>>3650322

You had drifted un-noticed by the strange entities that destroyed your kind, for untold millenia in a realm where time and space slip free of reality's constraints.
Then, you exited that realm through happenstance. It was your arrival on this new planet, that awoke you. You can't remember the order of events of your past properly, but what truly matters, is the now, and one thing you know is that you are a Zenonymous Identity, part of the great Zenon Hive-Mind. And this world will be the place of your revival...

You emerge from the charcoal scraps of your hibernation pod, your dozens of clawed limbs pierce into the soft soil, tearing through leaves and branches alike.

Small tongues emerge from your mouth, tasting bits of the detritus on the ground as the cartilageous barbs pull clumps further into your body... Plant matter that falls within desirable sustenance ranges... a good number of similarities with what you are used to.

The bacteria is diverse. You go ahead and begin replicating some that are in the process of digesting the local plant life, to increase the sustenance you can gain from it...

You seem to be in a biome consistent with 'terrestrial temperate forest', though you're receiving unpleasant spikes of non-electromagnetic radiation from... everything. You can't actually categorize it as a particle or wave. It seems to have a more complex and alien nature than you can even begin to understand.

>>3650329
You curl your body around one of the largest trees in your area, wrapping yourself to distribute weight as you climb over a hundred feet.

Looking around, you find a mountain, a river, white smoke, and more trees. Many many more trees...

>Begin eating enormous quantities of foliage. It's a poor, but near infinite, source of biomass.
>Investigate the white smoke. There's a fair chance of some level of civilization there. And that means suitable hosts for subjugation and propogation of the species.
>Hunt for animal flesh. It's a great, but typically dangerous, source of biomass and research projects.
>Go climb the mountain to get a better look at all the land around you.
>Focus on the strange, twisted, and damaged portions of your mind and memories. You might be able to parse together something more useful than a mere name...
>Write in

>>3650338
>Begin eating enormous quantities of foliage. It's a poor, but near infinite, source of biomass.

>>3650338
This really tickles my nostalgia boner.
>Hunt for animal flesh. It's a great, but typically dangerous, source of biomass and research projects.

Resource Types

Biological Mass - The most versatile resource, will be used to grow/convert every Zenon unit and hive-structure and implement every upgrade.

Biotic Fluid - Used when creating more intelligent and cognizant members of the hive or upgrades to mental attributes or in behavioral research.

Genetic Stock - Used to create hero units, new upgrades, and implement humongous changes to the hive. Very hard to harvest, as it is units of interesting, viable, and useful mutated genetic information.

Growth Catalysts - Used to increase the speed of research, upgrades, upgrade implementation, unit creation, structure production, etc. It makes things grow fast.

Hive information

Zenonymous Identities:
Unamed Research Specialist

Zenon units:
None

Upgrades:
Research Hierarchy - Research projects are more impactful and cost four fifths of the projected resource price.

Available Upgrades:
None

Available Research:
Any (You can research anything you want just ask to make it a project.)

Available Structures:
Nest - 40 biomass - A small structure made of biomass that will allow the production of a single unit at a time, protecting and nurturing it to maturation.

Node - 5 biomass - A storage facility that digs into the earth to increase its capacity. Can store 30 units.

Nexus - 120 biomass, 15 biofluid - A structure responsible for coordinating structures and drones, as well as unlocking and editing portions of the gene library for the hive's sake. Unlocks new strains.

Available Units:
Worker Drone - 8 biomass

>>3650366
1
>>3650365
2

Rolled 1 (1d2)

>>3650395
... Dice pls

Rolled 3 + 2 (1d5 + 2)

Please roll 1d10s.
Best of 2
DC=roll^

Rolled 6 (1d10)

>>3650397
Here comes the pain.

Rolled 8 (1d10)

>>3650397

Rolled 2, 1, 2, 3 + 2 = 10 (4d4 + 2)

>>3650414
>>3650400
>6&7 vs DC 5: 2 successes
Rolling for biomass gain

>>3650338
>>Begin eating enormous quantities of foliage. It's a poor, but near infinite, source of biomass

Best start small, regain some strength, work up the ladder, then regain the damaged consciousness parts.

>you're receiving unpleasant spikes of non-electromagnetic radiation from... everything.

Broken Hivemind landing on a planetary hivemind?

>>3650338
>Begin eating enormous quantities of foliage. It's a poor, but near infinite, source of biomass.

Building a nest and getting workers should be a top priority.

>>3650338
>>Begin eating enormous quantities of foliage. It's a poor, but near infinite, source of biomass.

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>>3650338

You descend from the trees with a decision made. The most important thing, at the moment, is chasing down some biomass. You weave between tress with your sinuous body, claws and spiked legs carrying you forwards with surprisingly little noise as your bulk shifts and stretches in line with your movements.
As a research Identity for the hive, your body is quite large and can serve as a minor storage point for hive resources. This adaptation was mainly used for the sake of keeping experimentation materials on hand, but in an emergency situation like this, it's going to be your lifeline...

_ _ _ _ _

You make your way to the river, aware that standard terrestrial bioforms require large quantities of water to maintain optimal states of operation. You were correct, and saw a small array of creatures. The ones that drew your eyes the most, though, were the horned quadruped with a large berth of space around it. None of the other animals seemed interested in being within a hundred feet of it. You wondered why that was, sure, it was large for a terrestrial beast. But that's not reason enough to fear it so muc-*Skreeeeeach*

A monstrous set of black tentacles shoots from the water that the horned beast had just placed his muzzle against, they wrapped around its neck and horns as it bucked in surprise and bared it's fangs. The large quadruped pulled the screeching attacker partially out of the water, and you were impressed by the creature that was revealed.
The drinking animals scattered as the beast and the river monster fought. The black bodied monster was slowly dragged further and further out of the water, even as the horned beast's body sizzled with acidic saliva. Bellows and shrieks filled the river-bank as the blade-like horns finally tore into the extended throat of the river monster. Blackish liquid and putrid brown blood gushed over the head of the horned beast, sending it into a pained rage as it was blinded and further injured.

The river monster tried to coil the beast up, but they tore into each-other at too frenzied a pace to succeed in such a maneuver. And after almost an hour of this deadlock, both creatures fell to the ground, exhausted or dying from their wounds...
tbc

>>3651131
come back

>>3651295
okay

Rolled 10 + 4 (1d10 + 4)

>>3651131

>>3651468
-4, not +4

6 units of biotic fluid were also harvested. How unfortunate...

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>>3651131
>>3651473


You watched them for a moment, waiting to see if one would gather the stamina necessary to recuperate and finish the other off... but nothing happens.
You step out from the tree line where you'd been hiding the bulk of your body in some wild hedges. You cross the distance from the edge to the clearing in a quick scuttle of sorts, and rip your way into the quadruped's throat. Its blinded eyes go wide as it tries to gore you with it's broken horns, but you hold it still as your plethora of barbed and cartilaginous tongues tear apart arteries and wrap around it's spine. With a bit of effort, you manage to shatter the bones of its neck, severing the spinal cord and rendering your prey helpless as it bled to death, blind and suffering... Well, perhaps you did it a favor, after all, you did prevent it from feeling the acid eroding precious flesh.

You sample it, and find it is nothing special. It's just an intense blend of enzymes and intense gastric acids. Your natural resistances are more than enough to deal with it so you waste no time in moving to the much larger prey... It doesn't have any obvious weakpoints. No spinal chord, no head or eyes. But you decide to move to the place where the insides are extended from, and saw at the flesh with some of your tail. You find the flesh is soft, but the muscles beneath it are like corded steel. You still manage to get through it, but it took you a minute or so, and it gave you a new appreciation for the horns on the beast who damaged it so much...

