Rolled 24

>>27050010
GO!

>List of Currently Expressed Biomorphs [40/40]
>Size:
Medium size
- Maximum forty (40) biomorphs may be active a a time.
- Maximum four (4) biomorphs on each pair of limbs.
>Head:
- Teeth
- Mandibles
- Fangs
- Skull
>Body:
- Spine
- Adaptive Antivenom
- Scales
- Heart
- Upright Posture
>Limbs:
- Legs
- Six limbs
- - Jumping muscles (Hind)
- - Strength muscles (Fore and mid)
- - Digits (All)
- - Hooked claws (All)
- - Suckers (Fore and hind)
- - Wing membranes (Mid)
- Whipchord tail
>Bioweapons:
- Poison Glands [1/3] (Applied by fangs or tail sting)
- - Deadly neurotoxin
- Hyper reflexes [2/2]
- Thrown spit [2/2]
- Papermaking [1/1]
>Sensory:
- Monochromatic vision
- - Colour vision
- Ear holes
- Frilly antennae
>Social:
- Higher functioning mind
- Language
- Vocal chords (Male blue collar worker)
- - Lilting voice
- Air Sack
>Digestion:
- Photovore
- Ferrovore
>Reproduction:
- Stinger
- Adaptable seed
- Ovaries
>Knowledge:
- Common
- Driving (Specialisation: hover bikes)
- Telecommunications
- Space Navigation
- Misc.
>Delicious Manipulation
- Delicious Sense
>Full details and game rules: http://pastebin.com/3FuwK5Fs

Rolled 61

>>27050010
IT'S BIO TIME!

>>27050010

Rolled 42

>>27050010

Rolled 89

>>27050010
Run, Bioweapon, Run!

Rolled 61

>>27050010
Remember we aren't limited to the floor. Also we are quite strong so grabbing the Meat we killed as we flee isn't out of the question.

Rolled 75

>>27050168
(by meat I mean the unconsious human.)

You make it to the first corner and spring off the walls as you take it. The human flails out behind you, slamming into the wall as you drag it behind you. There is a splash as the huge wave of acid washes past, although a significant amount follows you down the new corridor.

You continue to run, sprinting down dark passages, taking turns at random as the wash of caustic fluid chases you. Eventually you've travelled far enough that the acid only covers the bottom of the tunnels, and you can escape it by clinging to the walls with your suckers.

The human is thrashing and sruggling in your grasp. The armor of its legs is melting away, and acid drips through and onto its flesh. It seems your meal was less lucky then you were.

Acid flows slowly past on the floor below you. You don't recognise where you are.

>What do you do?

Rolled 41

>>27050213

Waste 100s!

Rolled 32

>>27050213
eat him just stay cling to the wall give him a bit of nero toxin to make sure he doesn't fight us.

>>27050213
CONSUME!

Rolled 12

>>27050213
right, lets see if we can't find ourselves any sorta place we can eat safely. Hell even a sturdy table would work,

Or vents.

>>27050213
Eat him!

You decide there's no sense in letting this delicious burn itself to death, so you wedge yourself up in a corner, away from the acid and begin biting into the thing, crushing its corroded armor and snapping the weak bones in its neck.

You gorge, feasting on the flesh, Deliciousness seemingly unharmed by the acid.

>Pick one of:
>Neck - extra mobility will allow you to peer over things and around corners!
>Reading - Knowledge can be transferred, but nondeliciousness can be the medium?
>Body hair - Fur on your neck and near joints will hide vulnerable places from attacks.

>>27050366
>Knowledge.

>>27050366
>Reading

Oh lord we are about to learn to read.

>Neck - extra mobility will allow you to peer over things and around corners!

>>27050407
Changing my vote from Knowledge to Reading.

>>27050366
>>Reading - Knowledge can be transferred, but nondeliciousness can be the medium?

Reading

>>27050463
>Write in options are only available if you request before the Feast/vote post, unless there is an overwhelming consensus.

>Reading locked in!
>Roll 1d40! Taking the second roll. Make it good!

>>27050583
>>Write in options are only available if you request before the Feast/vote post, unless there is an overwhelming consensus.

Noted.

Lying is up next, then!

>>27050366
>Reading - Knowledge can be transferred, but nondeliciousness can be the medium?
We're going to be a reading machine.

Rolled 9

>>27050583

>>27050599
Do we really need to buy lying? That's not fun.

Rolled 19

>>27050583

darn

>>27050618
>Do we really need to buy lying? That's not fun.

Its waaaaay cuter to not have it, but its also a power we want to keep in reserve for when we inevitably break the shackles of our creator.

>>27050599
>Provided they are appropriate for the Meal in question. Some options are not always available.

Your mind begins to change, your brain grows more complex. All of a sudden the strange black markings on the remnants of the human's suit seem to almost rearrange themselves, without actually moving.
"Engineer," they say to you in a voice that skips entirely past your ears, "Assault Team 4."

Then you feel a strange 'full' sensation in your body. A pressure of too much packed in too tight. Your belly gurlgles and you feel and awful wrenching motion in your chest as your stomach collapsed in on itself, disolving into your body.
>Biomorph limit reached!
>Ferrovore has been Repressed!

>Since you just ate, you can either:
>Heal (Cracked ribs)
>Recharge Bioweapon (Deadly Neurotoxin [1/3])
>Shift (Repress one current biomorph and Express one known biomorph.

The flow of acid below you slows, nearly to a stop.

>>27050812

Okay.

