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>[X] Sip:Tease:Spread:Grow

You continue to grow and infect along the neural tract, leaving infectious sentries encysted along the way. Wary of tipping off the host’s immune system any further you direct the fungal mass to only take from the excess sugar secreted by the nervous tissue. This slows the growth of the mass but does not injure any tissue. A quick check of the fluid around the mass does not indicate any brackishness about.

You force your consciousness to hover near the singing neurons, taking in their song and listening for anything. For a while nothing comes, but then very brief flashes of something leak through. The host is afraid, you can tell that much. But of what? You can only draw so much without resorting to burning into the tissue, though maybe some further probing may reveal a gentler method. You consider the best course while relaxing to the frantic trill of the nerves.

[] Bite:Rip:Learn:Sense

[] Quiet:Subtle:Grow:Spine

[] Back:Revisit:Infect:Suppress

>>31916766
>[] Bite:Rip:Learn:Sense
We need information pretty badly, even if it'll be more obvious. We can always hide after this.

Sorry, Highest voted after 20 min or so wins

>>31916766
>[] Quiet:Subtle:Grow:Spine

>>31916766
>Spine
This is referring to where we'd be going if we chose it, right?

>>31916967

You are currently outside the lumbar section of the spine. It is the next destination for the mass if you continue to move it in the manner that it has been for the past several turns

>>31916766
>Quiet:Subtle:Grow:Spine

Quick Bump on a busy Sunday before starting on the update

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>[] Quiet:Subtle:Grow:Spine

Mass Size: ~1M Cells.
There is no reason to tear into the host’s memories just yet, not when the spine is so close. Spine? What is that? Something in the depths of your mind tells you that it is a good place to be and leads to the brain. Yes, Brain. That is the goal. You press on, keeping your growth slow. Your rear sentries report decent infiltration and no issues despite slow growth. The mass approaches a constriction as it slides up the neural tract.

This constriction is capped off, but with a bit of membrane shifting you pierce it easily. A dry fluid oozes forth, you find it distasteful compared to the sugar rich fluid of the peripheral nerves. No matter, what is lost in nutrients you can taste in information. You can sense your goal, as well as what could be a growing apprehension in the host. Something different wafts about the atmosphere. What is your order?

[] Bite:Rip:Learn:Sense

[] Seal:Surge:Infect:Rage

[]Return:Grow:Wait:Plan

>>31917475
>[] Bite:Rip:Learn:Sense

>>31917475
>[] Bite:Rip:Learn:Sense

>>31917475
>Bite:Rip:Learn:Sense

>[X] Bite:Rip:Learn:Sense

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>Bite:Rip:Learn:Sense

You are tired of taking the cautious route. Confident in the size of your mass you tear into the surrounding neural tissue, regardless of the surging alarm chemical flaring around you. A pulling sensation yanks your consciousness down into an inky murk. A blinding light pierces your vision.

Wait, vision? You are looking out through a pair of eyes. The eyes of your host. You are not in control, this is a memory. The host is afraid…restricted. The host is tied to a table. It struggles as a large figure advances slowly. Eyes dart about and the heart thunders. A flash of metal. A piercing feeling in the leg. The vision faded.

You snap back into your world of tissue and hunger. How strange the host’s senses are. Your senses bristle as alarm chemicals rage and surge. Small cells, numerous and angry, detach from the inflamed spinal tissue and scream towards your mass. They tear into your mass, devouring cells left and right. What do you do?

[]: Rage:Fight:Consume:Surge
[]: Defend:Flee:Kill:Rush

Mass Size: ~900k Cells.

>>31918029
Shit. How many are we seeing/estimating are there?

>>31918029
>Defend:Flee:Kill:Rush
Go on the retreat, a battle here could harm the host far too much, retreat to a position of less importance.

>>31918081
You have no concept of numbers but roughly in the low thousands.

>>31918169
That's great for now.
>>31918029
>[]: Rage:Fight:Consume:Surge

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Rage
I want you to know i love this story

>>31918029
>[]: Rage:Fight:Consume:Surge

>>31918029
>[]: Rage:Fight:Consume:Surge

>>31918029
How true to real biology is your quest? Do you have a degree or something in it, or are you a Wikipedia crusader?

>>31918454
Half of a Bio-degree. It will follow a somewhat realistic track.

>>31918029

[]: Rage:Fight:Consume:Surge

> [X]: Rage:Fight:Consume:Surge

>>31918029
So we're inside a test subject? And we're the test?

It seems we're not just going to have to take over the host, we're going to have to make some improvements.

>>31918579
Maybe we could try and infect the person who is confining/experimenting on our host?

>>31918637
Sure, but we have to be able to break free of the bindings and then restrain them so our ovipositors can enter all their holes.

