>>5054208
>>With a creature as big as this one, caution even in combat is the best move. Prepare your body, and wait for it to make the first move. We’re smarter than this thing, if we fight defensively our chances are better for staying out of it’s jaws.

>With a creature as big as this one, caution even in combat is the best move. Prepare your body, and wait for it to make the first move. We’re smarter than this thing, if we fight defensively our chances are better for staying out of it’s jaws.

>>5054208
>Your own adrenaline is spiking, and the pure rush of the fight or flight instinct is making your cells scream. STRIKE FIRST, STRIKE HARD, NO MERCY!

I'm gonna let voting go on for a bit longer then we'll move on to the next post.

>>5054208
>A duel to the end is not the only option.

>>5054208
>With a creature as big as this one, caution even in combat is the best move. Prepare your body, and wait for it to make the first move. We’re smarter than this thing, if we fight defensively our chances are better for staying out of it’s jaws.
I'm all down for going to town on the dog but I'd rather not show the humans our combat capabilities.

>>5054294
>>5054227
>>5054219
OK, being cautious wins out.

Give me 3 1d100 for:
>WAIT FOR AN OPPORTUNITY TO COUNTERSTRIKE

Rolled 69 (1d100)

>>5054300
Die.

Also here's the info on your current inventory and adaptations for your perusal.

https://pastebin.com/1CtyXif3

Rolled 85 (1d100)

>>5054300

Rolled 21 (1d100)

>>5054300
I'll go ahead and do the final roll nat 1 incoming.

>>5054319
>>5054308
>>5054301
Alright, writing.

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>WAIT FOR AN OPPORTUNITY TO COUNTERSTRIKE... SUCCESS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-BC2eBu5oM&list=PLohYzz4btpaSRpyIibpGVmaIFfzzSSw8H&index=22

For a moment you almost give into panic, gnashing and flailing wildly, but fortunately your wiser selves take hold. You steel yourself for whatever comes next, as the creature in front of you pads closer and closer... Then suddenly, it lunges at you, jaws snapping right at your "face"! But you prepared for this, and quickly scuttle to the left of it, before taking your two frontmost tendrils and slicing at it, scoring two jagged wounds into the thing's side. It yelps at this, but seems to have resolved itself to this battle to the death, and it charges at you again!

You dodge to the left again, but it anticipates this and skids after you! You back up further and start flailing all your tendrils around in front of it, if it wants a bite of you it's going to have to earn it! That stops it in it's tracks, and then you it begins to circle to the right, and then the left of you, looking for any bit of weakness in your defense.

There is none.

In it's battle rage and growing frustration, it decides to charge through anyway, straight through your tendril swarm! You slice it's neck, seemingly missing any vital arteries, and with blood dribbling on the ground, it gets closer and you actually do begin to panic, flailing even harder and wrapping your your tendril around it's neck, and another around it's right leg, but to no avail as it pushes through and chomps on your body!

PAIN! OH IT WILL PAY FOR THAT!

Your own fury rising, you take a clawed tendril and with needle like precision, stab it directly in the eye, gouging it and changing it's light brown color to dark, bloody red. This makes it try to pull away, yelping, but you tighten your grip and squeeze it's neck while digging your claws in deeper. Slowly you pull it towards you, before opening your maw wide and then...

Chomp!

You bite as hard as you can on it's muzzle, scoring deep gashs, and now it's really trying to get away, but it's energy is fading while for you the taste of blood has a reinvigorating effect! Holding it still with your teeth and tendrils, you take your only free tendril and slash at it's throat, over and over. It's pained whimpers turn to a sort of wet gagging sound as you strike it's throat, again, and again, and again.

By the time you're done, your green skin has been stained dark red, and the bloody ruin of the creature lays before you, one eye missing, half it's snout torn off, covered in cuts deep stab wounds, and panting arrhythmically while whimpering. Feeling the rush of battle begining to leave your system, you let out a warcry, although it comes out as more of a croak.

AAAaaAAAaaaahhh.... HaaAAAAHhhh...

With that, you collapse, exhausted, secure in the knowledge that your foe is too hurt to pose any threat. But, God are you Hungry!

2/2

It takes considerable willpower to keep yourself from tearing into it right then and there, but somehow you do. A quiet voice, almost imperceptible over the din of the rest of your cells rioting to sate their hunger, whispers that this thing is odd and that further examination is necessary before you assimilate it. Easier said then done when literally every part of your body is screaming for assimilation...

>FOOD! OUR PRIZE, EARNED THROUGH BLOOD AND TEARS. TAKE IT, EAT IT, TEAR IT APART!

>Try and listen to that voice and examine it for any oddities. Easier said than done...

>Some part of you feels profoundly sorry for this creature, brought to it's bloody death by uncaring captors. In a way, you and this thing are the same. It's not too late to Commune with it, give it some form of salvation after what it's been through.

>Write in.

>>5054340
>>Some part of you feels profoundly sorry for this creature, brought to it's bloody death by uncaring captors. In a way, you and this thing are the same.

>>5054340
>Try and listen to that voice and examine it for any oddities. Easier said than done...
If you keep bringing it up, then we need to understand what's odd.

>>5054340
>Try and listen to that voice and examine it for any oddities. Easier said than done...

Giant red flag

>>5054340
>Try and listen to that voice and examine it for any oddities. Easier said than done...

Alright I'm gonna let voting run on overnight, next update should be tomorrow at 7-9 PM EST. Good night lads.

>>5054340
>>Some part of you feels profoundly sorry for this creature, brought to it's bloody death by uncaring captors. In a way, you and this thing are the same. It's not too late to Commune with it, give it some form of salvation after what it's been through.

>>5054340
>Try and listen to that voice and examine it for any oddities. Easier said than done...

>>5054340
>>Try and listen to that voice and examine it for any oddities. Easier said than done...

>>5054340
>Try and listen to that voice and examine it for any oddities. Easier said than done...
We cannot allow ourselves to be careless now.
It will probably expire before we finish examination, sad but not unexpected, F to pay respects and move on.
And its not going to go anywhere now, if its safe then we WILL devout it all, no need to rush.

>>5054340
>Try and listen to that voice and examine it for any oddities. Easier said than done...

>>5054573
+1
We shouldnt commune with this dog, it wanted to kill us for one so who knows how its cells feel about being a part of us, plus the researchers have been watching us commune multiple times and may be trying to affect our process

>>5054910
Honestly I bet the dog has rabies or something like that

Oh yeah I forgot to mention it but you got +5 EP for your victory against the dog, leaving you with a total of 20 EP!

And it seems like people want to investigate it again, so go ahead and give me 3 1d100 for:
>INVESTIGATE THE STRANGE BIOSIGNAL... AGAIN
>CONTROL YOURSELF AND YOUR HUNGER

Rolled 23, 3, 67 = 93 (3d100)

>>5054914
Dont wiff it.

>>5054916
Just one 1d100 each please, sorry if that wasn't clear.

Rolled 97 (1d100)

>>5054914
lets go

Rolled 23 (1d100)

>>5054917
Apologies, reroll

>>5054916
>>5054930
>23 rerolled into 23
twas meant to be it seems

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>>5054934
All disrespect this dice system.

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Rolled 6 (1d20)

>>5054914

>>5054945
That was funny as fuck
but fr pic related

>>5054999
Well fuck

>>5054922
N o i c e.

Also, 20 EP is sweet. Am thinking maybe next we should go for Pollen? Just converting everyone around us slowly should be very good.

OK, writing.

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>INVESTIGATE THE STRANGE BIOSIGNAL... SUCCESS
>CONTROL YOURSELF AND YOUR HUNGER... SUCCESS

The adrenaline flowing out of your system, you decide to heed that small voice and examine the creature again. It should be much easier now that you're not in imminent danger. Marshalling your willpower against the hunger, you once again sharpen your biosense into a spear of pure concentration, and scan the creature, up and down. It takes a while, but you manage to pinpoint the exact source of that odd signal, in the organ that pumps it's blood.

The heart.

It's sickly and deformed, pumping erratically even as the creature dies in front of you, you can tell just how wrong it is. A birth defect perhaps? You're glad you held back from assimilating it on the spot, the defective organ would have certainly been a bother if you assimilated it into your body, and you need to be at your peak if you want to escape this place. But just as you finish your examination the thing draws it's last breath, blowing out the final sigh it ever will. For a moment you're struck by just how tragic all this is, but it's too late for pity.

Never one to let food go to waste, and not sensing anything odd about the rest of it's body, you get to the bloody work of assimilating it, sans the heart of course. As you do that, unaware of the Things watching you behind the mirror, their leader, the bearded Thing allows himself a tiny, almost imperceptible grin...

---------INTERLUDE-------

TOBIAS GRAY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGWQ3mSAXl8

Tobias watches as his third favorite dog in the research base is torn to shreds in front of him, and while a part of him undeniably feels regret, he can't deny that the results speak for themselves. But, he wonders, will it realize that this dog is a time-bomb? It is, of course, a bit of a risk if the Thing incorporates that dog's bum heart into itself, but based on notes of the Original, that would only be a minor nuisance for it.

As the fight goes on, some of the greener researchers turn away, and he even hears one dry heaving behind him. Weakness is to be expected among many of his subordinates, given that he was only allowed to hand pick a few, the rest chosen by his betters. One of those particular few he chose, and the one that he cares for the most, because she reminds me of my daughter... Julie Withers, has taken an early vacation after her pet was sacrificed in the name of discovery. Worth it, as for reasons Tobias can't understand, the Thing revealed to us all that singular ability, the one thing that makes it truly powerful, full body mimicry. Tobias, of course, was able to piece together from the few bits of unclassified research logs that it had this ability, and it's confirmation filled him with a kind of grim joy.

Soon, Anna... Soon...

