>>7005784
Yes. if we have their leader then we can work on the others slowly.

>>7005784
But this is just the leader of he expedition?
Not of the entire base?

>>7005801
Ignore that, full on infiltrate and control that guy!

>>7005801
No its the base leader...

Do it.

>>7005801
Acts as both. He's the eyes and ears of the 'Russian government' in this expedition as well as a very intelligent man.

>>7005837
sounds like he would be a hard nut to crack. We most likely have the experience on our side when it comes to mind games, but still. Can we get any kind of readings off him at all? We know he's in charge here. How does he feel about us, currently?

I agree with Bill Murray's plan in the previous thread:
"Put the others into a serious dopamine binge, then enter Filipp's mind."

Once in we will be his favoured pet, he will demand all results to come to him. EVERYTHING will run through him. No one must make any contact with us.
We will probe the extent of his obsession over us before we decide if he should burn the place down or what.

>>7005837
Enter his mind.

Going with advice from the previous thread as well as the common vote, you do it.

However, before you do it, you push yourself to your limits, unleashing a sudden ecstatic burst in the humans, dopamines rushing through them, leaving them quite flustered, confused and excited.

Then, you smash your way into the mind of Filipp. His mind is your puppet - for the time being. You can convince the human to do everything except things that endanger itself or go against everything they philosophically stand for.

>>7005875
Learn everything about the operation, information he has previously sent, anything that could be useful.

>>7005875
Right. While we're in there we need to plant some deeply rooted commands. We need stuff that will last after we've left his brainpan.

>>7005875

Examine the recording of us, look them over, and by "accident" press delete instead of backspace!

>>7005875
Alright enact procedure of routing all results to him, all evidence to his room. He must conjure up a fake report and send it to his superiours.

He will say there's a riot.

>>7005862
Not that much tougher than the others.

Before, he wanted to get it over with and get you cut open immediately. Now? He's slightly more curious. Wants to discover how you act. Behaviour and so on. He's trying to come up with any reason to keep you alive.

Or more accurately, you're making him try.

Use him to send word to the outside world of a possible hoax. More details will be sent as they become available.

>>7005904
Expose our telepathy to him alone!!!

>>7005894
Thoughts of love and adoration of us. Awe and respect for us and a desire to keep us secret.

We are HIS discovery, he can't share ANY info about us untill he's ready. And for some strange mindcontrollingslug reason he just does not feel ready.

have someone smash the computers then mind control the peaple who have guns exclusivly and have them kill everyone but us and the five peaple you introduced (those they kill should include themselved when they are done

>>7005904
Find out if he is religious.

>>7005921
Lol, I think that might go against their 'principals'.

I think we're going to have to do all the violence realistically.

>>7005875
Find out EVERYTHING that we can from him. Geography, the uses of their machines, the names of his bosses, anything of possible use.

>>7005906
A good idea. it will give us more time to deal with these particular humans. I second the motion!

>>7005921
WOW! GREAT PLAN! NOBODY WILL NOTICE THAT!

>>7005906
Thirded.
And rout all the evidence to his room, with us in it. Make it so he finds us acceptable with just a muzzle. Tuskpoons uninhibited.

>>7005942

Agreed. Also, we need precise details from his mind of anything that could leak to the outside world - anyone currently outside of the base who will be coming to check in on it, any live video streams, things like that.

>>7005904
well, let's try and give him a reason then!

What intel does he currently have on us right now? What does he know of our species.

>>7005932
dude
that was if our attention was divided but if we focus on just the gaurds long enough to get the job done im sure we will be fine

and dumbass, he was describing our control over ONE PERSON so dont FUCKING TAKE THAT TO BE EVERYONE BECAUSE THATS NOT WHAT HE SAID

>>7005961
In fact, he can put all the locks on us he wants, as long as he has the keys and we can control him to open them when inside.

>>7005961
Fourthed, lets just hope he isn't a prideful and or honest guy.

>>7005927
Greek Orthodox.
>>7005935
Everything he knows, you know. You burn his memories on to your memories. It's a surprisingly quick process, but it takes a lot of effort. You feel quite worn out after it - it's taken a small toll on you.
>>7005919
You do this. He wants to find out as much as you as possible. He doesn't want any communication with anyone outside of the encampment. He informs the others of this almost zealously.

I would just like to remind everyone that if he suddenly goes and smashes the computer with an axe, some questions will probably get raised. That counts for suddenly deciding all their info at once for no apparent reason.

>>7005977
No mate, that just isn't gonna happen. They're not going to shoot even one person.

>>7005961
>>7005897
>>7005942
>>7005985
Keeping this in mind. He will do this later.

>>7005987

Cool, we can absorb knowledge from humans with great ease. A little tiring, but still, easy enough.

Good, he has cut off communications with the outside world. We need to ensure these are enforced. See if we can't uncover what objects around the camp are used for the communication, and send one of our runner spawn to chew through some wires/mangle some panels, and ensure that they can't communicate, even if they wanted to.

>>7005997
First and foremost we delete the evidence

Second we imply through report that there has been a riot.

Then we see if we can get away with killing everybody with out brood.

>>7005987
I propose we now enter into a slow period of mental assimilation of the humans. While they believe they are studying us we in turn study and manipulate them... limiting what knowledge they can gain to us to that which we wish them to (including false conclusions) and all the while making them more loyal to US.

We need to test how strong we can make these feelings and wether we can make them last. I believe the plan of making one humans zealous love for us reinforce anothers may be useful if it is possible.

>>7006020

We should avoid doing anything that leaves an "animal" trace.

We should however, enter the minds of the technicians who maintain said communication equipment and persuade them to disable the devices via software rather than hardware damage.

>>7006050
I'm thinking of going through with this - a bit of a time skip. What do you folks think?

>>7005987

When you are alone communicate with him.

>>7006050
Possible. Lets see what we can get away with but if we're doing this we'll need to get Alexia first.
If we could gestate we would be so much more potent at this.

>>7006077
YES YES YES

>>7006077
O.k. but during the Timeskip slip in a little bit about Shai-Hulud.

