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Nearby your crash site, you find a strange growth in the ground. Besides a half buried red object, you have also found what appears to be a strange variety of carrot stuck in the soil! It's huge! These are exactly like the Pikpik carrots back home! You pull hard on the stem only for it to come out... as a little red man.

“Gaah!”

The creature, an unusual being with wide eyes, no visible mouth or ears, and a long nose, stares at you passively. Before you even wait for it to register you as its next meal- you ready your suit and eject a small amount of your suit's gas from your sleeve along with a pilot light to create a makeshift flamethrower weapon- fwoosh!

From the blast of the flame the creature is... totally unharmed. Not even singed. Strangely enough, you think this thing is heavily fire retardant, despite being a plant. Well, that was useless. Now you only have twenty one days worth of life support left after that stunt...

But at least it's not attacking you! In fact, it's almost like its watching you expectantly- like its imprinting on you somehow.

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As it turns out, the little man, who you are calling a Pikmin, isn't a predator. If anything, it seems to want to help you. Perhaps your space suit's antennae and similar size make it think you are one of their own kind?

After a few minutes of practice- you manage to get the creature to follow some basic command via your space whistle. And a few moments later, you find out what this creature uses as a sort of shelter...

It's like a great red onion, though to you it looks like a spaceship. It has a mix of biological and technological components, and seems strangely linked to the Pikmin before you. Using the pikmin to help fix up your ship- you realize pretty soon just one Pikmin, though it does help your lonliness, will in no way be enough for you to survive. Fortunately, when by chance the Pikmin finds a large pellet fallen from one of the tall flowers around the crash site, it takes it back to the onion and in a moment, two seeds eject from the ship. After a short while, they sprout and you pull them up- resulting in two new pikmin!

Fascinating. It seems this onion is both a ship and shelter of some kind, as well as part of an important role in reproduction. Perhaps the pikmin themselves are merely like its appendages, receiving nutrients directly from the onion... or they are born with all the energy they need and are merely left to die when it runs out. How cruel...

Soon enough, a squad of Pikmin has been born! With them, you think you just might have a chance to survive! According to your readings, you think there is probably a part close by, but there is also safety in numbers- you could grow your army to a safe number, since judging by the size of the plants here some creatures may be much bigger then you and the pikmin. Spending some time learning about Pikmin and knowing what they can do may also be a good idea.

How are you going to spend this day?

>Search for a nearby ship part
>Grow your Pikmin
>Learn some more about the Pikmin

>>5405013
>Learn some more about the Pikmin

>>5405013
>Learn some more about the Pikmin
We might wanna make sure they won't explode or something

>>5405013
>Learn some more about the Pikmin

>>5405013
>Learn some more about the Pikmin
>try to see if we can reserve some pikmin to make some throwing spears or primitive hand axes
Now, machinegun throwing pikmin will horrify any predator on this planet. The only thing scarier than that is throwing ARMED pikmin with weapons, assuming they're capable of using them. Then again it might be a Burst and their in capable of using weapons, but that's why we're learning here.

Cool quest by the way QM, I'm a sucker for this game. What time is it currently?

>>5405013
>>Learn some more about the Pikmin
Won't hurt to explore a bit too, to grow them

>>5405033
There was that blue pellet in the background behind the red pellet flower, or right next to it if it was a totally right next to it but smaller. We could send some pikmin over there to retrieve it while we learn.

Also note there is a large gated barrier way back, some coconut shell or something o the ground, and a body of water we dont want any of our pikmin near for fear of them dying because only the blue ones can breath in the water, not that we know that. Perhaps with enough training we could teach the pikmin how to swim?

>>5405013
>Grow your Pikmin

Strength in numbers!

>>5405013
>Learn some more about the Pikmin.

Ive never played the game. Kinda interesting.

>>5405233
It's really fun man. I suggest getting yourself a copy.

>>5405013
>Learn some more about the Pikmin
Do we own a gun? Do we know how to make one? Can we make bows and arrows? Can we delegate those tasks to some pikmin or are they not clever enough for the task?

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DAY ONE
You decide most of the first day learning about pikmin. After leaving some seeds in the ground for a few hours as an experiment, the sprouts are actually changing- absorbing nutrients from the soil. The “leaf” on top of the pikmin stalk turn into a bulb, and a few hours after that, that bud sprouts into a large white flower. The pikmin seem to have different levels of aging or maturity among themselves!

These “adult” pikmin, who you are calling flower pikmin, move significantly faster then other pikmin types, and seem slightly more intelligent. They have a bit more independence then the leaf-type pikmin, and seemingly help keep the “younger” pikmin in line. By far the biggest difference is how easily they are distracted. Bud pikmin are seemingly somewhere in the middle, similar to an adolescent. Of course, you have no idea how this ties into pikmin reproduction; you assume the onion is the only “adult” of their species among them, or a sort of eusocial insect queen that creates all of the younger pikmin to act as worker drones...?

While walking through a small patch of head-tall grass, the leaf pikmin keep getting distracted from some urge to pull up the blades- before you can get them back in line, one pulls out a large sac of a thick molasses-like substance and greedily stabs its long nose inside- draining some of the fluid. Then, in an instant, it fully matures into a flower pikmin! It seems with some of this rare and rich nectar, you can speed up the process of pikmin maturation in an instant. You allow several more pikmin to drink from the nectar sac until its all gone- giving you a decent number of flower pikmin.

You decide to spend a little more time growing out the pikmin you have; but since you didn't dedicate the day just to growing their numbers, you don't have as many as you could. However, while retrieving a pellet, a pikmin falls into the water. It begins to panic and drown, giving off alert calls- however, you blow your whistle to guide it back to shore and you manage to save it without worse for wear. Indeed, it seems Pikmin cannot swim. Your space suit gives you almost total immunity from this planet- you can explore underwater, but your pikmin can't come with you. Also, the blue pellet you receive from that little diversion only granted you one pikmin seed- but the red ones grant two. They both seem the exact same size and would have identical calories, and yet the onion produces more seeds from a color that matches. Curious.

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After today's excursions, you have amassed a squad of a dozen Pikmin- with six being flowers, and six being leaves or buds. While the immediate area seems secured- you notice a large white wall built from dead plant material. It blocks progress deeper into this area. Approaching it, you realize you'll need the pikmin to slowly break this wall down if you want to go any further in this area- a task that could take several hours or even days to complete depending on how large and strong the wall is. You also learn that you could leave the pikmin to accomplish a task while you go off to do something else- a form of multitasking. However, you don't have time for this first day.

But looking through the small gaps in the wall you happen to see... oh boy. Creatures. Bigger then you by a full two heads and many times your mass- these things look dangerous. While your spacesuit is well insulted against danger and triple layered for redundant protection- enough bites from teeth that big could eventually ear through it and let that poison atmosphere inside. You don't think a spear or sharp rocks would help much at all here- you'll need the Pikmin to protect you.

For the last few hours of dusk- you order your pikmin to dig your ship out of the soil and put it upright. Its hard work but soon enough it is done. Your ship, while badly damaged and missing its core components for deep-space flight, can still fly into the upper atmosphere of this planet. This is a good thing- as many of the parts you need are scattered many miles away.

Finally, the sun begins to set over the planet. You aren't' exactly sure how you know- but you have an odd feeling that the largest and most dangerous beasts on this planet are nocturnal. You'll need to seek shelter in your spaceship for the night for a safe place to sleep- no way you're sleeping under the stars here. You only hope the pikmin will be okay...

Wait. When the sun begins to set, the pikmin begin to climb back inside the onion! That must be its purpose as a shelter- a safe place to rest. You enter your own spaceship and fly up into orbit- and to your amazement the onion follows you! It's loyalty surprises you still. But this also means that it will follow you to any new locations you need to recover your missing ship parts!

That night, you sleep inside your ship with the heating elements as low as you can make them, scavenging what little food remains onboard- a water flavored nutrient bar, a few stale pieces of candy, and a Piktamin U supplement. You are in survival mode now- and that means conserving all of your resources and energy. From now on, you'll need to find food on the planet as well as build back up your ship parts. You know you can do this... You hope.

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DAY TWO
You spend the morning of the second day breaking down the white wall that blocks you off from the rest of this area. When the wall finally falls, you can move on. Following the sensor readings- you finally come across a vital ship component- the ship's computer! Vital to the ships AI and autopilot- this will be a necessary part to recover to escape this planet. However, it unfortunately seems to be guarded by several more of those creatures... including an even bigger one.

These creatures, who you are calling Dwarf Bulborgs, seem to be awake and alert during the day- where as the biggest one is fast asleep. It's huge! You haven't seen the pikmin's capabilities yet, but if it manages to consume them all- you'd probably be next! But you can't recover the part without getting rid of the smaller ones... What's your plan?

>All out attack
>Pick off the dwarf bulborbs and then the big one
>Clear just enough to make a path to recover the part

>>5405547
>>Pick off the dwarf bulborbs and then the big one

>>5405547
>Clear just enough to make a path to recover the part

>>5405547
>Pick off the dwarf bulborbs and then the big one

>>5405547

> Pick off the little ones, then go for the big one.

The horde must grow!

>>5405547
>>Pick off the dwarf bulborbs and then the big one

>>5405662
This things are probably worth their own weight in calory. Let's estimate how much pikmins are needed for a safe kill, how much calories are granted, and use that as an opportunity to mature newer pikmins? We'll use flower to carry it back and plant excess leafes.

>>5405547
>Pick off the dwarf bulborbs and then the big one
Have the fast bloom pikmin slap the dwarfs to lure then away, and use their superior speed to dodge their attacks. We'll gang them!