Figuring the monster is disabled, you move on to feasting...

_ _ _ _ _

Your bloated, maggot like flesh has swelled further and further as thousands of pounds of chitin, meat, and bone went through your body as you collected only the biomatter you found useful for the purposes at hand.

But an unfortunate situation arose. You managed to collect more resources than you can hold.

Your capacity is ten units of resources, and yet, you have 16. Ten biomass and six biotic fluid...

Decide what you want to carry, what you do not will be wasted...

>10 biomass
>5 biomass:5 biotic fluid
>Write in

Once you've decided which resources to retain, what will you do next, Zenon?

>Build something (Place Zenon Building here.)
>Spawn something (Place Zenon unit here)
>Analyze the quadruped's biomass.
>Analyze the river monster's biomass.
>Analyze the currents and spikes of distracting energy in the environment.
>Write in.

>>3651509
>5 biomass:5 biotic fluid
>Build something (Node)

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>>3651509
>5 biomass:5 biotic fluid

>Build something (Node)

Rolled 2 + 2 (1d4 + 2)

>>3651546
Roll 2 1d10 to find a good place to build your node.
My roll is the dc

Rolled 7 (1d10)

>>3651673

Rolled 7, 8 = 15 (2d10)

>>3651673

>>3650387
Zenon Hive Identities.

:Zenonymous Research Alpha:
HP 6/6
Rolls 2 1d10 on standard combat rolls.
When dragged into extended combat, does 1d2+1 damage on a success, double on a great success.
Rolls 2 1d10 on standard labor rolls.
Rolls 4 1d10 on standard research actions.

>>3651744
the dice representation is a bit wierd - do you mean x Players will roll 1d10 or every participant rolls xd10 and you choose best of something?

>>3651719
>>3651731
Two 7s vs dc 4 = Success

_ _ _

You left the clearing and searched for an area to create a safe resource deposit... After an hour of searching, you came across a jagged spire of rock, within it were a plethora of caverns and caves. The craggy surface resembled the cracked earth of a dry swamp.
You chose a cavern which was too small for any territorial predators to desire, and began the process...

After regurgitating the required biomass, you shape and prime it with chemicals generated deep inside of you, shaping the waiting flesh into a small, autonomous group of nerve tissue and muscles.
It rapidly draws from the remaining biomass, you provide, to tunnel into and expand beneath the ground of the cave. The rock floor slowly distorting as rocks and meaty roots are pressed against each other, grinding and competing for space as the floor strains and buckles in a few places.
Finally, the resource deposit completes its growth. You deposit the five units of biotic fluid held in your reservoir, and enjoy the sensation of being light and empty again.

Honestly, carrying around a few thousand pounds of stuff is difficult on a physically weak Zenon like yourself. You're pretty eager to get a workforce up and running. But for now, you curl around the small port for the node and sleep comfortably on the warm flesh you've missed for so long. You sleep soundly, with the presence of simple minded happiness surrounding you, as the node thoughtlessly appreciates you for all your hardships.
>>3651787
seperately as 1d10s is best, lets more people participate. But the rather low player count makes either viable unless it becomes a problem. The faster I get rolls and votes the faster I can write after all. Sorry for the confusion.
tbc

>>3651809
Qm to good man

>>3651921
do what?

>>3651809
after resting get up and survey the area

>>3651988
If you're asking for votes, then
>Gather more biomass from plants

>>3652005
support

>>3652008
I'm thinking we make another node so we have the storage space, then we get a hatchery up to get a dedicated worker or three so we can focus on research. Good plan?

>>3652017
yeah that sounds good, I like the idea of research

>>3652017
...Now that I'm thinking about it, if we get a Nexus there'll probably be some pre-developed Warrior templates we can just pop out.

Okay, so current idea of a plan.
>Get more biomass
>Build another node for storage
>Fill nodes with biomass
>Build hatchery
>Have hatchery build drones
>Continue building nodes and gathering biomass and biotic fluid until we can build a nexus
>Build nexus
>See what strains we unlocked and go from there

>>3652023
Good plan?

>>3652032
Yeah I like the plan it is structured and gives us something to work toward

>>3652032
Pretty decent, but a bit of in-character knowledge for you is that you can gestate a worker without a building.

It'll take a week to grow though.

>>3652053
How fast is it with a building, and how long have our turns been taking?

>>3652053
can we upgrade that ability at any point?

Rolled 66 + 30 (1d100 + 30)

forgot to roll
does something go bump in the night?

>>3652032
>See what strains we unlocked and go from there
tech straight to ultralisk

>>3652079
But what about the zerglings and the hydralisks? We need fast things and anti-air too, not just the tanks and siege-busters.

>>3652060
three days, between 1 and four hours. Depends on the narrative of the situation.
>>3652061
While you could, having a researcher hero unit spawn drones at an accelerated rate is kinda... I dunno, I guess there's some use to it. You could send them out on research missions and they wouldn't have to build buildings to get things done quickly, I guess.

We are not Zergs, we are Zenos. not to be confused with Xenos. We can also be called Zenonymous, though most people knew who we were. Probably why we all got murdered.

>>3652100
I like your lore building

>>3652117
>
Why thank you

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... I feel like I wasted all this time.

The shaking of the ground outside your small cave forces you out of your slumber. The sound of thunderous cracking rings out, sending a jolt of power through your flesh and blood.
Turning to the opening of your cave, you find a shaggy claw nearly the size of your entire body. Directly outside is something quite huge, and splinters of wood are falling everywhere as it continues doing... whatever it's doing.

The only thing you can guess, though, is that it's eating something...

What should you do?

>Write in

>>3652505
>Big dangerous thing
>Squishy Researcher solo

Yeah, gonna just hide in the cave, here, until the big scary thing is gone.

>>3652514
I agree, second.

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To put this a bit more in perspective.

>>3652550
NOPE NOPE NOPE

>>3652514
Standing by this. NOPE.

>>3652514
>>3652524

Fear... is not an emotion the hive is familiar with. You may have a fractured and incomplete understanding of your past and the hive's memories, but you have never. never feared something.

No matter what forces arrayed themselves against your kind, there was always a hidden hive, always another Zenon to carry on your memory.
On this world, in this moment, you became the first Zenon to ever feel fear, and it's changed you.

Your mind is sharper, even hours after the beast left, your eyes look at the world with a certain kind of desperation...
'I need... more power.'
This world can end you. It can end thousands of years of history in your hive, and millions of years of history that resulted in your race as you know it.

But How?
>The energy on this planet. You've witnessed impossible things, and it's the only variable you can imagine. S.T.U.D.Y. it.
>The broken genetic libraries of your kind. You will delve into the most esoteric and half remembered ideas of a more primal and ancient age.
>Assimilation. You will find a way to achieve uplifting symbiosis with the creatures of this world. You will become one of them, and bring all of them into the hive. Zenonymous Infinitum.
>Write in.

>>3652578
This vote will yield a bonus to your hive going forwards. I'll ask you to infer them, though, instead of handing them out. Tell me what FEELS right for you.

>>3652578
>Planet Energy. We have never seen anything like this before. We must use it. Perhaps it will be a defense against the things that chased us from the Sliph-realm.

>>3652586
Ah. Gotcha.

>>3652598
NOPE. That thing's TEETH are bigger than we are.