>>7006050

Agreed. We must test the limits of our power. Then broaden them on these creatures. We may never have another chance so ripe for safe experimentation. be slow. be cautious, Be thorough.

>>7006093
Do you mean Slul-Hugoth?

Might as well dismiss the Brood but keep a chain of communication to the base where Fury and stuff are ammassing.

>>7006093
STOP READING DUNE FAGGOT. IT'S SLUL-HUGOTH.

>>7006077

Do it

>>7006077
Do it.

So long as the humans are reinforced to not tell anyone about us. Not to report anything. Also, to delete their old data in case someone tries to steal it.

That's the same reason they don't record any new information either.

>>7006117
Very good point. Can we communicate with Fury from here?

So. Time skip:
- Make the technicians disable stuff.
- Slip in a few thoughts about a new being, a new god - concepts about a 'Slul-Huggoth' and you being evidence of such a being.
- Enforce your will upon the humans - examine their memories and burn theirs on to yours.

You're able to keep in contact with Fury over a long distance - who still has a captive Omniarch.

You're also able to communicate with the watching spawn.

So, enable timeskip until next moment of note?

>>7006117 yes timseskip
>>7006077 Yes, let us avoid dsturbing and arousing suspicion. make them forget about the brood, it should be easy when they have such a wonderful thing to focus upon.

>>7006132

Yes.

>>7006132
DO NOT KEEP OMNIARCH CAPTIVE! DESTROY IMMEDIATELY! MAKE SURE HE HASN'T INVADED ANYONE'S MINDS!

Also, have him check that pile of wood Omniarch dropped, and ask those that went with him what that trip into the sea was all about.

Erm, in the next time skip I'd like all the evidence ot be gathered into a single evidence room.

>>7006132
Sounds pretty good. Need to make sure the updates from Fury are regular so we know by the absence of a message that something has gone down.

>>7006132
End Omniarch. No possible good can come of keeping him around.

>>7006146
This too.

>>7006132

Last post before heading out:

Check up on Fury, see how he is holding up. He is indeed one of our favorites, and we must ensure his well being and sanity. The ordeal with the Omniarch might have put him a little on edge, and we don't want him going off and doing something rash.

We do not need to remind him we are the will of Slul-Hogoth, but we should remind him we will be back soon, and are looking forward to everything being in nice order.

>>7006146
Oh god! Yes! That! All of that! I'd bloody forgotten the wood thing.

I worry about trying to to finish off the Omniarch... but those are just out-of-character misgivings so... i cant see any reason why wouldnt give them the order to execute him other than wanting to be the one to do it ourself.

>>7006156
Actually one possible good would be he'd turn around to our cause seeing as we seem to be pretty aligned and he might have some useful knowledge for us.

>>7006188
Man, Macleod, you just keep posting the most retarded things.

>>7006203
Command the leader was my idea.

Everyone had that idea.

>>7006207
>>7006215
No need for the epeen. Leader was a great idea but Murray is right that making peace with the omniarch is a bad one.

After all he's done to us and how we've reacted to it we would look like a hypocrit if we treated him as anything more than an abomination.

Time passes. This is actually surprisingly luxurious. The humans have got enough foodstuffs to last them approximately a month - within fifteen days, however, they'll get resupplied. So, you get fed. Your spawn take watch from the distance and you keep up your communication with Fury, keeping him informed of the situation.

Humans... Humans are surprisingly easy to manipulate. Easier than a bear, anyway. By spreading your focus over them, you've slowly managed to change their view of you from curious to fascinated to almost damn worshipping. They're often confused by their illogical lines for thought - influenced by you - but you make them forget this.

Eventually, the fourth day comes. Fury notifies you that the latest batch of eggs has hatched. In three days time, the Fury-Omniarch children will hatch and the Namespawn will hatch as well. Omniarch has also been executed - Fury seems quite smug about this. As for the flotsam that the Omniarch was gathering - he can't quite tell what it is. It seems to be a burrow that he was going to try and reinforce and seal up, for some reason another. The burrow is empty.

It's difficult to describe the atmosphere in the tents. It's confusingly tranquil. You're still putting quite a lot of effort into making sure that the humans don't conduct so much research, leaving the poor creatures with very little to do. You can feel the mental instability growing in your latest pet humans.

>>7006241
Er... and i apologise for the epeen comment which was itself a pity of an internet-toughguy thing to say.

>>7006247
Oh, and that means that supplies are arriving within eleven days.

>>7006247
Maybe we should let them perform some faux experiments.

We also need a plan for when they get resupplied. Though with the reinforcement of their leaders urge to keep us secret that shouldnt be too hard to handle.

>>7006247
With so much mental activity on our part, we should be becoming more and more adept.

>>7006247

Build up feelings of 'We need to keep this for ourselves'. Covetousness, I suppose, would be the word.

Then give them a task (mental suggestion) to prepare for the coming re-supply team, and get ready to capture and imprison them.

>>7006247
perhaps we should experiment in what would happen if we went away for a few days. Tell them you must go and check up on your hive, and you will return in, oh, two or three days.

>>7006288
You're certainly getting used to it - but your mental abilities will only make a massive jump when you gestate.

Find something for the pet humans to do in the name of research. they are restless, give them things for hands to do so minds are more pliant. To what ends can we put them?

>>7006288
Is this true or do we need to gestate to see benefits?

>>7006283
Experiments such as "How does it react when we help it do what it's doing?"

>>7006331
You're getting minor benefits.

Less exhaustion from exerting yourself, for example.

Give them a lie about gestation, have them witness it as research project/miralce, if control can be held for the duration

>>7006293

Because no one notices when a supply team disappears.

Push the hoax thing. When the people arrive, the humans have found nothing but foam rubber and chemical bottles, this is what the supply team must believe.

Humans have a way of dropping large explosive devices at the nearest hint of something getting out of control.

Guys, I think we should get out of here before the supplies arrive.
We don't want any more people to handle.
Lets get the riot idea in motion.

>>7006332
spending time with experiments like feeding us various creatures? Or talking to us and telling us of the world?
Or just basking in our awesomeness?

Or in prayer...

