A gaping maw turned into mandibles. Two large fins became four small waddling legs. Two small fins became two small waddling legs. Your capability for vomit vanished but instead it was replaced with a lethal harpoon. Your fleshy body grew a weak proto-carapace and the spinnerets of a spider. However, that doesn’t matter. What you came back to was not what you left there. Runt and his mate were both slain – by your own children. They appeared to be led by a mysterious figure that shrouded itself in legend – Schmahkah, one of your own children. Hunting down this Schmahkah, you managed to overpower him and consume him, after defeating him in single combat, although he also left you with serious injuries.

And that is where we left off.

Your harpoon tongue has been severed. This hurts. The left side of your face has been melted off by Schmahkah’s vomit. This hurts even more. A large and deep puncture wound is also left in one of your shoulders and you are slowly bleeding out due to it. Surprisingly, it doesn’t hurt that much – but it doesn’t mean that the wound isn’t potentially fatal. However, you have won. All that is left of Schmahkah is a bloody stain on the floor and all thirteen – wait, no, twelve – of your children are staring at you in fear. No one dares to challenge you.

Your action?

:)

Also, if this is hated enough, then this thread will either be deleted by mods or by myself.

Saging because I am not adding any further content to the thread with this post. Just inform all those haters out there that if they want this thread gone, they're free to say.

Order your children to attempt to heal you, or at least help somehow

eat him

>>6298643
Is one missing? Or do we really have only 12?

Have our children hold the others. Web some of them. Eat the ones that are webbed up. This should get us a lot of food and drop our kids down by at least half. Then if we need to, and can, mate with one of them.

Also, find out what powers do you have in common. Do your children have psychic powers aswell ?
If so, tell them to start brainwashing more rats.

>>6298687
One of our kids tried to mind control us when we hatched from our cocoon.

>>6298669
For all you newcomers, your children are identical to your second form. They're approximately six inches long, while you are ten.

Your children are confused. They apparently need direct orders, the wretches. How would you like them to try and heal you?

>>6298701
Sorry, this is the first time I play this.
>>6298702
Tell them to search for medical herbs or algae in the sewer. Find some rats and brainwash them.
Use some for food, get the others to breed.

Also, ask your children if they laid any egg-batches, if so, destroy them or leave only one batch - we don't want any other rebellion-

>>6298744
Good thinking

Your children did not lay any eggs - apparently they have only been around with four days. There's a chance they may have impregnated one another, but no eggs have been laid yet, as far as you know.

Your children do not know of any medical algae or medical herbs. Those references confuse them. In fact, you don't know of such things either - this is a fairly filthy city sewer. Finding anything with healing properties is probably impossible.

But as for your other requests - you want to order some to herd rats and some to gather food from the various fishing lines they have built, correct?

Sorry for the delay - phone rang.

>>6298686
You could've sworn there were thirteen.
Now there's only twelve.
Maybe you were counting Schmahkah as one of your children? You can't remember. Your mind is still ringing from the bloodlust. Recent details are a bit sketchy.

>>6298786
Yes, correct. Send three to find rats and brainwash them and another three to get food.
Tell the remaining to guard you and attempt to do a metamorphosys.

We should make sure to take care of this batch and make sure to try and keep control over what they eat and when they are allowed to evolve and grow. We need to make sure that we are the most powerful in the group no matter what.

If we can force the emotion of fear to where complex human minds are effected by our screams we should see if we can make the children extensions of our self instead of individuals.

In the short term we are probably safe from further treachery due to the visceral nature of what our immediate children have just witnessed, but a third generation presents a problem for the time being, we need to seriously reconsider how we control further children.

As a result, seconding >>6298744 , I would consider this most prudent since we've just eaten.

With regards to the wound, I guess first priority is to arrest the bleeding, anything that could help prevent sepsis or the like would probably kill us. My reccomendation is that we get one of the remaining children to just sit on it for us. Act as a living bandage with about the same fleshy consistency as us.

>>6298822
Of course. We're going to get the BEST food, like the bee queens.
Also, where are we ? I mean, our location. A short description of it too.

>>6298808
A metamorphosis requires food - lots of food that you currently lack. And while your less permanant injuries will most likely be healed in the process, an unspecified amount of time will pass.

The last time you metamorphasized, one of your children became a tyrant and almost killed you - this is Schmahkah we're talking about, of course.

Who knows what might happen the next time?

In the end, it is your choice - you may want to be cautious, you may not want to be. The choice is yours.

our children have vomit ability, use them to cauterize the wounds.

>>6298822
>>6298831
guys, namefag yourself, so we avoid any confusion

>>6298846
No. There's no need for namefaggotry. Anonymous is welcome.

i reiterate
>>6298842

>>6298842
be carefoul tough. Tell them to use as little vomit as possible.

>>6298838
We should eat a couple of the children, not infront of the others, but we should eat them to see if it helps us heal, perhaps their similar flesh etc can be used or controlled to fix our damaged spots.

If not we could web shut some of our open bleeding wounds so we don't bleed to death?

>>6298846
Fine then. As author of >>6298831 I am now namefagged as is normal for quest threads.

I am deeply concerned that we may have another child out there who isn't under our control.

>>6298886
D'OH

>>6298882
No, we've already eaten the rebel (I think) and it didn't heal us.

>>6298834
You're just outside your nest. It's a small area of the main sewerline that you have completely webbed over - there's web everywhere and your children find it very difficult to move across the sticky webbing. There are also a dozen fishing lines that you children have built, small lengths of string and floss pulled taut in the water, catching various objects on their lengths, including ragged pieces of discarded food.
The sewage flow is a few feet wide and there's approximately two feet of walking space on each side of the sewage flow.
>>6298842
>>6298831
How would you like to deal with the injury? General consesus please.

