I want Swimmer rule 34.
Get the masses of lowly spawn to gestate, then attack the Enemy.
They're here, and have probably killed flier, and probably scout.

Long-term plan:

1. Limit our numbers. Assimilate lots of different species' DNA until we or our spawn evolve a form or range of forms that are optimal for FUCKING AWESOME HUMAN-KILLING APEX PREDATOR purposes.

2. Breed like crazy. Everyone gets pregnant all at once.

3. Harvest as much biomass as possible, get our new optimum brood to put all of their gestations into getting bigger.

4. Sweep out in a tide of fangs and claws and deadly cunning.

5. ?????

6. Profit.

Now it's our turn to evolve!
Eat a fuckton of jellyfish, evolve.

>>6694095
D'awwwww.

>>6694135
Only scoutspawn. I agree... but should we gestate first? I believe we're quite close.

Bang Swimmer and Slug girl JUST BECAUSE WE CAN.

Let's set traps, get fucking crazy with our burrowing and fortifying our lair and make this a nasty, brood hive.

Constantly practice our mind powers, and siren call small and easy to kill beasts into our clutches.

>>6694145
Your food supply is such that you can gestate whenever you choose. You've got hundreds of fresh Warty Comb Jellies to eat whenever you like.

>>6694158
They're already pregnant.
Oh, and they need to lay their egg sacs.
Right now.

So now, give gifts and then gestate. Make sure they will protect you though.

I missed so much. ;(

>>6694162
I vote we gestate now then. Have our spawn fortify the hive and let them know that when we awake... WE GO TO WAR!

I still think we should NOT kill our own eggs. We're probably going to incur heavy losses in this battle so i still think numbers will be our friends.

if we do end up with too many then we Split The Party.

IMPREGNATE THEM OR HAVE THEM TAKE 1 MATE AND ONLY THEM
our other children are great but we should focus on expanding the genetic presence of these our most powerfull children

also have a few scoutkids go with some of tanks spawn to check the human settlement and make sure our rouge brood hasnt eaten everyone yet

>>6694162

It'd still be good to add as much new material to the genepool as possible before we do, however.

Spend a day or two siren-hunting, luring creatures into ambush. Athlete can show off his new stuff.

Our gestation and the amount of time it takes for our spawn to hatch take about roughly same time correct?

>>6694173

We fled the sewers, ate some rabbits, killed a bear, flyer is AWOL.

>>6694166
Have them do so in tunnels RIGHT by the water.

KEEP ALL THE EGGS.

>>6694166
>They need to lay eggsacs. RIGHT NOW. NO, YOU CANNOT GET A SHAKE ON THE WAY TO THE HOSPITAL!

>>6694171
This.

>>6694166
Set up a breeding room in the warren, have them lay their eggs there and get tank and some cronies to stand guard.

>>6694195
This. But make sure the breeding room is close to water.

Wait, kill off some eggs. We don't want a brood of 1200 slugspawns!

hey!
its been a week
how are our breeding cattle working?

I also vote we gestate ourself.

Did our scout(s) ever return from searching the woods?

How many eggs do we currently have and whose are they. I'm getting a tad confused.

Also, we need more flyers. Get some of the kids to focus on insect abilities. A whole swarm of slug scouts is much less likely to get lost.

>>6694223
100+ of athlete
100 or maybe more for each other primespawn

...we had 12 from Athlete.

>>6694246
12 eggsacks

>>6694204
Yes, yes we do.

>>6694250
Yes. Which was the question you were responding to. "How many eggs?"

>>6694263
Yup. Two hives are better than one.

You present your gifts to your children and they are all thankful - even Athlete. Especially Athlete, you could say. He and Tank appear to acknowledge one another as equals and as brothers - perhaps due to the change in appearance. They're both more akin now.

Swimmer and Girl both lay their egg sacs in the remains of the gestation cocoons. You've got fourteen egg sacs that will hatch in a week's time. That's 420 children.

You've got eight rabbit babies and six rat babies.

You eat your fill of various food types and finally, it's time to gestate.

>>6694292
Set us up in a suitably large section of our den, perhaps somewhere near our eggs.

>>6694318
You can nestle in with the eggs if you like.

>>6694325
Sounds good.

>>6694325
Awww. Yeah.

>>6694325
Less area for them to guard. I hope we hatch before the eggs do.

You gestate. It's been a long, long time - but finally, your time is here. Time to rest. Time to grow. Time to change. Time to evolve.

Allocate 100% between Growth and Evolution.

Allocate 100% between the following:
Cat (Mongrel)
Dog (Mongrel)
Brown Rat
Cockroach
Silverfish
Ant
Warty Comb Jelly
Rabbit
Brown Bear

Nestle in with eggs. Keep tank as hatchery-guard. If the eggs hatch before us he can begin their education.

>Warty Comb Jelly
MENTAL PICTURE OH GOD WHAT

Now that it'll be time to gestate soon, I believe we should try to focus on getting some opposable, articulated thumbs and retractable claws. It would be incredibly useful to us.

>>6694351

Grow 60% Evolve 40%

80% Brown Bear
10% Rabbit
10% Dog

>>6694351
50/50 on growth and evo.

50% Bear
25% Ant
25% Cockroach

80% on Growth. We want to be the biggest

>>6694357
You already have two sets of opposable thumbs.

