>>42394729

>Food (The Brood consumes 225 Food per turn) (10 Turns of food available)
1260 Critters

>West Land
Farmland I (50 Collectors in use, +100 Food/Turn) (Nat 20 Bonus +20 Food/turn) (Improvement UNDERCONSTRUCTION, 200 Collectors in use, ?% Complete)

>Our Home
Queens Den (Holds Max 50 Eggs)
(10 ? Eggs, 40 Scout Eggs, Hatches in 2 Turn/s)
Nesting Area I (Houses 700 of the brood)
Defense Wall I +1 (Dirt, Stones)
Watch Towers (Dirt, Stones)
Containment Pit (Max 25 Prisoners)

>Queen
Telepathic Communication
Hive Mind - Memory Storage - Advanced Mental Security
Lay Eggs (Consumes 2 food per Warrior, Collector or Scout egg.) (Laying eggs is a FREE action)

>Captured Creatures
None

>Tech
Animal Husbandry (Rudimentary Mental/Hive Mind Connection)
Lesser Mind Control (Being Developed, 50 Collectors in use, ?% Complete)
Improved Flight
Planned Construction (Memory Storage for greater planning)
Air Bombardment -Rocks-
Agriculture
Mind Reading (Rudimentary Forced Telepathy)

>Brood (With Flight) ~ (Favored Terrain (Swamp) (Water)) ~ (Camouflage (Swamp))
101 Warriors -Strong Chitin- -Bad Flight- (Consumes 1 food per turn)
20 Warriors (Consumes 1 food per turn)
400 Collectors -Improved Flight- (Consumes 0.25 food per turn)
35 Scouts -Improved Flight+- (Consumes 0.50 food per turn)

>Scout (Scouted - North - FarNorth - East - West - NorthWest ) NorthEast
>Improve Tech (Specify)
>Improve Food (Specify)
>Improve Nest (Specify)
>Improve Culture (Specify)
>Attempt Evolution (Specify) (Consuming creatures holding the Evolution we desire will drastically improve chances of success)
>Custom (Specify)

>>42394729
Thanks for not calling it Antz

>>42394757
That's a shit name. Who'd call their Civ... 'Antz'

>>42394766
Someone who preferred Antz to A Bugs Life.

>>42394777
Trips! Be back in a short bit. 10 or 15ish

Reroll your actions from previous thread.

Rolled 20, 13 = 33 (2d20)

>>42394822
seams our workers are busy. lets send our scouts to look for creatures with useful traits. as well as any useful plants that might be good to try and farm for food. also lets let them know to look for very tiny stuff such as insects too. because stuff does not need to be big to have useful tricks. if they find any particularly good ones and can capture them alive with out risk to themselfs. they should probably do so. plus foraging a wide assortment of interesting plants would be nice because then we could test them to see which produces the best yield in food production.
so basically a "lets find interesting and probably small stuff and haul it home for study and experimentation" exploration mission.

and lets send a small number of our scouts and some of our warriors to go investigate that shiney object. it could be useful or interesting. but it might also be dangerous and we should be prepared for that if we can be.

Archived previous thread >http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/42379847/

>>42394736
if the brood eats 225 Food per turn
and if we have 1260 Critters
and if 1 critter = 1 food
and if we have +100 food/turn with a nat 20 bonus of +20 food/turn
then we lose 225 food but gain 120
so our net loss is 105 per turn.
meaning we really have closer to 12 turns of food available i think?..

>>42394883
You are smart, gain the name >MathDude<
Correct ALL of my mistakes. ^^

>>42394862
20, very nice.

>Action 1
Increase the size of the Queens Den, allowing for more eggs to be hatched at once. 16/20

>Action 2
Scout everywhere for strong traits creatures have for adaption and experimentation, take anything of interest. 20/20

Agreed? Y/N

>>42394906
Y

>>42394906
Y

>>42394906
y
and dont forget to have them look for plants too. gotta test which grows the best and makes the most food for farm upgrade purposes

>>42394906
Yes :) {back}

The Queen demands her den be expanded. We obey! All 150 of our free collectors scatter forth into the den, digging down and expanding rooms for eggs, ventilation and incubation. They secrete a resin that strengthens the walls and creates nest like structures for the eggs to safely rest. This nesting provides natural heat. (Queens Den is currently constructing an upgrade.)

The scouts take flight! Heading off in all directions to search for new prey and suitable vegetation, They find several creatures who hold chitin like we, unlike us they seem to be able to lift some segments and create natural spikes along their bodies. We bring some of them back. Several types of vegetation food stuffs are brought back, not tested however. (Give to those constructing the farm? Y/N)

We also find a multitude of black and glowing blue rocks in the swamp, these were brought back also.

>>42394989
Y and have them test it separate from the rest of our food source off in a corner of the newly expanded farmland.

