What about mountain lion?

>>22124110
Mountain Lion:
Advantage: Carnivores, Natural weapons, Medium Body type.
Disadvantages: Low family mentality. Low battle sustainability in battle. (Meaning can take few hits)

>>22124168
>Low battle sustainability
>can take a few hits

oookay?

Wait. WHAT ABOUT A FISH. CAN WE HAVE A FISH?

>>22124213
Fish: (General fish)
Advantages: High swim speed, Can travel quickly in water, can use slight water magic naturally.
Disadvantages: Can only live in water. Can only eat bugs, algey, and other plants like that.

>>22124254
Yesssss, let's be a fish, grow some legs and start waterbending.

>>22124266
Any more votes? Or are we going with Fish race?

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>>22124375
hell yes
now we can fly around like this
without katara

>>22124399
I'll wait for three votes.

>>22124254
Mother.... fucking... fish time

I want gils

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THE FISH!

>DM puts notes away....
>"Alright, you are a fish..."

>>22124464
>>22124457
>>22124437
Fish it is?
--------
The fish of the river were the first to absorb the chemicals and magical liquids. Consuming the liquid along with their normal food. They gained a sort of...basic intelligence.

The now much more intelligent fish, and now much bigger fish, congregate in a small school in a huge lake where much of the water collected. The small area where they lived made them still nervous of the normal animals who would still pray apon them.

They feel a certain flow difference in the water to control a bit.

A: Work on some sort of homes.
B: Try to develop tools.
C: Work with the odd water flow feeling.
D: Write in.

>>22124430
Flying watetrbending fish!!!

>>22124545
C
(D) (Can we work towards a fish Hivemind?)

>>22124510
That was my first thought...
I THOUGHT you'd go for Sir Bearington...

>>22124545
C: Work with the odd water flow feeling

D) Search for an octupus' garden in the shade

>>22124545
write in. they form the school and it becomes a school for FISH MAGIC!

>>22124575
...I guess so?

>>22124545
>C!
Let's see what this weird new sensation is!

Then D. Try and find the best growing algae places and see why they're the best.

>>22124591
WE HIVEMIND NOW!

GLORIOUS MASTER FISH RACE

>>22124608
>>22124578
>>22124575
The flow around the fish is strong...as if it is the home they live in. A few jump to catch small birds, which they now can eat for their size, and water flowed with them!

Amazing...they make the water arch over the surface of the waters.

A: Work on some sort of homes.
B: Try to develop tools.
C: Work with the Water bending
D: Write in.

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Why should we go through all the time and effort to evolve legs?

Legs are the disgusting slaves of burden to those heathen land-dwellers.

Behold, the paragon of beauty!

>>22124619
Yesss, Just imagine our power over water when we become a hivemind. We can FLOOD THE WORLD AND TAKE IT AS OUR OWN

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>>22124636
D: Hivemind

>>22124636
D-Gain mental links, Form the hivemind!

>>22124682
we will become.....The School

Does our stream lead in to an ocean at any point or are we fresh water?

>>22124660
>>22124682
A slight...mental connection of the school is formed. None have true control them all, but all feel the same wants of the food. Many work easily enough for all of them to eat easily and such.

YOU GAINED THE BASIC OF A MENTAL LINK (AKA hivemind...because why the fuck not?)

The school has noticed very little left of the glowing gunk...perhaps the evolutional ooze is running out. (After two turns. No major adepts will be allowed like the auto mental links.)

A: Work on some sort of homes.
B: Try to develop tools.
C: Work with the odd water flow feeling.
D: Write in.

>>22124636
D) Link together into a fish hive mind.

For the great glub, by his gills we live, by his tail we move.

wait a minute, is this HIVEMIND, or a strong telepathic link?

because a hivemind could be a huge potential weakness. no individuality, no contrasting veiwpoints, no alternative perspectives...

>>22124722
C: Work with the odd water flow feeling.

we will be united like a good fashion ensemble

>>22124722
Tools, son
Let's try and form prehensile fins to use them perhaps?

>>22124722
D) Increase hive mind by developing a single large "brain" fish that can focus the hive mind through it.

Learn to coordinate fish and water bending to make being that can walk on land

>>22124750
we can't waste any more gunk

water-bending is infinitely more useful (and infinitly more adaptable) than any tool

>>22124769
see>>22124726

>>22124739
>>22124740
>>22124750
>>22124769
>>22124782
>>22124788
So...Hivemind or Magic?