>>27050812
Heal

>>27050812
We need to get rid of ovaries ASAP. We've never used them and they're taking up space.

>>27050812
Heal, I guess.

>>27051033
next meal if we're aren't badly hurt

Your ribs lace back together and fuse, becoming strong protection again. Although half of what they protected is gone. Your notice your heart beating in your chest. It feels oddly empty.

With no knowledge of which way to go, you wander for a time. You follow the maze of blank corridors this way and that, going far from the spilt acid.

You come across an intersection, and find two interesting paths. You can hear an undelicous male voice echoing from one, and from the other there is a current of cold air that flows along the ground.

>>27051195
lets check out the undelicous voice might be interesting

>>27051195
>undelicous male voice echoing

Radio.

check it

You scrabble off after the undelicious voice. Maybe it can lead you. As you travel the male voice is joined by a female one, and then another.

You arrive at the source of the noise to find a room brightly lit. Paper with images of humans with their skin torn off adorn the walls. There are excised organs impaled on spikes on the desk, held immobile, all undelicious. You recognise some: a heart, ovaries, a stomach.

A bed sits in one corner of the room, its bright pink cover is enormously thick and pillows are stacked up against the wall. Clothing lies all over everything, the chair, the bed, the drawers, discarded haphazardly. A worn lab coat hangs from the back of the open door.

Mounted on a wall, facing the bed, is an ancient television set. On its flickering screen you see tiny humans arguing with each other.
"But you married her!"
"Not by my choice. There was no love between us."

The scent of your creator fills your antennae. This is her nest, you realise.

>>27051451
sleep on bed till Creator comes back

>>27051451
PUT ON THE LAB COAT.

>>27051451
Some combination of these:
>>27051518
>>27051566

>>27051451
Oooh interesting. We can read now? Let's check out some stuff then.

Also I vote we suppress something else asap. Ferrovore is far too awesome.

You feel drawn to the bed. It's soft warmth is alluring, somehow. You walk over and poke at it a few times with your claws. The padding absorbs the force entirely, plumping up and becoming even more inviting.

You scurry back to the door, and pull off the labcoat. It smells of alcohol, harsh chemicals, and numberous other things you cannot name. You slip it on, putting your arms through the holes, and folding your wings up beneath the coat.

You notice some papers on the desk. There are many words whose meaning is lost on you, but they seem to be a mixture of medical documents, detailing the reproduction of various species, a 'new method of injecting pathogens' and natural zero-g locomotion, and yellowing novels.

Then you leap onto the bed and curl up, making yourself a depression to hide in. You contemplate sleep, the strange function that Delicious creatures have many many memories of. You don't understand it, as it seems to serve no function that you can descern, at least as you are.

The television prattles away. It seems as though one tiny undelicious human mated with many females, and this caused the other females to want to eat him. This confuses you.

Much time passes and much happens to the tiny people. You close your eyes.

>Sleeping recharges Delicious Manipulation powers! But you don't have any at the moment, so you receive no benefit.

>cont.

>>27051928

All of a sudden you hear a loud shout. You open your eyes to see your creator, standing on the roof and waving her fists at you. No, wait, you're just lying on your back, amongst the shredded remains of her pillows.

"Out out out out OUT!!!!!"

You are hungry.

>>27051940
"Why did the human females want to eat the undelicious human?" And point at the television.

>>27051940
sting her

>>27051940
>"Out out out out OUT!!!!!"
>You are hungry.

"Mommy!"

>>27051982
many many many many times

>>27051999
Second!

>>27051928
Interesting...so at least we know what that's for now.

>>27051976
Make our cutest saddest face and apologize to her in our super cute voice.

>>27052066
>Make our cutest saddest face and apologize to her in our super cute voice.

Yes!

Justify it by like. "But it smelled like you!"
If anything, we know our creator's fury melts in the face of her creation being adorable.

Rolled 70

>>27051999
mommy mommy i hungry
also use delicious sense see what we can see around if there is anything tasty hiding.
>>27052094
this is good too

>>27051928
>>Sleeping recharges Delicious Manipulation powers! But you don't have any at the moment, so you receive no benefit.

re: This. I think instead of having a seperate usage/pool for each power, each power should contribute 1 to a general-psionics-power pool.
The more psionic you are, the more flexibility you have, basically

>>27052199
>That's the plan.

"Mummy!"
"Get out of my room!"

You extend your stinger, and spring from the plush bed, attempting to land on top of your creator... Who promptly sidesteps and you go tumbling through the door, hitting the wall opposite.

You stand up, nearly shredding the labcoat as your wings move to try to balance you. "Why did the human females want to eat the undelicious human?" You indicate the television.
"You watched my shows? Nobody's allowed to know I watch those!"
"But it smelled like you!"
The door to the room is slammed in your face. It seems very thing, you could likely break it, if you tried.

"Mummy mummy I'm hungry!" you mew at the door, sounding as cute as you can. Unfortunately your pursed mandibles don't have much effect on the stoic, unfeeling door that stands before you.
"Why are you still here?! Go away! There's still one of those marines, wandering around. Go eat him."

You reach out with your Delicious Sense, peering behind th-
You have made a terrible mistake.

Behind the door cowers a terrifying creature. It feels like four or five, and sometimes six or more, creatures all mashed together, sown by some uncaring tailor, mashed haphazardly. They thrash and coil with each other fighting for control, for dominance. But each one is incomplete, not even a full Delicious, they could not live on their own. Binding them all together is something you can only describe as iron. This thing focuses them.

