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[]Attack Host:Grow Mass:Infest Organs:Control Host

You are a parasite, and you have just had the pleasure of quenching wrath in the cooling vat of cunning and trepidation. Ensnaring one of the vile flukes, you directed the mass to infest and mimic the creatures form. Roughly approximating its physical arrangement you were able form a colony of free swimming cells, able to handle the strong currents in the host’s blood and to resist immune tagging. Not fearing the flukes your mass turns back to the host. It has been a while since seizing its tissue for your own. You order your mass to being colonizing the hosts tissue immediately, taking a more aggressive stance. Your mass surges through tissue, careful not to compromise the host but dining heavily on fatty tissue. Something the host seems to have in abundance. You continue to colonize the spine and lower neural tracks. You construct no additional flukes at this time, focusing on finding the hosts organs and infestation. Your presence in the digestive track and neural systems increases. The only activity you sense from your rival is the occasional cough. Your progress is growing well and you feel you can order the mass more efficiently.

Infection Update.

[Fluke Form Attackers 250k/per] : 1
[Cell Mass] : 25M
[Host Health]: 75% (-)

[30% of Legs controlled]

Organs controlled:
Lumbar Spine
Stomach
Lower Esophagus

Please allocate three points to the following in any way you choose (1 in each, 3 in one etc):

[]Immune Suppression
[]Fluke Form Production
[]Mass Growth
[]Mass Study
[]Host Study
[]Neural Infiltration
[]Scouting.
[]Write In

Voting closes in 25 min.

>>32069939
No need to worry man, just thought I'd remind you.

i saw that.

>[1]Host Study
>[1]Mass Study
>[1]Fluke Form Production

>>32069952
[1]Mass Study
[1]Host Study
[1]Host Reinforce

We're going to eventually need to control the host's body, might as well know as much as we can while making the body more useful.

>>32069952
>Mass Study
>Host Study
>Scouting

Information.
Yeeeees.

I had to rewrite the update. Been a little hectic today. Sorry about that.

>>32069952
We are only able to really observe what is around us, we must boost our ability to study our host, maybe even commune with them in a way that lets us know where and what is wrong.
2 Host rtudy
1 Host reinforce

If the host Dies then all we will have to feed on for the moment is dead flesh and degrading materials.

I say we reinforce the host and help him defeat the flukes. why not become a sort of symbiont ?
I mean the advantages are obvious and we have the building blocks too, fooling the immune system we are part of the host is already in our capacity, and it would allow us easyer access to our hosts memory if he was willing to co operate.
reinforce 2
study mass 1

>>32069952
What are the [x study] options here?

Is it like forced adaptation?

>>32069830
Let's not put points in growth. Don't want him dying before we take all he knows.

>>32070033
>why not become a sort of symbiont
Just fuck off with this shit already.

>>32070033
There are no advantages.

>>32069991
>>32069996
Either of these are fine with me I guess.

>>32070015
Host reinforce is stupid what does that even mean? Anti vote.

Just learn and control.

>>32070036
Studying the host reveals more information about the host and his current state of health.

Studying the mass may reveal more about its workings, nature or even your own subconscious.

>>32070081
It keeps him from dying.
Which keeps us from dying.

Hardly stupid.

>>32069952

[x] Host Study
[x] Neural Infiltration
[X] Scouting

We seem to be falling behind on our true goal of playing puppetteer with this meat bag...

>>32070064
So what if there are no advantages? Wheres the fun in playing make believe if all we do is kill consume and adapt everything in front of us?

Do you want this to turn into an insect civ like quest? if so that's pretty boring to me.

>>32069952
[3] Neural Infiltration

>>32070051
For serious.

Go play Mr. Nice Guy in some other generic quest protagonist.

>>32069952
[2]Mass Study
[1]Neural Infiltration

>>32070116
Good. Leave.

I want to fuse more deeply with the host, in that I want to turn him into a suicidal-spore bag.

>>32070148
>>32070118
>>32070051
People need to calm the hell down, yo.

>>32070081
>not wanting to be Alex Mercer

Pleb.