>>22124801
Magic
Screw hivemind

>>22124782
Listen, we need not walk on land, not yet

We build our power, growing our water abilities.

when the time is right, we strike. All aquatic animals will be assimilated. The land will become sea. We Will Conquer All!

Giant robot water fish thingy!

LEt us increase our magical ability

>>22124828
shit nigga, who said anything about robots?

we haven't even started tools (not that we'll need them, with our magicks)

C

>>22124826
I guess this would be my second choice then

>>22124842
What about using robots to our advantage instead of waiting a long time to walk on land

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>>22124889
forgot image

>>22124835
>>22124854
>>22124857
A good bit more magic lets the fish expand the world of their rivers and lake. The water has been eating away at the lake and making wider and wider water.


A: Work on some sort of homes.
B: Try to develop tools.
C: Work with the odd water flow feeling.
D: Write in.

>>22124722
C: lets get some more water control

>>22124895
tools -> robots
seems like a longer path than
magic -> magic

>>22124903
see
>>22124909

>>22124903
>DM's face when nobody wants to do anything but C

we shall become masters of our domain!

>>22124903
C) Water bending, we needs it. Also I still say a hive mind focusing fish will work better, one smart enough to really apply the magic.

D) Culture
I want to paint a nice WATERcolour
GEDDIT

>>22124932

>we shall become masters of our domain!

We are masters of our domain

want more magiks

>>22124909
>>22124937
>>22124932
While using the last bit of the gunk as it flows through their systems...they make water drills. They dig through the stone of the river bed.

They make small holes to use as homes...each using the hivemind to connect to dig with the water drill,
A: Work on homes.
B: Try to develop tools.
C: Work with the odd water flow feeling.
D: Write in.

>>22124992
not until we can freeze & boil water, and move it at escape velocity with the precision of a brain surgeon

>>22125043
D) Increase the hive mind, create a brain fish as the focus so it can lead the other fish in more coordinated efforts and channel the hive mind for better water magic.

>>22125043
so...no more magicks? tools, then.
I guess

>>22125084
haven't you read Ender's Game?

create water pillar into the sky to use as sentry and find out about the surroundings

>>22125043
For god's sakes, A. There's no reason to keep on with the water bending if we don't provide some foundation for it. If we're going to establish any kind of empire, it needs infrastructure, and actual POPULATION

Lets get those homes made.

A: homes. Solely because the captcha told me too.

>>22125110
but they already made homes
we should make tools to make an even better infrastructure later on

>>22125135
I shall be back in a little bit.
I need to run a few errands. GO NUTS talking about fish people...

>>22125043
B: since water magic is not being changed so we need to work on other things until then

>>22125203
fish-people
now THERE's an idea

>>22125216

Fish people with waterbending and a hive mind...

Then all we need are giant robots that are powered by our fishy magiks

>>22125100
think about it wed know which way to find more water and we could force the wizard into to servitude to create more gunk

>>22125110
We Don't really need "Homes" We are fish AND a hivemind, the environment IS our home. We should work on expanding it and reinforcing our cultural identity, so we may control the legions of lesser fish as our vassals!

>>22125246
>we could force the wizard into to servitude to create more gunk
holy shit
so I think we can all agree that our endgame is to get to the wizard?

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>>22125238
Always with the robuts, this one.

>>22125292
I agree, we must enslave that wizard.

> Turns out the gunk is actually magically charged wizard shit, and he is the latrine cleaner for a magi college

let us search for the wizard

>>22125292
great endgame... the wizard, he will be sleeping with the fishes soon enough... I mean dead

>>22125238
Now Im not going to say the fish robot is a bad idea, Cuz it would be fricking awesome. But I think it may be Jumping the shark (pun intended). We have no reason to make our water bots yet. Perhaps when the invasion of the land begins they can walk afore our wave of watery change as harbingers for the new water-planet we will create. But until then we should focus on more direct improvements on our society.

We have our magic to a point where water will slowly eat at the land. That is acceptable....for now. We should focus on our infectious culture and tools so we may truly master the oceans. Our power over water will mean nothing if we cannot control the sharks and the rays that would otherwise devour us.

Captcha: Seamen Rlinkli

>>22125312
What's wrong with robots... nothing when they are powered by a hivemind of fishes with magical water powers

is searching for the wizard meta?
how could we really know about the wizard?

>>22125382
Just making sure we have an agenda for our land invasion and eventual search of the wizard

>>22125315
we could also get the wizard to teach us new magiks

>>22125292
OUR ENDGAME IS TO ENSLAVE THE WORLD UNDER OUR RULE!
WE ARE THE SCHOOL, WE WILL PURIFY THE WORLD WITH A WAVE OF SALTWATER. THE CREATURES OF THE SEAS WILL BOW OR BE DESTROYED. OUR DOMAIN WILL STRETCH SO FAR IT WILL OVERLAP ITSELF!

