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owlhawk911 posted:can we eat the mint stalks You furrow your eyestalks in deep thought, but you're sure you've never experienced anything like this "eat" business the nelumoptera is thinking at you about. You have an urge to stay in view of those stars in the sky (or one or two big close ones, that'll work too), but that's about it.
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regardless of which way we end up going i think we should playfully splash our new friend
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The polls are closed! You decide to ford the river and press North! What a brave little frontiersthing you are!
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Update 4: You move to cell G4: Rock Drop Falls. Music.   You take the nelumoptera up on its offer, insomuch as you join them in the river, where you are indeed a solid enough "rock-guy and all" to move slowly but steadily upstream. You have no interest, however, in consuming dead things, so with a playful splash goodbye you continue past your new friend as they chomp on carapaces contentedly. You press against the river, Northward. You march slowly upstream for a while, powering through the silt with mineral determination, until the river suddenly becomes a lot harder to walk in. It gets much more vertical all at once, and also hard to see through the crash of the spraying water. Cascading down a high cliff is a rocky waterfall. Ultimately stymied in your efforts to climb it, you claw your way on to the sand of the East bank. Stones of all sizes, from boulders to pebbles, pepper the sand banks and stick out of the river's swirls like tiny islands in the foam. As you climb into a grassy clearing between the cliffs and the trees, you see a dark cave in the cliff's face, which wheezes wind from below the stone-strewn surface. The grassy clearing continues to the East. Thick woods block any way past the West river bank. Poll 4.1: To cave, or not to cave?
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Nov 13, 2020 00:48
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Nov 13, 2020 00:53
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can we investigate the cave entrance?  don't want to get too far from starlight and starverear end-penny posted:I am team cave, 100% but carefully...
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Nov 13, 2020 00:55
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Luvcow posted:can we investigate the cave entrance? yeah toss something in first to see what happens not a pebble though, be kind to pebbles
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Luvcow posted:can we investigate the cave entrance? Manifisto posted:yeah toss something in first to see what happens The cave's stalactite toothed maw drops quickly into an ink-black gullet, where a pebble, bouncing without provocation and entirely of its own convenient volition, skips down into the depths, and fades away before you hear any landing.
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BoldFrankensteinMir posted:The cave's stalactite toothed maw drops quickly into an ink-black gullet, where a pebble, bouncing without provocation and entirely of its own convenient volition, skips down into the depths, and fades away before you hear any landing. lol I retract my vote can I vote a second time to counteract it? |
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Nov 13, 2020 01:19
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Manifisto posted:can I vote a second time to counteract it? Rules updated! The Rules posted:...your vote is final, though I guess you can cheat with a VPN or something if you really want to. Don't worry too much about your little alien lifeforms, all lifeforms eventually snuff it. It's what they see along the way that matters.
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Nov 13, 2020 01:34
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Let's go east. |
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Nov 13, 2020 03:44
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can we grab a stone to bring with us as a friend/pet
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Nov 13, 2020 03:58
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Welp I already voted cave so let's jump into the brink, friends
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biosterous posted:can we grab a stone to bring with us as a friend/pet this but *approach*. it is rude to grab
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Rarity posted:Welp I already voted cave so let's jump into the brink, friends We will die as we lived, in a cave, trying to learn Prepuce Repurposed's mom's phone number. |
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Nov 13, 2020 11:21
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The polls are closed! Ever Northward! You fear not, as you toddle your crystalline self into the cave. You've got some real stones, kid!
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Update 5: You are at cell G4: Rock Drop Falls. Music.  Your rocky little limbs slide down the steep incline of the cave, and you immediately feel bad about having entered. Literally, your insides feel much worse than they did a moment ago, when you were outside and exposed to the sky. But there's no turning back.  The cave is too dark to see anything but the faintest outlines, though your eyestalks do provide a 360° panorama of them. You begin to see familiar seeming shapes in the shadows, the craggy facets and chips and points of beings not unlike yourself, maybe? Hope drives you forward, but the terrible feeling inside gets worse. Your arm falls off. Then one eye. The cave finally opens up again, to a large domed cavern, but alas, still no light. No stars in view, big or little, to power your crystalline body any further. You are sad momentarily, but not even this can stop such a brave little red speckled chelagypsk. You lived proudly, faced headwaters and reveled in the spray. With one last burst of your famous dynamism , you clamber up a heap in the middle of the cavern, pebbles of you plinking off in the exertion, just trying to reach one last high mark. You make it, just barely, before the inert rocks that were your body tumble across the heap, and are one with it. You have died. Nothing stops a chelagypsk It rolls its eyestalks at all risks Be careful, speckled crystal crab Or your pinch might outreach your grab -- You are at cell F5: The Landing Site. Music.   You are awakened by a tremendous impact, as the orange striped egg you have napped inside all your short life strikes the ground of an unfamiliar world. Still whole and unharmed, the egg's shell sizzles in the smoldering crater it has created.  The fallen egg cracks as it cools, until the shell begins to come apart. Happy birthday! Sitting in the center of a cobblestone roundabout, surrounded by ornate trees, you finally get a good look at yourself. You are... Poll 5.1: Face Poll 5.2: Body Poll 5.3: Limbs
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Nov 13, 2020 23:29
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welp, die and learn I guess |
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Nov 13, 2020 23:39
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i'm too sad to vote rn 
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Nov 13, 2020 23:57
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Oh god I'm sorry 
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Nov 14, 2020 01:30
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Talkc posted:Tried to vote, straw poll wont let me login on two different browsers. Rip little guy. The poll checks your IP address, so if you're on a home network, even moving to another device probably won't work. |
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| And out of the blue it works......... Beginning to believe my superstitious friend about pc's and tech. ITS ALL MAGIC. | |
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Nov 14, 2020 01:40
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rip red friend excited to meet orange friend
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Nov 14, 2020 01:55
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I hope we get to eat something. OOOH... what if we can taste. |
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Nov 14, 2020 01:57
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 voted on new guy, sorry little buddy you will be remembered
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Nov 14, 2020 02:23
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i hope we can find our friends remains in the cave and bring it out into nourishing light
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Nov 14, 2020 03:35
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I like this game
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That was my b y'all, sorry. Here's hoping we can get more squares explored with our orange friend. |
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Nov 14, 2020 05:38
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The polls are closed!   A bat-faced vegetable with flagella! Or, as you are more commonly known...
