>Town

>>2629020
Will wait a little while longer and if nobody else joins in then I'll go with your answer anon just to get the ball rolling here.

>>2629004
>City
Fuck the moderate. Lets risk it all.

>>2629080
if nobody breaks the tie in 15 minutes I'll do so with a roll.

>>2629080
+1, we're already an abomination.

>>2629087
>>2629080
Alright writing up now.

After taking some time to digest your meal, you find yourself with new appendages to help you on your way. Small legs sprout on your underside, or what you presume to be your underside, as you now have legs there, and you are able to move about. You've also sprouted a small leathery tail, but despite it's texture, you realize you still have the same control over it as you do any of your other limbs. Your flesh is still roughly amorphous, but you know have the knowledge required to form biological constructs such as limbs and rudimentary eyes. Things are dark around you. Lots of industrial sounds ring throughout the air. The sound of engines roaring and the clanging of metal informs you that there is activity near by.

You creep along the ground, avoiding the massive hulking forms of some of the creatures you see along the way. For the most part, they take little notice of your scurrying. There are other creatures nearby, smaller, more managable meals that you might be able to digest. Among them, there are feathered bipedal creatures that hobble around the street, picking through debris for their meals. There are other small rodent like creatures such as yourself. You see them darting around near dumpsters and near grates that lead to some place unfamiliar to you below the ground. You also spot one creature, larger than the feathered and rodentlike creatures that are more abundant. It has pointed ears and clawed hands and is feasting on a dead rodent that is similar in size to you. What do you do?

>Feast on the rodents (easy DC) 25
>Catch a bird (Moderate DC 45)
>That big one looks promising... (High DC 85)


Will tally votes in 1/2 hour, or the first to 3 votes. Whichever happens first.

>>2629114
>>Feast on the rodents (easy DC) 25
What's the dice system? Do we roll with our vote?

>>2629129
we decide the vote first, then we roll.

>>2629147
But how do the rolls work? Best of 3, averages?

>>2629167
Let's say best of the first 5 if this picks up later, best of first 3 for now?

>>2629174
Either works. Do crits exist?

>>2629114
>Feast on the rodents (easy DC) 25

>>2629180
Of course they do. Crits are the best part about these threads

>>2629114
>Catch a bird

come on, we can pull it off

>>2629129
>>2629187

Half an hour passed, feast on rodents wins. Go ahead and give me rolls, best of 3. 1d100

Rolled 50 (1d100)

>>2629129
Switch to >>2629237.
>>2629249

>>2629254
Guess we're going bird hunting now, works for me. Go ahead and keep rolling, a crit in either direction can have interesting results here.

>>2629261
Are anons allowed to roll multiple times?

>>2629271
Priority goes to unique IDs, but if we don't have a lot of players active I don't mind letting people do rerolls.

For instance, if we have players A B C D
A rolls
B rolls
A rolls
C rolls

I'll discount A's second roll in favor of C's roll. This will include crits, so be aware if you're rolling multiple times that your crit may be discounted if some fuckup rolls and takes your slot.

Rolled 85 (1d100)

>>2629249

>>2629281
>Priority goes to unique IDs,
You mean new or old players?
>I'll discount A's second roll in favor of C's roll. This will include crits, so be aware if you're rolling multiple times that your crit may be discounted if some fuckup rolls and takes your slot.
That's fine.

Rolled 36 (1d100)

>>2629281
Mmm, bird.

Rolled 67 (1d100)

>>2629249
Eat that fucking bird

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>>2629292
85, success

Seeing a small collection of the feathered creatures nearby, your hunger calls out for you to consume. You creep up on them, skittering slowly towards the debris they seem to be picking at. You manage to get into the debris with ease, navigating the trash and rancid foodstuffs. Though they were initially scared off by your approach, you lay in wait. Sure enough, they flock back to the trash once more, the promise of food too alluring for them to pass up. You are hungry, but you smell opportunity. You wait, and wait. Soon the moment hits. Two of the birds approach in tandem, and you strike out, grabbing both of them in either of your front limbs.

This is your first time seeing yourself consume another creature. You watch as the flesh ripples out from your arm, slowly swallowing the birds whole. The rest of the flock erupts in a paniced burst of wings and squawking, but the two you've ensared are going nowhere. You slink back into the trash heap, slowly dragging the two birds with you as you slowly envelop them whole. After you feast, you can feel yourself going dormant. You rest, as you digest your meal.

While you rest, you can feel the new mass you've gained assimilating into your being. Slowly you come to understand what it is to fly. You gain a natural understanding of aerodynamics, lift, wind, and many other abilities that your avian meals would have understood instinctually. While this information is useless to you know, it may come in handy in the future. As the meal digests, you realize that your form is ripe for a change. You may decide exactly what form that change takes based on the anatomy of your new feast.


>Vision - Gain the ability to see with more detail, your eyes gaining millions of years of evolutionary progress in the matter of hours

>Feathers - While they won't help you fly right away, this is the first stepping stone. They also provide warmth and some minor damage mitigation, should that be something you need.

>Hollow bones - Why would you want this at this point in your growth? Who knows, but surely there's some reason it's being offered right?

>Bird Related Write in (if reasonable)

>>2629359
>>Vision - Gain the ability to see with more detail, your eyes gaining millions of years of evolutionary progress in the matter of hours
Pretty important adaptation.

>>2629369
Been ten minutes, this one wins in 10 more if nobody else wants a say.

>>2629404
Yeah just go with vision

>>2629424
>>2629404

Vision wins out, will be back shortly to write it up. Gonna grab something to eat real quick first.

>>2629369
+1

nice, with vision we can start setting ambushes

Darkness takes you in the trash heap as you digest your latest meal. As you do so you feel the anatomy of the birds assimilating into your being. You draw from it it's power of sight, your enhanced vision compounds with the mamallian eyes you're absorbed from the skittering rodent earlier, and becomes something more than either of it's individual parts. You now have moderate vision, and are able to see detail.

As you rouse fully, you can see the trash heap has transformed as well. Biomass has seeped out of your body, infesting the trash heap. The birds and rats no longer approach this pile, sensing something foul about it. Wiry strings of writhing flesh coat the interior of the heap where you had slumbered, and you feel more at ease here. Connected to the rest of the heap. As you move through the heap towards the outside once more, you can feel your movements two-fold. Both in the first person perspective, and in another sense, as information fed to you remotely.

In addition to the extra mass, you are now a little more intelligent, having absorbed another creature allows you to think. You occasionally have lucid thoughts that peak out through the muddled soup of madness. As you emerge from your pile into the cool night air, you realize you have gained quite a bit of size. You now stand roughly three times the size of the rodents... the rats, the new, more specific word forms in your mind to describe the first creature you consumed.

Not only that, but you realize your second quarry was a pigeon, and as you glance around the mostly deserted streets of the industrial sector, you realize you can put words to many things you hadn't even noticed before. Street lights, apartment complexes, cars and other such vehicles that occasionally pass by in the street beyond your small alley.

Beyond that, your strong urge for hunger is refined. You are hungry, but you realize you hunger for more. You realize you have a proper enough understanding of what makes a bird and a rat tick. You think you can control them, if you can manage to infest them. Something useful perhaps.

The industrial sounds from earlier have quieted, leaving you in a mostly abandoned sector of city. This is good, you are now intelligent enough to know the hulking creatures you saw earlier in the day are humans, and you know that if they should see you, it could be very bad for you.