>>6298831
To iterate this, have one of the children act as a living bandage. Acidic vomit strong enough to cauterise flesh poured directly into an open, flowing wound just seems like a terrible idea.

If we haven't depleted all our silk, why has no one said silk bandages?

Try to seal the wounds with web, then try the living bandage method.

I still say since the children should have acid spittle get one to use a small amount to cauterize the wounds. it'll hurt but we will live. after that we should begin building a web over the lines to improve their effectiveness and instill reliance on our children

>>6298924
To elaborate on why I think the vomit idea is a bad one: Clearly this wound has an open link into whatever circulatory system we have. We would, through diffusion, be flooding our veins with a liquid that burns on contact. End result, vast swathes of our flesh are consumed by acid from the inside out.

>>6298951
by that i mean to enforce the children to rely on us more so

Take care of our shit our self, go web closed the wound, and set about finding ourselves some delicious bio mass to feed on.

>>6298964
excelent point, and the web idea is better. maybe a small amount of acid as well to fight infection though

>>6298983
Do we have an infection that is so bad that our antibodies can't repel ?

>>6298991
not sure but it is something we have to consider I think

>>6298949
Seconding this since my approach primary came from trying to avoid fucking killing ourselves in the process of dealing with the wound. Webs pretty inert, and should allow the wound to breath a bit and not reduce our range of motion, and if it turns out that it can't stop the blood flow, we haven't actually prevented ourselves from attempting other methods after that.

Idea:
Make a small web bandage. Acid spit a LITTLE BIT on it, place the web bandage on your wounds.
Then put a child on it just to be safe.

>>6298951
>>6298949
>>6298945
>>6298924
You've just eaten, really - so there's a lot of protein already being processed for silk production. To see how well it woks, you try to spin some form of bandage in order to cover your wound and restrict it and... it works reasonably well. The bandaging is almost immediately stained with the dark ichor that is your blood, but the stain does not spread. However, the bandaging is fragile. Any extreme movements and it'll snap - and if the blood hasn't coagulated by then, then the flow will begin anew.

>>6298991
You have no idea if you have an infection yet. It's only been a matter of minutes since obtaining the wound.

>>6299024
we could wait for light scabbing then use a small amount of acid to add further sealing through cauterization. mind you that may still do more harm that good, mostly just throwing out the idea

>>6299024
Start improving the nest then. Make holes and stuff that our children can enter in more easily, improve fish lines and wait until we completely heal.
Make our children start brainwashing the rats.

Heh, stick a kid onto of the silk band aid settle down and get to know this kid a bit while letting the others get on with their lives.

Eat any insects that are caught in our webbing.

We need some variety in our diet.

>the bandaging is fragile. Any extreme movements and it'll snap
So that probably leaves out hunting and fighting for the time being.
Praise the loyal children who rounded up the others, and then instruct them to start hunting but to only return food for the commune. Leave a few behind for company.

>>6299101
I second this.
Also, since we can't do stressful movements, improve our nest and fish lines. That shouldn't be too stressful.

>>6299101
>Leave a few behind for company.
and to help with renovations.

>>6299083
Another one of the reasons that I rather fancied the living bandaid concept. If we have one staunch, rabid follower, who genuinely knows us and is concerned with our wellbeing, he can, not neccessarily nullify but at least mitigate the kind of naturally occurring subversive elements that resulted in Schmahkah.

indeed we should use web to improve our nest but take it slow as to not aggravate the wound

>>6299125
Regardless, we need to have something in place to make sure shit doesn't blow up whenever we hibernate.

Also, OP, I'm assuming, since our son that we ate had combined his DNA into that one being, it counts as one DNA sample for when we later evolve, and not each of the individual DNA samples that he had eaten.

While upgrading the nest, send 3 children to get food for everyone and another 3 to catch rats.

You begin to gnaw your way through your own webbing, recycling discarded silk by consuming it. You shape small holes, large enough for your young to be able to crawl through. You also begin to reinforce your fishing lines with your own silk - although, you try not to fall into the water. Your bulky form is far from designed for swimming.

A trio of your young go out hunting for various forms of food - spiders, roachs, silverfish, that sort of thing. You set another trio with the task of taming, implanting small thoughts of what you had done with Runt to teach them. You set another trio with the task of collecting food from the fishing lines and stockpiling it by your side. The remaining trio - they are to remain in your company and you are free to question them as you wish.
They all obey you eagerly, as if they always have. They're so... submissive. It's almost sad - in a way, Schmahkah was more of your son than these pitiful things. He had ambition that his siblings strangely lack.

ok so

A) living band-aid
B) use webbing to improve nest
C) consider possibility of infection

I think that's were we should go with this

when we aren't dying and are safe is when we can worry about future safeguards

>>6299137
Schmahkah was simply the result of our offspring growing up without a parent figure, filling the vacuum of authority. The rest of the children seem rather obedient if they are given precise instructions before hibernation. Perhaps building up and appointing a favored one as leader in the interim.

>>6299137
Indeed. I guess we would cycle our metamorphoses, with our hypothetical lieutenant slug acting as slug regent until our next awakening. We would need to cover for him though because he'd fail to have a competitive advantage over the others if he didn't metamorphose himself.

>>6299161
We've become the male of the pack OR absorbed a mutation that had controlling pheromones from the rebel.
Ask your children if you smell different. Ask them what they think of you and if they are happy. Tell them to be honest, too.

>>6299174
See if the trio by our side has any concept of time. e.g. how long was Schamekh hibernating, how long have they been active, etc.
Also, see if they know of any other animals or creatures in the area (hint at humans).

>>6299183
Two ideas. Tell these three that they are in charge of the others whenever you are not around to give orders, and that they should have ambition for our growing Bloodline as a whole, not for their own individual power.

