Are the soldiers strong enought to chip or break the walls or floor ?
Also, praise the children for caring the rats.

We need find out more about what direction, how long ago and if he actually noticed us or just his dog did, if it was just the dog we might be alright for a while

Also we need to check our sex organs

Badass. Scarface dog monster frog spider.

I'm going to reiterate my question. What has all this splicing done to our sexual traits? Are we still a hermaphrodite, or are we taking on definite sexes making sexual management necessary?

impregnate one of the non warriors and have all 3 of your warriors take a mate

our numbers are dwindling and that is very bad for a species of 11

Hey, are we moving upstream, downstream, or what?
Any good flora/fauna?

>>6300541
No, we have to try and keep a low profile.
Replicating like crazy is going to attract a lot of attention, not to mention problems of food and management.

if mating is necessary specifically mate any females that have prevalent spider DNA, will result in shitons more

>>6300514
"He came from the direction that we think leads into an open area of water."
"Only the dog noticed us really... Man was loud. Loud and angry. Thin and hary."
Until now, you were a hermaphrodite. Upon checking your nethers, it's official.
You have gained true gender - you're male.

Can we impregnate all the castes or just our own ?
What about the others ?

>>6300575
Hell yeah.

We need one of our soldier kids to eat and evolve into a woman.

>>6300562
You're moving opposite the direction of the flowing current, going further and further away.
As for flora, as per usual, there's fungus and mold all over the place - but you're quite sure you can't copy the genetics of plantlife.
>>6300573
>>6300541
When you stop, you make a note to begin the breeding.

>>6300575
Anyone else thinking "overpower the old man and his dog and head for the ocean"?
How big was the dog?

>>6300588
You're capable of breeding with anything that originally came from you.

>>6300486
It's actually a shame we ended up male. In most hive societies it is the presence of a female that propagates the species that creates dominance. But one can't argue with evolution.

As for mating, If it were to be done, it would need to be done with the workers. To generate a well maintained nest whenever we find a new home.

With humans on our tail we should go into hiding and build ourselves up, and try to stay as un noticed as possible for as long as possible.

>>6300617
"It was about... maybe... twice the size you are now?"

Two and a half feet long, over a foot off the ground.

>>6300596
No, another child will, by eating female creatures.

>>6300617
lolno, we're the only ones who can swim and we don't know if we can overpower the dog AND the man.
If the man escapes, we're done.

>>6300644
Actually, finslugs are very good swimmers.
You have no idea how good at swimming your latest soldiers are, though.

>>6300630
we should have all efforts focused on finding a temporary safer local and then amphibian DNA much easier to outwit non sentient things in the ocean that try to outwit man on land, at least for starters

>>6300628
Let's bang ALL of our kids.

We need venom of some kind so we can deal with larger threats.

Aniways, search for a deep hole or pipe or somewhere with relatively small entrances. Somewhere the man or the dog can't fit.

>>6300669

We need to experiment and discover all of our capabilities.

>>6300675
Oh dear, am I retarded? I think I missed something.

>>6300644
Maybe as a long-term goal, then.
I suppose in our current state, the dog alone is pushing our luck, even with our fresh soldiers.
And the dog will probably alert the man before we get much done.

>>6300669
venom is rarely immediate especially against things larger than us. also we might get poisoned in the process of obtaining it.

>>6300672
Agreed, think insect, crawl into a small hole and build an army up

>>6300672
You find all sorts of pipes - pipes that you used to be able to fit into. Pipes that most of your kids still might be able to fit into. You, however, don't.

Also, here are the sizes of your kid soldiers:
Zovut: 12 inches long, 2 inches off the ground
Menya: 10 inches long, 2 inches off the ground
Shnur: 8 inches long, 4 inches off the ground

>>6300666
the ocean sounds like a great place to die horribly, I vote to stay the fuck out of the ocean

Our finslugs can swim?
Let's send a few downstream with soldier escorts to bring back some little fishies for mama, er papa.

Are our soldiers strong enought to chip or break the walls or floor ? What about pipes and stuff like that ?

What about grids? There should be a pipe with a grid somewhere, and those pipes are usually the big ones and we should be able to fit somehow.

WHAT CAN WE, AS IN OUR PITBULL MONSTER, DO?

>>6300738
>chip or break walls

We're not super powered, just genetically awesome.

>>6300723
The only remotely decent swimmer out of your soldiers is Zovut.
Nonetheless, who agrees with this?
>>6300740
You never know until you try.
>>6300738
No. As for finding a gridded pipe - keep on looking.

