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Round 18 - 12:00, April 29th, 2000
Round Prologue
(Rolled 3/6, Higher rolls are better for TO)
A group of 12 people has ventured into an unprotected forest near Matiguas, trying to reach a nest whose main goal has become the construction of a tall, easily visible tower.
The Organism
TO’s exoskeleton is now far more mineral-rich, making it sturdier (+50 MH).
The ant has developed some tumours on it’s head, which have now been healed (-50 H). It then developed a new, strange kind of an ant which looks and functions more like a pipe or a wire - It can move lots of stuff around in pipes made from chains of itself, and is able to mutate in order to conduct better. It makes communication and resource-moving around the new hive a lot easier (+50 MH, +50 ME, @willow please submit a minor mutation related to the pipe-wire caste). TO also developed a better camouflage on it’s now-harder armour (+75 MH, +25 S). TO’s brain also developed a lot, becoming a lot better at abstract thought and working memory, also having it’s pattern recognition skills heightened, increasing it’s logical ability (+100 ME, @fralegend015 please submit a minor mutation related to the brain). The ant then developed another caste - this one consumes soil and turns it into edible food (Gives (Size Multiplier) R every Round). TO then brought the amount of castes made in 6 hours up to three, now developing a caste designed to find, mine and transport metals and minerals, albeit it didn’t develop the way intended (+50 MH).
TO has brought more metal structure to top of the tower, making it even taller as a result. This has attracted the attention of many birds, which TO procedeed to catch (+125 R). TO also build more traps around the new nest and obtained bodies of animals which have fallen into older ones (+125 R). After that, The Ant tried to search information about human technologies on the internet, but it instead found a bunch of confusing memes which made it so angry that it accidently flew into a tree (-50 H). TO then deployed the land-eating children near the tower, hoping that they would convert the loose soil on the nest grounds into edible matter, but after returning the amount of food produced was smaller than expected (+75 R). After that however TO commanded it’s new and old children to automate metal production. The children have quickly organized, using tunels that stretch far from the nest as mines for metal extraction and transported the ores aboveground, near the nest, where they would be smelted into more usable forms. The children also collected lots of worms and other soil-dwelling organisms during the operation (+150 R).
HUMAN INTERACTION
12 People have now arrived at fringes of the nest, being able to see giant ants carrying metal ores into primitive ovens from which liquid metal was taken to be shaped into new forms. Questioning lots of stuff, the team ended up tearing through the camouflaging barriers of the nest and quickly were faced with TO.
They are amazed when they hear The Ant speaking Spanish, maybe not in the most perfect form but still easily understandable. TO says that it was first “awakened” some four days ago, and proceeds to talk about it’s gradual evolution from a regular bullet ant to the being it has turned into now. The Zombie also entered the scene, and having had it’s brain fully healed, also proceeds to join the strange discussion. The team is writing notes as the ant and the revived tourist talk about many things, ranging from the astonishing amount of wild food in this area to TO mentioning it’s ability to connect to the WWW and talk to people online. Left in wonders, dozen people leave the nest area, whilist TO and The Zombie hope that what they did will allow them to make a peaceful contact with humanity.
When the team returns to Matiguas, news of TO, the Tourist, The mutated Ants and The Tower quickly spread amongst the population. These news, thru the internet, also reach new areas beyond the surroundings of the Reserva, but the further they go the more they are regarded as fake news. One is for certain though, and it’s that a bunch of researchers will soon approach the site of the tower…
(Achieved Contact With Humans)
(+225 MH, +150 ME, +25 S, +575 R, -50 H)
SIZE-RELATED CHANGES (will take effect from Round 14):
- Things such as mutations/action costs, statistic gains due to mutations/actions, energy consumed per round, health loss due to roll of 1, resource gathering multiplier and resources turning into other statistics have been multiplied by
50100 (so for instance, a resource-gathering action with a roll of 3 or 4 will now gather63125 R (50100 R +1325 R from the former +0.25 R per R-gathering action) and cost2550 E.)