>>6694351
Grow 70% Evolve 30%

60% Brown Bear
20% Ant
20% Roach

You seem to favour:
60% Growth / 40% Evolution

60% Bear
20% Roach
10% Ant
5% Dog
5% Rabbit

>>6694351

40% Growth, 60% Evolution

Cat (Mongrel) 20% (nightvision, claws, maybe fur)
Dog (Mongrel) 15% (teeth, scent)
Brown Rat
Cockroach 15% (the extra limbs are still useful, we want to keep those)
Silverfish
Ant
Warty Comb Jelly
Rabbit 25% (strong legs, good for running and JUMPING UP ON MOTHERFUCKERS' FACES)
Brown Bear 25% (strength, claws, fangs, fur)

>>6694417
In favor of that.

70% growth, 30% evolution.

Cat (Mongrel) 30%
Rabbit 10%
Brown Bear 60%

The brown bear gets the most evo allocation, as it will make is a motherfucking beast. The cat and minor rabbit DNA will keep us agile.

>>6694417
Works for me.

>>6694417
I approve heartilly.

>>6694417
THIS, SO HARD.

>>6694417
At first I was hesitant about that much roach, but then I thought about how interesting a roach/bear hybrid would look.

Let's do this then.

>>6694417

I'd take 10% off Bear and put it on Rabbit, otherwise OK.

there should be some sort of attempt to make perfect copies of animals, perhaps cats. They would make the perfect scouts in human territory and might be able to net some big eats (ala The Thing)

>>6694440

By "interesting" I assume you mean "nightmare fuel"?

>>6694479
You assume correctly.

>>6694468

I think this is an awesome idea.

Using spyspawn as infiltrating human habitation would be really good. They wouldn't have to be perfect, but we've got a breeding population of rats and humans don't pay much attention to rats.

You hatch.

You're big. Pretty damn fucking big. 4'9", to be precise. That's 142.5cm. Your teeth have become even more vicious and you even have a pair of hideous, mean looking tusks jutting out of your mouth - but your harpoon tongue is missing. Your tail has become more muscular and stronger. The hardened membrane covering your body has strengthened into chitin of sorts. Your body has also become much more muscular in all areas. Your webbed claws have transformed into finely tuned bear hands - so you've sacrificed swimming ability and manipulation in exchange for mauling power - although you still have opposing thumbs. You've fallen back into a crude gorilla gait as well, which helps your stability quite a bit. You also have very muscular backlegs now, too.

The first thing you're greeted by is a hive of five hundred individuals bowing before you, the vast majority of them newly born. At their head are your first generation. At their head is Athlete, in all his glory and splendor, wearing a tooth necklace and a bear pelt.

"Welcome back, Patriarch."

>>6694548
Though the rats don't have the keenest of intellects and we'd get better information from our spawn.

I just happened to think. It's been stated we are a super fertile race... I wonder what would happen if we tried to impregnate things outside of our kind.

I.e. get bastard spawn inside something, send it back to its kind, Alien style raping as chest bursters explode out and eat their families.

Namefaggan' for this thread.

Grow 60%
Evolve Percentages:

Divisions following are by five percent.

Allocating 100% of the 40% between the following:
Cat (Mongrel) (stealth, jump, endoskeleton) 15%
Dog (Mongrel) (jaws, speed, endoskeleton) 15%
Brown Rat 0%
Cockroach (Hardiness, exoskeleton) 15%
Silverfish 0%
Ant (Body/mass strength ratio, exoskeleton) 10%
Warty Comb Jelly (Poison, stingers) 10%
Rabbit (Jump, speed) 10%
Brown Bear (Strength, hair, jaws, claws, endoskeleton) 25%

>>6694557
How do our newborns look? How big... what features...

Are they ready FOR WAAAAARRRRRRRRR(gh)?

Has flyer returned?

Status report slugber 1.

Speaking of infiltrating human cities for spying, we really have no idea what the situation is with our rivals.

Flyer was probably killed by them, seeing as his advanced form + intelligence would make it easy for him to outperform anything natural.

That means they already have a sizeable presence above ground, with their forms probably evolved with local wildlife.

They're clearly much more aggressive than we are, and it's possible, though unlikely, that they've already started their "invasion" into human territory.

I think that possibly, it may be a good idea to overtake a secluded house somewhere out here. Either a farmhouse that looks abandoned, or a cabin that is out in the middle of the forest.

>Your webbed claws have transformed into finely tuned bear hands
But do we have BEAR ARMS?

Give a hearty psychic greeting to our prime spawn and march to the head of the newborns.

>>6694557
FUCK! I loved that harpoon tongue.
;_;
Let's wage some war, maybe the DNA will be enough to reclaim it.

>>6694575
If flyer doesn't return we might need to make a replacement for him.

>>6694562

No no, I'm saying we select a group of fresh slugs to feed almost exclusively on rats or cats or whatever so that they can pass as rats to a human in the dark. That way we can send in our spawn to scout out human areas without arousing suspicion.

>>6694557
Nevermind, we're too awesome for words. Think I'll go black out now out of awesomeness, taking five.

>>6694557
Damn it, we'll get that tongue back later.

>>6694605

Even better would be if some offspring of Slug Guy or Slug Girl could focus on become human looking enough for us to throw on a long coat and a hood so they can walk around the humans and ambush them.

>>6694605

Ah, I thought you meant that rats would be a suitable substitute, well then it seems like it'd work pretty well.

>>6694595
Yes, they are bear arms.
>>6694575
Flyer has not returned. According to Athlete, there have recently been a number of mysterious attacks that have left the victims alive. They recall their skin being pierced - the victims have large growths where their skin was pierced.

