The Great Belgiuming (April Fools Forum Game)

[willow (they/her or yours are was/were)]

yep, probably by dropping it on their corpse

an idea for balancing it is making it use micro-bees that replace dead cells with their own cells, and repair mortal wounds the same way, then restart vital functions, meaning the longer a fighter has been dead, the more jelly is needed to revive them, but fighters that don’t have an immune system that will attack the micro-bees are harder to kill while it’s in their system

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

What do you plan to do with the tunnel which is being dug towards the main hive?

[willow (they/her or yours are was/were)]

expand the hive through it, probably leave a gap about 4-8 tiles wide in case either side catches fire

i plan to effectively make this entire valley into one giant hive, and i’m probably gonna hollow out some boulders to turn them into hives as well

oh and if a single hive catches fire, it should probably make a 2 tile radius spot that’s on fire for about 4 rounds, due to how flammable molten beeswax is

which would add a danger element to having so many hives and let me strategically burn hives to deal fire damage!

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

I don’t think you’ll have enough time to turn the entire valley into a hive…

[willow (they/her or yours are was/were)]

guess i gotta start making more workers with my hives then

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

I also don’t think you’ll have enough XP to get a new advantage by yourself once this battle is over…

[willow (they/her or yours are was/were)]

how much does 1 cost?
oh nvm 100

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

By the way, you now may post your mutations in SitF since a new round was posted.

Edit: @doomlightning @Ferrus_coloni I need your votes.

[Ferrus_coloni]

action 1: infiltrate the mind of an enemy, listening in on incoming information to find the new network

action 2: study how enemies I spied on previously changed, in order to make my intrusion harder to detect

[doomlightning (The Invisible Aztec Dodo God. Real Plant Enslaver, Ltd.)]

1. move back to the east
2. recharge energy

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

@doomlightning

move back to the east

You mean west? You cannot go further east.

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BATTLE 1 - TURN 21

Somnium tried to infiltrate the mind of an another enemy, connected to the new network. It appears that this network will be harder to infiltrate. However, just as somnium was studying the changes this network has to the previous one, all the belgium-blobs disappeared…

Waterzooi moved west after meeting the eastern wall, then recharged some energy. It felt that something massive appeared to the west of itself…

Loki used the hive’s powers to heal itself fully, restoring the healthy state of the swarms prior to first damages.
The hive swarm expanded the hive…
The ex-western swarm dug east, managing to reach the main hive.
The corpse-carrying swarm deposited the remains of the stoned foe in the hive. It also picked up some of the remains it lost on the way to the hive, in the end moving a bit back to give some room to breathe for the hive-builder swarm
The guarding swarm took parts of the ex-possessed blob and took them to the small hive. Some bees were produced too, and they will stay at this hive, being able to be released to replace their dead brethen if needed.

You haven’t lost your hopes up to this point?

If so… prepare to fight such a defender that

You’ll have no chance winning against, Earthlings…

All the enemies present on the battlefields suddenly vanished! But in their place descended one large foe, arriving in between Waterzooi and Loki’s Guard Swarm… It’s far larger than any blob seen previously by the Terran Fighters…

(+1 XP to Somnium, +3 XP to Loki, +1 Energy to Waterzooi, Loki’s HP maxed out)

(Removed to not take up forum space)

LEGEND:
Green - LOKI
Blue - ENKEFAROS
Orange - WATERZOOI
SOMNIUM - Together with other fighters…
Red - BELGIUM FIGHTERS (First Spawn)
Purple - BELGIUM FIGHTERS (Second spawn - type 1)
Light-gray - BELGIUM FIGHTERS (Second spawn - type 2)
Light Blobs - BOULDERS (blocks movement)
Yellow - Converted BELGIUM FIGHTERS
Pink - Possessed BELGIUM FIGHTERS
Orange (When not a single dot) / Dark Grey (If not the border) - Toxic Gas
Lime - Loki Hives
MAP MOVEMENT SPEED = (Speed Statistic / 2) Pixels (Map is 100 X 100 Pixels across in total, including the unclimbable walls)

SIGHT RANGE - 5.5 Pixels Radius From a Fighter’s Center

FIGHTERS:

