>>31855507
>>[] Spore:Spread:Direct:Dominate

Intelligent airborne pathogen go.

>>31855507
>[x] Spore:Spread:Direct:Dominate

>>31855507
>[] Spore:Spread:Direct:Dominate

>>31855507
Spore:Spread:Direct:Dominate

If we're going to be a parasite, we might as well be one with a good long term investment plan.

>>31855507
>spore
We fungus now.

>>31855507
>[] Larva:Consume:Grow:Influence

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>[]Spore:Spread:Direct:Dominate

Yes. You are a fungal spore. Brief memories flicker through your mind. The comfort of the central mass. The urge to grow up and draw your mass inward. Breaking free only to be snagged back into darkness. Now you are…somewhere. It is a good somewhere your instinct tells you. It is time to break free. Quickly shedding your outer shell and spreading out over the ground. Ground? No, muscle the voice in your head tells you. The ground beneath you begins to wither at your touch, but floods the space around you with more food, relaxing you and swelling your form. It is good, but you are not sure you can remain here. The fluid around you begins to drift gently. Do you stay or let the currents take you?

(first to three or highest in 20 min)

[] Stay:Grow:Mass
[] Go:Spread:Search

>>31855767
>[x] Go:Spread:Search

>>31855767
>[] Stay:Grow:Mass

>>31855767
>[] Stay:Grow:Mass

We boom economy.

>>31855767
>[X] Stay:Grow:Mass

>>31855767
>[] Go:Spread:Search

>>31855767
>[] Stay:Grow:Mass

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Stay:Grow:Mass
You choose to stay. There are no threats at the moment and the nutrient soup given off by the dying tissue fills you with vigor. You eat a small pit into the muscle and nestle in, your growing form swells and suddenly pinches in two. How strange! Your consciousness suddenly flits into the other cell, before quickly flitting back. It is…disorienting but you quickly learn to manage it. With new resolve you dive into the succulent flesh, budding and spreading, driving deeper. You feel more resilient. The air around you begins to shift. The flow slightly quickens and takes on a tang causing you to pause and consider your next move, between keeping your cell bodies corralled.

>[parasitic mass increased]

[] Slow:strategic:quiet
[] Faster:consume:brazen

>>31856054
>[] Faster:consume:brazen

>>31856054
>[] Slow:strategic:quiet

>>31856054
>[x] Slow:strategic:quiet

>>31856054
>[] Faster:consume:brazen

>>31856054
>[] Slow:strategic:quiet

>>31856054
[] Slow:strategic:quiet

>>31856054
>[] Faster:consume:brazen

we must get swole quickly.

>>31856054
>Slow:strategic:quiet

>>31856054
[x] Faster:consume:brazen

Okay I'll change to highest voted option in 10 min now. Didn't think you guys would like this!

>>31856054
[X] Slow:strategic:quiet

>>31856143

You're very good at descriptive writing. This is a pretty neat concept too.

>>31856143
I'm just in here because i expect tentacles.

>>31856143
Don't know if I like it yet, but Im a sucker for bio-related quests and I love pandemic, so colour me intrigued.

>>31856054
>[] Slow:strategic:quiet

>>31856143
>Interested:Compliment:Consume

>>31856054
>[] Slow:strategic:quiet

>[X] Slow:strategic:quiet

These kinds of quests always start off interesting.

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[] Slow:strategic:quiet

Your mind reaches down into the frenzied mass and pulls its hunger back. The death of the tissue slows and your body’s split less frequently. The flow around you remains increased but the rancid taste in the air lessens. A wave of calm fills your mind and a low thought flicks through. Preserve the host. Yes, you should preserve the form you have infiltrated. No need to set things off. What things you ponder? It doesn’t matter now. You draw your mass of cells into the tissue, shielding it from the outside flow. The tissue about you pulses and twitches. Concentrating on the feelings you can pick out two distinct tempos, both equally mesmerizing. A sharp trill sings near the surface while the other, low and slow, thuds deep with hearty pulses. You have enough mass to push towards one.