>>3652578
>>The energy on this planet. You've witnessed impossible things, and it's the only variable you can imagine. S.T.U.D.Y. it.
>>The broken genetic libraries of your kind. You will delve into the most esoteric and half remembered ideas of a more primal and ancient age


Both

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>>3652601
Sorry, meant to spoiler it. But here's the spoilered image this time. Ugh, I'm embarrassed.

>>3652601
But yeah, river terrors aren't even proper prey for these things. They're snacks.

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>>3652603
>>3652592

>Take on the trait for wielding this planet's powers AND the trait for diving into the primal roots of your species. BUT with a penalty that lowers your research speed and population cap.

>Only take the trait for learning to wield the energy of this planet with NO malus associated with it.

>>3652619
...On one hand, underground is sounding pretty good, with several hundred feet of solid stone between us and these guys. On the other hand, underground we will have one of two problems:
>There's no food, we must have little feeler tunnels going back to the surface and hide those
or
>There's giant monsters down here, we didn't solve anything!

>>3652648
>Only the psionics trait

>>3652648
Option one

>>3652648
>Only take the trait for learning to wield the energy of this planet with NO malus associated with it.

>>3652659
Go for option one, we can research a way to overcome the negatives

I meant to link to this guy >>3652667

>>3652648
>>Only take the trait for learning to wield the energy of this planet with NO malus associated with it.

>>3652648
>Only take the trait for learning to wield the energy of this planet with NO malus associated with it.

three for taking the energy wielding trait only, and one for taking both.

Calling vote.

Spark - After the desperate fear and invigoration of your mind and body after experiencing such things for the first time, a spark of something powerful was kindled within you. It is the beginning of something awe-full and great... roll +1d10+1 on ??? rolls for all members of Zenon. ??? Research rolls suffer half the normal malus.

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>>3652578
>>3651744
>>3650387
Zenonymous Hive Sheet

Biomass - 0 | Biotic Fluid - 5 | Genetic Stock - 0 | Growth Catalysts - 0


Hive information
Currently possessing only a single intelligence, the Hive is weak, fragile, and afraid. It seeks strength and stability, it desires the comfort of other presences. It needs to awaken more of its slumbering selves and be stimulated.

:Zenonymous Identities:

:Zenonymous Research Alpha:
HP 7/7
Rolls 2 1d10 on standard combat rolls.
When dragged into extended combat, does 1d2+1 damage on a success, double on a great success.
Rolls 2 1d10 on standard labor rolls.
Rolls 4 1d10 on standard research actions.
Rolls 1 1d10+1 on standard ??? actions

:Zenon units:
>None
:Zenon Structures:
>Craig Resource Node
:Hive Traits:
>Research Hierarchy - Research projects are more impactful and cost four fifths of the projected resource price.
>Spark - roll +1d10+1 on ??? rolls for all members of Zenon. ??? Research rolls suffer half the normal malus.
:Available Upgrades:
>None

:Available Research:
Any (You can research anything you want just ask to make it a project.)
>??? - ??? 0/4

:Available Structures:
>Nest - 40 biomass - A small structure made of biomass that will allow the production of a single unit at a time, protecting and nurturing it to maturation.
>Node - 5 biomass - A storage facility that digs into the earth to increase its capacity. Can store 30 units.
>Nexus - 120 biomass, 15 biofluid - A structure responsible for coordinating structures and drones, as well as unlocking and editing portions of the gene library for the hive's sake. Unlocks new strains.

:Available Units:
>Worker Drone - 8 biomass

>>3652772
You found yourself experiencing something strange after the beast had left. You hadn't paid much attention to anything outside of your own thoughts, your own feelings and superficial observations of the strange changes your fear had set in motion within you... Now, you realize it's been three cycles of day and night and your metabolism reminds you that you are not being tended to by a hive, and must feed yourself if Zenno will continue to live for the forseeable future.
You haven't had enough time to reason everything out, but now that you've been shocked back to consciousness, a strange energy possesses you. It's a kind of drive and motivation, beyond the shambling directives of your broken genetic library... You want to do something.

What is it?

>Investigate the scene where the unfathomable beast was standing.
>Directly interact with the small accumulation of energy that's pooled inside of you.
>HUNT. You don't just want to kill something, you want to defeat it! And fill your stomach.
>Collect biomass and start gestating a drone. You don't want to keep doing all the manual labor yourself...
>Write in

>>3652809
>HUNT.

>>3652809
>>Collect biomass and start gestating a drone. You don't want to keep doing all the manual labor


>>3652822
We have 7 hp no.

>>3652847
We also need to not starve to death and a drone will take a WEEK to gestate.

>>3652809
>>3652822
Changing vote to
>Collect biomass and eat enough to live, while storing the rest. Gotta get that hatchery up!

>>3652847
To be fair, you are a hero unit of the Hive.

Worker Drones have 2 hp and it would take you at least two hits to kill yourself even if you crit, not to mention, you don't have a particularly terrible combat ability. This world just happens to be over the top, a bit.

>>3652865
>>3652611
>>3652505
>>3651131
...Yes, juuuuust a bit. It's only a baby deathworld, after all.

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>>3652874
To be fair to be fair. I've been whammying you with monsters not normal creatures that are still around. Check image for an example of some of the more fair things.

>>3652904
Oh, so it is a little baby deathworld and not just me being sarcastic. That's good to know.

>>3652809
>Collect biomass and start gestating a drone. You don't want to keep doing all the manual labor yourself...

>>3652942
>>3652847
>>3652904
If we do end up gestating a drone, can we do it in the Node, or at least a crevice like we placed the Node in? I don't want some giant monster wandering by and eating the developing drone.

Rolled 1, 2 = 3 (2d2)

2 people roll 1d10 dc as seen above^
>>3652937
Ever heard of big fishes and little ponds? Well, that adolescent Trollboar wasn't it chief.

For the sake of expedience. The final plan is.
>Gather biomass and begin gestating a drone, continue to stockpile biomass until the situation changes.

Rolled 2 (1d10)

>>3652956
Oh joy, a teenage monster was outside.

>>3652954
No. It will be growing within your body until it is large enough to spawn. Then it will grow outside of your body in a weakened state.

>>3652961
Joy indeed. I'm kinda glad you guys chose energy option, kaiju fights are cool, but I prefer mahou shoujo

>>3652961
Okay, mild panic over. Plan time.

>Continue with Plan Get A Hatchery And A Nexus
>Once Nexus is acquired, start looking through the older stuff, see if we can pull out some Stealth or Combat strains. Or both, both works too.
>Continue teching up until giant monsters are not an enormous problem.

>>3652967
Oh, I thought we'd lay an egg or something and it would hatch there. Okay, I'm fine with this.

>>3652978
I'm trying to keep this a bit fresh and kinda unique, even though the idea has been rehashed a hundred times in the questing community.
But yeah. As a researcher, you can perform the functions of almost every structure or unit, at an extremely limited and modified capacity.

You are the jack of all trades AND pioneer of new ones. That's why I chose this to be the main character/starting unit.

>>3652985
Ah, I can see the logic there. Still, at least when it stops internally gestating, then the drone will at least be able to run away under its own power.

>>3652809
>Collect biomass and start gestating a drone. You don't want to keep doing all the manual labor yourself...

Rolled 8 (1d10)

>>3652956
>Collect biomass and start gestating a drone. You don't want to keep doing all the manual labor yourself...