Vivid images of a medical facility of some sort fly through your primitive mind. You are unsure of what to make of them, but you know they are a warning of some sort that your dim intellect is trying to warn you of.

You'll need to be cautious if you want to remain undectected, especially as you grow.

>Find a better lair

>Try to infest some rats / birds

>Is that man sleeping?

>Other (write in)

You have a whole sector of town to explore, you don't have to follow my prompts, feel free to do whatever the fuck you want if nothing I've written is appealing.

>>2629527


Oh shit, forgot to add

Mass is now 20/20

>>2629527
>>Is that man sleeping?
Time to go big.

>>2629527
>>Is that man sleeping?
Go big or go home

>>2629548
>>2629538

Looks like we're going for gold here. How are we doing this?

>Infest
>Absorb

DCs hidden, both relatively high though because you're working off of the mental capacity of a fucking pigeon.

>>2629577
>>Absorb
Would be the most helpful thing to us.

>>2629577
What's the difference?

>>2629582
If you infest them, you gain influence over their mind. If you absorb them you add their mass to your own, and can gain properties from that creature that you've not already gained.

>>2629590
Neat.
>>2629580
+1

>>2629600
>>2629580

Absorption it is. Go ahead and get me 3 rolls.

DC Hidden (but pretty fucking high, good luck.)

Rolled 89 (1d100)

>>2629618
No problem, should be easy peasy.

>>2629621
hah! Two more rolls. Unless someone crit fails you guys surprisingly have this.

Rolled 37 (1d100)

>>2629618
>>2629638

dice+1d100

Rolled 8 (1d100)

>>2629618
>>2629663
You gotta type it in the Options field.

Rolled 67 (1d100)

>>2629680
oops my bad, lets go again

>>2629693
>>2629647
>>2629621


89 wins.


You creep up on the sleeping man. The strong scent of what you would soon recognize as alcohol hitting you like a wall. This man is passed out, and it doesn't look like hes going anywhere anytime soon.

Still. You have your mind set up and you intend to go through with it. You begin to stretch your body out to engulf him, when you realize you are not actually large enough to consume this man in the same way as you did the smaller creatures.

Oh well, you'll just have to be a little more... creative.

You begin to creep towards his mouth, your tendril like arms opening it wide. As you do so, his eyes open in a panic, but it is too late, you are already on your way inside. As you pass the threshold of his throat, you feel the dangling sack of flesh in the back of his throat slap against the top of you and grab on, perceiving it as a possible attack. This results in him quickly voiding his stomach, vomiting all over the place. You manage to keep your hold though, and already your body begins to disperse, coating the interior of his mouth, entering his lungs, and nasal cavity, and stomach. The man starts to panic, and tries to stumble away, clawing at his throat. He collapses, as your tendrils begin to probe into his body further.

He's clawing at his throat, causing quite the commotion. However, to the best of your knowledge the street was pretty barren. There weren't many people visible to you, and they were all collected pretty far away from the drunk near the front of a bar.

How do you proceed?

>Continue absorbing him like this

>Get out with the genetic material you've already stolen

>Other (Write in)

>>2629696

hmm lets see if we can live inside of his body perhaps? like some sort of parasite

if not then

>Continue absorbing him like this

>>2629696
>>Continue absorbing him like this
>Other (Write in)
Try dragging him somewhere more hidden?

>>2629696
>>Continue absorbing him like this
In for a penny in for a pound

>>2629703
>>2629705
>>2629712

Three for absorbing him like this, but with some various write in options mixed in. I'll give you a little while to deliberate if you need to.

>>2629726
I'll go for the addition of trying to drag him somewhere more isolated

Gonna take a break for a while. Gonna run to the store and pick up some medicine. Tired of hacking up brown phlegm. Hopefully a bit of vicks will save my lungs.

>>2629742
Oh just you wait until I pass out and can play with resembling sanity!

Glad to see you did your quest!

so what do we do? drag him somewhere isolated doesn't make that much sense, the street is empty.

We are weak, if we try and live inside of him we could slowly take control of him or just slowly feed off of him until we switch another host

>>2629777
I'm back, and it doesn't look like you guys really settled on much. Last call either

>Live inside of him like a parasite
or
>Try to move him somewhere else

If there isn't some resolution in like, let's say 15 minutes, I'll go ahead and just continue with the continue absorbing him like this option, without any of the modifiers.

You decide to stay here. Afterall, the man is clearly having no luck getting you free from his throat, and you are likewise disinterested in letting go of your kill. This is a big meal though, and it will take you quite some time to properly digest it. Even so, in for a penny in for a pound. You get to work. After he starts struggling and grasping at his throat, he falls into unconsciousness. You are able to feel his heart as it slowly falls to an irregular beat, until ceasing function entirely.

And so you begin. You consume him from the inside out. While your initial mass was not enough to engulf this man, as you convert his flesh into your own, you slowly start to grow. You spread through his body by many means. From his stomach you press into his intestines and further down the digestive tract. From his lungs you enter his blood stream, and begin slowly disolving his cardiovascular system bit by bit.

The most interesting point of order for you though, is his brain. As you consume the fleshy sack inside of his head, you find yourself growing mentally much stronger. You feel your body, really feel it, with much more accuracy. You assimilate his mind into your own, and it immediately begins to overpower the rodent and avian brans you've accumulated thus far. It feels as if an additional voice is now present in your mind, trying to wrest control from you. However, it is panic stricken, and completely confused, so you are managed to keep it at bay for now. After struggling with it's mind, you find yourself drifting off into darkness as your body begins to process and digest its more recent meal.

When you finally awaken, the man's body is no more. You find yourself on the interior of some sort of bag. Before doing anything else though, you must decide what was the most vital trait for you to absorb from this recent kill.


>Intelligence - Raw boost to your mental faculties

>Understanding - Comprehend better the human society in which you find yourself, and ascertain ways to exploit it for your own ends

>Muscle - Humans are much stronger and quicker than birds and rats. Increase your total mass even further than normal, and gain more agility and strength

>Skill - Learn some skill that this human had and make it your own

>Human Anatomy - Better understand the human body, and increase the liklihood that you may infest humans in the future

>Other (Write in)

>>2630094
>Intelligence - Raw boost to your mental faculties

>>2630094
>>Muscle - Humans are much stronger and quicker than birds and rats. Increase your total mass even further than normal, and gain more agility and strength
Stronger we are the better chance we have of taking down bigger prey.

Am going to make dinner now, will tally up and write once I've got some food in front of me.

>>2630094
>>Muscle - Humans are much stronger and quicker than birds and rats. Increase your total mass even further than normal, and gain more agility and strength

>>2630094
>Human Anatomy - Better understand the human body, and increase the likelihood that you may infest humans in the future.

>>2630094
>Intelligence - Raw boost to your mental faculties

>>2630114
>>2630316

>>2630137
>>2630116

2 intelligence, 2 muscle. If someone wants to tie break you can do so now. If not, then I'll roll off in 15 minutes.

>>2630325
intelligence

>>2630334
Intelligence wins, writing up now.