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Heather Papps posted:i hope we can find our friends remains in the cave and bring it out into nourishing light see i was thinking this too until op described in devastating detail how we crumbled into a pile of inert rubble and became one with the earth there's no coming back from that
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Update 6: You are at cell F5: The Landing Site. Music.  ...an Orange Striped Convoptera! You are a vegetable creature with flagella and a bat-face. You instinctively groom your striped orange leaf-ears with the two long woody tendrils you walk on, and pick pollen boogers out of your enormous leaf-nose. Lookin' sharp!  You are standing on a cobblestone roundabout surrounding a smoldering crater, and itself surrounded by ornate trees. Obvious exits are North, East, South AND West, OR you could follow the road East for two squares (to H5), or go East then South through the clearing (to G6). Poll 6.1: Where to, mac?
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with our big bat ears, it's probably not a good idea to visit the loud minty water friend! i'm voting west
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Nov 15, 2020 15:14
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that critter doesn't even have a shitter.
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Doctor Dogballs posted:that critter doesn't even have a shitter. While you clean yourself you take a quick inventory. As an ambulatory carnivorous plant you do have both a mouth (with four prominent fang-like trichomes) and a rudimentary cloaca on your tiny vegetable body, between and slightly behind where the flagella bifurcate. It's mostly for passing gas through, though. Your digestive enzymes do an excellent job of breaking everything else completely down, though in theory a particularly adventurous bug with the right kind of shell treatment might still pass through you unharmed...
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Let's examine our flagella. What can we do with them? Does our bat-face give us any bat-like abilities, like echolocation? |
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Barking Gecko posted:Let's examine our flagella. What can we do with them? You have mighty vegetable flagella! Long reedy whip-vine appendages that can be stood and walked on, reached and grabbed with, and even carried by! As a carnivore you can use them to hunt for alive things and then make them dead, which is important to you, as is shoveling the dead things into your mouth, also a flagellum strong suit. Alternatively, as a plant, burying your limbs in nutritious dirt for a while allows you to eat starlight with your leaves, especially from that really close star that pops up every dozen-or-so hours. It's a whole buffet! Your flagella can be used to swim in calm waters, but you have too little mass to take on strong currents. And your limbs are, uh, kinda flammable, as is the rest of you so... there's that... Barking Gecko posted:Does our bat-face give us any bat-like abilities, like echolocation? Although your bat eyes are of a middling quality (especially in heavy starlight where they drop to poor) and your bat nose is too specialized for olfactory sensing (it's too stuffed with pollen to smell anything, but at least it's your own), bat ears are the best of both worlds as far as sensory organs go, both highly sensitive and well protected. Hundreds of whisper-thin stamens erupting from your ear-leaf canals reach out to detect tiny vibrations but pull back responsively to shield against loud noises. You are thus able to hear exceptionally fine details over great distances, and yet also are immune to most sonic disturbances. Groovy! In theory you might even be able to find your way in the dark with them using echolocation, but you've never tried before. You are all of five minutes old.
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We should totally try that before we get rolling (walking). >Close eyes and try different sounds we can make to see if our ears and brain can put together a understandable picture of the round about. |
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rear end-penny posted:We should totally try that before we get rolling (walking). With your eyes closed, you emit high-pitched squeaks, and listen for them to come back. They do! In sharp detail even, and oh my is that crater smoldery and cratery, and aren't those trees ornate, even in sonar. It doesn't take long before you're echolocating around the roundabout like a champ! Occasionally, in between your high-pitched squeaks, you also catch a bit of high-pitched screech that is intriguingly similar. It seems to be coming from the East...
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poo poo I really need to learn to interact with stuff in our square before voting on movement. |
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