How can we gestate, we can't control people in gestation mode.

>>7006370
I like the way this slug thinks. . .

Remain in their camp for a few may days. Request that they bring you selections of animals to try. This will give us more DNA to sample when we gestate.

When it is getting close to the resupply arriving, give them a serious mental impression to keep us a secret, and tell them that we will go and hide so that the resupply team doesn't steal their discovery.

We use this opportunity to return to our nest and gestate.

I'd love to gestate but it looks like we're gonna have to line the riot/masacre up now.

Ask more about the Omniarch's burrow.

So, any combination of the following:

Make the humans busy by:
- Making the conduct faux experiments
- Teaching them to pray Slul-Huggoth and inserting images and thoughts of this creature and yourself into their minds.
- Clearing up and disposing of the carcasses

And dealing with the suppliers:
- Prepare to capture and imprison them.
- Prepare to subject them to the same experience
- Prepare to inform them of the riot that took place (the humans will have to pull out with the expedition considered a failure)

>>7006403
No it doesn't look that way. Now go play and let the adults talk.

>>7006392
If this is possible then we need to inform our brood that in 8 days we strike. We want to be long gone by the time the supplies arrive.

>>7006392

Agreed. Spend the time having the humans do everything in their power to obfuscate finding our nest and aid us in hiding from them, misinformation detuning equipment etc.

>>7006403
Why? Things are going pretty damn swimmingly. We just need to melt these humans individuality so we can start trying to work out a more efficient way of doing the same to their whole species.

if only we could make the love of Slul-Hugoth INFECTIOUS

Also we need a name for our race. It probably needs "slul" in it somewhere.

These are humans have skill sets we lack. Like advanced technology, knowledge, the scientific method. The Omniarch made gains when it was able to steal the mind of a scientist, why not allow the humans to conduct some research? Nothing that would harm us or our children, but gaining greater understanding over our race could only be a good thing. As long as said information does not leave here of course.

>>7006247
we really need to upgrade swimmer. She really is our oldest child now & by far one of the weakest.

>>7006370
Bringing us new food, that is a good idea. I suggest we allow the supply crew that will arrive to live, but stay out of sight and use one of the humans to requisition us some samples. I recommend bringing us exotic animals we could not obtain in this area, under the guise of the security team testing bait to lure our kind to them for study.

>>7006429
Slulugs.

>>7006417
Is there anyway we can have some of the foodstuffs moved to our new camp? When I say thing it is more along the lines of sneaking it away so they don't know of the others.

>>7006408
Fury told you all he knows about the burrow. It's empty and it looks like he was going to board it up.

Whoa whoa whoa.

Riots make people wonder what caused them. Suddenly a research team, a huge research team, flips out? Has there ever been a time in human history when something like this happens, and they drop it. "Oh well, scary shit." and they just wander off?

>>7006447
It's up to you how you want to try it. If they see any other spawn, it'll be quite different to remove their attention from them.

We're not staying with these guys and we can't leave them alive. We kill in 8 days!

I'm so happy!

All the dorks dictating the dialogue either left or shaped up.

The dialogue is not for us to decide. All we have to decide, is what to do with the time that is given to us.

>>7006462
They have no knowledge of our presence if all their evidence is destroyed. We need to evacuate this place and country.

>>7006417
Sounds good. With the supply plan focusing on the last part.

And for a name i propose Slulim.

>>7006498
Each one of the dash things was an option.

But at this moment, it sounds like you want to kill the expedition three days before the suppliers arrive.

Everyone in favour of that?

>>7006417
Can't we realistically eat and gestate?

>>7006477
don't risk it, we have enough foodstuff in the forest

keep up with the hoax angle
have the humans dispose of the carcasses

if it was just a hoax, the government will drop it
and if any of the research team wants to come back and settle around here after returning with their report...

>>7006515
I do, I want to gestate then kill.

>>7006515

No.

I'm for doing anything to the opposite of what Macleod suggests.

>>7006520
You can do that.

However, you know you will not be able to psychically control the humans while gestating.

Which... could lead to all sorts of awkward situations. Common sense dictates it's a bad idea to do it with them aware of your location.

>>7006515
No.

>>7006515
Ah, i'm against this as I still believe we can use these humans.

>>7006533
>>7006542
Suggestion discarded then.

>>7006522
If its hoax we're going for then we'll need to destroy evidence and mindflash humans then evacuate anyway. Same shit, different story.

>>7006515
NOOOOOOO

we kill them, people will wonder... we just send them home without any findings... no one will bother us

>>7006555
They WILL!

>>7006560
Like cultists, especially now that we've introduced Slul-hugoth.

>>7006549
...why abandon the idea of using these humans as a weapon?!

We need to try and create a THOUGHT that emulates a CELL. One which reproduces and infects. One which is entirely dedicated to Worshiping the Slul/Slulug/Slulim. We need to plant this thought in some of the humans and send them out to meet the suppliers.

Memetic Warfare.

>>7006576

MEEEEEMEEEES

>>7006560
MAN, SHUT THE FUCK UP!

Nobody is taking your suggestions seriously, because you are not saying shit that is beneficial to us at all.

I suggest combining the previous ideas. Get fed as many exotic animals as possible until the resupply team arrives. Before they do, have the team convince everyone that it was all a hoax cooked up by some dumb country folk, and that they're packing up and heading home.

Then if they want to go ahead and move here to rejoin us, they're welcome.

Once we leave them, that is before the resupply team arrives, we leave the camp, and instead of returning to our brood where we may be followed, we go out into the woods, dig ourselves a little burrow, and gestate in peace.

>>7006533
Glad im not the only one

>>7006576
Alright but you know, to what end? We can stay hidden from people much more effectively than we can control a group of 30 humans for the rest of their lives in secrecy.

You manage to convince a handful of the scientists to reluctantly give up some precious specie samples that they have, of various different creatures. Mostly just animals that they thought could be identified with what they heard was here. And since there were so many shapes and sizes, it's quite varied, really. Snakes, octopi, bats, spiders. Just small specimens though, kept very, very well preserved, for analyzing and comparison.

The preservatives only add to the delicious flavour.