>[growth slowed, tissue alarm decreased]

[]Trill:Sing:Control
[]Thud:Flow:Infiltrate

(highest voted in 10 min)

[X]Thud:Flow:Infiltrate

>>31856394
>[]Thud:Flow:Infiltrate

>>31856394
>[]Trill:Sing:Control

>>31856394
>[X]Thud:Flow:Infiltrate

>>31856394
[]Trill:Sing:Control

>>31856394
>[]Thud:Flow:Infiltrate
Meat puppets ahoy

>>31856394
>[]Trill:Sing:Control

>>31856394
>[X]Thud:Flow:Infiltrate

>>31856394
Trill:Sing:Control

>>31856394
>[X]Trill:Sing:Control

>>31856394
>[]Trill:Sing:Control

Tiebreaker: next vote calls it

>>31856547
>>[]Trill:Sing:Control

>>31856547
>[X]Thud:Flow:Infiltrate

Thud:Flow:Infiltrate

Infect heart, then the host has cardiac arrest, and we explode out of their chest in a cloud of meat chunky spores.

>>31856547
Trill!

>[]Trill:Sing:Control wins. Update incoming

>>31856394
>[X]Trill:Sing:Control

>>31856591
This tickles my fungous tralala

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>Fungus zombie quest

>>31856647
And now the thread has theme music :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPrnduGtgmc

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>we're a fungus that slowly takes control over its hosts

OH GOD

>>31856685
This is exactly what I want, except death does not come, slowly we can form a hivemind of controlled subjects

>>31856702
We zerg now.

Remember guys: when the chance comes to gain an upgrade where fire spreads our spores, take it. We'll be nigh unstoppable.

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>[]Trill:Sing:Control
The twitching song calls to you. You will your mass to slip between the cells, separating membranes and oozing between taught cords. The trilling vibrates across the mass, growing stronger with each parasitic surge. The cells along your outer skin pick from the ripest along the path, bathing your form and growing it. Several of your bodies are left along the path you make, connected by a thin strand of peptides. Your awareness grows. Suddenly a tendril of cells strikes something. A searing flash blots out your consciousness for a moment. Rouge cells twitch and flee, some die. You quickly pull back and rein them in. You eat away at the muscle around the nasty light and reveal a branching conduit. It pulses in time with the siren call you followed, small arcs of pressure jumping between gaps in a slick coating. Nerve, the voice tells you. Another moment of conflict wells in your mind while the sting of energy throbs along your membrane.

[]Attach:Control:Flow:Attack

[]Recoil:Shift:Burrow:Defend


(Highest after 10 min)

>>31856799
>[]Recoil:Shift:Burrow:Defend

>>31856799
[X]Attach:Control:Flow:Attack

>>31856799
>[X]Attach:Control:Flow:Attack

>>31856799
>[]Attach:Control:Flow:Attack
We need to make this body touch its ding ding dong.

>>31856799
>[X]Attach:Control:Flow:Attack
Cell buddy sidekicks when?

>>31856799
[]Attach:Control:Flow:Attack

>>31856799
ATTACH

>>31856799
>[]Attach:Control:Flow:Attack

>>31856799
>[]Recoil:Shift:Burrow:Defend

>[]Recoil:Shift:Burrow:Defend

>>31856799
[]Attach:Control:Flow:Attack

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>[X]Attach:Control:Flow:Attack

A new feeling seeps into your will. Contempt. The sting of the nerve hurt you. You will ensure that does not happen again. Focusing on the tempo of the pulses is the key, you feel. One of your cells detaches from the mass. You pool your intent into this scout and watch as something new happens. The scout begins to secrete something along its form, its membrane stretching until it forms a long point. A strange urge fills your mind. Penetrate. And penetrate you do. A large arc of energy emits from the nerve, your cue to slip inside. There is a brief pause before the cell inside begins to multiply, split and spread throughout the conduit. Your mind reels as information pours into your small consciousness. Noise and pain rip through, a whirlwind of force. There, a single thread, low and under the torrent of information. You grasp it and collect yourself. An image appears in your mind. You are in a branch of the Peroneal nerve in the right leg. Another word flashes. Brain. You need to get to the Brain before the host detects you. The words slink away, but your retain the message. This nerve would serve as a quick route to the brain you figure. Before you can decide, the rear cells you left in your wake begin to wink out, one by one, sending panic down the link. Two options sing in your consciousness.

[]Flee: Spread: Infiltrate
[]Attack:Consume:Kill

>>31857186
>[]Attack:Consume:Kill

>>31857186
[]Attack:Consume:Kill

>>31857186
>[]Attack:Consume:Kill

>>31857192
>>31857204
>>31857226
WE ARE MEN HERE ON /TG/!

