>>26332042
>>>>>>>Civ: Insects
>>>>>>>Gov: Theocratic monarchy
>>>>>>>Location: Cliff face
>>>>>Mutations: Mining Mandible, wings and Arolia, Chameleon secretion, Eat and Adapt (queen), resistance to fire and acid, Acidic Mandibles, Graspers, slight tech bonus, Antidotal Chitin.
>>>>>>>Breading: Queen lays the eggs
>>>>>>>Pop: The Holy Queen, 10 Holy clergy caste, 25 hunters/fishermen , 55 workers, 15 scavengers, 40 soldiers, 10 hound masters (elite), 36 farmers, 21 Observers, 21 Alchemists, 90 Geneweavers, 26 scouts, 54 unassigned, 90 eggs
>>>>>>>Building: Deep Burrows, Queen's room + Shiny , Larva Room, Crude statues, Hall of History, Effigy to the fallen, Wolf pen, road to hot spring, Barracks, Dorms, Specialty rooms, Crafting Rooms, Agricultural room, Spawning Pool, Archery Range, Transportation tunnel, Stone Doors
>>>>>>>>Food: Scavenged meat, Elk, Fish ("fishing hurts the health of the hunters, can't do it every turn), eggs (hunters can get hurt doing this), berries, Rabbits, strongberries, mushrooms, troll, various crops
>>>>>>>Conditions:
>>>>>>The cliffs are cold and harsh, but everyone is well sheltered
>>>>>>Fed
>>>>>>Caste based on what do most, or what the queen tells you are.
>>>>>>The Queens chamber is very shiny
>>>>>Some unnatural hide accidentally fell on the hunters while fishing, cold at first but seems to keep him warm once it dries
>>>>>>Bugs can smell other bugs.
>>>>>>>Pheromone scent totems.
>>>>> Fire adds scent to the room and heat. Scent is very pleasurable.
>>>>>>>Scouts ambushed: hit with well crafted arrows.
>>>>>>>Identified other civilization as elves.
>>>>>>> Captured troll - cattlizing for food
>>>>>>>Reputation with elves increased by a lot
>>>>>>>Cryo-Hydra lair to the east
>>>>>>>>Ocean to the southeast
>>>>Swamp with Hoard of militant undead West of elves (Undead are Elves)
>>>>brought back an undead corpse (unknown if it is viral)
13 EVO points
>>>>>Working on Caste specific mutations (24 points)

>>26332044
It returns

I had a thought last night. We teach the houndsmen mounted archery, and we become insect-Mongols

alright.
scientists work on language.
warriors try armoring yourselves with leather while you wait
homeguard and alchemists work on smelting ore.
fishermen fish. for whale, then spawn pool.
hunters keep hunting
farmers farm
scavengers search the shoreline
scouts and hounds go north
workers keep hauling
did I miss anyone?

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>>26332321
Maybe have Hunters work on traps and hunting. Also, make sure to keep Mikey away from everything important, I think he's cursed, all our rolls have been shit since we fed the zombie to him

>>26332321
Missed the wolf brigade

>>26332356

mentioned with the scouts

>>26332364
Ahh gotcha

>>26332321
Soudns good to me

>>26332321
The Observers (95) figure out rudimentary symbols. They get to work writing them down in the dirt and introduce each caste present by drawing pictures of them and putting symbols next to them.

The warriors use this opportunity to raid the elf barracks for unused leather armor. Using their graspers and mandibles, they figure out how to cut it up and strap it to themselves. (Discovered leather armor)

The homegard and alchemists try working on smelting shinies. They try using the hearth but it doesn't seem suitable. There is no place to store the excess liquid and it gets all over some of our brethren. 8 Alchemists and 2 homeguard die. Mikey, ends up being covered in liquid iron. He runs around screaming in pain until he lands in the whale pool. This cools him off but he can't swim. Fortunately for him, the whale throws him out. (Mikey can no longer fly, but is super damage resistant).

/t fishermen still don't catch much. The Whale is hungry.

The hunters manage a very small catch. This isn't enough.

The farmers can't seem to manage anything this turn.

The scavengers search the shoreline, but they don't see anything of importance.

The scouts and thw Wolf Brigade venture further north where they find a huge castle with surfs tending the farm. Could this be the main part of the elven kingdom?

The workers manage to haul the stones to the elf village. They are marked as workers by the Observers and manage to get over to the other wall where they start building some real fortifications.

>>26332586
So can we communicate with the elves or What?

>>26332042 (OP)
>Civ: Insects
>Gov: Theocratic monarchy
>Location: Cliff face
>Mutations: Mining Mandible, wings and Arolia, Chameleon secretion, Eat and Adapt (queen), resistance to fire and acid, Acidic Mandibles, Graspers, slight tech bonus, Antidotal Chitin.
>Breading: Queen lays the eggs
>Pop: The Holy Queen, 10 Holy clergy caste, 25 hunters/fishermen , 55 workers, 15 scavengers, 38 soldiers/homeguard, 10 hound masters (elite), 36 farmers, 21 Observers, 13 Alchemists, 90 Geneweavers, 26 scouts, 90 eggs
>>>>>>>Building: Deep Burrows, Queen's room + Shiny , Larva Room, Crude statues, Hall of History, Effigy to the fallen, Wolf pen, road to hot spring, Barracks, Dorms, Specialty rooms, Crafting Rooms, Agricultural room, Spawning Pool, Archery Range, Transportation tunnel, Stone Doors
>>>>>>>>Food: Scavenged meat, Elk, Fish ("fishing hurts the health of the hunters, can't do it every turn), eggs (hunters can get hurt doing this), berries, Rabbits, strongberries, mushrooms, troll, various crops
>Conditions:
>The cliffs are cold and harsh, but everyone is well sheltered
>Fed - food shortage looks imminent
>Caste based on what do most, or what the queen tells you are.
>The Queens chamber is very shiny
>Some unnatural hide accidentally fell on the hunters while fishing, cold at first but seems to keep him warm once it dries
>Bugs can smell other bugs.
> Captured troll - cattlizing for food
>Reputation with elves increased by a lot
>Cryo-Hydra lair to the east
>>Ocean to the southeast
>Swamp with Hoard of militant undead West of elves (Undead are Elves)
>brought back an undead corpse (unknown if it is viral)
17 EVO points
>Working on Caste specific mutations (24 points)

>>26332637
Somewhat. You can't learn the whole language in a single turn, but you do manage to be able to write some things like soldier, stop, attack, and other stuff. You can somewhat talk but not enough to really understand each other

>>26332686
thats good to know thanks

>>26332665
I'm willing to sacrifice the whale to feed our people.
Also what race are the serfs we found at the castle?