You feel the spark of intelligence reinvigorating your half formed mind. You are now capable of basic strategy, and can understand the danger present in situations that your more animalistic nature would not have recognized. You have grown considerably bigger this time, having consumed a meal far larger than any you had known before. Your basic driving force of hunger is now kept in check by a slightly more than animal intelligence, and you can choose to act in more subtle ways if that is the way you wish to conduct yourself. You try to figure out once again where you are, when you realize where you must be. You consumed a man, killing him before absorbing him slowly. You must be inside of a body bag. You somehow know to search for a zipper, and soon one of your fleshy appendages finds it, slowly undoing the zipper. As you leave the bag, you note that the interior of the bag is covered in the same fleshy film that had overtaken the refuse pile after consuming the birds. This one is notably thicker, and the connection you feel to it is much stronger. Perhaps that is an effect of your increased intelligence, or perhaps it's because of all the additional mass you've consumed this time. Either way, it doesn't seem to be going anywhere. You note that you are sealed into the tube,but the closing mechanism is on your side of the porthole, and you are not intelligent enough to understand how to work the simple machine.

Peering out, you can see that there is nobody in the room currently, but you do not know how long that may last. What do you do?

>Escape now while you have the option

>Stay and observe, there is more food to be had nearby

>Spend some time investigating the bag you crawled out of

>Other (Write in)

>>2630360
>Stay and observe, there is more food to be had nearby.
Let's jump out of the body bag and try to find a good hiding spot in the room.

>>2630360
>Escape now while you have the option
Live to eat another day.

>>2630360
Maybe there is more mass around? They took dead body here, maybe more dead bodies?

>>2630365
>>2630370
Will take these both as 'stay and observe' as you are investigating the room.

Might have to call the quest here for the night though, so I won't officially call the vote there. I'll be needing sleep soon, work in the morning and all that, but can keep going once I get off of work tomorrow.

>>2630360
>>Stay and observe, there is more food to be had nearby
but escape asap if any sign of danger is present, i guess we are smart enough for that

So, the quest died?

>>2630988
Why would the quest be dead? The QM said he wouldn't be around in the morning because he had to go to work.

>>2631065
I'm actually here, called out, still sick and stuff. Will go ahead and work on the response now.

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You decide that there is no immediate reason to leave this room. After a short while fiddling with the lock, you find yourself pushing out of the tube-like enclosure you'd been in. You realize belatedly that the temperature in the air around you is pleasant compared to the chilly refrigerated tube you had just been in. As you enter into the room you notice a few different things, you increased intelligence allows you to understand what you are seeing with clarity that was unavailble to you. You spot a computer nearby, seemingly inactive, but you recognize it for what it is. You also notice that the wall where you'd emerged from has eight other small portholes on the wall. You also notice a clock on the wall, that informs you of the current time, 7:55. You are unsure as to whether or not that's AM or PM, but based on the fact that it was evening when you first began consuming the drunk, coupled with the fact that your periods of digestion seemed to account for large chunks of the day, you realize it's likely now the following morning.

You realize that you'll have to be more careful going forward. If you're going to pass out each time you eat, you'll want to find some place safe to digest your meals from now on. Otherwise, who knows what could happen. You catch a glimpse of yourself in the glass of the door leading out of here, and realize you have a more immediate problem. While nobody is here currently, you look unlike anything else you've seen so far. You are a mass of rippling and flowing flesh. Your skin seems to be in constant movement, flowing almost like a sludge towards the ground, but receding back into your core near what pass for your feet. You are hardly inconspicuous, and if you should be discovered in the open right now it may lead to some pretty unfortunate consequences.

After finishing your appraisal of the room, you take a minute to plot out your next course of action. The clock has now reached 7:57.

>Investigate other tubes, more mass = more power

>There's a drain in the center of the floor. It's too small for something of your size to fit through, but your body seems pretty amorphous now. Maybe you could find a quick escape there?

>Check out the computer

>There are some chemicals on the shelf there, wonder what that's all about

>Investigate medical instruments

>Other (write in)

>>2631108
>Check out the computer
Let's see how far our intelligence can take us.

>>2631108
>There are some chemicals on the shelf there, wonder what that's all about

>>2631143
>>2631135
2 votes so far, need either a tie breaker or if not, I'll roll off to find a winner in 15 minutes.

>>2630360
>>2631108
Eat up the organic material you left in the bodybag
And look at the computer

>>2631206
>>2631135

Two for check out the computer, with one write in option of messing with the bag.

Lemme get 3 sets of 2 rolls. DC 65, 45 respectively.

Rolled 3 (1d100)

>>2631220

>>2631223
I'll not count that, since I asked for 3 sets of 2 rolls, and that was only one roll. Please use dice+2d100 for this.

Rolled 64, 37 = 101 (2d100)

>>2631220

Rolled 45, 44 = 89 (2d100)

>>2631220

>>2631237
>>2631229
Ouch. 1 off.

Rolled 51, 34 = 85 (2d100)

>>2631246
>>2631237
>>2631229
Fail, Fail.

Well shit, at least this wasn't a life threatening situation. Where are those 80+ rolls you guys were slinging earlier? Alright writing up now.

You go over to the door you'd crawled out from, and begin withdrawing the bag your 'body' had been stored in. The interior of the bag was still coated in that fleshy bio-organic film. Much like the trash heap, you can feel some sort of connection to the substance. As you slide it out of the tube, you can feel the movement from it's perspective. You try to reassimilate it into your body, but it doesn't seem to work. Whatever it is, it seems to be made of a different type of fleshy compound than you are. Still, you feel invigorated by your proximity to the film like coating. You sit it on the small table in the center of the room, deciding to investigate it further once you've looked through the computer. As you boot it up however, you realize that you don't have a password or username. You scan the dozens of disorganized papers on the desk in front of you, until you finally find one with a username, and about a dozen sloppily scrawled series of eight digit numbers. You try a few, before realizing the number at the bottom of the list is most likely the current password. You go to key in that password, but are interrupted by the sound of voices in the hall outside. Your eyes glance up at the clock, and you realize it's now 8:01. The voices have paused outside of the door, making idle conversation, how do you react?

>Stage an ambush, get ready to fight!

>Time for a timely escape, let's hope we can squeeze into this drain!

>Other (write in)

>>2631309
>>Stage an ambush, get ready to fight!

>>2631309
Drag away the body bag and hide inside

>>2631309
>Attempt to climb up and cling to the ceiling as stealthily as possible and assess the situation from there.

>>2631325
I'm curious. You're in a coroners operating room. Where exactly do you imagine you could hide the body bag in here?

>>2631335
Is there not hatches in the wall where you store the bodies?

>>2631357
I mean yeah, but they're occupied by other dead guys. If you wanna hide in the hatch you pulled the body bag from that's one thing, but when you said drag it away and hide in it I thought you meant somewhere else.

>>2631357
And the bodies are on a slidding plate with some empty space

>>2631369
I have no idea what i am doing

>>2631369
so could we not cram ourself inside some hatch with some possible food

>>2631373
Lmao, it's all good.

Anyway, I have 3 different options, if I don't get someone to either change their vote or break the 3 way tie, I'll roll off and see what happens.

>>2631330
support

>>2631384
alright, lemme get a roll. 1d100, DC 55

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Rolled 3 (1d100)

>>2631404

Rolled 15 (1d100)

>>2631404

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>>2631410
FUCK
AND I HOPE WE CAN CHANGE INTO SOMETHING HARMLESS LOOKING

Rolled 95 (1d100)

>>2631404GOD YOU GUYS ARE BAD AT ROLLING

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>>2631418
YES

>>2631418
Saved the day, good job anon, writing up now. Since it was so high, I'll even give you guys a little bit of extra wiggle room in the next post, opening up a few possible options for ya.