Loki

ADVANTAGES:
1: Extra Form
2:

@willow

overstimulation immunity: the user’s brain adapts to the amount and types of stimuli it gets and actions it needs to perform at a time within minutes, resulting in the user being functionally immune to overstimulation

3:

@willow

decentralized body: the user cannot die from destruction of one vital organ, as they have multiple copies of every vital organ, and thus every copy of at least one vital organ must be destroyed for the user to die. the user can also start growing more of any organ on command, but it takes time to grow them, even if cells can just be tilapia-dteleported in in the shape of the organ, as generally tissue will need to be moved and spawning all the cells at once will simply make the whole thing either fall apart or otherwise not function.

DISADVANTAGES:
1:

@willow

legless: the user does not, and can not, have legs. if the user attempts to make legs, with a leg defined as a limb that has the intended main purpose of locomotion by pushing against the ground or a wall, the limb will disintegrate or be turned back into its raw materials.

2:

@willow

insomnia: the user is physically unable to sleep. they don’t have a biological need to sleep either, but they still feel the effects of not sleeping.

DESCRIPTION:

@willow

single entity
stronger but less agile than Numerous Bees

Numerous Bees
weaker but stronger than single entity form

@willow

Loki has no legs and any legs they try to make will simply vanish as soon as they appear, and as a result they had to know how to make limbs for flying, climbing, swimming, limbs to use the ground to rest, and all-purpose limbs built to do everything but just happening to originate in a spot that makes them useful for locomotion on ground to work around their chronic and incurable leglessness. unsurprisingly, the form they often find themself the most comfortable in is that of not one, but several, and up to thousands of, large bees. of course, as they can shapeshift and keep their most important part in a magical big words pseudoscience dimension, they have removed parts of their central brain they don’t need or want, like their internal thermostat(the bees have their own and having one dedicated to all the bees is simply a bad move), most of the medulla oblongata, as insects are small enough to not need much of a circulatory system, but these bees do breathe, and they all breathe in sync, and their breathing pumps their blood. when they are in bees form they have to modify their auditory and visual processing centers to hear and see things properly, but due to the great amount of bees they do away with their chemoreception processing centers and replace them with something to let all the bees know what bee is smelling what thing and let all the bees smell what all the other bees smell. in bees form they typically feel the need to be doing between 300 and 10,000 things at once, and can do so with their multiple bodies that can communicate near instantly through the magical sci-fi handwave dimension, said bodies also put themselves entirely in the dimension when they are nearing death by anything that won’t continue killing them once they are in the magical electromagnetism dimension(things that will include poison, viruses, parasites that enter your cells, cancer, and prions.).
as Loki is not able to make chitin, their bees for their bees form instead use a keratin exoskeleton with a bone inner lining for muscle cells to bind to, and when the exoskeleton needs to be shed, bones are summoned in their place. Loki also cannot produce venom, so instead for their stinger they use highly concentrated ammonia with all the toxic metals from the bee it’s produced in mixed in.

in ‘human’ form Loki cannot aqcuire brain damage as they keep their brain in the magical sci-fi big words pseudoscience dimension at all times, but they can still ‘die’ if their body is destroyed, but they are still alive when that happens, they just have no anchor to the universe and thus cannot remove any cells from the magic cells dimension, and have to wait until the next battle for their body to respawn. they can also ‘die’ in a similar way in any of their forms, whether or not they have multiple bodies, but if they have multiple bodies all of them must be fully destroyed to destroy their connection to the real world. in forms they have one skull it generally makes a hollow ‘thunk’ noise when knocked on as it is actually generally hollow in those forms, unless they fill it with smaller copies of their internal organs so they can turn into a head octopus if decapitated instead of loosing an anchor to the real world.

@willow

Loki is a human bard multi-dimensional changeling who tells their foes that their magic is very much not magic and is in fact [insert big sciencey word here] for the sake of chaos and just chaos, and that they sold their ability to have legs to an alien that calls its species the belgiums for the knowledge to do all the things they do, and that they were a human but the knowledge they had fed into their brain cannot be comprehended by a human brain so they couldn’t stay human and keep the knowledge, so they kept the knowledge and cast away their humanity. they were actually never a human, their magic is very much magic, the only knowledge the belgium blobs gave them is how to use the magic, and the knowledge is fully comprehendable by the human mind, it’s just useless to the human brain without access to the specific kinds of magic they have. Loki also likes playing instruments and threatening to cast vicious mockery on people who are being rude with no reason.