So, you folks wanted to occupy the time of the scientists by making them perform various faux experiments and pray to Slul-Huggoth, right?

Anything else you want to subject them to over the next few days or is that it?

Also, did you want to communicate directly with the leader, Filipp?

>>7006608
I think we should do this but adding in MadSlug's "memetic virus" idea.

>>7006608

This. A million times this. Especially the first part.

>>7006631
Lovingly craft this mindvirus idea, if possible, for them to take with them back into the world.

I have a suggestion: We probe the humans through the encampment to see who has no exterior relations. Surely in a group of 32 or so people there is someone who wouldn't be missed.

As long as we retain one human out here with us, our ability to capture more humans, particularly individuals with the skills necessary to find out from the ruins of the research facility what gave the Omniarch his power; increases greatly.

>>7006618
>reports of a new kind of creature
>reports of a massacre
>researcher researching new type of creature disappears
what, pray tell do you think the next step is?

>coverup
>send in the army
>nuke the site

how long will the humans remain if they actively search for a missing research team? how long if it was all just a hoax?

>>7006608
>>7006576
Taking influence from both of these ideas.

>>7006692

Then you sir are crafting us some awesome.

>>7006631
I'm curious what Filipp might have to say to us

>>7006692
Then I can die happy.

>>7006608
>Then if they want to go ahead and move here to rejoin us, they're welcome.
I, for one, welcome our new human pets

>>7006683
Housh, Filipp and Erasmus are three individuals who don't relax know or care about that many people outside of their work.

No one would miss them.

>>7006631
They can very well be legitimate experiments. Just none that harm us or our spawn. Learn more about ourselves! Just make sure it doesn't leave here.

THE ONLY FUCKING REASON WE CAME HERE WAS TO ERASE ALL TRACES WHY AREN'T WE DOING THAT?
What do you mean to do with the humans at the end of the day?

>>7006730
Nice. Can we try and plant the suggestion of them staying? Or returning to this place after they've reported back and formerly quit to become mad slug worshiping hermits?

>>7006743
WE MEAN TO ENSLAVE THEM HOW MANY FUCKING TIMES DO WE HAVE TO TELL YOU FUCK

OKAY:
1. Brainwash humans into telling suppliers about hoax.
2. Get as much crap/info from humans as possible.
3. Destroy all real evidence/ replace it with nothing.
4. Leave and have humans forget ever seen us (experiment on a few to see if it can work)

>>7006724
As if 30 mysterious dssappearances would be inconspicuous.

>>7006743
we can't simply burst out into the human world and we can't continue to grow without more people poking at us. We need to breed sympathizers. An in between us and them. Agents to hide us. Agents to help us.

>>7006787
As if go fuck yourself.

>>7006787
wha-ho-wh-wh-
...

>>7006787
What disappearences? What 30? Only a few of them will probably return and those that will would probably say they're going on holiday.

>>7006730
We must either capture/kill them all or none. As soon as our influence is waded on these humans they will phone home.

You work on crafting this memetic virus - a psychic cell, of sorts, that you will place withins the minds of others.

The virus encourages:
- Belief in Slul-Huggoth.
- The preaching of Slul-Huggoth.

The virus spreads when:
- A nearby sapient acknowledges the name 'Slul-Huggoth'.

Is this correct?

If so, this psychic memetic virus will be a powerful weapon. You will be creating a seperate entity and you will be implanting it into a single individual, from which it will spread to other individuals. It will require you to permanantly sacrifice a small portion of a resource that we shall call 'potential' - you're creating and lovingly crafting a completely seperate entity here. It shall require blood, sweat and tears.

By creating this, you create a powerful weapon but you also limit your maximum potential.

Do you wish to go ahead with this? Yesno?

>>7006852
yes
it will ease our later conquest of the humans

>>7006852

Will we be in command of this new entity? Will we have to worry about it turning against us?

By the way guys, I forgot to mention. I have made something for you. Slugquest related. I am slightly ashamed that I have, but I did. Now I was originally going to have a three strikes deal but now it is as such: If even one person asks for it, I will post it. It will be THEIR fault.

>>7006852
Can we add to this virus an association with our species and ourself in particular as avatars of Slul-Huggoth?

>>7006852
Yes.

>>7006852
Should also include susceptibility to our powers.

>>7006881
POST IT

>>7006878
You're crafting it from your own psyche. It recognizes you as its own kind. It cannot infect you.

>>7006881
if its fanfiction keep it to yourself

>>7006852
No. Our own self is all that we have full control over. This meme could get out of hand.

>>7006852

No, this has many drawbacks and few gains. We could end up with another Omniarch here - if not in terms of its biology then in terms of its beliefs.

I'm against this meme.

>>7006884
We need this to be incorporated.

>>7006902
this will stunt our mind control?

>>7006884
Yes. However, this limits your maximum potential further.

The lower your maximum potential is, the faster you reach your 'evolutionary dead end', so to speak.

>>7006852
Hmm... I say go through with it, but don't infect the humans just yet. It can however be used on our own brood to reinforce belief as well as control any advanced sentients that might be spawned in the future.

>>7006902

I small part of our vast potential, for the ability to have suicide bombers for the slug?

I'm down.

>>7006927
Ee... I still say we should go ahead with it. it will be a VERY potent weapon.

>>7006927

Our whole strength is based around evolution. Please let's not cripple ourselves already.

Just focus on making these present humans love us. That's enough of a success for today.

>>7006928
Our brood is already pretty solid, but we need a foothold on humanity.

>>7006927
Will there be any signs or way for us to tell when we will reach the dead end or tell how far along we are, or will we just not be able to gestate at one point?

>>7006852
No meme.
We shouldn't limit ourselves.

And fucking time skip already.

a growing cult will also draw attention

>>7006955

NO!

OH GOD!

So basically we're creating a meme that's likely to have humans spouting off about Slug-Gods (alerting authorities to the danger we pose) without any real benefits?

>>7006942
this
let's just spread the religion the old fashioned way

I'm against, By creating this thing, We lose the need to dominate humans by our own power. We should instead strive for our power to be so great we can dominate entire nations with ease, we should not go for the quick fix, unless our existance is truly threatened We do not need this weapon yet.

