Seem to have the trail for the Enemy. His name shall be stricken from our record.

>stingray
>jellyfish

NOM THAT SHIT DOWN SON! Poisonous everything!

have fish eat parts of the stingray.

while carp are good for just being a swimmer, a stingray is a better aquatic predator than carp, and as such are good genetic material

Let's divide the sea animals between us and fish and the slug twins.

Get our scouting patrols to search the room with the skulls for any eggs or split sacks from eggs/gestations evolutions. Have them continue searching from there.

Eat Stingray. Hunt Jellyfish.

>>6599440
>>6599444

don't forget that swimmer =/= fish

Despite Tanks encouraging report, we still must be cautious. Theres no telling if their lack of higher intelligence is a trick or not. It is easy to feign ignorance. Once we have overseen the hatching of our new brood we must occasionally ply them with questions to root out heresy.

If we can get stinging cells from the jellyfish that'd be pretty sweet.

Alright, brood time. Ready the empathic projection and take up awe-inspiring position.

The sting ray should go to Swimmer and Fish mostly. The addition of a poison stinger would help them greatly in dealing with aquatic threats. Share the jellyfish with Tank and Slugboy and Sluggirl. Being able to be poisonous on touch would help Tank protect, and give Slugboy/girl a nasty method to keep the others in line "You do not believe in Slul-Hoggoth?!" Touch. Heretic writhes in agony on the floor.

Sea Horse, I can see if we want to make mobile breeders, who carry the young with them. Although this might be hazardous (See chestburster)

>>6599455

making them think that we expect them to betray us will just make them more likely to do so

just taking inventory, we have
0. ourselves
1. tank
2. swimmer
3. scout
4. flyer
5. fish
6. boy
7. girl
30 Shmecklings
120 new hatchlings
am i missing anyone?

Eat the stingray, gain its tail to thrust through scuba diver's hearts!

Eat the Jellyfish for tentacley goodness. Feed the Stingray to Swimmer, we need to develop her offensive abilities.

Feed the seahorse to the newborn, to encourage their growth?

>>6599470
True. We could occasionally blast their minds with obedience again though. Do it to everyone so they don't feel suspect.

Do want stingray genes. I'm not sure about the jellyfish though, tentacles would be pretty sweet but for the most part jellyfish are kind of useless.

Strictly speaking as long as we eat the non-business ends of the stingray and the jellyfish we should be fine. However I'm not fully confident that their genomes will be as useful to us as they will to other members of our brood.

The seahorse... is a pretty pathetic creature and won't improve our genome short of using its novel dna with a very heavy focus on evolution as opposed to growth. Also, the males carry the young. I believe this was the whole reason we became a patriarch, so, you know, not such a great idea.

I vote that the stingray be split four ways between swimmer, fish, us, and half of fishes young when they hatch. The jellyfish go to the other half of fishes young, making sure we keep psychic control over them to stop them accidentally getting stung while they eat.

The seahorse... hell, I don't know.

I advise we avoid eating the jellyfish ourself. It's soft body will hamper us greatly while working on land. The venomous stingers would be nice, but there are better creatures to consume for such. We should focus on becoming as large as possible, with as many varying traits as we can sustance, thus allowing us far greater flexibility than any of our single purpose spawn.

Have Swimmer and Fish try and get a crab of some sort to feed to Tank. Pincers+Extra carapace? DO WANT

>>6599492
Maybe flier could eat some jellyfish?

You hand over the stingray to Swimmer and Fish.
You eat the seahorse and portions of the jellyfish. The rest of the jellyfish goes to Fish, Tank, Guy and Girl.

The hatchlings emerge. They possess most of their mothers' traits, and some of yours.
The children of Fish carry your mouth harpoons, lacking poison.
The children of Swimmer have spinnerets and mouth harpoons, lacking poison.
The children of Scout have four eyes and webbed claws.
The children of Girl have webbed claws and mouth harpoons.
Yet again, they're all ever so tiny, each one mostly less than an inch in size. They'll grow soon enough, and become fairly large. What do you wish to do with them?

>>6599512
I agree Flier should get some jelly fish.

>>6599512

It's soft body might effect Flyer's wings though. They need to be stiff enough to help support Flyer's weight.

if we eat the jellyfish we'll become more squishy so I would suggest not using it. Maybe let the smart shmecklings eat it.

>>6599520
Say, "hi", with a little psychic love, and escort them to the new breeding/teaching room.
Then explore with scout and flier.

>>6599512
Actually, scratch my previous plan, and that, flyer would be AMAZING with some stingray, given he already has a tail of the appropriate length. Replace the portion of stingray I dedicated to fishs spawn with some for Flyer.

>>6599520
Assign them to "train" with their respective parents.

>>6599528
http://www.wizards.com/mtg/images/daily/stf/stf29_esperzoa.jpg

>>6599520
Pour love into their brains. Escort them to the teaching ground for indoctrination and proper brood learnings.

>>6599520
Imprint ourselves in their minds. We're number one.

Instruct them to follow our brood's orders. Hunt, feed, grow, keep on the look out for other "traitors".

Then it's time for us to gestate and evolve again.

>>6599545
Agreed - they're best used to support the existing roles of their mothers.

Next session of breeding needs to give some lovin' to Tank. His genes should be shared.

>>6599541
>>6599545
You send them off to the chamber, where they are being taught and trained, where they play fight with one another and where Tank and their respective parents teach them how to survive in the wilderness.

