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Welcome back to RotA!

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We left off on the morning of our 2nd day on Earth. The option chosen was "Mutate"

Thread Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8v6I4lgS2rQ


You decide that you need a new form before you proceed. You have a little more biomass available thanks to your terraforming efforts as well as your recent meals. You feel fairly confident in the following ideas.

A) Humanoid
B) Cervid
C) Insectoid
D) Small alteration of current form
E) Large alteration of current form
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>>45746637
Insectoid. We Tyrannid now.
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>>45746637
Cervid.
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>>45746803
Do you really want to be a deer?... I don't know why that's even an option.
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>>45746835
We gotta blend in for more Solid Snake stlye kills.
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>>45746851
We've already terraformed the landscape. There is no blending in anymore.
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>>45746881
We wanna attract the kids.
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>>45746929
If there is anything we need to attract, it's more posters. Where is everybody?
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Rolled 14 (1d100)

>>45746978
Roll to see who wins since they're dead right now?
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Rolled 100 (1d100)

>>45747059
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>>45747108
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>>45747122
Nice dubs and the dice gods hath forsaken me.
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>>45746835
Because y'all ate a deer, that's why it's an option.

It's the same reason why Insectoid is an option. Cause y'all ate wasps and bees.

Humanoid is an option because The Assimilator scanned radio waves from space and got a basic understanding of the dominant species on the planet (humans) but since it's only from basic theoretical understanding it's only "humanoid" not "human"
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>>45747108
Ok, I just walked in here, but I can't argue with that. Insectoid ahoy.
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Insectoids would be the best choice
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small bump.
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You decide on an insectoid body, figuring that offers you the most versatile choices and options.

How many legs should you have?

A) 4
B) 6
C) 8
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>>45747465
>8

I kinda wanna be a horrifying spider abomination.
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>>45747465
8, let's look an Aura.
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6, a safe middle number.
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>>45747465
8, but have two of them be arms.
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>>45747536
Why not be a Hindu 6 armed war god?
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>>45747536
Then they aren't legs...
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>>45747545
I vote for that. Two legs, six arms.
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>>45747573
Same here instead of >>45747522
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>C) 8 Legs

You decide on eight legs, and begin forming a mental picture of your new self.

What kind of body will you have?

A) Segmented, 2 sections
B) Segmented, 3 sections
C) Unsegmented, long and skinny
D) Unsegmented, short and fat
E) Write in
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>>45747704
Segmented in two.
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Three segments.
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>>45747704
>A) Segmented, 2 sections
So this is a thing. Never read the first version, but read the last thread. Hoping for grand things.
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>>45747704
No idea. I was originally intending for Tyrannid like things but now we are going full insect. Two sections I guess.
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>Write In
Lets go for a scorpion like shape.
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>>45747704
B) Segmented, 3 sections
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>>45747758
>>45747816
Well a scorpion body consists of three segments.
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>>45747729
>>45747766
>>45747791

>>45747758
>>45747818
>>45747850

I assume that is 3-3, Ill be the tiebreaker and go 3 Sections.
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>>45747729
Imma stick for creepy spider monster... though I do hope we get arms of some sort... even if it means we basically go full drider.

Two segments.
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>>45747884
2 segments
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Can a few of us get trips, it's a bit hard to follow up.
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>>45747704
I guess three segments, RIP The Tyranid Dream.
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>>45747916
I'll adopt a moniker if that's what you mean.

>>45747884
>>45747892

Oh shiii-

>>45747896
No we're good.

>>45747935
-iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit.
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>>45747951
That makes it easier to track.
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>>45747892
I'd personally go for a scorpion like creature, eventually becoming like a human woman with retractable tails and claw to lure people and kill them.
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>>45748006
>Human woman
>Human
>Woman
That won't be possible.
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>>45748043
Neither combined nor separate I'm guessing... ;P
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>>45748085
More like impossible in a game like this to be either one or both.
I'm out.
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>>45748114
Human mimic, acquiring biomass and knowledge slowly until we can morph into an ultimate being and/or start making monstrous biomass pets to control.
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>>45748043
Sorry, who are you to tell them what I will and won't allow in my game?

