>>37513274

Parts unlocked:
Quadruped Radiator wings: 3N


>Current resource reserves
Nutrients: 142
Metals: 0

>Upkeep cost
Queen – 5
First Clutch Worker (3) – 6
Thinker – 3
Winter Workers(15) – 60
Miners(5)- 20
=
Total Cost: 94

>Income
Nutrients: 0
Net: 48

>Hive population:
Winter Workers: 15
First Clutch Workers: 3
Miners:5
Thinker: 1

Current Construction
>Hatchery (1 day left)
>Throne room (2 days left)

>Eggs gestating:
0

Previous quests:
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?tags=Hive%20Queen%20Beta

Twitter:
https://twitter.com/QuestDroneBeta0

>>37513284

For a moment you hesitate, you could lay more thinkers, but then what of your resources? It would be a gamble, and perhaps, perhaps you will win that bet, or perish. Will you decide to be cautious or will you risk what you have at the moment. Perhaps you will not even pursue further research, you are just unsure as to how to proceed.

>[] lay thinker eggs 6N per egg.
>[] Research Vesper Mating (3 days)(slow)
>[] Research Forage foodstuff (50% more yield, must forage for food first)
>[] Research Algae

With a popping sound the eggs of your winter workers and your new miner drones hatch, you now have a large brood. With most of your workers quite busy, these new ones are a welcomed sight.

>[] have miners expand hive. (how many?)
>[] have miners look for ore. (how many?)
>[] have miners help in the construction of hatchery. (how many?)

=

>[] have winter workers forage for food. (how many?)
>[] have winter workers help with the hatchery. (how many?)
>[] have winter workers help with the throne room. (how many?)
>[] have winter workers explore. (how many?)

>>37513310

current mood song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RWI3-8N_-Y

>>37513310
>[] Research Algae
>[] Research Forage foodstuff (50% more yield, must forage for food first)
In that order.

>[] have miners expand hive.
All of them. Have them focus on sealing off any dangerous areas, closing off unexplored tunnels, building bridges over freezing rivers, and reinforcing any unsound caverns. We don't seem to need metals just yet and we don't want any more cave-ins.

>[] have winter workers forage for food.
>[] have winter workers explore.
Have them all do both. Forage in new locations we have yet to explore, but make sure we keep a minimum of 2 drones on watch at the entrance.

>>37513310
>>37513538
This

>>37513538
>>37513574
if op counts as a poster this is a dirty samefag

>>37513310
>[] Research Algae
>[] have winter workers forage for food. (10)

4 posters 3 voters and op. I don't see you're problem here anon.

>>37513663
Maybe >>37513549
deleting his post knocked off the count?

>>37513538
>>37513549
>>37513574
>>37513549

>[] Research Algae

and

>[] have winter workers forage for food.

Only five workers available for this. all others are busy.

and

>[] have miners expand hive.(5)
this good to all?

>>37513694
Ignore trolls.

>>37513752
Yup.

>>37513752
Good enough for me.

chiming in here. but I got things to do and I'm literally bouncing between two other threads this makes three. Least its going somewhat slow!

>>37513801
>>37513814

One more vote or 4 mins whichever comes first, speak now or be forever silent.

Plans for the future of the hive are welcomed.

>>37513839
It picks up later.

>>37513856

Writing.

>>37513856

Do we fortify or start farms?

>>37513968
I say farms. we need nutrients or starve to death its even more vital then in hive quest alpha because of how fucking cold it is.

>>37514053

Of what do we make them out of??

>>37513968
Food we are running low now.

>>37514053
We don't really have anything to farm. So far we could try to breed the Vespers as livestock but I prefer we just find it's food source and cultivate that.

>>37514071
Uhh if I remember the last thread right there were the small game the hives been hunting and the algae samples as possible options. We'd probably have better luck with the Algae instead of trying to start a breeding program though..

>>37514053
hawta research the algae or find another crop first

>>37514071
That's why need to research foraging and the algae, to see if there's any viable food sources.

>>37513942

You have wisely chosen to have your miners secure the cave, after all worse than starvation would be to die in a cave in, they start securing the tunnels going towards the underground river, quickly putting pylons of chitin into the walls to create pressure, this stabilizes the cave and prevents a sudden shift, albeit it will not stop an earthquake, but then what would? Securing your entire hive will take sometime, but at least they have no need to touch the hatchery as your workers have already made it cave-in proof.