From previous thread:
You awaken. You're used to it by now. This time, the shell doesn't slowly crackle as you struggle break free. It shatters as you burst out with a roar.

Your mouth. No longer do you have a pair of mandibles - they appears to have reformed into a set of needle-like teeth in a gaping maw. Not quite the impressive gnashers that your son possessed - but still, quite intimidating. Your eight eyes have merged into four, bulbous, hooded eyes. Your harpoon appears to have grown back with a strong, muscular tongue. Your body is now rather slimy, its chitin having been weakened - it has regressed back towards a rough hide. Your body structure is like that of a bulldog - you have a large, heavy body but four squat, powerful legs, each of them tipped with lethal looking claws connected by webbing. You used to have six legs, however, and the central pair have shrunk, having folded in towards your chest - practically useless at this rate. Your spinnerets have also increased in size, along with you, although it's no longer in a position where you can throw webbing - only weave. Finally, your white hue finally seems to be changing - you're becoming a meaty pink colour and beneath your skin, you feel... bones. Proper bones.

I really think get some amphibian DNA we can form a freaky monster underwater colony, where we probably won't be discovered and we are intelligent enough we can defend and absorb non sentient predators reasonably easily. and we aren't big enough to attract most really scary things underwater

>>6300766
I'm pretty sure that ants can dig thru concrete with enought time.

Find someplace where the man and his dog could not fit.

Put all gestation energy towards evolution rather than size for the next few rounds.

Reproduce ASAP. We need more young, as our numbers are getting perilously low.

Let's take a dip in the water.

hmm keeping in mind our spinners have enlarged, our web is gonna be a good deal stronger. lets be sure to eat a good deal of spiders each interval to retain this feature and have it grow with us

So clearly we are lacking what we need to tackle the next wave of threats. There are plenty of animals to assimilate that present possible solutions, what we need to figure out is which ones we can achieve assimilation of easiest.

Although new nest sit is a more pressing issue.

I say we don't go in water until we're absolutely sure it's safe.
We don't want to lose any more children to eventual drains or even worse, alligators.

>>6300775
There's always something just slightly bigger than you interested in chowing down on delicious slugflesh.

>>6300791
What we need to figure out is what we can do.

Try everything we've done before. Spitting, using our tongue, our paws/claws, swimming.

Discover what our capabilities are.

>>6300789
I agree, also! Spiders are predicted to be the next major hive insectoid like creature [what with the discovery channel totally being 100% accurate with their biology predictions...] anyway. I think the point is we should keep spider in the diet.

I also agree we should take a swim so we can play around with our webbed feet.

smaller pipe that we can fit in but dog cannot, stay out of deep water if possible, asses genetic material and bring as much of our old stocks as we can with us, or come back for it once we have found somewhere.

>>6300789
Here's how evolution works for you:
The more you use it, the more it can improve.
Everything is a slot. For example, the spinnerets count as a 'tail' slot, for simplified purposes. So, if you try to max out evolution in something that has a tail, chances are, your spinnerets might be replaced with a tail.

>>6300806
be sure to have a web safety cord in case you can't swim.

>>6300772

I am not in favour of sending our swim-soldier downstream on his own. The risk of discovery is too high. We need to find someplace secluded and secure and build up our strength.

Although let's make sure we don't find some hard-to-reach corner to hole up in and subsequently gestate to the point where we're too big to get out of it. That'd be dumb.

>>6300806
Agreed . Stretch our legs (and tongue) a little (maybe a little swim) and rebuild the nets and webs to keep a steady food supply.
Expand warning threads this time.

>>6300856
Well I think our next metamorphosis should focus entirely on our evolution, we can worry about size later

>>6300856
we could always become strong enought to break off the obstacle.

>>6300873

I am not aware of any sewer-dwelling creatures with traits we can use that can chomp its way through concrete and masonry.

>>6300896
ants

>>6300806
You try and spit. You spit out a small wad of bile, but it's nothing impressive - definitely not a weapon.
Okay, let's try the harpo-- HOLY SHIT! That certainly has a kick on it - your tongue goes flying forward, a two-inch long spike dripping with something sailing through the air at incredible speeds - before with enough suction, you reel it back in. The downside is, it fucking smarts when you use it. Ow.
You spray a safety-line, a long, fairly thick capable capable of supporting your weight - and you dive into the water. You swim like a fucking pro - not quite the natural, fishlike swimming of the finslug, but definitely quite athletically.
Finally, to finish it off - you gather speed before you jump out of the water. You also almost go flying into a wall. You easily jumped... what, seven, eight feet? Damn incredible.