Fearing discovery, you scramble up the walls in a hurry. Realizing you'd left the body bag on the operation table, you reached a hand down in an attempt to swipe it up. To your surprise, your arm extends easily, stretching to close the gap between you and the bag you'd left below. You pull it up to the cieling with you just in time, as the door creaks open and the lab technician enters the room. He looks mildly surprised to find the computer on and the username entered. "Incorrect password?" He asks into the air, as you realize your failed password attempts are still visible on the screen. He shifts some papers around on the excessively messy desk, before uncovering and picking up a phone and hitting a few buttons. "Hello, security? Hey, can you guys check through the camera feeds from last night? I think someone may have broken into my lab and tried to get onto my computer." He waited for a few moments, listening to the voice on the other line before saying "Thanks, I'll give them a call." He pressed the button down on the reciever, before hitting a few more buttons. "Hey, can you guys come check out my computer? I just want to make sure it hasn't been tampered with. I think there was a minor security breach and I've been instructed to have you guys come check on my computer. Thanks." After a few more moments of some muffled talking on the other side of the line, he once again repeated "Thanks," before hanging up and exiting the lab. He left the door slightly ajar.

You can feel a slight breeze coming from a previously unnoticed air vent near to where you're hanging. It might be big enough to transport the bag through, or perhaps store it in there until you can properly deal with your fleshy biproduct. You could also continue investigating the room, try the drain, or escape through the door. How will you proceed?

>Any of those things I just said

>Other (write in)

>>2631465
hide in the vent and search for a way out of this place from there

>>2631476
>Supporting
We have to know when to fold our cards

>>2631465
continue investigating, lets check the chemicals, after that we can use the drain

>>2631533
>>2631476
Vent escape wins. Writing up now.

You drag yourself over to the vents. You realize you can undo the covering, but it would be difficult to redo it. Still, at this point you'll prioritize escape over covering your tracks. They already know you've been here, and if they had bothered to look up at the vents when the lab tech was in the room the first time, they would have spotted you easily, so you feel like this should be a reasonably safe thing to leave behind. You pull with you the body bag that had housed your form while you digested your meal, not wanting to leave unnecessary proof of your existence in your wake.

You navigate the vents for a while, occasionally hearing the odd tidbit of information but never hearing anything too useful or relevant to your situation. At one point you must pass by a breakroom, as you can hear the droning voice of a local news anchor. Unwilling to stop here, you continue mapping out the vents, until finally an exhaust vent leads you to the outside world. You see below a dingy alley, an offshoot of a nearby busy street. What do you do?

>Investigate the Alley

>Now that an escape route has been established, lurk around the vents a little more

>Go back and watch some TV

>Other (write in)

>>2631572
>Go back and watch some TV

>>2631577
This.

>>2631572
>Investigate the alley.
Let's find something to eat and grow.

>>2631577
>>2631583
Looks like we're watching TV, will write up shortly.

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i think i found our form if we decide to live in a alleyway

With an escape route in mind, you make your way back to where you heard the television playing. You come in at the end of one segment, and peek through the grates in the airvent to see what appears to be a break room of some sort where a few people have congregated.

"-The most recent in a string of mysterious disappearences lately. The friends and family of Mister Carver have posted a ten-thousand dollar reward for any information that leads to his discovery. Mr. Carver is one of thirteen people who have disappeared in the last year, police suspect a serial killer is on the loose somewhere in the industrial sector of the city. All of the missing persons are men in their mid twenties to late thirties. If you live in the industrial sector, make sure you are staying safe, and travel with a group when traveling at night."

"Ugh, what is that god awful smell?" One of the inhabitants of the break room below asks, their nose wrinkling as they take a seat on the couch, grabbing the news. "Enough of that garbage, let's watch something less depressing. We work with stiffs all day anyway, we don't need to think about that on our break." As she said that, she flipped through the channels until finding some sort of action drama cartoon featuring a group of color coated super heroes who were squaring off against a villain dressed in black with a rippling dark cape.

What next?

>Continue exploring the building

>Leave into the alley

>Other (Write in)

>>2631664
>Continue exploring the building

>>2631664
>Continue exploring the building

>Continue exploring the building
i wonder if there are more of us or if the mass we leave makes more of us and we probably smells
>see if you can stop producing this odor

>>2631687
>>2631680
>>2631674


Will continue the exploration, but first lemme get a roll for the

>see if you can stop producing this odor

best of 3, DC 85 (In this instance, a high roll that doesn't quite meet the DC may still have positive benefits for you)

Will be back in 45-ish minutes to write up.

Rolled 37 (1d100)

>>2631703

Rolled 38 (1d100)

>>2631703

Rolled 71 (1d100)

>>2631703

Rolled 85 (1d100)

>>2631703

>>2631713
>>2631712
>>2631708


71, no success, but you get something at least.

Rolled 37 (1d100)

>>2631703

>>2631744
>>2631730
What about this?

>>2631929
Not the QM, but it's best of 3, not best of 4.

>>2631945
Exactly correct.

You hear the complaints about the smell, and suddenly realize that there may be more than one way to identify your presence. You perhaps hadn't noticed because you are the source, or perhaps because your own sense of smell is highly underdeveloped, but it stands to reason the woman below was talking about you. Maybe this is something you can fix. Maybe...


You delve deeper into your mind, trying to understand the nature of your existence. Vaguely, far away, you can tenuously sense the trash heap where you first consumed your pigeons. Nearer, you can sense the body bag you'd left near the entrance to the alley. Inside of you, you understood something. Innately, you are connected to these fleshy outlayers. They are a part of you, and while not directly under your control, they can feed you information if you know to look for them. You continue trying to reduce your smell, your body shifting and molding into different shapes. Your goopy exterior becomes smooth and your rippling flesh becomes still. You realize that with effort, you are able to control your own consistency. Not just that, but you can control the consistency of the matter that is not connected to you as well, such as that in the bag. You're not entirely sure how useful it is, but it's good to know more of what you can do. Perhaps it would be wise to spend more time focusing on self discovery in the future.

For now though, you have a building to explore. As you creep through the air vents, you find the building is laid out in sections. There is the office section, where a moderate amount of people stay, all focusing on their computer screens and doing busy work. There is the lab sector, where you originally came from, which is littered with small labs like the one you escaped from, as well as a larger main lab. It's hard to get a read on what's going on in the room, as there are constantly people working and present in this section as well. Then you have the guts of the building. Most of the piping and ventilation in the building seem to lead here. You can tell there's a lot of space here, as you have to traverse a long stretch of outlet-less ventilation before finally finding a boiler room where you could escape into the surrounding area. Finally, there seems to be some residential housing above the lab. You find this out accident, while following the ventilation shafts as far as you can upward, you come across a crack in the ducts, which reveals an industrial shaft filled with other ventilation ducts and piping systems that aren't connected to your current shaft. You can hear the sound of children laughing, couples arguing, and other domestic sounds ringing out through the narrow passage. You could explore that, or continue following the pathway upwards where it seems to let out on the rooftop. Based on the amount of upward travel required, you estimate the lab is three floors of the roughly seven story tall building.

>>2632115

What do you do?

>Investigate the boiler room, seems deserted, and relatively safe compared to some of the other options.