Victims include 23 Slugspawn, 17 Swimspawn, 12 Scoutspawn and Slug Guy.

Let's get a situation report on what we've missed.

Then when it gets dark, we need to test our new capabilities. Running speed, jumping, crushing ability.

Parasitic infection?

The "others" must have eaten some odd fungi.

Can we get details on the forms of our new spawn?

ask about the condition of the human settlement and if our enemy have conqured it yet

>>6694640
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

Theyre getting infected with some shit. Maybe fungoid. Point is shit is spreading. We dont have that kind of ability, if this shit goes too far we could find ourselves royally screwed.

TO WAR.

>>6694640
Ok. Isolate the victims first off.

Get as much information as possible about the attacks.

Once we get informed, and the victims are isolated, take one and lance the growth. I assume that they've been implanted with eggs.

>>6694640
Shit... lets attempt some Slug-Surgery. We'll have our spawn with the best manual dexterity (Swimmer?) take a nice sharp tool and attempt to cut open one of the growths so we can examine what is inside.

>>6694640

Fuck. We need to separate these individuals for now from the rest of the brood. If they have some infection from the Enemy we can't risk it spreading to the others.

Ask Slug Guy personally exactly what happened, he should be the most intelligent of the bunch.

>>6694640

Fffff--

Get them isolated.

Pick one of the spawn, take them into a private part of the burrow, and use one of Athlete's daggers to attempt to cut out the growth. We need to know what this is. If it's what I think it is, we're in trouble.

>>6694659
Tankspawn look like armoured Swimspawn.
Queenspawn are identical to current Slug Girl.
Speedspawn are identical to Athlete in appearance.

You detect 4 Advanced Sentients in the hive.

>>6694640
check that shit out, we need to know if we can remove it or kill it or something.

>>6694693
try and find those new advanced intelligences, this is happening way more often than I expected.

>>6694684
"I was collecting meat from the latest kill - from one of the large dogs out here - when I was attacked. Something pinned me down, face down - I couldn't see what it was. It pierced my body with something and... and I don't remember what happened. Then it went away. The next thing I knew, I was growing... this."

>>6694715
Yeah, I'm curious as well.

>>6694726
We should attempt to cut one of these growths out then. or at least pierce it to investigate its nature.

>>6694715
Our kids are getting more intelligent.

>>6694726
Perhaps we should try to burrow throughout the entire forest so that we can attack from more advantageous positions, since we suddenly have so many working spawn.

Also, if there's anything odd with the growths, such as them being eggs or whatever, we should try to take in the DNA, perhaps try to find some immunity to it.

>>6694715
Two of them are Speedspawn.
One of them is Tankspawn.

They have been given the names: Runner, Sprinter and Behemoth.
>>6694686
They're isolated.
Which spawn? Slugspawn? Scoutspawn? Swimspawn?
>>6694736
Who would you like to make your victim out of those above?

I think it's fairly safe to assume that this is the work of whatever's been cleaning out the forest and sewers of life--Schmahkah's brood or (worst possible outcome) the scientists.

What if our spawn are tagged?

Man if we hadn't lost the harpoon tongue in the gestation with the growth we underwent it could have become as big as an actual harpoon.

>>6694771

One of the Slugspawn. Do what we can with psychic stuff to make the procedure as non-traumatic as possible. If we can remove this thing without killing the spawn, that's good. If not, well.

Slug medicine will remember their sacrifice.

>>6694782

If they are tagged they must be slain and the entire brood moved. We cannot be found.

>>6694771
A slugspawn. Let it know that what we do we do for the good of the hive and that it should brace for pain,

If we can we should psychically try to relieve said pain.

>>6694790
Don't worry, we can get it back. Remember, our unique powers and physical attributes are based on our need for them and how much we use them.

NO NO NO
he said the growths were growing so its not scientists

You slice open a growth after stopping the pain receptors.

The growth is not a growth, but larvae. Over thirty large, swollen larvae, each the size of a grape, bunching around the veins, feasting on the blood of their victims.

>>6694771
Whichever one is least unique and smallest in size.

It's time to book. Find out exactly where they were attacked, then leave them to themselves. Also, I do NOT trust Athlete.

>>6694819
Eat one. Have the other infected cut open and the larvae removed.

>>6694819
fucking eww. Let's get that stuff removed.

>>6694819
oh god oh god oh god

From now on, no more hunting unless it's accompanied and led by two of either us, Tank or Athlete. Let's see if we can't catch our hunter.

>>6694819
Fucking knew it.

Kill the larvae. Cut open all the growths and destroy the larvae. Not all of them though. Let some of the larvae grow until we can study them.

Possibly have some be eaten to test the DNA for evolution.

I vote we probe and possibly eat the growth on an unnamed spawn to try and rid the spawn of it and produce a cure within ourselves of it. If the operation is successful, we then perform it on SlugGuy.

>>6694840
Oh! But make sure the squirming shit is good and dead first of course.

>>6694819
FUCK, IT'S WASPS. I DON'T REMEMBER WHAT KIND, BUT I DO REMEMBER WITNESSING A BREED OF WASPS THAT PLANT THEIR YOUNG INTO CATERPILLARS AND SUCH FROM ONE OF /v/'s "HOLY SHIT NATURE IS FUCKING SCARY" threads.

>>6694819

Shiiiiittt
Don't eat these goddam things. Burn them. Also, we need to obtain and eat some more human.