You come to the conclusion that you are awesome and you thank Slul-Hugoth for making you awesome.

Your children are bemused.

>>6300873
In all honesty, you suggest a lot of things that don't make any sense.

ok so I think we can safely stay here for a while, expand the next and send out soldier unit to search for frog's and other amphibians, we don't want them fighting anything unless they have to though, just bring back frogs

>>6300901
Lets find a nest, and start building, its time for a good old turtle RTS campaign.

>>6300902
I'm just a lateral thinker.
Aniways, we're pretty much a ninja pitbull.
Keep on searching and eat something interesting on the way.

We are fucking badass.

>>6300922
No, we can't! We're in the middle of one of the sewer tunnels!

If we want to get out of the sewer, we may be going the wrong way. As dangerous as it may be, where the human came from is out best bet for escape.

>>6300950
Again, we don't want to escape.
We want to hide in a deep, grated off pipe and build up our forces and evolution.

You locate a nest, at least, deeper into the sewage city - deeper beneath the city. Shnur's ears perk up every once in a while as it listened for threats. Every once in a while, it warns that a cat may be nearby. Apparently the wretched things are more common up here.
Finally, you come across a gridded pipe. Tearing off the grid with tooth and fang, you force your way into the pipe. It's a nice, fairly concealed area and large enough for you and your kind to make some form of base.

>>6300927
Yes! Turtle! Time to spend some quality time evolving and managing our troops. Once we have sufficient awesomeness we can re-mobilize. Also, remember to have the remaining children gestate once we reach our new home.

Put back the grid in place with your web.
Make an orgy.

>>6300944
man left, man control's dog, man didn't notice us though. we could gamble and stay here for a single gestation likely for our workers to improve how effective we can build our next nest. it may also open new options for what we can build.

might be a gamble but worst case us and the soldiers could carry the cocoons and flee.

>>6300958
I mean when we do want to leave, not yet of course.

>>6300901
I was initially very dissapointed by the results of our last morph but this is looking a lot more promising.

With these capabilities it looks like we ourselves will be capable of some shadow of the collosus esque feats if it becomes neccessary. Which, given the risk of collateral to our children, we should hope it doesn't.

Continue to look for pipes that are only just too small for that last dog to enter. Remember people we will grow again the next time we gestate, we need to be able to make it out again.

>>6300901

If we eat something that's got claws and good teeth we will be able to lurk in the water before jumping out on things from a long way away and RIP AND TEARing them to bits.

Fuck yeah, Slul-Hugoth.

>>6300977
never midn this works out well, i was more concerned we would loose more young traveling

Do any of our children possess gender?

>>6300960
>>6300977

we have found the nest. I suggest to put back the grid in place and seal it with webbing.
Then, have an orgy.
>>6300990

>>6300994
They're all hermaphrodites.
>>6300969
Commence impregnation orgy?

Keep going. I still think we can find the corpse of something big, strong and maybe even smart to eat and make a nest out of.

ok we need to gather food again, I'm assuming most of our supplies were lost with having to move.

>>6301013
This later, when we will get someone as scout.
Meanwhile let's fuck everything with a hole in it god dommot

>>6301008
Sure, why the hell not.

>>6301014
You have nine rats at your disposal - but at this rate, all a rat is to you is an average meal, where it used to be a massive fucking feast.

>>6301008
Yep, orgy time!

>>6301008
Not seriously. Don't impregnate EVERYONE. Just ~3. Don't impregnate the ones that we've designated gatherers since they are the ones we want to gestate next.

>>6301008
Eh....maybe not so much an orgy. A candlelight dinner, a bed made of the finest ass-silk, and a small harem.

>>6301031
What genders are the rats? We could have one of our children eat the females, and become a breeding partner for us.

>>6301031
Start to make them breed then. Use your mind control powers to make them horny.
After having the orgy, start sending gatherers and workers to catch food.

>>6301008

AFFIRMATIVE.

Also, we need to be careful with our timing here and make sure that we're awake and active when the next round of eggs hatch so that we can imprint them with how awesome we are. No more traitors while we gestate.

>>6301045
we will use the extra eggs as food.

All ten of your children have been knocked up. Congratulations - within a week, they will be ready to lay their eggs and not too long after that, those eggs will hatch into...
... approximately three hundred grandchildren.

>>6301067
Hrmm, time to move into a more fertile valley.

>>6301067
>>three hundred
Good job guys.