Y

>>42395019
We should build raised planters for trying new breeds

We can manipulate the rabbits to preform simple commands. It's rudimentary and their needs must be sated before they do so, though it is a step. Lesser Mind Control will be implemented next turn.

The vegetables are given to the collectors working on the farm. This will speed up their work!

>Food (The Brood consumes 225 Food per turn) (10 Turns of food available)
1135 Critters

>West Land
Farmland I (50 Collectors in use, +100 Food/Turn) (Nat 20 Bonus +20 Food/turn) (Improvement UNDERCONSTRUCTION, 200 Collectors in use, ?% Complete)

>Our Home
Queens Den (Holds Max 50 Eggs) (UNDERCONSTRUCTION, 150 Collectors in use, 50% Complete)
(10 ? Eggs, 40 Scout Eggs, Hatches in 1 Turn/s)
Nesting Area I (Houses 700 of the brood)
Defense Wall I +1 (Dirt, Stones)
Watch Towers (Dirt, Stones)
Containment Pit (Max 25 Prisoners)

>Queen
Telepathic Communication
Hive Mind - Memory Storage - Advanced Mental Security
Lay Eggs (Consumes 2 food per Warrior, Collector or Scout egg.) (Laying eggs is a FREE action)

>Tech
Animal Husbandry (Rudimentary Mental/Hive Mind Connection)
Lesser Mind Control (100% Complete, Implemented next turn.)
Improved Flight
Planned Construction (Memory Storage for greater planning)
Air Bombardment -Rocks-
Agriculture
Mind Reading (Rudimentary Forced Telepathy)

>Brood (With Flight) ~ (Favored Terrain (Swamp) (Water)) ~ (Camouflage (Swamp))
101 Warriors -Strong Chitin- -Bad Flight- (Consumes 1 food per turn)
20 Warriors (Consumes 1 food per turn)
400 Collectors -Improved Flight- (Consumes 0.25 food per turn)
35 Scouts -Improved Flight+- (Consumes 0.50 food per turn)

>Scout (Scouted - North - FarNorth - East - West - NorthWest ) NorthEast
>Improve Tech (Specify)
>Improve Food (Specify)
>Improve Nest/Land (Specify)
>Improve Culture (Specify) (EVENT - Restless hive, Culture changes have a higher chance of success)
>Attempt Evolution (Specify) (Consuming creatures holding the Evolution we desire will drastically improve chances of success)
>Custom (Specify)

\\\\EVENT////

Our colony has grown much and is able to take on a name.

>Kichratha
>Tukaunk
>Fikain
>(Custom)

>>42395102
Makak

>>42395102
>\\\\EVENT////
>Our colony has grown much and is able to take on a name.
>>Kichratha
It sounds buggy

Rolled 4 (1d20)

>>42395081
>Culture change. Can these bugs make art? Like painting their exteriors in warpaint or idk.

Rolled 1, 11 = 12 (2d20)

>>42395102
name colony Kichratha.

>study the stuff the scouts have brought back.

>improve culture. perhaps by making competition for the glory of hive and queen more encouraged and taught to our forces so that those who perform well can share their memory's and experience with the rest of the brood and the whole brood might learn to improve as a result?

or maybe we should encourage advancement progress and learning new things?. teach our brood to be more curious about things in their environment.?

or perhaps use the hivemind to share dreams and ideas and "artwork" made out of those dreams thoughts and emotions and have them live on in the hives collective memory in order to try and help our brood be more inspired and recall the success of the hive in the past? or how other brood members feel about them and that there is great strength in the hives unity and that it is beautiful and good?

>>42395165
Metaphoric artwork in stored memory for culture cohesion. Emphasis put on curiosity, pleasing the queen, and preserving needful memories. I dig.

>>42395163
>>42395165

>Culture
Chitin Marking (Slight increased production and a higher individualism)

Scholars (A type of Collector who focuses on research. Bonus to research, negative to any other activity)

Cultural MUTATION: Family Heart (Opens a small mindspace in each member of the brood that connects to the hivemind to directly transfer emotions rather than abstract thoughts and simple words)

^ These are available, you have two actions.

>>42395217
I'll drop the chitin marking then and go with scholar and family heart

>>42395217
Scholar. Brain bugs

Roll for them

>>42395217
Scholar and Family heart.

Rolled 16, 15 = 31 (2d20)

>>42395240

Rolled 1, 8 = 9 (2d20)

>>42395217
family heart and scholar

Rolled 8 (1d20)

>>42395249

>>42395291
Wow thats a sucky roll. good thing somebody else already rolled. or are we allowed to each roll for the thingy we post even if were saying the same thing as somebody else?.

>>42395320
You can support someone elses suggestion. Best roll sticks.

Meaning if more people vote for the same thing. Better the chance of success

>Writing now.

With the hive restless the Queen orders 20 of our collectors to look through the collected materials, to study them, test them and work with them. Learning as they go along while using the memory storage between one another. This works very well as they quickly pick up the needed actions for fully testing and experimenting with new found things.

