>Poor choice descriptions


>Harbinger: A strange ant indeed. Within their body lies a dormant creature which will consume the ant after a specific trigger event. In the event that the Harbinger dies, another Harbinger will be born from the next clutch of eggs, including upon metamorphosis. Each trigger event is different for each Harbinger ant. Harbinger is undetectable.

>Warped-Ones: Hardly fit to be called ants. These creatures are ferocious and will kill their relatives. They draw into the hive, corrupting it. A small number of each clutch of eggs will suffer from these infiltrators. They metamorphose as quickly as infernic ants, and are something to behold.

>Flesh crawlers, the flesh of these ants is carried upon their carapace, rather than within. These are flimsy and incredibly disgusting creatures within the hive. While not always malicious, some might be, and there is the chance that prejustice will cause them and regular ants to conflict. Quite a few of each clutch will suffer from this.

>Good choice descriptions


>Fanatic is a Superstrain, and will conflict with Infernic ant superstrain numbers. However, Fanatic ants are 100% loyal to the Tyranid Queen, and are produced throughout all broods -- leading to an inflow of Fanatics who will obey only the Tyranid Queen. Fanatics will kill any ant which tries to stop them from serving the Tyranid Queen. Fanatics will consume food preferentially over other ants. Fanatics are far more combat capable than even Infernic ants. Fanatics are faster than regular ants. Fanatics will slay any ant they suspect of being disloyal to the Tyranid Queen that they encounter. Fanatics will attempt to destroy any species they deem inferior or a threat to the Tyranid Queen, without regard to the Tyranid Queen's orders otherwise.

>Honeypot ants: These ants are able to condense and store food and nutrients for extended periods of time. Nutrients can be excreted from the Gaster of these ants. They move at the speed of regular workers when unburdened by a large store of food, but slower than them with a large quantity of nutrients. The nutrients produced by these ants is a form of liquid sugar and cannot be stored in dirt or in the heat for extended periods, though the ants themselves can survive these conditions. They harvest food materials at a rate of a regular worker, but can instead convert it as they harvest into the nutrients for storage or bring it back like a regular worker. These specialized ants must be requested in specific numbers before the queen lays eggs.

>Acidic ants: These ants have acid glands scattered throughout their body, and if crushed will release acid into the surrounding locations. These ants are resistant to acid of like ants, though such protection does not extend to other ants. Their mandibles can secrete an acidic coating as well.

What creature is in the harbinger?

>Each harbinger is a unique creation, each with their own strengths and weaknesses. Some might be stealthy assassins, others will be hulking creatures of death. One might look like an ant while another could look more akin to a beetle or mantis, or even mammal.

>>6120695
Vote for harbinger and honey-pot.

>>6120695
Will they work for or against us?

>>6120776
Against, the upgrade rolls came up 1 good and one bad. We have no controll of bad upgrades, they are automaticly allocated.

>Harbinger is like warped-ones, directly confrontational. Though the 'host' will act like any normal ant - such that it is indeed impossible to determine which ant is host - but the creature from the host will not work for you.
>Flesh Crawlers however are not immediately nor directly confrontational but they might end up being a serious thorn due to significantly greater numbers of them throughout the hive.

HARBINGER AND ACIDIC! THINK OF IT WE ARE THAT MUCH CLOSER TO BEING A GODDAMN XENOMORPH! ACIDIC ANTS AND HARBINGER ANTS SUICIDE BOMBING WASPS

>>6120837
yeah we have no control, and no way to detect harbringers. we may get lucky and have one hatch out while fighting an enemy, where it will probly fight whatever is around, but we will have no controll

I'm going to have to go with the Harbinger and Acidic ants

Guys so who should we help? For now i think that we should help out the spiders/scorpions. THink about it, we tame them, conquer the wasps, save the wasp larvae and raise them.

>Looks like Harbinger has a definite favoritism. This should make things interesting.
>Good upgrade votes
-3 votes for acidic ants
-1 votes for honeypot ants
-0 votes for fanatic ants

>And in case people didn't realize on rollover votes I include slightly more total votes to have a specific kind chosen -- so impacts of double voting by anons is reduced.

>>6120875
Luckily there will only be 1 harbinger at a time.

>>6120893
Exactly, and while it may not be the most tactical of choices, it is the most FUN of choices, and thats why we are here correct?

Looks like the vote will be defaulting to acidic ants.
>Final five minutes

>>6121022
so harbinger is a mutation not a strain right?

>Harbinger is a strain in that it was gained from a random strain roll. Any change to the kinds of ants which are produced is considered a strain.
>Mutations are closer to global enchantments from magic the gathering -- where something like improved mandible strength would be like +1/+0 to all creatures, improved intelligence doesn't exactly correlate, and improved chitin could be seen as +0/+1.

>If you were referring to RANDOM Mutation/Adaption rolls, then harbinger and all 1d4-1 strain rolls do use a similar system, though more select.