>>32070100
You present no mechanism to do it by. That's the stupidity. Handwavey bullshit we ain't evolved to waste resources on a host when we can spread to another to replace him.

>>32070118
Who says we have to be a nice symbiote?

Infecting and taking over our host, reinforcing them and then enforcing demands on then to feed us, carry us around. we'll be like a lazy cat, an angry deadly lazy cat.

Implying i don't want our host to slowly break down our inhuman exterior and stir a kind of humanity in our lovely little symbiote.

>>32070116
>Do you want this to turn into an insect civ like quest?
It already is and will stay that way. Feel free to get out.

>>32070204
>Handwavey bullshit
...
We're a sentient parasite, nigga, where the fuck do you think you are?

>>32070223
Bloody hell, its like walking into Pol with a half decent opinion right now.
>>32070232
This nigga gets it.

>>32070214
this is what I was trying to convey with my first post about being a symbiont, I wasnt aiming to save the host or anything but to help further our agenda, if we help the host get out of his restraints help him along until we can spread to other beings then why not do it. wouldn't it be counterproductive ruining the meatbag to the point we can't escape it ?

>>32070232
QM can handwave and say 'this is so'.

Player plans that do so with no basis in the rather simple abilities of the protag are rather silly. o

>>32070297
We're not a fucking symbiont. We'll eat this fat fuckers brain, turn his body into a meatpuppet and then use it to infest others.

>>32070328
But...it wasn't an option we came up with It was offered to us as a choice, and some people picked it.

I mean, unless Toxo says Reinforce Host DOESN'T steady his health to keep him from dying on us, then it's pretty much confirmed, dude.

>>32070355
What? I see no such option. Where?

>>32070421
in the previous thread that was deleted for reasons, Toxo had reinforce host as an option.

Either way it doesn't matter, What we are talking about is miles away.

Lets focus on the vote we have right now.

>>32070421
Thread that got deleted had a host reinforce option, this one doesn't either through oversight or OP deleting it for reasons of his own.

>>32070421
It was on the first iteration of this thread as as option. It seems to have been removed as anything except a write-in

You cannot directly reinforce the host yet. You can only avoid eating sensitive tissue. If you study the host, more options will be available to you. As a fungal parasite the host does not necessarily need to be animate, though a living host may afford you better options. It will come down to your choices, but ultimately. If your mass reduces below the level to maintain your intellect, the game is over.

>>32070559
Thank you, changing my vote to Host Study 2
And Fluke production

Disregard this vote
>>32070015

>>32070121
Agreeing with this guy's vote.

Man this'll be a pain to tally.

>>32070559
Ah, thanks for clearing that up.

Results:

>[6]Host Study
>[6]Mass Study
>[5]Neural Infiltration
>[2]Fluke Form Production
>[2]Scouting


Update Inbound.

>>32070632
I can dig it

I need 3 1d100s. Lowest roll of 3 determines your luck for the current turn. The lower the better.

Rolled 70

>>32070675

Rolled 83

>>32070675
Do it

Rolled 5

>>32070675

>>32070733
Oah man that was close.

>>32070733
our savior

>>32070733
based anon

>>32070733
Sweet.

>>32070632
Wait so how does final tally decide actions?

How many of those did we do?

It seems like the arguments between helping the host and not helping the host via symbiosis is that some anons want to turn into prototype, while the other anons just want to take over the world and kill everyone. Am I wrong?

>>32070773
the three top ones are done ?

>>32070801
No, I'm pretty sure turning into prototype is step one of taking over the world and killing everyone.

>>32070801
Dunno. I'm more focused on us taking over the brain, then the rest of the organs, and seeing how things go from there.

Our host is still tied down in a research facility and (most likely) treated as a bio-hazard.

>>32070773
Activity during turn is spread over those actions. If you win the luck roll (you set DC, I roll under), significant progress/discoveries are made in the highest two options.

Lets see how you do.

>>32070843
Heh, poor Toxo, having a rough day indeed.

>>32070843
Why wouldn't that go wrong with everything else

>>32070801
Pretty much my Perfect endgame would most likely be a mix between prototype and witch-blade.