Or Make the three of them fight for the honor of being your right hand man. Make the winner consume the other two and -teach- him desire and strength. Even if he eventually bests YOU and takes over for our bloodline as a whole if he manages to kill you he'd might be better for the "hive".

As mentioned by someone else, the child that is left stuck over the silk bandage can be bonded with a bit.

It would be ultimately beneficial to have a "favorite" that acts as a supporter, in order to quell future rebellions.

Also, try and get one of the children to try and brainwash a pigeon somehow...
We need a method of travelling somewhere safe and remote...Somewhat of a base of operations.

>>6299224
They do have the concept of time. They said before that they have been alive for 4 days and haven't laid any eggs.

Have we gotten any new food caught in our web?

>>6299240
interesting concept, is our personal goal larger than our self? something that needs to be considered

>>6299268
We have three personal goals now:
1) Heal.
2) Be sure of no more rebellions.
3) Evolve.

Incorporate the religion of Slul-Hugth as a way to give the drive to conquer to your children.

>>6299281
Healing in of itself may be of no use if we can evolve into a new form.

1. Dont die.
2. Ensure protection.
3. Evolve.

>>6299268
If we are truly ambitious we'd want our bloodline as a whole to grow to become part of the world. If we remember the lab and if we understand we are in a sewer we could know that there is a much larger world our brood could become a part of.... or control.

>>6299268
for the time being we're the most sentient and ambitious. And effectively the story, too.
We can groom successors and lieutenants and stand-ins for hibernation, but let's NOT encourage them killing us in our sleep, okay?

I think the best thing we can do is consume some of our stockpile and wait as we heal, it will give us a bit more genetic material. maybe attempt to educate our young.

>>6299174
Falling in the water scares us? Lets eat a fish :P

>>6299193
You loom over the three remaining with you, staring down at them with your grotesque, half-melted face.
"Do I smell different?"
They shrink back briefly, desperately trying to consider an answer that would please you most.
"No - no, not really."
"What do you think of me then?"
They're confused.
"... You lead us. We follow you because you are likely to lead us to more food and a finer life. It's why we followed Schmahkah. If it weren't for you... Well, we'd be content with eating maggots, really."
"Well, are you happy, at least?"
"Yes - we will eat more than we would if you weren't here, and that is all that matters!"
The one you're questioning seems particularily cheerful about that.
>>6299224
"What have you seen down here?"
"Well... Rat... Cockroach... Silverfish... Fly... Spider... Ant... Cat... We've heard creatures even larger than cats wander about, but we've always fled from them."
"How long has it been since you were born? And since Schmahkah fled to gestate?"
"It's been eight days since our birth - you were webbing up your tunnel for a long, long time. As for gestating... Schmahkah had been gestating for five days."
>>6299248
You grab the speaker and pin it to your bandage. It wriggles and struggles - until you demand it to stop struggling. Then, it remains still, covering the injury with its own body.
Pigeons are not available.
>>6299265
Primarily flies although a few ants have also been caught near the ground.

I say we wait for the children which we sent capturing rats and food, meanwhile educate the ones with us.
We must educate them to see us as a god or something like that.
After they arrive, the "educated" ones educate again the remaining uneducated ones.
This way, we will ensure their loyalty.

>>6299345
"God-Emperor of the slug-kind"

>>6299343
>Pigeons are not available.

Long-term goal, then?

Yes. Educate them. First off, goad the fuckers into thinking. Their simplicity is annoying. Then we should focus on grooming their thoughts such that they worship us to some capacity. We MADE THEM dammit, and dont let them forget it. They came from us, and can be returned from whence they came if we are angered.

So it seems we have a consensus that bandage/fatherson bonding is a good idea.

I don't support having some kind of battle to the death for this position since at this point all the offspring seem pretty much identical physically and mentally. With the possible exception of whatever rogue child may be running around somewhere. A further impetus to have regent in our absence.

Prioritise consumption of new prey. Honestly we are going to need to metamorphose before we do anything big, and a metamorphosis without something useful to add to our genes is a metamorphosis wasted.

Try to instill in them the fact that you were the first and you gave birth to them, and the importance of obeying you and working together as a group.

Eat all the flies and hope for some bad arse fly wings.

>>6299343
>creatures even larger than cats wander about
"Do these large creatures ever come close to this location (our web-fort and the surroundings)?

once they are educated

we should find something larger and try to achieve a mass mind control effect

>>6299391
Blessed the mind too small for doubt.
They are fine as they are now. If they get too intelligent, they are dangerous.

Teach the children, but do it while trying to eat. It doesn't matter what we eat, just enough to reach a point where we can evolve and regenerate again. Before doing so, make sure at least half of our children know to accept us as master.

>>6299417
Teach them this:
2 of them shall eat mostly spiders so we get more base builders.
2 of them shall eat mantises and other agressive insects and powerful so they gain offensive abilities. Make sure they are the most loyal.
2 of them shall eat fishes so they can swim.

>>6299442
I agree

>>6298983

We're living in a sewer, I'd suspect that taking precautions against infection beyond licking our wounds and not swimming in the sewage is kind of a wasted effort. Ain't a clean environment.

I'd propose building up a stronger cult of personality among our young, impressing our will upon them even more than is currently the case. I'd guess that since they're only first-stage slugs their overall ability is way below our own level for now, since we're third-stage.

One definite priority is to get them to gather as wide a range of samples of genetic material as possible. Fresh things, raw things, things with traits we can use in the future.

If we can find a dead hobo somewhere down here, we'll be well on the way to conquering the world.