>20 Collectors have converted to Scholars
>Collector -Scholar- Eggs are now available to be lain

The Queen speaks to us and we feel delighted. The Queen commands us and we feel purpose flow throughout our forms. The Queen praises us and we feel joy! Singular... individual joy. No longer shall we live with our joy being sent through thought. We want to understand one another to our cores! We are the hive, we are the colony and we shall improve. The Queen agrees. The Queen twists the Hive Mind, WE twist the Hive Mind. We manipulate ourselves, each others minds with no security, complete and utter trust. Formed by family. It stings, it hurts but we know each other now, our joy is multiplied by our family heart. A link that holds us all together, our fear is shared, our trust is sacred and our bond is rich in glory!

>Family Heart Mutation Added to Brood

Queens Den has been completed.
>+150 Egg Incubation Space.

10 Drones have hatched. They are large and bulbous like huge bumble bees, their form glows faintly in the eyes of those connected to the hivemind. They have far more powerful mental strength.
>Drone Eggs available (Costs 5 Food)

Colony NAMED
We are Kichratha, strong in number and growing still. We are Kichratha, those who will conquer these floating isles.

I can't wait for our eggs to hatch

///Kichratha\\\

>Food (The Brood consumes 265 Food per turn) (9 Turns of food available)
990 Critters

>West Land
Farmland I (50 Collectors in use, +100 Food/Turn) (Nat 20 Bonus +20 Food/turn) (Improvement UNDERCONSTRUCTION, 200 Collectors in use, ?% Complete)

>Our Home
Queens Den II (Holds Max 200 Eggs)
(10 ? Eggs, 40 Scout Eggs, Hatches in 1 Turn/s)
Nesting Area I (Houses 700 of the brood)
Defense Wall I +1 (Dirt, Stones)
Watch Towers (Dirt, Stones)
Containment Pit (Max 25 Prisoners)

>Queen
Telepathic Communication
Hive Mind - Memory Storage - Advanced Mental Security
Lay Eggs (Consumes 2 food per Warrior, Collector, Collector -Scholar or Scout egg.) (5 food per Drone egg.) (Laying eggs is a FREE action)

>Tech
Animal Husbandry (Rudimentary Mental/Hive Mind Connection)
Lesser Mind Control (Basic animal thoughts)
Improved Flight
Planned Construction (Memory Storage for greater planning)
Air Bombardment -Rocks-
Agriculture
Mind Reading (Rudimentary Forced Telepathy)

>Brood (With Flight) ~ (Favored Terrain (Swamp) (Water)) ~ (Camouflage (Swamp)) (Family Heart)
101 Warriors -Strong Chitin- -Bad Flight- (Consumes 1 food per turn)
20 Warriors (Consumes 1 food per turn)
10 Drones (Consumes 2 food per turn)
380 Collectors -Improved Flight- (0.25 food per turn)
20 Collectors -Scholars- (0.25 Food per turn)
75 Scouts -Improved Flight+- (0.50 food per turn)

>Scout (Scouted - North - FarNorth - East - West - NorthWest ) NorthEast
>Improve Tech (Specify)
>Improve Food (Specify)
>Improve Nest/Land (Specify)
>Improve Culture (Specify)
>Attempt Evolution (Specify) (Consuming creatures holding the Evolution we desire will drastically improve chances of success)
>Custom (Specify)

Rolled 19, 2 = 21 (2d20)

>>42395580
>Custom
send a team of our warriors and a couple scouts to ambush some of the far northern bugs.
the scout lures a small group of them into a hidden group of warriors who will defeat them. and try to take a few alive, breaking their limbs off if needed to keep them from being able to fight back. so we can take them back to our hive for study as well as get vengeance upon them for the scouts they killed earlier.

>Improve Tech
try to enhance our mind control abilitys on the rabbits to the point we can "hunt" simple minded creates by lieing to them and convincing them we mean no harm and that they should not fear us. this way we can manage a herd of them and take them out grazing with out risk of them running from us. and if we want to kill one for food we simply take it away from the others. perhaps we should learn how to erase or alter memory's. and use our existing mind reading to learn what to erase or alter and then just use our existing control method to write in new thoughts after we learn to erase those that already reside there?

Rolled 13, 19 = 32 (2d20)

>>42395657
2nd

With our powers combined we are double 19!

Rolled 11, 2 = 13 (2d20)

>>42395657
3rd

/On Hold\

>Got to do actual work in my job now for like... an hour or two?

/Be back in 2-3 hours\

Gotta sleep cuz its 7:30 and I hate you

>>42395939
<3

>>42395949

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>>42395249
IM OFFENDED

>>42395657
shouldnt we wait for our new brood eggs to hatch before we do this?
they are psykers after all and will help mask our presence and detach the enemy from their hivemind if they have one.

if we do it without them it will be risky and potentially fatal if they find our location

>>42396290
They have hatched. They're called Drones.