>Defaulted.

Previous Timestamp: 14 hours
-Tyranid queen set to consume Sweet Ooze at timestamp 14.5
Eggs Eggs have hatched!
15 Tyranid Stalker larvae - 2 hours to MM.
75 tyranid larvae - 2 hours to MM
70 Tyranid larvae 1 hours to MM. (IIwarriors)
75 Tyranid IIwarriors have MMed.

70 Betty larvae 1.0 hours to MM (35 warriorII, 35 worker)

10 Tyranid eggs next to large mineral cluster. ? hours to hatch
10 Betty eggs next to large mineral cluster. ? hours to hatch.

!!Betty's first infernic have set off to begin her colony. They seem significantly less agressive than the Tyranid brood's own infernic. -- Intelligence bonus: Some kinds of strains do not pass from queen to queen well.
!!Betty's first infernic seem very different from the Tyranid Queen's own offspring. -- Intelligence bonus: Strange mutations are born when a new queen is produced!

Ant assignments:
workers --
Infernic
30 harvesting seeds. (30 sloth)
10 collecting roots. (10 sloth)
15 digging food storage chamber (15 sloth)
10 confronting aphids (5 sloth)
10 offering samples of all avalable food types to aphids. (SPLENDOR)
5 Offering grass leaves to aphids. (SPLENDOR)

Normal
40 tending larvae.
100 1.0 hours from returning with Sweet ooze
20 Observing wasps, spiders, scorpions. Will aid scorpions if able to without loss of live.
40 digging new Royal Chamber -- DEEP
250 harvesting seeds. (50 sloth)
150 collecting roots from root clusters.
5 collecting oozing roots. Return in 0.0 hour
8 gathering leaves to feed to aphids.
24 confronting aphids. (19 sloth)
15 tending wounded ants (10 sloth)
3 canabalism test subjects
2 Canabalism test subjects set to test-feed on aphid
3 healthy set to test-feed on aphid (sloth)
5 searching for tall areas to suppliment diver training
5 studying the huge mineral cluster.

Warriors
Infernic
70 infernic (30 sloth), hauling earthworm.

Normal
10 blocking aphid chamber exits
15 wounded (aphid venom) (10 sloth)
45 hauling earthworm (20 sloth)
100 in secondary hive (75)

IIwarriors
Infernic
25 guarding the entrance
50 out patrolling in groups of 5.
75 Waiting for Splendorious ants to act as diplomats then traveling EAST to Hive of unknown Ants.
25 guarding the queen (SPLENDOR)
15 assisting in recovering the earthworm carcass (SPLENDOR)
Normal
15 guarding/controlling aphids (SPLENDOR)
5 patrolling. (SPLENDOR)
5 guarding the entrance (SPLENDOR)
5 guarding the Queen (SPLENDOR)
20 aiding the warriors hauling Earthworm (SPLENDOR)
25 Patrolling the second hive in groups of 5. (SPLENDOR)

Diggers
Infernic
45 aiding the 80 workers (30 sloth)
10 digging food storage area (SPLENDOR)
5 expanding second queen chamber (SPLENDOR)

Normal
80 working on new queen chamber, food chamber, and nursery in far hive tunnels, 1 hour from the main depth shaft. (80 sloth)
85 digging new food storage chamber. (60 sloth)
10 expanding treatment center.

The infernic diggers have found no additional root locations.
Total: 20 wiry root locations.
The horizontal tunnel system at the topsoil level has reached about 1 hour's travel to the end of the tunnels and back to the main depth tunnel. They haven't been finding much recently.
The massive cluster does not appear to have an opening and it has unknown interior geometry. 20 larvae are being cared for next to this massive deposit.
No ore strands of organic strands have been found to the south. Twenty clusters have been located.
Scouting tunnels have enountered a new root! These are an hour's travel from the hive to the west, and an hour's travel back. These roots are thick, and solitary. They seem to extend very deep into the soil. The roots also appear to be covered in a black-grey slimy substance.
Aphid pens: 13
Aphid pen construction halted due to aphid rebellion.
7 aphid pens occupied.
!! Aphids are cowering, and refusing to eat anything brought before them! -- the wounded ants have been moved from the area, and cannot work. The aphids appear to be fearful of the SPLENDORIOUS ants.
The wounded ants appear to be suffering from the Aphid venom. It is unknown if they will survive.

The ants which are tending the wounded are not quite sure how to help, though they are keeping them well fed, using a variety of food types.