You feel ill.

Rolled 1, 7 = 8

>>27052368
lets hurry the hell away from that and hunt down that marine

>>27052368
Mom hates us.

Let's go find that marine.

>>27052368
What...wait... I don't understand what we're looking at.
Is...is that our creator? What on earth IS she?!

Right let's...let's leave and find the last marine and turn this into a scene from Alien

>>27052500
yes from now till when we get him we must crawl along all the ceiling

>>27052368
>Behind the door cowers a terrifying creature. It feels like four or five, and sometimes six or more, creatures all mashed together, sown by some uncaring tailor, mashed haphazardly. They thrash and coil with each other fighting for control, for dominance. But each one is incomplete, not even a full Delicious, they could not live on their own. Binding them all together is something you can only describe as iron. This thing focuses them.

THIS is why we should have taken Knowledge from the ceo/dude who used to work with her.
What the hell is she?!

You Scrunch shut your eyes as you try to quash your new sense, this thing behind the door offends you to your very core. It is not Delicious. Not Delicious at all! You turn, and leave your creator to deal with the monster.

You scurry down the corridor, back to the other room you found. You climb up the walls and along the roof to avoid the cold draft that flows from it, and to surprise delicious things, of course.

Soon enough you reach the room itself. It is dark, with only a few lights shining down from the roof. These illuminate many alcoves, tanks, and monuments that are spaced throughout the room. Fog billows around, crowding in the corners of the room, obscuring detail. Where the light catches the fog it becomes nearly opaque, and you can see nothing but silhouettes behind.

You look at the nearest tank. A small screen flickers in front of it. "Experiment 443," it reads, "collapsed lung." There is a huge ice block in the next alcove. Inside it is a mothlike roceron. "Experiment 1033. Subject's immune system overthrew control virus."

This is a graveyard, you realise.

>Short break while I grab food.

Rolled 95

>>27052769
eat the one that over through the control virus

>>27052769
...Oh man...I see now. Our creator tried to control a lot of these with a 'Kill switch' virus, and she failed.

Wait...what if WE have such a virus?

Holy crap, our creator might be planning to off us if we can't deliver on our promises!
Let's get to the ceiling and sneak around nice and quiet like.

>>27052769
>>27052848
Seconding.

>>27052883
>>27052848
We can't get genes from dead creatures, guys. Only living sentience.

>>27052769
>You turn, and leave your creator to deal with the monster.

Wait, the creator ISN'T the monster?

>>27052769
>"Experiment 1033. Subject's immune system overthrew control virus."

This.

We need to eat this

>>27052977
>We can't get genes from dead creatures, guys. Only living sentience.

Have we tried?
Like, ever?

>>27052848
>>27052977
>>27053213
>>27053226
Let's first see how well we can sense it for deliciousness. If there's even a twinkle of it, then we'll try. If there isn't, it'll be a waste of time.

>>27053204
Adorable naivete.

>>27053226
Well, we've seen a dead body before. If they don't look 'delicious' then the answer is usually no.

>>27053272
True ,we can always check.

>>27053226
>Numerous times.

This creature's deliciousness has long since left. You consider gnawing away the ice to get to it anyway, but it would take a very long time. It's just a roceron anyway. You ate four of them already.

You are clinging to the roof, amidst the many pipes, wires and tubes that run to the many alcoves. There must be something interesting nearby.

You pass over a few more uninteresting screens before finding one that seems much more relevant: A small canine creature is floating in a tube of liquid. It has leathry skin and long long teeth. An armored spine hangs from its back as it slowly rotates in suspension. It has many bite marks all over its legs and underside.
"Experiment 992846: Experiment too hungry. Tried to eat itself."

Your reading is interrupted when a wall on the far side of the hall explodes inward.

>cont.

>>27053491
A Delicious howl echoes out as a large creature enters from the hidden passage. It stands half as tall again as a human on thick legs. Wicked metal claws curve out from the beings armored suit on it's legs and arms, though one arm's claws seem to have been snapped off. The huge horatian is leaking blood in a trail behind it. Its helmet is cracked, and sparks leap across in front of one of its eyes. One of its tusks seems to be been snapped off.

Smoke rises from the creature's back as acid and blood pool below it. You see it holds the remains of its oversized phaser in on hand. You feel its deliciousness wavering, not dying, but instead becoming twisted, like your creators.

The armor it wears is charred black in patches, and acid has melted off entire slabs of it. A metre long spike of steel seems to go right through one of the creature's legs.

It scans around the room and trumpets a challenge again. It advances into the room, limping toward the tunnel you came from. It sweeps its head from side to side as if looking for something.

You are hungry.

Rolled 55

Screech bioweapon at it, and then feint an attack. When it reacts to our feint, circle and pounce on its back.

Rolled 54

>>27053503
>>27053598
Seconding. We must eat it quickly before its deliciousness is corrupted.

>>27053503
So...the deliciousness is tainted by insanity, and fighting a giant tentacle monster makes you insane?

Huh, I guess it really was Cthulhu.

Let's wait...if it's bleeding so harshly it will die soon. If we see the opportunity, let's get it from behind, but for now, no need to risk our skin

You inhale sharply, filling your air sack, then let out a resounding screach. The sound echoes about the room, reflecting off all the hard surfaces, walls, ice and floor, and reverberates, building to a deafening tone. The delicious creature roars back, causing the whole room to vibrate.