>>6694840
You try to take one of.
... Why won't it come off? Stubborn--
The jaw remains latched on as your tear it off. Blood suddenly spurts out from the wound and no matter what you try, the slugspawn bleeds to death rapidly.

Gentleslugs. IT IS TIME FOR A PURGING

We must remove this taint from our ranks. Surgically remove the filth as possible, destroy those too far gone. We cannot allow this scum to subvert out brood.

>>6694819

This is not cool in the slightest.

Remove them. DEVOUR THEM. >:[

Patch up the victim as best we can.

If we can remove these things without killing the victims, that's good. If not, that's bad, but the price that must be paid.

We also need to find out if these eggs have only been implanted in members of our brood, or if the Enemy is running around implanting every creature it can find.

>>6694862
Ichneumon Wasps.

>>6694867
FUCK

explain to Athlete the concept of an ovipositor and wasp parasitism

Maybe we can try to psychically dominate the larvae to LET THE FUCK GO.

If not... well... we may have to purge. Or we could try and directly burn them off their backs... if we find a way to make fire.

If we eat any of them we should only eat a small segment. Certainly not the head.

>>6694887
"... So this creature can impregnate even males?" He seems horrified and shakes his head in disgust. "There is nothing that can be done from them. We have to kill them all - even your child. I hope you understand. There's no chance that we can take with these things. Slul-Huggoth would approve."

>>6694871

I say we kill all the infected broodmembers except for Slug Guy, the rest aren't important and can be let go. Attempt to cure Slug Guy though. And start sending hunting parties more heavily equipped to deal with these attacks.

SO IT BEEEEGEEEENS!!!!111!!!!!one!!!11!

>>6694912
I agree. We can try to save Slugboy... attempt to remove them gently via psychic means.

But if he dies then it is as it must be for the safety of our hive.

>>6694771
Find whomever was attacked and affected first.
Explain to them that we must examine the growth for the good of the hive and that we must cut them and attempt to remove it.
Use mental powers to sooth pain while the growth is cut at.

WE NEED TO GO TO WAR.

>>6694912
Wait my son, I shall take SlugGuy into my safekeeping for now, the rest we must kill. Bring all the infected before me, I must speak to them one last time.

WAIT! SLUGBOY EXCRETES POISON! We can try to poison these little bastards!

Try killing the larva individually, see if that lets them heal. Just muscling it off probably won't do us much good, extract the larva carefully, see if you can get others to help.

>>6694867
>>6694912

If you can't pull them off, you'll have to bite them off.

It'll leave their jaws, but at least the maggots will be gone. The young should fully recover on their next gestation.

we need Fire, we need to make fire, its like getting a leech off.

Trying the burning needle tick thing on them.

POIIIISOOOON! Yes. We take poison from SlugGuy and inject it into one of the Slugspawns growths.

>>6694948
The question is, is every one of our brood immune to the poison?

>>6694958

Jaws that are latched onto a vein. So rather than the blood from that vein flowing into the larva's stomach, it just gushes.

All of the infected area brought before you.

The most heavily infected one is a particularly large slugspawn.

Each larvae is clearly an individual swelling - you can see them squirming inside of it.

"This individual was attacked five days ago."

>>6694969
Unknown. But its a better option that just killing them outright. Either way we stop the threat.

>>6694912
No purging. We will cure this. Use mental powers to blast the larvae into inactivity and have them cut and scrapped from the wounds. It may scar them, but not kill them if we are careful.

>>6694969
The poison is deadly to anything that is not descended from him or isn't Slug Girl.

>>6694972
make an incision in the first infecteds growth and have SlugGuy excrete poison into the wound.

>>6694971

At least we know now, so there must be some way to stop the flow. Perhaps only bite enough to kill, while tying up the remaining (head?) portion with some string equivalent such as jellyfish tentacles to staunch the flow.

Complex surgeon operations, I know.

>>6694985

We can potentially save the Slugspawn, at least. We can experiment on the others, and the worst that happens is that it kills them as well as the larvae.

So: make an incision, get him to rub his poisonous goo on the larvae - is it absorbed through the skin? - and hope that the larvae are poisoned and drop off.

>>6694985
Seems like a viable plan for the infected Slugspawn and SlugBoy himself then. I condone it!

take a splinter, scrape it on his kin a bit and then poke a larvae with it.

Cure the Slugspawn as well as Slugboy himself if possible. But the Swimmers and the Scouts...I dunno.

>>6694984
You attempt this.
The larvae are completely mindless. There's almost no mind - it's just a biological machine, sucking up blood and growing. However, you manage it - you know it's possibly.

The success rate with each larvae is 80%.
The chances you will be able to successfully blast all of them into inactivity in a single slug is... 0.1%.

Do you still want to attempt it?

I vote we kill all infected.

Then its time for some revenge. We've been playing it safe too long.

>>6694972
Scrape poision off with stick, then use it to poison the larvae.

Also, we should attempt to make fire. This can be used to burn off larva.

Use psychic powers to sooth the target.

But wait. What if we allow the larvae to hatch, and then enslave them? Or eat them? That's probably too brutal though.

I vote for poison.

>>6695008
No. Try poison.

Get Slug guy poison on the dagger. Poke each little larvae. Sit back and see what happens. If they fall off and die, have the chick who can make web bind their wounds ASAP.

>>6695018
Yes! This!