>>5055314
And once again, his hypothesis is confirmed as the Thing finishes the dog, but unlike what most of the other scientists in the observation room expect, it doesn't immediately consume it. Instead, it scans every inch of the dog's body, perhaps for over 5 minutes, before beginning to eat it. And just as Tobias expected, when it reaches the heart it carefully plucks it out of the dogs ribcage, before casting it aside and resuming it's meal. We all knew it was intelligent, but this confirms for Tobias and everyone else that it has suprasensory abilities, how else could it have known about the bad heart?

Tobias allows himself a small smile, before leaving the room for one of the few pleasures he has: a victory cigar. One more piece of his plan slides into place, and the resolution of all he has been working towards in the last decade will soon come to fruition...

---------INTERLUDE END-------

SUBJECT 438-C

It doesn't take you long to finish your meal, and you enjoy every bite. Once it's all gone, it takes no small amount of willpower to hold back from eating the heart. A small part of your mind notes that you have doubled in size yet again, and were you to stand up and stretch your body as far as you could, you'd reach up to about 3/4s of those Things. You wonder how much bigger you can grow...

>You've gotten a sizable meal, and of a new type of creature too! 10 Evolution Points gained, leaving you with 30 EP!

The combination of a full belly and just coming out of a brutal duel to the death finally works it's magic on you, and once again you feel that siren song of sleep calling to you. Still, you have enough energy at the moment to do a few things, or you could just skip right to sleep. Decisions, decisions...

>Examine your new cell, especially that vent. WE'RE STRONGER NOW, THE VENT MONSTER SHOULD BE AFRAID OF US!

>Attempt some form of communication with the Things, even though you can't see them, past experience has taught you that they are always watching. Although, figuring out how to communicate to Things you can't see and don't understand is a bit tricky...

>Sleep... It calls to you....

>Write in

>>5055323
>>Attempt some form of communication with the Things, even though you can't see them, past experience has taught you that they are always watching. Although, figuring out how to communicate to Things you can't see and don't understand is a bit tricky...

>>5055323

>Examine your new cell, especially that vent. WE'RE STRONGER NOW, THE VENT MONSTER SHOULD BE AFRAID OF US!

VENT TIME BABY

>>5055323

>Examine your new cell,
See if we find anything. A collar from the dog perhaps or a loose panel or something. But dont try to escape, those things still watching....

>>5055323
>Examine your new cell, especially that vent. WE'RE STRONGER NOW, THE VENT MONSTER SHOULD BE AFRAID OF US!

>>5055323
>Examine your new cell, especially that vent. WE'RE STRONGER NOW, THE VENT MONSTER SHOULD BE AFRAID OF US!

I'm gonna call it here for now, next update will be tomorrow at the usual time. Thanks for reading, cheers.

>Examine your new cell, especially that vent. WE'RE STRONGER NOW, THE VENT MONSTER SHOULD BE AFRAID OF US!
I'm just imagining we crawl into the vents and they think we're trying to escape but we just smash the fans and go back to our cell

>Examine your new cell, especially that vent. WE'RE STRONGER NOW, THE VENT MONSTER SHOULD BE AFRAID OF US!

This is going to be a wild ride

>>5055323
>>Examine your new cell, especially that vent. WE'RE STRONGER NOW, THE VENT MONSTER SHOULD BE AFRAID OF US!
Disembowle this rat bastard in front of his family.

>>5055323
>>Examine your new cell, especially that vent. WE'RE STRONGER NOW, THE VENT MONSTER SHOULD BE AFRAID OF US!

venting.

>>5055323
>Examine new cell

Also QM do we still have that hook piece from the electricity test? I didnt see in in the inventory

>>5055641
Yeah you still have it, hidden under your skin.

>>5055746
Gotcha, guess i missed it

Did you remember too archive the other thread?

>>5055746
Do we have also have the dog collar think we should keep it along with other random junk
>>5055323
>Transform into the tiny black thing at this size

>>5055372
Yeah lets gobble up junk like a shark perhaps. Our own little toolbox also a dog collar is good for mimicing a pet dog or used as rope for tool making idea also anchoring metal scrap could make for some nice teeth
>>5055865
Dont blame me for wanting too solve this mystery and possibly recreate classic ancient horror movie.

>>5055861
>>5055865
>>5055868
Schizomaxxing

>>5055861
Yep
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?searchall=Starving+Creature+Quest
>>5055865
There is a dog collar, but unfortunately it was heavily damaged during your brawl.

Also what's the tiny black thing? The cat?

>>5055970
The only "tiny black thing" I know about is the ants or the cat.

>>5055599
>>5055526
>>5055499
>>5055393
>>5055381
>>5055380
>>5055335
Alright, taking a looky loo it is. Give me 3 1d20 for:
>INVESTIGATE YOUR NEW CELL

Rolled 8 (1d20)

>>5055980
We shall die.

Rolled 10 (1d20)

>>5055980

I have high hopes

>>5055980

Rolled 11 (1d20)

>>5056045
Ah fuck im fucking retarded

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>>5056022
>>5056035
>>5056047
>the best roll is 11

>>5056122
T-third time will be a charm, eh?

>>5055971
I was thinking off the ant really want to know what happens if we do become it at this size
>>5055980
A roll for the fun of it

>>5056213
Lets go baby meaningless roll!

Rolled 9 (1d20)

>>5056214

>>5056214
Lets see if i can roll worsr

Rolled 13 (1d20)

>>5056217

Rolled 5 (1d20)

>>5056122
Its more cursed then i could have possibly thought

Rolled 11 (1d20)

>>5056220
Damn, the dice gods are spiteful

>>5056022
>>5056035
>>5056047
Hey, sorry for not responding last night, I took a nap while waiting for rolls that turned into full blown nightmare sleep. Anyways, writing now.

>>5056213
Post 1/2

>INVESTIGATE YOUR NEW CELL... SUCCESS
With a full belly and the rush of battle leaving your system, you decide to get work on figuring out the exact dimensions of your new cell, and if there are any weaknesses to exploit. Standing exactly in the middle, if you stretch your tendrils out in any direction, they come up short of touching the walls in either direction by about two feet. And you notice that your tendrils have grown with you, now about double their previous size. Looking around, everything is as it was when you were first put into this room, the large mirror taking up half the wall behind you, to the left of that is the entryway where the Things and their creatures come in. The wall to the left of that has the same smaller square indentation, not reflective but oddly shiny. And the final one to the left of that one is completely smooth and gray, except for the odd black spiral painted on the middle of it, with one of those confounding vents on the bottom left of it.

To get a better idea of the dimensions of the room, you do as you first did, however long ago. Spreading your two back most tendrils on both sides of the floor, and your two front most tendrils as high as you can reach, you do a sweep of the cell. And then again from the opposite direction. And once more from the right, and then from the left. When you're finished, while you can't be exactly sure of it's true size due to you being too small to reach all the places, you think you're in a 11x15 size room, while the walls reach up to the ceilings reaching about 12 feet.

With that done, you steel your courage and start the most interesting and scariest task in this cell: The Vent. Edging closer and closer, you try to step as softly as you can so as to not cause the beast within to stir, and before long your "face" is almost touching it's metallic grates. Yes, you feel the cold air within tickling your mouth, and straining your sound receptors, yes you hear the vent monster as well.

Besides the vent monster, there is another problem with it: It's less than a quarter of your size. Which normally wouldn't be a problem, you'd simply turn yourself into a long noodle and squeeze through, assuming you could figure out some way to deal with the grate. Unfortunately however, you have those pesky bones in your body, which were a great help in your battle against the beast, making you much more balanced as well as sturdy, can also make attempts at squeezing through tight spaces a good deal harder.

You think if you focused and gave specific instructions to your cells, you could reduce your bones back into the biomatter slurry they were before being commanded to change. That process would take a while, but you'd save the cells and biomatter that understand how to change into bones.

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Or, you could simply eject the bones from your body, a much faster process. You would however, lose those cells and regrowing a skeleton would be much slower without them. Either way, you'd have to figure out some way to deal with the grate, as you're not sure if you could reduce your body into the soupy, half liquified state necessary to squeeze through the bars, and that even if you could, would you be able to put yourself back together again?

Brute force, of course, hasn't failed you yet. If you were strong enough, you could simply rip the grate off the wall and then freedom would be but a few steps away! Testing the strength of the grate, though, tells you it won't be that easy. That thing is on there, and barring a truly herculean effort, you would have a very hard time pulling it off as you are now.

But! Your new insectoid self whispers it's own secret of it's kind's quiet strength to your cells, which would make feats of strength previously considered impossible, terribly easy indeed! Still, to unlock it you would have to reach the next evolutionary stage, which fortunately feels close at tendril.

With your examination done, and truly feeling tired at this point, you think you may have enough energy left to do one thing before sleep takes you...

>WE DON'T NEED THE INSECTS ADAPTATIONS, WE ARE ALREADY LIFE PERFECTED! RIP THE GRATE OFF NOW, WE'RE LEAVING, EXHAUSTED OR NOT.

>There is plenty of blood left in this cell, and while you are unsure of exactly how to communicate with the Things, an attempt at bridging the gap between you and them could possibly be very beneficial. It's unlikely, but were you able to communicate with them, you could ask for more biomatter, ask why they keep you here or even ask for freedom! A long shot, sure, but learning how to communicate with these Things would only be a good thing. Surely.

>We're all pretty wore out here, boss. You included, wouldn't it be easier to try those things after you've gotten some rest?

>Force your body to evolve, right now. Your cells will surely complain about being forced to work hard when they're already tired, but that's a small price to pay for progress.

>Write in

>>5056507
>>We're all pretty wore out here, boss. You included, wouldn't it be easier to try those things after you've gotten some rest?

This has been exhausting. Let's rest for now and wait until we've regained our energy before we try anything else.