>>26332686
Well, we do have to warn them about the undead.

Also, I'm all for devouring the whale if it means saving our hive. We can get more later, and I'd rather have insect submarine Squids/Krakens rather than insect boats. Besides, for boats we can probably copy someone else, or just get fish-bugs.

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>>26332665
Map updated

If the Houndsman are back, I'd like them to try to learn mounted archery, because if it worked for the Mongols it can work for us. Also we should use Mikey as a siege weapon against the undead. Set him on fire, hand him some torches and just let him run wild through the ranks of the undead.

>>26332818
Mikey's getting a taste for undead

okay. what, precisely, do we need to learn to get rid of the pelt prompt?

>>26332818
Mickey the hero of the swarm

>>26332818
GO MIKEY! He shall become a CHAMPION warrior! I vote to have him be tutored in the ways of battle!

Have the Workers construct a Forge, where we can shape this liquid metal... We see that it becomes shapeable when hot, and solid when cool. We should construct molds or prepare some way to shape the metal into weapons.

Hunters: Hunt more do good
Fishermen: Fish for the hive not the whale
Observer: Continue to learn Elven
Warriors: Teach Mikey how to combat
Scouts: Check out the Serfs
Houndsmen: Practice Archery on the Wolf Mounts
Workers: Build fortifications
Farmers: Do what you do
Homeguard and Alchemists: Make a forge.
Scavengers: Help Workers??

Sound good to everyone?

>>26332938
Sounds good to me by the way are we going to make Mickey a name like the arbiter from halo ?

>>26332959
As of now, I'm not sure whether we're calling a cursed fuck up or a siege weapon

>>26332959
If all goes well Mikey will be a new Hero in our folklore and we'll probably have a whole caste of screwups that are blessed by our God Queen

>>26332959
If by that you mean use Mikey as a title? I'm all for it. I vote that Mikey will be the name/title of all those who screw up and are on a quest to redeem themselves.

Also: Homeguard: Experiment with the fire, but mainly keep it going.

>>26333013
There will be a Mikey for every roll below 10!

>>26332938
Everyone agrees on this one?

>>26333165
Wonderful. Now to hope we roll better than we have been

>>26333207
yeah
>>26333165
oh god a class of fanatics trying to regain the blessing of the Queen that's scary shit

I approve. wholeheartedly. The Redemption Corps.

>>26332938
Writing it up

the queen demands only one thing of her subjects. Success. In all we do, thrive. Occasional failure is a thing that can be forgiven by consultation with the priest caste, but true failure lands the culprit in jeopardy of his soul. He loses the queens blessing. Is an unperson. His only task is to take the work that no person should or could do and re earn his way back into the cycle... or be forever cast from the queens love.

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>three quests that I follow all start up at the same time

>>26332938
The hunters still don't bring back enough food.

The fishermen (97) Manage to get the biggest haul of fish that they have ever seen by planting boards along the river going down the mountain which catches tons of fish. Both the whale and the hive are fed this turn. (also +5) to fishing.

The Observers manage to place more symbols together. They can now create simple messages (messages are one sentence of combined words like "We defend you". You still can't negotiate trade or anything of the sort very well.

Mikey tries to go over to the warriors trench but he can't move very far.

The serfs seem to be elves, but that's all that the scouts learn.

The scouts practice archery on wolf mounts. They can fire a bow, but not while moving.

The workers begin placing stones, but the elven defenses seem to be getting in the way.

The farmers manage to till the land very well and more stuff grows. They figure out how to geneticly modify crops to be somewhat larger.

The Homeguarde and Alchemists build a huge forge out of the hearth It is possible to turn shinies into liquid shinies, yet there is no real way to contain the liquid yet. Mikey (new one) tries to make the stuff stronger by throwing some strongberries in. It doesn't help.

>>26333536
The scavengers manage to help the workers by chopping down some of the elf fortifications to be replaced with some sturdy stone.

>>26333592
>>Civ: Insects
>>Gov: Theocratic monarchy
>>Location: Cliff face
>>Mutations: Mining Mandible, wings and Arolia, Chameleon secretion, Eat and Adapt (queen), resistance to fire and acid, Acidic Mandibles, Graspers, slight tech bonus, Antidotal Chitin.
>>Breading: Queen lays the eggs
>>Pop: The Holy Queen, 10 Holy clergy caste, 25 hunters/fishermen , 55 workers, 15 scavengers, 38 soldiers/homeguard, 10 hound masters (elite), 36 farmers, 21 Observers, 13 Alchemists, 90 Geneweavers, 26 scouts, 90 larva
>>>>>>>>Building: Deep Burrows, Queen's room + Shiny , Larva Room, Crude statues, Hall of History, Effigy to the fallen, Wolf pen, road to hot spring, Barracks, Dorms, Specialty rooms, Crafting Rooms, Agricultural room, Spawning Pool, Archery Range, Transportation tunnel, Stone Doors, Forge
>Food: Scavenged meat, Elk, Fish ("fishing hurts the health of the hunters, can't do it every turn), eggs (hunters can get hurt doing this), berries, Rabbits, strongberries, mushrooms, troll, various crops
>>Conditions:
>>The cliffs are cold and harsh, but everyone is well sheltered
>>Fed - food shortage looks imminent
>>Caste based on what do most, or what the queen tells you are.
>>The Queens chamber is very shiny
>>Some unnatural hide accidentally fell on the hunters while fishing, cold at first but seems to keep him warm once it dries
>>Bugs can smell other bugs.
>> Captured troll - cattlizing for food
>>Reputation with elves increased by a lot
>>Cryo-Hydra lair to the east
>>>Ocean to the southeast
>>Swamp with Hoard of militant undead West of elves (Undead are Elves)
>>brought back an undead corpse (unknown if it is viral)
21 EVO points
>>Working on Caste specific mutations (24 points)

>>26333623
So we have the fighting mickey trying to learn to fight
and the fire mickey who just fucked up then fantastic

>>26333677
Fighting Mikey ate the undead, and got burned horribly by the fire.
New Mikey just sucks.

