20:42:23 W<Wellwick|GM> ...
20:42:23 The creature was birthed in a moment of chaos. A fight between titans (compared to it's size at least) being waged passing unaware to it as passed through the tingling air. It was blind, deaf, only capable of sensing it's environment through the minute changes in light and the passing air.
20:42:23 It was the size of a pill, barely noticeable as it struck the flesh of one of the titans. It's head burrowed into the soft warmness, shedding the piercing, harder shell of it's head as it wiggled into the warmth.
20:43:36 As it worked it's way in deeper, instinct driving it into the warmth, the vibrations of the sounds of battle lessened and were replaced by the rhythmic pulse of rushing blood vessels and creaking bone joints.
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20:44:56 W<Wellwick|GM> It's brain was tiny, so much so that it was running mostly on instinct, driving it further into the center of it's host.
20:46:31 After much wiggling and travelling, it started to settle into a spot and rest. It recuperated some of it's lost energy from the warmth surrounding it, digging into the minutiae of nutrients available around it. Survival instincts dealt with, it begins to turn to newer, stranger ideas.||
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20:50:56 D<Druza|Parasite> The creature in unfamiliar places, darkness all around, yet something was driving it, a niggling feeling that it needs to move upwards, the body new and weak makes it hard to figure out where upwards would be, but its instinct guides it. ||
20:53:53 W<Wellwick|GM> It begins to move again, breaking it's way into a smaller blood vessel. It holds itself down, feeling small hairs beginning to grow along it's body as it holds itself down against the flow. It has to burn through most of the nutrients it has stored, but luckily the rushing vessels are plentiful in the resources it needs.
20:56:33 It slowly begins to notice how the blood flows and builds a small pouch into itself to store some of the strange liquid. It can't quite figure out what makes a liquid and a solid different, but it can sense how the liquid orients in the small pouch it has sealed off around itself.
20:58:06 The way the liquid pushes down on itself, it's instincts drive it to fight against the force. Through this, it begins it's slow journey upwards.||
21:04:18 D<Druza|Parasite> The creature reacts to the liquid when it tries to move it gets pushed back, but it's taking it in, it digs in harder and stays stationary absorbing more nutrients. The creature starts slowly making progress forward, each time it moves forward it stops to absorb more, it starts pressing for more force attempting to find a way to jump and latch on. ||
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21:08:00 W<Wellwick|GM> Wiggling it so /slow/. Some of the nutrients get poured into making the hairs thicker, stronger, but it's an imprecise act. Many of them grow a little too long, or too thick, whereas others end up breaking off due to the rushing current.
21:09:43 It tries to morph it's shape, flexing so it's more streamlined against the current and finds that pulling itself forward and then making another 'step' is quicker than wriggling, with rests to reabsorb nutrients after each of these bends and stretches. It grows longer, to maintain it's streamlined nature.
21:11:42 Longer means further reach, bigger steps. It starts being able to reach the other edge of the capillary it lays within, but soon discovers that the blood vessel is arching away from the 'up' that it wants to follow.||
21:19:05 D<Druza|Parasite> The creature sees the blood vessel going away, the instincts tell it to jump but yet it does not, it stays absorbing nutrients and growing larger, with every moment that passes it grabs more, it stays there awaiting the chance to be large enough to reach the blood vessel ||
21:20:20 W<Wellwick|GM> Time passes, the creature passing into a state of near hibernation as it lays in wait, expanding, taking on nutrients.
21:22:08 At a certain point it begins pressing up against the edges of the capillary it lies within. The rushing current stops as it blocks the entrance, but it has to double down on the hairs clutching through the edges of the blood vessel it finds itself in, the hairs digging in deep as it holds the position in.
21:22:11 ||
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21:22:42 D<Druza|Parasite> ((Can i start moving upwards?))
21:23:27 W<Wellwick|GM> ((Yep, but you are gonna need to burst through the blood vessel ceiling. Digging through the body is gonna be it's own challenge.))
21:23:53 D<Druza|Parasite> ((kk))
21:24:19 W<Wellwick|GM> ((Need to make some sort of specific action or adaptation to be able to break through the capillary surface as it is thicker further along here.))