>>31918637
>>31918658

Could just empower our host, go the full symbiosis route, stimulate her muscles to bulk up and her cells to heal.

>>31918697
I like this suggestion intently.

>>31918697
I agree we should improve our host. I disagree with symbiosis, though. The host is there for us to grow and spread to others, nothing more.

>>31918697
>her
I feel like even in a quest about being a fucking parasitic fungus this is the route to waifuism. Unreservedly rejected.

>>31918737
>The host is there for us to grow and spread to others, nothing more.
This.

>>31918697
>her
>making shit up

>>31918757
Suit yourself, I'm OK with this.

>>31918737
>>31918762
I prefer the idea that we grow and become one with our host, rather than consuming them. Prototype style.

>>31918737
The most ideal situation is the one of longest survival and spread time.

A healthy host who can also carry us is ideal. We then improve their life span or give some positive reason to have us around and the humans will spread us all to their own accord.

>>31918817
>implying giving the human any choice in the matter is a good idea

we omnom their brains and make meat puppets, anon.

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The host is Male, Afraid, Restrained and aware it is Infected. That is all you know currently.

>[]: Rage:Fight:Consume:Surge

This is the host, it is your food. You care not for the defenses of the host. The immune cells tear into your mass, and you return in kind. Membranes tear into the cells, ripping lipid layers and spilling cytoplasm. Enzyme’s burn and swirl about as your fungal mass rips into everything it sees. You pulse back orders to your sentries, telling them to reawaken and to grow. Your mass flares and explodes with growth, quickly
The body responds in kind. Tissues inflame and become leaky.

The white beasts return, along side their smaller and more numerous bretheren and begin to attack your network of tissue, only to find their bite crippled by your new found immunity and sheer numbers. Some of your mass has tapped into a major artery and provide warnings of incoming threats. Suddenly the cells in the leg muscle report the tissue going limp. As if suddenly cut from invisible strings. The pressure of your bulk and tissue inflammation have disrupted the host’s control of his lower limbs. You slow your pressure, sealing entry points with a quick and dirty protein wall, and killing off any remaining attackers. The pressure around you begins to lessen and you allow your cells to probe the damaged neural tissue as you plot, feelings and images tease on the edge of your senses. You also have the immune system on the run, for now. If the host didn't know before, it knows it is under attack now.

[Host Paralyzed Below Waist]
[Macrophage Immunity Gained]

Mass Size: ~2M Cells.

[] Probe:Connect:Slow:Adapt

[] Rip:Grow:Flare:Surge

>>31918817
Why not just completely consume them? We could become our own host.

I don't actually give a fuck as long as this quest turns into the origin story for orks.

>>31918798
>become one with our host Prototype style
Why? Unless our host is a super special snowflake, it's completely unnecessary.
>>31918817
Or we could, you know, do the sensible thing and just take over. Domination via infection isn't voluntary.

>>31918862
>[] Probe:Connect:Slow:Adapt

>>31918862
>[] Probe:Connect:Slow:Adapt

>>31918846
>>31918885

True, but doing that tends to make other humans avoid us. Instead of intentionally spreading us to friends and family.

Besides, we can just sit some pods in the lungs and release spores to spread against their will anyway.

>>31918862
[] Probe:Connect:Slow:Adapt

>>31918862
>[] Probe:Connect:Slow:Adapt
>adapt
Soon

>>31918862
[] Probe:Connect:Slow:Adapt

>>31918913
>True, but doing that tends to make other humans avoid us
No, it doesn't unless we give ourselves away like a retard, even when we'd already have enough information on how to not act deranged and be put in an asylum

>>31918913
Other hosts avoiding us after we take over just shows we need to adapt our control such that they don't avoid us anymore.

Then when they get close, glorious spore tentacles everywhere.

>>31918967
>glorious spore tentacles everywhere
Not subtle enough. Just shake hands with people after becoming able to inject people with our blood.

>>31919014
In the initial phases of infecting a population, sure. But once they're alerted, we go full tentacle.

>>31918961
It is all very dependable.
we shall see were our path of evolution takes us.

>>31918961
Still, it's worth going gently with the takeover so we don't damage anything important.

Well, considering the host is restrained, our only way out of this mess is to infect the other person in the room. We've got to go airborne, or possibly make some bleeds occur to gtfo this body. It can't be subtle transmission if we're tied to a table after all. We must nom on not just the brain, but the orifices as well. I vote bloody vomit to achieve this.

>>31919037
>But once they're alerted, we go full tentacle.
Are you talking about when they figure it out? Like when/if we get forced into actual active combat?

>>31919065
Try getting the host body to spit in the other guy's mouth.

>>31919065
>>31919105

Or you know, the tried and true method of making our host sneeze.