Food storage size: 1800, one chamber. Max size of chamber.
Treatment center: treatment capability: 300 ants
Second chamber: 1800 ants worth of food.
Third food chamber: 1800 ants worth of food.
Fourth food chamber: 1200 ants worth of food.
Treatment center: 300 ants can be treated here.
610 Grass seeds. x2 feeding ability, medium energy food. Plant - Grain.
1400 wiry root chunks. x3 feeding ability, medium energy food. Plant - root.
485 Sweet ooze. x5 feeding ability, High energy food. - Reserved for sloth ants. Sloth ants will preferentially eat this food. Plant - Biotic.
450 ants worth of earthworm flesh chunks. x7 feeding ability. Strange energy food. Meat.
1490 ants worth of earthworm guts. x1 feeding ability. Low energy food. Meat.
0 aphid - 0 ants worth of food. x3 feeding ability. !!Indescribable!! Energy food. Meat - Insect. !Kills wounded ants!
0 dead tyranid ants. - 0 ants worth of food. x1/2 feeding ability. Entropic Energy food. Meat - Insect - Canabalism.
5 units of ooze roots. x? feeding ability. ? Energy food. Plant - Root - Odd

!! Aphid energy knowledge gained! ~ The ants which sampled the aphid began twitching sparadically. They are not communicating in any form. It is unkown if they are alive or dead. Exact implications of aphid consumption unknown.

Second hive chambers:
Food storage size: 1800 ants worth. Max size.
Nursery chamber: 600 larvae
Queen's chamber: Can hold a single queen.
Food Storage size: 1800 ants worth. Max size.
Food storage size: 1800 ants worth. Max size.

Third Royal chamber: DEEP HIVE
Time to reach desired depth: .5 hours.
Time to finish Royal Chamber construction: additional 1.5 hours.

Scout report: It seems that the wasps and spiders are at war. Most of them are larger than the hive's ants, with exception of the silverspider. The Silverspider has approached one of the scouts and tried to warn him off -- indicating danger within these lands.
The wasps appear to be focusing on the strange flat bodied spider.
The white wasp has tried to attack all of the scouts -- they are wary of the wasps, and distrust them, only their ability to warp-burrow has saved them, as the wasps appear to be reluctant to go underground.
One of the scouts has noticed that a scorpion has many babies with it, which appear to have no significant chitin.
The scouts have been unable to approach any of the scorpions, as they appear to be under guard by the spiders.

Worm negotiator report:
The worms appear to show no sign of intelligence beyond pack-like behavior. It seems they look after eachother only out of instinct. After the worm was slain, the other earthworms stopped attacking our troops.

Aphid negotiator report: The aphids appear to fear our glorious new ants, even more than they did before. It seems the splendorous ants have them fearing to the point where they have lost most of their will to fight -- they do not seem cooperative yet though. Progress in replicating their pheromone patterns for proper communication is slow, but progressing. The splendorous ants have managed to produce a pheromone similar to the aphid's which they believe will convey the idea of regret.

>Dinner will be only a few minutes.

Could we create a largish (big enouph for the scorpians to fit) Warp Burrow hole under the scorpians (or near the scorpians dont want them to think its a trap) so they can have a safe underground exit from the battle ground (will also give us a way to circumvent the spiders trying to keep us away).

I think this is the best way to atempt to help the scorpians, and helping them is the best way to open negotiations with the spiders.

>It is feasible, though it would take significant time. The largest of the scorpions is dwarfs even the tunnel made by the earthworms. It would take 35 warriorIIs (your largest ant, or 50 diggers) to dig an area wide enough for the largest scorpion. It would take them 2.5 hours to reach the scorpions. (5 of 8 updates before change)
>However the baby scorpions could fit in the space of produced by 5 diggers warp burrowing. They could accomplish the journey in 1.5 hours due to their underground bonuses.

>Actions? Ant assignments?

Alright send the 10 splendor infernic diggers that are expanding our food stores to dig an escape hatch for the babies, and 5 splendor workers that are offering non-leaf food to the aphids to try and convince the scorpions we mean no harm and the tunnel will be safe for the babies, so the diggers can focus on digging. You said that 75 warriors II have just MM, have they been assigned? If not send 40 of them to go and work on the bigger escape tunnel for the other scorpions. If they have been assigned I will need to think where we can most afford a loss of ant-power.

What do the other Antvisers think?

>>6121601
Uncle Ant i've missed you, i've missed your smile

I remember when this quest started...It was just a humble anthil...Now we're making negotiations with poisonous arachnids while simultaneously plotting their demise.

/tg/, I am proud.

>They have not been assigned.
>Also is only one person going to be making suggestions here?

I would but i've been out of the loop for such a long time I have no idea what's going on. Last time I posted was when we were choosing to get the infernic ones.

Alright, so 40 of the new IIwariors can go with the diggers and workers to help with the scorpian escape tunnel. Someone else should disperse the 35 other warriors, I am more of a field tactics ant then a details ant.

And yeah I realy would like others to advice, collective games are really only fun when they are collective.

