respectfully.
"I... Thank you for this lesson, Patriarch. I do my best to please you - and Slul-Huggoth."

Well, Athlete's been disciplined - and non-violently, too! Wow.

i didnt think we could do it
lets kill a deer now

/tg/ Tender enliGhtenment

So.
- Wait for the report of Flyer.
What else?

>>6693173

Slul-Hugoth's blessings are quite apparent, in the strength of our brood - of Athlete, of Tank, of Swimmer and all of the others, each so well-suited to their role.

It is Slul-Hugoth's will that our children prove themselves worthy of these blessings, by using them to strengthen and advance our brood as a whole.

As the brood prospers, so the individuals within it prosper; the stronger the brood, the more food we can gather; the more food we gather, the further we can evolve, with Slul-Hugoth's blessing.

We are the First, and we guide the brood, but always with the brood's prosperity in mind. We foster unity, we encourage cooperation, we demand loyalty to the will of Slul-Hugoth. The Traitor sought to place himself above the will of Slul-Hugoth, to divide our kind, to bend them to his own selfish will, and he was struck down.

We are the First. All are our children, and while we are sometimes harsh, it is always for the best of the brood.

Collect more stuff from water, send waterguys upstream to explore stealthily, wait for flyer report

>>6693234
slowpoke.jpg

>>6693233
Siren call, scout immediate locale, hunt jellies.

How far away are we from where the scouts disappeared?

Await flyer! Send swimmers upriver to harvest and gather information.

>>6693234
You announce this as your final, closing statement, screaming it throughout the hive. All of your children observe you, staring at you in wonderment. Athlete joins in the observation and expresses a single, honest emotion. Admiration.

>>6693233
Scout for more woodland beasties and send aquatics to scout upstream.

>>6693240

OK fine, just incorporate that into our future teachings. Pff.

>>6693253
"PRIDE"

>>6693253
Fuckyeah. I apologise to the original poster for the slowpoke comment.

And now... huntin'.

Time to lure in some delicious wildlife.

>>6693247
You have no idea how far you are from the surface.
"Well, my children. That concludes our lecture. Let us resume our hunt and our mission to turn this land into ours."

You ascend to the surface with your young following you. There's a massive feeling of admiration, strength and power amongs them. Nothing can stop you. But... Wait. What's the sniffing sound? It's not a Scoutspawn. It's too loud, too heavy, too clumsy. It's got to be an intruder, near the surface. With righteous fury welling up inside of you, you ascend towards the surface and glare out at the figure snuffling at your warren hole.

You come face to face with this.

1.Send aquaslugs to gather more food
2.Send two aquaslugs upriver to scout stealthily
3.Wait for report, meanwhile talk with Beast

psychic probe, how strong is its mind?

FOR THE BROOD! BIOMASS FOR THE SLUG GOD!

>>6693285

...shit.

Uh. We can't take this thing in a straight fight, no way.

My suggestion would be to use our psychic ability to render it vulnerable - convince it to sleep, or to lie down, or otherwise lower its guard so we can coup-de-grace it. If that's even possible.

Ffffffffffffff--

>>6693285
PSYCHIC BITCH-SLAP THAT FUCKER!

>>6693285
Psychic co-ordination of all spawn with harpoons to AIM FOR THE EYES.

>>6693285
Confuse it. Make it agitated, but unsure of what it sees.

>>6693291
It's not intelligent - but it's naturally resistant to your probing. It's a hardwired eating machine and little can change that.

Still, you can have some affect on it.

coordinate a simultaneous psychic attack with athlete while everyone with a harpoon shoots at the face/head

>>6693303
yes. this. hellthis.

scatter, surround and attack

HOLY FUCKING SHIT

SPRINT away to take its attention
lead it in a circle so our young have enough time to form a pincer menuever

>>6693303
This.

>>6693301

No. Nothing that'll get it angry or on the offensive.

We need to soothe it, lull it, get it to relax.

*Then* kill it.

Delicious Bear Eyes!
Have Tank try to... well... TANK it.

It's cold but he's tough and EXPENDABLE.

Use mind-control! Try to communicate!
DON'T ATTACK
IT WILL GET US SQUISHED

>>6693314
Make it feel sleepy/coordinate w/. athlete.

Psychic the bear to sleep.

>>6693327
You've changed your EYE-GOUGING tune.

>>6693271
I seriously think this is a great idea.