I just wanna throw this out there:
Breed tons of rats, hundreds.
Infect them with poison from whatever children we have that are poisonous or some other source if we need to.
Have children bring them to food and water supply areas in the city.
Plague.
???
Profit.
obviously it's not an exact plan, just something to think about.

>>6694985
Use poison to purge larvae from Slug Guy and the Slug Guy and Girl descendants. (Get a taste of them in the process, we may need that immunity ourselves.)
Others, use mental powers on larvae first then attempt removal, let the spawn know they may not survive be that you will see to it that the best is done to try and save them.

>>6695008
Try it on every slug not immune to the poison.

talk to athlete,

"look, I don't want to kill anyone here if we can avoid it, imagine if it was you that got infected here, lets see what we can try before resorting to such means."

try the poison splinter trick.

Can we try eating a small piece of a larvae? To see what DNA we detect in it?

>>6695008
DO IT, FOR SCIENCE, FOR SLUL-HOGGOTH!

>>6695033
No tell him that you still have time. When time runs out, they will be purged to spare them a horrible, painful death. Until them, you do not abandon your family.

>>6695035
Please this. We need to know exactly what we're dealing with.

>>6695027
This, though if we can't calm a significant portion of the larvae we'll have to use our powers to sooth the spawn instead, this will likely be painful.

Hah! Blast off whatever will come off. Failing that, use the poison. We shouldn't kill our own when there is a problem we can fix! Show them why we are the leader and should trust us!

Kill infected if we can't save them. Eat the larvae.

>>6695052
We can do that after we've dug them out of the non-Slug Guy/Girl descended spawn.
Don't eat the poisoned ones, kind of a no brainer, but better to say it and make sure.

>>6695027
>>6695046
These.

You apply the poison to splinters and you begin the process.
It's successful. Each time, the parasites die. Sometimes they fall off. Sometimes they do not. Unfortunately, Slug Boy's strain appears immune to his poison.

Slug Boy is the only one carrying living specimens. The rest are carrying different numbers of dead specimens.

Also, when you sample the DNA contained within the larvae.
You.
Blowfly.
Stingray.
BraFOOHRFEHR'#'QWP23P#4O24J1123IJWIJPJWDPAS'DXIASDFPCM 'ERNWIE I2J'P299P2P'ws

You spit it out immediately.
That thing is an -abomination-. There's no way to describe it. There was a monstrous, a hideous amount of outside tampering done. You've got no idea what it is but something about it is terribly, terribly wrong.

A point for your consideration:

Though they are most likely of the Enemy, these larvae are still of our brood, albeit via the Traitor.

At present they are unthinking creatures, without anything even resembling a mind of their own. Who is to say that, hatched and raised with our psychic imprint firmly in place, they wouldn't be loyal to our cause?

We could kill them all. Or we could adopt them, and add their strengths to our own.

Just a thought.

>>6695026
That's not really how poison works. You're thinking of parasites like the ones that the enemy are making, or bacteria. Poison would probably just kill the rats dead.

>>6694862
FUCK, you're right. Worse, this explains how we lost Flyer.. they fly, strike from above, inject larvae, and fly away again before they can be identified.
Fuck.. I'll miss that guy.

>>6695129
...shit. We need to find the enemies hive and we need to march on it NOW.

Shit. We need to know where they are... but if we send out scouts they'll probably just come back infected or won't come back at all.

How fast can we tunnel? If we're underground we won't have to worry about death-from-above.

>>6695129

Tampering in that it this DNA trace didn't arise through mating or through the blessed and natural process of ingestion-assimilation-evolution?

How is this even possible?

>something terribly wrong


FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

The scientists?!

>>6695161

STRIKE THE EARTH!

>>6695129
Try mindblasting, then lancing slugboy's parasites.
Also, does this mean that the scientists have released a new strain of slug into the wild?

>>6695161
The rate you tunnel at is up to you.
Slug Guy is still a host, however.

We know what the abominations taste like. Now we hunt.
Vote: Go track down what's been preying on our peoples. Slul-Huggoth WILL NOT BE DENIED.

>>6695129
we still need to save slug-boy,

start a fire, take a splinter, blow on it and touch it to the maggots.

>>6695183
Agh... attempt to mindblast his parasites. Have the other advanced sentients join in.

>>6695183

How big is SlugGuy? Is he big enough to lose a little blood and live?

>>6695174

Dig too deep and find THE GLOWING SCIENTIST PIT.

>>6695139
well that's why I said not exact. One thing is, why not just drop the poisoned rat corpses in the water? or if we can find someway to harness a disease, perhaps a rat only disease. this is just a long term idea to think about.

>>6695136
I'm not so sure about that, this seems to be wrong on a higher level.
Taste Slug Guy. I'm willing to bet we the larvae had a similar taste to him up until the Wrong came up. The larvae are adaptive, and got the immunity from Slug Guy himself. Find a poison that he is not immune to, try the splinter poison trick on them. Failing that, take to mentally blasting them and cutting them loose.

rolled 86 = 86

>>6695196
>>6695180
You mindblast. You mindblast with all your fucking might.
Let us see how well this works.

>>6695209
Maybe Sluggirl's poison would work?

>>6695214
The mindblasting fails. Several are rendered useless. However, some remain resistant - and immediately 'coil up' mentally, protecting themselves as best as possible in a mental fashion.
Slug Boy is still a host to 17 live and threatening larvae.

>>6695223
Slug Girl lacks poison.

>>6695228
Can't we just pop the fuckers?