>>3652978
Let's work on a plan that is a little closer to our pay grade

Step 1. Get hatchery
Step 2. Use Hatchery to make drone
Step 3. use drones get Biomass
Step 4. Make more drones
Step 5. Research chitinous fortifications
step 6. Fortify area
Step 7. Make new Hatcheries
Step 8. Return to step 2 and repeat until a decent size hive is built

>>3653007
Support

>>3653007

I don't think fortifications are really going to be super useful atm...

How about-
1. Get Hatchery
2. Get Drones via Hatchery
3. Gather Biomass w/Drones, make more Hatcheries
4a. Save up enough for a Nexus
4b. While this is going on, research Camouflage (gotta hide from the giant monsters) and Burrowing (nests and fortifying), and maybe the weird energy if we have time
5. Build Nexus
6. Sort through the stuff we got from the Nexus and see where to go from there.

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Rolled 4 (1d4)

>>3653007
>>3652961
2 & 8 vs dc 3 = 1 success
Above roll is collected biomass, from plant life. Remember it is the safest, easiest and least efficient form of obtaining biomass for the hive.

Also, attached is a direct comparison of you to a full grown worker drone.

I think we should research the strange energy as soon as possible. The old hive was strong but it fell, old tech is not the way. New tech is our salvation. Onward towards evolution brothers!

>>3653056
True, but the Old Tech will have some nice bases to springboard off of and some stuff we probably won't think of by ourselves. I'd rather have a prebuilt Hydralisk to build off of than try and make our own from scratch, for example.

>>3652809
You leave your crag and walk over the broken mound of splintered wood covered in dried blood. A large part of you is quite annoyed that you lost so much time, because after trying to obtain some genetic information from it, you discover it had degraded too far. 'I could have done something with that thing's blood... it's unfortunate, but ultimately inconsequential. We shall surpass it in time.'
With that thought in mind, you move a decent distance away from your resource node and begin consuming absurd amounts of foliage.
Entire berrybush fields, patches of young hedges, saplings three times as tall as you are long... You chew through thousands of pounds of mediocre foliage that your new gut bacteria is constantly tweaked to better absorb useful biomass from.

In the end, it took you a few hours to get half the biomass you need to gestate a Worker Drone. With an untillegible sigh, you prepare to continue the tedious manual endeavor of collecting biomass.

>Buckle in, one week. That's all its going to take. Then you can push this all on someone else...
> Ehhhh... You're gonna hunt for a time, just to break the monotony of this constant shoveling of bitter and nitrogen rich slough through your body.

>>3653079
>Screw it, we need to go faster. Go hunt.

>>3653079
>> Ehhhh... You're gonna hunt for a time, just to break the monotony of this constant shoveling of bitter and nitrogen rich slough through your body.

Oh, also, I forgot to mention this.

One of the most important reasons why you can slowly gestate other strains inside of yourself, is to apply prototype mutations and unofficial upgrades to them. You have great control over the things inside of yourself, after all. Part of being a researcher.

Rolled 5 + 2 (1d5 + 2)

>>3653089
>>3653092
Hunt it is. 2 people roll 1d10 please. Dc as above.

Rolled 3 (1d10)

>>3653112
Here.

Rolled 4 (1d10)

>>3653112

Rolled 1 (1d10)

>>3653112

Rolled 4 (1d100)

>>3653119
>>3653121
3&4 vs dc 7
>*sucks in air through teeth* Combat time

>>3653125
Good thing you were third.

With regards to the above roll, it doesn't matter if the roll is high or low.

>>3653216
oh thank god for that.

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>>3653216
Okay, I know I said it doesn't matter if it's high or low, but this was not the bracket you wanted to find yourselves in...

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>>3653079

_ _ _ _ _

How did this go so wrong?!
You had been following a small pack of medium sized herbivores through the forest for about an hour. You'd first seen the blue beasts at the river, and noticed they seem to be a weaker sort of beast in these parts. Their bodies also pack a lot of biomass on them, so you'd been looking forwards to the easy harvest.
But after all the work you'd done and effort you'd expended to follow them to a resting spot, it showed up.
A muscular bipedal beast that looks geared for war. It's flesh is twisted and its skin has a metallic appearance. Actual technological implants can be seen, though they meld so well and in such an organic manner, you can hardly discern where one ends and the other begins.
But regardless of the thing's appearance, the important part about it is what it's done. Right as you charged into the clearing, it emerged from the opposite side. It paused and stared at the prey you'd been hunting all this time, and then it let out a garbled speech of some sort, hands being wreathed in a hazy red energy as it dashed into the herd of seven.
It killed them all before they could even run, one swipe of its claws for each of them. He stole your hunt!
Even if you manage to kill him and take the bodies, it won't erase the irritated indignation you feel...

:Fight Stats:
??? 1/1
Stamina 3/3
Biotics 2/2
HP 7/7

>Use your limited biotic power to attack him. (Ranged, but slow and taxing on your mind. -1 biotic)
>Wait for him to come into your range and attack him with your prehensile tongues and claws. (Close range attack where the enemy can easily attack back. No cost.)
>Wait for his charge and time a tail swipe, try to bisect him. (Potentially devastating attack, -1 stamina.)
>Prepare to block his attack and retaliate with full force. (Guard your hp against his attack with your own, whoever does the more damage wins, overflow hurts their enemy, -1 stamina.
>Take his first attack and grapple with him to use your body's last resort, the virulent acid and digestive enzymes in your flesh and organs.. (take 3/4ths damage from his attack to your hp, but retaliate with a critical hit. -2 stamina.)
>Write in?

>>3653392
Has it seen us? If not, Wait for it to feed and perform a sneak attack.
If we must fight.
>Use your limited biotic power to attack him

>>3653412
>>3653392
Support.

>>3653392
>> leave, quietly that thing is clearly out of our league.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-K7fCQlUhj0

>>3653416
>>3653412
This creature mental powers are far superior to our own, moreover, I would wager that it have at minimum double our HP. But if you guys are so eager to end this quest then by all means attack.

>>3653427
>>3653392
...Point.
Changing vote
>GTFO

>>3653412
>>3653427
You know that while the creature is aware of you, it is currently standing stiff over the last body and taking ragged and exaggerated breaths.

>>3653440
So we have a presumably injured high-level creature that just killed a clearings worth of prey. It's very tempting if that thing just used its last big power move then we might be able to come in kill it. on the other hand, it might not be reacting to us as it doesn't see us as a threat since its so OP

>>3653440
Change to
> leave, quietly that thing is clearly out of our league.

three people roll 1d100 to try and leave

DC 65

Rolled 95 (1d100)

>>3653640
it has come to this then

>>3653647
AH YEAH

>>3653649
You may have won this time, unless someone crit fails of course... *whistles softly*

But I'll be damned if that isn't a good roll. I'll probably have to give the thing a minus if it decides to pursue you.

Rolled 59 (1d100)

>>3653640
Rolling.
>>3653647
Nice.

Rolled 24 (1d100)

Sorry, got a little impatient.

Ready to keep writing now.

Rolled 76, 36 = 112 (2d100)

>>3653392
... On second thought. You ARE the last Zenon. You can't afford to let your petty anger at losing a mildly entertaining hunt cloud your judgement. You assess that the enemy before you, while exhausted, is a credible threat to your hive. Even if four workers took him on, you aren't sure what would happen...
You turn around and speed away from the clearing, your many legs carry you at an unnatural speed as you duck under foliage and weave between trees.

You hear it screech about a fourth of a minute after you started running. It seems there's a chance this fight isn't over...

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>>3653699
You didn't turn back, but your field of view managed to catch something in the sky, something above the matted canopy of thick branches...