THIS IS OUR DESTINY!

>>22125382
We should also look into controlling crabs and other such creatures that can already walk on land... send them in as scouts and what not

>>22125406
So first we must develop meta magic... this can be done

to build robots we need tools but more important knowlede, nobody want magic-robots...

so TOOLS

>>22125406
well were actually building the tower to see our surroundings but if we happen to see a cottage from which magik gunk was dumped in the nearby area who can blame us for subjugating its inhabitants?

>>22125444
I did set tools as my last choice, I just like to talk about robots

ALL HAIL THE FISHY EMPIRE

>>22125444
I'd be okay with robots, but there's no possible way its feasible so I don't know why we keep talking about it
especially since we are of yet to begin tools

and I'm totally down with improving our society and rising above the other aquatic creatures - and I think the best way to do it tools

we do not need a crappy wizard to teach us of magics, We will learn ourselves. We will enslave the wizard and use HIM for our own expiriments. He will be a footnote, barely worth mentioning. Our armies will march afore the wave and all behind them will be restructured to our needs. This planet will fall before our fins. Our will will prevail. The lands are ours, It is our divine DUTY to conquer them!

>>22125496
I will leave it be until I see cause to bring up robots then

no we use tower to explore if we find wizard we can convince him that we are thankful for his help in giving us intelligence. Learn tools and culture from him and then when the time is right force him into subjugation, or overwhelm him with psychic powers and add him to the hive mind

>>22125512
also a valid plan i suppose

>>22125512
>>22125540
Both points are good
But I do like Impossiblu's idea most

i mean one fish cant do everything, so we need diffrent fishes like teacher, scientists, soldiers, docs and so on , maybe a social structure?

>>22125590
We can do that through hive mind, making genetically engineered specialized fish through our telepathic link. We need a leader fish to do this though.

>>22125512
We shall focus on tools for the time being. Infrastructure need only be slight, basic research structures and education facilities might be required, but due to the hivemind we have an aptitude for learning.

Our focus should be on constructing the tools of war. Anything that proves a threat to us MUST be eliminated.

Our first target of battle will be any predators within the lake that threaten The School, Then we will target the enemies of the spring, The bears, wolves and mountain lions that devour our kin.

Then we will look into the school of nueromancy. we will command the minds of lesser creatures, the smaller fish and crabs that populate the depths of our lake. And thus emerges the foundation for our aquatic empire.

Our first goal. From there we will begin our conquest of the nearest seas, and from there we will command the land.

our lake may need to become mobile for that to happen though, and we will need to build an immunity to salt water.

what's our food source? algae? we should be using the tools to improve our agrarian base to foster the growth of our population. hm... a telepathic link, would be pretty useful with a large population. just imagine the speed and to what scale our culture will grow to!

so I'm thinking tools for the sake of becoming more advanced, then work on our food source, thus boosting our population then working on the mind-link, and bada-bing bada-boom we're at full power! from here we can search for the wizard or enslave/culture other aquatic races.

>>22125580
I thought chancellor's plan was Stage One of Impossiblu's plan
there's no reason they can't conicide.
in fact, I think they fit quite naturally

>>22125633
what if we fuck up the ecosystem

>>22125633
Think the fish in a bubble of water except on a lakewide scale. That is our first longterm goal. Absolute mobility.

Of course we must also have the ability to DEFEND our bubble and eliminate all internal and immediate external threats.

Our final goal is to list the seas themselves to envelope the world in an endless ocean. From there we can only dream.

>>22125643
are we even omnivorous?

>>22125643
I suppose we should epand food and population, however we can eat birds and such, so we could making floating balls of shiny water to lure in birds and other animals, then drown them and eat them

>>22125733
I like the way you think

>>22125643
YES WE MUST FUEL OUR ARMIES!

Algae farms shall be our FIRST priority. Followed by weaponry! Then when we have built up the proper infrastructure we will conquer the lake entirely as our own. WE WILL DESTROY ANY ANIMAL FOOLISH ENOUGH TO COME NEAR AND USE THEIR BODIES TO FEED OUR ALGAE FARMS!

>>22125714
yes we are>>22124636

>>22125733
>Can only eat bugs, algey, and other plants like that.

>>22125748
Well impossblu, you will have my vote for the algea farms

>>22125765
>>22125784
I stand corrected!