>>7006927
Sounds costly but i still believe the rewards are worth it.

>>7006955
And We've reached a new low. Slugquest is officially /tg/chan material now.

>>7006942
What could we possibly evolve into that would give us equal power?
It looks like we can't do TK, all we're losing is our Mind Blast "potential" if we're talking psychically.

>>7006955
WTF?

>>7006955

>>7006902
Yes, but those infected by it should see us as divine beings.

>>7006927
the meme virus could potentially reveal us in the long run. After all, professional scientists go to reasearch some new creature, claim it was all a riot or a hoax or something, and the second they come back, suddenly everyone is talking about this Slul-Huggoth thing? Could seem suspicious if someone paranoid enough looked at it. They could potentially link it all together.

>>7006955

>>7006955
Delete, please. I appreciate drawfaggotry but that...
No.

Due to the fact that as many are easily against as are for it, I am going to go with the safe option and say that for the time being, you're not creating the meme.

Preparing for timeskip - anyone disagree?

it looks like we cannot do these things now. Who can say what our ultimate unmeasured highest order potential is? Is we cut ourselves one step short of godhood. Then one day god will slay us, If we cut our selves to the limits of angels, then the divine servants will bring our downfall and that much sooner, for they are many,

>>7006977

Equal power? This meme gives us no power. It's entirely unnecessary. Unless you think we can sit back and it'll win the game for us? I don't think it'll play out like that, myself.

The best way to spread influence is to do it ourselves. Which will be a damn sight easier if we don't give away half our abilities on a damn thought-fairy.

>>7007002
We're exposing ourselves but damn its better to come out this way than in any other.

>>7006995
but humanity is just an other step on the way to our potential

seems a little detrimental to spend potential on a designer disease

>>7007002
In the long run we're going to be revealed anyway. This will give us some breathing room. Humans that find out about us will be at risk of infection and will serve us.

I say we do it.

>>7007025
Well then what are we doing? Just wasting time?

>>7007027
Yeah... a self-spreading LOVE-THE-SLUG offers us no power at all...

This virus is a fine plan, it will help protect us from the humans WHEN they find out about us.

Converse continually with fillipe, make him like us make him ours, try for a permanent impression that will hold without our direct intervention if our resources stretch to it, one or two of the other unnatatched, but do not take risks. Ensure they will come back to us when it safe to do so after the recall

>>7007051
Well, I believe that now you're going to go ahead and tell the suppliers that it was just a riot and request that they come and pick you up.

Also, you're going to have the Fury-Messiah children hatch, along with the rest of your Namespawn finish gestation.

The humans will start a war over the new religion. they always do and when they come to crush the cult they will find and crush us too!

>>7007025
We don't need to create the disease, at least not yet. Perhaps later, when the option to fly under the radar is disappearing and while we are still too weak to stand against the humans. For now continued evolution is still necessary, we must grow in telepathic potential and our bodies must grow in physical prowess so we may conquer with more ease.

>>7007025
Oh god no! Please create the meme! It will solve so much!

>>7007060
Proceed to fully indoctrinate Filipp and who else? Any of the original folk? The security folk? As many as possible? Random?

Choose!

Form a cult they said...

>>7007082
Those that no one would miss should be indoctrinated, we don't want someone's wife or child causing a stink over where they are and sending search teams to look for them out here.

>>7007082
Alexia and Mikhail

>>7007082
Only those with no family. The few you listed earlier.

>>7007071
But downsides to the memetic virus wont kick in untill our last gestation cycles... so WHEN we create the virus doesnt matter. And to make sure its nicely spread before they find out about us we need to od it as soon as possible.

Either Virus or Wipe All Traces.
Vote from me.

>>7007040
This is a fairly good point I guess.

However I am still against using the meme. Having a massive support structure that is just barely under our control just seems like a bad idea, especially when it costs some inherent property of ourselves to use.

For all we know potential is what causes our advanced sentients. We might be best to wait until our brood is back to a good strength and then get an underling to create the meme for us, sacrificing the potential of someone who is NOT the Patriarch.

The three who will be unnoticed. If prospects among the security team who are susceptible and can mask being away for a long item without suspicion (fake reassignment etc.. ) One or two members, human soldiers would be fine additions to the swarm

>>7007108
We can always make this psychic virus later. Let's focus on getting ourselves more power for the time being. See where things go.

>>7007082

Random - if we pick everyone who was out scouting, it'll be easier for them to detect something's wrong.

Imprint on as many humans as possible, but the priority is that it's both absolute and that they understand the importance of secrecy.

>>7007108
Give up. These idiots would rather have slightly larger tusks than global domination.

>>7007110
No one cares.

>>7007114
>just barely under our control

Everyone keeps bloody assuming this when he stated that wouldnt be the case! >>7006902
>>7006878

>>7007104
Alexia and Mikhail have various friends from their university who care about them, as well as some distant family - which leaves a moderate risk level there.

Indoctrinating Filipp, Housh and Erasmus.

Indoctrinate Alexia and Mikhail as well?

>>7007101

Better idea, I'm switching to this.

>>7007116
Alternatively, get someone to rewrite the equipment manifests so that Alexia and Mikhail can wander off with a decent sized armament with noone any the wiser.

>>7007117
We can do both. The power limitations are to our Cap not our Current.

What do we do with the un-indoctrunated staff who are going to phone home once we're gone?
That's all I want to know.

The final step of our evolution might indeed be slightly longer tusks, Or it might be direct Energy/matter conversion/transmission by thought alone. We just dont know. Dont buy until you can see the price tag. if yo ucan see the price tag, dont buy unless you know your credit limit

>>7007167
STOP POSTING!

>>7007172
No.

>>7007168
But... by that point we'll have no option but to go for the last bloody cycle!

ITS LIKE REACHING THE MAX LEVEL AFTER YOU'VE ALREADY COMPLETED THE GAME!

If there was a riot. Then munitions would have been expended. Aportion a reasonable amount of munitions to account for this and "expend them" by taking and storing them, for us to Learn/use/Disect

I leave the thread to make food. happy that we're finally going to make something to support us in the inevitable war with the humans.