>>6121943
not much happened,

>>6121943
Not a huge amount of change, we have more ants, we are called tyranids, we made a second queen, her name is Betty, she will be doing her own thing soon. Queens we make are allied but not under direct control, and are considered diferent broods. Our brood is splendorous so we are pretty, and we took upgrades to be able to talk to other bugs better, so we are starting diplo missions. Theres worms nearby, they are dumb, we captrued some aphids, they're scared, wasps are fighting spiders/scorpians, we are sending help. Other than a list of what upgrades we have taken that seams to be about what you need.

>If no one is going to do anything I do need egg choices for next timestamp.

>>6122284
all warrior, we need to fight the wasps and have plenty of workers/diggers

hey Antifate are these threads always this slow

>They tend to be a bit slow. I'm not exactly great at judging the ebb/flow of them

>>6122296
Do acidic ants take more "eggs" to produce than warriors, if not I think we should do an even split wariors and acid, get out chemical warfair going.

>>6122335
whatever these are great threads
So are acidic ants a strain? If so do they act like worker ants in that they can dig, gather, ect

>Acidic ants are produced at the same rate/quantity as warriors. They do not have the increased egg cost that Honeypots and Stalkers have.

>>6122449
do they act like warriors or workers

>Acidic ants are closer in nature to warriors than workers, but have one notable use for non-military. Due to their ability to produce harmful chemicals it is possible for them to 'weed' certain plants, which will be of much more significance in future development. See "Devil's Garden"

rolled 2 = 2

>>6122449
okay, then give us an even split of acid and warior. If there is a remandor then
rollin
1: remainder goes to acidic
2: remeander goes to llwarior

Should see what that oily substance on the new root is. If it gets in the way of harvesting food, maybe the acidic ants can take care of it.

>The new root can be harvested, but it cannot be consumed currently -- all attempts to consume it resulted in it on the ground rather than in an ant's belly.

>>6122490
but don't acidic ants only secrete acid when crushed

>"Their mandibles can secrete an acidic coating as well."

rolled 1 = 1

>>6122557
indeed, I want to send some after those mineral deposites soon as we can to see what happens.

>>6122490
have some splendorous/linguist workers to go and round the worms closer to the main hive, have some other workers box them in with rocks,ect to make a pen, we can use our ability to go through inorganic materials to go in and tame them. I really hope that later someone can improve the idea

we must keep this thread alive

>Ant actions in this phase require numbers of and where they are being assigned from.
>Note: 35 IIwarriors are idle still.
>Herding the earthworms may prove difficult due to their huge size in comparison to regular ants and their ability to burrow -- any chamber which can hold multiple earthworms would need to extraordinarily massive and ants would need to figure out a way to enter it without offering an exit to the earthworms. Earthworm burrowing capabilities are unknown but current exploration of their tunnels suggests they are limited to normal dirt.
>Feeding earthworms would be interesting logistically, they seem to eat the dirt they dig through -- feeding them would mean allowing them to travel through dirt or as minimally dumping large quantities of dirt upon them.

>Thread isn't exactly under threat of dieing as far as I can tell.

>On that note, I'll begin posting new timestamp when requested.

>>6120589
awww man I missed Ant quest again ;_;

rolled 1 = 1

>>6122634
The worms are X-bawks huge in comparison to us, I dont think we are going to herd them anywhere. We might try makeing a pen around where they are now, I dunno.

>>6122720
no miss, we still goin.

>>6122710
Put the remaining idle warriors to help carry worm bits to storage, and advance timestamp.

Timestamp: 14.5 hours

70 Betty Larvae .5 hours to MM (35 IIwarrior, 35 worker)

250 tyranid eggs (warriorIIs and Acidics)
5 tyranid stalker larvae have MMed as Infernics
10 tyranid stalker larvae
25 tyranid larvae have MMed as infernics (IIwarriors)
50 Tyranid larvae 1.5 hours to MM. (IIwarriors)
75 Tyranid larvae .5 hours to MM. (IIwarriors)
The Tyranid Queen has consumed 25 ants worth of strange ooze and produced 250 eggs!
!!Secret found! Queens produce more eggs with higher energy foods!

10 Tyranid eggs next to large mineral cluster. ? hours to hatch
10 Betty eggs next to large mineral cluster. ? hours to hatch.

Ant assignments:
workers --
Infernic
30 harvesting seeds. (30 sloth)
10 collecting roots. (10 sloth)
15 digging food storage chamber (15 sloth)
10 confronting aphids (5 sloth)
5 offering samples of all avalable food types to aphids. (SPLENDOR)
5 Offering grass leaves to aphids. (SPLENDOR)
5 traveling to communicate with scorpions (SPLENDOR)

Normal
40 tending larvae.
100 .5 hours from returning with Sweet ooze
20 Observing wasps, spiders, scorpions. Will aid scorpions if able to without loss of live.
40 digging new Royal Chamber -- DEEP
250 harvesting seeds. (50 sloth)
150 collecting roots from root clusters.
5 collecting oozing roots. Return in 0.0 hour
8 gathering leaves to feed to aphids.
24 confronting aphids. (19 sloth)
15 tending wounded ants (10 sloth)
3 canabalism test subjects
2 Canabalism test subjects spasming from consuming aphid.
3 spasming from consuming aphid (1 sloth)
5 searching for tall areas to suppliment diver training
5 studying the huge mineral cluster.