Current Construction
>Hatchery (1 day left)
>Throne room (2 days left)
>Securing Hive from cave-ins(1 day left)

Your lone thinker gets on with the task of analyzing the algae, the samples you have were frozen yesterday and the exterior layers are unusable as a result, but the interior layers of the balled mess you had brought back contains many viable samples. “I learn for SISTER!” This will take some time, a day perhaps two.

Current research:
>Algae

Lastly you have the newly hatched drones go out to forage for food, and to explore on their way, perhaps they can find some crop you could harvest? You are not sure if you wish this to be a quick expedition or a long one,it seems the days have spouts of wind here and there, and the nights you can only guess.

>[] quick foraging (Small returns, Low danger)
>[] Long foraging (Greater return, High danger.)
>[] write in.

>>37514295
>[] quick foraging (Small returns, Low danger)

>>37514295
>>[] quick foraging (Small returns, Low danger)
Sorry if this has been answered before, but for how long can we harvest the vesper population sustainably?

>>37514295
Quick Foraging we don't have the numbers or food stock to risk it right now. That'll change though...that'll change.. all we need is some time.

>>37514295

Why sister?

>>37513694
nigga please, before i posted there were 3 posters and 3 votes

>>37514295
>[] Long foraging (Greater return, High danger.)
Our workers are adapted to the planet now, and we need food. The way I see it, we either get that food, or we decrease our need for food by losing a few.

>>37514295
>>[] quick foraging (Small returns, Low danger)

>>37514295
>Long foraging (Greater return, High danger.)
If we keep playing it safe, we'll starve.

>>37514389
Because it's assumed that Queens at least send one thinker with their daughters to pilot the pods and help start up a hive.

>>37514338
>>37514385
>>37514387

>>37514338
>>37514385
>>37514387

And

>>37514413

Quick is winning.
>>37514425
>>37514437

Roll 1d100 lowest roll is how many N we get.

>>37514389
Because the first thinker is your sibling

Rolled 84 (1d100)

>>37514474

Rolled 26 (1d100)

>>37514474

Rolled 10 (1d100)

>>37514474

>>37514504
>>37514522
>>37514527

10

writing.

>>37514527
>>37514543

Damn it, I hope this doesn't also apply to danger

Going out for a quick jaunt has revealed nothing of interest and only meager scraps, this could have been of some use three days ago, but now? Now its almost insulting, what makes it worse is that these are your adapter workers, strong, fast, agile, and quite capable. And yet all they bring back are rotten fruits, frozen berries, and a few edible leaves. Worse still, one of the workers has become slow due to a paralytic agent in one of the foods, you can't even tell which one. And researching it would take time. “We are sorry mother.” You can't help but be angry, however, you cannot be angry at them, its not their fault that this place is so desolate.

>[] Forage far from the cave (where? forest, mountains,ravine)
>[] Forage near the river (Medium danger)
>[] Take a long time searching for food(high return, high danger)
>[] Give up foraging and capture Vespers (200 left) 5N per captured Vesper. 10 captured per adult worker.
>[] write in.

>>37514808
>[] Forage near the river (Medium danger)

>>37514808
>>[] Forage near the river (Medium danger)
We seriously need to find more food sources

>>37514808
>[] write in.
Start hunting instead of foraging.

>>37514858

We got fruits, vespers, algea, and ... each other!

>>37514877

We don't even know what beasts are out there Sherlock.

>>37514808
>[] Forage near the river (Medium danger)

>>37514808
>>[] Forage near the river (Medium danger)

>>37514852
>>37514852
>>37514858

Two votes so far.

>>37514808
>[] Forage near the river (Medium danger)

>>37514900
inb4 this becomes a hive version of the Donner Party

>>37514930
>>37514954
>>37514961

Four votes, 5 mins until voting is closed.

>>37514929
Its not a bad idea, we just need intel?

>>37514808
>[] Forage far from the cave
Have them comb the forest until sundown, and put the slowed one on guard duty.

>>37514986
>Donner Party

This is becoming grimm...

>>37514992

Time is up.

Roll 1d100 let this be high please.

>>37514929
We technically don't even know what we should forage yet we gather things that look like food.

Rolled 41 (1d100)

>>37515119

Rolled 68 (1d100)

>>37515119
Hive Mother guide us

>>37515119

Three rolls.

>>37515124
Correct.

Rolled 62 (1d100)

>>37515119

>>37515144
>>37515146
>>37515181

68

writing.