>Three people roll 1d100 to escape pursuit

Rolled 23 (1d100)

>>3653701
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FjWe31S_0g

Rolled 59 (1d100)

>>3653701
AAAAHHHHH
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRpSgHUY08w

Rolled 31 (1d100)

>>3653701

>>3653709
>>3653705
>>3653702
well... shit.

Rolled 22 (1d100)

So your highest was a 59?

You shook one of them off of your trail, but if the other rolls high enough they'll just form up again...

>>3653713
wait so you're telling me there were TWO of those things in the clearing?! god almighty I am glad we bailed when we did. also HA my roll wins! we live

>>3653726
Nah, that thing wasn't alone, but it wasn't another of it's kind. I thought the 'technology fused with biology' part would make it kinda obvious. But the things after you were its 'handlers' so to speak.

>>3653701
After we get a drone, we are RESEARCHING BURROWING.

Because screw this, I want to be far far away from these things.

>>3653713
You slid through the shadows of a dense thicket of trees, passing through a copse of saplings and changing course in a sudden burst of speed.
Soon, the humm that accompanied your two airborne pursuers faded, and you came to realize something.
'The people of this world are more advanced than I thought... even with monsters like that one... they have the ability to send their creations into the forest, and freely chase down anything that catches their eye?' You're upset by the fact you were spotted by their creations. Perhaps you could have prevented any leak of information had you destroyed them, but they likely had a form of ranged communication anyways, so it might not matter...

Well, thankfully you encountered them over an hour away from your hideout.

What should you do now? You're at least thirty minutes or so away from that thing and it's eyes in the sky...

>Actually hunt something, don't bother tracking and such, just slaughter something to relieve some stress and get the job done.
>Head home, maybe a week spent vegetating is what you need?
>Investigate the area around you. Never know what you might find.
>Play with the ??? inside of you, you feel like you could make it do something, even if you don't know what or how exactly.
>write in

>>3653758
>>Head home, maybe a week spent vegetating is what you need?
its time to lay low man

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These things were the eyes in the sky, just in case I wasn't clear about that or anything.

>>3653758
>Go gather plant biomass. Much safer.

Noooope nope nope. Not doing anything that really draws attention, but still making mild progress.

>>3653766
we just kicked the ant hill we need to vacate the area for a while man

>>3653772
...Point.

>>3653758
Changing vote from >>3653766 to this:
>Head home and hide.

>>3653778
>>3653772
>>3653758


I think I have a compromise.

>Collect enough biomass to spawn a drone, and then wait out the week long gestation in your hidey hole.

Or

>Head home and hide.

Or

>Head home and eat plants but don't go near the area you're leaving now.

>>3653784
First one.

>>3653784
>>Collect enough biomass to spawn a drone, and then wait out the week long gestation in your hidey hole.

>>3653784
>Collect enough biomass to spawn a drone, and then wait out the week long gestation in your hidey hole.

>>3653784
>Collect enough biomass to spawn a drone, and then wait out the week long gestation in your hidey hole.
why is every image spoilered?

>>3653784
>Collect enough biomass to spawn a drone, and then wait out the week long gestation in your hidey hole.

>>3653784
>>3653785
>>3653785
>>3653788

You take a very roundabout path to your home, moving through the night and without sleep to eat patches of vegitation until you had stored a full load of biomass within you. Though you considered planting a node and continuing this cycle of eating and slowly winding back home, you decide it would be best to leave as little a sign that you exist as possible, for now.

You return to your crag, resigned to wait out the full gestation period of a Worker Drone. Depositing the two extra units of biomass into the resource node, you curl up around the opening and turn your attention towards your insides.
Awkwardly, you form the necessary sex cells in your multipurpose reproductive organs, and stimulate the hormones and chemical slew that allows for a rapid growth of Zenon tissues.
The process is a bit long and involved, and the hormones and focus on such sensitive tissues isn't something you necessarily dislike, but without the subconscious bonding that you'd experience with a nursery structure or other being, you can't fully enjoy this simple act of reproduction... Thirty minutes later, and you've managed to get a successful embryo.
You debate whether or not you should experiment with it. At the moment, it's bogstandard. It's genetic code falls within the sixteen thousand or so stable strands set aside for Worker Drones, but you aren't certain how useful JUST a worker drone will be at this point. It can only hunt the weakest of prey without dying and wasting the biomass you spent to make it, and while you could have it harvest growth accelerant from the environment, maybe there's another niche or adaptation to be made here? You've got the resources to experiment...

>Try to work something special out of it.
>Just let it grow and sleep, indulging in the simplistic minds of your resource node and developing hive-mate.

>>3653798
Because most spoil some part of the post and should be seen after you read. Or something like that.

>>3653812
>Try to make something that can camouflage itself. We need to hide.

>>3653819
this stealth workers

support

Here's base Worker stats.

:Worker Drone:

1d10 standard combat actions
1d100+5 attack and 1d2 damage in extended combat actions
2d10+1 standard labor actions
1d10 standard research actions

1/1 biotic
6/6 stamina
2/2 HP

Traits
Pack Hunter- When in groups of three or more, gain an extra 1d100 on extended combat actions and +1hp.

>>3653812
>>3653819
Supporting This

>>3653829
A basic worker won't be useless, but will it be especially useful is the question.
Maybe for now, just pick out the worker genome that's best with plants, and start a research task on vegetation based camouflage.

>>3653829
let's try to add these trait
Reactive camouflage -- it's a passive ability which allows the worker to match the color and patterns of its surroundings.

Stealth born-- these workers have the ability to move with such skill and grace that should it not wish to be seen it won't be.

>>3653812
>>3653819

You go over a few ideas in your mind, from warrior-worker hybrids to a strange collection of ideas including what is basic batteries of biotic energy.
But ultimately, you decide that something which can avoid attention while doing its job is the best option.
The kind of intelligent sense organs and reactive pigmentation membranes required for chemical camoflauge are things you think you'll be able to make, and how you intend to implement your idea. Because while using biotic energy to warp light around the drone would be nice, it's not very feasible without some genetic stock to inspire you...

Attempting this will take 3 days, and cost you 2 biotic fluid.

Physical Camoflauge Trait 0/2
Four people roll 1d10
DC 5
Bonus if you get 8 or higher.

Rolled 10 (1d10)

>>3653866

Rolled 5 (1d10)

>>3653866

>>3653869
Well aren't you just special.

Rolled 6 (1d10)

>>3653866
>>3653854
bruh

Rolled 1 (1d10)

>>3653866

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>>3653883

>>3653883
>>3653886
...shame

I don't know, can you guys help me think of a way to reword my research dcs?
You have a certain number of successes you need X/Y right, so, should I say "Need 2 5s, if you get 8s there's a bonus to the project" or did I do it the best way?

Anyways. You passed with some overflow but it doesn't do anything at the moment. This is too small of a project for you to be able to put the extra towards anything else.
Anyways.
>Prototype Physical Camoflauge Upgrade is completed. The upgrade is currently limited to Worker drones born from your gestation and requires two days and two biotic fluid to implement.
>Trait - Prototype Physical Camouflage - minimum result on a hide roll in any natural environment is 40, +10 to hide rolls in natural environments.

>>3653906
>help me think of a way to reword my research dcs?
What about "filling" a research bar?
Instead of needing to roll above 5, we need to reach 15 or 20 research points? So if we don't manage to get it the first time instead of insta failing, we can try again later, with a [percentage of whatever progress we had from the failed attempt. I think it feels more like a a real research with setbacks instead of something that just instantly happens or instantly fails because of an arbitrary roll. It could also allow us to produce units that are not completely researched or done, but for whatever reason we need RIGHT NOW regardless of the risks or drawbacks that having what amounts to a prototype brings.