>>6299330
There are no fish available in the sewers at the moment.
>>6299287
>>6299345
You question your companions, staring down at the two while the remaining one on your bandage lies still.
"Do you know who I am?"
You recieve thoughts that indicate ignorance - very well, you shall educate them, based up the name you gave yourself in the last thread.
"I am the Patriarch. I am the prophet of Slul-Hugoth."
"Slul-Hugoth..?"
Slul-Hugoth. That was the deity you dreamed up. You're not even sure if it's real or if it's false, but something has to be responsible for your sapience - and that something is not human. You inform your young of this, concealing your doubt as best as you can.
"I am the prophet of Slul-Hugoth. My word is law. I am law. Those who do not obey do not obey Slul-Hugoth and they will recieve a fate worse than that of the traitor. Do you understand?"
You recieve thoughts of panicked confirmation from your children. Good!
>>6299391
>>6299412
Try to teach them of ambition or at the very least, self-reliance - yesno?
>>6299417
You begin to gather food. You crawl around, collecting and consuming the flies, and eating the rotten trash that the fishing lines have collected. Good. You're becoming full again, slowly but surely. Not quite ready for metamorphosis yet, but you're quite bloated.

>>6299442
This is cool.
Reward the loyal workers with food relevant to their position. (they like food). Try it with one first, to see if they retain their loyal stupor after metamorphosis.

>>6299442
If mantises are available, shouldn't we be let in on some of that? Or are we dedicating most of our next evolution to whatever Schmahkah was?

In fact, there's something we should know: Does Schmahkah count as a separate organism for evolution purposes?

before transformating make sure that they will destroy their eggs if they make any.

>>Try to teach them of ambition or at the very least, self-reliance - yesno?
Not yet. I don't entirely trust all of the little buggers.

>>6299471
Have some of our children go out looking for anything "exotic".

>>6299471
I think we should begin forming casts workers, soldiers, scouts and gatherers

Hey guise did I miss anything big?

>>6299505
I agree. No ambition.

>>6299467
Agreed, we have to search for some sort of human. Tell one of the "fighters" to spend most of his time looking for something bigger than a cat, but dead and alert us to its presence.
>>6299471
Self-reliance yes, but make sure to drill it into their heads that while they are all Slul-Hugoth's children, we are the first and most favored.

You call for activities to cease once the various trios return to deliver items to the stockpiles.

Here are your current resources:
Trash - Lots
Flies - 15
Cockroach - 8
Ants - 7
Silverfish - 7
Rats - 5 (Alive and being Trained)
Spiders - 4
Toad - 1

Indoctrinate a sense of duty, a caste system (worker, hunter, etc.), which involves obedience to the ruling cast (Us). Instruct them that if they continue in their appointed roles, we shall emerge with the capacity to provide more food.

>>6299514
Actually, I'll just read up a bit.

>>6299542
Once we have all our ducks in a row including each child's task, the toad should be used for metamorphosis purposes. Set it aside for us and us alone.

>>6299542
Eat the entire toad. And some ants.

Eat some of the rest of the food until we're full enough to evolve. Spread the rest among our kids.

BUT TAKE THAT TOAD FOR OURSELVES!

The toad is ours, amphibian DNA will make this much simpler

I think self-reliance is a big nono

This needs to be a communal hive, with one patriarch (us)

I agree with the caste system being established, maybe we can separate the diets of a few groups to get specific traits that are beneficial to their caste. (workers only eat ants and spiders, scouts eat flies, soldiers could eat dead rats for extra size and strength, etc)

Also, make it a point to reward those of our children that are most loyal/hard working. We will have to show a measure of generosity lest we alienate our children and see another rebellion.

Divide them in the following castes:
Worker:
- eats mainly spiders and physically strong creatures.
- will build and repair our nest.
Soldier
- eats mainly strong creatures.
- will defend the nest and the biggest ones will be our personal guard.
Gatherers:
- eat mainly rats and strong creatures, so they get bigger and strong.
- will be used as pack animals, but will be also deeply respected. Sortof like cows in India.
Psykers:
- will eat ?
- will use psychic powers to mind control other creatures.

RULES:
- Only the prophet may mind-control another slug.
- If the prophet dies, our god will get very pissed and kill EVERYONE.
- The word of the prophet is absolute truth unless he says it isn't.
- Each slugs not only works for the prophet but also for every other slug. Everybody helps each other.

>>6299542
Eat some cockroaches. Might make us harder to kill or something.

>>6299542
Let's ration.
Flies - 15 OURS
Cockroach - 8 maybe the foragers
Ants - 7 foragers
Silverfish - 7 ???
Rats - 5 (Alive and being Trained) ok
Spiders - 4 OURS, but share with the builders
Toad - 1 OURS

>>6299574
Seconded

It totally sucks that we lost our harpoon. I hope something like that grows back once we evolve.

>>6299584
Too much for ourself. Half of the flies are ours, the rest are communal.

Does our intelligence vary depending on what we eat?
Like, if we eat stupid animals we get dumber.

>>6299596
Even without evolving, it would grow back eventually.
Eventually being the keyword here.

>>6299574
This is great.
Love the rules.
Just add ants for the workers/gathers.

I'd suggest letting them all get a taste of the ants. Ants are social insects. Ants work together. Ants serve the hive. Ants serve the Queen.

That's us.

>>6299608
Incorrect, no.

You're able to choose some aspects of your evolution when you gestate and you also evolve certain traits depending on what you did since your last gestation.

So, here's what I have so far for what will be eaten:

Patriach:
1 Toad
? Ants
? Flies

Hunters:
?

Gatherers:
?

Tamers:
?

Companions:
?

Scouts:
- will eat flies and fast creatures
- will be used as scouts.

RULES:
- Only the prophet may mind-control another slug.
- If the prophet dies, our god will get very pissed and kill EVERYONE.
- The word of the prophet is absolute truth unless he says it isn't.
- Each slugs not only works for the prophet but also for every other slug. Everybody helps each other.
- A slug may not kill another slug unless authorized by the prophet.
- Our cattle (rats for the moment) may not be killed carelessly. We must have at least a female and male.
- Deposition of eggs is forbidden unless allowed by the prophet.