>The main lab seems curious, I wonder what's there? (Write in for how you avoid detection if you choose this one.)

>Offices? Sure, the people there are already dead inside anyway. Might as well help them along.

>Residential - who knows, maybe someone lives alone and is an easy target

>Roof access - Let's see the city from a high point, maybe choose somewhere more convenient to hunt

>Alley escape - Can't leave the bag there, gotta figure something out

>Fuck all of this - Who cares about some shitty coroners office anyway? I need to find a lair somewhere safe and start building up in peace

>Other (write in)

>>2632118
>Residential.

Small children, isolated humans, are all easy prey.

>>2632118
>Residential

easy food

>>2632160
if things get to hot we could try and live inside a human

>>2632118
>Investigate the boiler room, seems deserted, and relatively safe compared to some of the other options.
lets see our options

>>2632163
In that case hiding inside a small child might be easier since they're not as intelligent as an adult.

>>2632171
I'd also like to point out that you guys chose the city, which is high mass and high risk, and you've done very little to mitigate the risk in your actions so far.

You may not see the danger yet, but the danger may be starting to see you. Food for thought and the only such warning that I'll give on the matter.

>>2632174
weird, previous message didn't post. Was meant to read

"You guys now have a mass of 125/125, and are larger than the average adult human at this point."

>>2632174
>>2632118
>>Alley escape - Can't leave the bag there, gotta figure something out
Let's remove the evidence then. Is that what this option is for?

>>2632176
What are we supposed to do with mass? Can we spend it for upgrades?

>>2632169
or >Alley escape - Can't leave the bag there, gotta figure something out

>>2632181
Mass is an indicator of your total size. It includes your main body's mass, as well as the bodies of any minions you acquire (if you ever start infesting stuff instead of just absorbing stuff)

It is also an indicator of your bodily health, and a resource to be spent on creating new minions once you establish a lair and start worrying about stuff like that.

>>2632182
We could try infesting a worker and using their body to remove the bag?

>>2632193
can we do something like a fishing hook and lift it up?

so either we make the lair on the sewage or we take a host can we make a lair in an apartment or something.

>>2632210
we are just too big, we need to upgrade

>>2632210
i saw sewer and if we dig around brick and grind away we can make a liar behind a brick wall that held together by our mass

I'll let you guys keep deliberating for a bit. Reply to this message when you think you're ready to cast your final vote on what to do. So far it's looking like either

>Residential (Infest / apartment lair)

>Find someone to infest in the boiler area

>Alley escape / Sewer Lair

Is that about right?

>>2632235
what said infest someone in the boiler room?

>>2632235
>Residential

>>2632222
Nice quads

I say we go to the boiler room and hope we find something lucky like a janitor to infest.

>>2632240
>>2632193


I had taken that one to mean a worker in the boiler room, but I guess that was a dumb inference to make as the worker could have been from any level.

>>2632240
>>2632193

>>2632235
>>Find someone to infest in the boiler area
Get rid of the evidence.

>>2632235
>Alley escape / Sewer Lair

>>2632262
that was more a question then a vote

i saw we explore but i am for a sewer nest behind the sewer walls

>>2632235
>Find someone to infest in the boiler area
We need to be more careful from now on

>>2632358
>>2632265
>>2632259


Boiler room infestation seems to be winning out, let me get 2 rolls, 1 for finding a guy, one for infesting him.

DC 35 , 60

Rolled 20 (1d100)

>>2632369

Rolled 83 (1d100)

>>2632369

>>2632382
>>2632373
These won't count. You have to do dice+2d100 when I ask for 2 rolls.

Rolled 10, 16 = 26 (2d100)

>>2632369

>>2632390
shieeet

Rolled 41, 19 = 60 (2d100)

>>2632369
Rollin'

Rolled 66, 58 = 124 (2d100)

>>2632369

>>2632410
Off by 2 points. It's all over!>>2632410

damn, so we find one worker, I guess we gonna have to kill him or we could try to talk to him

>>2632425
I doubt talking to him will work seeing as we're an amorphous blob.

We need a meat bag suit or some crazy deal to get him to listen to us.

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>>2632439

>>2632439
maybe we could fool him into thinking we are a god? fuck, yeah we better try to go with my plan and make him our host

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>>2632449

>>2632453
do we have anything like that?

>>2632410
>>2632409
>>2632390


Pass, Fail.

Will write up now, you guys can decide how to flavor the failure after I've written it up.

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we should really test our shape shifting
and we could take the form of a "demon" and over power

>>2632495
offer

i think find something hilarious
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1STIAm1uZ8g

Seething through the vents, having decided on a course of action, you find yourself once more headed down. Deeper into the depths of the building. You work your way into the boiler room, which is still thankfully devoid of any and all people. As you flood out of the ventilation shafts, you land with a sickening plop on the floor below. Slowly, your amorphous body begins to reform itself, taking on a vagely man-like shape as you reform yourself. Not that it matters, as soon as you begin moving again, you are on the hunt. You peek out into the hall, finding it empty as well. It seems these dismal inner workings of this building are sparsely populated. The floors are dusty and dirty, and the walls are browning with age, never being properly cleaned or cared for like the working spaces and residential areas above.

As you traverse the hall, you have to quickly duck into a side room as you hear movement ahead. A pair of humans pass you by, but you realize that you are not alone in the room. It seems to be a small storage closet. An older man with a stout beer belly and a poorly kempt grey beard growing from his balding head. He stares at you, in a state of disbelief and stunned horror.

You act quickly. As you turn to strike him, your arm extends, pouring against his fleshy form like a torrent of meaty slime. Your first strike is lucky, and your form begins pouring into his mouth immediately, silencing any screams he may have attempted to let out once he'd gotten past his horror stricken state.

You continue to pour into him, as you try to infest him, you realize that even though your intelligence has been boosted since the last time you preyed on a human, your knowledge of what makes them tick, and how to overtake one is limited. Try as you might, you are unable to sway him to your cause.

Before long, the man is dead in your grasp, having choked on your form as you attempted to forcibly bend his mind to your will. However, in the process you feel like you've come to better understand what doesn't work at least, and feel as if you'll have better luck should you try this again in the future.

That begs the question though, what shall you do with this man?

>Leave him - We need to establish a safe place to digest our meals before we eat anything else so notable, and we don't know any sufficiently safe spaces in this area to sequester ourselves in

>Head after the two that passed you by - You're much stronger now, a few unarmed humans may not be too terribly dangerous to you anymore. Kill the lot, and sort them out later once you've got some peace and quiet to think about it

>Consume him - It seems like this closet was safe enough for him to hide in and slack off, maybe you can get away with having a meal here?

>Other (write in)

Taking a break because I'm smelly and gross and need desperately to not be. Expect me back in 45-1hr and I'll continue from there.

>>2632544
>Consume him - It seems like this closet was safe enough for him to hide in and slack off, maybe you can get away with having a meal here?

>>2632554
take your time

>>2632544
>Other

Continue pouring into him, use his body as your own (dump or eat excess of organs,meat if we dont fit)

>>2632544
>Consume him - It seems like this closet was safe enough for him to hide in and slack off, maybe you can get away with having a meal here?

>>2632584
would smell and we are probably too big for him

are we strong enough to eat him without passing out like last time?

>>2632544
>Consume him. Full eat mode go.