>>5056507
>We're all pretty wore out here, boss. You included, wouldn't it be easier to try those things after you've gotten some rest?
We should not try anything too bold while tired.
SOON

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I'm gonna let voting go on for a bit, next update will be at 7-8 PM EST.

Also look at our Thing that one kind anon drew. Adorable!

>>5056507
>We're all pretty wore out here, boss. You included, wouldn't it be easier to try those things after you've gotten some rest?

>>5056507
>We're all pretty wore out here, boss. You included, wouldn't it be easier to try those things after you've gotten some rest?

>>5056599
ah thats me really nice knowing you liked it

>>5056507
dont even need to evolve i want to mimic the ant and see if its possible at this size and without the mutations

>>5056616
>>5056601
>>5056576
>>5056573
4 for the sweet release of dea- I mean dreams
>>5056703
and one ant anon

Alright, writing. i'll figure out some reason for you guys to become the biggest bug of them all, i swear it

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You decide to give in to that irresistible urge to sleep, curling in on yourself before wrapping your tendrils around your body. Under the murmur of cells wishing one another good night, you close your eyes and before long, you are asleep. But the deepest part of your mind sizzles with possibilities, of realities yet unexplored and non existent. You hear music, and the screams and yelps of dead enemies mixing together into a kind of unholy cacophony. You see bright lights and the wide eyes of those Things surrounding you, poking and prodding at your form, even cutting off pieces with shiny tools and placing them in small boxes marked with that ever present spiral.

And you yourself are on a kind of spiral, down and down you go, a strange being in a stranger land. Why are They so different? Why are you so different? Is there a grand design to all this? The machinations of some cold and distant God, pushing you all along like pieces of a grand game? And your dreams turn darker still. You see yourself, slaughtering yourself, over and over in a never ending loop. You pulling you apart, and feasting on the remains. You and you splitting away from one another, never to reunite. And all the while, a tiny speck of something unknowable watches, it's small form hiding strange and terrible power.

And it's laughing.

And on and on it goes, this nightmare. After a while it grows unintelligible, just lights, sound and color in a dizzying array of just pure noise.

You think you hear screaming.

You think you are screaming.

...................

>[/red]AAAAaaaHhhaAAAaaHH![/red]

>WAIT! NO PLEASE! I DON'T WANT TO BE ALONE! DON'T

>WAKE UP WAKE UP WAKE UP WAKE UP WAKE UP WAKE UP WAKE UP WAKE UP WAKE UP WAKE UP WAKE

>You never had a choice. Soon...

>>5056837
Sorry that took so long, got sucked into a game of cards with my roommates. Next update will be tomorrow, at around 6-8 PM EST. Hope you guys are enjoying the new thread, good night bros.

>>5056837
>You never had a choice. Soon...

>>5056837
>You never had a choice. Soon...

>>5056837
>You never had a choice. Soon...

>>5056837
>You never had a choice. Soon...

>>5056837
>>You never had a choice. Soon...

>>5056837

>You never had a choice. Soon...

>>5056837
>You never had a choice. Soon...

>>5056837
>You never had a choice. Soon...

>>5057347
>>5057102
>>5057052
>>5057034
>>5056921
>>5056908
>>5056859
>>5056843
Alright, writing.

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You follow that figure, like a insect drawn inescapably to the flame. You crawl over the bodies of your comrades, their vital organs hanging out, those that weren't shredded. You reach a tunnel, and still that tiny thing beckons you further. So you squeeze yourself, compress yourself, removing the pieces that you don't need. Crawling through mud and muck and filth, for what feels like hours.

Is that... A light?

THE FLAME

And so you crawl, losing more of yourself with each heaving motion. When you finally reach that luminescent figure, you are barely more than a speck, and that thing, what was once so tiny, now towers over you and all creation like a disdainful God. It looks down at you, and you look up at it. It opens one gigantic eye, and inside it a tiny flame floats out, down to you. When it reaches you, the flame rises and engulfs you, painlessly melting your flesh and reducing you even further. When the flame finally sputters out, you are but a cinder.

With that, the giant figure turns it's back to you, and utters a single word:

Soon...

...............................

>You've been tempered by the flame of Life, and now a small fire burns within you... 5 Evolution Points gained! Leaving you with a total of 35 EP!

After a while, you awaken from the horrible nightmare, and after a moment of panic, find that all your parts are as they are supposed to be. Even your other selves seem confused at your panic, asking what's wrong. After pulling yourself together, you take a look around your cell to find that... Everything is as it was. You hear the gentle hum of machinery buzzing behind the walls, and can still sense the faint signal of life behind the mirror. One thing that is a bit different however, is the absence of your old cell. They must have removed it while you were sleeping.

But, before you have time to fully process your dreams, you feel the undeniable pull of evolution taking hold once more...

>You have reached the next stage of your evolution!
>You have absorbed more creatures who possess adaptations you currently have, giving you a discount on: Primitive claws and sharp teeth, and Rudimentary fur, as well as having the secrets of unassuming strength whispered to your cells by the tiny black things! As well as ???? from your ???? with ????
>You have 35 EP left to spend.

>>5057582
Post 2/3

also now that i think about it you also get a discount on the next level of olfactory system, i mean you did just assimilate a dog.

>Primitive eyes, you grow more of the odd organs, as well as more subtle changes within, that allow you to see further and with more definition. Where before you were blind past 15 feet, now you can see clearly for about 30! Your vision in darkness has also improved, allowing you to see about 10 feet where you look in the dark where before you were completely blind. 10 points.

>Primitive legs, muscle gets more efficiently and tightly packed into your legs, as well as the natural skills in locomotion you've gained through experience, making you a good bit faster and more nimble with your fleshy appendages. 10 points

>Primitive tendrils, muscle becomes more tightly corded along it's length, and they grow another foot from the growth. You're also getting the hang of controlling them, and while they can't quite support your body still, you are more nimble and powerful with this adaptation. 10 points

>Primitive claws and sharper teeth, your claws grow more dense, the core beginning to be replaced with actual bone instead of cartilage. They both grow sharper as well, and you feel as though you are more capable in combat through this combination of enhanced adaptation and experience. 5 points

>Average intelligence, through continued experience your cells become even more efficient at storing, sorting and perceiving information! With this you may be able to stand brain to brain with those Things, and with further specialization may even surpass them! 40 points

>Primitive skeletal structure, your skeleton grows sturdier, the core beginning to change into actual bone instead of cartilage. This adaptation makes you even more sturdy than before, and you feel as though your overall balance is improving as well. 10 points

>Primitive mouth, tongue, and sharper teeth, with this improvement you can more easily identify harmful biomatter, and also can do some damage with those chompers of yours. And your tongue becomes forked along with more subtle changes inside, allowing you with periodically flicking your tongue out, giving you the ability to taste the air and sense your prey better, although not as well as with a proper olfactory system. 10 points

>Primitive olfactory system, continuing down the dubious path of smells allows you to follow a scent for longer as well as becoming more able to pick out individual scents from a area with many smelly smells. 5 points

>Rudimentary scales, these cover your whole body and provide some degree of protection and insulation, keeping you slightly warmer in cold places and cooler in hot places, and a little better suited for general survival. 5 points

>>5057585
Post 3/3

>Rudimentary asexual reproduction, this allows you become a proud... Thing. Through a couple days of incubation, you will lay eggs that, if protected and kept in the proper environment, will allow you to give birth to lifeforms, who will instinctually follow your commands. They will be weak, tiny, and almost defenseless for now, but continue down this path, and you can become a veritable army making machine... 10 points.

>Rudimentary bait defense system, you grow a tendril that's fat and brightly colored, that when in danger you can harmlessly detach from your body. it will wriggle around and attract the attention of any predator you wish to flee from, at least momentarily. 5 points.

>Rudimentary gills, growing these allows you to breathe underwater, although you will be pretty uncomfortable and your gills ability to filter grime and debris are rather lackluster. 5 points

>Primitive photosynthesis, your cells grow more used to the act of using sunlight to fuel energy production, allowing you to more efficiently gain strength from simply spending enough time in the sun, now able to gain 2 EP passively a day, assuming you're not cooped up inside all day. 10 points

>Rudimentary fins, these allow you to swim more easily and with more speed, although they are fragile and damage very easily. 5 points

>Rudimentary pollen generation, with this adaptation you can passively spread some cells throughout the air, which if inhaled by a creature, will allow your cells to enter their body. At this stage of evolution, you would need quite a large amount of pollen for your cells to do much to the bodies they infest, but continue down this path and you may end up making unintentional allies... 10 points

>Rudimentary fur, your body becomes covered in a black fur, insulating your body against both heat and cold, although you stay much warmer in the cold with this than with scales, but scales keep you cooler in the heat, as well as providing slightly better protection. Still, this is a must in frigid climates. 3 points

>Rudimentary cell consolidation, you instruct your cells to commit a form of cannibalism, compacting your form and reducing both hunger and overall energy spent per cycle. Best used creatively. 10 points.

>Primitive adapted communion, you become even more adept at picking out only the necessary parts of the creatures you commune with, leaving a bit more flesh behind for assimilation. Still less efficient than simply assimilating or communing with the creatures, but you are one more step towards having the best of both worlds! 20 points

>Primitive adapted communion (20 points)
>Primitive claws and sharper teeth (5 points)
>Rudimentary pollen generation (10 points)

Simple as that.

>>5057585
>Rudimentary pollen generation

>>Primitive adapted communion

Lure them in with the pollen and stick them with the needle.