>>37515212

Your workers make their way to the river without much issue, you have put the slowed worker as a sentry, and had the sentry replace him. The group reaches the river and starts to comb the area. There are plenty of trees nearby, by not all of them offer sustenance, only a handful seem to bear any fruits. Albeit many more nutrients have been gathered so far, nearly 30. This is better if still quite small, when a flutter leaves and a cracked twig call the attention of a worker.

>[] investigate with this lone worker.
>[] wait for the others to arrive. (whatever it is may be gone)
>[] ignore and continue foraging until sundown.
>[]write in.

>>37515330
>>[] Have the other workers rush toward it ASAP
>>Have the lone worker slowly move toward it

>>37515330
>Investigate with this lone worker.
Fuck it, Fortune favors the bold and stupid.

>>37515330
>[] investigate with this lone worker.
Try to sneak up to it, and have the others move around to the flanks just in case.

>>37515330
>[] wait for the others to arrive. (whatever it is may be gone)
Have the others take a detour to circle around the disturbance.

>>37515330
>[] investigate with this lone worker.

>>37515330
>>37515366
this.

>>37515366
>>37515375
>>37515379
>>37515382
>>37515388

Lone worker it is, all other are on their way to the site as well.

writing.

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>>37515433

Your lone worker approaches careful and what he encounters takes a moment to register, it seem like some sort of biped, although you cannot discern its features with one hundred percent certainty. The worker is directed to stay put and follow should the creature attempt to flee. Its cranium seems to be composed of an exoskeleton, it has sharp angular curvatures, certainly made to fight, likely by charging, its legs a bit more of a mystery. But upon the approach of your other workers its spooked, your lone worker sprints into action and tries to stop it by grabbing on, but with a sweeping motion of its head it knocks your worker down. The chitin plate armor cracked slightly, this will be not be an easy beast to tame.

>[] wait for the others and tend to the wounded worker
>[] go after the creature, no wait.
>[] have the other workers purse and leave the wounded behind.
>[] write in.

>>37515654
>[] wait for the others and tend to the wounded worker

>>37515654
>>[] go after the creature, no wait.
Kill Kill Kill

>>37515654

the fuck is that?

>>37515654
>>[] wait for the others and tend to the wounded worker

>>37515701
>>37515782

Two votes for wounded.

>>37515705
One for going after it.

voting closes in 8 minutes.

>>37515654
>[] go after the creature, no wait.
Have the others try to cut it off.

>>37515762
Looks like something akin to a velociraptor.

>>37515654
>[] go after the creature, no wait.
It's a potential source of info and nutrients and we're over carrying capacity as is. If one drone dies it actually makes life a bit easier for the hive at this point

>>37515654
>[] go after the creature, no wait.

>>37515889

But it has no arms.....

>>37515889
looks like ur'e mom :DDD

>>37515925
It doesn't need any.
The sharp horns look deadly, so my guess is that they are not used for competing for mates, and their forward facing direction indicates they are used for attacking. The fin could be some kind of radiator or communication device to flash signals, or even a method of attracting mates. It doesn't have much of a camouflage to it probably runs down prey, potentially with others.

My best guess just from the picture is that it's a pack hunter.

>>37515889
>>37515900
>>37515916

This wins.

>>37516069
spot on.

Writing.

>>37516101
Go big or go home time guys! Hope you got your hip waders out because if this goes to shit we're up past our ankles in it!

>>37516101

The drone is hurt but you command it to follow and so it does. “For mother!” After a series of twists and turns you come to a clearing, the beast is waiting near as if daring you, and before you can register it your drone does silent, the connection is cut. In panic you order the others to hurry, quickly you find out what happened, there are three of creatures, and they are eating your drone. It was skewered by the two newcomers, you can see the fluids spread all over their horns. “KEEK, KEEK” The main one makes a shrieking sound, not unlike the one Vespers make.

>[] attack with your remaining four drones.
>[] flee and regroup at a distance. (the plan?)
>[] return to the cave.
>[] write in.

>>37516260
>>[] write in.
commit sudoku because of bringing great shame to famiry and being sso dumb that you didn't pick the water planet

>>37516260
>[] attack with your remaining four drones.
Spread out in a ragged line and blades at the ready.
Have some space to the sides to jump out of the way if they charge.
Our drones have 360 degree vision right?
Use it to make sure they're not flanked

>>37516260
>[] attack with your remaining four drones.