>>42396298
oh ok. bring two of them with the kidnapping party

Rolled 11, 8 = 19 (2d20)

>>42396317
Why not bring half of 'em? Just for good measure.

>>42396493
i dont wanna lose a majority of them instantly

Bump

>>42395657
Need another 3d20 for the operation

>>42396317
yeah two is plenty. besides. if things go right our troops will have their captives and be running away before the others can catch up.

adding the Drones will be great though since instead of trying to run out of range we can just cut the enemy's hivemind connection off the instant we spring the ambush which will likely leave our enemy's even more surprised.

to top it off if we can keep our drones out of sight and hidden properly and if we kill or capture all the enemy's our scout lured into the trap before they can escape or re-establish connection. then all the enemy hive mind will know is "suddenly these guys just -vanish- or -lose connection- and we never found them again." so we might be able to interrogate the captives while keeping the enemy from learning anything about our units aside from "this one time some of our brood chased a small number of their scouts away from our nest like they did the last time but then the ones chasing the scouts vanished and never came back"

Rolled 19, 18, 9 = 46 (3d20)

>>42396686
everybody who wants the operation\ambush thingy to succeed reply to this and put dice+3d20 into the options bar of your post when you do. more dice = more chance of victory.

So far it's 19 - 19 - 18.

Will post results once I leave work.

Rolled 19, 9, 20 = 48 (3d20)

>>42396683

>>42396757
19 - 19 - 20
wat

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I love bug civs. So easy to get immersed in it.

all of the dice rolls are either a 19 or 20. i think everything will probably turn out pretty good this turn!

>>42397079
Yeah they're nice. I ran an insect civ as my first and it was awesome

The Queen demands we destroy a portion of the northern bugs. Instantly we make preparations, taking our 20 agile warriors and 50 of our strong chitin covered warriors. 25 of our scouts and 2 drones to test their abilities.

We head to the east, to use the swamp to our advantage. We have mastered this place, any who enter here, enter death. We go to the northern portion of the swamp, warriors and drones sinking somewhat into the water in wait. The scouts fly on ahead, purposely getting seen by the enemy. We find that the drones allow for a strong connection to all members of the group, thoughts and feelings much more clear than when portions of us are separated from the main hivemind.

The scouts preform their job almost flawlessly, bringing attention and fleeing at first chance back into the swamp, we wait for their workers to follow and they do. Our scouts duck low over the swamp, leading the enemy down perfectly into our trap. The drones send images and endless thoughts cascading in the air, mentally stunning the enemy, our warriors use this chance to jump and start the slaughter. Our scouts double back, using their agility in the air to break the enemies wings, capturing those alive while the rest are butchered. Overall the operation was completed with no casualties from our side.

+35 Black Bug Corpses (Do you wish to use these as a food source? Y/N)
+15 Black Bug Prisoners (Wings slashed)

Additionally, the Queen begins on researching our mind control and animal husbandry, aiming to perfect communication with simple minded creatures. The 20 scholars jump on this chance, researching with her. Another 30 collectors join in. (Speak With Simple Animals is in development)

>>42397828
N

///Kichratha\\\

>Food (The Brood consumes 265 Food per turn) (8 Turns of food available)
845 Critters

>West Land
Farmland I (50 Collectors in use, +100 Food/Turn) (Nat 20 Bonus +20 Food/turn) (Improvement 100% Complete, Implemented next turn)
>Our Home
Queens Den II (Holds Max 200 Eggs) (0 Eggs, Hatches in ? Turn/s)
Nesting Area I (Houses 700 of the brood)
Defense Wall I +1 (Dirt, Stones)
Watch Towers (Dirt, Stones)
Containment Pit (Max 25 Prisoners) (Contains 15 Black Bugs (0.25 Food per turn))

>Queen
Telepathic Communication
Hive Mind - Memory Storage - Advanced Mental Security
Lay Eggs (Consumes 2 food per Warrior, Collector, Collector -Scholar or Scout egg.) (5 food per Drone egg.) (Laying eggs is a FREE action)

>Tech
Animal Husbandry (Rudimentary Mental/Hive Mind Connection)
\
Speak With Simple Animals (In Development!, 20 Scholars, 30 Collectors in use, ?% Complete)
/
Lesser Mind Control (Basic animal thoughts)
Improved Flight
Planned Construction (Memory Storage for greater planning)
Air Bombardment -Rocks-
Agriculture
Mind Reading (Rudimentary Forced Telepathy)

>Brood (With Flight) ~ (Favored Terrain (Swamp) (Water)) ~ (Camouflage (Swamp)) (Family Heart)
101 Warriors -Strong Chitin- -Bad Flight- (Consumes 1 food per turn)
20 Warriors (Consumes 1 food per turn)
10 Drones (Consumes 2 food per turn)
380 Collectors -Improved Flight- (0.25 food per turn)
20 Collectors -Scholars- (0.25 Food per turn)
75 Scouts -Improved Flight+- (0.50 food per turn)

>Scout (Scouted - North - FarNorth - East - West - NorthWest ) NorthEast
>Improve Tech (Specify)
>Improve Food (Specify)
>Improve Nest/Land (Specify)
>Improve Culture (Specify)
>Attempt Evolution (Specify) (Consuming creatures holding the Evolution we desire will drastically improve chances of success)
>Custom (Specify)

>>42397828
What are the features of the black bugs? Anything worth stealing?