>>5405547
If possible, would we be able to weave grass baskets to carry nectar in if we have an excess of flower pikmin?

>>5405547
>Pick off the dwarf bulborbs and then the big one

>>5405547
>Pick off the dwarf bulborbs and then the big one

Just makes sense.

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You decide to pick off the little bulborbs one by one- and then take on the big one.

Using your fast flower pikmin, you can lure the beasts away before swarming them with the rest of your Pikmin. You also learn a useful technique here- if you grab a pikmin by the stem and fling it with your arm, you can get quite a bit of distance. This actually helps more then you think- as you can throw pikmin on top of the larger beasts instead of forcing them to approach as an easily bitten-into swarm of bodies.

The decision to pick off the bulborbs one by one was a good one- the small creatures seem to give off an alarmed cry when attacked or in pain- if they were closer to the momma 'borb they'd probably wake it up.

As soon as the borbs are defeated, you notice the pikmin automatically picking up their bodies. While you could interrupt them with a well timed whistle, you decide to see what they do with it. Sure enough, they march the 'borbs back to the onion and it sucks them up- each granting another three seeds. Wow, you didn't realize Pikmin were carnivorous! Given how brutally they swarm anything bigger then themselves, you're really, really glad they see you as one of their own...

>>5405689
You briefly think of using something to carry and store nectar for later given how useful fully matured flower pikmin are. Grass baskets come to mind. While not impossible- it seems a little complicated for even flower pikmin to understand. Plus, you'd think the nectar would go bad or be eaten overnight by some of the wild critters around here. You could suck up some in the cargo hold, but cleaning it out would be a real nightmare...

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Rolled 6 (1d8)

^ Number of Pikmin Lost

After your little Pikmin army recovers the bodies of the lesser bulborgs and you pull the newly sown seedlings- you now have an army of twenty one Pikmin. Despite how many they are, they seem fully capable of following your commands, forming into ranks. They even line up to be thrown if you merely hold out your throwing hand. The little soldiers and yourself march to take on the final challenge here.

You ambush the sleeping Bulborg- the great spotted beast getting covered in the biting Pikmin before it even stands up. However, after a few seconds, it manages to shakily get to its feet and begin shaking your pikmin off- a fierce battle begins.

The pikmin are fierce and very brave, you'll give them that, but they are helpless when alone. The bulborbs mouth is large and can sweep up and chew several Pikmin at a time, and with a distinct crunching noise and a soft cry- you lose a pikmin. Dying in your service, you silently consider how you feel about that-

>Pikmin are expendable (low Pikmin empathy)
>Worthy sacrifice (medium Pikmin empathy)
>You feel bad; you want to protect all of their lives (high Pikmin empathy)

>>5405730
>>You feel bad; you want to protect all of their lives (high Pikmin empathy)

>>5405730
>Worthy sacrifice (medium Pikmin empathy)

>>5405730
>You feel bad; you want to protect all of their lives (high Pikmin empathy)

>>5405730
>You feel bad; you want to protect all of their lives (high Pikmin empathy)

>>5405730
>You feel bad; you want to protect all of their lives (high Pikmin empathy)

>>5405730
>You feel bad; you want to protect all of their lives (high Pikmin empathy)
Aim for the eyes and back, and immediately try to recall the pikmin that fall so we can repeat the process!
If we cant store the nectar, can we teach the mature pikmin to store but not consume the nectar in their bodies, then expell it later for a baby pikmin to consume later?

>>5405730
>Worthy sacrifice (medium Pikmin empathy)

>>5405730
>>Worthy sacrifice (medium Pikmin empathy)

>>5405730
Don't forget to get the adolescent pikmin to pick up those grass blades to get some nectar!
With the beast defeated, we should haul the bulborg corpse back to the onion, then grab the computer.

>Worthy sacrifice (medium Pikmin empathy)
In the end, the loss of a few is for the greater good for the remaining pikmin, because thing about all the new pikmin we'll help grow! Their deaths are a sad consequence, but such is life on this planet.

On the plus side, we learned from this experience on how to minimize losses. Next time we ambush it, we'll start throwing pikmin like crazy all over it's back. If we don't manage to kill it before it shakes them all off, we can send some flower pipkin to peck at it's legs and run away to draw it's attention away, giving us enough time to start throwing more pikmin on it's back again.

>>5405729
I can't unsee the throw pikmin as a chad.

You feel quite responsible for the Pikmin, and have felt a high degree of Pikmin Empathy. You have to take care of them- after all, they are your only hope at leaving this planet. They seem so dedicated to helping you survive- you can only hope you can return the favor somehow...

After the great Bulborb is defeated, you have lost a few Pikmin. However, one of the Pikmin that you lost was a flower pikmin, and surprisingly, a few small seedlings are in the ground after the battle ends. It seems that flower pikmin can occasionally drop seeds after they die, thus recovering some pikmin even if flower pikmin are killed. This, along with the whopping 10 seeds produced by recovering the Bulborb's body to the onion, means you now have a total of 27 Pikmin.

However, something else catches your eye. You're quite hungry, and seeing the Pikmin so greedily devour the corpses of your enemies is making you feel hungry in a strangely sympathetic way. Not that you're going to eat meat any time soon... but there is something. Nearby the Bulborb nest are several large fruits- which when brought back to the ship are squeezed and pressed in its cargo hoard to produce emergency rations! Maybe not the most nutritious meal, but you'll need this energy. Beyond just finding your ship parts, you'll need to find some food to survive as well. Currently, you have about 3 days worth of rations.

At the end of the day, you organize your Pikmin and approach the ship's computer. It's quite heavy, made of deep space metals and electrical components, and ended up taking 20 Pikmin to carry. Amazingly, the Pikmin crowd around the computer and gently lift it up together, showing great strength when they use teamwork, and began to slowly bring it back to your camp. The ship part is brought back to the ship and the ship is partially repaired!

“Hello, Captain Jay. Thank you for restoring my functionality. I will now run a diagnostic report...”

The computer does a quick damage check, and tells you the numbers.

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”Now that you have collected myself- there are Six more vital ship components you must aquire before you can safely return home. Sensor readings indicate possible locations- I'll put them up now.”

Because your ship broke apart in orbit- your parts are scattered over a great geographical area on this planet, being in several distinct regions. You can only visit one region per day, as it takes a few hours for the ship to fly to each region without a warp drive- you should probably let the autopilot do it while you get some rest. The Pikmin's onion follows you wherever you go it seems, as long as you remain in the planet's orbit...

As for the next area to visit- you have several choices.

The first is a region you are calling Fire Alley. Mountainous region with great geological activity- it seems much hotter then neighboring places. Given the Pikmin's immunity to fire, this seems like a logical first place to explore.

The next is the Lush Expanse. Basically a jungle, the area is extremely dense in foliage and lifeforms. You suspect a great amount of food will be there and excellent biodiversity- but this could also mean an excess of hungry predators. Might want to wait on this region until you have a true army of pikmin.

The third is the Blue Bay. Situated by the water, this region is strangely beautiful. However, given the signal is just on the coast (luckily not at the bottom of the ocean), there is a decent chance that the part you need is in a tide pool or underwater somewhere... which would render your chances of survival moot.

The fourth and final region is the Singing Zone. Mysterious and arid, this desert region is notable for the strangely musical “noise” it seems to produce, similar to singing or chimes. There seems to be a great amount of magnetic activity here as well, causing your ship's electrical systems to go wild.

All of them have a part- so which location should you touch down on for the next day?

>Fire Alley
>Lush Expanse
>Blue Bay
>Singing Zone

>>5406189
>Fire Alley
The most logical location
I had an idea. As pikmin mature as they age (reaching adulthood in just shy of 6 hours), what if we took some immature pikmin with us in our ship. If they require daylight to grow, all it would take would be to fly our ship and tilt its window to the direction of the sun so they can soak up that sweet sunny D.

I'm assuming its not night time yet, so go ahead and collect more pellets, kill more predators, and harvest more nectar. We might as well make the best of today before the next day comes. Plus we need to pluck those rooted pikmin before we leave!

>>5406189
Lush Expanse, let's hit the jungle.

>>5406189
Fire Alley time.

>>5406238
>Might want to wait on this region until you have a true army of pikmin.
Feels like we want at minimum 100 pikmin before we try taking on this beast. If we stick around the zone we're currently in for a little while, I bet we can squeeze in at most 20 more pikmin before we have to leave.

>>5406189
>Fire Alley
Lets give it a shot.

>>5406189
>>Fire Alley

>>5406189
>Fire Alley

>>5406189
>Fire Alley

Let's go where we're most suited to go to.

>>5406189
>Blue Bay
Maybe we can get an overview of the region, or find other onions. The blue pellet hints of blue pikmins, and we need to find onions as soon as possible to optimize ressource distribution

>>5406189
>>Fire Alley

DAY 3
You decide to head to Fire Alley for today. The hot and inhospitable biome would normally make you pause- but with your spacesuit and the Pikmin's apparent invulnerability to heat, you decide its the next course of action.

Traveling to the zone, you touch down along with the Onion. It pops out its tripod legs and stands ready; and you find it very easy to call out the Pikmin once again. With your 27 Pikmin in tow, you find yourself feeling the pressure of both time to find your parts, and time to find supplies. It's time to put in work.

In this alien environment, it's curious how hot and active this region is. You assume it has something to do with geological activity- every which way there is a powerful geyser that shoots flame. Small cracks in the rock show what appears to be molten magma just underneath, and in a place that doesn't seem very rich with plant or animal life...