I can't help it, i am a sick man.

Rolled 99

Luck Roll

Right, well I don't see why we can't turn prototype by advancing our new massing abilitys and if it doesn't work out with out host we just kill everyone the old fashion way anyway. Host study is good either way.

>>32070896
Hahaha what

>>32070801
There is no helping.

There is puppeteering and maintaining our slave body though.

Reinforce is for after we go Yeerk.

>>32070934
Lets just wait till we get to the brain and see what happens, though right now i'd agree with you.

>>32070801
I think I'm alone, but I wanted The Last of Us zombies to be our end goal.

>>32070971
Me too

>>32070971
You are not alone.

But I'm not with you, filthy clicker.

>>32070971
why not have both?

It's not like we can't have prototype-alikes running around breaking defensive hardpoints while our hordes of fungus zombies rush into the breaches and infect everyone with their tentacles.

>>32070971
Last of Us zombies would be a lot of fun but I think we are a bit too far along on our intelligence checks to make zombies. More like super humans.

>>32070971
>>32070976
I don't like dead end's and zombies are a dead end, once we run out of humans what then?

>>32071001
We turn into Planet.

I appreciate everyone's enthusiasm but I'm pretty sure that at the moment we are confined in a host that is bound and will likely be incinerated whence the experiment is done.

>>32071001
Convergence

>>32071017
Planet from alpha centauri?

you are aware it kept dying every time it became sapient

>>32071026
That's why we wait for these dumb faggots to stick bot flies in him and then we can go airborne and get everyone here. Let's see them tell us not to fail when we own their meat.

>>32071043
Nah, it kept dying every time it became godlike. It was always sapient.

>>32071026
We need to figure this our somewhat or at least have a vague idea so we know where to push our evol points.

>>32070990
I like this idea. though Zombies are two end game for my tastes.

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You decide that beyond seeing the host as food and a vessel to dominate it is a living thing with features and defenses you know nothing about. It would behoove your mass to spend some time testing the flesh of the host. This prompts another new thought, just as you should test the host, should you also not test your mass. It is an ornery thing and when stressed is very difficult to control. Perhaps you should master yourself before mastering another. Curious thoughts today, very unlike your path up till now. You dedicate some minor effort to spreading through the host and converting some of your mass into flukes. With all the effort dedicated to study your mass ceases spreading as well as searching out the garrisons of the immune system.

>DC 5
>QM 99
>Luck Passed

You ping your cells throughout the host, reading the chemical responses, listening to nerves and hormone triggers. A world of biofeedback opens up to your senses, revealing a world of complexity that would drive a lesser mind insane. The host is a complex creature, infinitely so than your own. It is a surprise you didn’t kill the host already. Your cells report many small actions and fixes that it can do that would greatly help the host’s health. A few repair proteins here, some stimulating proteins there and the host’s health is greatly increased.
[Reinforce Host Health Found] – Voting for this increases host health by (+) /(++) on luck.

You turn towards the mass, listening to the symphony of its call, the flow of chemical information, the twitch of mycelium and the contentedness of fed tissue. You gain a feel for the basic instincts of the mass and the way the base cells communicate to each other. In it you find no clue as to your sentience, not that you failed, it just isn’t there. It is almost as if you are separate from the surge and flow of it all, yet you aren't? It is familiar, yet alien. You feel like this is a significant step to understanding the mass and self.

1/2

>>32071067
In that vein, we might want to focus on defensive evolutions in the event that we get into one of the sciencebags, as I'm sure they have some countermeasure for us.

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Infection Update.

[Fluke Form Attackers 250k/per] : 3
[Cell Mass] : 24.5M
[Host Health]: 74% (-)

What are your orders?

[]Immune Suppression
[]Fluke Form Production
[]Mass Growth
[]Mass Study
[]Host Study
[]Reinforce Host
[]Neural Infiltration
[]Scouting.
[]Write In

>>32071176
Allocate 3 points please

>>32071176
[1]Mass Study
[1]Host Study
[1]Fluke Form Production
Same as before!