>>6599520
I'd say out of the new brood, we need to make some heavily spider influenced minions for hive/trap creation.

Influence them to love us. Tell them how awesome we are and how we want to make them strong and all that jazz, that we are a family who works together.

Then lets set up some classes to scouting/hunting/building and guarding.

And breeding. Lets go ahead and keep our core safe, but start really kicking the growth up.

Are we able to gestate ourselves? We must be getting pretty full. If not, perhaps we should go bag ourselves a moggy.

>>6599574
Nice.
Now; about that SKULLROOM... we'll start scouting the area around that with whichever members of our "scout" squad are available attempting to track our Enemies path.

If we come across likely prey while doing that we tuck in to try and push ourselves closer to gestation.

>>6599570
Agreed.

>>6599520
Have the children of swimmer taught to make under-water nets, to catch lots of tasty things.

>>6599590
You're quite full and you're eating enough to keep yourself that way. If you want to gestate, you need something of substance.

So, if you want to evolve - what do you want to go and eat?

This is all so excellent! This is a critical juncture my comrades! We have gained enough followers to become a true community, but not a large one. This is the phase that will test our project! We will either fail here, or reach a point of stability from which further advancement will be easily assured! Tread carefully my fellow players. We must see that all goes well!

>>6599600
Something near the outer reaches of where we were scouting. Two birds with one stone if we can hunt the other patriarch while looking for something new to eat. Did you say there were Wildcats up that way?

>>6599600

Another cat, maybe some human if there is any left of the hobo. Increase our size and grace as well as help form our little arms into more useful appendages.

Just to elaborate, the Jellyfish is ultimately going to:
Reduce resilience
Reduce Intelligence
Reduce terrestrial capability
Increase Aquatic Capability
Increase small food gathering ability.

As such we want these guys to become the underwater farmer class as it were. This means that the two optimal builds containing jellyfish dna are the ones that are already fully aquatic, and the ones that contain some spider dna (With a heavy emphasis on evolution vs. growth we might be able to create stinging webspinners even).

As such this is really something to hand over to the aquatic offspring as well as those that we feel uncomfortable having around the hive. Giving it to the Schmaklings is ultimately an inefficient gesture, practically an execution sentence. Honestly a good idea would be to have swimmers (Jeez I should probably start using his actual name since it has one) brood, when he eventually has one, eat some jellyfish.

>>6599600
An octopus? Ink spray and you get like 8 arms with suction cups on them.

>>6599613
Wild cats. Not wildcats. Just feral house cats, that's all.

>>6599591
This.

>>6599600
Eat anything that doesn't fly, or isn't a spider - those go to flier and scout, respectively. Anything else should be game. We might think about making our spikething better, somehow, maybe getting some real hands.
Spelunking teenagers would be ideal.

Fuck. Lets eat whatever gave us our shooty tongue so we don't lose it.

Then lets fucking go Evolve 20% Grow 80% so we can possibly grow large enough to coax our leg to work itself out of the limp a little more. And make use a lot larger then our crew and hopefully any threats.

If we get tall enough and humaniod enough we can move around up top in the city by putting on some hobo clothing.

>>6599600
Make sure that in addition to Fish and Slugboy/Slugirl getting some stingray and jellyfish respectively, we get enough of each to take some traits next gestation. Everyone has access to every food available--let the children evolve based on what they think would benefit them and the family most.

>>6599634
Seems like wild cats might be our best bet for now still. Unless something else shows up in that area.

>>6599628 This. This a thousand times.
>>6599634 Yes.

>>6599634
I think we have enough human DNA already to make ourselves some hands, we just haven't implemented it yet.

Also before the flood of evolution suggestions comes in for the love of god
0% seahorse
0% jellyfish

The fact we consumed them in the first place made me facepalm right through my eyesockets.

>>6599650
Nothing gave you your shooty tongue. Primarily, that's a mutation that you've created.

Sometimes your evolution is altered by your experience. In this case, as you relied more and more heavily on your vomit, your vomit became more acidic, then your vomit became a calcium dart which became the harpoon. It's not a stretch, seeing as conidae, not-so-distant relatives, also have calcium harpoons.

>>6599670
I whole-heartedly agree. It was STUPID. Those should have gone to the aquatics.

>>6599670
You do have hands.

The folded arms on your chest can unfold and they actually have articulated claws, with thumbs.

We should instruct our more defensive members (which at the moment seems to be Boy and Girl) to eat spider parts. That way, when they're not mating and increasing our numbers, they can be putting up webs for defensive purposes.

>>6599650
>walk around disguised as a human
>grow based on what we eat

Guys, this is how Jeepers Creepers started.

just eat whatevers on hand, we're not going to find anything that we'd particularly care about evolving into without a lot more searching, and for now it would be best just to grow, our enemies have clearly outpaced our gestation rate based on their number of eggs

>>6599698
YES.
And some alarm-webs, later.

>>6599568
This

>>6599698
This.

And i agree with the setting up of a forward camp near the skulls room plan. We bring a retinue of scout, flyer and some of the Shmecklings, chow down on a cat and gestate.

