Survival in the Forum

@fralegend015 - Fabuloid Spiritusvivi, “Archmage” - HO

  • Small Omnivore, Species’ God in control of The Mistorb

Mutations: Vassalization Reinforcement, Mistdom-RealLife Questioning

Being alarmed by the feeling of losing it’s grip on the possibly dangerous Mistorb, Deus quickly assembled a team of prized scientists from the covenant already stationed at the laboratory in the Mistvault PM to create a “boosting soul” for the vassalization soul which lies inside of the dark orb. The team would prove their worth and fame, designing and then injecting the reinforcing soul into the Mistorb via the Injector, just like the fief-soul proper was injected two months ago. Following this, being sure that what the mistworm turned into cannot ever escape it’s grasp again, Deus would start questioning the orb about the strange interactions Humans of the world beyond not just the forum, but the virtual realm itself, and the various mist forces over the eras the forum experienced - from the creation of the mist and, eventually, it’s “kingdom” a couple dozen months ago, to the recent, highly suspected (albeit left with no solid evidence) fusion of a forum user with the darkblur, a being released by the mistorb a couple of months ago. According to the orb, human souls, while not being able to use it in the world of the real, have a great potential which can be expressed in the forum by the individuals who took on the path of “cult and darkness” - that’s what it descibed the now-antique “wizards of the internet”, which first brough it to life years ago thanks to combining all the species present in the forum back then into one entity - by using cybermagic present in the ancestors of the archmage kin and, to solidify the mists’ design in place, a strong dose of human will, given by members of a couple months old “cult” back then. When it comes to the more recent darkblur incident, the orb says that while it can’t be exactly sure what happened here (as that act was done by darkblur, not the dark orb), it thinks that, while the forum is like a prison to all creatures within, beings outside the forum, including the real world, could enter it without a hitch, althrough at a cost - they’d never be able to leave again. The orb also said that the reason why Gamernicegames has slain their closest ones and created the “demonic circle” was since entering the forum from real world requires a fee far larger than entering it from an another website - in this case, entering the forum from the realm of the real living requires two to be sent to the realm of the dead in order to gain all the energy required for a human soul to be transferred into the forum. Since no police investigation was launched into the forum, it can also be suspected that whatever occured in the insane user’s flat at the moment of the soul transportation must’ve caused huge devastation of that living space in the real world, so much so that the forum couldn’t be linked to what one would assume is the death of three people. The orb can’t really pindown how one would get so obsessed with the forum that they’d leave the real world in favour of a pretty obscure website through…

Statistics:

  • Speed - 18
  • Stealth - 23*(2.5) = 57.5 (60.5)
  • Strenght - 31*(1.5) = 46.5 (58.5) (Venom)
  • User Usefulness - 1 (2)
  • -2 Mistdom attack damage, 1/3 chance to miss