Could use more collectors for food

>>42397934
They seem to have a tough chitin, their wings are normally hidden behind it when they don't need them for protection. Our scouts hit them in the air however. We don't have protected wings. Anything more than that, we'd need to study them.

Rolled 12, 9 = 21 (2d20)

>>42397883
mindfuck the blackies for information about their hive. use our drones to make sure they cant send signals back to their others while we do this.

adopt their wing protection

Rolled 4, 2 = 6 (2d20)

>>42398064
this

Food.

Rolled 1, 12 = 13 (2d20)

>>42398064
Interrogate\mindread\mindrip intel from the prisoners. learn everything we can about them and their hive and the types of variants they have.

Also study them and try to steal traits from some of them if we steal their wing protection thats good.

>>42398064
>>42398375

So interrogate the blacks until they die or talk.
Then devour the dead bodies to try and gain protected wings.

lets use the surviving prisoners as test targets to research improved mind control and influencing techniques. our new drones could use the practice.

Rolled 10, 7 = 17 (2d20)

>>42398526
This!
And this>>42398467

Mindscrew the blackbugs, learn everything, go from there.

if we are stealing from them maybe we can take any new other useful traits they might have that we dont know about but would learn during the interrogation?

Pls tell me this thread is still alive

i sure hope so. we probly just gained lots of juicy intel on the biggest threat to our civilization in the near by area that we know of.

this game is fun and i wana see what happens next.

>Got way too sidetracked playing Mass Errect 2

The Queen calls for the prisoners to be lead into her Den, under the watchful eye of many guards. Naturally. There she uses her mind control skills, little as they may be to slowly weaken their defences. At first they answer nothing, but after being persuaded by food and the threat of a darker future they quickly crumble. It seems that they are not as developed as us. They have no... warriors to speak of, nor any scouts. They are just workers, every last one of them. The only thing of note within their colony is the lead worker. Like our Queen but indefinitely less intelligent. Only strong with brute force. It seems these mate with one another, rather than relying on a Queen to produce eggs. We take them back to the pit.

We devour the corpses of our enemy, taking in their form and attempting to shift ourselves under the Queens guidance. This doesn't work, although we feel an understanding of how these... wing protections should function. Perhaps if we captured and devoured more of this organic material we could shift.

///Kichratha\\\

>Food (The Brood consumes 265 Food per turn) (8 Turns of food available)
800 Critters

>West Land
Farmland II (100 Collectors in use, +200 Food/Turn) (Nat 20 Bonus +20 Food/turn)
>Our Home
Queens Den II (Holds Max 200 Eggs) (0 Eggs, Hatches in ? Turn/s)
Nesting Area I (Houses 700 of the brood)
Defense Wall I +1 (Dirt, Stones)
Watch Towers (Dirt, Stones)
Containment Pit (Max 25 Prisoners) (Contains 15 Black Bugs (0.25 Food per turn))

>Queen
Telepathic Communication
Hive Mind - Memory Storage - Advanced Mental Security
Lay Eggs (Consumes 2 food per Warrior, Collector, Collector -Scholar or Scout egg.) (5 food per Drone egg.) (Laying eggs is a FREE action)

>Tech
Animal Husbandry (Rudimentary Mental/Hive Mind Connection)
\
Speak With Simple Animals (In Development!, 20 Scholars, 30 Collectors in use, ?% Complete)
/
Lesser Mind Control (Basic animal thoughts)
Improved Flight
Planned Construction (Memory Storage for greater planning)
Air Bombardment -Rocks-
Agriculture
Mind Reading (Rudimentary Forced Telepathy)

>Brood (With Flight) ~ (Favored Terrain (Swamp) (Water)) ~ (Camouflage (Swamp)) (Family Heart)
101 Warriors -Strong Chitin- -Bad Flight- (Consumes 1 food per turn)
20 Warriors (Consumes 1 food per turn)
10 Drones (Consumes 2 food per turn)
380 Collectors -Improved Flight- (0.25 food per turn)
20 Collectors -Scholars- (0.25 Food per turn)
75 Scouts -Improved Flight+- (0.50 food per turn)

>Scout (Scouted - North - FarNorth - East - West - NorthWest ) NorthEast
>Improve Tech (Specify)
>Improve Food (Specify)
>Improve Nest/Land (Specify)
>Improve Culture (Specify) (We feel something tug at our hivemind. It doesn't seem natural, wrong and very powerful. Allow this, thing entrance to our hivemind? (Takes an action))
>Attempt Evolution (Specify) (Consuming creatures holding the Evolution we desire will drastically improve chances of success)
>Custom (Specify)

Rolled 4, 20 = 24 (2d20)

>>42400862

>Improve Nest

We're starting to inch closer to that 700 bug cap on our nest. Time to expand.