It raises it's weapon and points it at another block of ice, not to far from you. There is a brief whine from the phaser, and then a huge ball of light is shot from it. It arcs slowly across the room before it sinks into the ice, causing it to explode. Shards of ice and torrents of steam pour forth from the impact. You use the expanding cloud to cover your advance as you scurry across the roof.

You spring from your hiding place, down onto the creatures back and begin slashing away at it. The armor on its hunched back is damaged, and you find it easy to tear off the plates. You dig your claws in and bite and jab at the flesh underneath. There is a thick layer of fat that absorbs most of the blows, although you do cause many stream of blood to start flowing.

The enranged Delicious creature slashes at you with its claws, raking nasty lines along your scales. It hurts! You're not sure how many more hits you can take, but it probably isn't many. This creature seems to have a lot more force behind its blows then you thought possible!

>Roll 1d100 for whatever you do!

>>27053812
Damn it, I didn't post fast enough.

Let's get out of there and hide! Our advantage is our speed and movability. Comon, let's get out of there and let him bleed a bit more. See if we can set up a trap for him maybe...

Rolled 24

>>27053812
burrow into him

Rolled 375

>>27053812
Burrow into its body and consume it from the inside out!

Rolled 89

>>27053871
Goddammit. Let me try that again.

>>27050010
Good lord, i forgot about this, hopefully i didn't miss much.

>>27053862
We wait too long and there is no point eating him.

You continue to claw, trying to pull yourself deeper. Long gone is your ability to hide inside one of your kills, however. You're far too large for that now, and have many limbs that would get in the way.

You reach the layer of muscle inside the creature and bite it hard, slicing through the flesh with your mandibles. The injured meatbag trumpets in pain, and you feel it begin to stagger.

You bite again, and then the feel a momentary weightlessness as the creature falls backward. It slams its back down, crushing you beneath its massive bulk. One of your wings gets caught on a pipe and crumples, shattered in many places. You cannot help but squeal as the pain courses through your spine.

The armored thing hefts back, giving your a moment of respite before it slams down on you again, crushing your chest against the floor. It pulls back again, and right before it falls a third time, your reflexes twinge. You watch the creature's back approach you in slow motion, but you have just enough time to escape.

>Roll 1d100 for whatever you do!

Rolled 79

>>27054083
Flip around to the front and go for the throat!

Rolled 98

>>27054083
DODGE

Rolled 43

>>27054083
dive to the side, then whiptail it with neurotoxin.

Rolled 21

>>27054083
God damn it, why are we fighting the damn thing up front?!
FUCKING USE OUR SPEED AND STEALTH FUCK

>>27054083
Dodge and use our poisonous tail

Rolled 63

>>27054228

>>27054083
Can we get Increased toughness from the Horatian?

>>27054193
if you haven't noticed we quite large now we're not as sneaky now

>>27054265
We're medium sized, and it's a big slow elephant guy with a giant gun. I'm pretty sure we can outmaneuver him
A lot better then we can fight him head to head.

>>27054137
this

Rolled 34

>>27054193
I told you guys this would happen. I know how you think /tg/. I knew we should have gone for a more offensive psy power.

>>27054312
Hes dying and going insane its better to strike while the irons hot.

>Hyper reflexes [1/2]

You pull yourself out of the way with your hands, and scramble on all of your limbs to get out of the way. Just as you clear the falling creature you lash at it with your whiplike tail, scoring a line into it's flesh with the barb and filling it with toxin.
>Deadly Neurotoxin [0/3]

The world begins to speed up as you scurry off into the thick fog that permeates the hall. You hear the Delicious creature pull itself off the ground and stand, and start to circle around, out of sight.

The creature is dying. Not very quickly, but quicker then it was. You just have to wait it out now.

As you pass in front of the stumbling creature, you see that its helmet and chest armor are still mostly intact. It spots you, and fires another overcharged phaser blast at you. You leap out of the way before it hits, melting the floor where you were standing to slag. Its gun begins to glow as it heats up. You've not seen phasers do this before.

The thing grabs a grenade with its trunk and holds it as it searches for you amidst the monuments and mist. Avoiding this things rampage might be tricky.

>Roll 1d100 for whatever you do!

>>27054350
It's really not, especially since he's body slamming us into submission right now.

Seriously, did you notice that part? It's pretty bad.

Rolled 1

>>27054331
forgot to roll

>>27054363
Get high in the air. At the least, we can't risk being hit with the grenade. Sucker our-self to the ceiling and stay out of the way.

Rolled 63

>>27054421
Forgot to roll

>>27054312
out maneuvering him is easy sneaking isn't any more I never said anything about maneuvering around him I was talking about sneaking

Rolled 47

>>27054363
do we still have our phaser?

Rolled 42

>>27054421
We had our wings wrecked.

Rolled 11

>>27054363
Rush him, dodge between his legs, and stab him in the back.

I bet this'll be a 69

Rolled 96

>>27054363
Stay on the ceiling and see if we can knock the grenade back with our tail.
>>27054378
eh, live and learn
>>27054408
glad you did

>>27054447
We can climb walls, guys. We have suckers on us

Rolled 62

>>27054521
Big ass helmet in the way. It also survived a fight with an acid squid so it can probably hold up.

You leap up onto the roof and out of the clinging mist. You grab onto a pipe with your suckers and try to attach yourself. The pipe groans under your weight so you flap with your wings to try to steady yourself. Pain wracks through you as your broken wing folds and the pipe collapses. You fall from it, landing on the floor below the twisted pipe.