The larger forms of life you find here are large, ugly gray skinned creatures you are tentatively calling Blowhogs. When you get close to one, it rears up and somehow manages to emit a breath of fierce fire out of its long trunk! Your suit can absorb quite a bit of heat- but that still was too close for comfort. But when you order your Pikmin to attack- you find the Blowhogs totally unable to even harm the fireproof creatures. You easily hunt the creature and bring it back to the onion to produce more Pikmin- eight more in fact. You decide to leave these ones in the ground to see if you can make them into flowers.

However, a much more suitable discovery happens a bit later while searching for your missing ship part. The misshapen lump in the ground which you assumed was an odd plant, suddenly comes to life and springs up into the air- before three tripodal legs snap out from underneath it. It's an Onion! A bright green onion!

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The onion spits out a singe solitary seed- perhaps a survival mechanism to avoid total extinction of its worker population by keeping one in reserve. At first, you're worried that the Pikmin you have, which are red, may decide to fight this new Pikmin- after all, they must be different subspecies. But your fears subside when the Pikmin seem... excited when you go to pull out the newly sown Pikmin.

Pulling it out, you are met with an alarming sight.

It's a Pikmin- but Green. This also confirms your theory from before- there are multiple different Pikmin subspecies. You hearby dug this type of Pikmin a Green Pikmin- where as your original Pikmin you will now be calling Red Pikmine.

Taking a closer look- you see the differences between this type of Pikmin and your original. Beyond the color- Green Pikmin appear a bit smaller and weaker then Red Pikmin. Their eyes are also different, more alien and insectoid. Most interestingly is their arms and legs; instead of short arms ended with protohands and simple feet, these Pikmin instead have long tentacles for arms and legs- giving them a gangly appearance. Given on of these tentacles a gentle pull, you also note how stretchy and pliable these hands are, and the way it creepily wraps around your hand- they are also prehensile.

This Pikmin, like all the others, is totally calm and at peace in your presence- and doesn't show any sign of being aggressive. Indeed, with a little blow of the whistle, you can direct it to do as you will, just as with the reds.

With only a little imagination, you can already the value of these green pikmin. Their bodies can actually stretch; your AI confirms that a group of them could form into bridges or extend into ladders that other pikmin could climb on- a trait that some eusocial insects share. Fascinating!

But you only have one green pikmin for now. What should you spend the rest of this day doing?

>Grow your numbers of Green Pikmin
>Forage for food
>Locate your ship part

>>5406469
>Forage for food

>5406469
>Grow your numbers of Green Pikmin

>>5406469
>>Grow your numbers of Green Pikmin

Even if we don’t need the Greens to unlock the ship bobbin, at some point in the future we will inevitably have to do this anyways.

>>5406469
>Locate your ship part
Food's going to be scarce in a volcanic wasteland, and we have enough for now.

No point growing Greens yet. Reds are more practical to use here than Greens; plus, as empathetiv as we are, it is troubling to think that Greens are more wont to die. Get in, get part, get out.

>>5406469
>Locate your ship part

Let's focus on the ship part, but don't hesitate to send the green back with a pellet if the chance arises.

>>5406469
>Grow your numbers of Green Pikmin

>>5406505
Maybe, but it's not scarce enough that life cannot exist here. Take the green pikmin and the blowhogs for example. There has to be enough nutrients in the area to sustain themselves, which means we might encounter more pellets, those flying nectar wisps, armored beetles, and so on.

>>5406469
I'm hungry

>>5406875
Hi hungry, I'm dad.

>>5406469
>>Locate your ship part

Lush Expanse should be better for both the Green Pikmin population and our own food supplies.

Rolled 2 (1d2)

1 for finding the part
2 for growing the greens

You decide to spend the rest of the day growing out the Green Pikmin population. The green pikmin are a fascinating new addition to your army; even if there isn't much food here for them, you can't just leave yourself just one.

As you gather up all the nearby creatures and foliage to bring back to the green onion, you notice something strange. While your red pikmin are obviously much better suited to hunting the Blowhogs, you decide to throw a green pikmin on one of their backs to test their capabilities... and are shocked and horrified by what you see.

The Green Pikmin is a parasite! Its long tendrils can pierce through skin- the blowhogs thick and wrinkled skin can't keep it out. This also has the secondary effect of making Green Pikmin basically impossible to shake off- but you get the feeling that a creature with a thick shell, carapace, or any of the biomechnical creatures that seem to exist on this planet like the onions themselves will likely be totally immune to the Green Pikmin's attacks...

The blowhog, unable to even shake off the parasite pikmin, succumbs to it eventually, being drained away. The Green Pikmin that you threw onto its back also sprouts a bud now- it seems they don't drink honey to power their metamorphsis. When you allow the green pikmin you have to bring it to the green onion to produce seeds, you notice a few less seeds were produced this time. Looks like the selfish green pikmin sucked out some vital nutrients when it did its work.

Despite how alien and strange they are; you hope these green pikmin will be a useful asset to you. You'll just have to double and triple check your suit's valves before you touch one next time.

You spend the day gathering as much safe material as you can to grow out the Green Pikmin population; mostly by using the Red Pikmin to close up the spitting fire vents and taking care of the dangerous fire-breathing blowhogs.

You now have 20 Green Pikmin and 35 Red Pikmin.

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While you didn't have enough time to get a ship part as well as grow out your pikmin- you did manage to find one other thing- a cavern.

Worn by natural action of geological activity and water erosion, the caves beneath Fire Alley are relatively deep. The entrance to the cavern has a trickling stream of mineral water flowing into the earth- the smell of brimstone in the air- if you could smell past your suit's filters. You consult your ship AI and both of you come to the same conclusion- because your ship blew up in the atmosphere, all of your ship parts will be on the surface of the planet- falling from the sky into a field or mountain crevice at worst. What this means is caverns will have nothing to do with repairing your ship.

However, even a cursory glance at your sensors indicate that deep beneath the planet's surface there is a great deal of radioactive material and high energy readings. Your intuition also tells you that these caverns and cave could hold a wealth of very rare mineral deposits or other valuable objects. It sounds like pure greed but, valuable treasures or things that inadvertently help your survival. Given how there is more then one species of Pikmin you've found so far, and so diverse of a species, there could even be a chance of subterranean Pikmin found down there. However, these caverns will be significantly more dangerous then the surface; and with the added negative of not being able to return easily to the onion. In other words, these are like dungeons- you will have to prepare your forces carefully in advance and make your way all the way through without stopping, and it will take a full day to plumb one's depths. In other words, if you have a spare day, these optional caverns could be worth exploring.

You dub this cavern the Mineral Pools, given the great deal of moisture you detect down there, no doubt the source of the various steam geysers on the surface.

Now its time to decide what to do tomorrow.

Note- If a majority of people want to move locations, then you will, otherwise it will default to return to the same location until you recover the ship part at that location.

>Locate the ship part
>Forage for food
>Explore the dungeon with all available Pikmin

>>5407100

Sweet Jesus green pikmin are horrifying.

How's our food supply looking QM?

>>5407113
Two days of rations left now. You won't die at zero though but it won't be fun.

>>5407100

Let's hit up the lush jungle for some rations before we start hammering out a few parts.

>>5407100
>Locate the ship part
We got a solid selection of pikmin.

>>5407100
>>Locate the ship part

This is our priority.
If we’re lucky, we’ll even find food on the way.

>>5407100
>Locate the ship part

>>5407100
>Locate the ship part
Also, explore if there are any edible (to us) plants here, by taking samples opportunistically.

>>5407100
>Locate the ship part

>>5407100
>>Locate the ship part

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DAY 4
After drinking your breakfast, you only have one day ration's left after today. Better get this ship part today then.

Travelling down the paths of the Fire Alley with your Red and Green Pikmin in tow, you clear past several dangers with the red pikmin standing out in front to deal with anything burning. Sadly the landscape here doesn't seem suited for the green pikmin- the rocks are burning hot and there isn't much flora to climb up, so instead you walk until you reach a more open area where you can get a good look around- and then you spot it.

Up ahead is a ship part. This one is the Impulse Drive- an important piece of equipment that lets the ship make more precise maneuvers in space; absolutely vital for docking the spaceship and dodging asteroids. All of your landings on this planet have been a bit dodgy without it; so you'd be very glad to have it back.

However, it is guarded by a powerful beast. Even from a distance, the large spider-like monster looks like a great threat. You will name it the Beady Long Legs- a spider of seemingly biomechanical body with large stomping feet. You can already tell that its weak spot, its central orb, is pretty far up and hard to hit even with a good pikmin throw.

Because you know where this part is, and what guards it, you are always free to leave and come back later if you think you can't handle whatever foe you encounter here. While time is of the essence, fighting a monster you aren't ready for could lead to losing a great many pikmin, which would be a shame, or wasting a great deal of time, which would also set you back more then you'd like.

However, if you manage to beat this thing... you'd be one step closer to repairing your ship. Including your AI that means you need to recover seven parts total, six left, and with twenty one days total that means you have a good three days per part- which means getting this part now would put a good deal ahead of schedule.

>Charge the monster with all your Pikmin
>Fight the monster with a small squad of flower pikmin
>Leave and come back another time (you will spend the rest of the day fully mapping this region and growing your pikmin instead)

>>5407893
>>Fight the monster with a small squad of flower pikmin
We'll start the fight by strategically placing green leeches. Then, our cream of the crop red pikmins will help defeat it.

Can our green pikmin climb?

Maybe we could lure it into a spot with our red pikmin by kiting it back, and once it’s in the right spot the green pikmin leap onto it.