Leave only 10-15 eggs, the rest will be usedas food.

These creatures who come out of this next batch of eggs will likely be pretty bad ass considering they will have our current structure.

We shouldn't give them all this DNA as we want some of them to break off into different jobs.

But we should procreate often and smart, to make sure if we suffer losses they are not a big deal.

Eggs will be laid in seven days time or immediately after gestation.
Currently, you need: FOOD.

Your only current food source is each other and nine rats.

>>6301067
Ah shit, well that's gonna be interesting.

>>6301067
Haha Um. Nice.

>>6301093
Yeah, We'll have enough trouble keeping track of 30 offspring, let alone 300.
Let's get to know our soldiers. See if they're still loyal and could lead small groups of children outward.

>>6301114
Have one of the preggers lay their eggs, then proceed to eat the eggs.

>>6301067

Delicious, delicious grandchildren.

Did we account for all the members of our original brood? Like, are the ones with us the only survivors, or are there potentially others of our offspring out there in the sewers? I seem to recall that they split up into small groups during Schmahkah's reign, but did they all get recalled?

>>6301125
Seven days time.

Kill a rat for your children, then start going out with your children in hunting missions, escorting them against cats.
In case of cat attack, try to jump on it and tongue-spear his brain.

>>6301122
Lets head out solo style and see if we can hunt down a big game to drag back to the soon to be hive.

Keep one warrior with the little ones to keep them safe. Send one after small game, and bring one to help us hunt.

>>6301126
Shmahkah called for all of his brothers and sisters to watch him defeat you. There were thirteen or twelve or maybe eleven of them, maybe including or excluding Shmahkah. Your memory's a bit hazy. You were a bit bloodthirsty back then.

>>6301148
bring the one with hearing, so it can tell us where is our target beforehand.

>>6301114
We're under a fucking city.
Isn't all sorts of edible trash floating by?
Are flying and floating things abundant?
If no, send out 3 parties led by a soldier to scout the area.

>>6301158
Zovut is the swimmer.
Menya is the tank.
Shnur is the scout.

Just to define their roles.

Can't you pick some more normal names ? These are hard to remember.

>>6301181
The swimmer, the tank, the scout.
What's so hard?

How long can we go without food?

>>6301167
All sorts of edible trash is floating by, yes. How would you wish to obtain edible trash? Would you like to set up fishing lines or get it piecemeal or?

Anyway, judging from the feces, this area probably contains:
Ant
Rat
Roach
Silverfish
Cat
Spider
Fox
Toad

Some of the new batch should be eaten, especially if they have interesting mixes of attributes for ourselves or our children to evolve with.

>>6301198
A handful of days, really.

Take Shnur out hunting. He roves ahead and spots any likely-looking prey, and either leads us to it, or does his best to look weak and delicious and lead them to us, where we jump on it from ambush and tear it to bits.

We are smart and can communicate with our brethren. This makes us awesome pack-hunters.

Send the swimmer collecting food/things in the water, any meat/trash/bugs anything he can get and kill and start stock piling.

Have the other slugs start up making our nest nice.

Keep the tank with the group, and take the scout with us for a hunt.

>>6301199

Definitely eat some trash via nets. And after bring our soldiers to scout to look for fox. Everyone else sets up a nest and collects food.

>>6301199
Excellent.
Lines and webs firstly.
Then we'll talk hunting.

>>6301217
seconded

>>6301201
Fishing lines are always usefoul. Make a few with your new extra strenght webbing.
Also, watch out for the dangerous animals.
>>6301199
Some? Most!

>>6301217
Pretty much this.

You open the gate and usher your finslug children into the water. They snatch at passing pieces of string and they begin to assemble fishing lines - as you do you, with your own webbing, that you clamber across like a monkey. Already, the trash is being caught.

Once this is done, you prepare to order your swimmer to be sent down stream to--
"Stop."
That was Shnur, your listener.
"Something's swimming towards us."

also, are there poisonous spiders?

>>6301261

Oh no...

>>6301261
everyone get the fuck out. Run back in behind the grates and observe it crashing into the fishing line.

>>6301263
You've already eaten a poisonous spider.

>>6301261

Out of the water!

Conceal yourselves! Ambush positions. >:[

>>6301261
Have the children (quietly) rally behind you and hide. Wait in the shadows to see what it is.

>>6301199
>Fox

holy shit, guys, we need to plan how to get us a fox.

Make a web net, us the tank to distract the fox (sacrifice for the greater good time) and drop the web-net on the fox. Let it starve, or maul it while it's trapped, doesn't matter.
Fox is the biggest baddest mofo of a food source we've found, and with our new size and strength I think it's doable.