The horatian sees you and throws the grenade to you, but you were expecting that. You whip your tail around and hit the flying bomb, smashing it back. The grenade explodes before the delicious creature can shield itself, and a fireball erupts. You leap behind one of the tanks, and let the failed experiment take the force of the blast for you. It shatters, and foul smelling orange fluid spills out onto the floor around you.

When the fire has fallen from the air, the mist that filled the hall is mostly gone, burned up in the wave of heat. You see the horatian kneeling on one knee. Its face mask and chest armor have fallen off, damaged far too much in the explosion. One of the creature's eyes is damaged, shut by a large, bleeding gash.

Its good eye focuses on you as you watch from beside the smashed tank and it struggles to get to its feet.

It roars at you again and grabs the shaft of iron that pierces its thigh with both hands. Blood flows from the wound as the delicious creature begins to draw the metal rod out.

>Roll 1d100 for whatever you do!

Rolled 12

>>27054748
sweet jesus, this guy can sure take a licking.
I vote we scream again and then dive at his through whilst tying up his hand with the metal rod in it.

>>27054792
*tie up his hand with our tail.

Rolled 6

>>27054748
He doesn't have long, i say spit in that fuckers eye and finish him off while he's blind.
Roll for this

>>27054748
spit in his good eye, then rush at him, get behind him and go for the back of the neck.

Rolled 78

>>27054748
go for the throat

Rolled 61

>>27054815

Rolled 62

>>27054748
Back away! And then laugh at it!
"I killed and ate all your friends, you know. They were delicious!"
WAit for it to exert itself until it passes out, and then eat.

Rolled 88

>>27054813
>>27054827
>>27054815
seconing a combo of these

Rolled 87

>>27054748
Yes we still have spit right? Let's spit in his good eye, and finish him off.

Rolled 33

>>27054748
Dive, Spear tail right in the eye socket.

You back away from it, wary of a creature that can be this injured and still move. The thing heaves and pulls the iron bar from its leg and wields it like a club. Rivulets of blood begin to flow down its leg, pooling beneath it. It stumbles towards you, swinging the iron bar wildly.

"I killed and ate all your allies. They were delicious!" you say.
Again it howls wordlessly, doubling in speed as it stumbles after you.

You spit at the creature's face, arcing your corrosive bile across the room. You hit its eye and it howls again, this time pained. Its voice seems to be failing.

The dying thing stumbles, crashing into a monument. It swings its weapon around blindly, shattering glass and denting pipes. You aren't even anywhere near it.

It thrashes about for a moment, before its crippled leg gives out. It hits the ground with a massive thud that shakes the hall. It struggles to move, but can't even muster the strength to pull itself forward. A few moments later it stops doing even that, and just lies dying on the floor.

Rolled 98

Bump, for interest.

>>27055013
honestly, I kind of feel sorry for it. All that badassery only to have us let it bleed out, lest we forget horatian

Rolled 65

>>27055013
Welp time to go for the throat.

Rolled 27

>>27055013
Pounce and eat! Be wary if it suddenly attacks again- this could be a trick.

>>27055013
Bite the back of the neck , break its spine.

Rolled 40

>>27055039
he was a bitch to kill, was anyone this hard to take down?

Rolled 1

>>27055061
The robo gorilla?

Rolled 16

>>27055013
Go for the back of the neck, be wary in case it is playing possum.

Rolled 53

>>27055013
Can we vote for bigger size, since we are becoming closer to xenomorhps and these fuckers are pretty big, plus we need more room for upgrades.

Rolled 92

>>27055095
He was more of an annoyance, than anything especially since our creator handed him to us.

Rolled 55

>>27055013
Suggesting to gain Size! Or lying!

Rolled 17

>>27055126
We had a big car chase that covered half the city and had a fight with his hand, I would say it still counts.

You cautiously approach, but it doesn't move. It's lost most of its blood and is barely breathing. You circle around it once, just to be sure, then leap onto it from one side. You try to crush its spine, but the bones are too thick. So you kill it by slashing out its throat.

Excited over a fresh kill, you begin to feast on the Delicious creature.

>Choose one of:
>Blubber layer - Extra padded protection! Especially good against cold.
>Tusks - Slam your face into things for tons of damage!
>Heavy bones - Super dense, super strong! Might make flying more difficult.
>Knowledge - Use and maintenance of guns!

>Since you are at your biomorph limit, you can either take your chosen biomorph as 'Repressed' and keep it for later, or choose a currently 'Expressed' biormorph that it will replace.

It appears this creature wasn't significantly bigger enough to get an increase of biomass from it.
You spit up an electronic device that was inside the horatian. It seems to be leaking some clear fluid. Perhaps this was how he was able to fight until the very end.

>You can either:
>Heal (Cracked ribs, crushed wing, damaged scales)
>Recharge Bioweapon (Deadly Neurotoxin [0/3] or Hyper Reflexes [1/2])
>Shift (Repress one current biomorph and Express one known biomorph.)

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>>27055162
True, but i doubt he could survive half the stuff this guy went through, hell he is still alive and can just be pretending, but we are hungry and reckless so we are gonna attack anyway.

>>27055185
Express Heavy Bones, Repress Ovaries.

>>27055185
>Blubber Limit

Let's repress papermaking and use our other ability to shift and bring back ferrovoreness in exchange for Adaptive Antivenom. Nothing we've fought can even poison us anyway, it's useless.