>>22125733
Your Plan is excellent. The birds are little threat to us and we can use their bodies as fertalizer first. We need no weapon to overpower their pitiful struggles. They will be the key to our rise! FOR THE SCHOOL!

>>22125800
Yeah he said that in the beginning but I assumed the GM saying we could eat birds would override that earlier decision

>>22125833
For the School!

>>22125833
FOR THE SCHOOL

I propose that not only do we use the carcasses of our enemies to grow plants we use our own dead comrades as. Like how humans donate their bodies to science, the fish would be obligated to donate them to the cause of the school. a really utilitarian society. even in death we may aid our brothers and sisters!
because, come on. a telepathic school of fish? you're just asking for a

ALSO if we're using carcass-fertilizer farming, we're going to need to create side-pools separate from our main pool to prevent the spread of disease

>>22125926
AHEM you're just asking for a utilitarian society

>>22124213
few =/= a few
You silly buttmonkey.

Next Turn: Train "Tools" with an emphasis on agriculture so we might have the basics of ALGEA or INSECT farming.

Turn 2: Focus FARMING so we may capture birds and utilise their corpses to feed our algae farms and insect colonies and they may gro to support our budding nation

Turn 3: Focus TOOLS-Weaponry, We will arm ourselves with whatever we can, be it spears of wood launched through the water with our aquamancy or some other sort, we will be prepared to face basic threats.

Turn 4: focus TOOLS-Weaponry Never hurts to double up

Turn 5: Focus CONQUEST, We will take the LAKE as our own, no lake-predator can survive besides us.

Basic conquest plan. Present your own if you have better ideas! FOR THE SCHOOL!

It should be noted that algae is not a plant and does not need fertilizer. So we can use all of our carcasses on rice, or something.

>>22125926
good point about the side pools however we neednt force anyone to do anything the hive mind will make all fish submit to the wills of their brethren

>>22125962
For the School

>>22125994
oh yeah, of course. nobody would be forced, but I'm just saying that fish would feel that it's their civic duty

>>22125926
We use the carcasses for INSECT farming then! They will remove the need for cleaning by devouring all the meat and they will become plentiful and prosperous. We may need some infrastructure though.....hmmm we shall place FOCUS INFRASTRUCTURE in Turn 4 and move everything else up!. Remember, Plan mentioned is not set in stone Our actions will have reprecussions and we must be prepared to change the plan at a a whim depending on new information!

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We are the best of the Bass, May our fishy banners fly for all eternity, may our empire stand for a lifetime!

>>22126087
May the humans be tasty and not underestimated as a farmable resource.

>>22126087
Not sometimes fish always wins we overcome all

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>>22125962
we should develop our tools at least to the point at which we can build chinampas.
the Aztecs used these babies to bring in four crops a year to sustain a population of around 20 million

build up tools more, not necessarily weaponry though
not yet

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>>22126121
slightly better picture of the chinampas

>>22126121
I believe our crops are far more stable, Though I agree we must buil our power and strengthen ourselves before our inevetible conquest!

>>22126160
except algae doesn't require fertilization - its purely photosynthetic

algae is a great fallback, but I was looking for something to utilize the carcasses
that insect symbiosis was a good idea, btw.

I think we should focus more on magic. Tools are nice but when we can bend water to our will, we can shape it into whatever we want.

Why build spears when we can imitate the Archer Fish and just shoot water from our mouths, empowered by magic mind you, and kill water we want. We can run out of spears but we can't run out of water.

tl:dr Magic!

>>22126248
It is not sybiosis, They are like cows! We will breed lake snails slugs to massive proportions by feeding them birds, They will grow and we will devour them they shall be our primary source of food!

We can also have some other lake bugs so we can utilise any surplus resuources on further food production.

>>22125962
Uh...Ok?
You guys good for this plan for now?

Back by the way..,.

>>22126290
we all want more magic, that's why we're looking for the wizard

but OP said we can't level magic anymore>>22125043
re-reading that post, I realize that he kind of saved our asses from over-exposure

>>22126336
wait til you hear what we cooked up

and B: tools

>>22126290
AHEM, sheer Magic only goes so far. We need tools or at least the general IDEA of tools and weapons before we can actually use MAGIC for such purposes.

>>22126336
B:tools

FOR THE SCHOOL!

>>22126352
...I have a feeling I'm gonna end up like Blorp...

>>22126390
The ogres are chaos they gain power through luck, Fish are order, we gain power through absolute control! FOR THE SCHOOL!