According to >>5407096 green pikmin won't be much help here so
>>5407893
>Leave and come back another time (you will spend the rest of the day fully mapping this region and growing your pikmin instead)

>>5407893
>Fight the monster with a small squad of flower pikmin
First see if it's possible to lure it away to a more suitable area that's not on fire so we can throw some green pikmin at its weakspot. If we can safely throw our green boys without risk of them burning, then we'll be able to simply wait things out safely until they finish draining it.

>>5407893

QM, Is there a safe route to the beast for greens?

I'm thinking we use the greens ability to form bridges to tie the legs of the beast together and topple it, then swarm it's core body with reds. No idea if the greens can handle the forces of course.

If we can't get greens in there then yeah, we should retreat for now and come back with a Pikmin subspecies better suited for the job, preferably something able to avoid/endure the hot ground and easily reach the core body. Or somehow endure the heavy slams of the beast.

>>5407893
Question:
What are the parts missing?
Is there a part that may extend our time limit?

>>5407929
Oh I like that star wars idea. Why not try to lure it away to some place safer?

>>5407893
>>Leave and come back another time (you will spend the rest of the day fully mapping this region and growing your pikmin instead)
Can we spend the time getting food instead of more pikmin?

>>5407900
Its shell an biomechanical nature may well render it immune. Yellow Pikmin would be best to hit the weakpoint

>>5407893
>use fastest flower Pikmin in a small squad to kite the longlegs into a tripwire made of conjoined green Pikmin

Like >>5407929 and >>5407954 said.

>>5407893
>Fight the monster using a squad of thirty Reds including all our flowers.

About 20-30 Reds should be enough unless we're stupidly careless.

>>5407893
>>5407893
>>use fastest flower Pikmin in a small squad to kite the longlegs into a tripwire made of conjoined green Pikmin

>>5407893
OH OH OH! If the red pikmin are fire proof, could they get clogged in those heat vents then get launched at the Long Leggy monster?

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Rolled 2, 4 = 6 (2d6)

Dice Roll = how many Red then Green Pikmin you lost

You decide to engage the Beady Long-Legs with a small squad of Pikmin, hopefully keeping causalities down.

>>5408380
Not a terrible idea but- if you block up the fire vents then the pressure couldn't escape. It could push the Pikmin out and blast them up but- how could you be sure to angle their ascent? Or what if the whole gets so blocked up it explodes??? You know reds are fireproof but are they... explosion proof too? Still, with that said, it's hard to reach the central orb...

Using a mix of Green and Red flower pikmin- you decide to try and tangle up the Beady's legs... with limited success. However, only taking a small squad was definitely the right choice- if you had your whole army here those stomping legs would inevitably make causalities. Using your Pikmin's quickness, you can avoid most of them getting crushed. Sadly, the Green Pikmin can't seem to get their tendrils into this monster's thick alloy-like skin, but they can hold onto its legs and gently weigh it down. Even with your best throws, getting your red pikmin up to the central orb is difficult, meaning you have to wait for the right opportunity. Because your Pikmin can't easily reach the orb, the resulting battle takes an entire day of slowly weakening the Arachnorb until it finally dies.

But once it does- you recover your part! Carrying it back to base, you have it brought back into your ship, completing another step in the process. Only 5 more parts to go!

However, there is only a short time left until nightfall on this day. As you stand there in the circle made by your ship, the onions, and your Pikmin; they look at you expectantly. You feel like cause for celebration, but the pikmin are just... waiting. Like expecting another command. Do they never take a break? Could you find some way to reward them for their efforts? It's not like you have much food to spare- and you don't think there is much nectar in a place like this.

What do you think? Do you think the Pikmin should be rewarded and praised for what they do? Or is this just part of their programming- dutifully following their leader?
>Praise Pikmin and give them a rest
>Clearly they don't care about that

>>5408466
>Praise Pikmin and give them a rest
We should try. We have high Pikmin empathy, after all.

>>5408466
>Praise the Pikmin and give them a rest
We lose nothing by treating them well. They're been instrumental to our survival to this point, and we chose a high empathy. Let's take the opportunity to be nice.

>>5408466
>>Praise Pikmin and give them a rest

Success!
Wonder if we should move on, or explore for a day. We do need food now.

>>5408466
>Praise Pikmin and give them a rest
Promise that when we get enough parts and rations where we sont die, we'll throw a BIG nectar feast! We could even teach them some games, like hop scotch, tag, baseball, and so on.

>>5408466
>>Praise Pikmin and give them a rest

>>5408466
>Praise Pikmin and give them a rest

"Alright everyone. Feel free to take a break."

It's less then an hour before nightfall. You are back in the circle made up by your ship and the onions; the whole mass of your pikmin now standing here in front of you, in rapt attention, no moving. Not saying anything.

You now have the very strange and unenviable position of trying to get these creatures to relax. If you can. You start by trying to dismiss them; but when a Pikmin is alone and without a task they just... wither and lose their color, wilting like a sad flower. They whimper. You feel bad every time that happens, so you call them back, and they return to staring at you.

You're still pretty sure they can't talk, at least if they can, none have said anything. They just watch. Wait and watch. Waiting for the next command, almost as if they were a computer. But even your ship AI goes into states of dormancy when waiting its next command, or performs automatic maintenance- even a computer has more autonomy then a pikmin.

"Maybe lay down? Or play some games with each other?"

You drink some more of your juice rations for today- while the Pikmin watch you, their flowers and leaves blowing in the wind. You feel a bit guilty, you're basically just eating in front of them, but they don't seem to mind at all. You start to consider- should you teach them how to play a game? Like tag? Or how to dance?

It was about then, just before the twilight, that the Pikmin began to sing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqyhRyHSHUU&t=33s

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With the new part in tow, you return to the atmosphere followed by your onions.

Because you acquired the Impulse Drive, your ship is now much easier to fly in the atmosphere of the planet. Takeoffs didn't matter much for it- but the maneuverability is like night and day. In addition- you now feel much safer landing with the drive, which will make landing in more precarious places easier. You now feel safe enough to make a landing in another region of the planet which houses one of your necessary ship parts- the Dreary Heights, a very depressingly gray mountainous region with precarious ledges everywhere. In other words, some ship parts may improve the capabilities of your ship.

With the part gathered from Fire Alley, you no longer need to go there- though there is still the underground mineral cave which could house some interesting secrets. Now you must choose a new place to embark; soon you will be on your last day of food, so wherever you go you better plan to find some food there.

>Select your next expedition

>>5408855
>Lush Expanse

Seems the most likely place for finding some food.

>>5408855
>Blue Bay
Thanks to greens, we can create bridges. Plus, I'm scared Lush is too hard for us. I'm curious about singin' (especially since our pikmins can sing) but we need food.

>>5408855
>Lush Expanse

>>5408855

> Lush Expanse

Moar enemies, more pikmin, more food

>>5408855
>>Blue Bay
It said ‘a true army’, and we do not have a true army.

>>5408855
> Lush Expanse
With the aid of the green boys and strategy, we know how to take down predators with minimal loss!

>>5408855
>>Blue Bay

>>5408855
>Lush Expanse
We are going to starve if we don't get some food.

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DAY 5
Drinking what little of your juice is left- you now know the severity of your situation. You are now officially out of food. Driven by this, and for your desire to continue your progress, you decide to go to the Lush Expanse.

Touching down, you explore and scour the immediate area of the expanse. True to its name, it is lush. Very rich in both plant and animal life- this place is a far cry from the bleak sterile canyon of Fire Alley.

Even just establishing your first beachhead and camp you can't help but stumble on the spoils of this place. With only a little effort and dispatching of a few small beetle-like creatures that can unfortunately still bite a Pikmin in half- you call them Sheargrubs- you find a fruit!

This Sunseed Berry is brought back to your ship with ease and quickly squeezed of its juice. You gain three days rations with little effort- if this is a sign to go by, the rest of this zone should be equally verdant. But you should watch out for hungry predators who have gotten large on the riches here...

It is still early in the day. Nearby your landing site, you find an unusual thing; another wall, but this one made of some strange, flat, transparent crystal... no wait, that's glass. Strange. It doesn't really seem naturally occurring. Similar to the biomechnical creatures and a few of the other large objects you've found on this planet- these are like anomalies... or artifacts from an intelligent species?

The glass wall frustrates all attempts to break it with your normal pikmin; even green pikmin tendrils can't get a grip on its polished smooth surface. But just beyond the wall you can see another verdant garden; and a massive fruit waiting for you. But there's no way for you to break this wall; and despite how close the garden is, you know it will take you an entire full day to get over to this side garden and back again with the spoils- gaining limited information and progress towards the next ship part.

You're free to ignore this side garden for now and come back later; or you could put the priority of a sure meal over exploring the rest of this area for potential ones. Plus, you know your part is out here somewhere, likely guarded by another giant monster knowing your luck...

>Route towards the side Garden (takes all day)
>Search the Expanse (maps out food sources + finds the ship part)
>Follow the Pikmin (new Onion)

>>5409132
>Follow the Pikmin (new Onion)

>>5409132
>Follow the Pikmin (new Onion)

New powers!

>>5409132
>Follow the Pikmin (new Onion)

>>5409132
>Follow the Pikmin (new Onion)

>>5409132
>>Follow the Pikmin (new Onion

>>5409132
>Follow the Pikmin (new Onion)

>>5409132
>Follow the Pikmin (new Onion)

Rolled 8, 8 = 16 (2d10)

^Number of Red then Green Pikmin Lost

Strangely enough; the Pikmin actually have some kind of... sense of direction here. Not exactly leading the way, but they seem to turn to stare off into space, their petals and leaves bending as though twisting in an invisible wind; like a flower turning to face the sun.