>>6695228

That is totally not a good sign. If the Enemy can defend themselves from our psychic attacks, that's one less weapon for us. And potentially one more weapon for them.

>>6695228
Damn... did our other advanced sentients join in the attempt?

>>6695239
Go ahead, if you like.

>>6695241
Yes.
That's why it wasn't 1d1000.

>>6695193
>This.
We have to save SlugBoy.
His death will cause suspicion. One of the Primespawns should not die so easily. It will be questioned why Shul-Huggoth didn't save him.

>>6695239

They're latched onto bloodvessels. Pop them, and Slugboy'll bleed out.

>>6695228
Hmm... I'd gather the scientists found out about our escape, and released something that they could control that could take us out. And/or it is just our other group that has broken off.

Let's start cutting them off one by one, and pressing a wad of web to each cut. Do it slowly, and keep him fed, soothed and do our best to save him, even if it is impossible.

>>6695262
Yes. Let us try this. We should not let the creature that was essentially the cure for the others simply die.

You set a splinter on fire - the tip, at least - and try to burn off the larvae.

One by one, they begin to fall off - but one appears to be burrowing beneath as soon as you subject it to the heat, digging beneath skin you haven't peeled back and trying to venture deeper.

Fire. We need fire, or heat.

>>6695262
But how did the traitor's spawn get something so UNNATURAL? Furthermore, if it's anathema to us, will we be unable to take the method for ourselves?

>>6695274
Grab it with the deliclaws.

>>6695274
Shit. Try another psychic stun on the burrowing bugger.

I have a plan.

The Enemy scoured the sewers clean, not because they were hungry, but because they were looking for fresh genetic material.

We're out in the forest, which puts a considerably wider range of genetic diversity at our disposal. So far we've been focusing too much on the big stuff, the cats and dogs and bears and rats.

We need to take a leaf from the Enemy's book, and harvest every single creature in an area in order to give us the best possible range of options to choose from when we and our brood evolve. Bugs, birds, fish, worms, everything. Hunting parties move by night to avoid human attention, and remain vigilant against the Enemy's blasphemous spawn at all times. Bring the harvest back here, and we'll see what it's got us.

>>6695274
Blast it, blast that singular larvae as hard as we can, hopeful against one distracted one we can prevail, have the one poking try to reach it still as well. Have others help blast it.

>>6695255

No. Even if he dies we can spin this. We can spread the story of the evil. We have our good, Slul-Hugoth and us, his prophet. Well now we have our evil, the taint that subverts even Slul-Hugoths will and destroys his chosen. This could even give our cause strength. Religious fervor is never stronger than when rallying against a hated foe.

>>6695292
>>6695286
Quickly, you attempt a psychic stun and try to snatch it out, luckily, it works.

All threats - neutralized. Although Slug Guy now has a rather nasty injury.

There is absolute astonishment. "We... We had given up hope." That was Athlete. "I did not think that Slul-Huggoth would grant you the ability to do such things."

Now there's just the problem of making sure that this does not happen again.

Are the advanced sentients the ONLY ones capable of finely-controlled psychic powers? Can our entire brood join in on mindblasting?

For that matter, who are the advanced sentients? If one isn't one of us, then we may have our larva protector.

At this stage I am inclined to say that this looks like the work of the scientists rather than our wayward children. We would at least be able to identify it if it were the latter. It is a threat that MUST be dealt with even just for social purposes: It won't do to have another firstborn of Slul-Huggoth running around. Even though they are younger than us and might have acceded to us if they played by the same rules, they are probably engineered to be a superior breed with respect to whatever strange objectives the scientists had in mind, and won't be compatible with us. Seconding immediate construction of tunnels. Also, in future we will need to create some kind of anti air spawn, something with multiple harpoons maybe. But this is all things for later, right now we need to figure out how to save slugboy.

Hot poker method sounds good, but an entirely valid second to last resort is to eat the back half of the grubs, leaving the mouth attached. The actual last resort is obvious.

>>6695313
Advanced Sentients include:
You
Athlete
Runner
Sprinter
Behemoth

The last three are still growing, but they are the pinnacle of their kind.

>>6695310
"Slul-Huggoth gives us the abilities we need to fight our enemies. That which is our antithesis... We must wield them in his name and in our own. The very taste of these things is... wrong. We must find them and we must destroy them before this happens again. We must march on them with fury and wipe them from existence!"

We need more WAR.

>>6695329
Fuck yes.

>>6695310

Have Slugboy's wounds bound up with web, and have food brought to him so that he can rest and recover. The trait of poison bestowed upon him by Slul-Hugoth has saved his brood-siblings, and for this we are glad.

Now, though, is the time to stoke the fires of vengeance against our foe. They have done us a grievous wrong this day, and they will pay for it. They are anathema, vile gene-traitors, and they must be rooted out and destroyed.

I agree the scientists who created us may have something to do with this.

We need to solidify Athlete's belief in our power now, show that we are the true Patriarch of the brood to the new Named slugs and then set about a way of findind and capturing one of the the Abominations.

>>6695333
And we'll handle it like a slug vietnam! Hiding in the tunnels and attacking them when they don't suspect it! Also, it would protect us from the air.

>>6695305
This anon is correct. We have had our god. Well now we have our Satan, our Chaos. A foe of evil to be hated and killed.

QUICKLY!

Give a sermon. Praise Slul-Hugoth for granting us the power to cleanse the brood of this evil. Then admonish this taint. Instill in them the hatred for this strange and evil force. Let it be known that it is a Primevil, opposed to Slul-Hugoth and his chosen and it cannot be allowed to corrupt us.