>>6301287
wait for the new batch of children

>>6301261
Get the little shits back in the nest and have the tank protect them. Get our self perched above the water upside down holding onto webbing waiting for whatever it is to move below us and get lol speared.

er, can't we communicate via thought?
Ask Shnur what it sounded like, and try to get into it's head.
WHILE hiding.

Ambush time. Web the area. Alert all children.

>>6301261
>swimming
Prepare net for catching whatever it is while it's in the water!

>>6301298
this, get on the ceiling and make a web-net. When whatever it is floats underneath, drop the net, and spear the fucker.

>>6301298
The tank and ourselves should definitely be on point.

You hide. Quickly.

It's not something. It's many somethings. It's a school of something. Several fins can be seen gliding through the water as these filthy fish struggle get past your fishing lines. They're biting through them and savagely ripping away, trying to follow the direction of the stream.

Fix your self to the ground with webbing and try to spear one and pull it out of the water. Have your children help you by pulling your tongue or something.

>>6301347
snag one or two, let the rest pass.
A single fish can feed most of the children, the point here is to not go crazy trying to grab everything and have somebody get hurt. Keep out of the water if possible.
Instruct offspring to gather the lines up and see if they can catch any fish in them.

>>6301364
This!
Start fishing, by skewering them!

>>6301347
First question. How big are they.
Second question. How big are they.

Harpoon the smallest one you see.

WHITE WHALE

HOLY GRAIL

>>6301347

Harpoon-spear one of them, let it suffocate on the side of the sewer.

Gills would be hella-useful, though gills AND lungs would be boss.

>>6301364
You manage to quite accurately, spear one. Then, you begin to hear the thoughts.
"Blood."
"Blood?"
"Blood!"
"BLOODBLOODBLOODBLOODBLOOD"

There's a sudden frenzy as the fish begin to turn and thrash, desperately trying to leap and up and cannibalize the slain comrade. Where you were previously trying to haul up one fish, you're not trying to drag up a writhing throng of four, struggling and wriggling violently as they consume their dying brother.

We're the alpha male. We jump in, grab fish in mouth/claws, throw it on land and let the soldiers deal with the details of killing it.

>>6301399
PULL!! KILL! PULL! SAVE OUR TONGUE!

>>6301399

...these are some fucked-up carp, yo.

Sure they're not piranhas?

Have your children help you by pulling the tongue. Also be careful that the fishes don't bite your tongue!

>>6301419
What if they are?

Pull like a motherfucker! Get all of them up! Have the children pull with you!

Have the soldiers strike at the hang-ons. Knock the bitches off. One fish at a time, yo.

>>6301399
Mentally shout fear of death at them, make them think there is a giant predator swimming this way so hopefully they will let go of the feeding frenzy

Our telepathic powers have probably gotten so much stronger now. Try to invoke fear in their minds.

Your soldiers swarm over to you, tugging on your tongue, trying to lift away one of the carp. However, your finslug children do not - is that the glitter of imagination that you detect?
"For Slul-Hugoth!"
"Death to the Traitor!"
"For the Patriarch!"
Suddenly, the seven of your children who have not evolved suddenly projectile vomit, practically in unison. The carp wriggle and thrash - before they release their victim and sink back into the water, swimming away, leaving you with a one-foot-three-inch long carp, struggling from your harpoon. It is a bit stunted.

Wait what? Who is the traitor?
Who are they shooting at?
explain better plz

>>6301502
Let loose one fatherly tear of pride.
Kill the fishie, quickly, but don't eat yet. Let's try another.

>>6301520
The traitor was the title that was given to Schmahkah.
They're shooting at the carp.

Reel it in. Try and spear another if the school is still there.

>>6301520

I'm guessing it's a slug battlecry, after we defeated and devoured Schmahkah.

Wait...we just heard our childrens thoughts...Does this mind reading work both ways? Can they hear our scheming?! They cannot be allowed to detect any uncertainty within us.

ahhh... I see.
Well then, tell them you're proud of them.
Try to reel in another fish.

You snatch up the carp, hanging by your hind legs as you tear out its head to kill it and end its struggle. Then, you pin it to the wall.

You try to shoot another the closest one to you - the only one that hasn't escaped. You want to know why it hasn't escaped?

It's the biggest.

Your harpoon has sunk into a violently thrashing three-foot long carp and even if you find it incredibly hard to hold on to your webbing - it's going to tear you away.