You travel through the Lush Expanse, following the Pikmin's signs. Unlike Fire Alley, this place is quite sprawling and open, meaning it would probably take a full day just to map it out... but you can make a little progress on that as the Pikmin lead you on towards an unknown location.

Thankfully, having your Green Pikmin make travelling this place a lot easier then it could be! The Greens can form body-bridges to connect vertical tree branches- literal living climbing platforms for you and the Pikmin. Perfect for this location.

However, not everything is easy. Along the way, you come across a few large flowers planted in the ground- but when you pass by one, a massive beast comes directly out of the ground! The flower was a fake! The monster, which you dub the Creeping Chrysanthemum. Taken totally by surprise, several of your Pikmin are sadly gobbled up before you can do much at all. Thankfully, you defeat the monster and its body can be used to recoup some of the Pikmin losses you suffered...

But finally, about midday, you come across what your Pikmin were leading you towards. There is a small pool of water with an onion half submerged- you are quite worried- no Pikmin you've seen before can swim, so if the onion is there you can't exactly feed any food to produce more pikmin seeds- you dismiss your Red and Green Pikmin to get closer.

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The blue Onion rises up in the water once you approach; just like every other Onion so far. You've found yet another new Pikmin subspecies- these are Blue Pikmin, and once you pluck one out of the wet soil beneath the pond- it is confirmed that they can breathe in the water!

Blue Pikmin are obviously suited for the water. Most notably, they have an open "mouth"- but before you can worry about them talking or biting anything, you notice quickly that its more of a gill-organ, gently filtering water that enters their mouth. On top of this, they have webbed hands and feet, and their body is even more smooth then other Pikmin.

Blue Pikmin can swim, and seem aware of the weakness of other Pikmin- when you place them near the shore, they help other Pikmin back out of the water before they drown. Hesitantly, you want to bring the aquatic pikmin species out of the water to see its capabilities on land... and it's surprisingly capable.

While not special, the Blue Pikmin are capable of walking and running just like any other Pikmin- on land and in the water. Their bodies are also covered with a slight mucus to keep them moist even outside of water, which makes sense given their amphibious nature. You also get the feeling this mucus might protect them slightly from stomach acids and let them slip out of the grip of larger monsters- meaning that blue pikmin are slippery and can survive creature attacks a little better then other Pikmin types.

With Blue Pikmin in tow, you now see how many opportunities have opened up for you. Every area on this planet so far has had small pools and streams of water here and there- even though you could make due without Blues, just having the ability to hunt aquatic creatures and the ability to help carry things through water it a huge help! Even better, the fact you found Blue Pikmin here in the lush expanse makes populating them easier. You grow a quick 30 blues from the nearby food stuffs; and find yourself with a few hours of daylight left this day. What should you focus on?
>Locate your Ship Part
>Grow your Pikmin numbers
>Hunt an exotic creature

Hey QM could you include Pikmin count at the end of updates?

>>5409612
I'm kinda thinking of just axing them tbqh

>>5409607
>Grow your Pikmin numbers
what is the purpose of hunting exotic creature?

>>5409607
>Grow your Pikmin numbers

>>5409607
>Grow your Pikmin numbers
Now we can visit the blue

>>5409607
> Grow Pikmin numbers

>>5409607
>Grow your Pikmin numbers

With your new Blue Pikmin in tow; you scour the nearby area in an attempt to grow your Pikmin numbers.

You find some pellets and a few weakers creatures that are easily consumed by the Pikmin, their bodies brought back to the onions. The wealth of small creatures here leads to a rapid pace of growing- helping you really fill out your Pikmin army. Over the next few hours, your Pikmin numbers swell to 50 each of Red, Green, and Blue Pikmin; giving you a sizeable force. However, something happens about halfway through- your AI reports the number of Pikmin in the field being exactly 100 when the onion stops spitting out seeds. Even when being fed, it just stops. You order the pikmin to stop bringing the onion food- but the number of pikmin within has increased even when the ship refused to spit out more seeds. Strange. No matter how hard you try, you can't get the onion to relinquish any more Pikmin. The blue, green, and red onions all follow the same rule. Strangely enough, it isn't the number of individual color, but all colors combined. You can't exceed 100! How is this possible? And why such a specific number?

You have the theory that perhaps the Pikmin numbers are limited by the onions to prevent overpopulation. Since Pikmin don't eat or suffer from hunger on their own; they could strip the natural world of all its resources if they became overpopulated, so this is a way to prevent that. But why would all the colors of pikmin consent to that collectively? Wouldn't each subspecies have an evolutionary advantage in allowing their numbers to bulge out more then the others? Could the onions only be giving a limited number of pikmin to one leader or... being at a time to prevent them from becoming too powerful? The onions themselves aren't very large; you aren't even sure how they store all the pikmin that climb within them each night- further increasing the need to let pikmin get out of the onion, not limiting their total numbers in the area at once. Perhaps the pikmin are turned into something else within the onions- are they liquefied? Or perhaps each pikmin isn't an individual, but a sort of independent appendage of an onion that is the organism they come from. This would explain why a limit would exist- its the maximum amount of its "body" it wants to expose to the world at once. But how does that explain the pikmin's apparent individuality?

But perhaps your wild theories and speculations are meaningless. Even with Hocotatians advanced technology, some things in the universe are still unexplained. It may be that some things defy explanation- that they just "are" and can only be experienced instead of understood...

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DAY 6
You touch back down in the Lush Expanse again today to work on finding your next ship part. Almost immediately after you leave your camp with a nice mix of pikmin- you are attacked.

This creature is another Bulborb- but a different subspecies. With a long snout and whip-like tongue, it can devour pikmin from a distance. A few stragglers are already picked off by the time you notice, their screams silent as the creatures slurps them into its jaw. Unlike the other Bulborb, this one isn't sleeping and can't be taken by surprise, and its range with that long tongue is longer then you can throw a pikmin with your arm.

What's the strategy to beat this monster? If you do it right, you can minimize the number of pikmin you lose to it.

>Write In

>>5410208
Test out a theory. It's tongue looks long, but is long enough to reach behind it's back? We'll find out soon enough.
Keep all leaf and bud pikmin out of this fight, and take only the flower ones. No more than 15 reds and 10 greens.

Command the red's to run around to draw the tongue Bulborb's attention so we can flank with the green pikmin. We'll get behind it, then start throwing all the green lads on it's back. If we're feeling confident in the strength of our throwing arm, try targeting the eyes since they look like weak spots, else keep your aim on the back.

Unless this thing is smart enough to try and roll over to crush the pikmin, it should die eventually, and I doubt it's tongue is strong enough to pull the green pickers off it's back.

When we have all our green boys in place, command all pikmin to keep their distance until it dies.

When it dies, try and see if you can get a blue pikmin to crawl into it's stomach (acid resistance) and see if they can pull any of the few pikmin the Bulborb ate before they're fully digested. No one left behind!

The blue ones are slippery, and more resistant to being snatched up by the tongue.

>>5410249
Good point

>>5410208
Replace the red decoys with the slimy blue boys.

>>5410208
>>5410227
This, but with blue pikmin decoys instead of red ones.

(Just in case, this person is me.)
>>5410249

>>5410208
>slimy blue decoys, especially flower-lads
>greens thrown onto the back
>back away and watch it die
>fish out survivors

>>5410227
I'll follow the other anons and go with this plan but with blue instead of red

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Rolled 4 (1d8)

Number of Blue Pikmin Lost^
Using your Blue Pikmin as bait- you trick the beast into exposing its back to you. However due to your high Pikmin empathy level- you feel quite bad about it... You just hope they can get away from that tongue in time. It's quick, and despite your best efforts, a few are still slurped up...

The green pikmin you throw onto the creature's back dig their tendrils in and begin to drain the Bulborb of its most vital fluids and minerals; while it thrashes in a rage and probably a horrible itch; it can't bend its tongue back enough to pull the greens off itself, impotently trying to shake the Pikmin off!

Using this, you can move the rest of your pikmin away and wait for nature to run its course. It seems the hit and run strategy of using the greens works well... it just takes a long time. You're noticing a big difference between the Pikmin in terms of their attack power and aggression levels. The greens may be horrible little parasite buggers, but reds are much more aggressive and took down the first spotty bulborb you faced much faster- it seems the trade off for using your greens this way is a very slow process...

After several hours, the Whiptongue Bulborb is weak enough to be taken down safely- your Pikmin pull its body down to the ground. Taking stock of your Pikmin numbers, it appears your intuition was correct on the Blue Pikmin being slippery and hard to catch- only a small amount were scooped up by its tongue, as a few who were licked managed to slip away before being consumed. Sadly, the greens took long enough to kill the Whiptongue that any pikmin who may have been inside this creature's stomach had sadly been totally digested. You give the Whiptongue's corpse of the Blue Pikmin in honor of their sacrifice and because you have a funny feeling you'll be needing more of them later...

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You spend the rest of the day mapping out and explore the Lush Expanse and finally, after almost two days of searching, come across your ship part! It's the Graviton Core, and incredible useful device needed to generate and control the intense gravitational forces used when you hit warp speed. This is another necessary ship part to make your journey back home.

While you don't think you have time to carry it back home today; a cautionary attempt to see how heavy it is doesn't go so well. Even your AI seems distraut by the news; the Graviton Core is so heavy it will take one hundred and twenty pikmin to carry it away! But the onions only give you a maximum of one hundred Pikmin in the field at a time?! This is bad; could your journey be over before it began?

You can't give up hope just yet. Time to tuck in for the night.

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You drink your dinner, leaving you with two days rations remaining. With the ship part in the Lush Expanse currently unrecoverable, you need to come up with a new plan of action- and hopefully a new destination worth your time.