>>6695329
A thousand roars rise up from the masses. Hatred. Anger. Revenge. You will not be defiled. You will not be treated like egg sacs. You will not be knocked down so easily. You will track down this threat and you will obliterate with the force of two planets colliding.

But... How?

>>6695350
Pretty sure he's unshakably faithful at this point.

>>6695350
Ooh... capture... what about a trap?
How about we get webspinners up into the trees!

>>6695355
Also if we DO send hunters out, we should armor them, at least to protect them from the enemy's wasp stings!

>>6695360
Continue as we did while we were gestating, but I repeat: Every time a group goes out for food, make it a requirement that they be accompanied by no less than two of our best and brightest (Those being the advanced sentients, Swimmer and Fish for the water).

>>6695344
>>6695357
>>6695329
THESE
Also, when slug guy is better, have him start start mass producing his poison, and have athelete and tank think up some delivery container for the poison.

>>6695355
This is actually a pretty good idea for the tactics we should employ: underground and underwater. Tread softly and hit them with everything we've got when we can. If they have the skies, this is our best option.

>>6695322
Given we have resolved the slugboy situation, the earlier half of this takes priority. Tunnels tunnels tunnels, and indeed we should construct shafts leading away from the hive so that we can cover significant distances away from it to hunt without having to be visible from the air.

And of course, we need to figure out how to create a spawn that can counter this new threat. We currently have no idea what bio-chemical counters will work, so we must focus on a physical counter, something that will be able to spot them and attack back before infection.

Now my current assessment of the enemy is that it is large (Because it is heavy enough to pin down spawn despite being low density enough to fly), flying, and psychic. The psychic ability is probably what gives the larvae psychic defenses, and allows it to sneak up on spawn. This can be countered by only having large groups above ground at one time, as it can't psychic everyone at once.

The fact that it is flying suggests it has to be pretty fragile physically once we can get some attacks on it. Unless... Maybe its not flying. Maybe its jumping down from the trees?

>>6695360
We use someone as bait. One of our young, squishy looking ones. Leave him/her out in the open as many others with harpoons lay in wait. When our foe attacks we try to take it alive and mentally break it, till we know where their heart is.

Ask for a brave volenteer.

>>6695370

Webspinners, yes.

Though we're assuming that just because it implants eggs like a wasp, it flies like one too. Not necessarily so. It's strong enough to overpower Slugboy, so it might be too large to fly properly.

Either way, we need to hunt this thing down.

I suggest... bait. A nice, plump, vulnerable-looking slugspawn (so that we can poison the larva out of there if the worse comes to the worst), with some of our fast-and-deadly offspring waiting in the wings to ambush the ambusher.

>>6695404
Flying or Arboreal webs in the trees will help us catch one and hopefully we can interrogate the bugger.

I think the main point we need to stress now is that ALL our people must always travel in groups. No-one should be left alone. This must be psychically stressed to our people.

>>6695406

This.

Keep sending out hunters seemingly alone as is normal, but have stronger spawn shadow it so that if and when it is attacked the escort and leap out and capture/kill the Abomination(s).

>>6695406
To sacrifice another is to sacrifice our reputation. We just refused the purge option and cured everyone--what would they think if we suddenly go back on ourselves and become willing to risk the lives of our precious children so freely?

>>6695360
Use the taste of the abominations. If we can track them, surface with all armored units. We will hunt them and be impervious, at least to their ovipositors, attacks.

Tank, ourselves, and tankspawn. No more risking our children. No more being attacked one by one. Now we strike together. For the good of the brood!

>>6695438
being bait isn't sacrificing

>>6695429
No, just repel it, and FOLLOW IT.

>>6695459
>>6695406
Genuis. And don't DEMAND it of them just be like "I regret, but this seems the best course of action, does anyone volenteer to be the bait? We will do our best to protect you, and clense you should we fail!"

If we coordinate well enough we SHOULD be able to create a netfall trap: Net spun from web, mechanisms crafted by those among us from with dextrous ability.

An ambush with spawns may not work so well because this creature may be able to psychically detect our offspring (Alternatively it may actually be anti-psychic, capable of disrupting psychic communication and detection). We should place our bait spawn in the centre of a large and elaborate series of overlapping physical traps, with the trigger being extra weight underneath where the spawn is standing.

Combining the various ideas:

Send out a group of, let's say, Shmerklings.

Have, let's say, you, Tank and Athlete stalk them?

>>6695438

Purging is one thing, risking your life gloriously for the survival of the brood is expected and rewarded. Only a brave slugspawn with true faith in Sul-Hugoth can take this mission.

>>6695487

Alright, but stress the ability of our and tanks armor to Athlete- he is no good to the hive infected and a host for the vile abominations we hunt.

FORWARD, TO GLORY.

>>6695487
Bah, I say we let the Shmeklings help hunt and bond with them, the more we use them for dirty work and treath them brutal the higher chance for betryal.

>>6695488
Since this idea is more popular, shall we have one Slugspawn as bait instead?

>>6695487
Yes.

Send out the bait, but before that, set up webbing in the treelines to capture them.

And in regard to creating an effective flying force, we need to combine whatever flying DNA we have gathered with chitinous insects.

They'll have flight capabilities, like Flyer had, but his main weakness was that he was soft. If we get some exoskeleton in there, it should prevent getting parasites.

A question arises fellow slugs.