Personally, I see some kind of wildcat as being greatly beneficial to us.
Regaining the semi-quadrupedal stance would be preferable, as four legs allow for much more speed than two, and some retractable claws would do us wonders.

>>6693334
Well it's just sniffing around, not actively eating us. EYESTAB comes later.

Maybe its time to try a new trick... we could have all our spawn attempt psychic communication with the Bear with a simple message of calming, soothing sleep.

Lullabywave.

Bio: To get the DNA off a creature is there any particular part we need to ingest or will a simple vampire-bloodsuck or nibble suffice?

You let out an angry hiss and your mouth opens wide, revealing inches of barbed calcium harpoon, rattling in your mouth. The bear grunts in confusion.
You fire and suddenly, there's' a loud roar and a spurt of blow. Zealous warcries suddenly yell as the bear leans back, going rampant and clawing at the air - the distance forces you to rip out the harpoon. Your children suddenly charge out and the armoured bulk of Tank collides with a leg - it's enough to make the confused, half-blinded bear lose balance.
You co-ordinate with Athlete almost instinctively, quickly relaying your commands, you circle around the bear, bombarding it with information, trying to confuse it and overload it. It thrashes about violently as the rest of your kind, slowly than you, Tank and Athlete, close in.
Then, it gets lucky. There's a paw smashing at the ground. Tank is knocked to the side and you're pretty sure you hear some chitin crack - but it's not a lethal crunch.
Unfortunately, Athlete is not as heavily armoured as Tank. And he's next in line for being hit by that single, powerful swipe.
Action?

Have all the spawn chant at it. All of them. Combined psychic super chant.

>>6693355

We need to get a sizeable chunk in order to steal DNA. Like, a couple of mouthfuls at least.

I don't think the bear will agree to such a donation peacefully.

>>6693355
Usually a large chunk is suffice. At least a mouthful of flesh.

shove athlete to the ground

>>6693362
Harpoon the paw and try and hit the bear with a psychic blast.

GANG HARPOON IT'S THROAT!!

>>6693362
Give off a psychic signal of "Don't swipe! Look over there, it's something else more interesting!"

>>6693362

Warn Athlete if he's not aware already.

If there's any way we can haul his ass out of there without getting totally smushed ourselves, do so. We act for the good of the brood, after all.

>>6693363
>>6693374

Combine these two. get all of the spawn to supermegapsychicchant at the think and then harpoon the furry bastard.

>>6693387
Tell brood to harpoon bearcrotch, paw, face.
Warn Athlete.
Psychic blast bear.

Is our harpoon strong enough to yoink Athlete out of the way without killing him? Or at least, doing less damage than a bearswipe would?

If so, go for that.

>>6693380
"Get down!"
You leap towards Athlete, hoping to knock him out of the way and managing to smash him to the earth, knocking the wind out of the poor fellow. At the same time you hear a crack.
The roaring bear struggles to climb to its feet again but a harpoon strikes an arm. Then another hits a leg. Then another and another and another another.
Over fifty harpoons are being spat out at the beast, burying into its body from all directions as your young overwhelm it, screaming zealous warchants as they do so.

Within a minute, you have a groaning, writhing bear pinned to the soil by dozens of harpoons, with the rest of your young weighing it down with their bodies.

>>6693425

Go for the kill. Eyes, throat, let it bleed out.

Then FEAST.

>>6693425
FINISH HIM. Jump on that bear and start ripping.

>>6693425
immobilize it but don't kill it.
Later, make a mess and ritualistically kill it and share the meat and blood.

Check on Tank, make sure he's OK.

RIP AND TEAR

also wtf has fish beenn doing? tell him and his young to go fishing but send 5 to the sewer to wait for the scoutspawn
also tell them to at the first sign of trouble gtfo

>>6693441
I mean, make a mass of our god

>>6693425
We should probably allocate body parts as we did with our last BIG kill.

I say we get the brain, Athlete gets the heart and Tank gets the... hmmm he needs something nice for taking out a leg.

>>6693452
Tank's okay. Chitin on his back was pierced, but it's nothing too serious.
Athlete climbs to his feet and brushes itself off.
The bear continues to try to flail but is weighed down over by a hundred of your young.

>>6693469
The claws and arms, so that he may gain its strength.

>>6693469

Tank can have a paw, with all the claws and strength and stuff. The weapon of the bear.

Yeah good idea. Let's kill it and ritualistically give off pieces of it to everyone.
Who helped gets the most.

>>6693473
FINISH HIM!