Have a pair ambush the two while they eat, while the others get into the trees at the edge of the clearing.
Strike once and do what damage we can, then fall back and try to lead them under the trees with our drones in them, then have them pounce.

Forgo stealthy and sprint in. We can't sneak up on them so we need to move faster then they react.

>>37516362

To be honest, I wanted waterworld.... but oh well.

>>37516389
>>37516456

Two votes so far, 10 minutes to voting closes.

>>37515654
>>37516260

How do they seee? D-do they even have eyes?

>>37516492
I'm scared of deep water

>>37516518
Assumingly via echolocation. If we can dissect one, maybe we can get an adaptation that would fuck up their echolocation

>>37516492
yeah, food would be plentiful and all would be right but for some reason some not so smart people thought tundra would be better then the diversity of an ocean planet

>>37516518
It seems clear to me they are blind and use echolocation, although it is possible that they have some infrared or olfactory sensors, which is why I'm advocating moving in quickly. I doubt we can sneak up on them without them hearing us.

>>37516567
WAIT.

>>37516456
Adding in that we use a drone to distract them. Chop at trees and make lots of banging and clicking noise, but only with one of them that is farthest from the others.

>>37516492
>To be honest, I wanted waterworld.... but oh well.
Perhaps when we achieve space travel.

>>37516389
>>37516456
>>37516641

Attacking with some distraction, ok.

Roll 1d100 best of three.

Rolled 20 (1d100)

>>37516762

Rolled 42 (1d100)

>>37516762

Rolled 15 (1d100)

>>37516762
Lets go

Rolled 82 (1d100)

>>37516762

Rolled 85 (1d100)

>>37516762
rolling to bang those niggas with my uzi

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>>37516789
The dice have not been with us on this particular Hive.

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>>37516820
>>37516825
are you fucking serious

>>37516785
>>37516791
>>37516789

42

writing.

>>37516833
We need sniffers. They were always blessed by the dice.

>>37516888
Which reminds me, we should make a flying scout unit with those bat wing adaptations.

Theres been something insane with the TG dice lately. a good number of quests have been stuck getting low or insanely low rolls with the d100s. its bizzare and probably html fuckery from moot to torture us or something.

>>37516927

I've been here since the first CYOA, before it was called that. Dice have always been fucked, moot always been blamed. A virgin sacrifice always fixes dice. Sacrifice your virginity, it will satiate the dice gods.

>>37516874

An idea occurs, perhaps these creatures are attracted to sound more than usual, perhaps echolocation. You have one drone make noise and serve as bait, the others spread out and hide with the trees, as soon as the creatures charge, you will have them pounce and kill the attackers. The lead creature emits a high pitch sound, its different from before “KEEIP, KEUP, KEEK” They charge, just as you expected and you have your drones pounce. But just then you see the creatures turning to both sides simultaneously and skewer two of the drones, chitin cracking and giving way to the high calcium exoskeleton of the beasts. Your third drone manages to stab one the creatures that carries a now dead drone. Victory!

But fleeting, the lead beast has ambushed the drone that was serving as bait, with a flicking motion it dumps its body to the ground. It looks directly at your own surviving drone, “KEEK!” is sounds in disgust. You will not go down, not like this, the drone goes to stab again but the beast he is currently attached to drops on its side pinning the drone down. The other beasts come and stab at the drone until you loose all connection.

You are stunned, this was not supposed to happen, night approaches and your options are now quite diminished.

>[] divert workers to hunt Vespers (200 left) 5N per captured Vesper. 10 captured per adult worker.
>[] Have the trio of first hatched, hunt vespers 5N per captured Vesper. 3 per first hatched.
>[] have the miners halt reinforcing cave to go out and forage.
>[] write in.

>>37517253
>>[] divert workers to hunt Vespers (200 left) 5N per captured Vesper.
We should lay more eggs,a nd possibly invest in a dedicated cheap scout drone.

>>37517253
>divert workers to hunt Vespers (200 left) 5N per captured Vesper. 10 captured per adult worker.
well... it was a nice hive while it lasted

oh and do try to leave at least 100 of the vespers.

>>37517314

are you insane? We are starving!!! WE can't afford more workers.

>>37517253
This worlds alot more brutal then we thought I guess. we need proper warriors to fight those things jesus.

We'll have to focus closer to home until then and just scrape by. keep the numbers down until we figure out a crop of somekind...damn I expected something out of that but not this.

>divert workers to hunt vespers
Keep some around we need the breeding stock at this rate. and if we even hear a KEEK run for the hills.