Loki likes cats, axolotls, octopi, clownfish, and sponges the most due to cats just being cute chaos contraptions, axolotls both being cute and having really good regenerative abilities, octopi being masters of disguise and extremely intelligent, clownfish literally being able to change their sex at will, and sponges being the best shapeshifters on earth, second only to Loki themselves. Foods Loki likes include pretty much anything a honey bee or a cat likes, chocolate, bitter almonds(they can just regrow the parts of the body that die), and the cerebrospinal fluid of kids who intentionally abuse animals they find in alleyways(not like they’re gonna grow up to be good people anyways, but they’ll still probably survive, they’ll definitely have the worst headache of their life though).

yes, my character is just a joke character based on how NBs, including me, tell people who can’t seem to get our pronouns right to refer to us as if we were a swarm of bees, but with shapeshifting, an optimized body and brain for it, leg(o)lessness, and chronic, incurable, and possibly weaponizable insomnia mixed in

STATISTICS:
(FORM 1 - Human):
STEALTH: 20
SPEED: 10 (20)
STRENGHT: 20 30 Normal Damage
HEALTH: 30/30

(FORM 2 - Bees):
STEALTH: 20
SPEED: 20 (30)
STRENGHT: 10 Normal Damage
HEALTH: 30/30

EXPERIENCE: 53

ABILITIES:

PASSIVE:

Overstimulation Immunity: More effective attacks the more enemies are fighting you

Insomnia: Less chance of hitting enemies

Somnium

ADVANTAGES:
1:

@Ferrus_coloni

concept: can only be killed or wounded by attacking the idea/memory of its existance

2:

@Ferrus_coloni

pupeteer, other beings with a defined nervous system can be influenced to act on Somnium’ behalf, thinking its will is their own

DISADVANTAGES:
1:

@Ferrus_coloni

disembodied: lacking a physical form of its own, interaction with the physical world is only possible through its “puppets”

DESCRIPTION:

@Ferrus_coloni

Somnium is humanity distilled into its most elemental form: the desire to survive and improve, the recent attack of the Belgium blobs has reinforced this concept to the point people have begun attributting a name and will to it

STATISTICS:

STEALTH: 20
SPEED: 20
STRENGHT: 10 Normal Strenght, 10 Control Strenght
HEALTH: 20/20 + Partial Protection (Abilities)
EXPERIENCE: 50

ABILITIES:

PASSIVE:

Memory Attack: Can only be damaged by enemies who attack the idea of it’s existance (50% chance to miss attacks)

Disembodied: Doesn’t have a body for self, relies on puppets to interact with the world. The Puppets inherit their own statistics. Your own statistics are separate from them.

ACTIVE:

Pupeteer: If Control Strenght is higher than any strenght an enemy has, they can be pupeteed. MAX amount of puppets = 5.

(Before you Puppet anything, you can infect an enemy like an invisible parasite ghost, in that state you can’t damage the enemies)

Enkefaros

ADVANTAGES:
1:

@fralegend015

Time dilatation - Has more actions.

2:

@fralegend015

Telekinesis - Can attack at a distance.

DISADVANTAGES:
1:

@fralegend015

Vulnerable - takes more damage

DESCRIPTION:

@fralegend015

Big brain.

Literally, this is a giant brain with tentacles that uses psyonics.

STATISTICS:

STEALTH: 20
SPEED: 20
STRENGHT: 10 Normal Strenght + 10 Distance Strenght
HEALTH: 0/15
EXPERIENCE: 45

ABILITIES:

ACTIVE:
Time Dilation: When Active, can do 3 actions in one sub-round.

Waterzooi

ADVANTAGES:
1:

@doomlightning

Equilibrium zone: [Passive] Up to a certain range, anything that is defined as some kind of ability or energy at a higher frequency than ultraviolet, is neutralized, including mine. It is possible to change the range, but usually no more than 6 m. (Electricity is affected by this, kinetic energy [e.g. a projectile] is weakened upon entering the area but not eliminated).