>>31919070
Pretty much, yeah. At some point stealthy infiltration will cease to be viable.

>>31919167
That would actually make much more sense given his situation.

>>31919167
>>31919105

If we are restrained to a table, there's a good chance the doctors will be wearing hazard suits.

>>31919105
Good call, but he may be in a bio-suit. We're going to have to wait and see through the hosts eyes before we make those calls. Still awesome that we can think of this before we get to that point though. Airborne and waterborne seem like the best modes of transmission for getting the hell out of this table.
Probe:slow:adapt

>>31919207
Yup, we need to go the superhuman abomination route rather than airborne infection.

>>31918862
>[] Probe:Connect:Slow:Adapt

>>31919207
great minds think alike XD

>>31919241
>>31919237

These.

Wait until we know more. But we may have to go the not so subtle route after all.

>>31919207
I don't think were dealing with doctors.
More like a torturer or something.

>>31919207
>>31919237
What about them having an alarm or emergency system or something to tell them infection is spreading or whatever?
They might send security to take us down. 23rd century security.

>>31919280

That's a good point.

>>31919280
So, we're pretty much the Red Horse Vector? XD http://www.ninwiki.com/Red_Horse_Vector

>>31919280
Why wouldn't he just be an amoral scientist?

>>31919280
>implying we're not a bioweapon
>implying we won't make our creatures rue the day they unleashed us

>>31919254
>>31919318
>XD
Please leave.

>>31919370
Creators instead of creatures

I make the weirdest typing errors nowadays.

>>31919370
>implying us being able to think wasn't all part of their plan

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>>31919347
>>31919381
Won't happen again. As for the scientist route, something tells me that they would drug the subject, but that's just a hypothetical. Looks like the host was supposed to know. In the meantime, TO THE BRAIN

>>31918862

> Probe: Connect: Slow: Adapt

gotta take it slow, we're not infecting anyone else if our meat puppet expires on the table

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[] Probe:Connect:Slow:Adapt

You figure you’ve damaged the host enough. You defenses are holding and the tissue around you remains at a steady level of inflammation. Your thoughts turn towards the neural tissue that twitches and screams around you. Gone is the lovely trill as it has been replaced with chaotic and random screaming. You try to touch the tissue, gently shuffling surface proteins and ion gates until you find a combination that lets your mass actually touch the neurons without out killing them outright. It seems as good at time as ever to try and take a thought from the host without everything going to hell again. You focus your consciousness on matching the trill the nerves used to sing with.

Instantly you are smacked with a disorienting wave of agony. Your mass bristles and quakes as you pull back. You try again, this time trying to smooth out the screams of the host tissue with shouts of your own. Things go better. You work for a time to make this back and forth smoother until you find you can interact with any infected neuron just as easily as your own mass. You try an issue a command, anything really, just a force of will. Suddenly your cells in the leg report the muscle tighten up and twitch. You have gained control of some of the host’s right leg. To what degree and how effective it is you are unsure, but further domination of the host’s neural network will be greatly easier.

Mass Size: ~2.5M Cells.

[Neural Tissue Assimilation Trait Gained]

[]Probe:Caution:Slow:Continue

[]Rip:Learn:See:Revel

[]Shift:Change:New:Explore

>>31919462
>[]Probe:Caution:Slow:Continue

Control of their neural systems seems very important.

>>31919462
>Shift:Change:New:Explore

>>31919462
>[]Probe:Caution:Slow:Continue
Don't want to get our shit kicked in by new sensations.

>>31918868
[X]Probe:Caution:Slow:Continue

>>31919462
Probe.

>>31919462
>[]Probe:Caution:Slow:Continue

>>31919462
>[]Probe:Caution:Slow:Continue

>>31919462

>shift: Change: New: Explore

We need more limbs on our meat puppet

>>31919462
>[X]Shift:Change:New:Explore

>>31919549
Good way to make the scientists and whoever else act and get us killed.

>>31919585
Why? They put us here in the first place.

>>31919585

Well they deliberately injected us, im guessing that if we don't show our full powers til later theyll let the experiment continue

>>31919510
If the host is being tortured things could get tricky if WE feel the pain too. Not to mention the host's leg is already twitching the hell out.

>[]Probe:Caution:Slow:Continue

>>31919462
>[]Probe:Caution:Slow:Continue

>>31919619
Yep, we're most likely some kind of bioweapon, we want to dominate this guy as much as possible, or else they might think we're useless and scrap the project.