>>6299574
Actually I think while psykers would be great I think we should concern our selves with a scout caste

>>6299584
I think we need to distribute it more evenly, denying food to any of our children is against the hive.

Trash - Lots misc food
Flies - 15 Everyone except workers (especially scouts)
Cockroach - 8 workers/Soldiers
Ants - 7 workers/Soldiers
Silverfish - 7 misc food
Rats - 5 (Alive and being Trained) Don't eat, yet
Spiders - 4 Soldiers/workers/us
Toad - 1 us

I have to pipe up...

The mammalian musculature and skeletal structure from the rats is an invaluable resource, and more attention needs to be paid to maximizing the usage of a spine, ribs, and muscles designed for quick movement.

The psyker caste will be developed later when we will understand what will upgrade our psychic powers.

>>6299661
But we may be able to get that from Schmahkah as opposed to just wasting valuable rat-slaves.

>>6299661
Perhaps use the physical structure of rats for the hunters? It might help them be better ambush predators.
Quick moving and pseudo-skeleton to protect vital organs if prey fight back.
Then train them to hunt in packs, and you have the perfect hunter caste.

>>6299694
true but I don't know if we want to feed them our pet rats

>>6299661
We must concentrate on making them breed, then when we will have a decent supply of rats we will start eating them systematically.

Educate the present children about the laws and then eat the toad and then as much trash as we can then evolve, with the children guarding us.

Don't forget Engineers to feed on spiders.

3 Scouts:
Flies
Silverfish

3 Workers:
Spiders?
?

3 Gatherers:
Roach?
Rat?
?

3 Spiders:
?

Personally, I vote for a Social Democratic state - all goods are shared within the colony, and all important decisions are voted on. You have the power to veto an idea, which can be overturned by a 3/4ths majority. Of course, you serve your position for life, being the first leader and prophet of Slul-Hugoth. After your death, however, a new leader is chosen from the colony. Also, once we grow a bit more, we will have an elected congress which votes on issues (unless we develop our psychic abilities to a point sufficient enough to allow every slug a vote on every issue.

>>6299715
Also, how many of your children do you want to gestate and when?

>>6299682

Perhaps, but there are TONS of rats out there for the taking.
The payoff of experimenting with the rat biomass is worth the risk of being deprived of a few slaves.

>>6299715
Also - the last bit is meant to say "three soldiers".

Sorry.

Add in some ants to their menù.
Make them evolve in batches of 3, each caste every turn.
We will be the first ones, starting evolving soon.

>>6299715
3 Scouts:
Flies
Silverfish

3 Workers:
Spiders
Ants

3 Gatherers:
Roach
Ant

3 Spiders:
Rat

that's what i say, bro

>>6299725
Buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuullshiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit

Engineer - Spiders
Scout - Flys
Hunter/Forager - Roach and silverfish, maybe some spider.
Patriarch - Toad

Everybody gets ant for general foraging and obedience.

>>6299728
Good point. Let's eat a rat, then.
Warriors eat mantises and rats.

>>6299727
don't gestate any of them until after we've finished our own gestation.

We don't want any surprise uber-kids when we're still all beat up and shit.

>>6299752
This works, but I still think that we should have some flies to see if we can develop wings.

>>6299752
Good idea with the ant = hive.

>>6299715
This, but everybody gets some ant.
If not enough, then the workers and foragers.
I dunno about the last three though.
Rat is optional

>>6299747

The only reason i recommend this is because, eventually, all totalitarian societies are overthrown. It'll only be a matter of time before the slug French Revolution happens.

Too much discussion, not enough DOING.

Scout (Evolving 1 at a time):
Silverfish
Fly

Workers (Evolving 1 at a time):
Spiders

Gatherers (Evolving 1 at a time):
Roach
Ants

Soldiers (Evolving 1 at a time):
Rats
Ants

Patriach:
Ant
Spider
Fly
Toad

Is everyone agreed on this layout? It seems to be what you're all in favour of.

>>6299779
No, we made it like the Islam. They won't rebel, it's religious.

>>6299781
yes

>>6299781
Make them evolve in batches of 3, an entire caste every time.

>>6299781
Sounds good.

>>6299781
Let's do it already.

>>6299784

There's a shitton of infighting in Islam, bro. Sunni, Shiites, terrorists, moderates... not conducive to a functioning society, as the state of the Middle East has proven.

>>6299798
No.

>>6299727
One per day, alternating classes.
That's a one-day separation between hatching, to determine loyalty and eat rebellion as needed.
Start with one of the "lower" worker/gather classes that should be easier to kill if anything goes wrong.

>>6299781

Do it up.

>>6299808
We can still change it later when we get more numerous.

>>6299808
>>6299819
Indeed. Out word is law, any changes can be made at any time at our discretion.

>>6299781
This is ok.
One per day, alternating classes.
That way over 1/2 of our colony is functioning at any time.

Let's review the rules:
- Thou shall not may mind-control another slug, unless allowed by the prophet.
- If the prophet dies, our god will get very pissed and kill EVERYONE.
- The word of the prophet is absolute truth unless he says it isn't.
- Each slugs not only works for the prophet but also for every other slug. Everybody helps each other.
- Thou shall not kill another slug unless authorized by the prophet.
- Our cattle (rats for the moment) may not be killed carelessly. We must have at least a female and male.
- Thou shallt not indulge in the making of eggs, unless allowed by the prophet.
- Thou shall not eat another slug, unless allowed by the prophet.

>>6299825

Sunni-Shiite split happened relatively soon after Islam's founding, right after Muhammad's death. In this setting, we're Muhammad. When we die, the same thing could happen.

Can we stop talking about religious sects and play this fucking quest.

God damn.

>>6299842
But then we're dead, so what does it matter? Take control of one faction's leader!

>>6299798
Done.
Also including a bit of rat in your own diet.