>>32071176
[2]Mass Study
[1]Neural Infiltration

>>32071176
]Mass Study
[]Host Study
[]Reinforce Host
Need to milk this as long as possible, don't want him dying before we're ready.

>>32071176
Fluke form Production
Scouting
Reinforce Host

The war for our host is truly starting to begin, its time to lay the battlefield and strengthen our host so that the impending war does not ruin it.

>>32071209
I vote for this

>>32071176
The host can take a lot more damage it looks like.

[1]Mass Study
[1]Host Study
[1]Neural Infiltration

We need to crack down on these flukes with our own flukes, or are they automatically doing that?

>>32071209
>>32071227
If we focus too hard on this, then we will get attacked with out pants down, I'm all for it later but right now there are other factors going on.

>>32071176
>[3]Neural Infiltration

>>32071224
>>32071223
I don't think we need to reinforce him, his health looks solid. And it's not like we need to worry about him running to a hospital. We should save it for when we are about to make a major move.

>>32071176
[1]Fluke Form Production
[1]Mass Study
[1]Host Study

>>32071176
>[1]Host Study
>[2]Neural Infiltration

>>32071176
>Host Study
>Mass Study
>Scouting

>>32071176
Are the fluke form attackers hunting down flukes or are they just swimming around?

>>32071425
Fluke forms are sitting in reserve. They have not been deployed, nor has any thought of attacking the flukes been suggested. Direct attack was voted against last thread and thus is not in your pool of current options. If you wish to cast a vote that way, use the write in.

So correct me if I'm wrong
our mass is 'the swarm'
and Flukes are our tanks

Yeah?

>>32071529
Flukes are the semi-independent forms we came up with to try and fight the blood parasite. Our normal swarm got reckd when we tried to enter the bloodstream.

>>32071529
The mass is the giant linked network of infectious cells, biochemical network,flukes and encysted sentry cells. The entire infectious biomass. Flukes are specialized groups of infectious cells, adapted to form a pseudo-organisim. They are free swimming but can shed infectious mass cells as they please.

>>32071176
[1]Host Study - To learn new ones better.
[1]Reinforce Host - Keep them alive till we can move to new ones.
[1]Immune Suppression - For our protection.

>>32071615
Why would you suppress the immune system we are already mostly invisible to it.

Rolled 39

[11]Mass Study
[9]Neural Infiltration
[7]Host Study
[3]Fluke Form Production
[3]Reinforce Host
[2]Scouting
[1]Immune Suppression - For our protection.


Luck roll please. Number to beat is above.
(If you fail by more than 30 points over there will be negative effects)

>>32071656
For the new host and if any changes happen to the future. The system could end up upgrading and i want to be ready.

Rolled 67

>>32071739

Rolled 22

>>32071739
Rolling

Rolled 9

>>32071739

You know this is a fancy way of flipping a coin right?

Rolled 4

>>32071739

>>32071176
3 neural infiltration butchers

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Rolled 99

Luck Passed
Your shift your thoughts away from the host, continuing to monitor but not fully exploring it anymore. Your instead expand your network further into the spinal column. You can feel new senses from the host flare into your awareness. The pulse of abdominal organs, gurgling and surging digested food from place to place. Thoracic organs pulse as well, revealing a disconcerting fact. The Fluke is heavily infesting the host’s lungs, liver,kidneys and heart, multiplying rapidly. Almost to quickly. It seems the Fluke may have borrowed some of your fungal masses reproductive habits. It also seems to have picked up the nasty habit of eating the wrong tissues. On the fringe of your awareness you are getting close to the host’s cervical nerves and brain stem, controlling facial nerves and the body’s autonomic system.

[Study Fluke] option unlocked.

You redouble some effort into producing fluke forms and reinforcing the host, counteracting the damage the Fluke is doing and then some. You also come across a pocket or two of lymph nodes where you intercept a few macrophages carrying fungal fragment proteins to the major nodes in the throat. Hopefully this will stifle any attempt by the immune system so far.