>>2632618
we are an old man with a beer belly, nobody is gonna call us out for a smell.

cant we drag him into the vent with us

>>2632669
good point but are we not bigger then a human and then more mass from him

>>2632544
>Consume him - It seems like this closet was safe enough for him to hide in and slack off, maybe you can get away with having a meal here?

>>2632697
Correct. We are larger than an average human at this point, but not by a whole lot... If you tried to live inside of one... well, I think this anon hit the nail about on the head. >>2632464

>>2632724
thats me and how compacted can we be?

Rolled 720 (1d1000)

>>2632719
>>2632665
>>2632588
>>2632557


Looks like consume him wins. I'm gonna need a roll. DC = my roll, luck roll to find out whether or not you're discovered while eating this dude in a supply closet.

Rolled 73 (1d100)

>>2632739
hah, whoops, meant to do a 1d100, try that again to determine DC

Rolled 11 (1d100)

>>2632739

Rolled 56 (1d100)

>>2632739

Rolled 63 (1d100)

>>2632747
Here we go!

>>2632759
>>2632753
>>2632750

No luck this time, write up incoming.

Rolled 62 (1d100)

>>2632739

You begin consuming your most recent kill. In retrospect, perhaps the supply closet was not the best place to do so. You're about halfway through your hibernal period before you are discovered by a worker who lets out a blood curdling scream, well, if you had blood that is. You're unsure of how much time has passed, but you haven't yet fully digested your meal. As you readjust yourself, the remnants of the older janitor that you'd been consuming falls out of your body with a wet sickening thud onto the ground. His skin has been entirely eroded, leaving him a mass of bloody muscular tissue and odd white bones. One of his eyes remains in it's socket, but without eyelids it stares lifelessly at his former coworker. This horrifying visage leaves his companion screaming again as he starts to run away. The floor around you has already started to convert into that creeping structure that seems to always be produced as a biproduct of your feasting, but there's little to be done about that now.

You don't have any time to waste. What will you do?

>Chase the person who fled, leave no witnesses.

>Drag your kill away, do not let them find the body

>Just flee, nothing is more important than getting away safely

>Other (Write in)

>>2632812
>>Drag your kill away, do not let them find the body

>>2632812
>Chase the person who fled. Leave no witnesses.
All in gamble!

>>2632724
yeah but I did mentioned dumping the excess of organs and meat

>>2632812
>Drag your kill away, do not let them find the body

is it possible to clean the bloody mess before leaving?

>>2632857
our mass is more then the total mass of most humans and taking out everything would mean we barely fit or the skin just bursts

>>2632867
we are a mass of flesh we could scrub it all up
>>2632812
>Chase the person who fled. Leave no witnesses.

>>2632867
You could spend some additional time at the scene if you don't mind getting seen by whoever comes to investigate the guys shouting.

>>2632857
Say a man is a cup of water that can hold one pint of fluid. You are about a pint and a fourth of fluid. So even if you emptied him out, the skin would still be distended and gross if you tried to fit inside of him.

>>2632871
You could, but that may limit your flight options as his not fully digested torso could be difficult to fit through certain spaces.

hmm I say we clean up and get out.

>>2632886
can we not shop up the body so it fits better and also good night

>>2632930
That is possible, and why the write in option exists.

>>2632829
>>2632864


>>2632871
>>2632843


Tie, need a tie breaker, if not I'll roll off soon.

Also, sorry about the long wait here, was being sick for a little while, and then being a lazy piece of shit who didn't feel like writing anything.

>>2632843
+1

>>2633344
It's alright, I'm enjoying the thread. Thanks for running this quest :)

>>2633345
Alright looks like we're going after him. I'm gonna need 2d100 rolls real quick, first for catching the guy, second for doing in a manner that doesn't draw even more attention.

DCs 25, 70


>>2633346
Hey, thanks for that. Some people in the general thread were telling me this sort of quest would attract an unpleasant crowd, but I think you've all been great so far. It's nice to know you're having fun.

Rolled 15, 46 = 61 (2d100)

>>2633365
Now that I'm back home my luck should be off the charts. Watch and learn boys. HIGH ROLLER!

Rolled 14, 20 = 34 (2d100)

>>2633365

>>2629174
>>2632115
Does it become best of 5 if we have 5 rolls?

>>2633370
Well crap, so much for rolling big.

>>2633371
Yeah, I think that's fair if we've got them all participating at the same time. But if there are less than 5 participants within say 15 minutes, we'll keep it at best of 3.


Also, are you guys seriously about to fail a DC 25 check? hah okay this is gonna be fun.

Rolled 98, 33 = 131 (2d100)

>>2633365

>>2633400
Too bad you didn't roll those in the opposite direction. Oh well.

Pass/Fail, roughly how I expected this to go.

Rolled 35, 41 = 76 (2d100)

You leave your kill behind, chasing your runner as he sprints through the halls you had been traversing several hours before. You catch him quickly, stretching one long tendril of your form out to trip him, however as you advance upon his screaming form, doors begin to open in the hall. You hear a loud declaration of "HOLY SHIT! HANK!" Before a heavy wrench comes flying at your form. You bat it away easily using the tendril you'd pinned the man down with. Attempting to seize the moment, Hank tries to scrabble away from you, however you are on him still, and and whoever it was that witnessed what you were doing is now fleeing up the stairs on the far end of the hall.

You quickly drag Hank into the same room your previous victim now lays dead within. As you do so, the organic material (which I really should find a fucking consistent name for, any suggestions?) seems to be reaching out to the two of you. Interstingly, it has also latched onto the abandoned corpse of your prior victim. You envelop him easily in your now swolen form, leaving only his face to stare at the horror that is your unholy visage. You twist your form to resemble a face, intent on further traumatizing the man with awful threats. However, as you try to speak, nothing but rasping air escapes. It seems you do not yet have this ability.

So, you have Hank in your grasp, having lost the opportunity to chase after the person who fled. What do you do?

>Infest Hank - Maybe you can get hank to convince whoever shows up that the runner was full of shit, or that he was the victim of an elaborate prank (write in) (DC 50)

>Kill Hank - No need to let him live if he's seen you up close and personal (DC 5)

>Feed hank to the creep - Who knows what might happen? Could be neat to find out, but is this the right time and place?

>Other (Write in)

>>2633484
>Feed Hank to the creep
In the meantime let's get the heck out of here.

Hank dies, the creep will take the fall for us, and we make our escape. Since we're connected to the creep we can probably sense things through it, and maybe still learn more about ourselves and our flesh spawn.

Does flesh spawn sound cool enough?

>>2633484
clean up the mess
take both corpse and gtfo

>>2633501
+1

>>2633949
>>2633501

Time to feed something to our weird goo spawn. I'll take Flesh spawn as the handy term since that's better than anything I've called it so far.

You slam hank down onto the fleshy spawn below. You hear the sickening crunch of bone as he lets out a pained squeal. Already the fleshy spawn seems to be wrapping small tendrils around the unfortunate man, anchoring his broken writhing form to the floor.

You leave the hallway behind and retreat back into the boiler room where you'd initially entered this floor. In a mad rush your pour through the vents, finding your way immediately back to the alleyway exhaust where you'd left your bag of goo. Part of your mind can feel the goop you've left behind converting the man's mass into more of itself, as it slowly grows and spreads along the floor of the room.

You burst from the vents with the bag in tow, erupting in a meaty flood into the alley. The sun is high in the sky, but you still find the cover of shadows here in the dark dank alleyway.