>>31857186
[]Flee: Spread: Infiltrate

>>31857186
[X]Flee: Spread: Infiltrate

>>31857244
All i know was that there was an attack option. You obviously always use the attack option.

>>31857186
>[X]Attack:Consume:Kill

>>31857186
>[]Flee: Spread: Infiltrate
MICRO-SNAKE

>>31857186
Flee: infiltrate

>>31857186
>[]Attack:Consume:Kill

>>31857273
If you kill the host too quickly the host does not spread us to more potential hosts.

>>31857385
It does after we meat puppet it.

>>31857398

So kill the host then animate the body with our own hyphae and directing will?

We should try to get to the lungs and brain. Right now we're in the leg.

>>31857430
yup. fungus zombie apocalypse here we come.

Attack it is. Update inbound.

>>31857449
When do we blind our host, give it echolocation and and super strength, and make if look like one of the crew of the flying dutchman in pirates of the caribbean?

>>31857460
I swear to Christ if there isn't a romance subplot in this soon I'm out. Get it together OP.

>>31857505
>not seeing us penetrate some unwilling neurons

what the fuck do you want you /d/eviant.

>>31857488
Well see if you survive long enough to find out.

>>31857505
Sorry, I'll retool this into Parasite Waifu Quest. Oh ascaris-kun don't be so tsundere. Can we hold hands

>>31857553
>hands
>not cilia

I'm losing faith, here, op.

>>31857530
>penetrating neurons
>romance

Nigga we're the type of intelligent parasitic spore that needs to be wooed.

>>31857570
ascaris are tapeworms

>>31857580
Can't tapeworms have cilia? I know flatworms can.

>>31857553
>At first, we were rivals, competing for dominance over the same host.
>Our battles were hate-filled and devastating.
>But the host fell ill because of our struggles, and we had to make peace.
>Slowly, we worked together to bring the host under our control.
>And then...something changed.
>We understood each other, more and more.
>We were becoming....one.

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>[]Attack:Consume:Kill

Your mass diminishes. This is not good. You must grow, not shrink. You whip your mass around, leaving a link to the howling conduit, and proceed down the necrotic tunnel you burrowed. As you retrace your steps the fluid becomes brackish and uncomfortable. The tissue around you is loose, cells pop as you brush against them. Then you see it. A large writhing white mass, slowly oozing down the tunnel. Thick stalks grow from its skin and sweep across the walls, dead cells flowing into its form and dissolving. You arrive just in time to see one of your cells swept up in a similar manner. It bravely resists whatever the foul thing is made of for a moment, before dissolving away. Its presence disappears from your will, but not before killing a section of the beast. The membrane near your dead cell blackens and withers away before being replaced with fresh white proteins. A similar action, though less pronounced is occurring all along the creatures body. Whether it notices you or not, it’s pace remains steady, though its white hue is darkening as it consumes. Another pesky emotion halts your progression. Fear. You do not like this thing and it must die, but how?

[]Surge:Pierce:Rend:Consume

[]Dart:Kite:Lure:Trick

>>31857775
>[]Surge:Pierce:Rend:Consume

RIP AND TEAR

>>31857775
>[]Surge:Pierce:Rend:Consume

>>31857775
[]Dart:Kite:Lure:Trick

>>31857775
>[]Surge:Pierce:Rend:Consume

>>31857775
>[]Surge:Pierce:Rend:Consume

>>31857775

[]Surge:Pierce:Rend:Consume

This will hurt us but we'll be stronger for it.

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>[]Surge:Pierce:Rend:Consume
If your gestalt consciousness could comprehend color you would see red. How dare this thing consume you! It is there for your nourishment . Death. If your cells are toxic to the creature then you will poison it to death. Your mass surges forward, colliding into the white mass. Cells slip easily into the membrane and your mind is wracked with searing pain. The pain does not deter you. This is a good pain, you tell yourself. The off-white flesh of the beast blackens as your dying cells poison it. More, you surge, as cells pour into the holes opening in its membrane. As you burn your mass to bore into the creature you finally find its heart. The creature tries to tug the sphere away along quickly weakening cytoskeletal wires but to no avail. You pierce the orb causing the creature to quickly fall apart. Some lingering enzymes sting your remaining cells but the beast is dead. As your anger falls away you take stock of the battle. In your zeal, your parasitic mass has halved, loosing most of the cells born from burrowing. All is not lost, in the aftermath you find that the remaining cells are more resistant to the burning enzymes of the creature. The brackish atmosphere has changed. The fluid about you is almost alight with activity. The flow is vastly increased and has warmed considerably. The inviting fluid has taken on a hostile air. You quickly gather up as much nutrients from the carcass and quickly begin replicating. If you had a single form you would lick your wounds before deciding the next course of action.