Warriors
Infernic
70 idle after returning to the main hive with the earthworm carcasss (30 sloth).

Normal
10 blocking aphid chamber exits
5 wounded (aphid venom)
45 idle after returning to the main hive with the earthworm carcasss (20 sloth)
100 in secondary hive (75)

IIwarriors
Infernic
25 guarding the entrance
50 out patrolling in groups of 5.
75 Waiting for Splendorious ants to act as diplomats then traveling EAST to Hive of unknown Ants.
25 guarding the queen (SPLENDOR)
15 idle after returning to the main hive with the earthworm carcasss (SPLENDOR)
Normal
15 guarding/controlling aphids (SPLENDOR)
5 patrolling. (SPLENDOR)
5 guarding the entrance (SPLENDOR)
5 guarding the Queen (SPLENDOR)
55 idle after returning to the main hive with the earthworm carcasss (SPLENDOR)
25 Patrolling the second hive in groups of 5. (SPLENDOR)
40 expanding escape tunnel behind the workers. (SPLENDOR)
25 Newborn (Splendor)

Diggers
Infernic
45 aiding the 80 workers (30 sloth)
10 digging digging tunnel for baby scorpions (SPLENDOR)
5 expanding second queen chamber (SPLENDOR)

Normal
80 working on new queen chamber, food chamber, and nursery in far hive tunnels, 1 hour from the main depth shaft. (80 sloth)
85 digging new food storage chamber. (60 sloth)
10 expanding treatment center

Stalkers
Infernic
5 Newborn (SPLENDOR)

Tunnel system: 1hr travel surrounding center - topsoil.
20 wiry root locations. (Circular dispersion -- grass roots)
1 thick oozing root located. (To the west -- Oozing plant roots)
The massive mineral cluster. 20 larvae are being cared for next to it.
20 total clusters of minerals. (east)
20 total organic strand clusters. (south)
Aphid pens: 13
7 aphid pens occupied.
!! Aphids are cowering, and refusing to eat anything brought before them! The aphids appear to be fearful of the SPLENDORIOUS ants.
The wounded ants appear to be suffering from the Aphid venom. They have begun to die!


The ants which are tending the wounded are not quite sure how to help, though they are keeping them well fed, using a variety of food types.

Food storage size: 1800, one chamber. Max size of chamber.
Treatment center: treatment capability: 300 ants
Second chamber: 1800 ants worth of food.
Third food chamber: 1800 ants worth of food.
Fourth food chamber: 1200 ants worth of food.
Treatment center: 300 ants can be treated here.
415 Grass seeds. x2 feeding ability, medium energy food. Plant - Grain.
2095 wiry root chunks. x3 feeding ability, medium energy food. Plant - root.
480 Sweet ooze. x5 feeding ability, High energy food. - Reserved for sloth ants. Sloth ants will preferentially eat this food. Plant - Biotic.
445 ants worth of earthworm flesh chunks. x7 feeding ability. Strange energy food. Meat.
1485 ants worth of earthworm guts. x1 feeding ability. Low energy food. Meat.
0 aphid - 0 ants worth of food. x3 feeding ability. !!Indescribable!! Energy food. Meat - Insect. !Kills wounded ants!
10 dead tyranid ants. - 5 ants worth of food. x1/2 feeding ability. Entropic Energy food. Meat - Insect - Canabalism.
5 units of ooze roots. N/A feeding ability. N/A Energy food. Plant - Root - Odd

Second hive chambers:
Food storage size: 1800 ants worth. Max size.
Nursery chamber: 600 larvae
Queen's chamber: Can hold a single queen.
Food Storage size: 1800 ants worth. Max size.
Food storage size: 1800 ants worth. Max size.

Third Royal chamber: DEEP HIVE
Time to reach desired depth: REACHED. Royal chamber construction begun
Time to finish Royal Chamber construction: additional 1.5 hours.

Additional materials:
Leaves:60 ants worth ~ ? aphid feeding ability per ant worth.

Scout report: The scouts have noticed an intricate network of thin strands of an unknown material lacing the area between many of the plants. These are densest over the area with the scorpions.
The scouts have been unable to approach any of the scorpions, as they appear to be under guard by the spiders.

Aphid negotiator report: The aphids still do not appear to want to eat. -- No formal attempts of pheromone communication to respond to them has been made.

are we intelligent enough to know ho to farm? I know each thread is only 1-3 hours in the quest but in the long run it could help us or get us an upgrade

>scorpions under guard by the spiders.

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFf

What kind of devil pact have they formed.