Right now obviously it wouldn't be possible to do anything other than a slenderman-esque mimick of a human woman but definitely in the not too distant future they could infect a human woman host to take control or very easily mimick the form after infecting a few humans.

Looks like 3 sections won.
You decide you want three sections in your body, and are fairly certain you can do that with the available biomass. Now you need to determine what kind of features you'll have.

A) Fangs to inject hornet venom
B) Stinger to inject hornet venom
C) Reflux ability to launch small globules of venom

A2) Claws
B2) Hooks
C2) Pincers
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>>45748185
Honestly I'd just go running through town as a normal looking deer (with hidden weapons a centimeter under the skin) and see if anyone does anything.
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>>45748290
>A
>A2
Maybe have the venom inject through a smaller "pinkey" claw on each hand?
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>>45748290
C
A2
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>>45748290
>B
>C2
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>>45748290
Namefagging for name fags.

>B
>C2
Pinsir, bitch.
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>>45748290
A) Fangs to inject hornet venom
A2) Claws
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>>45748290
>D antlers to inject venom after careful goring.
>A1
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>B
>C2
I guess I too will adopt an animal related moniker like everyone else
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It seems like most people want B and C2, I'm fine with that.
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aww yeah
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I refuse to skulk around and stay invisible the whole time like last game.

We going loud in the city.
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>>45748706
Lets try to acquire bullet proof armor first.
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>>45748748
I'm sure we can do that during the confusion and chaos our tearing through buildings and dragging people screaming into dark alleys and sewers will cause.
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>>45748824
We're kind of weak at the moment.
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>>45748706
>>45748748
>>45748824
Get right in the center of the city and start terraforming that shit.
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>>45748862
sewers or top of a sky scraper
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>>45748912
Sewers, THEN tops of sky scrapers.

Capillary towers spewing spores on the tops of sky scrapers.
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>A, like the spider...
>A2, like the horrifying abomination we actually are.
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>Stinger, Hooks

You decide that a stinger would be the best way to deliver your new venom, and that hooks to grab and hold victims while you victimize them.

Slowly but surely, you begin changing yourself. Your four legs split in half with a horrible cracking and schlucking sound as the bones and flesh separate, widen, and regrow, forming a total of 8 long spindly scary fucking legs. Near the end of each, you grow bony hooks covered in backwards facing barbs to latch onto prey and victims and tear flesh.

Your body splits and forms three distinct segments, which is a little odd and new to you. You realize this will require external bones, not the internal ones you're working with now. You focus on that, and after some time you grow a thick chitinous exoskeleton around your entire new body.

You retain the same mouth, grow two arms from your middle section with bigger barbed hooks like the ones on your legs, and hollow them out, turning them into stingers. You also grow additional eyes, split the bottom jaw of your mouth, and add tentacles to grasp things and shove them into it.

You don't feel so adorable anymore.

A) Go into the city
B) Go nearer to the city and search for hummies
C) Search for more wildlife
D) Write in
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>>45749211
A) Go into the city
into the sewer
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>>45748927
Yes. But first we go sewers and then do the towers. But not just one, we want a couple dozen or more shooting out of the manholes in a rough circle around the city, meaning anyone who wants to escape has to run straight into a spore cloud.
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>hooks

whoops. Looks like I misread my own numbers and thought y'all wanted hooks instead of pincers

Well, fuck it, have both. The picture obviously has pincers on the mouth parts so, whatever. That picture is us. Happy, faggots? We're goddamn terrifying.
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>>45749239
I guess we're a scorpion spider hybrid with tentacles.
I support this.
Also voting for
>B
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>>45749211
Niiiiice.

>B) Go nearer to the city and search for hummies
Time to pick a few off for biomass, then move into the city for some terraforming.
Can we extract memories from absorbing them?
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>>45749211
>A) Go into the city
Into the sewer. If we don't know what a sewer is then go find a underground place in the city and start setting up mass collection.
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>>45749211
>A) Go into the city
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>>45749273
When you absorb something, everything about it becomes you.