>>31919462
[]Probe:Caution:Slow:Continue

>>31919617
Yeah, being put in the host is assumed to be intentional and probably for an experiment. In that case if we start changing the host's body they'd stop/end us after gathering data or contain us in some high tech cell/container (and destroy us before we're strong enough to break out)

>>31919697

Yeah torturers don't tend to go with bio-weapons as first line information gathering and the host didnt seem like it was concealing, more just plain terrified

>>31919697
That depends all on the time each turn is, the length/deadline of the experiment and if they'd consider our actions so far to be useless.

Maybe we should ease up on the experimentation? We don't want the good doctor to see all of our cards.

>>31919756
We don't have any cards. That's why we're experimenting.

>>31919722
They obviously want something from us, so maybe once we scoop out the host's brain it would be worth trying to talk to them?

>>31919756
Gathering information is pretty damn important right now.
They'd just notice us spreading through the rest of the body anyway if you don't want us to start figuring out what we can do.

>>31919462
>[]Shift:Change:New:Explore

>>31919731
He's not being tortured by anyone but us. We were injected into him on purpose, which makes it reasonable to assume that scientists created us, and know what we're capable of. If they willingly created an abomination such as us, they are definitely criminals looking to make bank on selling us as a weapon.

Why do you think someones gathering information from our host? He's probably just some random slob guinea pig.

We don't actually even have enough information to be having this discussion, we're both just assuming crap, so whatever.

>>31919769
>>31919804
I'm just saying that they might not know we are able to do a hostile takeover and we should keep it that way until we get more information or we might not be able to break out later.

>>31919462

[]Probe:Caution:Slow:Continue

>>31919783
Do you have any information on why they're doing this? No. Don't assume they did this to chat and make friends with an intelligent parasite.
If we want to know what they know - eavesdrop after taking over part of the host and/or proceed to find a way to take the captors over.

>>31919862
We can't do a hostile takeover. Right now we could probably just rampage through the host, killing them and converting them to our biomass. Nothing else.

>>31919831
This, all the way. We should just focus on survival and keeping enough info to make a prudent decision for zerg domination. Still, kinda worrisome we might be terminated in the room before getting out. Corpse vectors? Corpse vectors.

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>[]Probe:Caution:Slow:Continue

You resist the temptation to engage in another infectious surge or any memory ripping. You let your mass continue to grow slowly into the surrounding tissue and progress further up the spine. Slow progress is avoiding tipping off the immune system, but is telling you nothing about the host. Several more attempts to move the leg result in the same straining of muscle.
As you focus more on the information singing along the recovering neural tissue something new comes to light. Motion, position speed. New concepts flare into your consciousness. You know more about your host’s leg, where it is and how its moving. Your attempts to move the leg are causing it to kick, but something external is holding it in place. A new sensation rumbles through your tissues. Vibration and some frantic thudding. A deep voice in your consciousness wells once again.

Screaming. The host is screaming.

And it pleases you.

[Limb Control Increased]
[Host Body Awareness Increased]

Mass Size: ~3M Cells.
[]Rip:Revel:Learn:Seize
[]Grow:Cautious:Control: Invade

>>31919907

> Grow: Cautious: Control: Invade

Go go meat puppet

>>31919907
>Grow:Cautious:Control: Invade

>>31919907
>[]Rip:Revel:Learn:Seize
We must show results.

>>31919907
>[]Grow:Cautious:Control: Invade
Damn. Just gonna have to get out of this table the hard way.

>>31919907

[]Rip:Revel:Learn:Seize
But be careful about it, we don't want to stop any functions, the spine is a seriously delicate place.

Poor sod we are inside.

>>31919907
Rip and Tear

>>31919907
>[]Grow:Cautious:Control: Invade
>understanding concepts related to the body and enjoying the host's pain
Oh fuck it's over.
This is going to be great.

>>31919907
[]Grow:Cautious:Control: Invade

>>31919907
>[]Grow:Cautious:Control: Invade
This is getting scary.

>>31919907
>[]Grow:Cautious:Control: Invade

>>31919907
>[]Rip:Revel:Learn:Seize

scream for us, meat puppet

>>31919907
>[]Grow:Cautious:Control: Invade
We aren't ready for another big push yet.

>Screaming. The host is screaming.
>And it pleases you.

Guess that means we won't be talking the world by the power of friendship. Damn.

>>31919907
>[]Rip:Revel:Learn:Seize
We must silence it as quickly as possible.

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>>31920006

Im just hoping we still here the screaming when we have full control

>>31920049
>Screaming. The host is screaming.
>And it pleases you.
>hurr durr silence it
For what purpose?

>>31920006
Well, we are not in any way very good at manipulation without damage yet. Would need to keep at it. Quite understandable that the host is screaming, were fucking with their spine.

>>31920074
We could give results to whoever is doing this shit, but at the same time it would be even. fucking. SCARIER. if the limb were just go go.... limp all of a sudden. Not to mention it couldn't hurt even if they did as someone so aptly said earlier "cut their losses." heh.