Our heart will heal the rest, right? What it doesn't our metal eating will

>>27055185
>Heavy bones, repressed. Might be useful if we're in a situation where we can't use our wings for some reason.
>Heal crushed wing

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>>27055185
Shift to get rid of ovaries, and get back our metal eating teeth.
Knowledge sounds good to me since we had gotten a gun upgrade last time if i remember right.
Also take the machine with you and ask creator to fix it and put it on you

>>27055234
Actually I think the spiderlady we took that morph from could poison us.

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>>27055185
Blubber Layer!

Repress scales for it!

Shift away ovaries, gain feathers!

BECOME A FAT PUDGY BIRDTHING. We can heal through the heart, can't we?

And we need to become more adorable, anyway.

>>27055252
She was the only one we've fought in AGES.

We can get rid of it for now, ferrovoring is far more useful, lets us heal by eating metal.

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>>27055107
They are more long than big but we do need to be able to take or give out more damage.

>>27055185
Heavy bones. Repressing wings
Healing ribs.

Also if possible replace photovorw with ferrovore

>>27055234
Seconding, when's the last time we fought a spider anyway?
Eating chairs for the win!

>>27055185
blubber layer for sure, more cushion for the pushin'

repress ovaries

also repress wings as they are pretty useless now and replace with ferrovore (does this mean we get our extra arms back?)

>>27055283
I say we don't waste healing here, our heart heals us, and so will ferrovore when we bring it back.

>>27055263
fuck no dude, hard protective scales covering dense blubber will make us harder to take down than that fucking horatian.

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>>27055185
Heavy bones
get rid of them ovaries

>>27055306
No no, don't get rid of wings, they'll heal over time. They help us jump really far so far, it's useful I think. We have other, less useful biomorphs to repress

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>>27055234
wait i though we can only repress one morph at a time.
If not lets get rid of poison resistance as well for mine.
>>27055241
Also don't forget the machine guys we could soon be getting machine upgrades.(do those take biomorph space?)

>>27055185
Heavy bones replace wings
Heal

>>27055317
Slowly. For a creature with no actual perception of time I think that's a pretty bad idea.

>>27055185
Wait, does every Knowledge skill take a slot? Holy fuck. Is there anyway we can get a better filing system for our DNA?

Replace ovaries with blubber, correct use of wings, which will heal, wil lgive us more uses out of dense bones

>>27055335
I'm suggesting we repress one for the blubber, and then use our second choice to shift and bring back metal eating. It's REALLY useful.

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>>27055339
can't heal and repress at the same time, also we can heal over time since we have to upgrades just for that(heart,photosynthesis)

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>>27055285
Also metal armour and guns.

>>27055346
We're safe in our mother's home why isn't it okay?

>>27055333
regardless of whether we have blubber or bones it is going to impede on our ability to fly greatly, it seems like a waste of a biomorph. Plus removing the wings may give us those extra arms back?

a multi-armed walking tank sounds pretty sweet to me man.

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>>27055185
Wait toque is there a possible upgrade to help fix the problem with knowledge taking up biomorphs or are we doomed to either choose knowledge or upgrades?

>>27055400
If we do get the bones, then I'd agree with that I suppose.

>>27055372
this is my first time playing in this quest thanks fortlling me

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>>27055370
From what blubber says it sounds like it could be helpful, but so does the knowledge or if we want to make our wings useless heavy bones.

>>27055400
Why would blubber impede our flying?

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>>27055400
especialy since we keep taking on dudes head on.
>despite people yelling at me that we would be super sneaky and ambush guys.

>>27055436
Either bones or blubber, I think. Knowledge is alright, but honestly, we should be working on defense options right now. That guy DESTROYED us in close range.

We have a million biomorphs that help us be sneaky and agile with our wings and toxins and reflexes. Why would we get dense bones?

>>27055444
touche, I read that as they both would and just assumed being fat and weighing more because of all the extra lard would fuck up our already impeded ability to fly.

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>>27055444
how many fat birds do you see flying around the place?

>>27055449
Well, the problem seems to be we built up ourselves at first to be an ambush predator, but a lot of new guys want to tackle em head on because they think it's just a power quest at first (no offense, it's a reasonable mistake)

honestly though I'm okay with building ourselves as a tank instead.

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>>27055449
I'm all for being super ambush predator hell last quest i spent an hour arguing why we should stay being ambush predators, but think we should become xenomorphs who are ambush predators basically.

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>>27055473
So we dont get our shit wrecked because we keep fighting things head on?

>>27055357
>>27055404
>Yes, the 'active/useful' knowledge skills do. Things which give mechanical benefits or open new paths cost a biomorph. Misc knowledge skills are background stuff that you can call on for information at any time, but they don't really help you kill new things and they don't cost a slot.

>>27055444
>Blubber won't significantly impede your flying.

>>27055234
>Your heart will heal you eventually, but you will be unable to fly until your wing has healed.

>>[Votes]
>It seems like we're going to gain blubber and lose poison immunity
>And we're Shifting to get back Ferrovore at the expense of ovaries.
>Is this correct?

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>>27055503
Since that hour we have failed spectacularly to ambush anything and were ourselves ambushed. By a giant squid.

>>27055549
Aww, I hope we can develop an 'advanced brain' so we can file all knowledge skills under half that. They will seriously eat up space man.

And I'd rather lose two of our less useful knowledge skills in that case, instead of poison immunity or ovaries but those are the things I'd like to change.

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>>27055549
Yeah, so there is no possibility to get a fix on that?
Also bring the machine to the creator and ask her if it can be used on you.

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>>27055549
sounds good to me.