Distribution: Wilderness, A-M Area 1

Preys On: Vegetation
Predated By: N/A

Mutation History
  • Respiratory System
  • Basic Tentacles (+2 Speed due to Respiratory System)
  • Grinding Teeth
  • Stronger Muscles (+1 Strenght)
  • Camouflage (+1 Stealth)
  • Jumping Limbs (+1 Speed)
  • Circulatory System
  • Omnivorous Diet
  • Digging Limbs (+1 Stealth)
  • Harder Skin (+1 Strenght)
  • Venom Glands (+1 Strenght)
  • Sharp Teeth (+1 Strenght)
  • Sound Antennae (+1 Stealth)
  • Extra Muscle Speed (+1 Speed)
  • Size Increase (Small Size)
  • Spiky Skin (+1 Strenght)
  • Simple brain
  • Stronger Digging Limbs (+1 Strenght)
  • Chemoreception (+1 Stealth)
  • Tunnel Digging (+1 Stealth)
  • More Speed (+1 Speed)
  • More Speed (+1 Speed)
  • More Speed (+1 Speed)
  • Harder Skin (+1 Strenght)
  • Epigenetic Manipulation (+0.5 M/R)
  • Better Vascular System
  • Better Respiratory System (+1 Speed)
  • Limbs Location Change (+1 Speed)
  • Intermediate Brain (+1 Stealth)
  • Cybercognition (+1 Stealth)
  • Autokinesis (+1 Speed)
  • Netpulmonation (+1 Speed)
  • Cybercordis (+1 Strenght)
  • Cyber-Soul (+1 Stealth)
  • Telekinesis (+1 Strenght)
  • UIthurgy (+1 UU)
  • Spiritual Retention (+1 Stealth)
  • Hyperportal Creation (+1 Speed)
  • Telepathy (+1 Stealth)
  • Poltergeist (+1 Stealth)
  • Compound Spirituality (+1 Stealth)
  • Stronger Autokinesis (+1 Speed)
  • Pneuma (+1 Strenght)
  • Genesis (EE)
  • Suggestion (+1 UU to all other species)
  • Mist Distribution (+1 Strenght, If this species is attacked by The Mist, all other ones will also feel the effects)
  • Spirit Tendrils (+1 Strenght)
  • Metempsychosis (+1 Stealth)
  • Specialized Thinking Circuits (+1 Stealth)
  • Tendril Highways (+1 Speed)
  • Compounding (+1 Strenght)
  • Soul Cybersphere Specialization (+1 Strenght)
  • Deus (+1 Strenght)
  • Deus-to-Living Connection (+1 Stealth)
  • Unseen Travel (+1 Speed)
  • Cyber Immune System (+1 Strenght)
  • Revive D. Cogitandi
  • Covenant Alliance
  • Speed (+1 Speed)
  • Mistdom Disruption Virus (When a Fief breaks off from The Mistdom, it instantly joins The Covenant and loses no conservation points)
  • Anti-mistworm Defense (-1 Mistworm Action damage to all Covenant members)
  • Hyperuranio (+1 Stealth to all Covenant members)
  • Anti-Mist Walls (1/4 Chance for a Mist Action/Mutation to fail, 1/3 for the undead)
  • Gene Modifications (Can Modify Covenant Members)
  • Better Anti-Mistdom Protection (+1 Strenght, -2 Mistdom attack damage)
  • Study the Cyberspace (+1 Stealth)
  • Cyberspace Architecture Study (+1 Stealth)
  • The Barrier (1/3 chance for the mistdom to miss attacks)
  • Pseudo-Cursor (+1 Strenght)
  • Mist Hunters (+1 Strenght)
  • Regular Layer Deus (+1 Strenght)
  • Regular Layer Injection (+1 Strenght)
  • Mist Hunter Upgrade (+1 Strenght)
  • Energy Nodes (+1 Strenght)
  • Machine Souls (+1 Strenght)
  • Phylactery (+1 Strenght)
  • Robots (+1 Strenght)
  • C. Venenatorum Mutation: Deus Worship (+1 Strenght)
  • The Laboratory (+1 Stealth)
  • New Laboratory Tools (+1 Stealth)

@willow - Cancrorum Venenatorum, “Venomous Wall Crab” - HO

  • Small Herbivore + Parasite

Mutations: Soul-In-A-Website Experiment, Self-Sufficient Souls (+1 Stealth)
DM: Outsider Communications (5/6)

C. Venenatorum would retry the experiment from the previous month, but this time with a major change - instead of using physical objects, the souls of a queen and a few workers were sent to some obscure website where they shouldn’t be seen by anybody. As the experiment started, the wallcrabs told some of the most enthusiastic users of this species to go to that website and observe any distortions which could be caused by a creature’s soul being present there. After their return, they said that soul-related distortions were seen entering the website… but in a matter of a dozen or so seconds they shrunk into oblivion, signalling that the soul causing the distortion perished. It seems like even if one could travel beyond the forum from within, what lies further than the forum’s clading walls is extremely hostile to anything related to the biota, so much that the environments as a whole acts like acid, quickly dissolving anything that dares to stay there… But besides that, a new type of soul was developed, which can stay in the soul form permanently, not needing a connection with a critter to stay “alive”. Those souls are rather weak, but they do provide a good degree of intelligence to higher-ups in the wallcrab hives…
On a more important note, Deus had this species set up more permanent ways of communications with the forum outsiders, which should make the links between these forums and this one more stable… But such links might not be in use anymore, as not long after first messages were sent using the new methods the other-biota organisms, of which biotas there are twelve, announced that what they feared has arrived - the conditions within their forums have been worsening over their stay in them, and it seems like very soon the forums will become inhospitable. As so the twelve biotas finally fused into twelve beings, one for each forum, and they all seem to have developed special means of exiting their forums and heading for an another location - in their final messages, they said that this place has appeared in their minds ever since their inception, and while they don’t know much about, they all have developed two ideas about it - it’s most likely hospitable permanently, and secondly, they all think that this place hosts the “devourer demon”, which all of them remember well even through last raids happened many weeks ago now, which while in real world isn’t much time, for forum critters of any kind that’s the equvalent of multiple generations, decades. They should arrive to that place next month. Could it be that their home forums will soon become no different from the website used in the soul teleportation experiment?