CURRENT PIKMIN NUMBERS
RED: 50
GREEN: 50
BLUE: 58

>Select a destination

I know we’re obviously meant to find Brawny Pikmin, but could we not devise a mechanical solution, like levers and rollers, to increase the force an individual Pikmin could apply?

>>5410740
I, too, would like to try this.

>>5410739
If it's not allowed, perhaps precluded by the Pikmin's simple intellect, maybe we can return to the Fire Ally area to check that dungeon which was heavily hinted to hoyse mystery-Pikmin?

>>5410747

I'd be game for a dungeon run, might luck out and find some food even.

Alternatively Blue Bay might be a smart choice, lush enough for food, probably a new pikmin type, and of course a part is somewhere down there.

>>5410739
>Blue Bay
We have the Blue Pikmin to allow us to explore it; and it looks like the purple Onion is hiding there. If these Purples are the same as game purples, they're the strong ones we'll need to carry back the Graviton core, and perhaps the heavy ones we'll want to shatter that glass barrier by throwing them at it.

>>5410836

Oh shit, you're right, there are onion markers on each zone even.
Changing from dungeon to Blue Bay.

> Blue Bay

>>5410739
>Blue Bay

>>5410794
>>5410836
>>5410869

I actually think it's more likely to find purples in the dungeon since in the game purples don't have their own onion, not that this follows them too closely

>>5410739
>Blue Bay
We got the blue pikmin, so let's go for a swin

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Rolled 4, 4 = 8 (2d4)

^Number of Days to the time limit added

DAY 7
Landing in the Blue Bay, the salty air and fog from the nearby water is blown away by your ship's exhaust fumes as you land on the soft, wet earth. In fact, the moment you touch down, your ship sinks a bit into the mud, tilting on its side.

From the moment you set up camp with the onions; you can already see something in the water out there- it's your ship part of this area! Unlike other areas, where they were far away and guarded, this one was right here- just off the shore in the water. As long as you have blue pikmin, it's easy enough to go out there and pick it up!

The ship part is quickly recovered just a few hours after sunrise and put back into the ship. It's the Filtration Matrix, used to purge toxic contaminants from the engine and refine starship fuel before it enters the reactor core... wait a second, this could help you purify your own air filters. It isn't enough to fully repair them, nor is it a permanent solution, but replacing your ship's basic air filters with these and plugging your suit in to remove its toxic containment, the filtration matrix grants you an additional number of days to your time limit!

...Huh, that was fast. Still, you already took the time to fly out here and touch down, so going back up now would be a waste of today. Surely you can find something to occupy your time.

>Explore the Land
>Explore the Sea

>>5411389
>>Explore the Sea

>>5411389
> Explore the sea

>>5411389
Actually change my vote from sea to land. We could use food and it's probably more likely to be on land than in the water

>>5411389
>Explore the Sea
Remember, there could be trap based predators. Be careful of anything in the waters. There could be giant clans, natural camouflaged predator's, things hiding in the sand.
Test the swimming capacity of the blues, and how far and hard they can be thrown under water. Maybe see if they have any other abilities you've yet to discover.

>>5411389
Hmm. I think I'll change my vote too.

>Explore the Land
We're more likely to find onions on and I think, and even if we don't, we'll have exhausted the land exploration option, leaving us with only the sea exploration left. Which is good.

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>>5411389
> Explore the sea

>>5411389
>Explore the Land

>>5411389
>Explore the Land

Purple onion looks like it's on the land in the destination select?

>>5411389
>Explore the Land

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You decide to explore the land. While exploring the water could lead to some very interesting discoveries, and given the fact you have plenty of water pikmin now- you feel there is probably more fruit on land plus other things that will help you... like another onion.

This time you had a pretty good feeling you'd find one from the way your Pikmin seemed to be trying to lead you over here. Behind some rocks near the shore, you find a purple onion. After a while, you go to pluck the Pikmin from the soil before finding yourself nearly tripping from the unexpected weight. Taking both hands; you manage to pull a real big one free.

These are Purple Pikmin. The first thing you notice is their size and weight; bigger then any other type of Pikmin and much heavier. You can barely throw them. They also take a lot more resources to grow then other types of Pikmin. Normally, the onion spits out two seeds for a small pellet of its color, or one seed for the pellet of any other color. But for purples, one purple pellet only gives one seed, and it takes two or three pellets of other colors to spit out an extra seed. You estimate it takes roughly two and a half times as much food to produce purple pikmin seeds then normal pikmin. On top of that, they're pretty slow even with flowers- given how large they are.

But of course; as with all Pikmin, they have a unique advantage. Purple Pikmin are especially well developed in their lower body and back, and are so heavy and strong that they can carry as much as five other pikmin put together; they are roughly five times as strong as a normal pikmin.

While the number of Purple Pikmin you will have will be invariably less then the other pikmin types, you get the feeling they'll be pretty useful when you do need to use them. You also feel that glimmer of hope again- you can now recover that Graviton Core that was impossibly heavy before, and you'd only need a handful of purple pikmin to do it!

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While scavenging for food for the newfound purple pikmin and searching the beaches in this area; you come across a common creature here. Known as the Wollywog, this amphibious monster always stays near bodies of water but aggressively guards its territory. It can't move very quickly and doesn't bite, but it can 'hop' up into the air and stay there, levitating in place before slamming back down again and crushing any pikmin unfortunate enough to be underneath it. Even worse, green pikmin can't reliably drain it to death, because the Wollywog will retreat to the water when threatened; in which case the green pikmin will be washed off and drown...

There are more of these Wollywogs around; and you're going to need a lot of food to get a sizable amount of purple pikmin. What's your plan to take these creatures out?

>Try to throw Pikmin on them while they're in the air
>Wait until they land to swarm them
>Just avoid them (waste tomorrow to get enough Purples for your needs)
>Other (Write In)

>>5411731
>>Wait until they land to swarm them
Attack with red and purple pikmin, when the bullywog tries to flees, send in the blues to finish it off.
Keep the green on reserve since they aren't useful in this fight so we won't need to micromanage so many units.

>>5411731
>Just avoid them (waste tomorrow to get enough Purples for your needs)
Thanks to the filter, we have some extra time. Let's not risk Pikmin lives unnecessarily.

>>5411731
> Attack from behind and use a few purples to weigh the beast down before swarming with reds.

>>5411731
>Wait until they land to swarm them
Keep the greens and blues out of this fight. If it tries to flee and stay in the waters to recover, tell everyone but the blues to stay back so we can swarm it in the waters.
I only ever played pikmin 1, but I think swarming it with some pikmin will keep it grounded for a time. Swarm it for a few second and let it struggle for a bit, before commanding the pikmins to disengage before it knocks them all back and crushes a few when it SLAMS back down.

>>5411842
Huh. Is that the normal tactics in Pikmin 2 and 3?

>>5411731
>Wait until they land to swarm them
Be ready to throw pikmin right atop them when they land as well, let's see what happens when a thrown purple impacts the back of one...

>>5411847

Never really tried it in 2, and purples aren't in 3's main campaign. In the actual games I usually had two strategies.

Low Pop: Toss on the back of the critter, whistle back when it jumps, repeat.

High Pop: Circle behind and SWARRRRRM. Sheer numbers can usually kill before it jumps.

In Pikmin 2 Purples would actually stun enemies with their impact, it was insanely broken, I assume they're not quite that powerful here. I don't actually know if Wollywogs count purples as more for determining if they can jump, but it would make sense.

>>5411889
+1

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Waiting until they land to swarm on the Wollywogs seems like a good idea- but after a few seconds they'll always shake off the Pikmin and rise up again. Unless...

Yes, that seems to do the trick. Purple Pikmin are so heavy that they weigh down the Wollywogs- just a few of them can prevent the Wollywog from raising up in the air again for another slam; extra Pikmin are just a bonus to this. The weight of Purple Pikmin seems very good for keeping lightweight enemies pinned down! You figure flying or floating enemies will have a hard time getting away with a purple pikmin on them. With this tactic in mind, you can defeat several more Wollywogs with minimal losses, letting you grow your purple pikmin numbers up to a sizeable level today without issue.

With both your ship part and a new pikmin color added to your roaster, you complete today and return to the atmosphere for nightfall.

You have one day of rations remaining.

>>5412471
RATION COLLECTING TIME!
let's go back to the Lush Jungle to gather more food, use the purple pikmin to carry the air filter system back, then end the next day by smashing that barrier with some purples.

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At least let me finish the update god damn

Where would you like to go for the next day?

>>5412474
Lush expanse we need foooooooood

>>5412474

Lusssh

>>5412474
LUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUSH

>>5412474
LUSH RUSH LUSH RUSH LUSH RUSH LUSH RUSH LUSH RUSH LUSH RUSH LUSH RUSH!

>>5412474
>Lush Expanse
per >>5412473

>>5412471
>>5412491 +1

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>>5412474
HHHNNNNN I'M GONNA
I'M GONNA LUSSSHH OOOOUUUHHHH
I'm LUUUUSSSSHHHIIIINNNG

>>5412486
>>5412487
>>5412491
>>5412531
why tho

>>5412536
this reasoning >>5412473
Purples give us the opportunity to acomplish two goals, in addition to getting us more food.

>>5412536
can we also ask our computer if they have any ideas for the pimkin singing? is it a language? are they just singing?

>>5412474
>Lush expanse
We can definitely get that part now. And since neither of the two remaining onions (Yellow/Orange) are grey we have to assume this game won't be giving Rock Pickmin - and there aren't any bomb-rocks we noticed nearby, so even if we had yellows they wouldn't be useful for that. Since we have no idea what the Orange Pikmin will end up doing, I think we'll have to hope that Purple-Pikmin's weight will break the barriers, or that we'll find something else to eat somewhere in the zone.