When we have killed these abominations, shall we eat them to gain their power? It would be a great boon to us, but very very hard to justify with all the suffering the taint has caused.

>>6695523
>>6695514
>>6695510
Nevermind, let's stick with the Shmeckling idea.

>>6695518

Yup, or two at most. We need scoutspawn to be our eyes and ears as well, though, unless Tank, Athlete and we are particularly good at being stealthy.

>>6695527
NO, NEVER.
COMPLETE
GLOBAL
EXTERMINATUS

>>6695527
Can we even eat them if they taste this awful?

>>6695527
If devouring opponents to further one's own strength isn't considered good by the slug religion then it needs some revising.

>>6695518
That and bring more backup, webspinners in the trees.

>>6695527

I don't know if we can eat them, what with that abnormal DNA code they have.

>>6695527

There's something really horrible mixed up in their DNA. We don't want that, it's gross. And may well have been deliberately introduced by the scientists to cripple our brood. As a random idea, it might fuck us over next time we gestate, or it might prevent us from assimilating new DNA, or any number of other bad things.

Natural creatures we can be fairly confident are safe. Fucked up abomination DNA? No way.

You send out the Shmecklings for hunting and they stride proudly out, searching for various animals, such as rabbits or maybe deer. They stride along for hours, creating many kills and taking them back. They're quite effective.

Then, you see it. A shadow lurking amongs the branches. Leaping from one tree to the next. A Shmeckling falls back to sniff at the air, trying to trace a scent.

The thing lands upon the Shmeckling, silencing it. Its insectoid bulk is easily your size, and it's shoving its oviposter deep into the creature's back.

>>6695563
POUNCE

This is odd.

Clearly they were able to pin slugboy, and then sting him. So they are immune to his poison.

Yet their larvae are susceptible to it.

How very odd....

>>6695563

Let it finishing laying, then follow it.

>>6695563

ASSAULT! ALL FORCES ATTACK! ALIVE IS POSSIBLE! DEAD...JUST AS GOOD!

>>6695552
That is what makes them so Wrong. We cannot eat them for they are just that Wrong.

>>6695563
Fall upon it all fangs and fury!
And Pure Psychic Rage!

>>6695563
I was about to say HARPOON, but sadly it's gone.
POUNCE!

>>6695563

Fucking hell, that's pretty big.

OK, GO TIME.

Psy-blast it, and then triple-team it with Tank and Athlete. The other Schmehklings can join in too.

Have we considered asking those who were infected what they were doing/where they were at the time they were attacked? Maybe we can find a pattern in the attacks.

>>6695563
CRIPPLE IT, AND BRING IT BACK TO BASE.

>>6694095
hello, i dont usually follow slug quest, but i agree MAUL
THE MOTHERFUCKER TO DEATH ALL FURY OF CAPSLOCK ON IT!!!

Leap upon it! Call it's brothers to help, knock it away, do whatever we can to capture/Dissuade/destroy it, or follow it back to it's nest!

Have our forces with harpoons SPIKE THAT MOTHERFUCKER.

We're older than it, our psychic power should overpower it.

Try to immobilize/confuse the fuck out of it.

You unleash your full psychic rage upon the thing and you charge out from the shadows. Immediately, it leaps off of its victim and as a result, you barely manage to stop yourselves from trampling over it. The disgusting... thing crawls up the length of the tree, its odd number of wings suddenly buzzing as it prepares to leap to the next.

have our warriors with lance tongues spear it then tank athlete and us rush in for the kill

>>6695523
What about weapons though? They'll be pretty fragile by the time they are ready to fly, and so they'll need to be able to strike hard in order to avoid a counterattack that will probably destroy them in one.

One of the reasons I was reccommending ground based anti air: we can make the Chitin a lot thicker.

>>6695596
PUNCH IT!

Have a minion harpoon it.

ANYTHING!

Get some webbing up between the branches.

>>6695563
ATTACK ATTACK ATTACK ATTACK

Tank and our own eminence charge and pin it down, Athlete helps us immobilize it! break its arms or whatever can harm us, and tear out that ovipositor! FOR SLUL-HUGGOTH AND THE FALLEN.

Hurl a Schmehkling at it!!

>>6695596

Fuck. Did the psy-blast even slow it down?

>>6695596
Command it to stop. Pull out everything. Have Athlete and Tank help while everyone else chases it.

Damn. We need to try and psychic-stun it . Get it to lose its grip and fall back down to us.

Preparing a new thread.

You'll like this.

We need to start inventing weapons.

Poisoned blow darts, anyone?

Hell, tear down the tree if it's small enough.

>>6695596
well, that just sucks doesnt it?
can we follow it?
i think it may be flyer gone wayward

>>6695622
SO MUCH ANGER AT THIS ABOMINATION

>>6695615
FUCK YES GURREN LAGANN STYLE BITCHES

SHOOT OUR GODDAMN TUSKS AT IT!

Give it a psychic FEAR BLAST, and FOLLOW it back to it's WRETCHED HIVE.

Should we call to our own for reinforcements?

>>6695622
I'm guessing we find a lot more enemies.

>>6695622
Break its wings off and proceed to slap it around!

>>6695647
HAHA!

That would be pretty awesome if our tusks were really two harpoons that we didn't know about.

>>6695668
I believe it to be possible.
But then again I am MadSlug.

New thread: >>6695674

>>6695676
I think it is also possible.

Until we experimented, our first harpoon was just a bone in our mouth.