>>3653921
>>3653906
And then maybe the rolls, instead of being flat successes or failures, just feed that number into the research bar?

And instead of, "Oh you roll Y instead of X so you get a better thing," have the upgrades be tiered so we can do it quick and cheap, or we can put some extra time in for the extra features?

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>>3653866
Three days come and go in a blur of perfectly recorded experimentation. With the use of biotic fluid, you managed to stimulate the growing drone's exterior tissue layers. You directly anchored it within the center of your gestation chamber, using hair thin biological instruments and some applications of biotic energy to directly influence the growth of a secondary nervous system and sense organs that coordinate with the hindbrain of the worker to adjust pigmentation of its new outer skin layer on command.
You were a bit worried about placing a fourth layer on the body of the simple creature, but it easily took to the adjustments.
While this isn't something you can use on every drone or add to their genetics, you could create and apply this semi intelligent skin to any drone young enough if you have the right tools... so for now, only ones you gestate until you build a nexus...
Well... There's four more days now.

A part of you feels like you're on a roll, like you're in your element and you should go wild with this thing. You still have two more units of biomass and three more of biotic fluid... You might be able to... well.

That's probably a bad idea...

>Try to make this a hero unit. You don't have enough resource on hand... but you could canabalize the resource node and some of your own body to finish the job. Having a real companion, one who can continue the hive even if the worst should happen to you...
>Settle in and dream of a day when you are surrounded by the quirky and unique Identities of other Zenon, and the cute and naive lesser units and structures who love you all.

>>3653928
>Settle in. We've done enough tinkering for now, let's just wait for a bit.

>>3653928
>Settle in and dream of a day when you are surrounded by the quirky and unique Identities of other Zenon, and the cute and naive lesser units and structures who love you all.

>>3653928
>>Settle in and dream of a day when you are surrounded by the quirky and unique Identities of other Zenon, and the cute and naive lesser units and structures who love you all.
[slow and steady]

>>3653928
>Settle in and dream of a day when you are surrounded by the quirky and unique Identities of other Zenon, and the cute and naive lesser units and structures who love you all.

>>3653928
>Settle in and dream of a day when you are surrounded by the quirky and unique Identities of other Zenon, and the cute and naive lesser units and structures who love you all.
Play it safe.

Rolled 33 (1d100)

>>3653930
>>3653931
>>3653932
>>3653928

You resign yourself to the loneliness, and settle in. As you sleep, you dream of a day when you are surrounded by the quirky and unique Identities of other Zenon, and the cute and naive lesser units and structures who love you all. You don't notice it, but that dream gives you just a bit more strength, a bit more resolve to keep trekking forwards...

>+1d2 Hp
>+1d2 Biotic
>+1d2 Stamina
>+1d2 ???

When the time comes for your young drone to be birthed, you are jolted awake by its movements.
Swimming around inside of your incredibly round sphere of a midsection, it reorients itself to make things as easy as possible for you both. 'Considerate brat.' You remark to yourself with a bit of a sigh. You use the thousands of hair-thin instruments of your gestation chamber to attach and penetrate the flesh closest to the outside world. Stitching and snipping and numbing yourself in certain places, you prepare for what's to come. Your tail curves around to the underside of your body. Laying on your side like you are makes this quite easy on you, as you carefully align the tip of your blade with the already prepared section of flesh.
It splits with ease, the mat of living stitches prevents any bleed from the numb flesh as a long slit opens along your insides. You roll your gestation chamber as best as you can, twisting in just the right way for the opening, bound by mucus and nerveless connective tissue, to alight with the exit in your pallid flesh. with one last cut, your insides spill out. Mainly, the drone with soft chitin that turns gray upon impacting the stone floor.
You sigh in relief as the immense weight of a being almost as large as your normal size is relieved from your sensitive flesh. You sew yourself back up in under a minute as you twist into a standing position and look over the newest addition to the hive...
tbc

>>3653976

:Advanced Worker Drone:

1d10 standard combat actions
1d100+10 attack and 1d2 damage in extended combat actions
2d10+1 standard labor actions
1d10 standard research actions

1/2 biotic
3/6 stamina
1/3 HP

Traits
Pack Hunter- When in groups of three or more, gain an extra 1d100 on extended combat actions and +1hp.
Prototype Physical Camouflage - minimum result on a hide roll in any natural environment is 40, +10 to hide rolls in natural environments.

You look over the final product, a bit surprised at yourself. It seems, your body managed to bestow some of the lingering upgrades from your old hive to this drone.

While most of them were degraded by the harsh time spent in sliph space, the floating framents of genetic essence in your tissues still strengthened this newest addition to the hive. 'That just makes him more useful' you think, 'Good job on the exit, by the way. You made that easy on us both.' You turn your thoughts to your offspring, easily connecting with it. You'd laugh at how singlemindedly focused he is on standing up straight, if you weren't bombarded with his rapt attention the moment he noticed you checking in on him.
Even without the coordination to stand, he manages to look at you attentively, already expecting his first order with an eager posture...

Orders?
>Get some biomass for us from the nearby foliage and rest here while you finish growing.
>Go hunt some smaller animals for a quick boost of biomass.
>Start expanding the back of this cavern. We might find elements of accelerant in these walls...
>Come lay down with me. Eat some biomass and relax until you're fully grown.
>Take my spot, I'm going out hunting now.
>write in.

>>3654010
>>Come lay down with me. Eat some biomass and relax until you're fully grown.
[It is our baby]

>>3654010
>Have the drone expand the cavern.

Let's keep the drone close by until it won't die to a sneeze.

>>3654010
>Get some biomass for us from the nearby foliage and rest here while you finish growing.

>>3654019
>>3654027

it's still a larva its not ready, but look at that HP it 1

>>3654010
>Come lay down with me. Eat some biomass and relax until you're fully grown.

Starting to pass out.
So
Revival #1 is pausing here for the night. Go ahead and vote some more.

But I'll hang out until sleep takes me. If you guys want to ask me a bit about the world ooc, or things about the hive units and stuff I have planned, feel free.

Also, can I get some general feedback on the quest so far? I'm I describing certain things too much, am I failing to explain certain other things. Is this something you want to see a lot more of?

I dunno, I'm pretty tired to think, but I'll try to answer anything you got.

>>3654039
Good night QM, so far I am liking the quest. see you when you start the quest back up. any idea of what time you will start back up?

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>>3654030
no, it's just smol.

>>3654046
ah I see now, it is still only a one HP tho

>>3654044
Could be the moment I wake up, could be a few days from now. Sorry for the inconsistent answer, but I put off some stuff to run this big ass continuous live. And I don't really know what kind of schedule I'm working with.

I need to get a drivers license, enroll in college, and prepare for two dnd sessions next week.

A fair bit of stuff that I haven't bothered scheduling out because I was scared of finding out how little time I had left to enjoy my summer, and here I am, with it almost over...

>>3654048
That's true. But foliage is plants. It's just 'go eat some leaves and bushes and stuff.'
And expanding the cave only takes stamina.

>>3654050
good luck my best advice for college life is avoid frats in general and get 8 hours of sleep a night

Do you guys like me trying to do image stuff?
Or is it as much a waste of time as I'm afraid it is?
I know it isn't quite drawfagging, but I'm trying to add a little something visual to help you guys construct the scenes I'm trying to tell.

>>3654065
No we like the images

>>3654065
the image system you are using now is good man.