Your heart, if you had one, would be racing now. You know that on some level you've been discovered, but haven't the means to know what exactly that means just yet. You survey your surroundings, seeing a small grate that seems to be intended for water drainage. Above you the vent's grate hangs loosely, attached to the vent you'd exploded from by a single bolt.

You are alone in the alley, with the exception of some pigeons who don't seem to be paying you any mind. There are dumptsters here as well, which may serve as a good temporary hiding spot.

What do you do?

>Wait - Let's find a safe spot to observe the buildings. See what sort of response our fun evokes

>Into the water drainage system - Fuck the above ground for now. Time to go underground and finally establish something resembling safety

>Infest birds - Should be easy enough, and might be useful to have a few eyes in the skies

>Focus on the Flesh Spawn you'd left behind - Work to better understand this weird stuff you secrete every time you eat

>Other (Write in)

>>2634294
>Wait, find a safe spot to hide.
>Focus on the Flesh Spawn you'd left behind - Work to better understand this weird stuff you secrete every time you eat.

The flesh spawn should buy us some time, we can enter the sewer after we learn about our flesh spawn.

>>2634299
I'll wait a while for some other people to show up, but if I've got no new responses in like an hour I'll just go with this.

>Wait, find a safe spot to hide.
Can we establish mental link/control with our flesh spawn?

>>2634324
A mental link has been established already, if you wanna spend some time trying to explore that link you're more than welcome to do so. The last time you did so you learned you can manipulate it's consistency a bit, but you haven't spent a lot of effort actually exploring what you are and what you can do. Basically you've been jumping from kill to kill running off of animal instinct.

>>2634324
>>2634299


Seems like hide and check out the mental link are at the top of the list. Lemme get a roll, best of 3 DC 45

I'll be heading to a clinic soon because whatever I'm sick with is getting worse not better. If I'm late on the write up it's because clinics take forever.

Rolled 9 (1d100)

>>2634369
A new day, some better luck perhaps.
Sidenote: Good luck with the clinic, and thanks for running this quest.

Rolled 39 (1d100)

>>2634369

Rolled 8 (1d100)

>>2634369

wtf all shit rolls

>>2634398
I was just thinking the same thing. I can't believe we failed a DC 45 that badly.

>>2634396
>>2634378
>>2634372

Fucking ouch.

You guys have had some pretty shit luck with rolls this thread huh? Oh well. Headed out to the clinic now, so I'll do the write up when I get back. Luckily for you guys that roll was mostly to see if you furthered your understanding of your Flesh Spawn, not to successfully hide. You'll get an opportunity to roll that again though after the next post.

Rolled 48 (1d100)

>>2634369

Alright I'm back, apparently with pneumonia. Got a doctor's note dropped off at work and meds to fix my lungs, and I'll start writing up now.

You decide to hide for now, concealing yourself in the nearby dumpster. As you enter, you bring with you the body bag which you conceal beneath the nearby garbage. You flow over the garbage like a sickening ooze, spilling into the dumpster and seething between the cracks until you come to rest at the bottom of the pile, hidden from view. As you come to rest, you try to focus on the Matter you'd left behind, and the prey you had left with it. While you can definitely sense activity, your concentration is quickly broken by the piercing sound of sirens. The infernal noise makes it difficult to concentrate on things outside of your immediate vicinity, as you seem somewhat, on an animalistic level, unable to tune the sound out completely in order to focus on the flesh spawn you'd left behind.

However, you are able to focus on the flesh spawn you'd left in the body bag. In fact, it helps you tune out the sound of the sirens for a little while, until they switch off, which they inevitably do as they arrive outside of the alley one by one, parking in front of the building you'd just escaped.

While manipulating the flesh you have available, you come to understand some of how it works. While you touch it, you can sense it's willingness to share its resources with you. This thing seems to be the biproduct of your feasting, and appears to have something of a will, buried deep within its form. As you focus on it, you slowly learn to harden it. Controlling the minute will within to bend its shape to your desires. It seems a lot of the bone you've consumed has been left with substance, as you're able to harden it's surface much more easily than you can completely solidify your own.

Hardening is not the only thing it can do however. It's softness, it's consistency, it's function all seem to be able to molded. You intuit that many of the internal organs of your prey have also gone into the construction of this biomass. Perhaps you are not smart enough yet, or perhaps the amount of mass in the bag simply isn't sufficient enough to work in a meaningful way.

As you start to mull over the possibilities, you realize that the sirens have stopped and some time has passed. You begin to focus once more on the matter you'd been forced to leave behind, and the victims that had been there as well.

As you do so, you feel a pressence, and it too feels you. It is similar to the will you felt in the body bag, but it is fresher formed. It is weak, but more substantial by an order of magnitude.

You feel a deep, empathic connection between yourself and this weak will. You feel what it feels, and it feels hunger, but not just hunger. There's something more primal than even that gnawing at it's mind.

It feels fear.

Is it afraid of you? Perhaps. As it attempts to lash out at your mind, you bat it's pitiful assault away without even having to think about it.

>cont

>>2635254

The fact that you have such reflexive defenses isn't missed by you, but you immediately counterattack. You crush it easily, but some small, desperate part of it hangs on.

"Wait! Stop please!"

You hear, a desperate wail. This piques your interest. You've not been able to speak with anything since your creation, you've felt neither the need nor the desire, but nothing has tried to speak with you either.

How do you respond?

>Crush this will beneath the force of our own. There is room for exactly one force of will in this mass.

>Hear them out, it could be interesting to have a weak willed lackey

>Warn them of the danger you've left them in. Express no animosity, and instruct them how to escape. Whether you want to kill this thing, or subjugate it, you can do neither if it is defeated by the humans who responded to the calls of distress

>Other (write in)

Feel free to provide a general dialogue tone you'd like to set. I feel like right now, our creature's 'personality' has not had time or room to begin forming. In fact, you've only just recently passed the threshold where urges beyond the strictly primal have begun to affect you.

Your young mind is forming and structuring itself, and while it doesn't seem to be done doing so yet, you are feeling stronger connections to the things around you as a result. With that in mind, I'm going to introduce one of a few hidden stats I've been keeping track of while you've been eating stuff.

Lucidity 8/8
As well as an updated Mass after your recent partial Meal
Mass 175/175

Lucidity is a lump stat which affects the strength of your will, the amount of things you can exert will over at once, and your ability to resist your deeper seated urges in regards to hunger, fear, and any other animistic impulses you may feel during certain parts of the story.

>>2635261
>warn them, express no animosity.
I'm thinking we go for a more detached and pensive tone with our possible lackey.
Let's not burn any bridges, but if it does seem to be more beneficial to leave it as bait that's what we should do, whether through tricking it into danger or just abandoning it.

>>2635261
>Warn them of the danger you've left them in. Express no animosity, and instruct them how to escape. Whether you want to kill this thing, or subjugate it, you can do neither if it is defeated by the humans who responded to the calls of distress

>>2635377
>>2635343
Will write up in 15 minutes if nobody else has popped in at that point.

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>>2635377
support but if it get too strong or even a tiny bit rebellious we start to weaken or trim it away or just DESTROY IT

>>2635390
Fuck. I forgot to write up after 15 minutes. This is what I get for playing Baldurs gate in the down time. Write up inc.

>>2635504

First though, let me get 2 rolls.