I think we should do what we just did again except this time keep new Mikey in the pit for a turn, like OG Mikey and post Mikey near the sign as a warning for when the undead get near

>>26333716
I concur we should continue along our current plan of action

>>26333716
You know, that undead is probably stinking up the joint. Also new Mikey is going to eat part of him too

>>26333716
Hunters: Hunt more do good
Fishermen: Fish for the hive not the whale
Observer: Give Elves a Message that says: We defend you
Warriors: Prepare to fight Undead
Scouts: Check out the Serfs
Houndsmen: Practice Archery on the Wolf Mounts
Workers: Build fortifications
Farmers: Do what you do
Homeguard and Alchemists: Try Weaponizing Fire again, it'll do good against the undead
Scavengers: Give Elven defenses back to them

It worked well last time, just change a couple of things

>>26333764
It's now part of the Mikey ritual, you have to eat part of an undead and sit in the pit with it.

combine mikeys into redemption corps for ease of use. use for unethical experiment and suicide missions.

>>26333798
Have to initiate the new one first, or else it'll go to Mikey's head.

>>26333784
Everyone agrees?

>>26333919
it has my vote

Also Our Warriors have Javelins and Bows right? Do we need to make more arrows for them or do we have a good number?

>>26334006
You have a relatively good number. The bows and Javelins are just preliminary assault weapons. The best you can get off is one or two volleys before your units rush into mele.

>>26334071
I remember we looked at the elve's swords did we ever try to recreate those?

>>26334111
were working on a forge

>>26334170
I feel silly. I'm now trying to imagine us trying to make swords out of wood and troll body parts and realizing that we probably need to use the shinys

>>26334244
Don't feel to bad still better to beat someone with a stick then punch them right?

>>26333784
Your hunters go into the plains and catch possums, rats, deer, and various other animals.

Your fishermen develop line fishing where a set of bait is placed on a hook. They manage to get a tonne of fish to feed both the hive and the whale.

The Observers give the elves the message. The warriors will be able to fall back should the trenches be overrun.

The warriors make a few more preparations for undead. Mainly some potholes for them to trip over.

Your scouts are scaring the serfs by checking on them too closly ... namely, Mikey who tries to steal some of their crops.

The Wolf Brigade perfects mounted archery with an invention they call the composite bow (can now fire on the run).

The workers start building some fortifications they manage to get a few walls up.

The farmers farm harder than ever. A huge growth in fungus and various other plant production can be seen (the hive is well fed for now).

The Homeguard and Alchemists (both in the 80's) weaponize fire to the extent that not only can we use flaming arrows and Javelins, we have discovered a plant oil that burns very well.

Mickey#2 omnomnoms on that undead elf. He seems to like the taste.

The scavengers try to give the elves their defenses back. About 42% of it is still usable.

>>26334320
I actually prefer punching, but I don't think we have meaty enough graspers for it to work out

Rolled 91 + 10

>>26334352
rolling for genetic success

>>26334354
No, you just have rock biting, acidic mandibles.

new mutation. Hivemind.

>>Civ: Insects
>>Gov: Theocratic monarchy
>>Location: Cliff face
>>Mutations: Mining Mandible, wings and Arolia, Chameleon secretion, Eat and Adapt (queen), resistance to fire and acid, Acidic Mandibles, Graspers, slight tech bonus, Antidotal Chitin, Caste Specific Mutation.
>>Breading: Queen lays the eggs
>>Pop: The Holy Queen, 10 Holy clergy caste, 25 hunters/fishermen , 55 workers, 15 scavengers, 38 soldiers/homeguard, 10 hound masters (elite), 36 farmers, 21 Observers, 13 Alchemists, 125 Geneweavers, 26 scouts, 55 unassigned, 125 eggs.
>>>>>>>>Building: Deep Burrows, Queen's room + Shiny , Larva Room, Crude statues, Hall of History, Effigy to the fallen, Wolf pen, road to hot spring, Barracks, Dorms, Specialty rooms, Crafting Rooms, Agricultural room, Spawning Pool, Archery Range, Transportation tunnel, Stone Doors, Forge
>Food: Scavenged meat, Elk, Fish ("fishing hurts the health of the hunters, can't do it every turn), eggs (hunters can get hurt doing this), berries, Rabbits, strongberries, mushrooms, troll, various crops
>>Conditions:
>>The cliffs are cold and harsh, but everyone is well sheltered
>>Fed - food shortage looks imminent
>>Caste based on what do most, or what the queen tells you are.
>>The Queens chamber is very shiny
>>Some unnatural hide accidentally fell on the hunters while fishing, cold at first but seems to keep him warm once it dries
>>Bugs can smell other bugs.
>> Captured troll - cattlizing for food
>>Reputation with elves increased by a lot
>>Cryo-Hydra lair to the east
>>>Ocean to the southeast
>>Swamp with Hoard of militant undead West of elves (Undead are Elves)
>>brought back an undead corpse (unknown if it is viral)

>>26334466
No, let's do infestation. Transform the whale and wolves into insects. We can spend time taming the whale and learning to ride it.

scientists can be done languaging for a moment. look at the mysterious hide and plumb its secrets.

scavengers need to look for clay. so we can mold the metal.

>>26334466
You now get mutations for each caste and one for the queen (ie: hivemind)

Also, I need 55 more bugs with assignments

>>26334466
>>26334502
I really like both of these. I think we're almost completely prepared for our war against the undead.

>>26334531
I'm just waiting for the undead to attack. What is that stupid necromancer doing? Jacking off?

Also, how the hell has this town stayed safe for this long? My freaking dice!

>>26334556
If there even is one. And I wonder if he is, what he's jacking off to

Hunters: Hunt more do good
Fishermen: Fish for the hive not the whale
Observer:Look at Mysterious Hide
Warriors: Help Elves
Scouts: See what Undead are doing
Houndsmen: Practice Archery on the Wolf Mounts against moving targets
Workers: Build fortifications
Farmers: Do what you do
Homeguard and Alchemists: Work on making molds
Scavengers: Look for Clay

>>26334599
Our perfect and holy queen obviously.

scavengers develop storage capacity. more limbs or a natural pocket to carry more.

warriors need poison stingers.

scouts get night vision.

priests go for sub-queening.

houndmasters? light frame to make riding easier and faster.

>>26334519
9 Observers, 7 Alchemists, 4 Scouts, 5 Hunters/Fishermen, 15 Workers, 15 Soldiers/Homeguard.
Sound Good to Everyone?

>>26334644
Agreed. And workers should pretty much exclusively get acid and should be strong enough to carry stone long distances.

The stone did get to the elves, right?

>>26334670
yes
Hunters/Fishermen: Higher Metabolism so they don't eat the food when dragging it back
Scouts: Better Camouflage
Observer: Compound Eyes (?)
Farmers/ Homeguard/Alchemists: Better graspers

>>26334727
No, the observers should have grasshopper-like back legs which can be used to talk like a elf/human/whatever.

No vocal chords yet, let's keep it insect-like.