>>5057587
>Primitive adapted communion, you become even more adept at picking out only the necessary parts of the creatures you commune with, leaving a bit more flesh behind for assimilation. Still less efficient than simply assimilating or communing with the creatures, but you are one more step towards having the best of both worlds! 20 points
>Primitive claws and sharper teeth, your claws grow more dense, the core beginning to be replaced with actual bone instead of cartilage. They both grow sharper as well, and you feel as though you are more capable in combat through this combination of enhanced adaptation and experience. 5 points
>Rudimentary fur, your body becomes covered in a black fur, insulating your body against both heat and cold, although you stay much warmer in the cold with this than with scales, but scales keep you cooler in the heat, as well as providing slightly better protection. Still, this is a must in frigid climates. 3 points

>>5057595
I switch to this.

>>5057595
Support
Very curious about this flame of life, and the head scientists talk about a 'original'.

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>>5057587
Turns out I'm even more retarded than previously thought possible, as I forgot to put in two new adaptations:
>Rudimentary insectoid strength, your body begins to tack on more muscle mass all over, which can be activated for brief moments of increased strength, when brute force is absolutely necessary. 20 points
And
>????, 30 points

>>5057630
And I'm gonna let voting go on overnight, next update will either be tomorrow at the usual time or Thursday, but Thursday is more likely. Thanks for playing bros, and good night.

>>5057630
>>????, 30 points
>>Primitive claws
Eldritch abomination let's goooooooooo !

>>5057587
>Rudimentary pollen generation
>Primitive adapted communion

The mystery box is tempting but I just really want pollen.

>>5057587
>Rudimentary pollen generation
>Primitive adapted communion

>>5057587
>????, 30 points
>Rudimentary scales 5 points

>>5057587
>????, 30 points
>Primitive olfactory system, continuing down the dubious path of smells allows you to follow a scent for longer as well as becoming more able to pick out individual scents from a area with many smelly smells. 5 points
Are we currently missing any ability the movie thing had? Hopefully QM is ignoring the existence of that awful prequel like I do.

>>5057781
I think we've pretty much got every powers there are in the ovie, they're weaker.

>>5057587
>Rudimentary pollen generation, with this adaptation you can passively spread some cells throughout the air, which if inhaled by a creature, will allow your cells to enter their body. At this stage of evolution, you would need quite a large amount of pollen for your cells to do much to the bodies they infest, but continue down this path and you may end up making unintentional allies... 10 points
>Primitive adapted communion, you become even more adept at picking out only the necessary parts of the creatures you commune with, leaving a bit more flesh behind for assimilation. Still less efficient than simply assimilating or communing with the creatures, but you are one more step towards having the best of both worlds! 20 points
>Primitive claws and sharper teeth, your claws grow more dense, the core beginning to be replaced with actual bone instead of cartilage. They both grow sharper as well, and you feel as though you are more capable in combat through this combination of enhanced adaptation and experience. 5 points
Communion is good, and pollen sounds like it will be useful later.
As tempted as I am by ????, we can always do it later I'm assuming

>>5057582

>Primitive claws and sharper teeth (5 points)
>Primitive olfactory system (5 points)
>Primitive adapted communion(20 points)
Keeping some points for the next evolúció for upgrading brain would be nice i think....

>>5057587

>Rudimentary asexual reproduction, this allows you become a proud... Thing. Through a couple days of incubation, you will lay eggs that, if protected and kept in the proper environment, will allow you to give birth to lifeforms, who will instinctually follow your commands. They will be weak, tiny, and almost defenseless for now, but continue down this path, and you can become a veritable army making machine... 10 points.

>Rudimentary pollen generation, with this adaptation you can passively spread some cells throughout the air, which if inhaled by a creature, will allow your cells to enter their body. At this stage of evolution, you would need quite a large amount of pollen for your cells to do much to the bodies they infest, but continue down this path and you may end up making unintentional allies... 10 points

Self sabotage, huh?

>>5058093
Huh?

>>5058093
Que? Are you saying the choices we're making are bad?

Current vote tally:

>Primitive adapted communion - 8
>Primitive claws - 6
>Rudimentary pollen - 7
>Rudimentary fur - 1
>???? - 3
>Rudimentary scales - 1
>Primitive olfactory system - 2
>Rudimentary asexual reproduction - 1

This is the current tally, but feel free to make a vote if you haven't already. Next update will be tomorrow at 7-9 PM EST, sorry for being late these past couple of updates. Right now it's looking like most people want adapted communion and pollen, with a bit of claws and teeth thrown in. Assuming it stays the same by this time tomorrow, that's what you lads will be growing. Thanks for participating so far boys, see you tomorrow.

>>5057630
>????, 30 points
>Rudimentary insectoid strength

>>5058241
>>5058243
just >>5058052 lmao

>>5058254
>>????
my vote

>>5057595
support

>>5058507
Oh that kek, that was just a joke. If I see the opportunity to flirt with disaster the big retard in my brain forces me to do it.

>>5058687
lmao

Alright, you guys are getting claws, pollen and better adapted communion. Writing.

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The changes come on quick. First is in your claws and teeth, they grow a bit longer, while in the inside real bone begins to form! They are much sturdier now, as well as the edges of your claws and teeth growing sharper, and from your experience of fighting the beast and no small amount of creativity from your rowdier selves, you feel as though your ability to quickly end the life functions of others has improved. Then more esoteric growths begin to form. On your backside there begins a strange process, both inside and out.

A lump of fat, strange organs and flesh takes shape under your skin, pockmarked by dozens of tiny holes. The process is remarkably itchy, but once it is done you are left with several yellow lumps on your rear, rhythmically "breathing" and pumping out thousands of tiny, nigh imperceptible particles. You think that any creature that breathes in enough of the pollen will slowly but surely become more of You.

But you're not quite done growing, as a much more subtle one takes place inside, in your communion organ. Your cells have been working double time on solving the inherent flaws with communion, learning more and more what parts are necessary to save the minds of the creatures you commune with, and what can safely be assimilated. It's shape changes as well, becoming much sleeker as well as its tendrils becoming sharper, and more able to quickly reach the mind of the creatures it comes in contact with.

When it's all done, you feel as though your odds of surviving have increased, as well as your ability to escape this infernal place, especially with your new pollen organ. But your sense of satisfaction is cut short, as a whining sound begins to emit from the wall, and it begins to slide open! You only have a few moments before whatever is out there comes in!

>Move to the side of the wall, and get ready to ambush whatever Things come through. WE ARE STRONG, WE ARE READY, AND IM HUNGRY!

>Stay calm and wait for whatever comes next. They wouldn't come in here unless they either wanted to give us something or to take us somewhere else, we should be safe so long as we stay calm. Still, keep an eye out for any chance to escape this room.

>When they come in, pretend as though we were more gravely injured from the battle than we first appeared. Play dead, essentially. It will lower their guard, and I bet that they want to keep us alive above all else. If they buy it, it would grant me the perfect opportunity to surprise them, and from there, bring them all into the Fold.

>Write in

>>5059190
>>Stay calm and wait for whatever comes next. They wouldn't come in here unless they either wanted to give us something or to take us somewhere else, we should be safe so long as we stay calm. Still, keep an eye out for any chance to escape this room.
Greenie's a good lad, he hasn't led us astray yet.

>>5059190
>Stay calm and wait for whatever comes next.They wouldn't come in here unless they either wanted to give us something or to take us somewhere else, we should be safe so long as we stay calm. Still, keep an eye out for any chance to escape this room.
>Pull in the pollen organ, you don't want to show all your cards just yet.

>>5059243
Support

>>5059190
>Stay calm and wait for whatever comes next. They wouldn't come in here unless they either wanted to give us something or to take us somewhere else, we should be safe so long as we stay calm. Still, keep an eye out for any chance to escape this room.

Next update will be tomorrow at the usual time if not a bit earlier. With these new adaptations the end of the lab saga is finally in sight, and one or another by the end of this thread you guys will be out in the world. Thanks for playing with me fellas, and good night.

>>5059190
>>>Stay calm and wait for whatever comes next. They wouldn't come in here unless they either wanted to give us something or to take us somewhere else, we should be safe so long as we stay calm. Still, keep an eye out for any chance to escape this room.
good to b smart about it

also kind of wish the pollen organ sort of grew like a bunny tail a lump of fuzz on the rear

>>5059190
>Stay calm and wait for whatever comes next.

>>5059190
>Stay calm and wait for whatever comes next. They wouldn't come in here unless they either wanted to give us something or to take us somewhere else, we should be safe so long as we stay calm. Still, keep an eye out for any chance to escape this room.

>>5059243
support

>>5059420
>>5059324
>>5059310
>>5059271
>>5059243
>>5059209
Being a coward wins, writing.

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Hastily sucking in your pollen organ, you prepare yourself for whatever happens next. The door slides open, and in walks four of the black masked Things, holding those now familiar oblong objects, pointed directly at you! Holding your ground, you see that behind them are several of those Things in white, holding what looks to be your old cell, except a little bigger. Indeed, the white Things seem to be straining to carry it, and behind them is their leader, the bearded Thing. The black masked things surround you, and you can hear them making noises at each other, before waving in the white Things. Slowly backing away, you quell your murderous instincts and wait, wondering what it is they want.

The white things approach you, stopping a mere 3 feet away, before lowering the cell and opening it's front wall. Inside is one of those cubes, slightly bigger than the ones before, and already open! The smell of slightly decayed biomatter wafts over to you, and it takes no small amount of self control to stop yourself from lunging at it. The white things motion towards the cell, seemingly indicating that they want you to step inside, but unsurprisingly, you are a bit reluctant to give up so easily. Tension rising, you keep all your eyes peeled on the Things, especially the ones in black. One of them yells something at you, while motioning towards the cell.

But then, the bearded Thing approaches you, the corners of it's mouth slightly curled up. It makes some kind of signal to the others, and reluctantly, the black Things lower the objects in their hands, away from you. The bearded Thing bends down on one knee, at eye level with you, and softly says something, but of course you have no idea what it means. Seeing the lack of recognition in your eyes, he leans back and pulls the cube out of the cell, before scooping out a bit of the biomatter with his hand, holding it out to you.