Lushylush

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>>5412474
>LUSH

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Day 8
Upon landing in the Lush Expanse for the second day, you quickly find a pair of Cupid Grenades; another type of juicy fruit. Each orb is big enough to grant you two units of juice, so you get 4 more days of food. It seems the Lush Expanse is so fecund with plant life that every time you visit here you'll receive an extra random fruit in addition to whatever you have to search for.

With that, you head out towards your part and the glass wall. You know that the hidden garden out of the way will take one full day to reach, but if you can break this wall it will make it quick and easy...

Oof, ouch. Sorry little purple... It looks like even a big purple pikmin wasn't enough to break the glass, just get flattened against it. Darn. You need something much harder, or perhaps explosive, in order to deal with the wall...

Now you have to make a choice on what to do for today.

>Recover the part + find some food
>Sidetrack to the hidden garden
>Spend all day foraging for food and get a big stockpile

>>5412594
>Recover the part + find some food

>>5412594
>Recover the part + find some food

>>5412594
>>Recover the part + find some food

>>5412594
>>Recover the part + find some food

I have a hunch that the pikmin in the Singing Desert can use resonate frequencies somehow, and they might be our ticket to breaking the glass, and other hard shelled enemies.

>>5412679
Suportin' this as tomorrow location. And if this onion isn't it, let's pick the last one too.

>>5412594
>Recover the part + find some food

>>5412594
>Recover the part + find some food

>>5412594
>Recover the part + find some food

>>5412594
>Recover the part + find some food

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You grab the unnaturally heavy Graviton Core using a team of Purple Pikmin with other Pikmin for support. With a long walk back to the ship, you install the core to have the ship powered up yet again. While mostly only useful for takeoffs and deep-space manipulation, the graviton core is essential for protecting yourself from gravity distortions in space and keeping to a high max speed. You'd never make it home without it.

In the meantime, you manage find another large fruit item to juice- the Face Scruncher. This fruit will give you another 5 days worth of rations, currently meaning you have 10 days worth of juice in stock. While boring, today was pretty productive- tomorrow you head to the Singing Desert.

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The Singing Zone as you first named it is actually closer to a desert, that's true. It's very open and flat, with a sandy and arid climate. Even from your vantage, you can see most objects of interest from here- as well as a large flat salt desert ahead which seems to be where your part is coming from, but where the "music" gets louder...

What should you investigate for today?
>Onion
>Fruit
>Hole

>>5413339
Sweet baby space Jesus those purples are strong.

>>5413345
>Onion
Always a good idea to make new friends.

>>5413345

> All about that onion

>>5413345
>Onion

>>5413345
>>Onion

>>5413345
>>Onion

>>5413345
>Onion
new pikmin, get!
op, are we gonna see rock or winged pikmin?

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>>5413345
>Onion

>>5413345
>Onion

>>5413345
>Onion

>>5413345
Do we have any spare flashlights? If we can arm some pikmin with flashlights I'm all for exploring the underground place cave system in Fire Alley.

>>5413345
>>Onion
>Onion
Onion
I'll vote for dungeon runs later Mamuta, I like to have all options available first

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You decide to check out the onion, and there you find yet another Pikmin type. With so many to juggle, you may have to start deciding which to take with you on your expeditions...

These pikmin are unique. They're a bit more bug-like then the others, with an abdomen out their back, compound eyes... and wings?! Yes, it seems orange pikmin can actually fly!

Whenever they take flight, you can hear the low droning of their wings. While not the biggest or strongest, they can move over the ground to avoid predators, or even carry small objects if they work together. Knowing how useful a group of flying Pikmin could be, you spend the rest of the day grabbing as many resources as you can to boost up their numbers to match your other Pikmin types.

DAY 10
Eight Rations Remain

With the orange pikmin at your side, you re-enter the Singing Desert to see what else you can find, and hopefully locate your ship part. You have a few options on where to explore today.

>Salt Desert
>Fruit
>Hole in the ground

>>5414814
>Hole in the ground
Dungeon-delving time!

>>5414814
>Hole in the ground

>>5414814
>Hole in the ground
time to loot sum gold
and we should probably bring a few blues along in case there's an underground lake

>>5414814
>>Hole in the ground

>>5414814
>Hole in the ground

>>5414814
Alright.
>Hole in the ground
Diggy dig time

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You have decided to enter... The Hole.

This is a dungeon. Your entire day will be spent here; as the time spent to explore and come back out of the dungeon requires you be back by nightfall. However, as your computer suggests, dungeons may house the most dangerous types of wildlife on this planet... but also rewards. Rare anomalies, archeological treasures, or even something related to the Pikmin!

As far as you can tell, the Hole is a deep tunnel system depressed in sand. You are unsure of the dangers inside; but your computer reports no excess moisture, heat, or electrical energy. As such, it is likely whatever you encounter down here will be mostly physical in nature.

In order to determine how well you; roll a 1d100 for one Pikmin type. The best roll for each pikmin type will determine how useful they are and what percentage you preserve while in the dungeon.

For this dungeon; you are taking down-
>Purple
>Green
>Orange
>Blue

Rolled 56 (1d100)

>>5415199
>Purple
Do we roll before or after the vote?

Rolled 4 (1d100)

>>5415199
>Purple

Rolled 63 (1d100)

>>5415199
A little confused. Can we only take one color with us? I'd really rather a mix of purple and orange, to cover both low and high theats.

Rolled 27 (1d100)

>>5415199
>Orange

Rolled 43 (1d100)

>>5415199
>Green

Rolled 67 (1d100)

>>5415199
>Blue

Rolled 55 (1d100)

>>5415199
>Purple

>>5415241
We're taking a mix of Purple, Green, Orange and Blue Pikmin. OP wants us to choose one of those four types each and roll for the usefulness and preservation of that specific type, taking the best dice roll for each type out of those made.

>>5415241
I think it's to see how well each contingent does.

Rolled 15 (1d100)

>>5415199
>Orange

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You descend into The Hole. This dungeon is very deep, dry, with narrow caverns and few features beyond the dangers of navigation. You worry the earth may shift on top of you and bury you alive- the most likely way for you to actually die in your spacesuit that protects you from everything else on this planet so well. If you were actually buried alive... You'd probably just open your suit's helmet and let the sand come in and crush you. Better that then slowly die of dehydration unable to do anything...

Wait, why did you come down here again? For some treasure, not even a ship part? Now you feel kind of stupid. But at the same time; the fact that creatures do make their home down here gives you hope that it is more stable then it appears; and whatever may be down here will be worth it...

Deep within the Hole, you find a true challenge; a huge snavian creature- the Snagrit. You figure that if you were on the surface, this beast would be able to burrow and come up from the soil to attack- but now you are in its domain. These tunnels are of its own making! The snagrit fills each one and could just open its beak to swallow you all whole!

Here, however, you find out something new. The droning noise of your Orange Pikmin can be amplified with numbers. While one is a short range noise, multiple together creates a strong vibration; especially amplified underground! You are capable of repelling the Snagrit with your orange pikmin- letting you navigate the dungeon successfully.

However, do to your rolls... it was a costly journey. Many of your pikmin were picked off on the way down, and some even got lost in a side passage with no way of calling them back... quite a grisly fate for them. Your blue pikmin, who you brought in case of there being a watery hazard down here, become your primary source of creature bait- though you would prefer if you could save them all... though the blues are pretty dehydrated down here anyway. Perhaps its for the best.

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Finally, you reach the final chamber. Here, just past the Snagrit's lair, you find a small room with an unusual treasure on a small altar. The treasure of this dungeon are colorful seeds which seem somehow related to the Pikmin. Each is many colored, and smell very sweet- or so your AI tells you from your atmosphere filter data.

Within your ship, you've used your limited space in the cargo hold to store some Pikmin overnight- turning the windows in the ship to this planet's star to let them mature overnight. Now, that space goes to better use growing these unusual new plants. After some urging from a Pikmin, who almost seems to want to "jump in", you find out this species purpose.

These flowers can somehow change one pikmin into a pikmin of another type. Each flower slowly changes colors over time, allowing you to throw in Pikmin and transform them. However, pikmin thrown into this flower come out in seed form, meaning they'll lose their maturity. You so name these flowers Candypop Buds and can now use them to freely transform pikmin of one color to another- you can grow as many pikmin as you want and change their colors freely- the possibility of running out of pikmin, or needing to spend a day or two growing your pikmin's numbers of a depleted color is now in the past.

While not directly helping your survival, you get the feeling a useful find like this flower hints at the sort of things you may find within the various dungeons on this strange, alien planet...

Now with this newfound flexibility; it is also possible to keep an army of one specific Pikmin type around, if you wanted. Do you have one type of Pikmin you favor over the others? Or do you want to keep them more balanced, using the bulbs to average them out?

>Build an army of one main type (specify)
>No, keep the Pikmin balanced between the colors

>>5417510
>>No, keep the Pikmin balanced between the colors

>>5417510
>No, keep the Pikmin balanced between the colors

>>5417510
>No, keep the Pikmin balanced between the colors

>>5417510
>No, keep the Pikmin balanced between the colors
An interesting discovery. I wonder why a flower like this was down here of all places? It was purposefully left here? Pikmin related species moved it down here for safe keeping? Alien intervention?

>>5417566
There are theories that candypop flowers are an intermediate stage between pikmin and flower, although it begs the question of why Onions don't have the transformative power of the candypop buds.