2:

@doomlightning

Genetic manipulation: [Active] Allows a certain control over the genes of other creatures and their modification.

3:

@doomlightning

Dimensional Weaver: [Passive] Able to “borrow” other’s traits from anywhere possible, if not the most effective.

DISADVANTAGES:
1:

@doomlightning

E=MC2: [Passive] Any use of an ability means use of energy, and existence in which some external energy source is required.
[Equilibrium Zone allows you to ‘draw’ energy from the environment, only if it is real energy such as electricity, laser, lightning, etc.]

2:

@doomlightning

Vulnerable: [Active] A simple hit can cause great damage.

DESCRIPTION:

@doomlightning

Beige long Hoody. cant see his face. simmaler to human.

STATISTICS:

STEALTH: 20
SPEED: 20
STRENGHT: 10 Normal Strenght
HEALTH: 11/11 + Partial Protection (Abilities)
EXPERIENCE: 51
(DISADVANTAGE) ENERGY: 3/5

ABILITIES:

PASSIVE:
Equilibrium Zone: Energetic and Kinetic attacks are weakened if they are within this zone, regenerates energy if such attack is commited

Dimension Weaver: When Hit an enemy, temporarily adds the best advantage to The Fighter (Lasts until the fight with this/those entity/entities ends)

E=MC2: Special Energy Statistic which measures how many Active Abilities can you cast.

ACTIVE:
Genetic Manipulation: Can Modify an enemy’s genome, changing it’s statistics, abilities and even alignment. You need to first inspect an enemy in order to use this ability.

MISC.:

Other Stuff

10 XP can add 5 points to a statistic,
100 XP can add an advantage/ability OR upgrade an already existing advantage/ability.

Fight will include cube dice rolls:
1- You miss
2- Strikes a worse area
3- Strikes a worse area
4- Strikes as expected
5- Strikes as expected
6- Strikes critical area

Damage is affected by the rolls of the dice, and is closely tied to strenght.
Various strenght types to various things (control S. allows for control of enemies, distance S. allows to hit enemies from further away.)

Damage drains Health.

If you have more stealth than an enemy, you will be able to attack them from surprise, giving you a lot larger chance of critical hit.

Speed determines how fast can you cast actions - at 20 speed it’s 2 actions/sub-round, and it scales as +10 speed = +1 action/subround, easy to understand. (Too overpowered)

@doomlightning @Ferrus_coloni @willow

Looks like the 1st battle is coming to an end…

[willow (they/her or yours are was/were)]

A1: guard swarm: find the big blob’s rock limit^[1] by pushing rocks of progressively larger mass off the mountain onto it. swarms south of hive: merge and enter hive, and elect a queen to make more bees. tunnel swarm: rush to the other side of the tunnel

A2: guard swarm: if the new foe’s rock limit has not been found, continue to test it. hive swarm: make rock and beeswax walls only passable through bee sized holes to protect hive. tunnel swarm: rush towards the new enemy

did you know bees can protect their hives from wasps by cooking them at 47C, thanks to a difference in their survivable temperatures of about 1C?

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1. the mass necessary to kill it with one rock ↩︎

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

@willow

did you know bees can protect their hives from wasps by cooking them at 47C, thanks to a difference in their survivable temperatures of about 1C?

Many of them still die because the temperature inside the heat ball might exceed what bees can tolerate

[willow (they/her or yours are was/were)]

yep, but i can always make more bees as long as i have hives

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

…And as long as they’re supplied with corpses.

[willow (they/her or yours are was/were)]

which i will be able to get whenever my bees die

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

It won’t be able to produce so many bees from bee corpses that it could go exponential, through.

[willow (they/her or yours are was/were)]

obviously, that’s like trying to infinitely recycle a tree when there’s no sunlight, it’ll do a lot to keep the population from dropping too quickly tho

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

@Ferrus_coloni @doomlightning I need your votes

[doomlightning (The Invisible Aztec Dodo God. Real Plant Enslaver, Ltd.)]

I theer my call

1. GE a new loki for make it my alie
2. DW Somnium and aplay that to my new alie