Also, not that I'm neccessarily trying to sway either way, but if:
We focus on growth and human genes, we can steal some clothes and pass for a very short hobo.
BUT
We won't be able to fit into a lot of the crawl spaces we used to and will hence be reliant on our offspring. As in, completely unable to do certain things without their assistance. Not like right now where their help simply makes things we could have done anyway easier.
ALSO
Playing at being human will alienate us from the hive. We might be able to say that Slul-Huggoth has spoken to us and said we must go on a pilgrimage to the overworld once, but not every second day.

Fish and Swimmer are ordered to get some more stingray and jellyfish.
Scout and Flyer are ordered to eat spiders and flies respectively. They're also ordered to continue scouting around the area of the skull cairn.
Boy and Girl are ordered to eat spiders and jellyfish.

But as for you? It's hunting time. You come across the pack of cats that you located early, but they haven't noticed you. What course of action do you wish to take?

>>6599753
Oh, Flyer is also ordered to eat some jellyfish as well.

FFFFFFUUUUUU EVERYONE IS EATING THE EXACT OPPOSITE OF THE RIGHT THINGS

>>6599766
They're eating what people requested they should eat.

>>6599759
Fuck yes.

>>6599753
How many cats?

Hide in the dark. Psychically draw them to us with curiosity and subserviance. When they get closer, try to get them to kill each other.

If not, spear them, one after the other. As fast as possible.

>>6599753
attempt to stun them with a psychic blast

if we brough a retinue have them move in to attack first, focusing on a single target as directed by our mental orders

move in after them ourselves to utilise our lovely harpoon

>>6599773
Seven.

Slowly stalk the cats then try to isolate one from the rest of its group, then Imprint Massive Amounts of Dominance VIA Fear Similar to an Unequaled pack leader upon it.->Harpoon to Face-> Eat->????-> PROFIT

>>6599748
>pass for a very small hobo

We're a two foot tall, four armed, dog faced, amphibian man...I dont think anyone's going to buy any disguise we cook up unless we get more human in us.

>>6599753
Pick off one from a distance with the harpoon. If they appear to be there for a while, we call Scout and have him act as bait to lure one past us to eat.

>>6599785
Lure them to us, one at a time, utilizing psychic abilities.
>>6599786
Kill them with spear, after a secondary mental blast.

>>6599753

stop boy and girl from eating jellyfish

Anyway, cat hunting. Well this would have been an excellent time to see Tank in action, and give him a chance to atone for his cowardice earlier, but I gather he is out of range of this mission?

If this is so, then we must consider it an opportunity to experiment with our other new combat asset. HANDS. See if there are any sharp sticks or similarly useful objects nearby, so we can use it as a crude third method of attack on top of our harpoon, and claws. I don't think we are up to fashioning any less primitive tools just yet.

So far, suggestions seem to revolve around:
1) Cause animosity
2) Spear them while they're distracted
3) Inspire fear if they try to attack

>>6599808 This.
>>6599814 Too dangerous, might lose delicate manipulators.

>>6599819
Trying to mentally stun then sounds like a good idea, too.

how soon can we knock up scout, fish, swimmer and girl?
how soon can we knock up the new hatchlings?
new dna is interesting, but numbers are going to give us the edge if it comes down to a war with the Shmehkahs
for that matter they'll give us the edge if we come up against any other threat greater than a hobo

on a related note, i think we are shifting from survival by concealment in the sewers to survival by dominance over our territory in the sewers and so we should start pushing some of our children under tank, and tank himself to grow as large as they can

if we still have reservations about the shmecklings we should assign some of each brood to tank.
actually, thats a good idea anyway, instead of giving each brood to their respective parent we should diversify, get some fishlings learning from scout, some girl-lings learning from swimmer, etc etc
assign 15ish kids to each adult?

Yeah, it's a shame Tank isn't here. Otherwise, psychic blast plus harpoon seems fine. They're just cats.

Not Just Fear but Fear/Dominance We inspire fear they may just run away but if we dominate every aspect of their feeble minds they will be slow to react and easier to kill

>>6599814
I like this. Let's give them a shot. We have big hands now, let's try braining a cat over the head with a rock.

>>6599819
Yup.
Psychic Attack.
Spear.
Fear if they manage to attack us.

But we could always try to have something to hand as a simple beatdown tool if all else fails.

>>6599799
I did say after we grew a bit and assumed a higher percentage of the human genome. Even then, I'd say provided we can find some clothes, are at least 4 feet tall, and bipedal, we could pass. Even if our skin was still chitin, I reckon we could manage, especially given the potential for augmenting our disguise with psychic power and the fact that noone likes to look at hobos for very long.

>>6599842
We have LITTLE hands, that we've been holding close to our body. If a cat bites one of our hands off....

>>6599842
Or try some strangulation with our new hands

It seems to me like tracking down any rogue broodlings should be our highest priority right now. We have plenty of genetic diversity to draw upon. Food should be plentiful, though feeding all of our current brood might prove to be problematic over the long run (though, we could always have them eat one another if things got tough).

I gotta say, the idea of there being a rival group of us out there doesn't fill me with warm, happy feelings.

>>6599866
Then we get a peg leg and hook hand?

GUYS! Numbers could become a disadvantage. If we have to many offspring it is possible that the heretics can mentaly control our offspring as well, spreading our mental powers to thin could cause our own demise. Just a reminder.

>>6599866
We have little hands AND big hands. Manipulators AND weapons/grabbers.

The mind of a cat is ever so easy for you to understand. It’s pitiful, in fact. You weave curiosity around them like a blanket, wrapping it around them and drawing them in close to your location. Of course, once you’re spotted, they seem surprisingly confident. Just you versus them? Easy.