Let Tank or Athlete have the honor of dealing the final blow before everyone feasts and gets praises from daddy.

>>6693507
Let Tank and Athlete deal the last blow TOGETHER to create a comradre and remind them they are SLUG BROTHERS

>>6693515
this. not saying it though of course.

i say we set aside 1 limb for the fish spawn
they deserve love too you guys!

- We should kill the bear now, too prevent it from mauling anyone else.
- Make ritualistic gifts of bone/tooth/claws (Clawnecklace for tank?).

Feast, allocating different parts?
Make tools from corpse. Get Athlete to be in charge of this activity.
Tell tank to heal himself as much as possible during his next gestation.

For starters this is possibly the most awesome thing I've read, ever.
Also, I agree with the whole ritualistic feeding thing. Give each a equal portion with special honors going to those who helped and were injured, tank and athlete.

>>6693521
There has to be enough for everyone, but do call the ocean team back here if possible.

>>6693515
FUCK YEAH SLUGBROFIST

>>6693515
This

I AM PLEASED.

You request Tank and Athlete to step forward and you request the dagger of Athlete. Bemused, he offers it and you step up on to the bear's chest, inviting them to join you as you do so. You slice open the bear's stomach, revealing its guts to all.

You release a sudden psychic scream, not of an emotion, but a concept. Something dear to all of you. Something that deserves nothing but your upmost praise.
"Slug-Huggoth!"
They scream right back at you.
"Slug-Huggoth!"
Then, you raise the dagger above your head and let out a mindless roar, allowing your two favoured sons to feast. The creature lets out an injured, wounded, tired cry and continues to wriggle and struggle - but eventually the movements die as Tank and Athlete both feast on its entrails, tearing it apart from the inside out.
"I shall consume the brain so that I may take its knowledge and prowess as a hunter of this land! Athlete shall consume the heart for his compassion and understanding of Slul-Huggoth! Tank shall consume the arms so that he may gain the strength and the fury of this mighty beast! Feast, my children, feast!"

And you feast.

What in the name of Slul-Hugoth's great grey tentacles happened to Bio's last post? I could've sworn it was there a second ago.

>>6693580
and there it is again. Sorcery, I tell you!

>>6693578
*PRIDE*
*EAT*
*MAYBE GET SOMEONE TO DUMP A CHUNK IN THE RIVER FOR OUR FISHY FRIENDS*

>>6693592
it was altered slightly to accomodate athlete and tanks pride of place.

>>6693578
Huzzah!

>>6693594

Slugbearfish?

I demand you step back from the brink of insanity!

>>6693610
I dive right on in motherfucker... so I second the bear-chunk to the river plan.

After eating, make sure you leave the bones and order Athlete to fabricate more tools from them.

Can we have a headcount to see if we took any losses and assess damage? What was the crunch?

>>6693594
Your fishy friends return with three dozen Warty Comb Jellies and deposit them on the shore, accepting their share of the feast - a leg that you deposit in the ocean for them.

You're quickly becoming bloated - in fact, you notice that Swimmer, Tank, Scout, Guy, Girl, Athlete and Fish - they're all exuding a strange, thick liquid of a reddish hue that is sticking to their bodies, slowing them down and hindering their movements.

This bear is enough for them to reach gestation.

>>6693594
Feed the fishes!

For those that don't know:
irc.rizon.net
SlugQuest

>>6693628
All of the strongest will be gestating? .... Fuuuuck.

>>6693628
Back into the hutch to gestate.

>>6693628
Shit. We don't want to ALL be in gestation at the same time. I say we let them go first.

>>6693627
The bear appears to have broken a paw somehow. That seems to be the most likely cause.
As for the losses, the falling bear did squash two Slugspawn.

Wait for flyer to come back, take turns for evolution.

>>6693628

We need to hold back so we don't gestate just yet. Let our spawn gestate first, before we go into metamorphosis. Having all of our brood's most powerful members out of action at once is a recipe for disaster.

The more your children eat, the closer they're all getting to gestation. This bear is fucking huge. If you carry on eating this thing and don't preserve it, a large amount of the spawn will also gestate.

Dude, we killed a fucking bear.

We are awesome.

>>6693665
Well start cutting it and preserving it then!
Remember to take the pelt for yourself.
Claws and teeth are to be made necklaces for Tank and Athlete respectively.
Talk to Tank.

>>6693665
Get them to STOP EATING with a psychic message and drag the rest into the new hive.

Have the ones who need to gestate go down into the lower tunnels so we can guard them.