>>37517253
>Sends some drones to harvest the bodies

>>37517372

Those keeks, are they intelligent?

>>37517428
I think they are laughing at us

>>37517314
>>37517352
>>37517372

Three votes for diverting workers to hunt.

8 minutes to voting closing.

>>37517428

Can pack animals be intelligent? I mean look at wolves, right? they do plan out stuff. And black panthers are stalking hunters, same with cheetah they can ambush hunt. But this is next level intelligence.

>>37517428
No but they're brutally efficent and lighting fast. Their hearing is beyond hypersonic and they can hear ANYTHING. We'll have to lay a warrior clutch to fight them and armed with ranged equipment.

Those things are ungodly in melee and hunt efficiently to say the least. Probably Apex predator tier outside of megafauna or heavily armored creatures..

Huh I bet the prey are even worse if they evolved such brutally efficient armor piercing attacks.

>>37517372
If we are assuming that our drones are similar to Red's drones in physiology, the keeks could possibly go toe to toe with our own warriors.
I think we should use long-range weapons when hunting them, and maybe at least a 3-1 numbers advantage.
Maybe even a wasp-equivalent to keep strafing them until they die.

>>37517493

You are assuming they have hyper hearing, we don't know that.

> I bet the prey are even worse if they evolved such brutally efficient armor piercing attacks.

Hold me, i'm afrid.

>>37517514

These were winterized versions on red's drones, let me look for the post that describes them.

>>37517514
Airborne at least but we need to adapt to the frigid chill or they'll just fall down. insect wings can't handle the freeze.

>>37517550
Hey those things can hear you coming midjump and have the reflexes to match. I assume the worst until we kill one of these things and dissect it. I'll assume they fucking teleport at will and sneak up on you waiting until turn to look at them and say clever girl before killing you!

Also yes. be afraid. If these things are the predators what the HELL are they hunting to live off of?

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>>37517550
>>37517371
>>37517352
RIP Anonymous Hive Queen
You were much too beautiful for this harsh world

>>37517253
>[] divert workers to hunt Vespers (200 left) 5N per captured Vesper.

Also, we should design and lay at least one winterized worker with the thermal wings to scout out the area and find food more effectively.

>>37517550
Extreme cold. My guess is that they just have very thick hides that are extremely durable.

Also, what color are the vespers?

>>37517582

>you spend the better part of an hour designing a new type of drone, one that is better suited to the cold environment. With some extra layers of fatty tissue and chitin they should fare better, but just to make sure you add an organ to produce extra heat, endothermic workers, brilliant. But not yet enough, to protect the precious and fragile eyes a semi-permanent eyelid is added. It will act as a set of goggles, and in need retract to self lubricate with a lipid layer.

>extra layers of fatty tissue and chitin they should fare better,

They did not fare better....

>>37517620
We have already unlocked winter-capable wings at the start of the thread >>37513274
>>37513284

>>37517675
To be fair, these were just workers going up against what we assume to be the apex predators of this world.

>>37517667

got it then.

writing.

DO NOT PANIC...too much. I hope.

>>37517719
Just make it a winterized sniffer with the cold wings instead of normal ones.

Also I find such setbacks to be exciting.

>>37517712
That also mentions the possiblity of genetweaking the vespers into breeding stock. And I'm all for going FUCK PETA if the algae doesn't work as a food source unlock via research.

We can still do this we just lost to an apex predator we didn't expect to be able to hurt us. Those things were way more brutal then expected.

..I hereby move that this is no longer called Hive Quest Beta and is instead called Hive Quest Gaiden. That or I Wanna Be The Queen.

>>37513274
wait...WHAT IS THIS!? WHAT HAPPENED TO NORMAL QUEST!?!?! Did I miss the threads somewhere!?

>>37517969
we died and this is the 2nd try

>>37517832
>Hive Quest Gaiden
For some reason, this gives me the image of this particular queen being the Raiden to Red's solid Snake.

>>37517969
Nah, someone wanted to run another quest in the based on the same universe and QD was ok with it. This one has a more primal survival feel. At least at this point of the quest

>>37517969
it's a different quest made by a different author.

so no other then the first two threads you haven't missed anything

>>37518016
Don't be a troll. Since Orignal HiveDroneOP-san was COMPUTER IS KILL this dude setup a different hivequest to roll and keep up the fun times with.

So far its the fun you encounter in your typical dwarf fortress run but its definitely a challenge.