21:26:58 D<Druza|Parasite> The creature tries to move upwards, yet the surface was preventing it from breaking through, the nutrients absorbed starts getting used for breaking through, the hair hardens getting sharper as it attempts to break out.||
21:29:57 W<Wellwick|GM> The hairs harden, becoming more shell like and the creature grows even more of the small hairs, bundling a collection together so that it can optimise it's growth.
21:31:53 The resulting horn is blunt ended, sloping inwards in the middle to produce a sort of pillar shape where the base and end are thicker than the center. The wall is pushed aside as it wiggles itself out, but it immediately begins encountering other tapering organs or thicker, harder set materials.
21:32:19 It used the I-horn to push things aside, to feel around, but it is slow progress.
21:33:50 Eventually it hits a hard expanse of something which is can't pierce through or push to the side. Following the slope might take it away from the up direction that it was heading before and it's already feeling the depletion of resources as it travelled for so long without a resupply.||
21:36:52 D<Druza|Parasite> The creature adjusts and adapts, the horn gets changed, when it's breaking down materials it starts absorbing whatever it breaks down, it digs in to absorb resources, the instincts are telling it to move upwards, yet it keeps getting forced back, it is however undeterred. ||
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21:44:52 W<Wellwick|GM> The horn shrinks, compacting down as it tries to make use of some of the nutrients left behind in it.
21:45:21 It gets more brittle, drier, but also better at absorbing and passing nutrients down to the parasite.
21:46:34 It tries to wiggle forward, trying to dig into the surface, but it doesn't have the force or momentum needed to pierce through. It can feel softer organs either side of it, but those aren't in the direction that it wants to move in.||
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21:50:22 D<Druza|Parasite> The instincts tell it to move forward, but it sees that it is futile, it moves towards the softer organs, nutrients are low in number and it needed an increase in nutrients.||
21:52:32 W<Wellwick|GM> ((Time for an invented game mechanics thing. 1 more action against instinct before a brain upgrade is needed.))
21:53:16 D<Druza|Parasite> ((Oh shieeet))
21:53:30 ((I supposse instinct is auto gonna try to me upwards?))
21:55:31 W<Wellwick|GM> ((Yeah, just cause you defined that at the beginning as your instinctual goal))
21:57:10 Breaking into the newer softer organ, the creature becomes aware of a rush of new nutrients.
21:57:53 It's quick to try absorbing them, but begins to experience a newer sensation. Pain.
21:58:50 All of it's soft flesh that is in contact with the newer nutrient stings and it feels itself begin to be eaten away.||
21:59:07 ((Instinct would probably be fight/flight))
21:59:34 D<Druza|Parasite> ((FIGHT))
22:00:50 The instincts tell it to do something about the pain, the new sensation leaves the creature unable to resist the instincts, as the nutrients start getting used to change and adapt to the new threat, trying to beat it at it's own game. ||
22:01:26 W<Wellwick|GM> ((What's the aim with the adaption though?))
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22:03:39 D<Druza|Parasite> ((Resistance, essentially trying to make it not hurt it at all))
22:05:51 W<Wellwick|GM> As something tries to eat away at it's outsides, the parasite pushes it's adaption into making it's skin thicker, stronger. It does it in patches, trying multiple layers on one side and hardening the flesh on another side.
22:06:52 The layers still get eaten through, though slower, but it's the harder flesh which shows the most improvement. It does have the side effect of being harder to absorb nutrients however and it can also feel how much less flexible it is with harder skin.
22:07:52 On the flipside, the layers of flesh require a lot more maintenance.
22:08:33 It's battle with whatever is eating it's flesh isn't going well either way, as it can't rebuild the skin fast enough, spending more time absorbing nutrients than building adaptions.||
22:11:14 D<Druza|Parasite> The instincts starts telling it to run, and the creature listens moving as far away as possible, once out it starts trying to head upwards again,
22:11:40 the creature now wary readapts the horn to it's previous state and attempts to dig through upwards yet again. ||
22:12:37 W<Wellwick|GM> ((You doing anything with your skin?))