>>5417510
>No, keep the Pikmin balanced between the colors
>Unless we see the bud turn the colour of a Pikmin type we don't possess, then try out a single one to see what might be waiting for us.

>>5417510
>No, keep the Pikmin balanced between the colors

Wow I didn't expect so many people to stick around despite that slow update. That means a lot to me.

>>5417614
Draw quests typically keep a lot of players around, and those who aren't active are probably lurking until they're available to post silliness. Love your quest btw.

>>5417510
>No, keep the Pikmin balanced between the Colours.

>>5417510
That poor blue.

>>5417510
>>No, keep the Pikmin balanced between the colors

>>5417510
>No, keep the Pikmin balanced between the colors

>>5417510
>Build an orange army

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DAY 11
Seven Rations Remain
You touch back down in the Singing Zone. While raiding the dungeon and finding the Candypop Buds have given you a useful tool, you still don't have your part from the desert here.

You spend this day moving towards it, making sure to look for food in the most likely of places here- the shiny bright red thing you are calling the Insect Condo, due to its highly desirable traits for parasites and pests, is now in your position. Hey- let go of that little red! Heh, that silly pikmin must think that things belongs in the red onion due to its color. We need to get you some nectar to straighten you out! The big red fruit grants an amazing six units of juice for you- granting you six more days rations.

Later in the day, you navigate to the most desolate part of the desert- where your part has been detected. Getting closer, you realize what it is- the incredible amount of static electricity in the air gives it away. It's your Perpetual Dynamo- an electricity generating machine that will grant you nigh-infinite amounts of useful energy! Your ship currently is using its supply of starship fuel and the minimal amount of energy from solar collectors to power itself and your own appliances within- with this, you can finally keep the ship fully lit, warm, and maybe even entertain yourself with some video games while you spend the night in orbit around the planet.

But there's a problem. The dynamo has clearly taken some damage and even now is giving off a massive amount of electrical energy all around it- it will fry anything that comes close! Your own suit warns of potential damage, you can't in good conscious order any pikmin to carry it- they're scared of the arcing electrical energy! None of your pikmin can withstand that kind of current, you reckon.

Oh well- today was a bit of a wash then. You'll have to finish this zone off later...

DAY 12
12 Rations Remain

You have touched down today in the Dreary Heights. This mountainous land is characterized by peaks and valleys high up- with deep ravines and canyons between them. It was too dangerous to touch the ship down here before you got the impulse engines- now you can finally explore this place. And your readings show that one of your parts is surely here.

While you can park your ship here- this place is still somewhat dangerous. There are sheer cliffs everywhere and fog that obscures your view- flying monsters could easily come out of nowhere to attack you or your pikmin. You'll need a good way to navigate using the pikmin you already have. What's your plan?

>How to navigate the heights? (Write In)

>Create almost full rooster of Orange and Green the day before
Send orange scouts and Make them carry greens lefts and rights so they can create suspensed bridged - orange flyers acting as upward-pillar when you're crossin

>>5418547
I don't have a better idea, so I'll support this

>>5418547
+1 seems solid

>>5418526

Supporting greens and oranges, but use the oranges in clusters to push back the fog to improve visibility as well.

>>5418547
+1

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Using a combination of orange and green Pikmin, you attempt to brave the Dreary Heights.

With the orange pikmin, you can send pikmin to scout and, naturally, are not in any danger of falling. Green Pikmin however can act as bridges- and given how they are small and lightweight- the Orange Pikmin can carry them across gaps and the bridges to help make your way through the Heights!

While a little rickety and worrisome; the green pikmin create a bridge capable of upholding your weight- and if you need to, more could be added to strength the bridge to carry over a ship part too. It's phenomenal!

It's time to look around. What do you want to find?
>Ship Part
>Food
>Onion

>>5419332
>>Onion

>>5419332
>Onion

>>5419332
>Onion

>>5419332
>Food
Can never say no to more food. A shame pimkin don't eat the same way we do. Perhaps we could teach them games like checkers! Maybe the older flower pikmin might enjoy them.
Don't forget to say your "thank yous" and "sorrys" to all the green lads you gotta step on.

>>5419332
>Onion

>>5419332
>>Onion

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You decide to investigate and look for another Onion. At this point you've found a new onion, and a new Pikmin subspecies, in every area you've investigated looking for your ship parts. At this point, you'd be more surprised if you didn't find one!

But once again, this raises the question. Why do all these different Pikmin subspecies exist? And why do you keep stumbling upon a new unique one each time? What happens if you were to find another red or blue Pikmin Onion? Would they both follow you, two identical colors, or would they absorb into each other, becoming one? Do the Pikmin tolerate the different subspecies of colors because, together, it increases their chances of survival?

Soon enough, you find a new Onion in the high mountains; a yellow Onion. These Yellow Pikmin are yet another type of Pikmin, and a quick examination reveals their specialities. Firstly, they seem more agile then other pikmin types, and lighter weight- letting them be thrown higher- though it's a far cry from the orange pikmin's ability to fly. Moreso is their sense of balance. Whenever you throw them, they always land on their feet- much like a spacecat.

However, there is a second concern you have for them. You take a small blood (sap? Juice?) sample from one of the yellow Pikmin and your computer instantly detects something. With a much higher then normal concentration of electrical conductors in the blood, your AI predicts these pikmin may have some ability to resist or even be totally immune to electric shocks! That's... pretty much exactly what you needed too- to recover your generator from the singing zone. It's all coming together.

With that, you've gathered six distinct subspecies of Pikmin. That's quite a few, and you get the feeling that with this collection- you can tackle anything this planet can throw at you now.

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With your Candypop buds, you can quickly build up your yellow pikmin population without needing to spend all day gathering food for the yellow onion. Perfect! This will make finding the part or food today much easier-

But once again, some native wildlife rears its head to distract you. Far above you comes a new strange creature; looking more like a balloon then a living thing, it's blows a jet of air down at your Pikmin, knocking them aside and even threatening to kill some if they go over the edge- even your flyers aren't immune to be knocked out of the air!

This creature seems very similar to the Fiery Blowhogs you once dealt with in Fire Alley, a sort of distant relative. What type of Pikmin should you use to deal with these?

>Write In

>>5420321
Since we can hurt by throwing Pikmin at it and I'm not sure we can get Purples to go high enough let's have Greens drain it

>>5420321
>Have Oranges carry Greens up to it, then have Greens dogpile and drain it

Welcome to the team, Yellow Fellows. You can help us out next time!

>>5420321
Have the Greens dig their tendrils into the ground and around each other, creating a 'net' for the rest of them to fall back on. Focus on using Oranges to lift the 'net' of Pikmin up, and aerial-drop them on top of the PuffyBlowhog.

>>5420341
Supportin' green's dropshippin'

I think orange can break the wall in the garden with their high-pitch sound. What are your thoughts?
Also, let's try the other dungeon!

>>5420321
Throw some yellows, they are light

>>5420321

Tether the gasbag to the ground with greens and then put the beatdown on him.

>>5420341
+1

>>5420341
This, but also:
>>5420321
>Keep some Purples around to use as well - they won't get blown around easily, and can weigh the Blowhog down significantly if they latch on.

>>5420321
Question for you Mamuta. Would it be possible to domesticate or tame some of the wild life on this planet? Like the little whip guys that collect nectar, or dwarf Bubborbs? It would be pretty cool to have tanky critter friends. Maybe not too many since then it would be a food issue.

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Strangely, it seems out of all your Pikmin, the Green Pikmin have the best resistance to wind- though you're pretty sure if you had some purples with you, their heft would prevent them from getting knocked over to it. The green pikmin sway like saplings against the gale, and as such can stand against it. But they can't reach the monster on their own so...

Using a combination of Greens and Orange, you manage to trap the large blowhogs underneath a "net" of pikmin. Try as they will, the coordinated pikmin can't be blown apart before being dropped and trapping the poor blowhog. You briefly consider trying to domesticate the poor beast, but this one would be too unruly. Something smaller might be better suited to this- like a Honeywisp or dwarf Bulborbs... But then again domestication of a species can take centuries with breeding and training, and you can only survive on this planet for a few more weeks of time. Perhaps with more scientific study, or maybe an even more specialized and rare type of Pikmin it may be possible...

With the blowhogs that roam this area defeated and dealt with- it's easy enough to transverse the mountains of the dreary heights. Tomorrow, you'll have plenty of time...

DAY 13
11 Rations Remain
You return to the Dreary Heights, confident in your abilities and your pikmin. With the Candypop Bulbs in your cargo hold you have quickly equalized your armies of pikmin to give you a great number of yellows- despite only having found the onion yesterday, many flowers as well. You've got the full suite, time to decide how to put them to use.

>Find the Ship Part + Food
>Explore the Dungeon of this area

>>5421155
>Explore the Dungeon of this area
We got food and additional time to spare. Weary am I to risk the lives of our pikmin friends, I do wants to know what's there. Perhaps we can keep our army smaller, 8 of each type in case we come across a danger that they can overcome.

...oh shit. Green+orange pikmin net combo is really damn deadly. Now that I think about it. Literally spring a net trap from anywhere, and the trap is eating you.

>>5421155
>>Explore the Dungeon of this area

>>5421155
>Explore the Dungeon of this area

>>5421155
>Find the Ship Part + Food
I want to get all parts but one and then go on a dungeon binge

>>5405011
Rushed to this thread as soon as I saw it on the catalog. Before I read up I want to say keep it up OP, I fucking love Pikmin

>>5421155
>Explore the Dungeon of this area
Assuming that our Perpetual Dynamo is in said dungeon, lets take our yellows to finally pick it up.