We got wrecked by space raptors who use echolocation!

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>>37518034
>The Raiden to Red's Solid Snake.
I greatly enjoy this mental image.

>>37517719

You heart is heavy with the loss of your children, and your workers to halt construction on the hatchery does not make the pain go away. Why has fate been so cruel, you can only hope your sisters if any live do so in better planets, planets were they can enjoy the warmth of a star upon their magnificent wings, something you still regret not having been able to do. The five working quickly go hunting for Vespers, you fear that perhaps you will eat all the little creatures, have none left to breed and then... Oh you cannot even imagine eating your own brood., such a dark image.

The workers quickly capture the prey and prepare the nutrient sludge, then they go back to their important task, you can't help but be angry.

250N gained.
Reserves: 52 (messed up and forgot one drone is bugsicle inside underground river.)
Net: 302N

>Hive population:
Winter Workers: 9
First Clutch Workers: 3
Miners:5
Thinker: 1 (one worker assistant)
150 Vespers (self reliant on food.)

Current Construction
>Hatchery (1 day left)
>Throne room (2 days left)
>Securing cave against adverse rock hazards.(one to two days)

Current drone assignments:
>5 miners on securing cave
>1 assistant to thinker
>2 sentries(one slow)
>5 in hatchery construction
>3 first born in throne room construction
>1 idle.

>Eggs gestating:
0

With things being as they are you must find a way to replenish your work force. But with what?

>[] Winter workers 8N per egg (how many?)
>[] design Winter soldiers. (write in)
>[] lay thinker eggs 6N per egg.
>[] secure the entrance (write in how)

>>37518237
>[2] lay thinker eggs 6N per egg. (12N)
>[5] Winter workers 8N per egg (40N)
>Design and lay 2 Winged Scouts/Sniffers

>>37517667

Vespers are black.
>>37518237

>[]Winter worker with wings. 11N per egg. upkeep 6N

>>37518306
Dude why we have no fucking food to do this shit with. no no pls no. we can't afford more mouthes to feed!

>>37518237
I assume that since we don't appear to have metals, we have Warriors similar to the Gardener's? Can we have a cost estimate?
Basic senses all around except audio which is high (to intercept any ultrasound), thorn rifles and no wings?

>>37518362
We currently have 302 nutrients anon

>>37518306
I will back it. We need the thinkers for research and workers.

I was thinking we could make fighters with a denser front and claws. To make a ramming lion like thing.

>>37518237
>design Winter soldiers.
I think it's getting to a point where we're going to need at least one solder with all our hunting parties since this world seems to like to fuck our works up at every chance it gets.

either that or some kind of disposable drone that we make simply to die but when it dies it fucks up everything around it. Not sure if we have acid or fire yet though

>>37518237
>>37518306
3rding.

>>37518387

Let me crunch some numbers for you.

>>37518237
>(messed up and forgot one drone is bugsicle inside underground river.)
straight outta the hive a nigga named icecube

>>37518306
how about we get some warriors first retard, so we can hunt instead of just getting more mouths to feed and scouts

>>37518522
Thats why I asked the QM anon >>37518387

>>37518237
>[] design Winter soldiers. (write in)
We need something that can guard our drones against things that go bump on the surface. While we don't have any metals yet we could use some kind of bone blade weaponry?

>>37518387

Winter Warrior No metal
Olfactory: Basic 0
Acoustic: Basic 0
Radio: Basic 1
Psionic: Basic 0
Mandibles: Basic 0
Blade: Chitin 3
Arms: Str 1
Legs: Sprint 1
Carapace: Chitin double armor 10N
Endothermic glands: 2N
Size: Medium
Cost: 18N
Upkeep: 9N

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>>37518492
>[2] lay thinker eggs 6N per egg. (12N)
>[5] Winter workers 8N per egg (40N)
>[2] Winter worker with wings. 11N per egg. (22N)
>[2] Winter soldiers 18N (54N)
Total 128N

>>37518658
...fairly cheap and expendable, all they need are those bio-rifle cannons and they'd be pretty well off against what we've seen so far on the surface.

How much more would wings add to make a wasp breed that can fly in the planets freezing cold atmosphere? flying would make those KEEK fuckers running for their damn lives.

>>37518306
>>37518390
>>37518460

Do we go ahead with this?

also do not forget:

>[]Winter worker with wings. 11N per egg. upkeep 6N

is a possibility.