[Parasitic Mass Halved. Lysosome Enzyme Immunity Gained]

[]Surge:Consume:Grow:Infect
[]Burrow:Flee:Infiltrate:Control

>>31858096
[]Burrow:Flee:Infiltrate:Control

Gotta get to lungs and brain. The legs are best left alone.

>>31858096
>[]Surge:Consume:Grow:Infect

>>31858096
>>[]Surge:Consume:Grow:Infect

>>31858096
>[]Surge:Consume:Grow:Infect

We're going to have our zombies one way or another.

>>31858096
>[]Burrow:Flee:Infiltrate:Control

>>31858096
>[]Burrow:Flee:Infiltrate:Control

>>31858096
>[]Burrow:Flee:Infiltrate:Control

>>31858096
>[]Burrow:Flee:Infiltrate:Control

>>31858096
[x]Burrow:Flee:Infiltrate:Control

Also, more linebreaks would be nice.

>>31858096
>[]Burrow:Flee:Infiltrate:Control

>>31858227
Gotcha.

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>[]Burrow:Flee:Infiltrate:Control

The warm bed of your incubation has become hostile and foreboding. The only solace is the humming song of the neuron. You draw the majority of your remaining mass to the conduit, leaving only a few tens of cells to remain as your sentries. Curiously, these cells burrow into the healthy tissue and grow cold and hard. It is hard to tap into them, but they are still alive, slowly growing within impervious shells. This pleases you.

Your mind turns to the conduit and you will your mass it slip into the sheath encircling the neuron. The fluid here is vastly different than in the muscle. Thin, you would describe it. The nutrients washing over your form are less varied but sweeter. You cells love it and quickly spread out along the conduit, stopping at the major junction. You are careful to avoid getting too close to the nerve cells, though occasionally implant a sentry in a stray neuron.

The noise does not lessen, nor can you make out any new information. You are glad to find there are no more white beasts lurking about. You are safe for now, and the new food feeds your expansion well enough. Your cells bristle, anticipating your command.

[] Grow:Infiltrate:Steady:Learn
[] Haste:Scout:Move:Spread

>>31858420
>[X] Grow:Infiltrate:Steady:Learn

>>31858420
>[] Grow:Infiltrate:Steady:Learn

>>31858420

[] Grow:Infiltrate:Steady:Learn


We found the sweet spot - let's branch out and get a lay of the land

>>31858420
>>[] Haste:Scout:Move:Spread

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Current Infection Map

>>31858420
>[] Grow:Infiltrate:Steady:Learn

[] Grow:Infiltrate:Steady:Learn
-----
GAME PAUSE.

Unfortunately I have to pause for tonight. The next thread will be Friday at 9pm est.

I'm going to around for a little longer and can answer any questions or comments. Thread goes to archive at 12:20.

Thanks for playing!

>>31858420
>[] Grow:Infiltrate:Steady:Learn

>>31858606
The last time we had a 'microscopic body invade' quest, it went lewd, with the whole 'transfer into other hosts via body fluid' thing. Do you have any intention to do the same here?
Please say no.

>>31858739
No. The parasite you picked does not spread in that manner. We'll see if you guys actually can make it to that point without killing the host.

>>31858739
i don't know, do you consider exploding people bombs spreading our spores lewd?

Threads archived and I'm off to bed.
See you Friday.

Oh boy!

Quest with a failure condition? Biological focus? Microbial perspective? No waifus?

I will definitely follow this.

twitter where

how about making people want to spread us by forming a symbiotic relationship or become narcotic like.

we have reached the nervous system so why not mess around seeing if we can replicate nervous tissue then we do the same with brain tissue of course we then rip ourselves from our host taking with us the assets needed for cognitive function.

we then spore, repeating the process until we become a mass of brain and nerve networked under the city catching up to and then surpassing human intelligence.

and that's only one unlikely possibility. I freaking love biology there is just so much potential for weirdness, we could become a super power granting fungus and nature will still probably have made something stranger.