>>22126374

FOOLS! With sheer magic, we can bend reality to our will and make it our bitch! Too much land? Turn it into water! To much air? Turn it into water! Not enough food! Turn it into water! Wait...I mean, just mind magic something to get us more food possibly. I don't know.

Its magic! I ain't got to explain shit!

>>22126375
>>22126352
The fish make simple tools from the stones moved by their tails. They had developed slightly longer fins and grip the stones in them.

They find a few sharp ones, and make small marks on the stones above holes on where they live to know where it is.

A: Work on homes.
B: Work on tools.
C: Work with the odd water flow feeling.
D: Write in.

>>22126468
We don't need to use fins, We have water magic. Underwater that is practically Telekinesis!

>>22126468
b.tools

>>22126468
Suggestion, Change the HOMES catagory int INFRASTRUCTURE that way we can make general improvements to buildings and organisations and such. Homes is an almost noncatagory for fish, especially hivemind fish.

>>22126468
B: tools

dang this society is slow. they're just now getting addresses?
and they can't even remember who's house is who just by the look of it?
maybe they have a large population or many tightly-packed identical homes. like swiss-cheese in the face of a rock
we need to get smarter.
anyway, tools

>>22126493
we don't know how precise that is underwater, what with the eddy currents
it would seem to me that water magic is most dexterous...outside of the water

>>22126468
(D) FARMING We shall use our tools and magic to learn to farm It shall be GLORIOUS and it will fuel our growing nation.

>>22126468
D) Increase the hive mind with the creation of a central brain fish, kind of like an overseer or synapse creature.

>>22126495
>>22126374
a combination of magic and tools would be awesome

like a Blowpipe to shoot water at even greater velocities (and thus distances), and with greater precision
waterwheels...I can't think of anything else

I am disappoint that no one has mentioned the Carp from Dorf Fortess.

>>22126554
Water magic working better OUT of water!?

This sir is a most base heresy!

>>22126468
farming specifically of the birds who will be lured in by shiny balls of water and then we use bird leftovers to harvest insects

>>22126523
Okay...
Tools then.
-----------
As they use the water magic to manipulate tools, they work on launching them out of the water hitting birds out of the air.

A: Work on Infrastructure.
B: Work on tools.
C: Work with the odd water flow feeling.
D: Write in.

>>22126572
its like you want them to be mindless drones. how will they have art or culture if most of the population are puppets for one smart fish? how are they supposed to have a society?

>>22126592
Indeed use the leftovers from the bird carcasses to farm and lure in insects to use as a livestock

>>22126592
I'll take tools for 200, Alex.
{btw, why is the magic option still there if we're not allowed to choose it?)

also, how were we planning on luring birds again, guys?
I'm not sure if they'll fall for floating balls of water.

FRIENDS! We must FOcus On the FARMS! FARMING IS A NECESITY FOR THE FUTURE! We need those SNAIL CORRALS! We need some way to fuel our growth before it causes our society to COLLAPSE! we must build supports before the bridge brothers.

Do not let the growth of the empire blind you! We must continue sustainably!

>>22126655
(I NEVER SAID...you weren't allowed to do magic.
You can...just won't be as fast as when the gunk was in the water.)

>>22126592
>>22126671

D: Farms for the empire

>>22126594

Mindless drone?! Don't be absurded! Under the Hivemind, we shall pool our weak, individual minds into one massive super concentrated, highly orgqnized, optimized life-form....I call it S.C.H.O.O.L.

>>22126655
birds wil be attracted to shiny things ergo water balls floating that reflect light attract birds

>>22126655
Reflective balls of water! or we can just envelope them in water and draw them into the depths!

>>22126672
ok. thank you for clarifying

>>22126691
Shiny things, of course!
that'll work for a little while, at least.
I hope these birds aren't smart birds, like crows.

>>22126707
is our water magic even powerful enough?

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>>22126691
>>22126682
>>22126671
The fish work on making small groups of floating balls in the air to have more plants grow...but the shine attracts many birds. Giving them many birds as food. Seems they're perfect Cattle.

A: Work on homes.
B: Work on tools.
C: Work with the odd water flow feeling.
D: Work on 'Farms'
E: Write in

>>22126761
work on farms

>>22126761
WRITE IN: we work on our magic, if we cant do that then Im going on tools

>>22126761
symbiosis with birds? sweet

work on tools

>>22126797
we'd get more bang for our buck with tools
magic improves at a decreased rate now

>>22126810
then tools

>>22126761
D: work on farms

>>22126799
>>22126810
>>22126827
The fish work on the large stones and make domes under the water with them. Putting a few on shore they make bowls they can put water in. Barely large enough they can use these to hop from shore to the bowls and back to take a look around.
A: Work on Infrastructure.
B: Work on tools.
C: Work with Magic
D: Work on Farms
E: Write in.