>>37518700
I meant 3 Soldiers damn it

>>37518712
Add 3 soldiers >>37518700

>>37518658

The poor man's Warrior....

>>37518701

we got no metal dude, we can't build those.

>>37518700
>>37518732
Agreeing with this fellow here.

that would make

>[2] lay thinker eggs 6N per egg. (12N)
>[5] Winter workers 8N per egg (40N)
>[2] Winter worker with wings. 11N per egg. (22N)
>[3] Winter soldiers 18N (54N)
Total 128N

>>37518712
eh, I want at least one warrior to protect our foraging workers but other wise sure.

>>37518735
Don't we have miners? That'd be easy to fix but we'd have to spawn a smelter/refinery/something to process it...

>>37518712
Yup, plus warriors as per >>37518754
Then we need to get some FOOD. Hopefully algae research will finish soon and we can look into getting crops.

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>>37518658
I'm...a bug?

>>37518735
well we could throw some wings on them later and have them act as a fast acting light infantry once we start rolling out our real solders

>>37518800
Someone had to say it eventually.

>>37518754
>>37518700

So everyone ok with:

>[2] lay thinker eggs 6N per egg. (12N)
>[5] Winter workers 8N per egg (40N)
>[2] Winter worker with wings. 11N per egg. (22N)
>[3] Winter soldiers 18N (54N)
Total 128N

Yes | No

5 votes to decide.

>>37518841
>Yes

>>37518800
No, you're Bucky, not Bug.

>>37518841
Y

>>37518841
>yes

>>37518841
no

>>37518841
>No

>>37518841
>Y

>>37518841
Still feels like too much but fuck it fine.

You guys just better have a plan for them otherwise the hive starves in under 2 cycles with the new upkeep. Seriously we're gonna need to pull something great.

>>37518853
>>37518854
>>37518870
>>37518876
>>37518879

3Y | 2N

majority vote wins.

writing.

>>37518841
Y

>>37518904
We're fucked.

>>37518893
What we now have to do is hunt hunt hunt no matter what.

>>37518893
i hope we starve and die so i can laugh at the stupid people

>>37518841
yes.

>>37518893
I was thinking that we use the flyers to scout and the warriors to hunt/forage farther out, or at least protect the workers who do.

>>37518893
It takes time for them to hatch, and without any ability to find food we will starve anyway. It's more important to increase our income than keep our costs low right now.

>>37518948
This. Airborne spotters for our warriors. Until we can get a crop going we need drones to find food, and our workers don't seem to cut it.

>>37518904
oh sorry man >>37518854 wasn't a vote

>>37513274
Hey, just joined. Curious about
>Sister
Though. Are we not the queen? Did anons insist on equality or something?

>>37519082
It's our brother.

>>37519082
Our mother also laid the thinker, which does make him our biological brother.

>>37519047
It would have been one yes more so:

4Y | 1N

After much deliberation you have decided on how to better spread the resources you have at your disposal. It is high time that you invested in research, and while your sibling is quite good at his job, there is only so much that you can do with a single thinker, you need more than that. This planet offers so much to learn, and much is needed to be learned, of that you are now sure. The surprise the vocalizing beasts has given you was costly.

Fortunately they cannot fly, and your drones can be given that ability, at a cost but they can be made air worthy. This will give you a great advantage, you will be able to have scouts and sentries that can spot danger to your ground-bound drones, and it will be invaluable to avoid danger and hunt prey. Perhaps your future scouts can find plenty game elsewhere, you can only hope. But for that you need ground workers, you will replenish the dead.

And finally you turn your powerful mind to design warriors fit for this environment, you have no metal, but this is not a problem, you simply increase the amount of chitin armor and add an endothermic organ, the blades you make of hardened chitin, its not as elegant or as deadly as a warrior of metal, but it will do its job. And do it well, you have no worries on that front, warriors have seldom been easily stopped.

Current nutrients:
302N
cost:
128N

=
174

>[] skip the coming night, construction will be done, eggs will be hatching.
>[] Secure the cave opening. (write in how.)
>[] Write in ideas.

>>37519217
>>[] Secure the cave opening
Make a barrier out of earth or snow? I wouldn't know because I've never been to anywhere snowy.

>>37519217
>[] Secure the cave opening. (write in how.)
Use the castoffs from the digging effort and any rocky unusable bits of the pod to temporarily fill it.

As I recall pods are at least a good part useless rock

>>37519217
>[] Secure the cave opening. (write in how.)
Fill it in with rock until the hive can grow into a proper door.
Also, start work on building a proper armored door.