You pack away the food, preserving it in particular orders, saying exactly who is going to be eating what, so that no one gestates early. You decide that you will want your soldiers to gestate with you - so that when you awaken, you will have a fine force of soldiers ready for action.
Then, you feast yourself. Rat, spider, fly, ant, toad... You eat it all. You gorge yourself and then you gorge yourself on the trash that your lines have caught. You feast and feast and feast until your body is covered in a disgusting ichor that you have subconsciously sweated out. You feel sleepy, tired... Your future soldiers are in a similar condition to you, practically cocoons already. You head toward a secure, partially hidden cubby hole in your section of the sewer. You rest. You sleep. You grow. You change.

You evolve.

>>- If the prophet dies, our god will get very pissed and kill EVERYONE
I love all of these rules, but this is great.
This will be mealtime conversation while they eat the "good shit."

>>6299864
Here's my suggestion:

60% evolve / 40% grow

Frog 30%
Spider 30%
Rat 30%

The rest I don't really care about. But keeping the levels for evolution at 30% should keep us form inheriting too many downsides.

Ah I forgot, explain the children why are you programming their eating schedule and everything.
"I'm doing it for our own future's sake, not only mine, but yours aswell.
We must start thinking of the future, and thanks from a vision of our god I have understood what to do."

>>6299896
sounds good

>>6299896

we need some ant, too; hopefully enough to form a hive mind.

>>6299896
I vote for 60/40 evo/growth, but with 50% toad, 50% Schmahkah. If that isn't possible, your plan works.

>>6299913
If not a hive mind, at least genetic loyalty/infertility in our children, to make us absolutely necessary. Also PROPORTIONATE ANT STRENGTH.

>>6299864
You've got 100%. You need to allocate this between Growth and Evolution. Growth increases size. Evolution increases likelyhood of new traits.

You've got 100%. You need to allocate this between the follow species:
UNIQUE: Finslug
UNIQUE: Schmahkah
Brown Rat
Blow Fly
Common Toad
Giant House Spider
Stenamma Debile Worker Ant

>>6299896
OH WAIT, I forgot.

Also 30% of the DNA from our son that we ate. We DEFINITELY want some of that.

60% evolve / 40% grow

Frog 30%
Spider 30%
Rat 30%
Sakawhatever 30%
Ant 10%

>>6299928
So we can't do 80% toad and 50% rat, for example, like before.

>>6299928
Proportionate ant strength sounds neat.

60% evolution
40% growth
Evolution 40% Schmahkah, 30% toad, 30% ant.

20 shmanaha
40 brown rat
10 toad
10 finslug
20 blowfly

No.
Sorry for the confusion, guys.

From now on, we're fixing on the "100%, allocate it" thing instead of "0-100%, how much do you want"

>>6299928

Even, 50:50 Evolution and Growth

UNIQUE: Finslug 30%
UNIQUE: Schmahkah 15%
Brown Rat 40%
Blow Fly 0%
Common Toad 40%
Giant House Spider 30%
Stenamma Debile Worker Ant 50%

Correct?

{ UNIQUE: Finslug 25
UNIQUE: Schmahkah 25 } to ensure to retain mental ablities
Brown Rat 10
Blow Fly 5
Common Toad 30
Giant House Spider 5
Stenamma Debile Worker Ant

40% Schmahkah
30% Common Toad
30% Brown Rat

Just my 2 cents.
since we've anointed ourselves as the prophet, we better damn well look the part.
Toad bits for jumping and kickass sticky tongue
Rat bits for larger size and the durability of a skeleton

>>6299965
Ok. My suggestion, then.

60% evolve / 40% grow

Frog 30%
Spider 10%
Rat 10%
Sakawhatever 40%
Ant 10%

>>6299928

Evolve. We must become better. Size we can work on later, once we have desired traits.

I vote for toad as our key change. It's ability to swim and great leaping ability will be useful for hunting, combat, and survival. Plus, the extra long sticky tongue may make our harpoon all the more dangerous.

>>6299973
{ UNIQUE: Finslug 25
UNIQUE: Schmahkah 25 } to ensure to retain mental ablities
Brown Rat 10
Blow Fly 5
Common Toad 20
Giant House Spider 5
Stenamma Debile Worker Ant 10


forgot about the ant

UNIQUE: Finslug
UNIQUE: Schmahkah - 40%
Brown Rat
Blow Fly - 20%
Common Toad - 20%
Giant House Spider - 20%
Stenamma Debile Worker Ant -

Flying muscle-bound web and acid spitting harbinger of doom.

>>6299971
Nevermind


Even, 50:50 Evolution and Growth

UNIQUE: Finslug 15%
UNIQUE: Schmahkah 15%
Brown Rat 15%
Blow Fly 0%
Common Toad 20%
Giant House Spider 10%
Stenamma Debile Worker Ant 25%

>>6299982
seconded

>>6299955
I agree with this. Focus a little more on refining abilities than growth, and don't spread the evolutionary influences too thin.

Finslug was one of the kids we ate in the last thread or so right? One of those measly maggots with nothing good, really?

>>6299982
concure

>>6300006
Finslug is what you were during Stage 2.
If you want to gain any traits that you had during that stage, try and evolve them.

Guys, Finslung isn't anything too special. It's what we were. Same with most of the other samples except Schalahfljakjdkfkljfkljas and Frog.

>>6300006

I believe the finslug is ourselves 2nd gestation, where we received fins from silverfish

>>6299955
I agree with this.

Evo 60% / 40% Gro

30% Schmahkah
30% Toad
20% Rat
20% Ant

All you folks out there okay with this?

>>6300042

Yeah, sounds good.

>>6300042
lets go 80/20 less grow more evolve

>>6300042
Seems fair.

>>6300042
also agree, doooo it

>>6300021
Actually, the fins were grown because it was your progress towards developing limbs.