Statistics:

  • Speed - 24/13
  • Stealth - 31*(2.5) = 77.5 (80.5)
  • Strenght - 44/45*(2) = 88/90 (100/102) (Bitter, Spicy)
  • User Usefulness - 0 (1)
  • 1/3 chance for the mistdom to miss, -3 mistdom population damage, +1 damage against the Md, Revenge

Distribution: Wilderness, A-M Area 1

Preys On (+Parasite): Vegetation
Predated By: N/A

Mutation History
  • Segmentation
  • Annular Muscles (+2 speed due to Axial Respiratory System)
  • Axial Respiratory System
  • Siphon (+1 Speed)
  • Mantle (+1 Strenght)
  • Joints (+1 Speed)
  • Circulatory System
  • Stylocone Tail / Evil Face (+1 Strenght)
  • Basic Brain
  • Eyespots (+1 Stealth)
  • Compound eyes (+1 Stealth)
  • Memory Cortex
  • Countershading (+1 Stealth)
  • Segmented Mantle Osteoderm (+1 Strenght)
  • Bitter Taste (+1 Strenght)
  • “Reflectors” (+1 Stealth)
  • Schooling
  • Physical imitation (+1 Stealth)
  • Chemoreception (+1 Stealth)
  • Air Bags (+1 Speed)
  • Mental Rating
  • Size Increase (Small Size)
  • Closed Circulatory System
  • K-type Reproduction
  • Midsection Duplication (+1 Speed)
  • Setae (+1 Stealth)
  • Acid-Resistant Eggs
  • 12 Legs (+1 Speed)
  • RNA Editing (Extinction Evasion)
  • Rotator Leg Joint (+1 Speed)
  • Wings (+1 F Speed)
  • Castes (+0.5 to Strenght Multiplier)
  • Ameboid Larva Cells (+1 Strenght)
  • Possesion (+1 Strenght)
  • More and more plastic neurons (+1 Stealth)
  • UV equivalent usage (+1 Stealth)
  • Gamete dismantling (+1 Strenght)
  • Feature Theft (+0.5 M/R)
  • Spicy (+1 Strenght)
  • Cyberwater (+1 Strenght)
  • Spiciness Plates (+1 Strenght)
  • Better Leg Muscles (+1 W Speed)
  • Leg Bones (+1 W Speed)
  • Better Hydrokinesis (+1 F Speed)
  • Better Against Cybermagic (+1 Strenght / +2 Strenght against species with cybermagic)
  • Mind Tendril Communication (+1 Stealth)
  • Steal Photosynthesis (+1 Strenght)
  • Free Larva Improvements (+1 B Speed)
  • Ally with The Mist (+1 Strenght)
  • Water Storage (+1 Strenght)
  • Respiratory Wings (+1 B Speed)
  • MM: Emergency Tribute
  • Sacrifice Caste (+1 Stealth)
  • MM: Spiritual Infiltration
  • Mutations: Souls (+1 Strenght)
  • Soul Fusion (+1 Strenght)
  • MM: Spiritual Parasitism (+1 Strenght)
  • Mist Energy Draw (+1 B Speed)
  • MM: Cyberparasite Infiltration (+1 Stealth)
  • Soul Energy Gathering (+1 Stealth)
  • Energy Linker Cell (+1 B Speed)
  • MM: Cyberparasite Infection (+1 Strenght)
  • Undo The Mist’s attempts of harming Deus (+1 Strenght)
  • MM: Better Connections (+1 Stealth)
  • Secret Colony Network (+1 Strenght)
  • Cursor Permeability (+1 Stealth)
  • MM: Speed (+1 B Speed)
  • False Allies (+1 Strenght)
  • Better Lungs (+1 B Speed)
  • MM: Tendril Sight (+1 Stealth)
  • Better Hydrokinesis (+1 Strenght)
  • Report Weakness (Switched Alliance)
  • Mutation Bending (Can Change Other Species Mutations)
  • DM: Better Soul Circuits (+1 Stealth, +0.5 Brain Tier)
  • Secret Reorganization (+1 Stealth)
  • Soul Computer Upgrade (+1 Stealth, Tier-2.5 Brain)
  • Anti-Mist (+1 Strenght to all Covenant Members)
  • DM: Communication (+1 Stealth)
  • Mutavenom Form (+1 Strenght, 1/3 chance for mistdom attacks to miss)
  • Stronger Hydrokinesis (+1 Strenght)
  • Soul Barrier (+1 Strenght, -1 Mistdom population damage)
  • DM: Injector Upgrade (Injector twice as efficient)
  • Selling the Soul (+1 Strenght)
  • Selling the Body (+1 Stealth)
  • Material Conversion (+1 Stealth)
  • Chatrooms (+1 Stealth)
  • Vaporization (+1 Strenght)
  • Time Dilation (+1 Stealth)
  • DM: Cursor Presets (+1 Strenght)
  • Cursor Ascension (+1 Strenght)
  • True Possession (+1 Strenght)
  • Truesight (+1 Stealth)
  • Improved Truesight Range (+1 Stealth)
  • Better Proto-Lungs (+1 B Speed)
  • DM: Better Mistdom Protection (-1 mistdom population damage)
  • Better Proto-Lungs (+1 B Speed)
  • Anti-Mistdom fluid (+1 B Speed, -1 Mistdom population damage)
  • Energy Collectors (+1 Strenght)
  • Air Pumps (+1 B Speed)
  • Faster Brain (+1 F Speed)
  • Truesight Supremacy (+1 Stealth)
  • DM: Stronger anti-mistdom fluid (+1 damage against the mistdom)
  • Soul Transfer (+1 Strenght)
  • Water God (+1 Strenght)
  • Belief (+1 Strenght)
  • Avatars (+1 Strenght)
  • Vengeance (Attacks when attacked, but loses 1 Conservation Point)
  • Soul Reproduction (+1 Stealth)
  • Faster Legs (+1 W Speed)
  • Worship Spread (+1 Strenght to ALL Covenant species)
  • Nd. Cogitandi Mutation: GE Metal Implants (+1 Stealth)
  • Mutavenom Upgrade (+1 Strenght)
  • Mutasteal (Can steal other species’ mutations, tied to dice)
  • Advantagetaking (can attack a species if it only has 1 base stat above the swarms’ ones) (Stolen from D. Bontopius)
  • Organ Castes (+1 Strenght)
  • GEM Cellwalls (+1 Strenght)
  • Thicker GEM Cellwalls (+1 Strenght)
  • SRC (+1 Strenght)
  • Self-Sufficient Souls (+1 Stealth)