Statistics
ARMOUR - 125
HEALTH - 2940/6253
STRENGTH - 5066
RESOURCES - 1261/1536 (-300 R from mutations, used 100 R to regenerate 300 E)
ENERGY - 142/2775 (-300 E from actions)
HUMAN KNOWLEDGE - 2
Informal:
SIZE - ~4M (4 cm x 100)
KILLS - 1 PERSON
HUMAN POPULATION ~ 6099999999
COUNTRY POPULATION ~ 5100000
HUMAN AWARENESS LEVEL - “Researchers have found the strange ants and sent some of them to research labs… TO has made contact with humans, whom have saved and spread their talk with The Ant…”
Mutations
- Evolving Tissue
- Radiation Sickness Resistance
- Jaw Electrocution
- Venom
- Better Pheromones
- Oleic Acid Secretion
- 1 Resource can now be turned into 2.5 Energy
- More Radiation Resistance
- ET glands
- Hydrogen Bladder
- Being a Queen
- Larger Mandibles
- More Oleic Acid Production
- EVEN MORE Radiation Resistance
- Eggs steal stuff from cells
- Wings
- Better Antennae
- Tentacles
- Better Wings
- “Bipolar Disorder”
- Better Sound Communication
- Lead in Cells
- Mobile Cells
- More Neurons
- Armor Layer
- More Efficient Digestion (+0.25 R to all actions that collect R)
- Be Yellowish-Blue
- Heat Resistance
- Cell Freedom
- Size Increase x3 (to ~32cm)
- Better Tentacles
- New Caste
- Size Increase (to ~64cm)
- Smaller Neurons & less feedback
- Color Shifting
- Vocal Cords
- Lethaler Venom
- Being unable to hate or be angry
- Stronger Muscles
- Size Increase (to ~256cm)
- Photosyntesis queen-like caste
- Higher egg production rate
- Empathy
- Better Healing (R to H ratio now 1:2)
- Better Energy Production (now 1:2.75)
- Larger Brain
- Better Healing (R to H ratio now 1:2.5)
- Language Lobe
- Poison Stinger
- Size Increase (to ~7.5 meters)
- More Intelligence
- Cuteness
- Cat features
- Better Energy Production (now 1:3)
- Size decrease (to ~2 meters)
- Voice organ
- False Charisma
- More Cuteness
- Endoskeleton
- Stronger Armour
- Armour Patterns
- Humanoid Shape
- Trap Caste
- Better Flight
- Whiskers
- Hemoglobin Marrow
- Femminine Features
- Extra Cuteness
- Gene-Stealing Claws
- Passive Healing ((1/2 Size Multiplier)H/R)
- Venom Projectile
- Humanoid Upper Body
- Acid Spit
- Higher Intelligence
- Cat Ears
- Big Eyes
- Hallucination Venom
- Hair
- More Humanoid
- Backup Eggs
- Voice Throwing
- Cerebral Structures in lower body
- Substance Mimicry
- Better Digging Abilities
- Better Armour
- Harder Exoskeleton
- Shifting Weight
- Mutation Commanding
- Anti-Human Camouflage
- Scout Caste
- ENs
- Better Poison Stinger
- Larger Size (up to ~4 meters)
- Confusion Chemical
- Constant Scout Communication
- Better Voice
- Capsid organ
- DNA destruction
- Better Neurons
- Colour Camouflage
- More Intelligence
- Voice Attack
- Better Speech
- Femur-like Structures
- Trap Building Master
- Adrenaline Glands
- More Intelligence
- Silk Ants
- Trap trigger detection
- More Empathy
- Wifi Antennae
- Stronger Claws
- Extra Segment
- Lower body cerebral matter maths
- More Intelligence
- Stronger Claws
- Browsing Ganglia
- Wifi Hotspot
- Stronger Exoskeleton
- More Fat Layer
- Better Brainmatter in lower body
- Assymetrical poison trap child
- Smarter
- Mineral Armour
- Pipe Caste
- Camoufalge
- Better Logical Abilities
- Soil-Eaters (+(Size Multiplier) R per Round)
- Miner Caste
Location
South of Reserva Natural Sierra Quirragua, near Matiguas, Central Nicaragua
(Removed to not take up forum space)
(Red dot represents current location)
Miscellaneous
I’ll remind you that there exists a system that allows you to make a vote against a player whose Mutation/Actions goes against your own Mutation/Action.
Some additional rules and stuff:
-If size of the organism increases, so will the organism statistics, aswell as their effects (so if you double your size, the organism has double in height statistics, and it consumes double energy/round passively).
-Actions such as converting resources into energy, or turning resources into health, don’t cost energy. However, if you don’t have resources nor energy, you can draw your health bar (meaning that it’ll have a lower cap) in order to regenerate energy just like resources.