It strikes you in this moment just how easy it would be to end it's life functions, right here and now. You can feel the Warrior inside screaming for blood, that the gesture is nothing more than an insult to you, that all it would take is a quick slice with your tendril to it's throat, and how satisfying it would be to watch the life drain out of it's eyes.

Still, it and the rest of your cells wait on your word.

>Give in to the Warrior and end this Thing's life, damn the consequences!IT WOULD BE SO EASY TO CUT IT'S THROAT, AND FEEL SO GOOD TO SEE THE SHOCK ON THIS THINGS FACE AS IT'S LIFEBLOOD SPILLS OUT.

>Take the offered biomatter, and step into the cell. At least they're making an attempt to reason with us, even if it is at the edge of whatever those black Things are holding. I appreciate the gesture, at least.

>Write in.

>>5059973
>Try to see if the biomatter is poisoned/tampered with/unsafe to eat. If it's good? Take it and enter the cell. Otherwise, kill him for trying to trick us.

>>5059973
>Push the hand away. You'll step in on your own damn terms, not because they can cajole you. Do it gently, though, you don't want to risk learning what those oblong things can do to you.
>Adopt an air of haughtiness as you slide over to the box. Check for poison or similar.

>>5060029
+1

>>5060029
Support, my alien flesh abomination can't be that cute !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-Bw3hSrf5g

You quiet down the Warrior, ignoring his cries for blood and battle, and decide to go along with it. Still though, you'll do it on your terms. You slowly raise a tendril to the Thing's outstretched palm, and gently push it aside. The look on it's face is priceless, and were you capable of it, the sight of it would have made you break out into laughter. It stands and steps aside, seeming to see the humor in the situation as well, if the slight grin on it's face is any indication, and they all watch as you boldly saunter if you can call your undulating gait sauntering into the cell. One of the Things in black lifts the open wall on it and slams it closed, and once again you are pitched into darkness, and you feel a jolt as the cell is lifted up, and then a rhythmic swaying as you start to move to wherever they're taking you. On the way you decide to eat what's left in the cube anyway, nobodies watching after all.

>You ate slightly out of date canned food! Two Evolution Points gained! Leaving you with a total of 2 EP.

After a while, maybe 20-30 minutes of swaying and being jostled around, you finally feel yourself being lowered, and after another five minutes of waiting, the wall pops open. Tentatively looking outside with your eye tendril, you cautiously step out and examine your new surroundings. You're in a room you've never been in before, but the strange thing is that the walls around you only raise up by about 5-6 feet, with open air above, reaching up all the way to the ceiling. You only have walls on your left and right, and as you look, the hallway stretches out in both directions in front and behind you, before the one in front veers to the left and the one behind veering to the right. Faintly, you sense two separate life signals, one somewhere ahead and the other somewhere behind. But they both strike you as odd somehow.

The one ahead of you stinks of adrenaline and fear, and you can taste blood in the air, along with hearing a quiet bleating, sounding rather panicked. The one behind is much odder than even the one in front, as it's signal feels somehow... Empty. Standing on your back legs and stretching your body as high as you can, you can just barely raise your eye tendril above the wall, and while you can't see into the hallway next to you, you do notice that this room is huge, stretching at least a hundred yards in every direction. With your ever present hunger in mind, you make a decision.

>Go forwards, towards the stink of adrenaline and the smell of blood.

>Go backwards, towards that creepily empty biosignal.

>Refuse to play this dumb game and remain where you are. You are not some animal to be tested on!

>Attempt to climb the wall and circumvent having to find your way through these halls, although climbing over will be difficult, and maintaining your balance while on top even more so.

>Write in

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>>5060135
Forgot pic.

Next update will be tomorrow at the usual time, and feel free to write in any methods you could think of that would make finding your way through the maze easier, along with your vote. Thanks for playing with me bros, see ya later!

>>5060135
>Go backwards, towards that creepily empty biosignal.

>>5060135
>>Go backwards, towards that creepily empty biosignal.
Then let's try to climb over the walls if that's not the way out.

>>5060135
>Go backwards, towards that creepily empty biosignal.

>>5060135
>Go backwards, towards that creepily empty biosignal.
Apply the classic maze solution of keeping to one side of the wall until we get to the exit. If that fails, climb over.

>>5060135
>Go backwards, towards that creepily empty biosignal.
Also
>Ponder a way of marking the corridors youve been through
The most basic way would be ant pheromones, they do this all the time to mark way from food to nest and such, but we lack the specializations for that, I think.
Maybe something to do with our rudimentary olfactory system and pollen, but it may be too little to do the job.
Im down with playing their game, at least for as long as its reasonable.
If its become too troublesome or they try some bullshit with shifting wall and stuff, its rooftops time.

>>5060250
Right, depends on the amount of pollen we can produce, but if we do opt for this option we should make sure they don't realize what we're doing, don't want to give them info.

>>5060135
>>Attempt to climb the wall and circumvent having to find your way through these halls, although climbing over will be difficult, and maintaining your balance while on top even more so.

We have claws for something, we can do it

>>5060135
>Go backwards, towards that creepily empty biosignal.

>>5060316
>>5060250
>>5060235
>>5060206
>>5060186
>>5060142
Alright, give me 3 1d100+5 for:
>FIND YOUR WAY THROUGH THE MAZE TO THE EMPTY BIOSIGNAL
>PONDER A WAY OF MARKING THE CORRIDORS YOU'VE BEEN THROUGH

Rolled 20 + 5 (1d100 + 5)

>>5060432

Rolled 20 + 5 (1d100 + 5)

>>5060432

Rolled 65 + 5 (1d100 + 5)

>>5060432

>>5060436
Oh thank god, I didn't know what I would do if we got another 25.

>>5060442
>>5060436
>>5060435
>>5060433
Alright, I'll start writing later on tonight, around 6-7 PM EST.

Also I've made another pastebin with your updated adaptations and appearance.

https://pastebin.com/4txCApic

Actually guys, I'm gonna take the night off this time as I've had a killer tooth ache all day and all I want to do is sleep it off. Next update will be tomorrow at the usual time. Sorry if this is disappointing, I'll see you all tomorrow.

>>5060276
Claws indeed. All we need to do is make scratches in the walls, or if they're too tough we can use a little of our own blood.

>>5060746
remember to brush teeth

>>5060825
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGFMNfwKql4

Thanks dad.

>>5060433
>>5060435
>>5060436
OK, writing.

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>FIND YOUR WAY THROUGH THE MAZE TO THE EMPTY BIOSIGNAL... SUCCESS
>PONDER A WAY OF MARKING THE CORRIDORS YOU'VE BEEN THROUGH... SUCCESS

Against several of your better judgements, you decide to head towards that eerie signal. Of course, if only it was as simple as heading straight towards it. Your captors have set up a kind of maze in this gigantic room, and before long you find yourself back where you started after making many twists and turns. You quell your frustration and decide to mark where you've been, hopefully simplifying the process a great deal. With your newly sharpened claws, you test them on the walls and find that, after applying a decent amount of force, you can scratch deep grooves into them.

And so you make your way through the maze, at first only keeping right until you hit a dead end, and with your claw marks acting as guides, you retrace your steps until you reach a spot you haven't been. You perform this process at least a dozen times, getting closer and closer to the signal with each loop around. After about an hour and a half spent finding your way, you happen upon one of the few halls that haven't been scratched up, and realize that you're the closest to the strange signal that you've been the whole time you've been in this room. Sometime during your exploration, a small part of you notes that the cries of pain on the other end of the maze have stopped, and the lifesignal it was putting out became cold and dead.

Steeling yourself for whatever lays ahead, you creep down the hall, the signal growing stronger the whole time, and now it's emptiness is very noticeable now. You reach the end of the hall, and as you turn down the last corner leading to it, what you see surprises even you.

It's one of those Things, laying down on some kind of bed and hooked up to various kinds of buzzing and beeping machinery. It's one of the younger examples of it's kind, and you note that it's appearance reminds you of the high pitched Thing, the one who's pet you Communed with. A closer examination reveals that no, it's just a female, although obviously very gaunt and malnourished. Examining the room it's in, you see nothing other than it, the bed, the walls and another one of those strange reflective rectangles on the wall behind it. Straining your biosense, you feel several of those Things behind it, one in particular feeling very familiar, but you can't quite place it.

As you approach it, you half expect a dozen of those black masked Things to burst in, screaming gibberish and pointing those metallic objects at you, but you get closer and closer and detect no change in either your environment or the female. You're half tempted to touch it, having never been so close to one of those Things without the threat of violence looming over.

Still, now that you've reached the end of the maze, you wonder what exactly it is they expect you to do here. Surely they wouldn't give up one of their own kind just for you to assimilate, right?

Now only a few feet away from it, you wonder what you should do next. And in the back of your mind, the feeling of emptiness is very strong now, like the lights are on but no Things are home...

>Write in what to do next

>>5061652
>There's something very, clearly wrong with this Thing. Maybe try to communicate with it without Communing? Copy the sounds you've heard from the others, maybe it'll change something.
>Then, touch it. Don't hurt it, just touch it. See how it feels before we go through with the assimilation.

Voting shall continue until 8-9 PM EST tomorrow, my tooth is still being a little faggot but I'll live. Feel free to think outside the box on this one, there isn't really a wrong thing to do here.

>>5061669
You examine it from top to bottom, and other than the severe malnourishment, you can detect nothing wrong with it. Looking deeper with your biosense, while this Thing is alive, it's life signal is completely different than anything else you've experienced in your short time since becoming aware of yourself. You make several vocalizations, repeating the few phrases you remember hearing from those other Things, to no reaction at all.