>Improve Tech

Let's see what we can do about constructing some rudimentary ranged weapons. We might need siege equipment to take a hive holed up in a mountain.

Also, >Lay Eggs

Let's get 100 more agile warriors.

Rolled 19, 3 = 22 (2d20)

>>42401038
this

>>42401038
>>42401074

19,20

Why are insects always so based?

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Rolled 18, 5 = 23 (2d20)

>>42401083
based sect

>>42400862
>expand nesting area
>improve farm (irrigation)

>>42401038
>ranged weapons
>siege equipment
i'd like to avoid using tools as much as possible as we dont have hands (yet).
lets make some armored warriors instead, like that digger caste someone suggested earlier (big powerful mantis-like front limbs, no wings).

perhaps we can convert their hive (en mass or gradually in waves) to ours with some WOLOLO from our psyker drones and queen

The Queen sees that our numbers are rising, she is pleased but our nesting area is becoming full! She demands we improve and expand the nest, we obey with speed. Once more our collectors skitter, collecting dirt and stone from the north, east and west. (Nesting Area is UNDER CONSTRUCTION)

>No hands, no ranged weapons unless you attempt mutation, or the creation of new insect or sub-insect. Like the agile warriors and tanky warriors. (Acid spit, Limbs to snapshot stones at high speed, ect ect.)

>>42401366
>get more of those spiky creatures
>replicate spikes
>make them detachable
>snapping muscles to launch
BIOLOGICAL CROSSBOWS

>>42397079
What's this screenshot from?

>>42401477
>Not getting spikes all over your body, turning into a ball and hurling yourself forward like a bowling spike ball.

>>42401509
Swarm Simulator

>>42401535

Jihadi porcupine bugs?

I can get behind this.

The Queen sends scout to gather a large amount of those small spiky bugs. Carry them to the colony and stockpile them for a new evolution.

This goes rather well, the scouts bring back hundreds of them. (This will not be a colony wide evolution. Choose a type or subtype that we already have to evolve this new ability)

>>42401755
make them from strong chitin warriors. about a quarter of them

btw are we not laying eggs?

>>42401872
The Nest is being expanded, we should probably wait until that is finished and we have some new bug types before laying more.

>>42401924
we should always be laying eggs if possible. gotta get that snowball effect

>>42401755

Let's give this to the strong chitin warriors, pretty much making them a juggernaut class.

>>42401965
If we had plenty of food in the area to spare, I'd agree. However, we should watch our pop' until we get a more substantial income of food.

>>42402007

I mean, we have a farm providing us a base income of food every turn. A farm that is in the process of being upgraded further. And we have a cultural bonus that promotes competitive hunting. I'd say we have a pretty nice level of food income at the moment.

>>42402007
>>42402035
is the farm really being upgraded? i dont see it in the latest stats posts. either way let's expand the farm more and assign some more workers to it

also build an irrigation network to boost production.

The evolution takes some devouring but eventually 25 of our strong chitin warriors are filled, turning this into the evolution gel before the Queen commands their bodies to shift to her command. Several hours of screaming, clawing and comfort giving the new warriors rise, the strong chitin now able to spike up into a defensive stance. Any enemy will find melee combat with these members of our colony to be less than advantageous.

Rolled 4 (1d20)

>>42401755
Warriors -Strong Chitin- -Bad Flight-
spikes + strong Chitin = strong spikes.

///Kichratha\\\

>Food (The Brood consumes 265 Food per turn) (18 Turns of food available)
755 Critters

>West Land
Farmland II (100 Collectors in use, +200 Food/Turn) (Nat 20 Bonus +20 Food/turn)
>Our Home
Queens Den II (Holds Max 200 Eggs) (0 Eggs, Hatches in ? Turn/s)
Nesting Area I (Houses 700 of the brood)
Defense Wall I +1 (Dirt, Stones)
Watch Towers (Dirt, Stones)
Containment Pit (Max 25 Prisoners) (Contains 15 Black Bugs (0.25 Food per turn))

>Queen
Telepathic Communication
Hive Mind - Memory Storage - Advanced Mental Security
Lay Eggs (Consumes 2 food per Warrior, Collector, Collector -Scholar or Scout egg.) (5 food per Drone egg.) (Laying eggs is a FREE action)

>Tech
Animal Husbandry (Rudimentary Mental/Hive Mind Connection)
\
Speak With Simple Animals (In Development!, 20 Scholars, 30 Collectors in use, ?% Complete)
/
Lesser Mind Control (Basic animal thoughts)
Improved Flight
Planned Construction (Memory Storage for greater planning)
Air Bombardment -Rocks-
Agriculture
Mind Reading (Rudimentary Forced Telepathy)