Have our spawn gestate in shifts, so maybe a third of them are out of action at a time.

The littlespawn should go for combined rabbit, bear and bug traits if possible. Fast-running, but strong and with claws.

>>6693694
This.

Go ahead and let most of them gestate underground. We'll watch out and wait for flyer.

>>6693685
>>6693690
"Stop eating! Start cutting off the meat and get it into the hive! We cannot waste it all now and gorge ourselves! We would leave ourselves weak! Vulnerable!"

You're quite sure to try and rip off the pelt where you can and see to it that the bones are mostly untouched. You also gather the teeth, to craft into necklaces later.

You also talk to with Tank.
"How are you holding up, son?"
"As well as I can, Patriarch. But... Are you sure you're doing the right thing? Trusting Athlete like that? He does not respect any of us."

>>6693711
"What do you mean, son?"

>>6693720
You were calling him your son, because he is.

>>6693729
Eh, ok.
Ask him if there's any problem with everyone's relationships

>>6693711
"He did not respect us but now I beleive he does. he is inquisitive but he will learn."

>>6693749
ahhh crappilly worded sorry.

Back up whatever we decide with psychic good-vibes.

>>6693749
"What did he do?"
Don't sound inquisitive and agressive

>>6693711

"We have spoken with Athlete, and he now understands the importance of the brood. He is devoted to our protection, as you are. He is trusted, as you are."

Project feelings of love and reassurance at Tank, meanwhile. We've just had an awesome victory, we have plenty of food and a new home. Things are good.

>>6693746
"None that I can think of. I work well with Scout and Swimmer. The slug two work best together and I hear Swimmer works well with Fish. Scout and Flyer too. Do you know when Flyer will be coming back?"

>>6693770
"Nope, he should've already come back by now"
For how much was he gone now?

>>6693769
>>6693767
"If that is what you believe, Patriarch, then it is what I know. But, now, I must rest, with the rest of my siblings. In Slul-Huggoth's name." He projects a brief flash of respect - a form of salute before he steps into the heart of the hive. All seven of the gestating individuals are creating their cocoons and within seconds, they're nothing more than pulsating shells, to hatch in a week's time.

>>6693792
Flyer's been gone all night.

>>6693804
Lovely. Can we try and mentally contact flier?

Well let's wait then. We must NOT gestate in the meanwhile. We're going to have to wait them to evolve before gestating too.

Assign the littlespawn to clearing up the site of the fight - we don't want to draw attention to ourselves here. Get the remaining bits of bear out of view. We're a fair way from our original sewer, but we're still pretty close to human habitation. We can't risk discovery.

>>6693825
You do so. After a few hours work, there's no trace of the bear. Every bone and every piece of flesh is packed away inside of the hive, you've even made the bear tooth necklaces for your favoured sons.

No contact from Flyer.

>>6693844
Can we feel his presence mentally?

>>6693849
Too far away.

>>6693844
Shit. really can't afford to look for him.

>>6693814

This is the most awesome Quest thread I've read in recent memory. Thanks guys.

How big is flyer? I cant recall and its highly likely he's been eaten by birds.

Well then let's wait a week for our children to finish gestating. In the meanwhile train our psychic powers with birds and brainwash them to look for Flyer

Keep our eyes on the skies to look for flying creatures. if we spot ones (which aren't Flier himself) then we can try and psychically down them. Either to interrogate, enslave and send after flier or simply consume.

You wait the week.

You feast on the bear's remains and the jellyfish that are being gathered. You fashion several pelts for your favoured children to wear, as well as for you to wear as a form of cloak - it's pretty cold out. Flyer does not return. Twelve Swimspawn lay egg sacs in the hive - Athlete's children.

Now the week is over and the gestating children are about to hatch.

Anything you wish to do before you observe this?

>>6693892
11 inches.

>>6693917
Flying creature psychic smackdown if we can. I'm in favour of the interrogation and enslavement plan.

Destroy the egg sacks. We really don't need any more spawns.

send some fish scouts to the sewer to see if the scoutspawn ever returned
all these missing kids are bad fucking news

>>6693924
You can't really specialize like that and not at that range with no idea of what your targets are.

>>6693926
Noooo. We DO need more spawn! We need a goddamn army. And Athletes children?! THEY WILL BE AWESOME.

>>6693945
I meant over the last week. Watching the skies and taking down any fliers we see... we had a whole week right?