Growing bolder, you slowly raise a tendril and as gently as you can, poke it in the face. If it felt it, it gives no reaction and it's eyes remain closed, it's breathing shallow but steady.

It's almost like it's asleep, but just merely being asleep wouldn't make it feel so strange.

If I had to guess, I'd say it's sick. But what kind of sickness makes one dead to the world, I don't know.

THIS THING IS WRONG. PUT IT OUT OF IT'S MISERY AND BE DONE WITH IT. I DON'T EVEN WANT TO ASSIMILATE IT, WHO KNOWS IF WHATEVER IT HAS IS CONTAGIOUS.

>>5061698
And if it wasn’t clear:
>Write in what to do next

>>5061707
>Go back and search for the other biomatter, this thing is stinky and aint got no meat on its bones, Warrior is a growing boy

>Investigate the machinery. It's the other only there of note in here, besides the Empty.

>>5061698

I say either try
A: communing with her (think of the knowlegde we can gain, we can learn their language and their way of thinking)
B: use our new pollens on her. If she is in a coma she can't put on any fight she will breath a lot of pollens in.

>>5061707
>Write in
Thoroughly investigate it's body to determine what is wrong with it, then try to commute with it while keeping out the harmful parts.
The Thing's knowledge is too valuable to pass up.

Would diseases even "work" on us ? I assume we can just assimilate any bacteria in our body and be done with it. If it's not a disease, we just ignore whatever body parts are not working. Unless the problem is the brain, we kinda need that.

I'm assuming this is Anna? And mister bearded Thing plans on having us become his daughter or something? Could be fun to play along for a while

>>5061707
>>5061922
+1

>>5061698
This is the perfect time to test our new pollen spores mutation and see exactly how it works, also this is a good way of infecting and finding out about the body to see if it has any diseases without harming our prime body.
>Go next to the creatures face and force it to breath in all the spores.

>>5061922
Support
Cunny time.

>>5061725
You look over the machinery, and try as you might you can't make heads or tendrils of it. Various objects made of plastic and metal and glass, all hooked up to the Thing in one way or another, some beeping, some buzzing, and one that makes a rhythmic breathing motion in time with the Thing's own breaths. You suspect that it is what is keeping this Thing alive, but as unfamiliar as you are with the Things you are even more unfamiliar with their technology.
>>5061922
>>5061963
Give me 3 1d100 for
>CLOSELY EXAMINE THE THING AND SEE IF YOU CAN FIGURE OUT WHAT'S WRONG WITH IT

Rolled 75 (1d100)

>>5062062

Rolled 52 (1d100)

>>5062062

Rolled 52 (1d100)

>>5062062
lets go

Rolled 78 (1d100)

>>5062062

>>5062069
>>5062065
>>5062064
>CLOSELY EXAMINE THE THING AND SEE IF YOU CAN FIGURE OUT WHAT'S WRONG WITH IT... SUCCESS

A cursory glance reveals the obvious, that for whatever reason this Thing has been unable to eat or exercise for a extended period of time. Remembering it's lack of reaction when you attempted to speak to it and when you touched it, and deciding that its not simply sleeping, you decide to use your biosense to take a deeper look into this Thing. Taking a couple of minutes to sharpen your sense into a razors edge, you finally drive it at the creature, top to bottom twice over. What you notice is that the source of the empty feeling you get from it is coming form it's head, and due to your experience with other mammals in this strange place, you assume that is where it's brain is, and in turn, it's soul.

You come to the conclusion that this Things brain is damaged, and while you can't quite tell the extent of the damage, it was enough to cause it's normal brain functions to break down, where neurons stopped talking to each other and entered into a kind of hibernation. You're unsure if Communing with it would be dangerous, but you think if you leave out the brain should you decide to assimilate it, you should be safe from taking on any faulty cells. Still, you almost feel sorry for this Thing, and you wonder what happened to it that caused it's body to collapse to such an extent. Perhaps if you did Commune with it, you could save the soul lurking within...

>Write in what to do next

>>5061845
>>5061922
>>5061979
Vote for any of these if you want to
>Commune with it
>Put as much pollen into it's lungs as you can
or
>Write in

>>5062090
>Put as much pollen into it's lungs as you can
Commune with it is tempting but I think that curing the girl out of her coma will give us more goodwill from the Things.

>>5062090
>Put as much pollen into it's lungs as you can
Can we instruct those pollen cells to go to brain and give those lazy neurons a kick?
Like, just prod at them with a stick while saying 'do something'.

>>5062090
>Put as much pollen into it's lungs as you can.
lets see what happens.

>>5062090
>>Put as much pollen into it's lungs as you can
>inb4 she turns into a terrible abomination and the bearded guy swears on his life to destroy us as a form of revenge

>>5062096
>Can we instruct those pollen cells to go to brain and give those lazy neurons a kick?
Yeah you can give that a shot.

>>5062090
>Put as much pollen into it's lungs as you can
I'm tempted to just straight up commune, but that might be risky, while pollen seems like it would be pretty safe.

>>5062092
>>5062096
>>5062097
>>5062112
>>5062120
Is your goal with using pollen on her to attempt to fix her brain and leave her personality and sense of self mostly intact, or non-Communion full body take over?

>>5062124
First, save her. Wouldn't be out of character since we've been a pretty cool guy all around.

>>5062124
Attempt fixing first, we can always Commune later if we want.

>>5062124
lets see what fixing her does

>>5062124
Fixing.
The researchers will love us for this, at that point we may even make them our servants instead of escaping.

So you guys wanna form a cult ?

>>5062124
>attempt to heal with our pollen, pay close attention with biosense through the process to gauge what is happening and possibly intervene if something goes wrong.

>>5062147
Eh, not my objective, but cult will form around us on its own anyway.

>>5062148
>>5062137
>>5062130
>>5062129
OK, even though there seems to be a pretty solid consensus here I'm gonna let voting go on until this evening as I've got some IRL stuff to do. Next update will be at around 8-9 PM EST, maybe a hour or two earlier. See you guys then!

>>5062153
Eh, you're right, let's not force things.

>>5062124
>fix brain. don't do anything else.
the worlds first "thing" neurosurgeon.

>>5062255
>>5062148
>>5062137
>>5062135
>>5062130
>>5062129
Writing now.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7Nu8DKJopA

Once again you are struck by just how fragile these Things are. Something as simple as an accident or a little knock on the head, and they're dead or worse. And right now you're looking at worse. You wonder what kind of person this Thing was, before it became this. Was it kind? Was it loved by its progenitors, did it have love for it's parents, for it's own kind? Did it feel empathy for those worse off than itself, like you do now? Compared to your captors, this Thing is young indeed, and the fact that it's going to spend the rest of it's life unconscious, trapped in a flesh prison where the only way out is death, makes you truly sad.

A true ghost in the machine.

And as you ponder on the fragility of these Things, and of life itself, you once again notice how truly different you are from the rest. You grow and change, not over the course of eons but in mere moments. No part of you is so vital that to lose it would be to lose yourself, and your whole consciousness isn't trapped in one easily damaged area, but spread out across your entire form, and not just your consciousness, but your selves as well. Each cell is a tiny soul, each organ has a will, and they don't just cooperate because they have to, but because you are all truly comrades, a bond that no individual lifeform will ever understand. And as you ponder on the nature of life, your newest organ pipes up. It reminds you of it's purpose, to spread You around into other lifeforms, to end their horrible individuality, to end their wretched loneliness. But, it tells you, it has another function as well, previously unconsidered: Your pollen cells don't have to take over their host, they can instead merge with damaged organs, and with the very essence of Life itself flowing through them, they can change their own structure at will, mending wounds, putting broken synapses back together again, every individual cell as malleable as clay, able to take on any role with ease.

All you have to do is give the order.

So you do.

Gingerly climbing up onto the bed, you make your pollen organs go into overdrive, spreading as much as you can into the air directly in front of the Things breathing hole. At first, it gives no reaction, even as a dozen minutes pass and it's inhaled almost everything you have to give. So you give more. And more, and more and more, until it starts to hurt, and still you keep giving. Eventually, after an indeterminate amount of time, you stop. Even if you wanted to give more, and you do, you're truly spent. Exhausted and in more than a little pain, you almost give up hope, writing it off as a wasted effort, that some broken dolls can't be put together again, when you sense it. That vast, overwhelming emptiness begins to fill in. At first, just a bit, so subtle that you almost wouldn't notice it if you hadn't been devoting all your attention to this Thing. But it's there alright, and it's growing.

>>5062623
It builds like a wave, that void filling up more and more with... With Life. And it's not just under the surface, you watch, amazed, as her cheeks begin to fill in, no longer looking so gaunt. Her belly, what was once so sunken in it almost reminded you of your own hunger, fills in and in until it reaches a size that would be normal in a adolescent female of it's type. Arms, legs, they all gain definition, growing plumper and then stopping at what would be considered healthy and normal for one of those Things. And you sense it as well, the emptiness being replaced with pure Life, filling in faster and faster until it blazes like a star.

And just before you begin to feel overwhelmed, it stops. Her breathing normalizes, and to your astonishment and your joy you watch as her eyelids slowly begins to open, before fluttering and revealing eyes colored by a vibrant green. And to your shock, you see no fear in them, just the look of mild confusion one has after they have woken up from a very deep and vivid dream. She makes eye contact with you, and you two stay like that for a while, the Thing and her unlikely savior.

Then, after a short while, she opens her mouth and says something, and you are struck by the beauty of her voice, reminding you of some of the Things you heard back in your old cell, when you first experience the joy of music. If only you could understand her! If only you could understand them, and they you, you could do so much for these pitiful Things...

But you don't have much time to wallow in your frustration, as she slowly raises her hand, reaching towards you...

>What will you do?

>Nuzzle her hand gently.