>Farming is possible though the exact requirements of viable farming fauna or flora would require research and experimentation. Currently various antvisors have suggested trying to farm the fungus on the rock which they stopped harvesting due to potentially forcing it locally extinct, and 'farming' worms.

We're going to have to go Dune on those worms.

>>6122997
Offer the Aphid's some of the high energy ooze we have.

>I already accounted for offering them some food. 5 units total. <_<

Dammit Fate, I want to sleep...

Also, the queen should now be fed only in earthworm flesh, until we get something better.

Have we finished with that "regret" pherimone, if so we should try that with the aphids, we should also move 50 of the diggers expanding our food storage to work on an open air aphid pens, I dont think they like being underground. It should be near our nest but not connected by tunnels (we travel above ground to reach them). I doubt we are going to be able to "milk" them for food, but we may be able to harvest thier venom.

Also we have 95 idle llwariors, and 105 idle wariors (if I counted right) we need to assighn.
We can do some combination of.
Disperce them in patrols/queen guard duty.
Attack another earthworm (we have finished gathering the bounty of the previous one).
Send them to the area near the wasp/spider fight so they can respond quickly if diplomacy goes well and out assistance is required.
What say you Advisants?

>Indeed, ants have completed what they believe is a 'regret' pheromone which most other insects should be able to understand. They have also begun working on a pheromone to convey the idea of 'safe' or 'safety' for the arachnids.

>>6123143
Sorry Fate. I asumed we went with the leaves as their food. I'm thinking to small it seems hehe.

>>6123175
the queen ate some high energy ooze and laid 250 eggs, as oposed to the normal clutch of 75, thats pretty darn signifigant. Speaking of which we are probly going to have to divert some workforce to minding the aditional eggs we weren't expecting, we are going to need a digger/worker batch soon. We will need to expand the nursery also. Dont think we have space for another 250 in the current one.

>Umm no, normal clutch at 150.

>>6123236

How did the last fight with the worms go again. How many died of which types? And how did it change when our new fightan' ants got there?

did we get any results from placing eggs near the mysterious stones?

>>6123236
agreed

>>6123363
Them crazy stones man.

>>6123323
yeah, doy, sorry bout that, was forgeting that the acelerated growth rate of the ifernic makes it seperate from the normal ones for time till birth. so i saw all the time steps of 75 ants. still 250 vs 150 is also signifigant. 66% bonus, good to consider.

>>6123391
If we are going to keep feeding her the tasty ooze we should also increase the number of ants collecting it.

>Placing eggs next to the stones so far has only delayed their hatching.
>There were a few losses of regular warriors I think.
>Still need #s for those distributions

>>6123391
The Nest shall spread across the land, also we should communicate the information about the ooze increasing clutch size to Betty, send one of the splendor ants over and let her know.

>>6123433
I'd say split them evenly amoung all current tasks.

>>6123454
this.

>>6123421
agreed, we can take 100 off of seed duty and put them to sweet ooze duty.

Then once we decide on what to do with our idle wariors (I realy think some should be sent for rapid response to the spider/wasp issue) we should be good for the next timestamp

Goddamnit i'm late
what sort of horrors have you fools introduced into the strains of our ants.

The spiders have been non hostile, while the wasps have attatcked us here and in the past, We need some splendorous diplomAnts for spider-ant peace

>Don't forget there IS another hive of ants to the EAST. And 75 IIwarriors (infernic only) have been waiting for some splendorious workers to act as diplomats with them.

Who is in favour of diverting 50 of the mark II warriors to go combat the wasps

>>6123462
yeah okay thats fine with me, though a note for the fight with the worms, before the fight we should try and soften the soil around them. The worms have no biting tearing, or other weapon other than its size to crush us with. Soft dirt should increas the chance we a mearly pushed into the ground instead of crushed between it and the worm.

orders overview. 100 workers from seed gathering divert to sweet ooze, idle workers devided between fighting a worm, rapid suport for the spider/wasp battle, and guard/patrol duty.
Try to talk regret to the aphids, and 50 diggers from building food storage to building open air aphid pens.
random ant to tell Betty about high energy foods increasing egg capacity.
Miss anything?

I say we send some of the acidic ants to attempt to steal some of the wasps eggs so we can tame the shit out of them.

>>6123584
we should have about 40 of them going to work on an underground escape tunnel for the scorpians, this should unpin (so to speak) the spiders allowing them a tactical retreat if necisary.

And yeah I totaly forgot about the other ant coloney, we should grab the 5 splendor works offering random foods to the aphids to go with that vanguard to diplomise with the other ants, send 5 of the stalkers also, they are fast and stealthy and should be able to give us the report on that faster. Leave the 5 offering leafs to diplomise with the aphids, regret speak and all that.

>>6123631
acidics are still all eggs, we only just now got the ability to make acidic, but that can be on the agenda for latter.

>>6123635
I am a little hesitant about burrowing an unannounced tunnel behind the scorpians, it might frighten them, would really like some splendorous ants to be in that tunnel to do the beckoning but I suppose they could start the digging while the splendorous bretherin make their way there.