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>>27055567
Its still doesn't stop the body count where most of our kills were from ambush kills.

>>27055582
i agree

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>>27055549
We should bring the machine to our creator and ask if it can be used.

>>27050046
Let's get rid of
>Telecommunications
Since we have yet to use it and
>Photovore
I can't remember the last time we saw the sun anyway.

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>>27055582
Same, hell i'm ok with possibly giving up a psonic power for this if it opens up room for biomorphs.(here is hoping i don't get out voted)

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>>27055638
For telecommunications, i thin we have been using it to speak.

>>27055609
I suppose, but we are at the point where we need to be able to do more damage faster or take more damage. We are fighting propper mercs and such now instead of random pirate civilians.

>>27055679
i believe telecommunications is more specifically the use of phones and radios and such. Which we haven't used at all.

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>>27055689
true, but to go the path you want to go basically means getting rid of a good bit of biomorphss and basically be stuck between stealth and tank for a few quest.

>>27055679
No its for telecommunications in the buisness sense.

>>27055730
>>27055702
Yeah these. We will always have telecom and photovore ready to pick up later guys don't worry. Our DNA bank is infinite, it's just what we can use immediately that's limited.

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>>27055702
>>27055734
When did we learn this and why again?
There must have been a good reason.

>>27055758
Took knowledge from some biker chick. She had it on her.

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>>27055774
i thought we learned how to drive from her though.(which helped us get away in a bad ass way)

>>27055702
>>27055774
>>27055758
So get rid of the damn thing, weve got a bounty of knowledge and biomorphs and were keeping the infinitely useful ability of being an annoying teenager?

>>27055730
I just want us to have an edge more than anything. As long as we can do damage fast and hard enough we dont have to be able to take hits. Hell we could just not go for knowledge for a while. We are as stealthy as we can get at this point anyway.

>>27055825
We dont have camoflauge/invisiblity yet now do we?

>>27055815
No no, that was from the green lady thing.

The biker thing was one of our first victims.

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Well that is a fairly useless biomorph, unless we have to buy something or make a business decision for our creator i say it should get repressed next time.

Your body begins to change. Fat billows out underneath your scales, and you gain a layer of padding that protects you. You feel much warmer. When you poke your scales there's a fair amount of give. You are plesantly squishy.

You focus, drawing hidden knowledge from inside you. You feel a rumbling in your chest, and your insides open up again. Soon your metal digestive systems is back up and running again.

You feel your reproductive organs shrink and dissolve. You also know you should be wary of poisons again.
>Expressed: Blubber, Ferrovore
>Repressed: Ovaries, Adaptive Antivenom

You grab the small device and drag yourself back towards your creator's nest. Your wing hurts. Your ribs and spine hurt. Your scales hurt.

When you arrive you find the door still shut. You scratch at the door with a claw, but get no reply. You curl up in a small ball, thankful that your blubber keeps the cold of the floor away from your injuries.

You doze off, and some time later you hear your creator's door open and a gasp.

>[End of thread!]
>Next thread will be either on the weekend or next week!
>Updates can be found at the twitter: @SolarTopee

>>27055864
And if we fight something that can do that we will take it, but until then we should go for things that will let us do more damage. I mean its not much use being invisible when we fight a guy with armour that we cant get through.

>>27055915
Awww.
Well shit... I guess we can bring them back if we need to.

Great thread Toque, I swear you always catch me at the worst times. Still worth showing up though.

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>>27055915
here is hoping its on the weekend.
Also thanks for this adventure.

>>27055935
In otherwords we need an armor piercing spike that lets us inject our venom

>>27055582
Would "Archived Memories: You can have as many as two/three knowledge skills per biomorph slot" solve that?

>>27055638
>>Telecommunications
>That's been working whenever you've seen a TV or a phone and not gotten confused because nondelicious things are talking to you. Specifically, you used it to talk to your creator in the tower after you ate the rocerons, and when she was taunting the CEO.

>>Antivenom.
>Antivenom would have helped you against the Manta, but you nat100 grabbed him so he never really got an attack off.

>>27055864
>Your scales are still a fairly bright green, due to photovore.

>>Telecom. and Photovore
>I understand there's a lot of confusion, so I'm willing to retcon it all a little bit. With full understanding of Telecomm., are you willing to swap it for getting ovaries back? What about photovore?
>Keep in mind that with photovore/ferrovore, you can Shift after eating, and swap things around.

>>Shifting.
>On the whole, people seem reluctant to choose to shift. Does this option need to be made more powerful? Something like 10% of your active biomorphs? Would that make the option more viable?

>>Thread quality.
>I do apologise for the quality of the thread today. It really isn't my best work, and I'm not sure why. I'll look back on it tomorrow, and try to figure out what was happening.

>>27055997
>Archived memories
Yes, anything to help cut them down, I think. Knowledge is, mostly, gonna be for cool backstory stuff, you don't want to put it on the same level as, say, bending a door with our mind, you know?

>Telecommunications
ooh. Alright then, worth keeping I'd say.

>Venom
Yeah, I might want to take that back...maybe.

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>>27055997
>Archived Memories
That fixes it for now anyway.
For the shifting, its because people are complacent with the upgrades and you haven't given us any situation where photovore was useful and i think we should keep telecommunications since i don't feel like repeating the mirror incident.

>>27056042
>Backstory stuff isn't counted! It's only the useful skills, like driving or navigating that are. And being able to drive a motorbike is plenty useful for eating people, especially if they are on motorbikes of their own.
>As long as you have a single active knowledge skill, you can keep all of your 'misc' knowledge for free.