>>26334749
Didn't think of that, that's a really good idea.
How do you feel about the larva assignments I came up with?
>>26334654

>>26334670
Stones got to the elves, and fortifications are under way.

Also, I need some mutations for each of these guys
Hunters:
Fishermen:
Observer:
Warriors:
Scouts:
Houndsmen:
Workers:
Farmers:
Homeguard
Alchemists:
Scavengers:

fishers get water breathing

>>26334749
Technically, we have vocal chords, but they only really make dubstep noises

>>26334727
We're bugs. we have compound eyes

Why is OP's pic named "Insect_Desert"!?

Those aren't insects, they're a sub-genus of Arachnid, falling into the Solifuge species (a.k.a. 'Camel Spider', which isn't actually a spider).

>>26334791
Hunters: Higher Metabolism
Fishermen: water breathing
Observer: grasshopper-like back legs which can be used to talk like a elf/human/whatever.
Warriors: poison stingers.
Scouts: night vision.
Houndsmen: light frame to make riding easier and faster.
Workers: get acid
Farmers: (No clue)
Homeguard: Better Graspers (?)
Alchemists: Better graspers (?)
Scavengers: storage capacity. more limbs or a natural pocket to carry more.

>>26334879
Yeah. I just needed an eye-catching picture to start the thread with and that's what my computer saved it as.

>>26334791
Hunters: thermal vision
Fishermen: water-breathing
Observer: non-insect speech
Warriors: poison
Scouts: thermal vision
Houndsmen: light-weight
Workers: strength
Farmers: plant affinity
Homeguard: claws
Alchemists: hands
Scavengers: better vision

>>26334925
I second that.

farmers? hm. better hands. for when they get tools.

>>26334925
this

>>26334925
That's settled. Each of those is a rank one mutation (besides Alchemists unless they get an 80+)

>>26334925
Shit, yes.

>>26334654
Looks like this is the only assignment sheet so I'll be going with it.

>>26334599
Still this as course of action?

>>26335101
Yep!

>>26335101
yeah sounds good

I just had another far off into the future thought. We can use clay to build a little redbrick house in the woods. We put some sort of trap in there and we trap unsuspecting travellers in it. And then do with them as we will.
Also I take it the whale is well fed and happy?

>>26335211
That's certainly a thought, but it'd have to be away from our current territory. Maybe near the shore?

>>26335231
not the shore we planned a dock hive near there

>>26335231
Of course. Also for another far off future plan, I'd like it if we get working on the near the shore hive. For the Navy.

>>26335281
not that far we could probably get started after the "war" is over

>>26334925
Here's some mutations for each caste to consider, down the road. These are not suggestions for now.

Hunters: Web-spinners for catching prey. Pheremone glands for attracting prey.
Fishermen: Better limbs for swimming. Mouths for drilling (bore through ships and thick sea-beast hides). Sonar.
Observer: Better eyes. Better brains. Better hands.
Warriors: Better hands. Moar Natural Armor. Moar Natural Weapons. Fireproofing. Burst into flame on death.
Scouts: Active camouflage (think chameleons), high-speed limbs.
Houndsmen: Extra limbs to hold additional weaponry, a second set of alternate-track eyes so two bows can be aimed and fired at once.
Workers: More strength, more speed, more acid, built-in carrying capacity.
Farmers: pollination, photosynthesizing skin (to cut down on production cost) and burrowing ability, to save us time re-plowing fields.
Homeguard: Fireproofing. Long-range vision. Built-in armor.
Alchemists: Fireproofing. Poisonproofing. Bigger brains.
Scavengers: Better hands. Built-in carrying capacity. Better strength.

>>26335325
Oh. and why aren't priests listed? Just because they haven't been active doesn't mean they aren't a caste. same with geneweavers.

Priests: Subqueens
Geneweavers: Better geneweaving

>>26335325
Sounds pretty good.

But at some point we should probably begin to diverge the observers into the mimics caste. The observers would still exist, and mimics would basically be a human-looking version of them.

>>26335359
Geneweavers should specialized into Abathur.

The subqueens I don't know... our population is slightly outstripping our capacity to grow food... I think we just produce a new queen and tell her to go set up a new hive.

What the priests should be is cultural enforcers. I'd mutate their loyalty to the founding queen. They should be fanatics.

>>26335359
I almost completely forgot about the Priests.
>>26335370
After Undead War could probably manage it fairly easy. During the Chaos we can "rescue" some of the elves under attack and bring them back to the hive, FOR GLORIOUS SCIENCE!!

>>26335403
After we get bug navy set up we could send the sub queens across the sea

>>26335359
You have a point there. What is subqueens though?

>>26335502
think zerg
you got the queen of blades at the top
then other queens right below her
they all can lay eggs but only one is the queen of queens

>>26335585
Ahh k

>>26335585
to prevent anything bad happening probably need to make sure whoever the subqueen is fiercely loyal to the God Queen

>>26335694
religion is a great thing when you want fanatical loyalty

>>26335737


hence why the priest caste is becoming the subqueens.

>>26334599
The hunters don't have a good hunt this time around.

The fishermen learn trolling and catch much more food. The hive and whale are both well fed and there's some left over to start repopulating the spawning pools.

The Observers examine the mysterious hide. They've never seen the animal that this pelt belongs to. It's huge and covered in wool.

Anyway, something came up and I'll be gone for about 30 min to an hour (skunk in the window well).

I'll pick this up when I can

>>26335855
yes it is hopefully there will be some good land for the hive across the sea

>>26336139
Did we discover sheep?

>>26336139
Obviously the hides belonged to a giant predator whose fluffy fur camouflaged him well. We must beware of this "sheep."

>>26336315
we should send a mickey to see if we can find were these sheep come from

>>26336380
Mikeys will be the Adventurers of our race

>>26336439
to boldly go were no mickey has gone before

>>26336520
And hopefully not come back alive.

>>26336520
Mikey will be the first one the caste will be Mickeys

we have scent tracking hounds. lets find where this came from.

oh. next hatching. catch the hounds up with the warriors.

>>26336659
Do we have enough dogs for that? that'd be like 43 more Houndmasters

I don't know. if not, get those dogs fucking.

Did someone say priests and zealotry?

Oh great Queen, I hear your call and I am bidden.

>>26336659
we got 38 warriors
and 10 hound masters with 55 unassigned
>>26336725
we can breed more but we might want to use the excesses for one of the food producing casts

>>26334654
I....threw this out earlier I think he used it

>>26336817
its fine well get more bugs eventually

>>26336817
Hence why i said "Next Hatch"

I figure we'll get some time for infrastructure by then. And ship some mouths off to make a port-city. And then, see if we can't infest the whale once we're hiveminded, and get him to be our first cruise ship and explore the wild blue yonder.