That’s when it happens. With a sudden burst, you force crushing fear into their hearts and minds. Sheer, absolute terror. The sort of thing that a deer feels when it stares into the headlights of a car. And, true enough, the cats simply freeze, twitching and staring about themselves in horror. Even as you begin to kill them, one by one by one, they don’t move. They just stand there. It’s almost disappointing. The last one, you don’t even have to kill. The sheer weight of your mind upon it breaks it. The thing collapses into a catatonic state.

Not a single bit of work – yet just like that, you wiped out a pack of cats.

>>6599876
Exactly. We can have Slug boy and girl fashion them for us.

>>6599819
Indeed, turn them against one another.
Time to see how well our powers work now.

>>6599875

Agree

after gestating we need to split up slightly into a primary camp where our eggs were, and a secondary camp where the betrayer's were. Give all of our first generation children instructions on the basic ideas behind evolution and how to pick which animals to eat, and then give them a general idea of their role. Tell them to eat based on that, with a few examples of what that would mean. Have them organize their underlings similarly, and then focus on putting together a seek-and-destroy force to destroy the heretics, all the while increasing our size and diversity, and working hard to maintain unity.

>>6599852
We could always just wear their skin....
But I don't like the idea.
IDEA. Make a sky and ocean kingdom. Sky-scrapers above, full of pigeons, delicious and plentiful. The ocean, full of INTERESTING creatures. Not saying we need to go, ourselves, but....
For now: keep the hands safe.

>>6599901
Eat some pussy.

>>6599901
I feel badass now.

>>6599901
Bring meat to hive. Eat. Gestate. Mutate.

>>6599901
Time to feed, and then... Evolve.

>>6599901
Alright, bring the food back to the hive before eating, we want to evolve back at home and leave some parting orders first.
Consider breeding, or having others breed, beforehand.

>>6599921
This.

>>6599901

Ok, that's pretty freaking cool. Let's hear it for über-mind powers!

>>6599914
>>6599901
Find knife-like object to cut hide from muscles of cats, to construct clothes. Then drag/eat the meat.

I have a few random ideas:

Brainwashing every newborn is a massive drain on psychic energy. Wouldn't it be a good idea to breed some psychic "propaganda officers" to take care of that for us?

Also: We need a nice long prehensile tail with a poisonous stinger on it. That would be so useful it's absurd.

>>6599921
You bring the meat back to the hive and you begin to eat. If you wish, you can distribute the meat - but you have got more than enough for yourself there. Slowly, the slime begins to build up around you again. You feel your body become heavy.

If you have any orders that you wish to give to those who are beneath you, state them now, before you begin to evolve.

fuck, i dont know how but we need to grow our psychic powers more
is that like the harpoon, original from us? or are we to believe that the human helped them because humans are smart and have complicated thoughts

>>6599954
Split the meat up the little uns need some food.

>>6599954
Watch for signs of our Enemy. Investigate clues but be cautious.
Be cautious but caring of the Schmeklings.

>>6599965
Like the harpoon, your telepathy is homebrewed. The more you use it, the more you hone it.

>>6599954
Orders; Continue to scout, avoid detection, some of >>6599908
Defensive posture, speak kind words to newest generation, wisdom to eldest, have them train and lead, respectively.

>>6599977
We've got to keep using it AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE.

Attempt to communicate with our brood while we're gestating.

>>6600010
Good idea.

>>6599954
Eat what they think is best for them. Build defenses. Hunt for themselves. Establish a hold on the area. Look into the things outside.

>>6599954
Tell Boy and Girl they need to eat some of this cat meat (along with spider meat when they find it) and evolve as soon as possible along defensive lines.

100% growth this time. We can simply be big, and healed enough to take on anything physically that we can't dominate mentally.

>>6599977

avoid detection by humans at all costs

>>6600010
THIS.
A thousand times THIS.

Both on the telepathy note, and even more importantly continue to communicate would be a huge boon to us if we can pull it off.

>>6600010
>>6600015

Thirded. Being able to keep at least rudimentary tabs on our offspring while we're incapacitated is a really good idea.

So, the general gist of things is:
1) Keep a close eye over the captured brood.
2) Raise the broods to be new troops.
3) Have your children eat what they're ordered to.
4) Have your children gestate under no circumstances. Never, ever, until you awaken.

Tank eats: ???
Scout eats: Spiders?
Flyer eats: Flies? Jellyfish?
Guy eats: Spiders? Jellyfish?
Girl eats: Spiders? Jellyfish?
Swimmer eats: Jellyfish? Stingray?
Fish eats: Jellyfish? Stingray?

>>6600032
They should mate first.

keep growing bigger and work on telepathy, soon enough we'll be the like the zerg overmind.

Mostly Growth I say, get big and nasty and lots of brain power. I say take a little bit of evolution from the Jellyfish, simply to see if we can develop some sort of firm toxicity back.

>>6600051
tank should eat stingrays, dogs, and roaches

>>6600051
I just want to chime in an say Tank should be eating a bunch of meat not like bugs but cats and dogs certainly.

Minimise use of jellyfish DNA in all save for fish. Even with fish, not very much, maybe 20-30%.

If Flyers use of Jellyfish DNA is inevitable, make him devote >85% of his growth vs. evolution quota to evolution, not growth.