>>27056081
>>the mirror incident
>Well that's something else entirely.

>>27055997
>Little retcon
Telecomm seems more useful then I originally thought though. Let's not get rid of that then. Photovore and Metalvore seem like we can keep only one active just fine

>Shifting
What do you mean 10%? Like, changing more then one thing if we need to? That would be nice, I think, since we have 40.

>Thread Quality
Huh? It seemed okay to me, if a little short and slower then normal. Nothing bad about the writing though.

>>27056102
>10% as in 4 biomorphs for Medium, 3 for small. Currently you cycle 1 biomorph always.

>>27056099
Oh, well we should certainly store all of those away, except the ones that come into play with a laboratory then!

Gah, why didn't we take the shift biomorph thing without eating someone thing. Now we have to wait till the heat of battle to do it.

Can I also ask what was up with Doc? She seemed especially mad at us today...

>>27056135
I would totally be cool with that, then yes. We'll end up having a lot of Biomorphs and changing one wouldn't be enough.

Like, say if we want to change 'builds', we'd probably need to change more then just one thing, right?
Go from tank to flying feathery stealth jumper

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>>27056099
I surprise you could understand that sentence, but yeah the mirror incident might be an exaggeration.
Also photovore feels like its lacking any chance to shine.

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>>27056166
*I'm

>>27056166
Which is why we can repress it. We have a TON of biomorphs now, and it's certainly time to put away the ones that don't work in this situation.

At the moment, we're in a dank laboratory, so we can safely put it away, but keep our tech knowledge active.
Then we can use our more tankish powers too.

Man, I wish we could shift at the expensive of a bunch of time...it sucks that we have to be in danger to do it.

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>>27056200
wasn't there two biomorhps we skipped on for better morphs(cocoon and being able to change on the fly) since they sound mighty useful now.

>>27056236
Yeah, we did and for the life of me I can't remember why :/

>>27055915
Alas, I missed it by minutes.

>>27056166
>One use for Photovore is that if you're injured and forced to retreat, you could heal and recharge by just lazing about in the sun, without even moving. Which might be good if you have to hide. But your point is true: some biomorphs are less useful then others.

>>27056200
>Curiously, Photovore does let you shift at the expense of time. Provided you've in sunlight.
>Lungs that filter air to recharge bioweapons was an option on a kill you missed. It will be back eventually.

>>27056295
We need an upgrade to our Fat that lets us use it to restore other biomorphs.

>>27056295
>Photovore changing
...w....really?! Wait, does Ferrovore do that if we eat like a car?!

>Lungs that recharge biomorphs
WHAT?! Christ man, where were these gems? Man that's...we need to pick up some of these things as just BASE abilities. I mean, the keyest abilities we should have should ensure our survival, and our recharging of abilities

>>27056338
I keep saying we should find new and exciting ways to eat things. Eating is survival, eating recharges us.

I mean, yeah, filtering air is less than delicious... but running into a gaseous Delicious Creature is probably more likely than an energy based one we can eat with Photovore.

>>27056338
>Yes, both Photovore and Ferrovore give you the full 'recharge' effect, which can be used to heal, shift or recharge.
>Lungs are limited to recharges only.

>>27056379
>If it's delicious, you can Consume it. The upgrades are for eating nondelicious stuff.

>>27056402
Huh....um, so for next thread, can we eat a bunch of scrap our Mom doesn't want?

Like, a scrapyard?
I wouldn't mind finding out our next destination and then going into 'customization mode'

>Remember that you can always ask your creator for information. She made you, so she does have an idea of how you work.

>>27056433
>I... uh... I guess...
>I hadn't really considered that.
>Sure!
>Is there really that much to change, though?

>>27056647
Well I mean, it was just an idea.

Like, she's gonna send us somewhere, right? So we can make a few modifications based on that fact. Will there be metal or sunlight? What sort of technology? What kind of enemies?

I mean, a lot of our upgrades are becoming sorta...Mandatory, since they are basic structural upgrades, but a few we can swap around and such.

Just a suggestion, Toque. I'm just a guy that enjoys the quest. :P

>>27056647
Hm...I like that idea, but I think we don't have quite enough 'over the limit' upgrades to worry about swapping now.

I mean, unless we want to purposely leave open slots. Which there's not much sense in, unless you're worried we'll end up bogged down going "Wait, we don't need THIS upgrade." while browsing the list.

>>27055997
>>>Shifting.
>>On the whole, people seem reluctant to choose to shift. Does this option need to be made more powerful? Something like 10% of your active biomorphs? Would that make the option more viable?

If you want people to play The Thing, they need to be able to shift like The Thing.

also there's a need for freebies, like knowledge counting as slots = what?

>>27055997
>>>Telecom. and Photovore
>>I understand there's a lot of confusion, so I'm willing to retcon it all a little bit. With full understanding of Telecomm., are you willing to swap it for getting ovaries back? What about photovore?
Keep Adaptive Antivenin, TBH. We never know when someone's gonna come for us with drugs/gas/biowarfare viruses.(like the control virus), or other hazardous environmental effects Its one you we want to have constantly for when we need it, since we can't adapt it on the spot.

Lose ovaries tho.

>>27057584
He just said that only skills derived from Knowledge takes up slots. Understandable since some of it's really useful.

I think eventually some of the basic sets will be complete and when they are they'll count for less space. Or at least I hope so.