The wIting is just the worst fucking part

>>31920272
wut?

>>31920348
Fuck waiting*

>>31920348
Obviously you've never experienced wIting. It's terrible

>>31920402
Jesus just imagin wilting, sounds terribal.

>>31920402
>>31920481
Sounds like you just haven't tried the newest edition of wlting. It got a lot better.

>>31920554
>wlting
They always say that when something just gets released. Then a few months later it's nothing but 'OMG TERRIBAD'.

>>31920554
We should make the host wlt once he passes it on

>>31920607
You sick fuck.

>>31920554
>>31920634
"wlting, not even once."
That's pretty low man. Even though his leg is probably about to be wilted AS FUCK

>>31920634
Hey im not the one pushing tentical warfare, hell we should wlt his lungs, slowly

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>[]Grow:Cautious:Control: Invade

Slow and Steady consumes the host, no? Your influence pushes deeper. The blood flow to the right leg is infiltrated at a number of stops, essentially checkpointing the entire leg. Your tendrils have consumed most of the upper muscle and have taken most of the knee. A few cursory pulses to the area result in more twitching and screaming. You pull back slightly. Should a parasite not remain undetected? The host knows but does nothing to stop you? How curious. Still caution is key and you refrain from exercising any more dominion over the host. No further screams rumble through your mass. A pity.

You press your tendrils deeper up the spine, spreading out into the tracts exiting to the left and right. In your caution you refrain from connecting or growing too deep into the virgin flesh. Alarm proteins still nip at your mass as the body offers up a token resistance. New information tingles at the periphery of your consciousness. With some effort you may be able to tap into the host again without causing as much alarm as last time, but it still is risky. It is taking most of your concentration to keep the mass in synch with the host’s nervous tissue. Regardless you mass continues to grow, but at a much reduced rate. The mass is growing restless only being allowed to feed on stray nutrients.

Mass Size: ~5M Cells.

[]Feed:Burn:Penetrate:Dominion

[]Probe:Tap:Connect:Learn

>>31920554
>liking 3.5
How about you fuck off?

>>31920607
>>31920634
>>31920686
Whoops, meant for that to go to cats. And nope, dude's got to be able to breathe on people.

>>31920710
>Muh core

>>31920705
>[]Probe:Tap:Connect:Learn

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>>31919907
>[]Rip:Revel:Learn:Seize
Understanding is the only way to make a compromise between our two species.
A delicious, plump compromise.

>>31920705
[]Probe:Tap:Connect:Learn

>>31920705
>[]Probe:Tap:Connect:Learn

>>31920705
>[]Probe:Tap:Connect:Learn

>>31920747
Whoops. Make that
>[]Probe:Tap:Connect:Learn

>>31920705
[X]Probe:Tap:Connect:Learn

>>31920747
welcome to 40 minutes ago.

>>31920705

>Probe:Tap:Connect:Learn

>>31920705
>[]Probe:Tap:Connect:Learn

Slow and steady consumes the host.

>>31920705
>[]Probe:Tap:Connect:Learn

>>31920721
But if we wlt the lungs he has to breath more, thus imcreasing infection opretunities. Especialy if we put out sporse higher up like the tube that starts with a b that im blanking on

>>31920705
Look at that leg, and we apparently have already ate up most of the upper muscle? Good thing we didn't push feeding or we would have make his leg fall off by now.

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>>31920874
Bronchial tubes
TUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUBES

>>31920705
>[]Probe:Tap:Connect:Learn

Maybe we can learn how to make him scream on command?

>>31920874
Tomorrow is a work day you know anon, you don't need to be this drunk.

>>31920904
You have infiltrated most of the leg. The amount of tissue you have consumed at this point is relatively small.

>>31920922
Thank yoooouuuuuu

>>31920927
>This hurts you, shepard.

>>31920937
Isdont ned ur shet

A brief update.
Your infectious mass has so far kept to the neural tissue of the host, only growing out into the leg muscle and femoral artery of the right leg. The growth there is much slower due to avoiding consuming host tissue and delaying an immune response. Sentry cells along the artery to prevent a majority of the immune system from acting in that area and neural tissue in the spine has poor blood flow.

>>31920941
>>31921011
Right, so even though we've been growing we've been refraining from eating up the infrastructure for the most part.

>>31921044
We can make it better. Stronger. Faster.

If we could.

How effective would infecting the sewers be?
Could we spread to the water supply?

>>31921011
Growing cautiously is okay for now but it sounds like we'll need to expand in the abdomen soon. All those delicious nutrients...

>>31921096
...You mean infect this guy's piss? Probably not all that effective.

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>>31920922
We must infect the TUUUUUBES.