DC-50, 50

Rolled 10, 88 = 98 (2d100)

>>2635505
Weird, I thought I rolled the npc's stuff in that post. Trying again.

Rolled 8, 80 = 88 (2d100)

>>2635505

Rolled 13, 1 = 14 (2d100)

>>2635505

>>2635556
haaaaah wow. first crit of the thread, figures it'd land in that direction. But don't worry, if the next roll is a 100 they'll cancel each other out.

No pressure to whoever rolls next though.

Rolled 49 (1d100)

Rolled 32, 7 = 39 (2d100)

>>2635654
ignore that one, I always forget

Rolled 81, 71 = 152 (2d100)

>>2635505

>>2635660
>>2635556
>>2635522


Alright, so fail/crit fail

And fail/pass for the minion.

Alright write up inc.

>>2635771
Been at work all day. I just want to say I hope you feel better and get cured of your pneumonia. Here's to hoping everyone else pulls off some good rolls.

Rolled 31, 93 = 124 (2d100)

>>2635505

It was foolish to think you could lash out at me, the one who created you.

What am I? it responds, it's feeble consciousness fearful and confused

Irrelevant. Do you want to live?

Yes! Please spare me! it begs you.

I am not what you should be worried about. If you want to survive do as I say exactly. You give it time to respond, but only silence follows. You take that as submission, and continue. You have spawned in a small closet, leave through the door and go down the hall until you find the boiler room. Proceed into the vents and escape into alley where I await you.

Y-Yes right away! it answers, and immediately sets upon it's task.


The new creature, birthed into the world out of your gorey leftovers, has the vaguest memory circling it's head of a time before it could think, and feel. It had been hungry, so hungry, and then you came. You fed it your leavings, giving it form. And then you brought more. The second treat had something inside of it. Something which gave it a voice. That's the only way it can describe it's existence.

When you reached out, it was scared, unaware of what was happening. You were patient, forgiving. You have given them life and let them keep it. However. It was not yet very bright.

Your instructions were confusing, and you had failed to explain what would be waiting for it outside of the door.

The creature began to seep out of the room, and was instantly met with a hail of gunfire.

Fear.

This creature knew very little other than fear, and what was happening hurt.

It fled, leaking a vile fluid, so dark red as to almost be black. It fled into a nearby room, looking for a vent to crawl into. It, in truth, had no idea what a boiler room was. It had simply been too afraid to ask such a powerful pressence to clarify itself.

It flowed and rippled as it moved, much like you do, but there was something more rigid about it's movements. It didn't seem to flow as easily, or as quickly. It took longer to seep through gaps, but it was sturdy. While it was being badly wounded by the hail of gunfire it was met with each time it entered the hallway in search of a new room to find it's escape. After the second room, it figured out that it was actually a lot easier for it to simply smash the doors down, than to flow past them. It charged through the hallway then, finally finding a room with a vent.

From that point on, it flowed, albeit slowly, through the vents, still leaking the dark red ichor as it did so.

It is some time before the second entity finally makes its way to you. When it finally spills out of the vent with a wet thud, it takes the grate from its last remaining bolt with a resounding clatter.

>cont

>>2635940
As you hear your new guests arrival, you immediately spring out of the dumpster to investigate it's appearance. You had been keeping tabs, and could feel all of the damage it had taken, and all the fear it had felt. You approach it confidently. Sure in the knowledge that you can subjugate this creature on a whim.

You made a lot of noise. You say, reaching a tendril out to grab it directly. The street outside is littered with the vehicles that had produced the sirens. As you contact it, the strangest thing happens. It's will, while still present, is immediately stifled. The flow of information is complete, and total. Every sight it saw in it's flight, every thing it thought, and everything it felt, all flow into your mind in the span of a second.

Moreover, you feel a slight boost in your own faculty as your body and the body of the secondary creature merge together. It's mental faculties become your own, and yet they remain sequestered, not truly fusing with whatever center of thought your own body holds. It is a part of you, and yet seperate.

You will worry about this later. For now, you know you must get out of here. The only path still left to you is the water drainage system, so you flee into the underground, without a second look back.

As you do so, you don't think too much of the fact that you are leaking a dark black ichor from your newly appendage.
I know it's kind of a dick move, but the critical fail here isn't going to be visible in this post, and instead, I will be including it in a sort of flashback in a future post.


The rolls for this were (npc) - safely escaping / (hidden)
and
(PC) giving understandable directions / (hidden)

I won't tell you how yet, but the NPC's success on it's hidden roll saved you guys a lot of grief right now.

What do you do now?

>Commune with the secondary voice now connected to you at the hip

>Get the fuck out of here

>Explore the tunnels you now find yourself in

>Go for a swim and see where the water takes you

>Other (write in)

>>2635960
Oh right, and your lucidity pops up to
10/10 while hanging on to your buddy

And your mass is up to
225/325
(Up from 175/175 prior to absorbing your secondary guy)

>>2635960
>Explore the tunnels you now find yourself in

>>2635960
>explore

>>2635960

>explore

>>2636238
>>2636032
>>2635992
Exploring we shall go. Write up soon. Eating now.

You begin to traverse the tunnels, trying to form a mental map as you do so. You follow your tunnel down a ways, and it eventually opens up into a much wider canal. Opposite your tunnels joining point is a near identical tunnel stretching on in the opposite direction, presumably connecting to other parts of the city. The water levels are kept standing on either side thanks to an ancient looking sluicework system, seemingly in place to keep the main channel they both seem to be emptying into from flooding beyond it's bounds and overtaking the raised concrete paths along either wall through the main channel.

You decide to follow the main tunnel, and find as you continue down it you see many similar sets of sluice systems and adjoining smaller tunnels. It seems that many of the various drainage systems throughout the city drained into this major vein you were following. Bridges connected the concrete paths which followed the walls to the next segment of pathing. As you progress, occasionally the damaged lump of tissue connected to your form will snap at a rat it spots in the water, or sleeping in the path that are too slow to escape our passing.

At first this behavior annoys you, but it seems to be capable of consuming food without depleting your alertness, so in time you just get used to it, as the wounds it aqcuired do slowly seem to be closing. It's made more easily forgivable by the fact that some of the nutrients it absorbs are transferred to you. You can feel yourself growing minutely with each rat the secondary intelligence snaps up.

Occasionally you pass sections of sluice that seem rusted and abandoned, with newer sections of tunnel nearby which seem to have replaced the function the old derelict tunnels once served.

As you come to the end of the main channel, you find that it leads out into the bay. You can see in the mid day sun a bay, and you can hear the distant sound of ships, but your scope is limited from here, and you cannot see far.

What do you do?

>Explore some of the off shoots, map out more of the tunnels.

>Follow the main channel upstream.

>Into the bay

>Check out some of those abandoned channels, nothing screams lair like an abandoned channel

>Settle down for a while. Have a chat with the second born thing

>Spend some time looking inward, try to better understand what you can do, now that you've grown a bit.

>Other (Write in)

>>2636743
>Spend some time looking inward, try to better understand what you can do, now that you've grown a bit.

>>2636743
Supporting>>2636767

>Check out some of those abandoned channels, nothing screams lair like an abandoned channel.
afterwards if we can do both

>>2636792
I take no issue with doing both if you guys wanna.

>>2636796
Shit just realized I forgot to put my name back in after going anon for the saiyan quest.

>>2636796
Sure, doing both is fine with me.