>>6301586
Well then release the harpoon and hit it again.
Play pincushion with it, until it bleeds off to death

>>6301586
Have the children reinforce us and prepare another volley.

FFFFFFFFFFFF

Do any of our children have harpoons? if so, spear! If not, still vomit.

>>6301502

Stunted but delicious.

Broadcast exultant triumph and praise to the brood, and prepare to take our prize back to the lair.

We should think carefully before incorporating its DNA into our next evolution - on the one hand we could gain water-breathing, on the other hand we could lose air-breating.

Could be useful for some of our finslug offspring, though.

Tell the soldiers to grab your feet and help you staying down.

Leap into the water on top of it as we reel in the spike, but don't pull it free, wrap out claws all around it bite, squeeze and spear until it stops thrashing.

>>6301631
Oh fuck, right! We're part toad!

Go with it. Hang on to the thing, dig claws in, and bite it until it bleeds to death.

>>6301586
leap off the wall and into the water and bite the motherfucker. FOR GLORY

it's time to remind the kiddies who the resident badass is

The rest of the school as left so it's all alone. we have webbed feet that make us a very strong swimmer, and jaws and clawed hands. Jump down at it and body-slam the thing to stun it, then grab on and bite the holy living fuck out of it. Once it's dead, haul it to land and head home with your spoils of victory and honor.

Your soldiers try to pin you down while you try to reel your harpoon back in - but it tears out, not bringing the carp back with it. You shoot again, but this time, you miss. Your children spit out their vomit and the fish continues to thrash in the water - before it finally smashes past the final fishing lines with the aid of the vomit. Scared and bleeding, it swims away, leaving a trail of blood in its wake.

We're not bleeding are we?
Well, if so jump in the water and kill it down. It's severely wounded and escaping, shouldn't be too hard.
Tell everyone to go back inside and stay there until you return.

>>6301662
Is it slow enough to chase?

>>6301662
Damn. Rebuild nets and webbing. Lots o' fatherly praise, but save the fish for select few.

>>6301682
>>6301678
Is it? That's for you to decide. Do you want to give chase or stay behind with your kids?

>>6301678
Yeah. Bring the swimmer for back-up and instruct the children to rebuild. If we can leap 8 feet out of water, we can probably deliver a punishing blow leaping in.

Get after that shit head he's a whole lot of dinner. We don't start shit not to finish it!

>>6301691
I disagree, give everyone a piece of the fish.

We're trying to foster loyalty and family, and everyone worked to bring this food into the home, so everyone should get a piece.

We should get the biggest piece of course, cuz that's what daddy gets.

Let's chase it just enought to understand if we can catch it or not. If he goes faster than us, leave him be, otherwise catch it.

Chase it with the swimmer, tell the rest of the kids that they can go to town if they leave some for us.

We had a good fight, but the big carp is twice as long as us and probably weighs at least four times as much, if not more. It's beyond our capabilities for now.

Repair the nets and webbing. Take satisfaction in the carp we did manage to land, and carry it back to the nest for a victory feast.

Tell the kids to sit tight and keep safe, go catch that fucker. If it gets back to its home boys they will eat him.

>>6301711
Bring the swimmer for back-up.
Blood is in the water.
The prey shall soon be ours.
Let's do this.

>>6301711
leave it, he's swimming back to his school of buddies.
We don't want to run off alone chasing one fish, only to turn a corner and have an entire angry school of carp waiting to avenge their fallen, in a matter of speaking

>>6301748
buddies?
his "buddies" are going to eat him just like they did with the fish we were reeling in before.

>>6301748
But we have the distinct advantage of being able to return to land. We can leap 8 fucking feet out of the water, more than enough to escape.

>>6301748
so then we have an entire school of carp that is still just as angry, and now they've eaten our meal.

It's still a lose-lose situation

Living as a predator is a matter of balancing risk and need.

We don't need to chase after the carp - we've got one we've already caught that's pretty much as big as we are, and will feed the nest for the immediate future.

Meanwhile going after the carp does hold the unnecessary risk of injury for us or any of our young who accompany us.

You give chase, due to that being the most popular option.

Its fins are burned. It is tiring from its bleeding wound - as well from something else. It's clearly exhausted and tired... It wants to give up, but it needs to survive. It's struggling for freedom.

With your athletic swimming ability, you're able to swim after it, with your swimming soldier accompanying you on the way. You can catch up; you can do this.

>>6301782
Damn you and your logic.
I suppose we should let it go then.

