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Round 19 - 18:00, April 29th, 2000
Round Prologue
As the sun sets on an yet another day, TO is preparing for future contacts with humanity. It expects some people to come back to sustain the contact at [ROUND 21].
The Organism
TO is now even more empathetic (+50 ME). The pipe caste of this species has also developed biological optic fibers, which make information transport easier (+25 ME, +25 MH).
The ant tried to improve it’s speaking abilities, seeing that humans from the encounter had some problems with understanding it. However with no one around to teach it well enough TO’s progress wasn’t so great (+25 MH, +25 ME). TO has also developed a highly specialised “stomach caste” which can be made to help in metal shaping (+50 MH, +50 S). The exoskeleton was refined even more (+100 MH). TO then developed an another caste, this time looking a lot like a human. They have medieval armour-looking exoskeleton and at the same time look beautiful and cute, however it seems like that their brain isn’t developed in the way intended (+25 MH, +25 S). A tumor has emerged and was liquidated quickly (-50 H). TO also made a specific change to it’s children - from now on, their structures will quickly decay when being researched (+50 ME, +50 MH).
TO has increased the tower’s width, making it more solid as a result. The dirt used to do that contained lots of food and the pits from which it was extracted caught some animals (+150 R). TO then thought about making a large caste made of many smaller mutating ants, giving it knowledge. The tourist admired the idea and gave some food to TO as a gift (+125 R). After widening the tower, it was time to make it even taller, making it a more notable landmark from an even larger distance, and an even better bird bait (+125 R)… TO tried birthing the diplomat caste and the stomach caste, but instead produced some more regular children (100 R → 100 S). TO also expanded the Tower’s base to make it more stable. In an act of gratitude, the children gave the ant a gift of food for the important helping tast (+125 R).
(+150 ME, +275 MH, +175 S, +425 R)
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 - 2940/6528
STRENGTH - 5241
RESOURCES - 1261/1536 (-325 R from mutations, used 100 R to regenerate 300 E)
ENERGY - 18/2925 (-425 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
-More Empathy - Pipe Caste Bio Optic Fiber
- Better Language
- Stomach Caste
- Better Exoskeleton
- Diplomat Caste
- Research Decay
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.