>Brood (With Flight) ~ (Favored Terrain (Swamp) (Water)) ~ (Camouflage (Swamp)) (Family Heart)
25 Warriors -Strong Chitin- -Strong Spiked Chitin- -Bad Flight- (Consumes 1 food per turn)
76 Warriors -Strong Chitin- -Bad Flight- (Consumes 1 food per turn)
20 Warriors (Consumes 1 food per turn)
10 Drones (Consumes 2 food per turn)
380 Collectors -Improved Flight- (0.25 food per turn)
20 Collectors -Scholars- (0.25 Food per turn)
75 Scouts -Improved Flight+- (0.50 food per turn)

>Scout (Scouted - North - FarNorth - East - West - NorthWest ) NorthEast
>Improve Tech (Specify)
>Improve Food (Specify)
>Improve Nest/Land (Specify)
>Improve Culture (Specify)
>Attempt Evolution (Specify) (Consuming creatures holding the Evolution we desire will drastically improve chances of success)
>Custom (Specify)

Correction!

>100 Warrior eggs are incubating and we have around 11 turns of food left.

>>42402228

Is the nesting area upgraded yet?

Hmm... Should we start developing long-ranged scouts/vehicles to explore across the ocean? Or should we develop a little more before that?

Oh I'm so glad this is still going. Today OP was not a fag. Thank you CM.

Rolled 1, 16 = 17 (2d20)

>>42402210
>Improve tech:Memory Erasal\forced forgetting.
>improve Tech: Mind reading (Read more thoughts more clearly more quickly and with more penetration of mental resistance.)

if we train Delete + Read + Write enoguh over a telepathic connection, particularly on these beings we have. then we basically have all the psionics tools we need to reprogram something to serve us. (though it may take repeated brainwashing sessions to make it stick and deeper mastery of the techniques to make it permenant.)
basically read their mind to find out why they resist or do not obay. delete those thoughts. then write in brainwashing or memorys that make them want to Obey the hive and the queen.

because when you can find information you wana find. delete it. and write something else where it was, you pretty much can reprogram it.

Rolled 20, 13 = 33 (2d20)

>>42402210
>lay 100 collector eggs
>improve farm (irrigation)
>send raiding party to northern insects (5 drones, try to catch them alive)

>>42402303
Let's wait until our food and hatching facilities can support about 500 new troops per clutch. Then we can start sending out larger groups and not worry about the nests integrity.

>>42402303
What ocean? We're on a floating island.

Rolled 14, 15 = 29 (2d20)

>>42402379
So much 2nd. Let's put the queen and all the drones on it. Let them gorge themselves if they get hungry from the strain.

>>42402383
if we attack lets make sure we send our spikey warriors. and instead of just massacuring everything lets beat down the enemy's leader and haul it back to have its traits stolen.

>>42402481

I'm going to parrot that one anon's idea from earlier of sending a token force of our strong chitin infantry in a full-frontal assault as a feint, while we maneuver our 100+ agile swamp warriors up the eastern river right to the base of the mountain.

The enemy hive comes out to meet the force that is appearing to be laying siege directly, then the warriors hidden in the river spring the trap and attack from the flank.

>>42402379
if we level memory erasal enough we might be able to make our scouts be able to make singular enemys forget seeing them constantly and in real-time within a certain range basically giving them invisibility against a single opponent. or silencing another unit before it can raise an alarm so they could make better spys.

if we increase mindreading enough. our forces might be able to see exactly what moves our foe plans on making and dodge them as\before they happen since they can learn to see it all coming.

if we master mind writing\mind control. we might be able to force thoughts and actions into other beings heads to make them do what we want. and potentially make brainwashing longer and longer lasting until with enough brainwashing we completely overwrite what ever was there originally and replace it permanently with what we want its behavior to be.

>Action 1
Begin the construction/research of irrigation while improving our farms at a nat 20

>Action 2
Improve tech, mindreading to enhance our mental abilities against other creatures at a 16/20

Agreed? Y/N

>>42402768

Y

>>42402768
Double yes

>>42402768
Y

>>42402768
Yes-aroo

>>42403007
ARRROOOOOOOOOOOO*shakes jowels*

The Queen demands our food be even greater than as is. Recall humans using water around crops. She takes great interest in that and commands groups of collectors to head out into the fields, using the lake to cause water to flow to our crops. Dangerous she says, we shall be careful in this undertaking. 100 Collectors head off. (Irrigated Farmland is UNDER CONSTRUCTION)

The Queen while continuing her work with the rabbits commands more collectors to gather many more rabbits. She plans to improve our ability to feel the emotions and images flashing through these creatures. Strange, though we obey. Having scouts to gather them before our collectors start research. (Detailed Mind Reading, Is in development)