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>>37519279
>>37519283
>>37519378

10 minutes until voting ends.

Also Vespers

>>37519217
>Secure the cave opening
Cover it with dirt? I think we need some ventilation though, so perhaps place a hollow tree in it.

I think all those options can fit together. Unless anon is unusually attached to dirt.

>>37519562
I thought the rest of the extensive cave system would make up for the ventilation.

>>37519607
Depending on how permanent the covering is suppose to be we might get snowed in.

>>37519279
>>37519283
>>37519378
>>37519562

writing,

>>37519217

Guys can we survive this?

>>37519904
I believe we can.

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>>37519904
We must believe in our Children anon.

>>37519904
Nope.
It'll be a ride though.

>>37519946

You direct the workers to fill in the entrance with snow and dirt, that should do the job for now, you have the two sentries keep guard inside the cave. The night will be long and you can only hope that no new horrors await you tomorrow.

(short must go.)
Quest ends here for tonight.
Remember the twitter is:

https://twitter.com/QuestDroneBeta0

>>37520007
I have to put my say with this one. We could of kept it leaner and focused on a bit of research shenanigans to figure out a algae farm or something with the vespers to get a semi stable food income.

You guys just better hope dice jesus is with you all tonight. You'll need it

>>37519904
I give us a 33.333 repeating of course % chance of survival.

>>37520047
Thanks for the Quest Beta. May we survive the eternal hunger.

>>37520047
Damn. Can't blame you, I have to get up at 6.
Next time then. Are you running tomorrow?

>>37520047
Well this was a rough and fun night.
I admit that I fucked up with the calculations on the upkeep. I pray that the dice are with us on our next foraging run.
Thanks for running QDB.

>>37520092

Maybe, if i run it will be 10 pm EST check the twitter for it.

>>37520098
It it comes it it we can just have some of our workers starve.
And then we realize that we explored the caves too greedily and too deep, waking up whatever lurks.

>>37520098

SHIT, what will the upkeep be then?

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Since we're the thread is over, I've noticed that this particular is Queen is much more... expressive and emotional than Red.

>>37520191
Barely enough to keep us alive in the time that our new drones can forage new supplies for us.

>>37520226
Red hasn't been facing mortal injury and starvation on her first week Either.

>>37520226
I actually tried to write the Red queen as a blank slate and used the player actions to build up a personality. Since you tended towards investigation, political intrigue, and espionage she is more composed and level headed, essentially channeling your inner shadowrunner.

The few things I included from the start was a bit of vanity and motherly love for her drones.

>>37520064
>>37520191

Went and did the numbers:


>Current resource reserves
Nutrients: 174
Metals: 0

>Upkeep cost
Queen – 5
First Clutch Worker (3) – 6
Thinker (3) - 9
Winter Workers (14) – 56
Winged Winter Worker (2) -12
Winter soldiers (3) - 27
Miners(5)- 20
=
Total Cost:
135

>Income
Nutrients: 0
Net: 39

FUCK!

>>37520421
eat the first clutch after they finish and then go hunting with the warriors.

>>37520386

This queen, is desperate, working to make ends meet. And seeing her hive on the brink of starvation for days now. She just witnessed a pure massacre of her new Winter drones and had her legs utterly crushed, end up dragging herself into the cave. I say Major PTSD here.

>>37520386
>>37520496
IMO, I see Red as someone who was supernaturally lucky at the beginning and eventually grew into a cunning and composed ruler who knew not to overextend herself .
The closest we probably came to losing with her was when Lyle wiped almost all of our Warriors in our first encounter with him.

This Queen on the other hand strikes me as someone who's booksmart and self-confident at first but repeated disaster and bad luck is surely breaking her.

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>>37518237
>you can only hope your sisters if any live do so in better planets, planets were they can enjoy the warmth of a star upon their magnificent wings, something you still regret not having been able to do.

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>>37520736

Is this what we are doing tonight?

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>>37520905
>>37520736
>>37520496
>We die not in glorious battle with our enemies, but in a cold hole in the ground. Half a week old, starved, defeated, and alone.
>Liquid seeps from your eyes. This is unfair. This wasn't suppose to happen. You wonder what you did wrong, what mistakes you make to deserve such a fate. Your children are already dead, even in their last moments they blamed you for nothing. The cold seeps into you, your tears crystallize. Your last thoughts are how sad it is to die in the dark.

BAD END