>>6600067
Seconded.

>>6600072
Unless you're awake when they gestate, you cannot control their rate of evolution.

What do you want them to eat? That's what I am asking now.

>>6600051
Scout and Flyer also eat anything they find that flies.

Tank also eats cats and anything they find that is tough and durable (CRABS)

Allow the younger ones to eat as they like at the moment. Mostly cat.

Allow Tank to impregnate anything it feels like.

>>6600072
Flier should get about 10% jellyfish, 0% growth, I'd think.

>>6600051
Should keep the eating advice broad in case they meet something unexpected.
As a side note, have them save samples of any new creatures they find for you, hopefully they'll still be edible when we emerge.

>>6599834
i agree with this, this could teach our offspring to be adaptable as in not dedicated to a single role and could increase some genetic diversity.

>>6600051

no one but swimmer and fish eat jellyfish, and even then only emphasize it very slightly.

flyer eats flies and stingray otherwise roughly as shown there

>>6600090
Looks good, just have tank go with mostly dog, and things that will make sure his chitlin stays around.

So Dog/Roach I guess. Everyone else get extra poison and web.

We also need to make sure that everyone is not in cacoons leaving just the new guys sitting around I think that would be a little dangerous.

Tank eats: Cat, Dog, Roach, Touch Critters
Scout eats: Spiders
Flyer eats: Flies, Stingray, Flying Critters
Guy eats: Spiders
Girl eats: Spiders
Swimmer eats: Stingray
Fish eats: Jellyfish, Stingray

This suitable?

>>6600051

Guy/girl: Spider and Jelly fish. They can become our home defenders, using lethal venom instead of brute force to subdue anything entering out domain.
Flyer: More flying critters, and a little spider to see if she can produce silk or venom.
Scout: Spider and cat. about 50-50.
Swimmer: Just the Stingray. Keep away from the Jellyfish, as it will soften her up too much
Fish: Nothing right now, just whatever is spare to keep it strong and healthy. We need to get more fish for it, and NO jellyfish. They are slow and weak creatures.
Tank: More roach and dog meat.

>>6600114
yes

>>6600114
Perfect.

Make sure to save any new finds for our consumption!

I only see the jellyfish doing harm, we don't even know if it is poisonous. if its a deadly jellyfish then it would be useful, if not, just leave it out.

>>6600114
Yep.

Also:

Guy: He
Girl: She
Fly: He
Swimmer: She
Tank: He
Scout: It
Fish: It

>>6600114
works for me.
all glory to Slul-Hoggoth.

>>6600131
Tank can make sweet fuck to Swimmer.

You allow the slime to consume you, wrapping you in a cocoon. You are in a safe location, where your people can guard you. You're safe. It's time to rest, to grow, to change and evolve.

Allocate 100% between Growth and Evolution.

Allocate 100% between the following:
Dog (Mongrel)
Cat (Mongrel)
Man
Seahorse
Jellyfish

>>6600114
yes

90% Growth 10% Evolution

20% Growth
80% Evolution

25% Dog (Mongrel)
25% Cat (Mongrel)
50% Man

They should focus their eating on creatures that possess abilities that would assist their assigned roles, whenever supply is limited.
If there is enough to go around, share but do not gestate. No reason to restrain them from DNA that doesn't help them as long as we are there to instruct them to leave it undeveloped when they gestate.

>>6600173
This

>>6600162
100% Evolution

100% Jellyfish

Not even joking... i think we need to get ourselves a personal aquatic option and, with our current form, jellyfish has more to offer than seahorse.

>>6600167
this, and 80 man, 10 dog, 10 cat.

>>6600162

70% growth 30% evolution

30% man 10% seahorse 30% cat 30% dog

>>6600162
Growth 50% Evolution 50%

Dog 10%
Cat 10%
Man 60%
Seahorse 5%
Jellyfish 15%

70%Man 30% Dog

>>6600162
90% Growth 10% Evolution.

Dog (Mongrel) 10%
Cat (Mongrel) 10%
Man 80%
Seahorse 0%
Jellyfish 0%

50/50 growth and evo. Half man, quarter dog, quarter cat

80% Growth 20% Evolve

Man: 60%
Dog: 20%
Cat: 20%

>>6600187

there are easier ways to commit suicide

Felines, Have little Value compared to what we already have go with Man And Dog

>>6600117
Seconding.
With regards to children, schmakahns are to eat rats, cats, mammals in general. Not so much dogs though.
Swimmers offspring may eat Jellyfish if they are so inclined, as well as this they are allowed to eat any mammals, as well as fish, and spiders.
Fish's offspring may eat any aquatic creature they can, except jellyfish.
Scouts offspring may eat mammals and insects of their choice.
Slug Girls offspring may consume human scraps they find, spiders, and mammals.

>>6600187
A jellyfish would completely fuck up most of what we've worked towards. it would soften our body, degrade our minds and limbs, and generally downgrade us.

Hmmmm. 100% Growth IF Growth includes personal abilities like the harpoon and the mind-powers.

>>6600162
Didn't we taste stingray as well?
Between our tail and harpoon those genes could have interesting expressions.

And wasn't ant mentioned as being on the corpse, I thought we didn't have that one yet.

>>6600162
90% growth, 10% evolution.

65% man,
15% dog,
15% cat
5% jellyfish, just to see how it turns out.

schmakahns should not be giving meat of higher creatures for the sins of their father they must live as servants to the higher ones.