100 Collector Eggs have been layn

///Kichratha\\\

>Food (The Brood consumes 265 Food per turn) (5 Turns of food available)
300 Critters

>West Land
Farmland II (100 Collectors in use, +200 Food/Turn) (Nat 20 Bonus +20 Food/turn) (UNDER CONSTRUCTION, 100 Collectors in use, ?% Complete)

>Our Home
Queens Den II (Holds Max 200 Eggs) (100 Warrior Eggs, Hatches in 2 Turn/s) (100 Colllector Eggs, Hatches in 3 Turn/s)
Nesting Area I (Houses 700 of the brood)
Defense Wall I +1 (Dirt, Stones)
Watch Towers (Dirt, Stones)
Containment Pit (Max 25 Prisoners) (Contains 15 Black Bugs (0.25 Food per turn))

>Queen
Telepathic Communication
Hive Mind - Memory Storage - Advanced Mental Security
Lay Eggs (Consumes 2 food per Warrior, Collector, Collector -Scholar or Scout egg.) (5 food per Drone egg.) (Laying eggs is a FREE action)

>Tech
Animal Husbandry (Rudimentary Mental/Hive Mind Connection)
\
Speak With Simple Animals (100% Complete, Implemented next turn)
/
Lesser Mind Control (Basic animal thoughts)
Improved Flight
Planned Construction (Memory Storage for greater planning)
Air Bombardment -Rocks-
Agriculture
Mind Reading (Improvement is In Development!, 80 Collectors, 20 Scholars, 10 Drones in use, ?% Complete)

>Brood (With Flight) ~ (Favored Terrain (Swamp) (Water)) ~ (Camouflage (Swamp)) (Family Heart)
25 Warriors -Strong Chitin- -Strong Spiked Chitin- -Bad Flight- (1 food per turn)
76 Warriors -Strong Chitin- -Bad Flight- (1 food per turn)
20 Warriors (1 food per turn)
10 Drones (2 food per turn)
380 Collectors -Improved Flight- (0.25 food per turn)
20 Collectors -Scholars- (0.25 Food per turn)
75 Scouts -Improved Flight+- (0.50 food per turn)

>Scout (Scouted - North - FarNorth - East - West - NorthWest ) NorthEast
>Improve Tech (Specify)
>Improve Food (Specify)
>Improve Nest/Land (Specify)
>Improve Culture (Specify)
>Attempt Evolution (Specify) (Consuming creatures holding the Evolution we desire will drastically improve chances of success)
>Custom (Specify)

Assign Managers to help keep the hive operating more efficiently. we could try to make 1 or more of our drones command forces the queen does not assign to a job. so unassigned collectors could work to improve farmland\the hive's living space and the queens nest area.. or some of our unassigned warriors and scouts could go hunt in the lake.

or unassigned scholars could try new and interesting things and attempt to help with developments.

also if we hunt in the lake lets try to eat the top predators in that area first. the smaller creatures that breed faster will have greater numbers of population for us to eat if we eat what eats them since then there will be less stuff other then us hunting them.

Rolled 3, 7, 11 = 21 (3d20)

>>42403209

>Upgrade the remaining 76 strong chitin warriors to spiky chitin.

>Scout Far North, but use caution as the enemy hive is in that area. Maybe stick to the swamps whenever possible as we are better at hiding in them.

>Improve Culture, emphasize the importance of guerrilla warfare. Have the warriors train in hit and run attacks.

>>42403304
Those are all, not very good ideas.

Anyone else?

Rolled 15 (1d20)

...we still haven't scouted northeast...

>>42403209
>scout north east
>custom (foodchain restructuring\hunting)
we are -masters- of that lake. the food in it should be ours. not just left to the beasts. lets turn the pests in our domain into food but let the faster breeding herbivores live for now. by hunting all their predators their numbers should increese to large numbers over time and then our warriors and perhaps scouts can fill the space of the new top predators in the lake to provide us with food frequently using it as a permanent hunting ground.

Rolled 3 (1d20)

>>42403452
I'll second that plan if CM goes with it.

>>42403452
Ummm you should probably roll for yourself

Rolled 13 (1d20)

>>42403452

>>42403543
sure ill do that but if you like the idea maybe you should roll too?

>>42403568
for all we know he might have done so already. its hard to tell who is who with most of us being Anonymous in our posts.

Rolled 5 (1d20)

>>42403452

roll three

Rolled 6 (1d20)

>>42403452

>>42403568
Yeah, I did, it didn't go well

Screen capping the previous rolls. Will archive this thread and continue another day. Work tomorrow, with actual work.

Thanks for playing.

>>42403304
no, spiked chitin warriors are specialists, not our main warrior class.

>>42403332
yes, scout NE

>>42403452
interesting idea. i support if it's possible

>>42403696
thanks for hosting!

>>42403696
Do you have a twitter to keep track of when you're running next?