22:15:07 D<Druza|Parasite> (( nae letting it fall off, but once i'm out it'll start using the layered skin))
22:17:12 W<Wellwick|GM> ((roll me a brawn of 1d3, 3 to get through))
22:17:27 D<Druza|Parasite> $roll 1d3
22:17:27 A<+[ATM]> Druza|Parasite [2]  = 2
22:17:30 D<Druza|Parasite> ((rip))
22:18:34 W<Wellwick|GM> The horn fleshes out again, changing slightly from before so that it isn't pointier. No longer brittle, the creature wiggles forward trying to press up against the surface and break through, but it still doesn't have enough momentum to push through with.
22:19:22 It still lacks many muscles needed to really make fast progress.||
22:24:15 D<Druza|Parasite> The creatures start pulling nutrients and improves the horn further, the instincts forced it to go upwards and yet it could not. ||
22:25:23 W<Wellwick|GM> ((no surrounding nutrients))
22:25:52 D<Druza|Parasite> ((Can i draw from the body?))
22:25:56 W<Wellwick|GM> ((but yeah can keep trying to improve horn with the last of your current supply))
22:26:06 D<Druza|Parasite> ((Do it))
22:26:10 W<Wellwick|GM> ((You can sacrifice a bit of your length if you want as well))
22:26:14 D<Druza|Parasite> ((Sure))
22:26:25 (( The drill to pierce the heavens))
22:27:45 W<Wellwick|GM> The parasite contemplates the burning nutrients from before, trying to figure out how to use the burning feeling, but it's far too stupid. Instead it spends the nutrients on sharpening it's horn, buffing up it's strength so that it can't break.
22:28:17 It has to dig deep, using up the last of it's small reserve and even goes further, using up it's own mass, making itself smaller again.
22:29:27 The horn it ends up with is much stronger than it's squishy body, but it may still struggle to push it through the surface without many functional muscles.
22:29:34 ||
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22:32:53 D<Druza|Parasite> The parasite sacrifices more length to gain more muscles, it needs to break through yet it couldn't realise how.||
22:35:06 W<Wellwick|GM> The creature ends up as a ball, but finally has some muscles. It's flexible enough to be able to push itself around, but might end up rolling more than wiggling from here on.||
22:37:18 D<Druza|Parasite> It keeps digging trying to absorb nutrients once it gets through, it did not know what i needed to do as it let the instinct guide it. ||
22:37:54 W<Wellwick|GM> ((roll a d6, a 1 is the only possible failure))
22:38:07 D<Druza|Parasite> $roll 1d6
22:38:07 A<+[ATM]> Druza|Parasite [3]  = 3
22:38:10 D<Druza|Parasite> ((phew))
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22:39:24 W<Wellwick|GM> Finally, it pushes past the surface. Well, it pierces it at least. The surface is thick and slow to progress through, but eventually it manages to siphon it's way into this new organ.
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22:40:54 W<Wellwick|GM> When inside the organ, it finds itself digging into other blood vessels, some of which lead further up, even if at an angle.||
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22:45:33 D<Druza|Parasite> The creature starts absorbing the nutrients and then starts growing again, this time larger and stronger. after it's back to its previous size it starts to improve its skin making it harder and stronger yet again. ||
22:49:44 W<Wellwick|GM> It's slow progress making the adaptions, as it needs to build up the length and also the muscle all along it's body.
22:50:19 As the skin hardens, the absorption becomes slower, but it feels safer in it's new skin.||
22:52:26 D<Druza|Parasite> It keeps absorbing, once it's back. the pouches in its body expand with its new size, it starts digging in, attempting to stick itself to the organ.||
22:55:07 W<Wellwick|GM> ((pouches? As in nutrient storage?))
22:55:29 D<Druza|Parasite> ((mhm))
22:57:04 W<Wellwick|GM> The nutrient absorption is slow enough that it is only able to create a couple of pouches within itself to store nutrients, but it should be enough for one or two improvements moving further up.
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22:57:34 W<Wellwick|GM> ((Nutrient pouches count as a forward planning, a non instinct thing, so need a brain upgrade for a new idea))
22:57:42 D<Druza|Parasite> ((ok))
22:59:03 W<Wellwick|GM> As it comes up through the top of the organ again, it feels a tremble run through the body of it's host. It fails to wrap it's head around the idea of the damage it is causing to the body it is contained within.||
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23:00:39 D<Druza|Parasite> Once dug in the creature starts evolving a more efficient way to absorb nutrients, it tries to keep growing eventually aiming to grow enough to cover the entire organ. ||