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Honestly, I just can't wait for you guys to hit 'big fish' level in this starting area.

Or to start interacting with factions. I'm excited...

Image in this post is a pretty big spoiler.

>>3654073
keep hold of you enthusiasm QM and guard yourself against the QM curse.

>>3654079
Yeah, I'll do what I can. Bit surprised I got 20 people interested in this though. Feels pretty good.

But let me ask you guys a pretty serious question.

Pastebin smut or nah? Cause, sex is a pretty useful tool for our researcher and one of the only past-times in a primitive hive like yours.

>>3654085
This sites 18 for a reason my man ;)

>>3654085
ehhh, why not. Also, i don't get the spoiler.

>>3654093
it is clearly saying that we are all living in a simulation and that mankind is just a super advanced A.I. left to run by our alien overlords

>>3654093
Number 1.There is a dome of a false sky which the girl, and the two drones floating around her, is inside of.
Number 2 She herself is also a projection of some kind.
Number 3 There is a sprawling cityscape on this planet, full of incredibly high tech and advanced magic.

Anyone else got questions?

>>3654073
Lolis, a weakness to many anons.

>>3654113
Hipade hopade not the fuck on my property

>>3654102
Well, i get that we're basically a pet of some external force, but that doesn't really mean anything in the short and medium run. I also thought the image was referring to some anime.

>>3654119
Less pet and more 'unexpected variation. Potential?' more will be revealed once you climb the mountain and do a few other things.

>>3654123
>>3654119
the matrix is real

>>3654126
I've always found that the weakness in hive quests comes from the premise of being a never ending expansion of the hive for the hive.
Where the only pull, is the conflict. It's both the draw and the weight that drags them down.
I'm trying to do this whole thing different.

>>3654133
Don't get me wrong I am very interested to see where the story goes.

>>3654139
Well, imagine this.
I'm going to list some series here now. And there's a combination of ideas taken from them to reach this point, plus a lot of world building.
Madoka, Digimon, Zerg+Xenomorphs+Tyranids, DnD Ebberon, Avatar by James Cameron, and quite a few more. Pretty much, there's a very complex world out there beyond your bubble. So enjoy yourself for now, alright?

>>3654170
Man I hope you have written a manifesto for the world you are building here

>>3654174
Well, for now, all you have to worry about are the eyes in the sky.

Rolled 52 (1d100)

>>3654177
No. What he has to worry about are the mouths on the ground about to eat him.
Here's an activation of the roll "boon" for "Genie ##Genie" himself to resurrect his daughter within the electro-ringworm.

Rolling 1d100. 1=Success.

Rolled 52 (1d100)

>>3655640
HA you fool you've activated my trap card
"plot convenience" which when activated turns the enemies attack back on them

>>3655640
>>3655652
the absolute odds on these rolls

turns out all's good. College don't start until august 20th and my drivers ed course never expires.

Revival Resuming - Initiated.

>>3655732
If someone wants to tell general thread, that's cool. I'm going to write up an update.

>>3655735
they will see the thread bumped in general

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Rolled 10, 9, 3, 3, 4, 7, 7, 6, 9, 2 = 60 (10d10)

>>3654010
>>3654018
>>3654033

You call your child, the first of many Zenon you will bring into this world, to your side. 'You should eat, finish growing before anything else.'
It half crawls towards you, nuzzling your side with its outer jaws as it plays with its fingers. It gently touches the agitated wound of your flesh and vocalizes a small whine, through your connection you can tell it feels guilty. 'Don't worry about that,' you tell it, 'it isn't your fault, I cut a little too far is all.' You explain. 'I should have realized you were a bit bigger than I expected.'
It tilts its head in confusion, but lies next to you, using its hands to help position its body to curl against you. You use your many legs and claws to help it move up close, and you begin to fall into a soft sleep. Body exhausted from the accumulated exertions you've put it through since you awoke in this world. But soon, just a few more days... and you can share this burden with the youngling in your embrace. The more Zenon you bring into this world, the lighter the weight in your heart will become.
'Someday... someday, we can all... just...' You drift off before you can finish your train of thought, the soft beating of your drone's heart helping you slip into a realm of dreams.

The days would pass like this, as your body recuperates and your young worker nearly doubles in size. Eventually, you are lured out of your formless dreams when your drone nudges your body firmly and persistently. Sigh, you open your many eyes and roll over, getting up with dozens of claws and legs scratching at the floor to bear your weight. Looking at the drone, you see some piles in your small cavern...

>{Dice results X/X/XX/XX/XX/XX}

It seems it had some time to gather resources. The cavern's been extended a bit as well, and some simple structures were created to make it feel a bit more like home.

Before you say anything, though, you notice something is a bit different within you. Your rest seems to have allowed an unconscious adaptation to the strain you've been under since awakening on this world
tbc

Choose 2, you can double down.
.>+1d2 Hp
>+1d2 Biotic
>+1d2 Stamina
>+1d2 ???
>+2 to basic extended combat rolls
>+1 to {specific} extended roll of your choice (Stealth, Sense, Biotic, Melee, Convincing. Anything that calls for a non-standard roll would count. (So that needs 1d100s))
>Write in (Think of some way to improve your character's template that I haven't.)

You shake your head and decide to think about your adaptations later. For now, it's time to take on your role as the leader of your small hive. What should you do?

Advanced Worker Drone (AWD) has
4/6 Stamina, anything except eating plants will cost stamina.
3/3 HP
2/2 Biotic

Hero unit Alpha Research Identity (HuARI) has
Full Stamina
Full HP
Full Biotic
Full ???

Hive has
30 Biomass
3 biotic fluid
0 genetic stock
8 growth catalyst

AWD actions
>Hunt 1d10
>Eat plants 2d10
>Research (write in) 1d10
>Write in

HuARI actions
>Research ???
>Research (write in) 4d10
>Hunt 2d10
>Eat plants 2d10
>Investigate surroundings
>Write in

>>3656086
>+2 to {specific} extended roll to stealth.

>>3656089
support
for the other
>>+1d2 Biotic

Rolled 1, 1, 7, 5 = 14 (4d10)

>>3656086
AWD Alpha
>eat plants

HuARI
>eat plants

I want to get 2 more AWD's before we make any big plays.

>>3656086
>+1d2 ???
>+1d2 Stamina
>AWD Eat Plants
>HuARI Research ???

>>3656089
this is two choices
2 +1 stealths

>>3656086
>+1d2 Biotic
>+1 to {Stealth} extended roll
AWD
>Eat plants 2d10
HuARI
>Research ???

>>3656104
i know. That's why i wrote +2 instead of the one you wrote.

>>3656101
Sorry, if I wasn't clear enough, I do votes then rolls. The rolls are in the post next to the choice, as a cheat sheet to see how high the odds of them succeeding at it.

Also,>>3656078
What do you think of the picture? Click on it if you want to see it...

>>3656107
I was letting others know because anon tried to vote for your vote and another.

>>3656112
Ah, sorry for the misconception.

>>3656086
Increase stamina and extended combat rolls.
Eat plants.
Investigate surroundings.

Rolled 2, 1 = 3 (2d2)

>>3656089
>>3656091
>>3656103
>>3656106

rollin 2d2 for Biotic and Stamina


As for actions.
AWD is eating plants, you are researching ???

So, I need six rolls, so three people roll me 2d10
>>3656174
And a new vote came in. Okay then. I edited my original post to accommodate it.