>>31920937
His username is cats. He's not drunk- he's cheesing!
>>31921064
Bigger, Better, Faster, and Stronger?
>>31921011
I'm glad we're leaving sentries behind or we would've had issues I think. Still, the lack of an immune system besides from jsut us is.... worrying to say the least. Necrotic tissue here we come!

>>31921096
Fungi and water don't mix too well in general. Moisture is fine of course, being submerged not so much.

>>31921115
Well there is a lot of organic waste down there we could consume. Unless we can't. Also, isn't sewer water recycled into drinking water?

>>31921096
Currently your mass is at 5M cells. Effectively spread out in the host. For comparison there are 2.5 billion bacteria in a gram of dirt. There are many predators in the wild that would seize upon you in an instant, but you are highly adaptable. Take that as you will.

>>31921169
Any infections apart from us need to be killed off. Competition for host etc.

So we're going to become super cancer right?

>>31921213
We could infect the predators to help spread.

>>31921213
How much longer are you going to be on tonight? I cant get enuf of this, i really hope we dont go prototype...

>>31921309
>i really hope we dont go prototype...
Too late. We Blacklight now.

>>31921309
Thread will go on for a bit. Maybe till midnight. Depends on how things go.

>>31921334
I want that, i want that bad... also how many options have we passed that would of ended the game? I really want to get into gming

>>31921378
If your mass gets wiped out the game ends. So far you've done well. I will say nothing else.

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>[]Probe:Tap:Connect:Learn

Your lays an edict down upon the mass. Hunger is the concern of lesser beings, the mass has done well so far and will continue to infiltrate the host without seizing upon the succulent and fresh tissue. At least not yet. There is a different hunger within the mass. A craving to know the host, to slither inside its mind and take from it slowly. You could easily tear what you want from the creatures mind, but to what end? A slow inevitable advance, fear and panic. These are good. The deep voice in your consciousness rumbles. Take it chortles before dissipating again. What is that thought, you wonder? You sooner can feel the state of the host before you could find it again. No matter. You lock your growth for the time being and fully concentrate on tapping into the host.

Your consciousness brushes up against the host once again. You cannot fully rip from the host its senses however something comes through. You have no sight or touch, besides that of the leg. You feel vibrations, similar to the screaming of the host but different. Something else is vibrating. Meaning drifts through. The host is communicating, well screaming.

“THE FUCK DID YOU STICK IN ME! I CAN FEEL IT, SHIT IT’S IN MY LEG, OH GOD! FUCK YOU!”

“Subject 326, calm down or we will sedate you. You were given a mild nutritional supplement. There is nothing inside you. Note paranoia and hallucinations in the register”

“YOU LYING FUCKS, ITS IN MY HEAD, I CAN HEAR IT, IT CAN HEAR ME! KILL IT! KILL IT! KILL ME!”

“Aides, sedate the subject and convene the department heads. Its progressing.”

There is a brief moment of struggle as your host screams and thrashes, but the link quickly fades as the nerves quickly reduce their activity. The host is asleep for now. The same cannot be said for the mass. You can feel the hunger burning through the mass, it must feed, but from where?

[]Consume,Burn,Tear,Explode

[]Tap:Burrow:Feed:Adequate

[]Self:Cannibal:Evolve:Crucible

>>31921534
>[]Self:Cannibal:Evolve:Crucible
EVOLUTION WE'RE THE SOLUTION

Rolled 16, 25, 8, 9, 15, 22, 19, 17, 1, 13, 18, 21, 1, 19, 19, 1 = 224

>Self
Become mobile.

>>31921534
>[]Self:Cannibal:Evolve:Crucible
We have to mutate as much as possible. These labcoat fucks should NOT know what we are up to. Gotta gtfo this place.

>>31921534
[]Self:Cannibal:Evolve:Crucible

We know we are someone else's tool now.

>>31921534
>[]Self:Cannibal:Evolve:Crucible
Tentacles anyone?

>>31921534
>[]Self:Cannibal:Evolve:Crucible

Though I really have no idea how we can evolve by eating ourselves.

>>31921534
>[]Self:Cannibal:Evolve:Crucible
I sure hope that this isn't gonna cause an immediate quest fail.

>>31921534
>[]Self:Cannibal:Evolve:Crucible
This is a wise decision for a wise mass.

>>31921534
>[]Self:Cannibal:Evolve:Crucible
This looks really interesting. I want to see where this goes.

Here's hoping we can throw off the scent by cannibalizing.
>You were given a mild nutritional supplement.
Damn, this is messed up.
>convene the department heads.
IT'S HAPPENING, YOU COULD HAVE STOPPED THIS

So should the department heads being called together mean we should act fast? It is clear this entire situation was set up by them and they expected us to take over.