>>6600204
I mean as long as its a lot of man, doesn't really matter if we have such a small amount of cat or dog.

Growth 65% Evolution 35%
Human 65%
Dog 25%
Jellyfish 10%

>>6600207
OR it would increase our regenerative abilities, our habitat options and our harpoons effectiveness.

>>6600189
Seconding this.

>>6600162
When did we stop doing 100% for each?
>Rat 0%-100%
>Cat 0%-100%
>Mouse 0%-100%
Like that.

I'm taking sensible averages of everything, and I end up with the following:

70% Growth
30% Evolution

70% Man
15% Dog (Mongrel)
10% Cat (Mongrel)
5% Jellyfish

Suitable?

>>6600162
I'm a mite confused, what happened to the other genes in our repertoire?

>>6600231
At the loss of our defensive ability and land maneuverability.

>>6600235
I like the new way.

>>6600219

you're the guy that countries overthrow and kill when they move to democracy.

>>6600239
sounds good to me.

>>6600239
Cool.

>>6600239
Excellent.

>>6600239

More Jellyfish, less man. If we become too human, it'll firstly be boring, and secondly alienate us from the brood.

Plus it precludes the more exotic mutations.

>>6600239
I can dig that

>>6600239
More evolution.
Evolution is real power.

60% Evolution, 40% Growth, if we want to grow.

Swimmerspawn - Can eat ANYTHING for they are favoured.
Fishspawn - May eat anything aquatic INCLUDING jellyfish, plus they are to have spiders brought to them.
Scoutspawn - Mammals and Bugs. Agreed.
Slug Girls - Spiders. Mammals.
Schmeklings are to be assigned to one of the Prime spawn (tank, swimmer, etc) and are to eat what they eat.

All girls are to fuck Tank.

>>6600240
You haven't eaten any of those creatures since your last gestation.

Once you gestate, you lose the genetics of something that you had previous eaten.

For example, after this gestation, if you don't eat seahorse, you can't become seahorse.

>>6600240
Maybe we are limited only to recently consumed genes? I was wondering this too.

Anyway I honestly think that even seahorse is a better idea than jellyfish. Still plenty of novel genes, and we gain a chitin shell and don't lose as much intelligence.

>>6600239

the amount on man seems a little high but otherwise kinda yea.

I still think ANY jellyfish % is a total waste.

>>6600239
Sounds just right.

In regards to the newly spawned feeding. Schmecklings should be divided up between our main minions to better assimilate them into our brood.

70% Evolution
30% Growth
We don't want to be huge, we want to be /better/.
30% worked out well last time.

>>6600258
I want to make tools. We can feast on more exotic creatures later, on a whim, the sea anemones, lionfish, wasps, and poisonous spiders our children will bring us - in cages and jars that they can operate BECAUSE THEY'LL HAVE HANDS, MOTHERFUCKER! AND THUMBS AND SHIT!

>>6600276
Do we know we can lose intelligence?

>>6600258
But if we are able to walk among the humans we can get to some REAL exotic stuff, and generally have more of a selection of what we can eat and evolve into next time. More human now for more exotic choice later.

why are we so keen on man? its already been confirmed that man doesnt help our psychic powers, we already have pychic powers and we are a long (unrealistic) ways from walking around the above world like a ninja turtle in a trenchcoat and hat
i think we want dog/cockroach/cat 30/30/40 with 40/60 growth/evolution
that gives us a good boost to strength, toughness and agility, while keeping us small enough to do the stealth thing

In response to suggestions:

60% Growth
40% Evolution

65% Man
15% Dog (Mongrel)
10% Cat (Mongrel)
10% Jellyfish

This is fixed based on the current suggestions.

>>6600294
WE HAVE HANDS ALREADY.

>>6600300
>man doesn't help psychic powers

Did you miss the part where we KILLED A PACK OF CATS WITH OUR MIND

Where do you think that came from?

>>6600303
Hmmm... i liked it as it was before.

>>6600268
Not so much the tank orgy at the end, I think we need to keep mating to a moderation right now (IE one pregnant female at any given time), but otherwise this does mesh with my suggestion, and I had completely forgotten that swimmers offspring deserve no limits by nature of their heritage.

>>6600300
see >>6600299

also read the choices we have, we don't have roaches this time. we should probably eat more after this.

>>6600303
Just do that, We'll fucking be here all night otherwise haha

Fuck man, we're a Slug motherfucker.

>>6600314
We need the numbers and Tank's genes need to be spread.

LETS EVOLVE UP IN THIS MOTHERFUCKER

FUCK IT. Going with this:
>>6600239

20% Growth
80% Evolution

Try to communicate while gestating.

>>6600331
WOOH!

>>6600331
Fuck yes.

I think at this point we should focus on our home brew powers, the telekinesis and harpoon. Those are the powers that have really served us well, so put 70 evo and 30 growth.

>>6600331
Please do. Evolve quickly! (gotta sleep for work tommorow)

>>6600331
Attempting to maintain communication while gestating.

>>6600322
FUCK TREES WE CRAWL SEWERS MOTHERFUCKER

>>6600311
>Did you miss the part where we KILLED A PACK OF CATS WITH OUR MIND
>Where do you think that came from?

see
>>6599977
>Like the harpoon, your telepathy is homebrewed. The more you use it, the more you hone it.

>>6600331
Gah, too much growth!