I come back to find everybody has suddenly turned against it right after MacLeod posts support for it.

FUCK YOU MACLEOD! YOU KILLED THE BEST IDEA IN THIS GAME YET!

>>7007179
It isn't as if this virus idea is a one time only thing. We could unleash this at any time if we wanted to work on creating it.

Let's save it for a later day.

>>7007143
Reposting this due to lack of response.

>>7007104
Alexia and Mikhail have various friends from their university who care about them, as well as some distant family - which leaves a moderate risk level there.

Indoctrinating Filipp, Housh and Erasmus.

Indoctrinate Alexia and Mikhail as well?

>>7007193
: D

>>7007202
No, just those three.

better than finding you can only hit level 52 with your incredibly jazzy trinkets, and that non of them work on the LOLIMMUNE 83 endboss

>>7007202
Do not risk it, three is suitable enough.

>>7007194
This is the perfect opportunity for it. We have numerous subjects ready to spread it. Bio has already acknowledged it will be highly beneficial to us. I'm surprised people turned against it so quickly.

Just three, If we need more, those 3 can allow us to acquire more later. We need not rush. Time is our ally

>>7007202
no lets the two with families go. for now.

indoctrinate alexia and the other three but no one else

we still goin with the its a hoax plan?

>>7007202
skip them
too much risk, not enough payoff

>>7007210
You trolling little worm.

>>7007202
Yeah. Can we try and set Alexia and Mikhail on a... time delay sort of? So they'll go home and then tell their friends they're running off for a surprise holiday? Or maybe just get them to contact their friends and say that.

>>7007218
We'll have three human followers we can infect with it anytime we wish and send them into the world.

For now, let's not, seeing as we don't know WHAT EXACTLY IT WOULD COST US! If we want to do it later, then we can.

Indoctrinating Housh, Filipp and Erasmus.

The others are welcome to join you if they wish - although they are not allowed to mention what happens here anywhere else.

The corpses are stashed away and hidden. Ammunition is expended and in general, it looks a bit more like a riot scene. Most of the tents are packed away, due to a lack of any need for them - who needs that sort of thing for riots, eh? They take all of the precautions that would suit this sort of this, over the next three days.

On the third day.

"Patriarch. We've got to talk." That's Fury - with a rather odd, difficult to place tone.

Just to remind everyone, there IS other important shit happening. We have another generation about to hatch, we have a bunch of exotic samples that we may not have eaten all of and hence may be able to share among our brood, and we also have the fact that SOMETHING THE OMNIARCH MADE IS LOOSE.

Perhaps we can even employ the Humans equipment to assist with some of our non-human-related dilemmas?

>>7007218

Really, stop obsessing about it.

And I vote for Alexia and Mikhail as well as the other three. More never hurts.

>>7007264
We will never know *precisely* what it will cost us. Generally it will cost us a little bit of physical evolution. What we gain would ahve been worth that.

>>7006852
>By creating this, you create a powerful weapon but you also limit your maximum potential.

>>7007277
not liking the sound of that...
"Yes, Fury?"

>>7007277
Ask him what is wrong.

>>7007277
"Yes, child?"

>>7007285
That was my only post about it after my initial support of the idea.

>>7007218
DISAGREE.
We are too weak to be spreading our influence yet.
1.We must contain the humans,
2.get the hoax going
3.destroy real evidence
4. get out of this area

Having a bad feeling you brace yourself mentally as much as possible, just in case the new spawn are something unexpected and dangerous

>>7007326
Wow. If only we had some way of controlling the humans without maintaining direct psychic influence over them or personally burning the ideas into their brain one at a time.

>>7007326
which is why the memetic virus was a subtle one which only became relevant when a sentient learned of us anyway... did you even fuck read it?

>>7007313
>>7007310
"When the latest batch of eggs hatched, there were three advanced sentients. I'm doing my best to educate them in the ways of Slul-Huggoth as you would wish. However, the children that I have with that..."

Fury doesn't continue. You can feel the complete and absolute revulsion.

"Eleven of them are advanced sentients. Eleven out of twenty-nine. Patriarch, I don't think I can handle this. To make things worse, Swimmer is beginning to question orders, she's developing a mind of her own, her own opinions, her own thoughts... And one of the advanced sentients that comes from the Omniarch is a mutant. It seems obsessed with flora instead fauna. Flora and fungus. This situation is FUCKED. I don't think I can handle this much."

>>7007338
We don't need all of them to be slaves; just the few that nobody will miss.
All others can be MIND WIPED (hopefully).

>>7007298
When we gestate we can also gain powers dependent on what we have been using so far, thus we gained tusks from our spear, which came from our bile, and full blown telepathy born of our initial empathy ability. Bio has already stated we will probably gain a psychic advance next gestation. Imagine our species capabilities farther down the line, and how much more we could improve from that gestation. We could make a leap that would progress us farther then the disease could ever bring us.

>>7007354
Spend our time working with the spawn. Look at them directly, do for them what we did for Fury.

>>7007354
WELL FUCK!

We've been away for too long. We must return soon.

>>7007354

We need to make our excuses with the research team and leave to attend to our brood. They need our direct intervention for now, to train the advanced sentients.

What pretext can Fillip come up with that will let us leave the research camp for a time?

We could be accompanied by our indoctrinated humans, if that'll make the rest of them feel more comfortable, but it means that we won't be there to enforce our will upon the rest in the meantime.

>>7007354
Well we need to get back there as soon as possible then.

I would make one last suggestion for the virus, but people seem too scared off the idea.

>>7007354
'Fret now my son. My work here with the humans is nearly complete. They shall not bother us again for quiet some time. I shall return to the hive as fast as I can, when I can.'

We must finish this human business quickly. Then we must put our brood in line.

>>7007354
we should excuse ourself from the humans... it's about time for them to be resupplied anyway and it would be bad if we were spotted

"Thank you, Fury. I will be returning shortly to aid in the teaching of our kin. I apologise for leaving you in charge for so long"

>>7007354

This is now our top-priority. Ensure the humans all know what they're supposed to be doing (e.g, saying there are no weird species, that there was a riot, not to come back here, etc), and tell Fury we're on our way home. Then, y'know, go home.