If you really wanted to you could talk to bees

You don't want to though

Bees are boring

All they wanna talk about are flowers and honey and how much they love their queen
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>B
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>>45749211
>A) Go into the city
Let's dine on turtle soup.
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>A Go into the sewers
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>B because we'd be pretty noticable in the city.
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>>45749394
This. Pick a few off and wait for night if it isn't night already.
We'll need more biomass to really do anything anyways.
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>>45749211
>A) Go into the city
Can we go at night? Is that an option?
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>>45749211
>>45749429
>>45749442
We should go for B and then A.
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>>45749442
Not unless you want to wait literally the entire day. It's like 10am.


>A) Go into the city

You decide to head for the large settlement you saw in the distance.

After some walking, you come across a road (pic related). From where you stand, you cannot see any structures neither in the woods nor in the skyline above the trees.

You got disoriented walking here and cannot remember which direction the city was in. You know the road must lead somewhere.

A) Left
B) Right

(We're going to actually use real pictures from google maps street view for this. Imagine there's snow on everything because it's the middle of winter.)
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>>45749505
>A) Left
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>>45749505
>C) Climb a tree
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>>45749541
Fuck off I can't make google maps do that so you can't do that right now.

Pick a direction. There's a 50% chance it's the right way and a 100% chance you find a human either way.
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>>45749561
>D) Grow wings and fly there
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C, hide slightly in the forest and this, >>45749535
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>>45749505
>B) Right
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>>45749535
>A) Left is always right. Except when right is right. So go left.
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>>45749567
>>45749577
Notice how the 2 options are "Left" and "Right" and there's not a 3rd that says "write in"?

Stop being niggers. You will see a human regardless of which direction you go and if you went the wrong way you'll know once you absorb him, which I know you fuckers will do.
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>>45749505
>A) Left
>Talk to a passing spider
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>>45749612
Devils advocate here, >>45749577 this particular command was basically
>A: But carefully.
So I'm not entirely sure he's deserving of grump.
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>A) Left

You decide to turn left and go that way. As you skitter down the road, a spider drops onto you from a tree above and sets on your head.

"What are you?"
'I'm a spider'
"No you're not. I'm a spider. What are you?"
'A formless being from space, cursed to drift the stars for eons, consuming all I come across.'
"Why?"
'We all make mistakes, little one. Be mindful of yours. Such as who you trust to land on.'

With that, your exoskeleton opens up and swallows the spider. You gain nothing from it.

After about fifteen minutes of walking down the street, you come across a wall with a gate. You can barely make out a moderately sized house past the gate, with a thin wisp of smoke coming from the roof.

A) Continue following road
B) Turn back
C) Approach home
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Goodnight ya'll. happy human hunting!
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>>45749505
Left
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>>45749814
>C) Approach home
Time to devour the happy family.
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>>45749814
>C) Approach home
Rip spiderbro. Or chick.
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>>45749814
>C) Approach home, stealthily.
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>>45749814
Approach the house
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>>45749853
He or she knows what he or she did.
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>>45749814
>C: What time is it? -pic related-

I almost feel bad. But also kind of cathartic as though we have found the spider I seek. That was a short meeting. Let's numb the pain of memories with gratuitous amounts of *NOT* bloodshed because wasting food like that isn't cool.
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>>45749897
The spilled blood can be used as nourishment for the living carpet of our hive.
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>>45749897
It is 10:42 AM December 20th, 2014

>Approach the home

You skitter up over the gate and approach the house quietly, making sure to stick to the tree line and shadows. You don't see anything out front, but when you go around the back you see a tall, semi-muscular man with black hair chopping wood on a chopping block with an axe. He's wearing a black hoodie, track pants, and heavy work boots.

A) Watch and observe
B) Attack from behind
C) Enter home
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>>45750074
>C) Enter home
Find the weak and defenseless first.
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>>45750074
>C) Enter home
Women and children first.
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>>45750074
>B) Attack from behind
He is the biggest threat right now. Wait to see if any humans from inside the structure are watching then strike with every venemous pointy thing in our body.
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>>45750092
>>45750105
>C)

*furiously scribbles notes for playing a monster*
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>>45750130
Why attack the biggest threat first? Go after the soft and squishy targets for dat biomass first should shit go south when going after him.
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>>45750183
I can understand the appeal of a sneak attack on the strongest target, but If things go wrong attacking him, the little ones will probably run away or call for help, which is bad, if things go wrong attacking the little ones, we should still be able to overpower them and this guys first instinct might be to swing at us... which while painful, isn't a compromise of our secrecy.
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>C) Enter Home

Encounter music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vthuJ6dssEE

You skitter around the front and open the door, going into the home. A cat watches you from atop a china cabinet in the foyer. As you explore the home, you only find one other human. An infant, perhaps less than a year old, asleep in his crib.