>>31921688
I would say that escaping the body is crucial at this point. The factthat our cells are entering a "Crucible" is indicitave that we are possibly taking the correct path out of this hell hole- but we are NOT meant to leave this lab I'm willing to bet. If this goes tits up, at least we tried. KILL EM' ALL

>>31921688
Nah, them convening means that we're probably one of the only successful tests they've conducted today. They'll be going over data logs to figure out what caused us to be successful where other tests were failures. We probably still have time.

>>31921740
Crucible in this context means "survival of the fittest." We are testing ourself.

>>31921741
I didn't think of that. I'm a dolt, ignore me. Though, we could be put up high on the production list if we manage to get out THAT much faster after all.

>>31921741
Wonder what there looking for in us?

>>31921804
High adaptability. We know we have that, the rest seems like a pretty wide gambit. Still, if we act like we're consistantly going for the brain we could surprise them in the long run? I don't know, just inference here.

>>31921804
Tapping into the nervous system of the host seems like one of the things they want, but we really don't have much information to go on.

>>31921804
Also, the fact that they injected us in the leg instead of the ass ore higher up seems to preclude the idea that they wanted us to see some takeover of motor function, though I don't know exactly the motive behind that.That, too, is a guess.

>>31921912
>ore
My typing skills are stellar today.

>>31921845
>>31921861
>>31921912
I know what were going to do with them. There going to become our new hosts

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>[]Self:Cannibal:Evolve:Crucible

You can stand it no longer. The mass hungers but yet it is not allowed to consume the host. What else can it do but turn on itself. There is a tense moment of silence amongst the mass. The deep voice in your consciousness lashes out. Fool. The mass launches into a frenzy upon itself. Cell rips into cell, some mass together and steam roll through. Rouge cells rip into their surroundings as they attempt to flee. The cohesive mass is in absolute bedlam and is destroying itself. Your mind reels in pain and fear. Your link to the host is disrupted. What little gets through from the network shows the leg is twitching just before it goes dark.

You reel as the self-feast winds down. You are fortunate that most of your sentries have remained safe but your mass is greatly diminished. With some effort you re-establish the link to the host and your mass. You are grievously injured, but the surviving cells are much stronger. They are almost impervious to macrophage attack and also fungal attack. You notice a brackish tinge in the atmosphere. The hunger is gone, replaced only with fear and worry. How do you proceed?

[Cell Resilience Increased]
[Host Link Weakened]
Mass Size: ~1.5M Cells.

[]Surge:Feast:Grow:Recover

[]Targe:Shift:Burrow:Hide

>Targe:Shift:Burrow:Hide

>>31922093
>[]Surge:Feast:Grow:Recover
We've got relatively good neural tapping and we're all but immune to this bodies attempts to kill us, I say we start expanding.

>>31922093
Option should be Target.

>>31922093
>[]Targe:Shift:Burrow:Hide
When they come to remove us, hopefully they might screw up. Also, that pic.

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>>31922138
I was wondering why we were imitating pic related.

>>31922093
>[]Targe:Shift:Burrow:Hide

>>31922093
[]Targe:Shift:Burrow:Hide

That's a freaky ass picture.

>>31922093
>[]Targe:Shift:Burrow:Hide
I'm voting for this only because of the target option. We need to be smart here, not wild and large. Best result is the doctors can't find us to examine us under a microscope to see our new resistances.

>>31922093
Targe

Keep in mind anons that unless we are in the 23ed century or something science does not actually have the ability to just take a sample of some cells, throw them in 'the machine' and come out knowing everything. If they do end up getting a sample of us it would take months for them to figure out what has changed and how it has changed.

Someone's typing is clearly rubbing off on me

>>31922201
>>[]Targe:Shift:Burrow:Hide
He's right. Let's go chargin targe.

>>31922263
Oh what irony, The setting is Earth ~2200. No comment on the abilities of the host's friends.

>>31922263
We don't know anything about the setting though, for all we know they can just throw us under a science gun and pull the trigger.
>>31922294
Well there we go. We should keep keeping on with the sneak.

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>>31922266
Y wat m7?

>>31922294
This is going to make preventing a cure difficult I bet?

>>31922333
Jesus a sciemce gun....

>>31922356
>cure
Anon, don't you get it? We /are/ the cure.

>>31922408
To the infection that is humanity.

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>>31922408

>>31922422
Can't wait for a bunch of bio-terrorist to get a hold of us.

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>[]Target:Shift:Burrow:Hide

You are injured, though by your own hand. The time to act brashly is over. You order your cells to dig in and rest. Growth is slow and no new infiltration occurs. Your links solidify and you reestablish your link to the host. The mass is complacent and calm washes over it. Your consciousness slinks low and slips into an inky darkness.