Don't make chase. It'll be a waste of time, we should set ourselves up for other things. Like catching foxes and cats.

Also, missed nearly two threads now. Damn.

is the bank far away?
Y -> kill the giant fish
N -> Run

>>6301807
woops invert the two choices

>>6301820
You can easily jump on to the bank of the sewage flow from your distance from it. The same can't be said for your swimmer soldier, however.

Just kill it and drag it back. It doesn't seem like that much effort for all the extra food it'll net us.

>>6301792
MIND BLAST! DEFEAT! SURRENDER! REST! GIVE UP! SO TIRED! STOP SWIMMING!

>>6301829
The swimmer is BACKUP. Have him keep a safe distance for now.

>>6301792
close for the kill. We have to get it ASAP before it alerts anything else that may be lurking down here (like the cats that the OP mentioned were more numerous down here, or the foxes)

>It is tiring from its bleeding wound - as well from something else
Well hello, looks like we're venomous as well. Awesome.

>>6301792

Keep an eye out for the other carp! They will smell the blood and come to feed!

>>6301831
I agree, lets use our psyker powers

Swim beneath it, fire tongue into its neck or through its head via its jaw, then drag the fucker back.

Out of curiosity: How the cock are we going to get this enormous fish back to the nest?

>>6301879
swimming

>>6301879
Spear it, drag it.

Also, we can take that fucker. Can we spear him from here? Also, second the mind blast!

"Fatigue. Exhaustion. Despair. DEFEAT."
You swim closer, while ordering your swimmer soldier to stand back. You fire your harpoon into its side and reel it in towards you as you dive forward, the monster of a carp slowly ceasing in its struggle. Despite the fact it's still alive and conscious it's... not even moving. Your telepathic ability is strong enough to temporarily disable the survival instincts of unintelligent animals, it seems. You don't brood on that for long, however, because something far more terrifying has just entered your mind. That familiar chant has entered your mind once more and is coming closer.
"... BLOODBLOODBLOODBLOODBLOOD"

>>6301879
We don't have to bring all of it, at least not in one trip anyway.
Remember we decapitated the last fish like grass on a Saturday morning, with ONE BITE.

Oh shit! Spear our kill and leap out!

Jump out of the water and tell our escort to do aswell.
However, do not unsnap the reel, instead tell the swimer to call support.

>>6301931
That fish was roughly the same size as you, and it involved a bit of wrenching power.

This one is double your size and probably triple your weight.

>>6301930
Cut off as much as we can and swim for shore like a shark on a Saturday afternoon.

Just get it, or as much of it as possible, to shore as quickly as we can.

>>6301971
we can jump out of the water.

Try to spear and poison the other fishes too.

I say again, spear it and try to pull. Use our empathy to depress the other fish, if we try to make them leave they should slow in their approach. I mean we can stop a whole fucking city, slowing a few fish is no problem!

Have the swimmer latch onto us and hop out of the water, then try to use our powers once more to over come the fish hungry for blood.

This way we might lose our kill if it does not work, but we are safe.

If it DOES work we get all of our kill and find out how strong our powers are.

>>6302014
Stopped an entire fucking city full of humans. And we evolved.

Stop fishies, spear kill, leap to shore.

>>6302014
seconded

>>6302006
That may have been a "heat of the moment" thing, but if growth includes mental growth, we could try to curb bloodlust.

Put disgust into the fish minds. Make them think that there's something wrong with this corpse, it's gone bad, look for your blood elsewhere.

We have our "leap out of the water like a motherfucker" ability.
Grab a slice of fish and get the fuck out before the cavalry arrives.
It won't be a total loss.

You manage to rip a dozen pounds worth of meat off of its side and finally, the fish falls limp, going with the current and straight into the mouths of its waiting kin, who proceed to tear it to shreds. Hey, sewer life is hard life. Beggars can't be choosers.

You sink to the bottom of the sewage - and then propel yourself out with your legs, landing on the shore. A shame you didn't get all of it - for you lost more than you know. Still, it's time to retreat to your brood with your prize.

>>6302014
Agreed 100% it's time to test the power of our Psychic limits. Use the most massive mind blast we can think up to try and sway the fish to become cattle, they are loud, but they are simple minded. We must use this to our advantage. Short them out.

ummm we go to our brood ?

>>6302041
We should start eating it. Maybe share some with the children. And then we try to set up a base of operations, we want those cats and foxes.

>>6302041
>you lost more than you know.

Was that...was that one of our children? Did Schmahkah have a defector that took to the seas?