>>26337237
I can't wait to sail the seas on the HMS Lucky Dragon.

>>26336755
I hope you don't mind my work in your stead, dearest inquisitor.

>>26337237
Sorry about that. I'll get back to writing. Those are included. You should see them in the next stats list.

>>26337341
It's fine, how'd a skunk get in your window well?

>>26337359
It fell in?

>>26337359
Gravity

>>26336139
The warriors try to help the elves. Mikey puts their defenses on backwards. The elves seem a little upset but they know we mean well.

The scouts go into the swampland but they don't see anything. Where the hell are the undead?!

The houndsmen can't seem to hit moving targets well.

The workers build up the city's fortifications. The city is much harder to destroy now.

The farmers don't do very well this time.

The Homeguard and Alchemists try to make a few molds, but they don't really know what to make molds of.

The scavengers find clay alongside the riverbank.

>>26337359
Better question: How the hell is it getting out? Tried a rake, board, ladder and sheets, and finally animal services said to throw a branch in there.

>>26337441
>>26337457
Just googled it, and I can see how a skunk could fall in

>>26337472
How are the elves? Are they worried? Is their military preparing?

>>26337472
So we now have four Mikeys, once we get hivemind we need to send them out on an adventure to explore the world

>>26337472
>>>Civ: Insects
>>>Gov: Theocratic monarchy
>>>Location: Cliff face
>>>Mutations: Mining Mandible, wings and Arolia, Chameleon secretion, Eat and Adapt (queen), resistance to fire and acid, Acidic Mandibles, Graspers, slight tech bonus, Antidotal Chitin, Caste Specific Mutation.
>>>Breading: Queen lays the eggs
>>>Pop: The Holy Queen, 10 Holy clergy caste, 30 hunters/fishermen , 70 workers, 15 scavengers, 53 soldiers/homeguard, 10 hound masters (elite), 36 farmers, 30 Observers, 20 Alchemists, 125 Geneweavers, 30 scouts, 55 unassigned, 125 eggs.
>>>>>>>>>Building: Deep Burrows, Queen's room + Shiny , Larva Room, Crude statues, Hall of History, Effigy to the fallen, Wolf pen, road to hot spring, Barracks, Dorms, Specialty rooms, Crafting Rooms, Agricultural room, Spawning Pool, Archery Range, Transportation tunnel, Stone Doors, Forge
>>Food: Scavenged meat, Elk, Fish ("fishing hurts the health of the hunters, can't do it every turn), eggs (hunters can get hurt doing this), berries, Rabbits, strongberries, mushrooms, troll, various crops
>>>Conditions:
>>>The cliffs are cold and harsh, but everyone is well sheltered
>>>Fed - food shortage looks imminent
>>>Caste based on what do most, or what the queen tells you are.
>>>The Queens chamber is very shiny
>>>Some unnatural hide accidentally fell on the hunters while fishing, cold at first but seems to keep him warm once it dries
>>>Bugs can smell other bugs.
>>> Captured troll - cattlizing for food
>>>Reputation with elves increased by a lot
>>>Cryo-Hydra lair to the east
>>>>Ocean to the southeast
>>>Swamp with Hoard of militant undead West of elves (Undead are Elves)
>>>brought back an undead corpse (unknown if it is viral)

EVO points and mutation moved

>>26337472

Okay.

Hunters: Hunt moar. Set Traps.
Fishermen: Fish moar.
Observer: knowing about melee weapons, having seen the ones the elves had, think about what would be a practical shape for our uses.
Warriors: ??
Scouts: Track the missing undead. Figure out which way they've gone.
Houndsmen: Practice Archery on the Wolf Mounts
Workers: Start digging a new colony down near the shore area, staying above sea-level
Farmers: Do what you do
Homeguard: Try to make sturdier versions of the javelin (Non-Throwing Spears Development)
Alchemists: Make clay molds of armor plates, as figured out earlier (wood and stone armor designs) and observed elfin equivalents.
Scavengers: If coast clear, search battlefields for equipment.

>>26337558
I feel another quest thread coming on.

>>26337596
Warriors should set up a practice range near the elf settlement. See if we can't get the elves to join in their favorite past time.

No elf targets.

>>26337596
we should get the warriors to turn the defenses around
>>26337607
that would be awesome

>>26337630
It'd be also good to see how they fare in combat

>>26337681
And we might learn a thing or two. Or start patrolling together. The elves might decide to join us on a raid.

4 EVO points working on:
Queen: Hive Mind (3)
>Hunters: thermal vision (1)
>Fishermen: water-breathing (1)
>Observer: non-insect speech (1)
>Warriors: poison (1)
>Scouts: thermal vision (1)
>Houndsmen: light-weight (1)
>Workers: strength (1)
>Farmers: plant affinity (1)
>Homeguard: claws (1)
>Alchemists: hands (1)
>Scavengers: better vision (1)
>Clergy: Lesser Queens (rank 1)
>Geneweavers: ?

>>26337713
Geneweavers' evolution should be to store the genetics of what they eat.

>>26337707

... Let's have an observer there watching, just to ensure someone's keeping track of what they can do.

>>26337713

Geneweavers were learning to weave genes better.

Whatever the geneweavers do lets hope it gets them closer to Abathur

>>26337713
this >>26337743
Also what are the costs

>>26337763

Let's get some competance before we go for excellence. And i think that abathur will need us to have Infest first

>>26337771
baby steps towards Abathur, tiny little spider baby steps towards Abathur

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>evolution is officially on fasttrack

>>26337794
http://youtu.be/fgGJdgseU5o
All I can think of watching that gif

I finally rolled low enough for the undead to attack the town.

A large mass of undead are approaching from the west. The elves hand a missive off to two people who ride north and south of the town. The elves mount their newly formed walls and begin the defense of the city. warriors, scouts, and workers are the only ones present this turn and the only ones acting besides the elves.

Future caste ideas to work towards

Once observers can speak, split into Science and Diplomacy. Science keeps work as normal. Research and Development. Diplomacy works toward the Mimic spec. And in addition to taking on the appearance of other races, i'd like to consider having them be able to carry around a smaller (VERY small) other caste we'll be working on... that being the mind-control parasites.
Scouts, once we get active camou, might want to take a few of their number and train them with the diplomatic corps (that is, get the appearance-imitation stuff, as well) and be the spy corps. Give them wall-climbing and similar.
FIshermen need to work towards getting some sea-faring capability and then steal some warrior caste training to make a navy to supplement fishermen.