This is what I get for delaying while trying to figure out where my cockroach genes went. >.<

>>6600346
FUCK TRAITORS, WE PURGE HERETICS MOTHERFUCKER

>>6600350
Despite the inevitable loss of mobility that will result from this, I still think its a step in the right direction. Also I don't think we are currently at a loss for strange and exotic ways to kill people.

>>6600346
NEVER THOUGHT I'D BE A SLUG!
IT'S A MUTATIN' SLAUGHTERIN' THUG!
BELIEVE ME WHEN I SAY!
I FUCKED... er... myself?

>>6600375
ya mug

>>6600375
CROSS ME AND YOU WILL FIND
I'LL FUCK YOU WITH MY MIND

>>6600350
Maybe it got listed flipped again?

>>6600375
I fucking ate a hobo named Doug.
You're rhymes aren't as good as they could be.

>>6600396
Needs to rhyme with the third line. Not the first two.

>>6600394
No, it wasn't until late in the suggestions that people started calling for more evo than growth, and it seems that even if there is a majority first in has some degree of priority.

>>6600405
then I fuckin ate a sting ray

>>6600393
I'm evolving in a cocoon,
My DNA is a zoo,
I feed on creatures left and right,
Becoming something not fit for for the light
Of day, but hey, it's cool -
The only ones messin' wit' me are fools.
Got a bitchin' bone-spear,
I'll stick it up your rear,
And feed on your entrails,
Benefiting from all that that entails.

>>6600417
Perfect

>>6600413
Makes sense. People only speak up about specifics when they disagree... so it would just end up as a tug-of-war if the initial poll didn't take precedence.

You attempt to communicate while gestate but unfortunately, you fail. This state requires your mind to be dormant.
In any case, you awaken and you have... well, you’ve grown, to say the least. You’ve gone from two feet tall to three feet and a half. Your back is straighter and you no longer have the gorilla gait that you had before – you now walk like a human being. Your primary arms also have opposable thumbs now, just like your dextrous, articulated little chest claws. Your tail is a bit longer and you notice that you have excellent balance! But, besides these chances, there is no real difference. Your leg has healed further – there’s still a minor limp, but it’s nothing to worry about. As for your partially melted face, it’s purely cosmetic at this rate.

That is not the important part. You have an army.

All of your brood, that which you captured and that which you sired, have grown to their full sizes. It’s quite impressive, really. All of your children are eating healthily, and they have a rather large pile of new food. Crabs, large fish, all sorts of saltwater creatures.

Tank informs you that breeding has been taking place. Swimmer carries his young, Girl carries the young of Guy and one of Swimmer’s brood has impregnated a large quantity of its siblings. This individual is surprisingly large – the same size you were before you gestated. It’s muscular and powerful and generally, superior to its mother in every way. Tank appears worried that his position may be usurped. Let’s call this individual Athlete.

>>6600417
CORRECT AMUNDO!

Skipping back to earlier in the song...
WE GOT TELEPATHY, PSYCHIC TRICKS N' SHIT
OUR HARPOONS SLAYIN, STABBIN ALL THE KITTIES TO DEATH
BUT WE AIN'T SCHMAHKAH, WE AS REAL AS IT GETS!
SLUL-HUGGOTH MOTHERFUCKER DON'T YOU EVER FORGET!

>>6600442
Let's go exert our dominance over Athlete, and failing that, eat him.

>>6600442
Let's make athlete our personal guard.
What all's in the pile of fish?

>>6600442
To avoid or encourage competition...

Let's have Athlete focus on speed, while Tank focuses on size and bulk. We have crabs, after all!

We need a rundown of all of our physical features/weapons...

Fangs, claws, harpoon tongue, webbed feet, etc.

Also, I think the gorilla gait might be something we want to gain back. Walking upright like a human is a SERIOUS speed disadvantage. Being able to run on all fours is a vastly superior mode of transportation.

>>6600442
Congratulate Tank and assure him that he is still one of the Prime-Spawn.

Were any new creatures consumed while I was under?

>>6600455
You're legit.

>>6600457
>>6600458
Trio.

>>6600442
Let's give Tank a morale boost after ^^^. Let him know he's a needed part of the defense squad of the home base, protecting the next generation, teaching them, etc.

>>6600472
Crabs
Lobster
Spiny Dogfish
Hermit Crab
Goat Fish

>>6600468
Time to disguise ourself as a human and take a trip to the zoo.

Eat Athlete and a few other broodlings to Re-establish your dominance from your deep slumber

>>6600442

Assure tank that while there will always be other creatures, his knowledge and experience is invaluable.

even if we actually will replace him, keeping him (and everyone else) happy is important.

can we get a bit more description on athlete so that we kinda know what its good at?

It is imperative that we at least find out how Athlete got this way before we take any action, diplomatic or otherwise. It seems mighty suspicious to say the least, some external influence we are unaware could be acting. For all we know Athelete's psychic capabilities may have developed in parallel.

Hah! Have Tank, Swimmer and the other named spawn enter gestation.

Take some of the swimmerspawn (including athlete) and some of the schmekhlings out on a HUNTING PARTY!

>>6600497
Yeah get the Original gangstas to feast on their respective food so they can evolve into the epics they need to be.

>>6600442
Speak to our generations of children, show them our attention.
Do some good PR, introduce the new body, see how things have gone.