>>22126827
let me make a fish name now...

>>22126874
A

>>22126874

If we build infrastructure too quickly without tools, means of feeding ourselves, or magic, we may find ourselves vulnerable

>>22126874
infrastructure

>>22126874
infrastructure tower to use as sentry

>>22126874
A:Infrastructure

>>22126897
if we work on our infrastructure we will be able to grow faster wont we?

>>22126897
>mfw only we understand the dangers of building infrastructure without more advanced tools
>mfwihnf

>>22126930
if we have better tools we'll be able to build grander structures, faster, more efficiently, with less fishpower, and we'll be more advanced in gneneral

>>22126961
whats the score for infra and the score for tools atm?

>>22126961
You sir are clever. but we require a base to build from. Some infrastructure is better than none. Still your forward thinking is honorable.

>>22127039
is me

>>22126961
>>22127050
my general thought is build a base and then continue with advancing our tech

>>22127050
>>22127062
okay, I yield
I admit, one of my greatest faults is preparing too far ahead for every contingency.

...can we build a school for our school?

>>22127072
I agree we should have a place to teach our young the ways of fish magic and the glorious mission of fih manifest destiny

>>22126900
>>22126910
>>22126922
>>22126930
The homes have become more complex to a point. With the use of the water magic, it's become a slightly larger network of tunnels. Also, the fish have begun to lay eggs, they keep them in a large cave in the deepest part of the system.


A: Work on Infrastructure.
B: Work on tools.
C: Work with Magic
D: Work on Farms
E: Write in.

>>22124545
>pray apon
>not PREY UPON

:/

>>22127062
Indeed, We need to build up our weaponry and magic after the basic infrastructure.

Remember

Step 1. Build a sustainable society (Almost done)

Step 2. Destroy all nearby threats, First aquatic than terrestrial (this is only in the direct area of our lake. we will scare the bears and wolves away.)

Step 3. Subjucate local aquatic wildlife with magic. (and local terrestrial wildlife? we could just kill them all and devour em instead)

Step 4. Build Water magic to a point where lake mobilisation is possible

>>22127121
Also we will need a Grand Bass at some point, or a fish council so we may properly coordinate our fish efforts and government

>>22127140
I say we use senate system, young fish join the schools military where they master fish war and fish war magic. after they finish their time in military they are citizens and can vote on seats in the senate. fish rome.

I must play a noble game of Catan. My guidance will be absent for some time.
FOR THE FUTURE! FOR THE PLANET OF SEA! FOR THE SCHOOOOOOL!

>>22127121
>Step 3. Subjucate local aquatic wildlife with magic. (and local terrestrial wildlife? we could just kill them all and devour em instead)
But that would make us a threat, and other species would try to kill us.
I like the fish Rome idea, we will become the dominant culture on the planet!

>>22127098
I say we work on our magic a little more. In accordance with Impossiblu's plan, we can further our progress to completing step 4, and maybe even step 2 if we advance it enough. Besides, if we expand our Infrastructure too quickly without the proper equipment, then The School will fall before its time.

>>22127098
tools

>>22127186
your absence will be felt like a cold pebble upon a missing scale

>>22127251
expand it this once to get our base set up then work of things like tools or magic next turn. then we should probably work on the farm too...

>>22127140
some early, relatively complex African societies didn't have governing bodies, and they were perfectly peaceable and self-sustaining, even with large towns. It should be even easier for us, given our schooling nature and the link...Although those societies didn't exactly have many large building projects. So I guess I am in favor of appointing a Grand Bass

>>22127174
they should get general schooling on tools and regular magic along with their fish war and warmagic

>>22127245
I too, think we should lie low
no need to start an arms race. especially when we don't have arms. lol

>>22127098
A: Infrastrucutre

>>22127186
Getting late over here.
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/22124080/
Be on the look out for this thread tomorrow guys.

>>22127324
Sleep well, Squidface.

>>22127347
You guys are putting in ideas of fucking FISH ROME.
Your ideas will not let me sleep. I already know your worst enemy already.

>>22127382
cant help it.... fish rome just sounds so awesome...

>>22127382
Well when you let a whole lot of people control fishies then Rish rome is not far behind

>>22127423
what kind of gods will our fish rome clerics worship?