>>26337769
The costs are 8 points per rank

>>26337846
Workers get the fuck out of harms way. Send them back to the hive.
Warriors, shoot and shoot. Watch the elves fight.
Scouts, capture weapons, armor, and if you can, a live specimen if you find one alone.

>>26337846
get the hounds to get over here as fast as they can warriors should defend
workers and scouts should probably fight for there life

>>26337915
and >>26337918
but also bring one Observer to watch how Elves Fight

>>26337713
Hivemind. No doubt. Get that stuff. Get it good.

An important thing to keep in mind here, folks. We're technologically retarded compared to the elves. We have a ton of catching up to do and they've got a lot more real-estate, too. We need to grab EVERY opportunity to take advantage. Do not send the wolves in, until we observe them having mounted combat. No need to lose our few advantages.

>>26337959
That does make sense.

>>26337959
Agreed. Though they have the advantage now, we are advancing at a breakneck speed.
>>26337955
Agreeing with this. Help our elf... 'friends'...

>>26337794
And what is that from anyways?

Also they sent runners to the North and South, We know about the elves in the North being feudal, but what about the ones to the South? Just something to keep in mind for the future.

>>26337999
Exactly. We can catch up, and take them up, if we don't help them along. We need to learn as much as we can, and share as little as we can. Keep them thinking we're nice, kind primitives, and help them, and WATCH. It's better to be silent and look stupid than be noisy and confirm your stupidity. Once we've got some basic technology and learn melee combat we'll be able to catch their heels and surpass. Especially once we've got hivemind. Hivemind means we've ALWAYS got a tactical advantage.

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>>26337999
Birdy the Mighty.
I recommend it.

So,
Workers: Bring our elite units and an observer?
Warriors: Volley
Scouts: Steal supplies.

>>26338140
Workers just bring an Observer

>>26338059
Thanks. I've been trying to get around to trying out more animes, as the only 4 I am actually familiar with are Hellsing, Deathnote, Code Geass, and Gurren Lagann, although I haven't fully watched Code Geass and barely watched Gurren Lagann. GL just seems a bit silly...

>>26338140
Maybe have some scouts be watching for chances to go out and loot the undead before the elves get a chance to. We need their loot more than our buddies do.

>>26338219
keep going with Gurren Lagann i did the same thing but its worth it at the end

>>26338220
I agree with this.

And we can place a few mimics into the scouts to serve as spies.

>>26338219
Attack on Titan
Higurashi no naku koro ni
Aoi Bungaku
Gantz
Clannad
Kanon
Karas
Air
Air Gear
.Hack//sign

Just to name a few if you're interested.

>>26338140
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=os_CcJFlcBA

Wub Wub bffft CKAFFFFSHHHHHHHERIE

The warriors sound off for the Workers to escape before they fire their first volley into the wave of undead.

The elves follow suit launching a hail of arrows into the front lines of the undead.

Some of the scouts try to work their way in to retrieve some weapons and other things. They manage to return a few Javalins before one of the scouts got cordoned off. They could see zombies hacking its legs off before landing the killing blow.

Next round, the observer gets a chance.

>>26338452
So, are we just doing the combatant's actions for a while? If so, then,

Warriors: Keep up the good work. Stay behind the elves, shoot into the zombies
Scouts: Weep not for your fallen comrade. Remeber, we don't need our dropped weapons... we need theirs. Whenever part of the battlefield clears, go in and steal what you can.
Observer: Watch the fucking elves. Learn how they fight.

>>26338584

Note to self: Need to develop:

1. Concealed entrances
2. Secure prisons
3. Insulation (sound and heat)

>>26338452
Warriors: second volley
Scouts: try to capture a live specimen
Observer: ?

>>26338606
>>26338606

Watch the elves fight. Learn.

>>26338584
The warriors are in trenches in front of the elves. Are they falling back?

>>26338625
Oh, i thought the elves had done melee combat. Basically, don't close with the enemy. If they start closing, fall back behind the elves. We don't have melee capabilities.

>>26338584
>stay behind the elves

No. Our soldiers should defend the elven archers.

>>26338675
>>26338651
Are we defending them in mele or not? need some votage going on here.

Unless we want to get in there with mandible and claw I don't think we should take them in Melee

>>26338735
I say we defend them in melee. They're the archery experts. If things look bad, retreat into the town and continue to hold the line.

>>26338735
only if they get to close as in let them come to us be we don't leave the trenches

>>26338794
But we have acid jaws and stuff like that. All these warriors were able to take down a troll in moments.

>>26338814
Mikey the 1st proved that eating them doesn't cause anything bad to happen, doing in front of the elves might be bad. We should get into Melee

>>26338814
Actually, that was a combined effort with two 90's rolled and the trolls had a 3

>>26338852
That reminds me! The Armored Mikey's there!

>>26338857
Okay, maybe we aren't as good as we think, but we can't just leave the elves on the field. We have to help them fall back.

>>26338795
Do we know they're Archery Experts? They have Swords
>>26338879
Armored Mikey!! We get into Melee then! His armored-ness will inspire the other troops!

>>26338879
And I'm assuming the votes mean that warriors are holding position and volleying this turn?

>>26338908
Yep!

I keep forgetting our hive motto

We can ALWAYS make more

>>26338923
And even if we lose our side of the battle, we've bought the elves valuable time.

>>26338935
We won't lose we have The Armored Mikey

>>26338955
All the other anime references and Armored Mikey made me imagine this playing playing while the other insects wub "ARMORED MIKEY - IT'S SHOWTIME!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9xzhyp431c

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ij1moi1AkA

The warriors and elves let out another volley. A hail of javelins and arrows stick a few zombies to the ground, but the undead were prepared for a ranged fight. A set of skeletons rush onto the field. Our arrows are ineffective. Many of them bounce off and a few javelins seem to work when they hit.

Our scouts attempt to steal some undead weapons and manage to get a hold of them, but are cut off from escape. A horde of undead are surrounding them.

Armored Mikey rushes into battle in an attempt to free the scouts. He knocks one of the undead out of the way, but doesn't accomplish much because he's too slow.

>>26339023
The Observer sees that not all of the elves are soldiers, but all of them try to help out in any way they can. They are seen hauling some kind of wooden contraption.

>>26339023
The scouts are surrounded. What do we do?

>>26339023
Scouts need to go to the hive and get the fire javelins/arrows we made a while back.
>>26339045
A Balista maybe?