>>6600486
Fish to Fish and Swimmer types, all the crabs and everything else go to the defense squad, particularly Motherfucking Tank.
Any leftovers go to the young ones.

>>6600491
You're retarded, one of your offspring is better than the others so you kill it? Tank is worried Athlete will usurp his position not yours.

>>6600442

We need a protege (we can't micromanage so much as time goes on), and Athlete sounds like a prime candidate for this.

Take Athlete as our own, keep him with us at all times. Tailor him - he can be our big, brutish enforcer, we can be the smaller, more dextrous and intelligent brains of the operation.

HUNTING PARTY WANT!! Begin Small discrete raids en masse on the Surface

Do not kill athlete we should encourage improvements and also establish a hierarchy of the prime broods.

Tank better have been eating those goddamn crustaceans.

>>6600488
Oh hell yes.

>>6600516
Also, eat the new things collected, prepare your eldest to gestate.

>>6600497
This, after Tank eats, and we do some PR.

>>6600526
Surface raids seconded. We need all the info on the surface world so we can fit in better up there.

So, who is Athlete? What should you do with him - eat him or promote him? What put him in the position that he is in? Why is he so physically superior?
Also, once your children begin the gestation, what will they become? How will you attempt to mold them and change them?

And what about your great enemy? What are they doing? What have they been up to during your gestation?

Find out next time, folks.

Yes. We personally must sample one of each creature.

>>6600547
ffffffffffffffffffffffffffff-
Okay. This is awesome.

Time to go into RL Gestation Mode....

>>6600547
When should we lurk to catch the next segment?

yes to 1st gen gestating
yes to investigating how athlete got so tough

>>6600568
Try next Friday.

>>6600442
congragulate Tank for keeping order, make him eat cats,dogs,crabs, let him gestate and grow, turn him into a killing machine

SPIT YOUR GUTS WITH BLOOD AND THUNDER!
WHEN YOU SEE THE WHITE MAN!
BREAK YOUR GENES AND CRACK YOUR SHELLS MEN,
IF YOU WISH TO PREVAIL!
THIS IVORY FORM IS WHAT PROPELS ME,
HARPOON TONGUE THRUST IN THE SKY!
ARM DIRECTLY FOR THEIR CROOKED BROWS,
AND LOOK THEM DEAD IN THE EYE!

Well, since it's over for tonight, we need a drawfag up in here to make some rad pics of the crazy critters.

>>6600491
Do we really want to gain some wounds so soon after our latest gestation? It sounds like Athlete could actually hurt us, even though defeating us would be out of the question.

>>6600488
A path I have been considering as a future objective for some time, however we will need at least one more phase of serious growth before this is an option.

>>6600497
Seconded absolutely. Have them enter gestation, the eggs can also continue maturing during this time, taking Athlete away from them ensures that he doesn't try any funny business if what Tanks paranoia suggests is true, and it also gives us a chance to gauge just how powerful Athlete is, and formulate and experiment with strategies to coordinate swarms of offspring in hypothetical future scenarios.

Someone archive this thread please. I cannot.

>>6600578
See the previous threads. Drawfag's a britfag, like me. Got a little less endurance, though.

Seek council with the first generation, have them report on those that have trained under them, have them recommend one to serve in their stead while they gestate.
If possible, I think Tank should mate with the captured brood that have been training with him.
Have them gestate. Keep Athlete close, he has potential but we want to make sure he bonds with us.

>>6600585
Did the other ones get archived either?

>>6600606
Yes.

>>6600598
>>6600598
hey what kept you anyway these two weeks

Before we start raiding the surface, we need to become amphibious so we can escape into the ocean if things go against us. Make Athlete our bodyguard and feed him big predatory animals.

We should start dividing our brood into castes for easy management.

Fanatics (Schmeklings), who will only be allowed to breed amongst themselves and who will be brainwashed continually into being fanatically loyal to you, to your god and to the hive; as well as being fanatically hateful towards all non-believers. They'll be expendable, meant for offense.

Warriors: Those with combat features. Meant for defense and hunting. Those with spinnerets spin webs for trapping food and thicker webs for trapping enemies.

Aquatic Scouts: Fish and Swimmer and friends.

Aerial Scouts: Flyer and friends

>>6600618
Keyboard went fuck up.
I now have to use an external keyboard for my laptop.

>>6600628
glad to have you back anyway

about how long does gestation take?
and whats the timeframe with reproduction?

Tank needs to go all crab like with huge claws and a shell.

>>6600649
Approximately a week for each stage.

One week gestation.
One week egg maturing.
One week laying-to-hatching time.

>>6600621
yes to organizing our offspring into castes
but even just as simple as
explorers
fighters
and fighter explorers (hunters)

explorers roam the sewers, and eventually, ocean and/or above world. they explore, come home tell us what they've found, be it prey, or rivals or whatever
hunters roam and bring bring home food
fighters defend the homecamp and only leave in cases of major fights and/or war

So when do you think we'll meet up with Sewer workers, I've been wondering for a while when that will happen.

>>6600724
Seconding this

>>6595972

OKAY BIO I MADE SWEET, SWEET LOVE TO MY WOMAN LIKE YOU TOLD ME TO

NOW I HAVE RETURNED TO COMMAND CLOVERSLUG TO GLORY

This is like Starcraft Zerg origins and warhammer 40k imperium/space marines
in short- fucking awesome.

>>6601316
oh you mean its over

poo