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While we take our nightly hiatus, I shall expand fish culture by writing fish poetry
Blub blub blub gulb,
bublb splish bub lbl,
wub wub bubble blob,
blub splash bub blub.

- Vlog the fish

>>22127499
Well that's easy
We worship:
The fish god that granted us magic
The fish god that granted us knowledge
The fish god that gave us water to live in
The list goes on

>>22127510
bravo good sir! tis beautiful! and such use of the word splish!

>>22127547
I was thinking the names, and species of said fish gods obviously the fish god of magiv is a mighty bass, the fish god of war is a fearsome gar, thefish goddess of the water is a beautifulbrim her scales flashing the colors of the entire lake.

no names made yet.

>>22127611
Glub the mighty (god of war)
Splash the Wise (god of magic)
Swish the Mother (goddess of the water)

>>22127510
Give a fish a bird, and you feed him for a day.
Teach a fish to farm, and you feed him for a lifetime.

- Confishius

>>22127654
>>22127652
Im going to screencap this for tommorrow :D

>>22127652
>>22127611
I like it

>>22127652
ok grog we need a few more gods now we have war magic and water, now we need a god/godess of death. or not. but she should probably be one of darkness as well. just wait till our fish necromancers start making abominations to help our armies fight.

Tools Tools Tools T-T- T- T-T- Tools

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>>22127950
well we are starting up tommorrow again so will have to wait till then

>>22127687
They are our 3 Pillars

>>22127998
I know

>>22128029
Im going to be stuck trying to visualize this all night. seriously going to dream this thread.

I hope the fish get access to rice

>>22128112
we farm algae bugs and birds atm, why rice?

Goodnite noble fish. May the empire Perch above all else and shine in the eyes of the Gods. May your magic strike true and your farms yield plenty. May the Armies of fishkind sweep through the Terresstrial nations and render them unto the sea. May all the Aquatics offer their fealty to the noble empire and the Grand Bass.

FOR THE EMPIRE! FOR THE SCHOOL! TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH AND THE ALLSEA WE SWIM SLOWLY TO GREATNESS BROTHERS BUT OUR TRUE GLORY SHALL SHINE IN OUR DREAMS!

Captcha: Founded byprsnf

yes today we have become the fishpeople and founded our empire! What awaits is a noble future!

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>>22128399
>May the empire Perch above all else

>>22128399
one question though, what about merpeople?

>>22128399
thats in the cap now. FOR THE SCHOOL!!!

>>22128475
We are Fish who also happen to be people

merpeople are half humans half fish

do you see the disconnect?

it is the difference between a Felid and a Kahjeet

>>22128500
I mean do we trade with these poor wretches, enslave them, learn from them, or destroy them? seems like the senate will have to discuss this at some time

>>22128556
They are a myth, and they will serve us or be destroyed like the Terrestrials

>>22128556
i think we should table this decision until first contact is made

>>22128112
Whoa, when did we start farming bugs? If we leave bird carcasses out to attract bugs, we're trading valuable, nutritious bird meat for petty insects.

Anyway, all societies are dependent on agriculture.
Algae and birds (and apparently bugs) won't be enough to sustain us for long. We're big enough to jump out of the water and catch and eat small birds, for Swish's sake! The way I see it, we're sedentary hunter-gatherers right now, hunting birds and gathering algae (which just grows on its own photo-synthetically, we can't really affect it). We need much more food to feed our larger bodies and our growing population. Soon, the algae will be little more than a garnish to us, a side dish to our crop. (Though we'll still need to eat it to prevent overgrowth from choking out our lake).

Then again, rice would be too easy, growing in the water. we'll probably get a more challenging crop.
...which we can't cook. We're going to need to start cooking our food to reap the full nutritional benefits and thus start growing larger brains. But how the hell do we tackle fire?

>>22128645
first of all infusing water with nutrients from corpses will cause algal growth, secondly we use the leftovers from the birds to catch bugs, like bones and stuff that fish dont digest too good

>>22128645
We need no FIRE! we can probably figure out how to catch and kill the other freshwater aquatics about. And have you forgotten the plan? the nearby terrestrials that have so plagued these waters will soon be LUNCH! Bears, Wolves, Mountain Lions, maybe a deer or two. We have no need for pitiful fire or human crops. Besides, where would we get the seeds? You are a FISH start acting like it!
FOR THE SCHOOL!

>>22128679
using the leftovers to catch bugs...very utilitarian. nice
but my point still stands about grains

>>22128717
besides we could always boil the water with magic around the food.