A) Kill and absorb the infant
B) Go back outside and kill the man
C) Infect the infant
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>>45750257
>C) Infect the infant
It begins.
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>>45750257
>A) -it begins-

(Awesome music by the way. I'm really imagining thid horrible monster creeping up on the babby and geting ready to do whatever it is we decide to do here...)
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B is the best choice if we're stealthy.
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>>45750318
That's the point. Glad to see it's working. The music is meant to give weight to this particular moment. Not only is it our first kill of a sentient creature, it's the ultimate innocent form.

There's no coming back from infanticide

But we don't care about that do we?
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>>45750296
Huh. Interesting. I believe part of the idea was we needed the biomass... and I can't see the infant being immediately useful myself... but I might just not be looking at this the same way as you.

>>45750336
Certainly not.
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>>45750257
C
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4 votes. 18 posters

Can we try and get some more votes?
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>>45750469
Oh fine.
Some of those might be samefags using mobiles.
>C) Infect the infant
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>>45750469
>>45750296
Eh, screw it. I'm curious what the plan is.

>Changing to >C)
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>>45750469
A, back.
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>>45750490
Easy, infect the baby to infect the mother to infect the father to infect his workplace and spread from there.
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>>45750512
Ah, now I get it, and in the meantime our main form will find a way to scuttle into the cities underbelly and keep a figurative eye on things?
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So no infant murder yet?
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>>45750552
Now you're getting it.
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>>45750568
Isn't the infant technically dead once infected? They still act normal, but become a vector for further infection and are totally under our command.
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>>45750568
Depending on how you look at it... it's infant enslavement... and I'm sure once dad gets infected... well, the baby certainly and possibly the mother will have served their purpose as transmission vectors. Into the biomass they go.
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>C) Infect the Infant

Encounter Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXVO4cChaN0

You approach the crib, lean down, and press one of your talons into the infant's neck. It wakes instantly and begins to scream, but you quickly silence it as you inject some of yourself into it. The infant shudders, and its skin begins to writhe and pull apart, the body convulsing and remaking itself, until the creature you see before you is an abomination of its former self.

A) Hide nearby and wait for the adult to interact with the infant
B) Go kill the adult
C) Kill the cat
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>>45750594
Kill the cat, leave no witness.
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>>45750594
>A) Hide nearby and wait for the adult to interact with the infant
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>>45750594
>C) Kill the cat
Absorb dat cat for dem sweet mutations.
Then,
>A) Hide nearby and wait for the adult to interact with the infant
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>>45750594
Oops. We'll need to get better at this. Need more practice then.

>>45750627
This plan but if we are restricted to one option in the immediate future

>A) The cat can't alert the authorities if it manages to escape. We await the adult target.
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>>45750652
I doubt the man would flee with his child behind us, especially since he's still unaware of it's fate.
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I say A. Then wait for the dad to call 911...
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Looks like the general consensus is "murder the fluffy kitty after having turned some poor schmuck's baby into an abomination from The Thing and then hide and wait for him to encounter it"

Okay

So that'll be in the next thread tomorrow some time after 6pm.

Unfortunately I need to go to sleep now because I have Jury Duty tomorrow.

Someone archive this please?
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>>45750812
fug
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>>45750812
See you tomorrow then! Have fun~~
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>>45750812
I look forward to your choice of music. And good luck with Jury Duty!
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>>45750812
Cya later
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>>45750812
Adios.
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>>45750812
We are an EATING MACHINE.

Things such as 'fluffy kittens' and 'innocent babbies' mean nothing to us.
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This is brilliant, looking forward to tomorrow.
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ASSIMILATE
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>>45753694
Wew
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>>45750812
doesn't it auto-archive?
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boop
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>>45758340
for archive 4plebs
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>>45761083
beep
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>>45763139
baap



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