Your mind turns back to your mass, considering and pondering over the other feeling you have when gazing into the instinctual abyss of your mind. There, for a moment you sensed it, flitting underneath the typhoon of hunger and will you feel a massive presence ripple the waters. It never breaks the surface but it grazes them, sending out small ripples. You watch as the mass responds to these ripples, throwing out sensory proteins and exuding report sequences back. For a moment you can almost touch this presence before something else seizes it and drags it back down. Something equally as large but deeper. Curious.

Infection Update.
[Fluke Form Attackers 250k/per] : 6
[Cell Mass] : 23.75M
[Host Health]: 75% (+)
Fluke Threat Level 5/10
Nature [30/100]

1/2

[]Immune Suppression
[]Fluke Form Production
[]Mass Growth
[]Mass Study
[]Host Study
[]Reinforce Host
[]Study Fluke
[]Neural Infiltration
[]Scouting.
[]Write In

Please allocate 3 points

>>32072246
[2]Fluke Form Production
[1]Write In - Assault the flukes. We've taken enough time on self-improvement.

>>32072246
[1]Fluke Form Production
[1]Study Fluke
[1]Mass Growth
We need to be getting ready to oust these things.

Rolled 50

>>32072246
[3]Study Fluke
This turn, we learn the enemy. Next turn, we PURGE:BURN:MAIM:KILL the enemy.

>>32072246
Dam we need to get rid of them.
[1]Study Fluke
[1]Fluke Form Production - Maybe we can upgrade it in some way.
{1} Blend some cells into the lungs and try to take the flukes out from the inside.

>>32072246
I told you about the heart and lungs bro, I told you!
[1]Write In- Assault the flukes with our flukes, Use our tongues to easily infect them.
[1] Fluke form production
[1] Study fluke

>>32072358

Supporting this.

>>32072246
[2]Fluke Form Production - Fishing for some upgrade
[1]Study Fluke

>>32072358
>>32072404
Thirded

>>32072547

Fourthed!

>>32072246
3 study fluke

Rolled 24

Voting Results

[11]Fluke Form Production
[11]Study Fluke
[7]Attack Fluke
[1]Mass Growth


3 luck rolls please.
Number to beat is above.

Rolled 59

>>32072787

Rolled 64

>>32072787
I like penguins.

Rolled 100

>>32072787

>>32072826
Nice I believe that counts as a crit success.

>>32072826
That my friends is a critical failure. Roll under.
Luck is (--) this turn

>>32072886
This is in direct contradiction to what you said before, btw.

We asked specifically if you really meant that 100 was a crit success and 1 was a crit failure.

>>32072826
This is what we deserve. inb4 threat level sent up to 9/10

>>32072938
And I corrected you. This is a roll under system. 1 is crit win, 100 is crit fail.

>>32072968
From thread 4:

>>31965235
>100 is critical win
>1 is critical failure

This isn't a typo?

your response:

>>31965267
Correct. Don't worry, you will only be rolling during combat situations.

>>32072968
That isn't how I recall It either, you coinfirmed the bizarre version...

>The flukes evolve and merge together to form a mega fluke.

Jesus Christ, its been a roll under since part 1, whats with people not reading the logs

You are right. 100 is critical win. I apologize. This isn't turning out to be a good night. But yes critical win it is.

Luck is (++) this turn.

Current plan is
[11]Fluke Form Production
[11]Study Fluke
[7]Attack Fluke (assault lungs, use flukes, gain foothold)
[1]Mass Growth

----Game Pause----

Going to have to call it here. Seems today was a little rough and work is tomorrow. I've corrected my notes about crits. As for rolling, you are in a combat situation with the fluke entity.

Thanks for playing tonight and hanging in there this weekend. Been a tough time but next week should be solid. There will be some intense combat coming up.

Any questions or comments, I'll be poking the thread or you can send them to the twitter.

>>32073425
So I guess no mega fluke boss battle then.
Thanks for running Toxo, see ya next time.

>>32073425
Thanks for running.

>>32073425
Thanks for running.

>>32073425
Thanks for running Toxo. Hope things are less hectic for you in the future.

>>32073425
Thanks for running, mate. Good stuff as always, and I hope it gets easier