We shouldn't leave just yet, we may still be able to sway this swarm, No harm in at least trying.

>>6302029
Two other options come to mind:
-Override bloodlust with fear
-Make them turn on each other

>>6302041
Return with head held high!
Sing praises to Slul-Hogoth, his mighty Prophet, and his loyal children.

>>6302072
This. Pump as much fear as we can, hopefully it won't register to flee and we can get to eating.

>>6302069
We haven't tried affecting multiple animals before, have we? Let's give two or three a shot.

>>6302064
OP's probably referring to some lost potential for evolution, as in we didn't get enough of the fish to really benefit from on our next gestalt

We get a good chunk of the large one, everyone else can eat the stunted one. Leave...what, 2/3? half? of the chunk for baby food. We have a legion of children coming up, remember?

>>6302069
Are you sure you want to put everything you've got into this?

>>6302104
Or he's referring to the child we just left down there.

>>6302117
I sure as hell am. If we can stun a school of fish, a cat or a fox should be no problem.

We need to test the limits of our power, and I'm willing to risk a few perils of the warp.

>>6302110
We can't feed three hundred. Maybe the children should fight eachother, and the last few survivors, about ten to twenty or so? Maybe thirty. The last few eat the fallen and try to evolve.

>>6302117
We're feeling out our limits.
Go for a fish, then two, then three.

Save our scout and go, promote him to BOSS SWIMMER.

>>6302135
You order your soldier swimmer to go back to your brood, then.

One last check. How high do you want to go.

Get out of the water with our little buddy. Use our mind power to see what we can do to the fish. Like everyone has said this.

>>6302153
Repel 5 fish.
5 is a lot.

Okay then.

You're out of the water. Your soldier swimmer is out of the body of water and you give it your best shot. You try your very best to match what you did to Schmahkah, except... differently. You suck in a deep breath and then with all of your might, you let out a gigantic psychic exhale, telepathic signals screaming throughout the sewer system.
"FEAR ME."
Almost instantly, the carp abandon the corpse. You see it just drifting... It's going downstream... Well, duh... When things float, they always go down... stream.
You collapse from mental exhaustion, blacking out.

>>6302153
Start Small, say 1 fish, and than push up slowly to see how many we can affect before it fucks with us.

>>6302153
all or nothing I say
What's the worst that could happen? A headache, a nosebleed?

Our psychic ability is FAR more powerful and better than any physical traits we may ever develop. We need to know what we can do, and it's better to be testing this safely from land on a school of fish, than when we're in the foxes jaws and have to rely on an untested last resort and the favor of a god we've just invented for ourselves.

Well, it was worth it. We know that we can collapse from it, but we also know that it's good enough to scatter an entire school of fish.

This will definitely work on one fox.

>>6302223
Well Blacking out does indeed suck a dick....

I hope someone comes by to check on us before something eats us!

>>6302251
Our child is with us. Hopefully hell telepathically call for backup or something...

>>6302243
lol


oh come on, it could have been worse. We could have blacked out while in the water or something.

Good thing we just impressed the hell out of our brood with our manliness. They should be happy to carry their glorious leader back and nurse him to health.

>>6302265
>You order your soldier swimmer to go back to your brood, then.

Nah this one is fuck creek boys and girls.

>>6302278
I don't remember ordering anything!
Who the fuck ordered that!?

>>6302294
I'm quite sure you folks wanted the soldier swimmer out of the situation. Could've sworn I read that further up.

>>6302135

No way, dude, that'll draw attention to us like nothing else. Something terrifying and freaky in the sewers? There'll be dogs and search-parties crawling all over the place.

>>6302303
I support you're decision, I think we agreed on sending the swimmer away from the school of bloodthirsty fish before he got pwnd.

>>6302304
or every animal within a half mile will shit it's pants and run away from the feeling.

Might make finding food harder but hey . . .
I think we're alone now, there doesn't seem to be anyone around.

>>6302303
We said from the start, before the fish were even fully upon us to get out of the water with him on us or by our side so we were both safe and still together. Test our powers.

>>6302321
ALL ABOARD THE FAILTRAIN!!

>>6302321
Yeah, I admit it. This situation turned out a little bit fubar due to the fact that I didn't read all of the posts in the right order.
The thread is continued here, and fixed a bit too:
>>6302328

>telepathic signals screaming throughout the sewer system.
How far did this reach..? I think our children must have noticed, and maybe everything else on this end of the sewer. Hell, maybe some people sitting on toilets up above just had the the rest of the shit scared out of them.

return quickly, with the additional meat, and our escort