>>6123670
forgot mah name

>>6123670
we sent 5 splendor workers for that very purpose, also the diggers are splendor, and as are the wariors expanding the tunel for the larger scorpians.

>Current Idle ants:
Normal workers 15 IDLE (10 sloth)
Infernic Warriors 70 IDLE (30 sloth)
Normal Warriors 45 IDLE (20 sloth)
Infernic IIwarriors 15 IDLE (SPLENDOR)
Normal IIwarriors 30 IDLE (SPLENDOR)

>>6123749
splendorous warrior II's(including infernics), move to combat the wasps, regular warriors assist in scorpian escape tunnel digging, workers too

>>6123836
yeah works for me, anything else we can think of or is this timestamp time?

>>6122490
what happened to the fruit flies anyway, sorta like they fell of the radar
......MY GOD WHAT COULD THEY BE UP TO

>Fruit flies are still in the flower field, to the south.

lay another batch of eggs 50 warriors 50workers 50 diggers

is there anyways to MARK these ants? I want them to be dedicated diplomAnts so the problem of needing to find spare ants to send out for public relations won't be.

Also Anti-Fate could you please post when the next session of ANT QUEST will be? they are always terribly late and ive missed them now and then

>Ant quest sessions are generally every Saturday, starting at 7 PM PST and go anywhere form 12-3AM PST.

>Occasionally I cannot run on a Saturday, in which case there might be a make up session on Sunday same timeframe but ending sooner. If not it continues the next weekend.

>Next batch of eggs won't be until the 15.5 hours timestamp. This upcoming timestamp is the 15. hours timestamp.

>And as for marking them, I could set aside a few ants from specific groups for their own special purpose. But not this upcoming timestamp.

>>6124024
Alright thanks, and just keep the marked ant batch on the agenda until next possible

>Anything else or shall I post update?

>>6124116
I cant think of anything, go for the update

Timestamp: 15 hours
-Tyranid queen set to consume only sweet ooze

250 tyranid Larvae 2 hours to MM (warriorIIs and Acidics)
10 tyranid stalker larvae 1.0 hour to MM
50 Tyranid larvae 1.0 hours to MM. (IIwarriors)
75 Tyranid larvae have MM. (IIwarriors)

10 Tyranid eggs next to large mineral cluster. ? hours to hatch
10 Betty eggs next to large mineral cluster. ? hours to hatch.

Ant assignments:
workers --
Infernic
30 harvesting seeds. (30 sloth)
10 collecting roots. (10 sloth)
15 digging food storage chamber (15 sloth)
10 communicating regret to aphids. (5 sloth)
5 Communicating regret to aphids. (SPLENDOR)
5 Traveling to attempt to open communication with foreign ant colony. (SPLENDOR)
5 traveling to communicate with scorpions (SPLENDOR)

Normal
40 tending larvae.
100 .0 hours from returning with Sweet ooze
20 Observing wasps, spiders, scorpions. Will aid scorpions if able to without loss of live.
40 digging new Royal Chamber -- DEEP
100 collecting sweet ooze. Return in 2.0
150 harvesting seeds. (50 sloth)
150 collecting roots from root clusters.
8 gathering leaves to feed to aphids.
24 confronting aphids. (19 sloth)
3 canabalism test subjects
2 Canabalism test subjects spasming from consuming aphid.
3 spasming from consuming aphid (1 sloth)
5 searching for tall areas to suppliment diver training
5 studying the huge mineral cluster.
5 informing QB of the discovery of Higher Energy Foods
15 assissting in digging escape tunnel for scorpions (10 sloth)

Warriors
Infernic
70 Assisting in digging escape tunnel for scorpions (30 sloth).

Normal
10 blocking aphid chamber exits
100 in secondary hive (75). Will return in 1.5 hours as QB has begun laying eggs and has her own ants to look after her now.
45 assisting in digging escape tunnel for scorpions (20 sloth)

IIwarriors
Infernic
25 guarding the entrance
50 out patrolling in groups of 5.
25 guarding the queen (SPLENDOR)
75 Traveling EAST to foreign hive with 5 SPLENDORIOUS workers.
15 Moving to offer aid to spiders if requested (SPLENDOR)

Normal
15 guarding aphids (SPLENDOR)
5 patrolling. (SPLENDOR)
5 guarding the entrance (SPLENDOR)
5 guarding the Queen (SPLENDOR)
25 Patrolling the second hive in groups of 5. (SPLENDOR)
90 expanding escape tunnel behind the workers. (SPLENDOR)
30 Moving to offer aid to spiders if requested. (SPLENDOR)

Diggers
Infernic
45 aiding the 80 workers (30 sloth)
10 digging digging tunnel for baby scorpions (SPLENDOR)
5 expanding second queen chamber (SPLENDOR)