>>26339012
"CAST IN THE NAME OF THE QUEEN, YE NOT DEAD YET"

its mickeys time to shine

>>26339045

Warriors: SAVE THE FUCKING SCOUTS

Scouts: Get the hell out and get that equipment home

Armored MIkey: Help cover the scout's escape.

Thing i just realized: Does the troll regenerate bone? if so, we've wasted a LOT OF TIME on gathering building material.

Observer: Watch the wooden thing.

>>26339061
We send the other 3 Mikeys in there to get the scouts out.
I also have a crazy last resort plan involving sending the whale down the hill on log rollers. If anything it'll be hilarious.

>>26339095
Where is our observer standing by the way?

>>26339127
A land-mounted naval assault!

>>26339153
Hopefully somewhere near the hive where he can be safe but also see everything.

>>26339172
OK

And is everyone with the current plan?

>>26339216

Just to clarify: He's as far back as we can manage. Preferably, back as near the elves as we can manage, among them if they don't turn him back. He's posing as a general for the purposes of us

>>26339270
If he's posing as a general, he's on the western wall.

If he's among them, he's probably next to the wooden thing. (There aren't many guards to the east).

>>26339317
NEXT TO WOODEN THING

>>26339324
GLORY TO THE WOODEN THING

>>26339095
The warriors and armored mikey try to save the scouts. As they're working their way over, a litch hits them with an explosive spell. Many of your warriors are wounded and all of them are surrounded.

The elves make another attack while arming the wooden thing with a few rocks. They are hesitant to attack because of their allies.

>>26339436
The observer is too distracted by the battle to know what's going on.

WHAT IS THE WOODEN THING? IS IT A SIEGE ENGINE? A CATAPULT?

>>26339436
A Lich?!? We are so fucked.

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>>26339436
>Lich

Armored Mikey is to engage in a duel with the litch.

>>26339489
I fucking lost it. Armored Mikey should totally fight the lich, also should we prepare the whale strike? Or let the battle play out more?

>>26339460
We don't know yet.

>>26339436
I offer up a most sincere prayer that our holy matron will reward the piety of our brethren and give them Her blessings in this dire time.

Let none who died for the fleshies and their wooden thing be forgotten. She will reward them in death.

>>26339541
The undead would pretty much have to be at your doorstep for you to be able to kill anything with that whale.

>>26339541
We should probably have the warriors climb up the walls and prepare to repel borders.

As for armored mikey, he is to be escorted inside. We'll have our mecha duel, but it will be within the city.

As of right now, we've suffered heavy losses but the elves remain strong.

>>26339570
What are the warriors and scouts doing? They're one failure from being killed right now.

>>26339612
>>26339588 sounds like a good plan of action

>>26339588
Your minor fire resist saved the lives of all of your troops actually.

>>26339612
Fight their way out. We're clearly outmatched here.

>>26339637
Oh, good. But we still need to continue the battle within the safety of the walls.

The zombies will suffer heavy losses trying to breach our defenses and we will be ready for them. Protect the wooden thingy! It is your queen today!

>>26339659
FOR THE STRANGE NEW WOODEN QUEEN!!

>>26339693
Note to self. Start assembling gunpowder. We're going to make cannons asap

Or maybe we should just have mecha mikey fight it out with the lich. He might get a lucky hit and at worst it will stall the zombies.

We do need to kill that lich. So should we go all in against him?

>>26339718
Along with the Cryo-Hydra they will make excellent weapons for the Navy.

>>26339731
Not until we know what the New Wooden Queen does

>>26339659
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_vGeHAM4gM

The elves launch a heap of bombs at the undead as well as a volley of arrows. The Observer deems this to be some kind of catapult.

Many of our warriors die in the bombardment as well as from deflecting a cannon ball that was fired by the undead (Mikey did it at the cost of his life). Most of the warriors were killed in a death cloud fired by the litch. The undead set their sights on the elven city.

You have one observer. What does he do?

>>26339770
None of our people rolled above a 25 that turn (besides the observer).

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>>26339770
...

The observer helps with an evacuation of civilians.

>>26339791

If everyone else is dead, he makes sure he has a clear line back towards the hive. The moment danger threatens, he takes that, at speed.

Also: produce warriors like mad next couple of turns.

>>26339791
FFS... we had everything we wanted.

But yeah. Observer's ONLY job is to see as much as he can, and then GET OUT.

Once this is over we need to build the memorial wall and dedicate something important to Armored Mikey.

>>26339820
This.

Also, Instead of researching hivemind, maybe we should instead use our current evo points to rush a couple quick combat upgrades?

I think now would be a good time to pray for the elves.

>>26339859

Dude, hivemind is all seeing eye level tactics.

We are going to try to get some elves out of the city, right?

>>26339882
It also makes sure that in a situation like this we have all the information the Observer is gathering in real time, and don't have to worry about losing it to him dying

>>26339808
Is this what we're doing?

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>>26339770
Were our brethren not pious enough, oh great Queen? Are our imperfections earning your ire?

We must please the Queen. It is clear to me that our kin failed because they did not earn Her truest blessings. A sacrifice for the Queen's royal appetite, maybe. Something to appease Her so that we may have mercy from Her divine wrath.

>>26339903
We could try to "evacuate some of the elves but we have one observer and its not clear if we have a clear path to get back to the hive

>>26339953
The path is clear for now. It might not be later.

>>26339903
He's watching as much battle as he can and keeping a clear line out

>>26339968
Then do it. Try to find a few families of elves and lead them out of the city.

>>26339987
I vote for this. If all else fails we can have a three man Mikey Quest.

>>26339987
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orx2jpFgt0Q

The undead make another cannon attack, this time hitting the wall as the elves rain down more arrows and load the catapult up.

Amidst the chaos, your observer tries to motion for a few families with a letter saying "Here not safe, run to hive." It is too chaotic to get others on board right now.

>>26340101
Did he succeed?

>>26340122
RUN. NOW.

>>26340135
We might have to. That observer carries the data of the entire battle, the catapult, the cannon, the lich, everything.

Let's hope a few families seek us out for shelter.

>>26340135
Nothing else to do but this.

>>26340122
Not this turn. He can try again. The undead rolled pretty high that turn but the elves matched them. We'll have to see what happens this turn. The main undead force is pretty slow and they haven't brought out the air support yet.

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>>26340177
>air support

Okay, if the undead are slow, then let's try one. More. Time.

Just once more. Then fucking book it.

>>26340177
Air support?

Okay. I call bullshit. We're fighting medieval stuff when we're starting as cavemen. Come the fuck on.

>>26340206
It's probably undead dragons or something.