BIOMES:
Wilderness - All Species
A-M Area 1 - All Species

ORGANIZATIONS & GROUPS (from most friendly to most hostile):

  • “The Splitters” Group
  • RC (Research Community)
  • MwTC (Mistworm Termination Council)
  • “Prosper First” Group

THE TWO BIOTA GROUPS:

  • “THE MISTDOM” - Darkblur, Darkblur-Obedient Users, The Mistorb (Vassal of Deus)
  • “THE COVENANT”- F. Spiritusvivi, Deus, M. Cat-Bestiae, S. TeaKinges, P. Narrenists, C. Venenatorum, Nd. Cogitandi, The Upgrading Anti-Mistworm (New upgrade at ROUND 54), MwTC Users, The Injector (+ Regular Layer Injector), The (Replenishing) Hunter Cursors, Cybernukes, Checkpoints, Devourer, Water-God, Metal God, Warrior God, Warfare God, Other Minor Gods

ERA:
Early Period (1-3 MAL ) → Intermediate Period (4-9 MAL) → Pax Multipoda (10-23 MAL) → Intelligence Rise (24-31 MAL) → Confrontation Period (Formerly Known as Chaos Age) (Phase 1: 32-39 MAL, Phase 2: 40-49 MAL) → PAX FOEDUS (50 MAL-present)


Some new important events are ought to happen soon…

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