>>6693926

This is true - we don't want to risk unchecked population expansion just yet. Destroy most of the eggsacks. Save one.

We do this for the good of the brood. We take no joy in it, and the eggs we destroy are to be consumed by those of the smaller spawn that we select, in order that they might add Athlete's fine traits to their own when they gestate. They will be his children instead.

>>6693946
We don't need a lot of problematic intelligent children.
Besides, we don't have to build a real army before we know the number of enemies.
Too many and we might get discovered

>>6693958
Too few and we might get overwhelmed.

>>6693955
What? No.

as long as we eat at least one of his children to better ourselves, I'm cool.

>>6693955
No! We need vast numbers! We WANT vast numbers! This goes against everything we've been working towards. We need a swarm!

Fishspawn sent to the sewers confirm a lack of Scoutspawn.

Over the week, you've been interrogating various different types of birds that you've brought down. None of them have eaten anything remotely related to Flyer. So, you've just eaten them.

Your children are hatching from gestation. Posting updated forms in a new thread.

Encourage intelligence and strength. Let breeding take place freely. Only control what happens when it is needed.

>>6693963

Bear in mind that if the Enemy is remaining in the sewers, they're going to have to restrain their breeding too, or risk discovery - they're living right on the humans' doorstep, so if they overbreed and start having to roam further afield for food, they stand a higher chance of getting found out. If they're as cunning as they seem, they'll limit themselves like we are.

dont destroy any of the eggsacks!
expansion is our greatest asset

>>6693990
What on earth makes you think they've stayed in the sewers?!

>>6693991
No, it's not.
Evolution is our greatest asset.
Having 100+ children is already problematic, but having 300 is even worse

>>6693991
This. Very this. We need the numbers...

>>6694006
Having 100+ children just brought down a bear. We are a new species. We need to increase our numbers.

>>6693998

Warm, sheltered, safe.

>>6694020
Empty of new DNA.
Scout detected their presence near an exit.
Something in the forest has been killing our babies.

>>6694018

There is not an infinite supply of food animals in the local area. If we have too many offspring, we will exhaust the local hunting and have to range further afield. The further afield we go, the more likely it is that we'll get discovered by humans. If we get discovered by humans then we are all kinds of fucked, because they have a lot of advantages over us - they're intelligent, they're cooperative, they have access to all kinds of tools and weapons which will make short work of our brood.

We absolutely cannot afford to be discovered.

>>6694034
Yes. Eventually we're going have to range further afield and deal with humans. That's going to be true whatever happens. What's your plan, kill the hated enemy and then just sit in a fucking forest as a happy part of the ecosystem when we should be THE DOMINANT LIFE-FORM!

We need the numbers for the war with the enemy.
We can't afford to limit ourselves due to a little bit of cowardice.

Also. Tunnels.

>>6694051
We must evolve A LOT before attacking humans.
No no no, I say we stay there in our small community and evolve.
Once we are really ready, we have lots of orgies and then assault

>>6694034
if we get SO many as to be dangerous then we send off a second hive. We need to spread our species about soon anyway.

>>6694069
Yes, but thats in the distant future. As are consequences of potential overpopulation.

We need numbers for the war with the enemy because we dont just want to win... we want to win and still have a large enough horde to begin our machinations against the enemy.

New thread: >>6694095

>>6694051
I think our best option for attacking the humans is going into the sea. It will be easy to stay hidden and we can accumulate power until we are ready to rise up and crush the humans.

Bio, does evolving toward differing creatures effect the length of our reproduction and will we have trouble sexin each other up once we're like so far geneticaly and species...ally, seperated?

>>6694069

This.

Long-term plan:

1. Limit our numbers. Assimilate lots of different species' DNA until we or our spawn evolve a form that is optimal for FUCKING AWESOME HUMAN-KILLING APEX PREDATOR purposes.

2. Breed like crazy. Everyone gets pregnant all at once.

3. Harvest as much biomass as possible, get our new optimum brood to put all of their gestations into getting bigger.

4. Sweep out in a tide of fangs and claws and deadly cunning.

5. ?????

6. Profit.

>>6694107
Hmmm... we should let the eggs survive then. They are part swimmer... that also means they can hide in the larger body of water. Start on that suggested aqua-hive.

>>6694118
Then don't just kill them and waste potential soldiers! If we need to hide them they can hide in the water.

We...we shouldnt even bother caring about the humans for now except staying hidden. We cant possibly take on the entire human race and the military until we can pull a Thrint and mind control all of them.