>>26340214

they have BOMBS.

Thief mikey has a new job. He's gonna get one of those or his life is forfeit.

>>26340214
No It's Undead flying F-150s. All we can do is pray the Dinosaurs also flying F-150s come and save us.

>>26340247
>lizardfolk to the rescue
>bros forever

>>26340206
Their combat rating was a 99. I'm actually being generous with what you're fighting right now

>>26340214
It's not as strong as dragons yet.

>>26340291
Klaxximus the Merciful.
>>26340241
Is that Mikey the 2nd or Mikey the 3rd?

>>26340291

Okay, then, folks. Everyone back in the hole. Nobody shows their fucking face. The entrance the elves saw gets destroyed. New one is built as soon as we know how to disguise an entrance.

>>26340291
Damn.

We need to start spraying acid or something. This game just turned south.
Or find allies. Or make a new hive somewhere. We might just have to book it.

>>26340291
Also, with as poorly as we fought, the undead don't have reason to believe that we're sentient which really lucks out for you guys.

>>26340318

We're not playing with strangers anymore. No more exploring, no more head above surface.

>>26340342
So they think we're just animals the wood elves domesticated?

Well that's good.

OP, just a question since you seem to be good at gming civ threads. What advice/steps would you give someone to run their own civ thread in general? Like how do you plan, what do you stat, and what do you roll for?

>>26340344
Not until we get some serious armor on our soldiers. And I'm not just talking mecha.

Hey, maybe we could start digging underneath the land between our territory and the soon to be undead city? And when their cannons start rolling in, we collapse the whole thing.

>>26340385
this
The Undead Army was a good wakeup call we're not invincible, let us retreat and evolve and become better.

>>26340411

We got nothing. fucking nothing.

Also, can't our scouts fly?

How the hell were we "Surrounded"?

>>26340440
beats me.
So what are we doing now?

Yes. Excuse me. I am calling shenanigans.

>>26340362
Everything has to cater to the race and the style of role play. For example, insects have mutations and elves have magic. Both of these things affect how technology will develop when compared to other races. Elves will almost always try and find a magical implication for their technology whereas insects might have a more loose idea of technology where they might tend to develop technique over simple items. The best way to do this is to factor in probability with that role play. They may be more predisposed to coming up with a technique so you factor both options into a dice roll which will add some randomness, yet a distinct way to play the race.

Honestly though, the role play aspect tends to be the most interesting part so it helps to be able to spur people into that aspect. For this thread, it was our government which made for a great way of thinking about the decisions that the hive would make.

>>26340506
Chalk it up to inexperience. Maybe we should train to escape from such situations from now on.

>>26340542
> For this thread, it was our government which made for a great way of thinking about the decisions that the hive would make.
Why are you saying that in past tense?

>>26340440
We haven't been surrounded

So, are we trying just once more to save people or are we booking it?

The zombies are slow and the elves are still fighting.

Hunters: Get inside. Set Traps around Entrance.
Fishermen: One last fishing trip, throw all in spawning pool. Then stay inside until we can hustle you down to the new port city.
Observer: Figure out everything we can about all the things we saw in the combat.
Warriors: DEAD
Scouts: DEAD
Houndsmen: Get inside. Practice silent riding.
Workers: Start digging a new colony down near the shore area, staying above sea-level
Farmers: Do what you do
Homeguard: Try to make sturdier versions of the javelin (Non-Throwing Spears Development)
Alchemists: Make clay molds of armor plates, as figured out earlier (wood and stone armor designs) and observed elfin equivalents.
Scavengers: Help the workers haul away stuff, so they can keep digging.

>>26340606
I'd be down with this

>>26339023

Uh... right there?

Scout's instructions were to get away. But they couldn't. Because a horde of undead were surrounding them.

>>26340569
The major success was built on what was originally created in the first thread. Insects were interesting on their own but mix in theology and things just turned awesome.


The warriors and scouts were surrounded mostly due to numbers of the undead and their tasks (which they under performed in).

>>26340674

Wings.

Up.

No undead.

>>26340674
ah I thought you were saying that in a foreboding, "And then the Undead decided to trek up the hill and look into the cave!"

>>26340695
They failed their escape roll. Sorry.

>>26340705
Blargh. My logics.

>>26340695
If you need an RP reason, the Litch's explosion spell, coupled buy the bombing and death cloud attack pretty much destroyed their wings. If that's not enough, an arrow volley would finish the job.

>>26340705
Still makes no sense. Scouts have wings, they should have been able to get away.

Warriors only came for the scouts. If the scouts flew away, then they wouldn't have gone in.

I CALL SHENANIGANS

>>26340705
Honestly, they rolled a 1

>/tg/ in charge of letting things go

So are we saving elves this turn?

>>26340777
OH!!! Sorry then. Nevermind. Was trying to captcha as it auto-updated. My bad.

ANYWHO, I say spam warriors.

>>26340819
I'm down with it

>>26340819
The undead march under the elven volley before the catapult launches the next wave of bombs that manages to destroy the cannon. As undead begin falling into the trenches, your observer hands the note to as many elves as he can including the guard captain who won't budge.

>>26340848

ffs.

Okay, no insect is above ground level from here on out.

Scouts and replacement warriors make up entirety of next batch.

>>26340940
Time to run I'm assuming?

>>26340953
yep

>>26340953
Noshit.

Actions for castes posted above

>>26340967
Let me roll the last round of combat as you're running.

>>26340940
Brave fools.

>>26340998
They sacrifice themselves for their town as we would our queen, curious.....

>>26341029
It is definitely noble, but the fact that none try to join us is odd.

>>26340986
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhrxGCMzRL0

Arrows start flying over the walls at the Elven guards as the observer makes his last bid to bring others to the hive. The undead begin climbing the walls of this abysmal defense. Only a handful of elves follow you back to the hive.

+2 elves -- a girl and her mother.

>>26341051
They think that help is on the way.

>>26341068
NO ONE NAME THEM

>>26341099

Don't wanna say this, but...

did anyone see us take them?

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>>26341068
Set them up in the visitor lodgings. Do not disturb them save for the bringing of food. They've been through hell.

We might not infest them. We should be prepared for that. However, they might leave for some other village and we can follow them. They will describe our heroism and hospitality.

>>26341097
Hmmm... interesting... let us hope it arrives in time.
We shall prepare warriors to aid this as of yet absent reinforcements. But for now we shall focus on defense and place a few scouts to observe the undead city, no doubt filled with debauchery.

We could also see where their next target will be and warn it.

>>26341135
lets hope not, also watch it turn out to be the Captain of Guard's family