[Link Reestablished]

Mass Size: ~3M Cells.

There is a sudden jolt wakes you from your rest. New senses bombard your consciousness. Light, Heat, Restraint, Pain. You reach out for your mass and you cannot find it. You can see, and you look down to see the host! You have seized the host’s senses again. No, this is different. Like you are the host. The thought disgusts you. Suddenly a series of forms appear in the host’s vision. Strange. Objects are waved over the host, there are pokes and prods. It is painful and you do not like it. You are unable to scream or speak, and curiously enough you cannot feel below the host’s midsection. Understanding the figures is just beyond your reach, as is speaking. You can feel yourself slipping down into the blackness again. What do you do?

[]Speak:Question:Words:Listen

[]Struggle:Fight:Bite:Attack

[]Laugh:Impose:Intimidate:Fear

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Echo.. echo.. echoo .. choooo. Hoooo.. your mom... bumping with lust penis

>>31922727
>[]Speak:Question:Words:Listen
When they find out that the spores can think for themselves shit's going to get crazy. "WE HAVE RIGHTS TOO DAMMIT"

>>31922727
>[]Speak:Question:Words:Listen
We must learn.
Also how long has it been, do we know?

>[]Laugh:Impose:Intimidate:Fear
Savor this moment.

>>31922727
[]Laugh:Impose:Intimidate:Fear

>>31922727
>[]Speak:Question:Words:Listen

>>31922727
I'm thinking this is a different host. Since we went to sleep in the other one, our consciousness relinked with this guy who was probably our originator.

so,
>[]Speak:Question:Words:Listen

>>31922727
>Laugh:Impose:Intimidate:Fear

We terror virus, her us roar.

>>31922727
[]Laugh:Impose:Intimidate:Fear

>>31922727
[]Laugh:Impose:Intimidate:Fear

>>31922727
>[]Speak:Question:Words:Listen

>>31922727
>[]Speak:Question:Words:Listen

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>[]Speak:Question:Words:Listen

You reach into the host’s memory, grasping at any thought that holds meaning. The mumbling of the things hovering over you, Doctors you think, begin to speak in words. You focus on their mouths, twitching and flaring beneath masks.

“The sample is progressing well. Intervention is not needed.” The first notes, consulting a noisy rectangle in its hands.

Another comments while looking away. “Sedation of host unnecessary. Pathogen has infected primary neural track. Immune system is not noticing the infection”

“Recommend, introduction of additional pathogens, following crucible protocol.” The last demands.

All three nod and move to turn away. You manage to break the fluid away from the host’s throat, making a wrenching, gagging noise. The doctors all turn and look down at your borrowed form.

“I thought you sedated him” One cries

“I did! Enough to keep the subject out for hours”

“What, am I?” you choke out.

The doctor’s eyes widen. They wordlessly scrabble about, checking instruments and readouts. You repeat the question, this time more clearly. One of the doctors strides into your field of vision, eyes narrowing as a needle presses into your neck. You stare him down, something unspoken passes between you. He speaks.

“You are a parasite. Do not fail”

The world of sensation fades away. The last thing you see before the darkness takes you again is a video playing out on a monitor. An ant bristles with white fuzz and stalks. The images pleases you, but you do not know why.

You sleep.

------Game Pause--------

Have to call it here folks. I'll be around for a few to answer any questions.
As always thanks for playing.
Follow the twitter for game updates. https://twitter.com/Toxo_Para
Next game should be Tuesday around 7pm.

I hope we're still able to glean information when we're scaring the hell out of our captors heheh

>>31923329
>Do not fail
Looks like the bio-weapon theory is correct.

>>31923329
Thanks for running.

They want to mKe us stronger by introducing new shit i say we merge or let the new pathogons eat out or worthless mass, fuck the scientists

>>31923329
They're even williung to speak to us. *sheds tear* It's happening.

>>31923329
Thanks for running Toxo, did you expect us to FEED FEED FEED when you made this quest?

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>>31923329
>Do not fail

W-we won't, sempai. He noticed us

>>31923430
Willing* Damn me, I need to be willing to make a spell check.

>>31923329
This is awesome. I've got a question myself, how often do these games actually make it this far?

>>31923436
I let you guys direct your growth. I was surprised at the caution displayed so far, but as you saw you cannot ignore your basic needs. I was surprised you turned on yourself, but growth cannot come from avoiding pain. I will say your actions and the feeling behind them are being tracked.

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>>31923329
>Do not fail
I don't intend to

>>31923515
>a..am I cute, sempai?

>>31923478
I don't know. The last one I ran was radically different but died out after ~20 threads. Similar threads last about the same length.

That said, if your mass dies out, the thread is over... for now.

>>31923530
>doushio~

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