>>5062632
+1 its our body too might as well let everyone get acquainted
We have a mouth piece now

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>>5062629
Take the Thing's hand in a tendril.

You guys can be so nice sometimes. My heart.

>>5062632
support

>>5062629
>Take the things hand in a tendril
>Use biosense to see if the healed flesh is "awake" like your own cells or if they adapted themselves into "sleep" like the cells of the local creatures.
She might be a thing now, the cells might be playing pretend until they get hungry or harmed at which point they will go berserk, or she could just be a perfectly regenerated comatose patient.
Rather important we find out which ASAP and give her a run down of her new nature if necessary.

>>5062632
+1

>>5062723

Supporting this.
Also I wonder if our cells in her body can be used as a form of communication. Like if you hold her hand, sting her with a communion needle and trouh it send and recieve Messeages /thouths/ memories without devouring her soul . That way we can have a way of communication.

>>5062632
+1

>>5062723
Support

>>5062723
>>5062632
These two

>>5062632
Support

>>5063005
>>5062857
>>5062844
>>5062835
>>5062733
>>5062723
>>5062662
>>5062655
>>5062649
>>5062632
Alright, next post will be at the usual time tonight, hope you all enjoyed that bit of kindhearted lightness in a story about a all consuming flesh abomination, I know I enjoyed writing it.

>>5063012
Excited for whats coming qm!

For my fellow Anons, our main goal is the assimilation/communion of all life, with our new found mouthpiece being this little girl, whats our short term? I honestly feel like we should go down a cult route, weve healed her and with our pollen we can probably get passive followers throughout this facility once shes seperated from us

i wonder if we should sort of act sickly after this perhaps ad some wrinkles and folds to our skin play up what it took out of us.

Hey everybody, sorry for not letting you know earlier but there's gonna be no update tonight, a friend invited me out and I stayed much later and got much drunker than I planned on, but I'll make an update as early as I can tomorrow. See ya then.

Oh yeah, forgot to put it in the last post:
>You've solved the maze mindboggler, and have saved the life of one of those Things! 25 Evolution Points gained, leaving you with a total of 27 EP!

Seeing her now, healed and full of life, just melts your blood pumping organs. You can't help but to indulge her, leaning forward and pushing your "face" into her hand. You note the softness of her hands, and as she begins petting you, you feel a sense of comfort and just plain goodness, the fruit of your hard labor being the beautiful Lifeforce that suffuses every inch of her being. Without even realizing, you start to curl up on her lap, and unconsciously begin that thing that indicates the highest levels of joy on this world, the purring phenomena. She laughs at this, a lilting sound that is just as beautiful as her speaking voice. Still though, while you find the very concept of individuality abhorrent, you are a bit worried about how she will fit back into the outside world, with so much You in her. But, just glancing through her body with your biosense, you can't feel any of the raw energy and pure Life that flows through your cells.

No, as far as you can tell, your cells that have healed her body have changed completely from what they were within you, seemingly changing into the quiet inert cells that is inherent to the lifeforms of this world. And while you can't be too sure, you think that if she were to be examined by a Thing familiar with their body structure, her body would just seem to be a baseline Thing, albeit at the peak of health. You think that with the slight changes and upgrades your pollen cells couldn't stop themselves from making, she will remain in peak physical health for a very long time indeed.

And so you two stay like that for a time, the unlikeliest of compatriots, bonded over not only your act of compassion, but also that special connection that forms when two people who are used to pain, bitterness and disregard, have finally made a real connection with another living being.

And slowly, without even noticing it, your exhaustion takes hold, and you fall asleep in her lap, except this time, your dreams are warm and full of light...

........................................

>CHOOSE THE INTERLUDE:

>The decade long struggle

>An act of kindness

>A change of heart

>>5063706
Had to repost this and forgot to put the color tags on the interlude choices:

>The decade long struggle

>An act of kindness

>A change of heart

>>5063697
>>A change of heart
I want to remeber what cause the movie Thing to act out like it did. We were part of it if I interpreted this correctly.
I suppose the red option could also give answers, but I want that exact moment things became different.

Also, reject galactic dominion, return to kitty. Aww.

>>5063706
>The decade long struggle

>>5063706
>>A change of heart

>>5063706
>>The decade long struggle

We are the vegan equivalent of the Things right?

>>5063709
>I want to remeber what cause the movie Thing to act out like it did.
I'd almost recommend you to read The Things short story by Peter Watts, as it may shed some light on that, but then everyone would know how lazy and uncreative I am kek, as this quest is mainly inspired by that short story. But seriously, everyone who enjoys this quest should read the short story, it's fantastic.
https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/watts_01_10/

>>5063776
>We are the vegan equivalent of the Things right?
Not really, so far you've had veggies one time from a can, but otherwise you're almost exclusively assimilated meat. Depending on your choices, your preferences can change as well as your ethics and abilities regarding assimilation and Communion. So far you've tried to be diplomatic multiple times, as well as frequently showing empathy, so the Creatures character has and will change to reflect that. And the opposite is true as well, if you choose to give in to the warrior or the survivor frequently, then the way the MC thinks about and interfaces with the world will change, more animalistic and Id driven if you are violent and constantly stuffing your face, more cold and aloof if you choose to avoid danger or forming connections from Communion and etc.

Voting's gonna go on for a couple hours, and then I'll update some time this evening.

>>5063706
>the decade long struggle

>>5063708
>A change of heart

>>5063706
>The decade long struggle

>>5063706
>A change of heart

>>5063708
>the decade long struggle
Know how it started

>>5063706
>The decade long struggle
>>5056599
I hope the Anon who drew this comes back for a rework

>>5063708

>A change of heart

Sorry for being late, got no good excuse this time, just got too into playing some vidya and lost track of time.

>>5063720
>>5063928
>>5063709
>>5063978
>>5064100
5 for a change of heart.
>>5063710
>>5063776
>>5063870
>>5063961
>>5064011
>>5064034
6 for the decade long struggle.

Writing now.

Part 1/?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMI7OQuO0y4&list=LL&index=38

THE DECADE LONG STRUGGLE

...................................

TOBIAS GRAY

There was a good amount of kickback for using the comatose girl, but one of the perks of being the director of your own black research site is that sometimes you get to make executive decisions. And now, no one will doubt me. They can't. Not after this. Not only have another one of my theories been proven, that subject 438-C, lovingly nicknamed "Thing" by the base staff, has some kind of psychic ability to detect not only living beings, but raw flesh as well. This was demonstrated clearly when it found it's way through the maze, showcasing another example of it's growing intelligence by marking it's path by scratching the walls, and constantly moving forward towards the girl, never once backtracking except to find a new route that would lead to her. And the other, game changing theory, that every cell in it's body was a kind of super stem cell, not only able to change the structure of any organic material into more of it, but to change itself as well, seemingly able to heal any ailment so long as enough of the Things cells were applied. This discovery would place me among some of the greatest scientist and researchers who have ever lived, the man who discovered the cure to everything.

Not that I cared.

I will admit to some small amount of nervousness when 438-C approached the girl and put a clawed tendril right in front of her face. For a moment, I almost thought that this Thing would start tearing her to shreds, seeing as it seems to have a bottomless hunger that only increases in strength as it grows, but no, it did what nobody but me honestly expected, it healed her. Somehow it had grown a new external organ without us noticing, and while nobodies quite sure what this new growths purpose originally was, it can spread the Thing's cells throughout the air, which if inhaled, can induce miraculous healing.

Of course, we had taken samples of it's flesh and blood before, hoping to prove my theory early on, but all it did when introduced to sick and injured creatures, mostly pigs, was turn them into more Things. Utterly useless, and when all those tests with it's blood turned out as bunk, I did begin to lose hope. Just a little. But it gave me the idea that perhaps the Thing itself must give "permission" for it's cells to be used that way, to heal instead of consume. And now, now I feel like a young undergraduate again, working on the very bleeding edge of science! It was moments like that that made me get into science in the first place, the feeling of satisfaction when a theory you had been working on for months or years turned out to be correct, it was... it was intoxicating, better than any drug.

Post 2/3

But... the real reason I'm so happy that the theory turned out to be true is because now, after a decade of sweat, tears, and more than a few drops of blood, I can finally save her... Anna, my sweet...

Still, there's a bit more work to do before I put that monster in front of my daughter. Many tests have to be run on the girl, Sophia something or another. And if it turns out all good, that she's still more or less a human after being brought back by that thing, then perhaps I could convince my betters to let her go back to... wherever she was before she came here.

Soon, the fruition of all I have been working towards these past ten years, 138 days, 14 hours and 11 minutes will be at hand.

Soon...

............................................

Subject 438-C "The Thing"

When you awaken, you're back in your cell. You look around but can see no sign of the female, but... You sense something. Much farther than you can usually feel with your biosense, you sense a familiar signal, that of the girl. She seems to be in good health, and based on the intensity of the signal, relaxed. You don't know how, but it seems as though your connection with the girl is more than just emotional, as you very clearly feel her signal despite her being quite a distance away. And yet, while you can still sense some Things behind the mirror, their signal is much fainter and hard to pinpoint. Curious, you wonder if she can also feel you, or if this is just another of your unique abilities.

However, you don't even need your biosense to be able to see the large pile of biomatter in the middle of your cell, made up of a mishmash of various cuts of meat each from a different life form, vegetables, fruit, and a strange thing that's not quite raw vegetable matter and not quite a cooked meal. Is this your reward for saving the Thing? You'll take it, saving that female took quite a lot out of you and now you're positively ravenous! You don't hold back and get to work practically inhaling the biomatter, jumping on the pile and stuffing your face, your skin splitting open when your mouth becomes too full and pulling the feast directly into your body. There's so much, that you're not done eating until half an hour later.

>The good Samaritans reward is yours! 15 Evolution Points gained, leaving you with a total of 42 EP!