Rolled 8, 3 = 11 (2d10)

>>3656206

Rolled 4, 10 = 14 (2d10)

>>3656206

Rolled 4, 7 = 11 (2d10)

>>3656206

>>3656221
d10's my dude

Rolled 5, 2 = 7 (2d10)

>>3656206

>>3656226
Yeah, that's why I deleted the roll as soon as I noticed.

Rolled 2, 1 + 1 = 4 (2d2 + 1)

>>3656209
>>3656223
>>3656225
8,3|4,10,4,7
Above roll gathered biomass
2/4 progress on ???

Writing~

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>>3656086
With a bit of a happy tone to your thoughts, you guide the drone out of your small hive and into the forests surrounding your home. His presence is a constant presence, a weight that somehow provides more strength than a burden, to your thoughts. You turn your own attentions to the pool of energy within you. While it wasn't directly affected by the adaptations you underwent in your restorative slumber, you feel like it is much less 'out of place', to simplify your realization. The flesh of your body is being much more tolerant of the intruding and pervasive energy, accepting its presence without agitating your thoughts.
>+2 Biotic pool
Thoughts which hold a certain sharpness and weight to them. Yes, it appears that your body's decision to deal with the constant stress of external energy factors was to build up the natural powers inherent to a psychic like yourself.
>+1 Stamina pool
And overall, you feel more... capable. You feel as though you are going to be able to push yourself for further, harder, and longer than before.

But, that's not important, you went on a tangent train of thought for a bit too long. 'What was I originally thinking about?' ... oh, right. The results of observing the internal pool of mysterious energy. Well, you prodded it with your biotic energy, consuming a unit of biotic fluid to refresh your reserves after you expended all your energy.
The results were quite interesting. You could directly interact with the pool using biotic energy. They didn't... react well. In fact, they clashed and reacted in explosive ways. Thankfully, it didn't hurt you, but you only made a little bit of progress on understanding what ??? energy does and is, before you'd used up all you had on hand.(See image)
>0/1 ???
What you have learned, is that it's reactive and it's powerful. It managed to wipe out all your reserves of biotic energy, and then use up most of what was left, before the small amount was all used up...
>2/4 biotic
In the end, the event was a bit taxing on you, but you still feel fine to keep this up.
>3/4 stamina

Well, enough about your progress. You check on what the drone's been doing, and find he's gathered some biomass.
>34/30 biomass
Currently it's stored in a big sack of resin and nerveless flesh that he regurgitated, but that's not a safe or permanent method of storing resources...

What should you do going forwards?
AWD actions
>Hunt 1d10
>Eat plants 2d10
>Research (write in) 1d10
>Build structure (write in)
>Write in

HuARI actions
> [Locked]Research ??? (Costs 6 biotic and 1 ???, meaning you have to spend 1 biotic fluid to finish this action.)
>Research (write in) 4d10
>Hunt 2d10
>Eat plants 2d10
>Investigate surroundings
>Write in

>>3656341
>>Build structure (write in)
storage node

>Investigate surroundings

>>3656341
Huh. Alright, need more resources to continue with this.

AWD
>Build Node- Another crevice, perhaps?

HuARI
>Investigate Surroundings- especially another crevice for the new Node

>>3656341
Build storage chamber.
Investigate surroundings.

>>3656354
>>3656360
>>3656399
Nice consensus friends.

Then I need 2 people to roll me 2d10 please.

Rolled 7, 7 = 14 (2d10)

>>3656411

Rolled 2, 1 = 3 (2d10)

>>3656411

>>3656412
>>3656421
Looks like your little drone's carrying the weight of this operation, rocking double 8s cause of his +1 to standard labor actions.
You however... well. I didn't have plans for crit fails on general rolls like this, but maybe I should with THAT result...

Anyways, writing~ and drawing...

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>>3656341
Well, your drone goes ahead and sets up a resource node all on his own, even managing to find a subterranean part of the cavernous spire you've made your home. It's filled with ore with infintessmally small flecks of shining material. Seems bizarre and interesting, from what you can see through its eyes.

Most of your time, though, in the past many many many hours, is spent climbing to the top of the spire and taking a look around you.

From above, you look down and find the clouds obscure a lot of your view. But you can see a river, other spires, some small some large, and a mountain that's like, ten times taller than your cracked and broken spire... Well, climbing down's going to be a pain in the ass...
>-2 stamina

What should the worker do while you make the long trek down the spire?
AWD actions
>Hunt 1d10
>Eat plants 2d10+1
>Research (write in) 1d10
>Build structure (write in)
>Expand main cavern 2d10+1
>Write in

>>3656584
>Eat more plants

Gotta get that biomass stored up.

>>3656584
>>Eat plants 2d10+1

So, on a scale of 1-10 for drawfaggotry out of mspain. How's my picture?

>>3656598
So after we get more biomass stored up, do you want to go for the Hatchery immediately or do you want to save up for the Nexus so that we can apply the Stealth upgrade across all of our drones?

>>3656604
Pretty good, I think. An overhead map would be nice, but it's a reasonable picture and we have a rough idea of where everything is and what our base looks like from the outside. Don't think anything's going to bother climbing up here as long as we stay quiet about our location.

>>3656604
you are a Solid artist i like it.

Rolled 1, 2 + 1 = 4 (2d10 + 1)

>>3656598

>>3656621
Guess that means you vote for plants.

>>3656626
Oh yeah, for some reason i confused that post as OP asking for rolls.

>>3656598
>>3656589

Gorging on Foliage it is~
Alright, since i need 2 dice. I'll ask 2 people to roll 1d10+1 for this.
Trying to keep rolls quick, but allow a good amount of participation.

Rolled 10 + 1 (1d10 + 1)

>>3656639

Rolled 2 + 1 (1d10 + 1)

>>3656639

Rolled 45 (1d100)

>>3656640
Rolling for something special.
DC 70

>>3656640
...I am just on fire today.

Rolled 6, 2 + 1 = 9 (2d10 + 1)

>>3656639

>>3656649
are... you okay anon? I think it's been two or three times now you messed up your dice rolls. Were you the guy who rolled 20s too?

Rolled 2, 2 + 1 = 5 (2d2 + 1)

>>3656640
>>3656644
so 11 and 3?
Alright, that's two successes.

>>3656656
No, that was me.

>>3656584
>Eat plants 2d10+1
>>3656609
Hatchery. giving birth to each worker ourselves is too much work

>>3656656
Eh, i might need some sleep. At least my rolls don't count.

>>3656673
Alright, how about one Hatchery and then we go for the Nexus, popping out more Drones whenever the Hatchery is empty?

>>3656584


37/60 hive resources
>34 biomass
>3 biotic fluid
8 units of unprocessed Growth Catalyst

Hurai stamina reached 0/4!!
Drone stamina has returned to full!
_ _ _ _ _

Your descent from the top of the spire was... not simple. Nor did you finish it before your body began to exhaust itself. You managed to find a comfortable crag to sleep in, since you didn't have anything to restore your stamina in storage. Before you started your recovery, though, you left a few instructions for the drone, who had dillegently processed enough roughage to produce five entire units of biomass.

>Pilot the drone ourselves.

or

Spend the drone's stamina over the course of four turns.
Remember, 3/3 hp. Stealth bonuses. And 6/6 stamina. Most actions cost 1 stamina, particularly hard ones could take 2 or even 3.
(3 would be like traversing a huge distance or launching an attack on a nest/settlement/etc.)

>Hunt 1d10
>Eat plants 2d10+1 (Recovers 1 stamina)
>Research (write in) 1d10
>Build structure (write in)
>Expand main cavern 2d10+1
>Write in