Kill all offspring except fury. Kill all but one human. Leave the area. Brianwash the human. Get a home, apartment. Hotel room whatever. Begin once more in the city. Do it right this time, without splinters of children rebelling against us.

>>7007393
People don't like the idea of losing potential even if it means gaining something bio has admitted would be a very powerful weapon. I just hope we gain the ability to control the minds of billions. thats the only thing that could justify this mass-stupidity.

Oh god. we wouldnt even get that untill our last gestation anyway.

>>7007386
Filipp says that he will inform the others that he has placed a tracking device on you, so that you may be traced. Of course, it'll be a lie - but they'll believe him, thanks to the influence that you have. From there, he'll carry things out just as planned, no need for you to worry. He'll tell the suppliers all about the riot and they'll go back - but he'll try and convince as many of the others to return with him, Housh and Erasmus as possible.

Are you satisified with this?

Fillipp will be missed. he is the base chief. Take one of the other expendables instead. he will be point of contact for the other two once the hoax is moved out and will liase with them to bring them home. Once we have gestated we must move. this palce is no longer safe. And we do not want to wait for the other two to make their way back to us before moving. We go now and attend to our swarm.

>>7007404
Except we and Fury are both male.

Flora, and not fauna? Hmm, if this child can eat plants and gain genetic material he could be of great use to us. Imagine, we could digest him and our evolutionary possibilities skyrocket, or he could be one of our generals. If we use him and properly breed him we could create a subspecies of plant slugs which could hide in the forests and ambush trespassers.

>>7007411
What about all the other staff?

>>7007411

This is perfect.

I'd like to place a vote against the riot idea - a plain old hoax would work better. Some of the locals thought they'd play a jolly prank on the city types and strewed bits of carcass around the place. The research team has been surveying the area for a couple of weeks now and haven't found anything of note, requesting permission to come home.

>>7007411
Yup.

is Filipp indoctrinated enough that we could leave him in his rightful charge of the humans and take the other indoctrinated back home?

>>7007425
He shrugs. He'll try and make them take a vow of secrecy of some sort - this is something that no one else should ever discover.

He'll do his best to keep you hidden.

tell him to isolate any he deems too hard to control in a dedicated chamber in the new nest and to just keep them there until we return and that he is ABSOLUTLY not allowed to harm them

also ask if slug girl/guy have hatched

ants use pheremones to keep others in line so if slug girl did hatch tell him he can enlist the help of her or anyone else neccessary to isolate the ad-sentients

>>7007423
Ents

>>7007440
If only we could ensure their loyalty...

If you guys vote to make the girl do us, I will write the fapfic.

And I already have good ideas. At least, to my /d/eviant mind.

>>7007459
If only we had killed everyone.

You know what? I really loved SlugQuest at the beginning but it's really starting to blow now.

DM's should not, under any circumstances, randomly introduce enemies with no explanation and then pretend they're the "nemesis". How can he be a fucking nemesis if we haven't the fucking foggiest idea where the bastard came from?

This all went downhill after the "Omniarch" nonsense. Fuck's sake.

I believe we are autosaging, new thread?

>>7007404
I agree. We need to start the fuck over.

Clearly Swimmer has become an advanced sentient. It seems likely she questioned orders because they were from Fury, her goddamned SON, instead of us, her father.

Go and see Swimmer FIRST. Then we can enlist her aid to indoctrinate the new sentients, giving us 1.5x the preaching power as if we just went straight there.

>>7007473

The Omniarch was one of our descendeds, the spawn of the earliest to rebel against us (I forget his name, that's the problem with not having names like 'Slug-Bob' and 'Slug-Jim'). Pretty clear origin story.

Also, he's now our prisoner (or dead?). What's your problem?

Sorry for this bit of railroading, but it's time to draw this to a close tonight.

Fury informs you that everyone's hatched - but the situation's getting chaotic. You're needed in order to keep everything in line - he's not too used to the role of leadership to handle this sort of thing.

Leaving behind the humans for the time being to handle the situation, you travel towards the location of the hive, ensuring you're not followed. Your spawn come with you. A handful of Batspawn stay behind to spectate.

What do you find when you arrive at the hive?

FIND OUT NEXT TIME, FOLKS!

>>7007473
We know who the Omniarch is... and he is the fruition of our first major foe so that all tied in pretty neatly.

Only thing that annoys me are all the anti-virus idiots who dont seem to be able to read.

The advanced sentients are an asset to the hive, but we need to get there to imprint them with loyalty to the hive ASAP. Our mistake in the past has been not to take a properly parental role in our spawn's early development. It's what went wrong with Schmahkah, it's what went wrong with the Omniarch, it's what nearly went wrong when the False Messiah started turning the young against us.

We need to establish that we are the Patriarch, that we are the embodiment of Slul-Hugoth's will, that we are awesome and that we love our children who follow our example and act in the interest of the hive.

Also, I'd suggest imprinting a fierce revulsion against patricide. It is abominable for a child to turn upon its parent. This is Slul-Hugoth's word.

>>7007473
There's a completely logical path of where the Omniarch came from.

If you want to hear it, I can explain it for you.

>>7007469
go sit in a corner and don't talk until we say its ok.

>>7007473
>killed several of our prime spawns
>mutated one until he begged us to kill him
ring any bells?

>>7007497
No, I know how he came about. But there's really no explanation as to WHY, and the fact that he's a goddamn levitating super snail-man-thing is absurd.

It just turned absurd. We need to do some drastic re-evaluating of what we're doing here.

>>7007469
Write it anyway and those of us /d/eviant enough to do so will fap to it later.

When is next time?

Thanks Bio, I believe we were making more real Omniarch-level progress for the species in this one night than ever before in Slugquest history.

If we don't get grasped up by the staff (massive if I think) it will have all been for something.
Sorry about your idea Madslug

>>7007543
I'm not so good at maintaining things over long periods of time.