Toad and Schmahkah should be our greatest concerns. The toad could give wonderful amphibious abilities that will help immensely in this environment. Get PLENTY of Shmahkah in us as well. We want to strengthen out mental powers. Who needs subordinates when we could have mind slaves?

Actually, I just wnat to get this thing rolling. Anything around these lines with traits are O.K. with me.

>>6300042
Yes.

Proceed.

People, do keep in mind it seems that we only have the DNA from a worker ant. Strange rules but it seems we may need to acquire a queen ant to assimiliate.

Brown Rat - 20%
Common Toad - 20%
House Spider - 20%
Shmahkah - 20%

>>6300042
Proceed fine sir. I eagerly await our new form!

>>6300053
I agree with this.80/20. We can grow later.

Haha, toad brought something back in my mind.

CloverSlug shall dominate.

>>6300053
I agree, we can worry about size later, the issue at hand is evolution. If we grow any more we could become a more attractive target to even larger creatures, but if we remain a small but highly evolved creature we can have greater time to cultivate our surroundings.

>>6300042
Sounds perfect.

So most people like toad and Schmahkah, right?
I'd hate to give up spider, and branching into fly(ing) would be cool.
The glorious leader doesn't really need the ant since we already have psychic powers of suggestion and communication.
Rat is pretty bland at this point, and Schmahkah's cat DNA pretty much takes care of anything a rat may have had.
Is this where most of are in thinking?

>>6300108
rats is for bones.

>>6300042
I wanted less ant (like 0) but the masses have spoken, it seems.

>>6300114
Frogs have bones too.

yea not so worried about the numbers focus on evolution not growth and absorb primarily toad and Schmahkah

>>6300108

And we dont want fly DNA, because exoskeletens and cheap wings are just horrible to have. Wait until we catch a bird.

>>6300108
Yes, this is good. What Bio posted last will work, minus rat and spreading the rest of the free DNA to everything else.

>>6300119
We're still in the sewers, flying won't be useful.
Also, if we flied out of the sewers we might be a more attractive target for birds or other creatures.
It's easier to see something flying around you than something crawling near you.

>>6300095
Thirding this motion. Our telepathic capabilities are capable of keeping us on top of anything in this "size class" but this may change if we become the size of the average dog. Certainly we can effect larger animals but we won't be able to do what we did to Schmahkah. Also, movement in the tunnels might get hard soon.

>>6300108
Cats are made to wander through vast open spaces and have a physiology that reflects that. Also, they're carnivorous.
Rats, on the other hand, are made for fast movement in confined spaces and can eat virtually anything.
Rat is superior in this case.

>>6300128
I disagree. Fly wings may be more fragile, but give us infinitely better mobility than a bird. A bird needs open spaces, a fly can take off anywhere and move in any direction.

Needs more venomous, flying sewer creature with tentacles and telepathy.

>>6300128
excellent point, I suppose there are better flyers than flys, and after a certain size, flying isn't feasible.

>>6300141

Is that so... Well, I think bio is already coming up with something. Next time.

>>6300141
You forget that a fly is much smaller than us.
To fly we'd need wings as big as a birds' and they would be a big, no, huge weakpoint.

>>6300159
And exactly how big would that be? We may need to break out into the world beyond the sewers at some point, and flying would help.

Picture a telepathic pterodactyl with a harpoon tongue and clawed arms in addition to wings.

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This is why I love you guys.

>>6300178
I suppose so, but we can always evolve wings later.
I personally am waiting to catch a crocodile into the sewers.

>>6300141
However they will never, even if scaled up, support something of our size.

>>6300178

A bat-slug.... BATSLUG HOLY SHIT THATS AWESOME

>>6300191
Yes, once we finish evolution our first priority should be to find the biggest dead thing out there and eat it. Crocodile, snake, dog, hobo, whatever.

I don't see how flight is worthwhile at this point, or any time in the foreseeable future. I mean, we'd have to get out of the sewers before seeing much advantage period, considering the cramped and low-ceilinged nature of the place. We'd have to run rather light to be able to take off, bypassing valuable defensive potential. And, of course, a flying target might well attract far more attention (and bullets) than we are prepared to handle.

>>6300191
Me too, me too.

You awaken. You're used to it by now. This time, the shell doesn't slowly crackle as you struggle break free. It shatters as you burst out with a roar.

Your mouth. No longer do you have a pair of mandibles - they appears to have reformed into a set of needle-like teeth in a gaping maw. Not quite the impressive gnashers that your son possessed - but still, quite intimidating. Your eight eyes have merged into four, bulbous, hooded eyes. Your harpoon appears to have grown back with a strong, muscular tongue. Your body is now rather slimy, its chitin having been weakened - it has regressed back towards a rough hide. Your body structure is like that of a bulldog - you have a large, heavy body but four squat, powerful legs, each of them tipped with lethal looking claws connected by webbing. You used to have six legs, however, and the central pair have shrunk, having folded in towards your chest - practically useless at this rate. Your spinnerets have also increased in size, along with you, although it's no longer in a position where you can throw webbing - only weave. Finally, your white hue finally seems to be changing - you're becoming a meaty pink colour and beneath your skin, you feel... bones. Proper bones.

The situation is, almost unfortunately, just like how you left. Your three children that you have designated soldiers - Zovut, Menya and Shnur are their names - are struggling to escape from their cocoons, while your seven other children gaze at you in awe. Hm. It seems like two died in your absense.

What action do you wish to take?

>>6300193
Wings are not of critical importance, we can focus on becoming a bad ass dragon by eating a few lizards and a few bats when our main concern isn't what version of shit will fall off the wall and on to our head.

The main concern is to build the hive, and let it thrive, we should seek characteristics of a Hive like creature [ants / spiders / insects /etc] in order to build a strong base. foundation. Exotic things will come, we must give them time.