>>22128679
and eventually necromancer fish will use leftovers to help our army or so my hope runs. otherwise its still a useful idea

>>22128719
It falls because we have no ACCESS to grains, we have no seeds, no flame, no need for such terrestrial food. We are fish we are strongest in the oceans and rivers. We are devour what is foolish enough to cross our territory. no we have no need for petty grains. We will farm what plants and animals grow in the aquatic realm. How will we sustain wheat or barly when the world is entirely submerged?

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>>22128817
chinampas

Perhaps though, We would need fire....Unless we find a way to create water from nothing, or water from land we will need to melt the frozen ice caps that stand between the world and it's watery destiny. We will need a couple pyromancy fish....

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>>22128817
>>22128876
we would need landslaves. but I say we train crabs to help us farm algae.

>>22128763
can our magic even do that? as far as we know, our magic is only hydrokinetic. We should really test our capabilities and limits.

>>22128896
no with enough mastery over the water we could simply vibrate the H2O molecules causing the water to go from solid to liquid

>>22128876
much effort for little gain. If we do such a thing it shall be so we can create a sustainable food source for our Terrestrial Food Animals and Slaves. This will take place far in the future. Grains are almost useless as a fish food source with out much further adaption..

>>22128938
well, it holds up in theory...
it'd be slow going, but it could be done

>>22128910
which is why the school needs an academy, but if it cannot then we shall make the most amazing water spells ever....


also the look on all those landers faces when we swim up to them in our moving lake...

>>22128938
Good thinking Chancellor, With more ideas like this you're political career will soar. We need not waste time with Pyromancy if your theory holds true.

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>>22128959
farming for our terrestrial livestock I can get behind
I just really like chinampas

>>22128963
quite since we will need more mastery over water to aggressively move our pond we might as well finish the development of water magic to the extremes instead of starting a whole new discipline. Perhaps we could become adept enough to rip the water out of the landdwellers bodies

>>22129009
lolololol

>>22128963
with powerful enough water magic and a flying lake...
we could control the weather
Cloudmancy

>>22129013
now your talkin hemokinesis
that's a whole 'nother ballgame

>>22129013
why rip it from them when we can simply puppet them at will? It may be worth while to spread confusion through puppetry of friends and family... I think I may be a partially evil fish. I never noticed this before.

>>22129057
perhaps, but since plasma is primarily water, it should not be too difficult for a dedicated hyromancy school to solve, especially if we have terrestial livestock to practice on

>>22129013
We need at least branch into basic neuromancy so the denizens of the deep may obey our telepathic demands! We must do this before moving to the seas or we will have a rough time of it. we will face many threats in the ocean and we must spend our time wisely to be prepared.

>>22129081
we neednt cause puppetry we only need to show them that there is no use rebelling againist the almight school

>>22129081
Perhaps you be Vol the Viperfish?

>>22129081
puppetry is some seriously advanced hemokinesis
>>22129106
I'd have to agree with Impossiblu, a combination of hemokinesis and neuromancy would be the most effective for quelling our terrestrial slaves

but before ALL of this, we need to get that damn school built

>>22129158
agreed next mission for tomorrow build infrastructure for the school additionally we should strengthen our neural link so that advances in magic are more easily spread and easier to collaborate on

>>22129157
ah so I am. so I am...

>>22129158
agreed the school must have a school. even if they learn some magic in the army they will have to have some higher learning facility.

>>22129158
We only require a furtherance of our hivemind so our knowledge might be more easily shared. Perhaps instead of using magic we might focus on our mental prowess. Perhaps we might become powerful enough to subjugate the Aquatic masses merely through the power of our mind.

>>22129241
Perhaps we may bring creatures other than fish into the fold of our hivemind? Assimilate them with our personality. Have Crabforms and Sharkforms. perhaps some Terrestrial forms as well?

>>22129265
would our neural link work so well on...other species?
and aren't the crabs terrestrial-loving scum, traitors to the pure, loving waters?

>>22127382
>I already know your worst enemy already.

>>22129265
we may want to expand it slowly a psychic sensitive species may cause some slight damage to our link, causing weakness, if we do not ensure that we have complete mastery over them first

>>22129307
Crabs are the perfect agents of the terrestrial's demise, we shall not discriminate or squablle over such tools

>>22129429
surely for who will expect our small hardshell brother as an informant for the mighty school?

>>22129491
also what lander will look for them as they make their way into their homes with an mass dehydration enchantment? we may eliminate entire settlements before they become a threat. but not until our power is grown, best to not draw attention until we can bear scrutiny.