Slug Quest has gone on for easily twice as long as my previous quest (although that was also posted far more often). Interest is waxing and waning and I am constantly trying to come up with new ideas to keep myself interested in it.

I suppose the flavour now just differs from the flavour then.

>>7007561
MadSlug sad. But it seemed to be the majority's decision. And you are poison to any side in a debate!

Virus aside this all went pretty well. We dealt with humans quickly and cleanly. Hopefully we can come up with another idea to deal with them on a global scale before they fully realise we exist.

>>7007543
>Implying it is not abundantly obvious that the Omniarch was a high level advanced sentient born to a group who had none, resulting in growing up with a superiority complex.

>Further implying that it is not clear that the Omniarchs frenetic mental growth was a result of his constant use of those powers, to an even greater extent than us, and that his quick evolution rate is a combination of being an advanced sentient and having access to the scientific knowledge of the very people who MADE US.

>>7007597
LDT, he knows how. He just doesn't like why.

In other words, he's questioning my skill as a crafter of stories I admit, that it was definitely getting weaker as time goes on.

I might have to actually draw this to a close soon before it becomes too absurd and faggy.

>>7007573
quite frankly, I feel that the AWESOME of the beginning more than outweighs any faggotry that has happened since

This is an awesome quest Bio, and you should feel awesome

>>7007506
The problem is that we know how to read.
The virus isn't worth what it will cost us in potential, seeing as we don't know our limits yet.
The virus idea isn't too bad; we just don't need it yet.
I could see it as a weapon to use in the endgame with man.

>>7007597

Also, the point that we have been very cautious in developing and expanding our brood, whereas the Omniarch was PROGRESS AT ALL COSTS! He had similar abilities to us, but applied them differently.

>>7007543
Because as was mentioned in the IRC log one night, the Omnissah was basically modeled after what spiral energy would be if it was corrupt.

GROW GROW
FIGHT THE POWA

>>7007597

>Implying that Branianc Man-in-a-snail-suit makes ANY SENSE AT ALL in the context of this quest.

>>7007615
Don't draw it to a close. Just put us into a position where we can start over simply, but with a slightly more advantageous position.
Force us to do something drastic.

I like the idea of consuming the entire brood save for a few choice Prime Spawns and then controlling a human to get us a steady and safe place to establish an enormous, permanent hive.

>>7007622
We won't know our full limits untill we reach them. For example we can not now gain other special abilities like telekinesis... we didn't learn that untill after we had passed the point. So in order to learn what it will cost us we'll have to never again doing anything that could limit our Gestation Potential...

For that matter choosing any growth over evo limits our potential as evo is tied to our natural abilities like our psychic abilities... so all the percentages we've put into evo have limited our potential.

If we use the virus as end-game then it will be less effective. Hence why it was designed ot be subtle. It would essentially create sleeper agents.

>>7007635
If you want to know why the Omniarch looked like that, I enjoyed the concept art.

The in-character reason behind it is that the mind of the human that he consumed affected future gestations, subconsciously shifting the Omniarch to look more human with every gestation, even if no human was consumed.

Then there's the fact that the first Omniarch was consumed by his child, body and mind, after burning its mind on to its child's.

Then that second Omniarch was consumed by its child, body and mind, after burning its minds on to its child's.

The cycle would've continued. The latest Omniarch would keep on being consumed by its child. They would've become a cluster of thousands of advanced sentients, all with the same goal, all with the same aim, all with the same mind.

That was why the Omniarch was so insane. Even though it only had roughly the same number of gestations, it was the size it was through selective breeding. The largest bred with the largest, the most powerful bred with the most powerful and consumed the most powerful.

>>7007689
Not exactly Sleeper Agents. But the way it was designed meant it would infect slowly and mainly just people who had already heard about our existence so it would have a similar effect.

>>7007694

Why didn't we think of doing this?

>>7007734
Wouldnt the new body have a new "potential" maximum?

Goddamn this is making me even more pissed off about the virus-cowards.

>>7007694
What would happen if we could steal its mind?
(if we had that ability)

>>7007754
>>7007734
Because you would effectively feel yourself dying. Over. And over. And over. It's hella painful.

The original Omniarch was willing to sacrifice itself, over and over and over - for eternity, so that it could become the pinnacle of evolution.

The ultimate organism. Everything else was just a stepping stone on that path.

>>7007672
Surprisingly, I like this idea. Seconding.

>>7007689
The virus thing was over-kill in this position. Plus, it only worked with a trigger word=LAME.
Second, it would expose us to the world; exactly the LAST THING we fucking need at the moment.

I would use something like that on a city-state, county, nation level.

Planet level.

SLUGS IN SPAAAACCCEEEEEE!!!
In the grim darkness of the near future there is only SLUG.

>>7007734
Because we are not a complete asshole. Only a partial one. That guy just wanted to see the world burn

>>7007780
It would only infect on a trigger word. The effects were permenant.

It wouldn't expose us to the world. It would make them more susceptible to us when something else exposed us to the world.

>>7007792
That guy was obsessed with becoming the ultimate organism, of dominating everything, of consuming everything, of growing forever at an exponential rate, of consuming the universe, of becoming the universe, of becoming everything and nothing at the same time.

The Omniarch had big dreams.

>>7007805

You're extrapolating a lot from some very vague comments by Bio.

>>7007834
No. It was specific enough.
>>7006852

With madslugs addition of "the slug is the avatar of slul-hugoth" it was pretty much perfect. Hence why there was a great cost and why bio said it would eb a powerful weapon.

>>7007871
But you know what you didn't think about?

That would be BORING.

It would take out a big portion of what we anticipate to be fun in the future, namely taking over humanity.

This quest may or may not be continuing next week.

Don't get your hopes up.

AND DON'T POST "WHERE'S SLUGQUEST" THREADS.

>>7007919
But it wouldnt take them all out... we'd still have plenty to kill... and how long do you think this quest is actually going to run for? Bio has already mentioned wanting to end it soon.

>>7007926
As its already been decided against i gotta know if we did the right thing... would that virus have turned around and bitten us on the ass?

>>7007955
You better HABEEB IT!