>>6300203
Go high enough and people will think we're just a vulture or something.

The couple birdwatchers that zoom in on us will probably just start looking for a gas leak.

Demand explanation for the 2 dead.

>>6300216
FEAST ON THE DEAD!

That is assuming their bodies are there. If there are no bodies, assume nothing, and ask where they are in case they went awol.

But if the bodies are there, eat. Then swim.

>>6300216
Wait for the soldiers to break out and ask how the two died, not to mention what the surroundings are like.

>>6300216

Interrogate the slugs as to why two are dead, or have gone missing. Then feast on some resources. We must be starving, after just gestating.

>>6300216
FUCKFUCKFUCK WHAT KILLED THEM ASK NOW

>>6300216
Greet children gloriously, interrogate soldiers for loyalty.
Find something to eat (kids love food).
And prepare for second class to evolve (spiders)

Also, ask for how much you've been into the cocoon.

>>6300236
Agreed a proper explanation for all events while we are out cold is going to be needed.

offer recompense and asses what caste the two that died were intended for. offer another session of education before begin to work on the evolution of the remaining young

>>6300246
We should only eat enough to keep us full for now. Remember, there may be something big coming up that we can eat.

How big are we now?

Greet children gloriously, interrogate soldiers for loyalty, then determine general events.

>>6300268

Of course.

>>6300216
OH MY GOD we are so awesome and huge. We are SUCH the alpha male. We're beyond alpha male. Fuck, what letter comes before alpha?

Reward the loyal youngins with feelings of pride, joy and reverential awe.

They have been true to us, and so we are pleased with them. We can quiz them about what happened to the other two while the warrior slugs hatch, there's time enough for that.

ITT what spore should have been.

>>6300303
This is cool. Almost forgot about projecting emotions.

"Patriarch! It's only been eight days, do not worry!"

Now that you look around, you notice that most of webbing has been torn down - although there's traces of it where it was before. The fishing lines have also only recently been reconstructed.

"Zerkov died to a cat and Halpitz... Halpitz... Man came down with canine! Canine ate Halpitz whole! Man tore this place apart! There was nothing that we could do about it!"

Finally, your three soldiers - the companions that you had chosen for yourself - break out.
Zovut appears to have developed four legs and a very thin fur coating over its flesh. It still has its old slug eyestalks, however, and it also possesses mandibles.
Menya has a segmented body complete with chitin - but also has four legs, leading to a rather awkward stride. Menya also possesses mandibles and a pair of narrow, beady eyes.
Shnur looks a bit different. The rat-slug body of Zovut, except with six legs. It possesses a long, agile tail and even ears - it also has a gaping, toothed maw and compound eyes.

>>6300347
Let's hunt some bigger game.

>>6300277
Fifteen inches long.
Your new legs raise you seven inches off of the ground.

>>6300347
Man. FUCK.
We're relocating.

We must escape from this place. If the dog has got our smell it can track us. We must go into a deep pipe or something like that, with really little ways in and out.

>>6300347
A human knows of our location? It is time for an exodus.

Gather everyone and tell them that we must find a new home. Wander the sewers until we find either a corpse of something none of us have seen before or a small hole that can fit all of us and then some.

>>6300371
We're getting quite large.

find and devour the human
with the discovery of our nest they will surly return
maybe impregnate one of the non warriors before we leave

Inquire more about the man.
Which direction did he come from, for example.
So we can go deeper into the opposite.

I agree we must hide from man. He is our enemy but we must plan carefully to defeat him or all will be lost. Question them as to if he took notice of us or just his dog did, and how long ago

are our new soldiers strong enought to chip off walls ?

Praise them for surviving the man's intrusion, and instruct them that it is time to leave this place, for now - still time for the brood to gather strength, to grow and evolve. We cannot do that here, not now that the humans are aware of our lair. We'll need to find somewhere that's harder for them to get to, someplace they and their dogs won't fit, and yet which still provides adequate food for us.

How is the rat-farming coming along?

>>6300380
At some point, the two-foot bulldog that weaves spiderwebs is going to draw some attention to itself....

>>6298636
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Aw shit, I missed the new Slug Quest!

And now it's on the tip of autosaging!

I don't think we can quite take a human just yet. However...

If our only goal is to get some bites of him, we can make like leeches. Hide in water, latch on to his ankle, take a nibble, run.

>>6300428
No, that would cause a shitstorm and attract tons of humans in the sewers.
"I've been bitten by something really weird in there!"

Wait...what is all this metamorphosing doing to our sexual traits? Are we still hermaphroditic or are we going to have to manage our sexes so we can continue to breed?

Can we kill the cat ?

>>6300440
The last thing we want is attention.
A stray cat here and there is okay, but let's not start rumors about the dog-spider and his army of leeches.

We need find out more about what direction, how long ago and if he actually noticed us or just his dog did, if it was just the dog we might be alright for a while

>>6300452
Good point. Schmahkah was decidedly male, and we did absorb quite a bit of him.
More info on human while examining own sexual organs.

>>6300347
>Zovut appears to have developed four legs and a very thin fur coating over its flesh. It still has its old slug eyestalks, however, and it also possesses mandibles.
>Menya has a segmented body complete with chitin - but also has four legs, leading to a rather awkward stride. Menya also possesses mandibles and a pair of narrow, beady eyes.
>Shnur looks a bit different. The rat-slug body of Zovut, except with six legs. It possesses a long, agile tail and even ears - it also has a gaping, toothed maw and compound eyes.

New thread:
>>6300486

>>6300428

It's feasible - with a combination of webbing, hamstringing and surprise we could perhaps knock a human into the sewer flow and subdue it long enough to drown, but the attention that would draw would totally not be worth it.

That's the problem with humans - not only are they smart, but they work together.