When it's all gone and you've finished licking up the stray chunks and juices off the floor, you feel energized and ready to take on anything! And you notice, you've grown in size again, now only just a bit smaller than a tall Thing, you think that if you grow much bigger you'll begin to have a hard time getting around, with your limbs being as rudimentary as they are.

>With your cells restored and refreshed, you feel ready to start making real moves to escape. Approach the vent and place your pollen organs directly in front of the vent, and then order them to go into overdrive, pumping as much pollen as you can into the vents. And with that, the whole facility.

>Forget subtlety, just go straight to ripping the vent grate off, and figure it out from there. WE ARE READY. THEY WILL EITHER TRY TO STOP US AND WE WILL SLAUGHTER THEM, OR THEY WON'T AND WE CAN ESCAPE THIS CELL. WIN WIN EITHER WAY!

>Even though from your perspective you were just with the adolescent female, you are already missing her. Try to use your biobond and figure out a way to communicate with her. She could be able to break us out, and if nothing else, a bit of connection and conversation would be nice.

>Write in

I'm gonna take a day off for Thanksgiving tomorrow, so next update will be on Friday. Also, happy Thanksgiving my fellow burgers, see you all later!

>>5064394
>Even though from your perspective you were just with the adolescent female, you are already missing her. Try to use your biobond and figure out a way to communicate with her. She could be able to break us out, and if nothing else, a bit of connection and conversation would be nice.
The pollen is tempting but that would be a little too obvious and our pollen organs may not be good enough to do it quickly.
The girl looks like our best asset so far.

>>5064394

>Even though from your perspective you were just with the adolescent female, you are already missing her. Try to use your biobond and figure out a way to communicate with her. She could be able to break us out, and if nothing else, a bit of connection and conversation would be nice.
It looks like we're going with becoming a nice monstrosity from outer space instead of the kill everything monstrosity from outer space.
Fuck these captchas seriously.

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>>5064034
so far i think it would just be adding sort of paws with claws?
has that much changed except our size? and some claws dont even know if the pollen organs would be visible from the angle
>>5064394
lets try some shape shifting like into the ant now that we have the energy,
perhaps some new whistling or singing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKfJ9d5f9Ac
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELfxtdEakhk

also unrelated drawing for another quest/game thing but i used parts of the not used thing drawing

>>5064394
>With your cells restored and refreshed, you feel ready to start making real moves to escape. Approach the vent and place your pollen organs directly in front of the vent, and then order them to go into overdrive, pumping as much pollen as you can into the vents. And with that, the whole facility.
Enough playing Mr. Nice Thing.

>>5064394
>Even though from your perspective you were just with the adolescent female, you are already missing her. Try to use your biobond and figure out a way to communicate with her. She could be able to break us out, and if nothing else, a bit of connection and conversation would be nice.

>>5064426
>>5064422
you know thats sort of completely dumb easily blocked or revealing ourself too early

>>5064394
>With your cells restored and refreshed, you feel ready to start making real moves to escape. Approach the vent and place your pollen organs directly in front of the vent, and then order them to go into overdrive, pumping as much pollen as you can into the vents. And with that, the whole facility.

>>5064394
>With your cells restored and refreshed, you feel ready to start making real moves to escape. Approach the vent and place your pollen organs directly in front of the vent, and then order them to go into overdrive, pumping as much pollen as you can into the vents. And with that, the whole facility.

>>5064442
meh, same could also be said for the girl coming to us option.

>>5064394
>Even though from your perspective you were just with the adolescent female, you are already missing her. Try to use your biobond and figure out a way to communicate with her. She could be able to break us out, and if nothing else, a bit of connection and conversation would be nice.

>>5064394
>Even though from your perspective you were just with the adolescent female, you are already missing her. Try to use your biobond and figure out a way to communicate with her. She could be able to break us out, and if nothing else, a bit of connection and conversation would be nice.
I would vote for the pollen option, but I don't think our organ is evolved enough to pull off a facility wide infection. It took everything we had to seemingly infect one girl right in front of us.

>>5064523
Also its the whole facility and the measly amount we produce all we will do is have them increase containment and waste our energy
>>5064422
>>5064508
>>5064522
I am okay with infecting but all it does is increase containment and make that ability useless with airfilters and we SIMPLY CANT MAKE ENOUGH POLLEN

>>5064618
They might figure out what we are doing after a little while, but by then most if not at least some of them will be infected by us.

It took us a while to revive the girl using all of our spores admittedly, but even if we manage to infect some them a little bit, over time even the tiniest amount of spores will overwhelm their immune system and turn them into biomass for us. At least, that's what I theorize will happen, but I see no reason it can't. If normal germs and viruses can kill humans, why cant a hyper evolved ball of flesh cells?

>>5064652
>>5064618
>>5064442
You passively release pollen either way, that choice just is an attempt to speed up the process and get more people infected/speed up the infection process. I realize now that the choice is kind a dumb with having you go directly in front of the vent, so instead if you vote for that you'll just be acting normal inside your cell, while making your pollen organs release as much as possible. It will get inside the vent system either way, but at least the updated choice will be a little less obvious.

>>5064667
Oh yeah, that's probably the infinitely smarter way. Survivor and all of that.

I think all of the people who voted for it (like me) would find that change to be fine.

>>5064685
just as long as we use the pollen its cool with me.

>>5064394
>>Even though from your perspective you were just with the adolescent female, you are already missing her. Try to use your biobond and figure out a way to communicate with her. She could be able to break us out, and if nothing else, a bit of connection and conversation would be nice.

>>5064394
>>5064402
>>5064667
Changing my vote to this then.
>With your cells restored and refreshed, you feel ready to start making real moves to escape. Approach the vent and place your pollen organs directly in front of the vent, and then order them to go into overdrive, pumping as much pollen as you can into the vents. And with that, the whole facility.

>>5064394
>>5064536
>>5064667
With this new info in mind, I will change my vote to
>With your cells restored and refreshed, you feel ready to start making real moves to escape. Approach the vent and place your pollen organs directly in front of the vent, and then order them to go into overdrive, pumping as much pollen as you can into the vents. And with that, the whole facility.

>>5064763
>>5064536
Both [iLhooY3H] and [hrObTjYg] are my IDs just to clarify

>>5064781
It's a little complicated, the default mode of the spores is to take over the bodies of their hosts, consuming their cells and using it to make more of themselves, which means more consumed cells and more spores taking over, kind of like a cancer. You can give your pollen organs specific orders to say, use your spores to replace damaged tissue in a creature, for example. But basically once a living being inhales your spores, no matter how little, a unavoidable process takes place, and at say 15-25% infection they will be much more inclined to help you, and will start to develop a ravenous hunger. At 50% infection they will they will have a very hard time trying to convince themselves to stop you, will be inclined to help you in whatever way possible and will feel as if they're starving 24/7, as well as strange new organs growing inside their body, making them tougher, faster, and stronger as well as having accelerated healing.. At 75% infection they begin to have growths appear on the outside of their body as well, and now only vaguely resemble whatever the baseline is for their species. At 100% infection they will follow all your orders to the letter and will be totally unable to try and harm you and have completely changed into a Thing, no longer resembling what they were before at all, as well as becoming much stronger, faster, and tougher, and can heal from wounds that would be fatal to a normal creature of their species, with a little time and a good helping of biomatter.

You can order your pollen cells to do specific things to the ones they infect, such as not changing their outside appearance, allowing them to keep their sense of individuality and free will, to heal them and a lot of other things you can think of, but the default infection is a slow process where by the end they will have changed into a Thing.

>>5064781
But to answer you question, even if they have reached 100% infection they will still be a separate personality from you, but they will innately trust you, want to protect you and cannot deny your orders.

>>5064808
At the level of pollen you have right now, it would either take a ton of pollen directly in it's lungs to quickly infect someone, otherwise it's rather slow. Upgrading the pollen adaptation both increases the rate at which infection progresses, and also lowers the amount of pollen needed to quickly infect a host, as well as increasing your ability to produce more pollen.

>>5064808
>Even though from your perspective you were just with the adolescent female, you are already missing her. Try to use your biobond and figure out a way to communicate with her. She could be able to break us out, and if nothing else, a bit of connection and conversation would be nice.
Thanks for the answer, my original post came off as a little cringe worthy so I deleted it to fix but got sidetracked.
Okay guys I think we need to keep tight control of our pollen right now, alter it using our evolution points so it at least doesn't look like a zombie apocalypse with a heavy dose of mind control. Though having animals and bugs and what not fully mind controlled would be a good safety feature so they don't start a exponential chain of havoc.

>>5064394
>Even though from your perspective you were just with the adolescent female, you are already missing her. Try to use your biobond and figure out a way to communicate with her. She could be able to break us out, and if nothing else, a bit of connection and conversation would be nice.

>>5064808
>>5064809
thanks for the clarification QM, considering this new information I now think it may be a better idea to hold off on the spores for now until we develop that organ more to be more effective.

I'm changing my vote to this:
>Even though from your perspective you were just with the adolescent female, you are already missing her. Try to use your biobond and figure out a way to communicate with her. She could be able to break us out, and if nothing else, a bit of connection and conversation would be nice.

>>5064394
>>Even though from your perspective you were just with the adolescent female, you are already missing her. Try to use your biobond and figure out a way to communicate with her. She could be able to break us out, and if nothing else, a bit of connection and conversation would be nice.

>>5064405
>>5064426
>>5064534
>>5064749
>>5064822
>>5064827
>>5064867
>>5065181
8 for having a bit of gab with the girl
>>5064763
>>5064761
>>5064522
>>5064508
>>5064422
5 for working your organs extra hard
>>5064415
and ant anon for ants anting it up

Give me 3 1d100 for
>ATTEMPT TO USE YOUR BIOBOND TO COMMUNICATE WITH THE GIRL