Normal
80 working on new queen chamber, food chamber, and nursery in far hive tunnels, 1 hour from the main depth shaft. (80 sloth)
85 digging new food storage chamber. (60 sloth)
10 expanding treatment center

Stalkers
Infernic
5 Traveling EAST to foreign ant Hive (SPLENDOR)

Tunnel system: 1hr travel surrounding center - topsoil.
20 wiry root locations. (Circular dispersion -- grass roots)
2 thick oozing root located. (To the west -- Oozing plant roots)
The massive mineral cluster. 20 larvae are being cared for next to it.
20 total clusters of minerals. (east)
20 total organic strand clusters. (south)
The tunnel to reach the scorpions has reached halfway. The digging ants will wait for an ant above them to tunnel downwards before opening the tunnel to the surface. !! Notice the tunnel is large enough for the scorpions, but cannot fit two of the spiders. The wasps could enter the tunnel as well. (In the EAST)
Aphid pens: 13
7 aphid pens occupied.
The wounded ants have all died from aphid venom!

Primary Hive Chambers
First Food storage size: 1800 ants worth of food. Max size of chamber.
Second chamber: 1800 ants worth of food. Max size of chamber
Third food chamber: 1800 ants worth of food. Max size of chamber
Fourth food chamber: 1800 ants worth of food. Max size of chamber
Treatment center: 300 ants can be treated here. Max size of chamber
Nursery: 450 larvae can be tended here
1510 Grass seeds. x2 feeding ability, medium energy food. Plant - Grain.
1800 wiry root chunks. x3 feeding ability, medium energy food. Plant - root.
585 Sweet ooze. x5 feeding ability, High energy food. - Reserved for sloth ants. Sloth ants will preferentially eat this food. Plant - Biotic.
450 ants worth of earthworm flesh chunks. x7 feeding ability. Strange energy food. Meat.
1490 ants worth of earthworm guts. x1 feeding ability. Low energy food. Meat.
0 aphid - 0 ants worth of food. x3 feeding ability. !!Indescribable!! Energy food. Meat - Insect. !Kills wounded ants!
15 dead tyranid ants. - 8 ants worth of food. x1/2 feeding ability. Entropic Energy food. Meat - Insect - Canabalism.
5 units of ooze roots. N/A feeding ability. N/A Energy food. Plant - Root - Odd

Queen Betty's hive is no longer under direct growth supervision

Third Royal chamber: DEEP HIVE
Time to reach desired depth: REACHED. Royal chamber construction begun
Time to finish Royal Chamber construction: additional 1.0 hours.

Aphid communication report: The aphids appear to still be distrusting. A new pheromone has been released by them. Current indications suggest they are incapable of advanced communicative skills such as the elaborate pheromone communications you use. They are still refusing to eat. One of them looks to be injured, and the others have moved away from it.

Spider-wasp-scorpion report: The above ground traveling diplomat has gotten close to the scorpions but it will take at least another half hour to reach them through the mess of webs surrounding them.
The large flat spider seems to be suffering from several stings -- though it does not appear to be fatally wounded, it might not survive the remaining time before the tunnel can be finished and the scorpions can be convinced to enter. The silver spider has approached your ants once more, warning them of danger. The final spider has been noticed as building webs throughout the flora in the surrounding area. The white wasp still harasses your ants, but none have died. Yet.

>>6124210
Lets try to take care of the wounded looking aphid.

Also
>The wounded ants have all died from aphid venom!

;_;

>>6124210
>>above ground traveling diplomat
above ground? would it be faster to warp burrow?

>>silver spider has approached your ants once more, warning them of danger.
Offer Aid, ask for advise, tell of burrowers coming from below

>>6124210
Oh man I have an idea. We could offer the hurt spider some of our dead ants as a peace offering.

>>6124397
....the ones that died from Poison? uhhhhhh

how about some of the earthworm meat instead?

>The diplomats are traveling above ground to not spook the scorpions, and because warp burrowing would be slower.

>Diplmat ant will be using complex pheromone communication, as will the spiders. What of the hive's own nature should be communicated with the spiders?

>>6124397
still not a bad idea though, divert 10 ants from (90 expanding escape tunnel behind the workers. (SPLENDOR)) have them grab some gathered Earthworm meat, (as much as they can) and take it to the spiders and scorpions.

>>6124433
>>What of the hive's own nature should be communicated with the spiders?

see if you can get this across:
"We are the Hive Eternal, brood of the Tyranid queen....Wasps huh? our sympathies, anything we can do to help?"

Alright, wasps have oficialy entered my shit list, well I guess as ants dont shit, it more of an anger list, but whatever.

The 20 ants that are watching the fight need to go in and form as much as a perimiter around wounded spider as posible, project the "safety" pherimone. They are just workers so combat ability will be minimal, but if a wasp comes, they should try to hold/drag it down, go for the wings, etc and try imobilize it so the wounded spider finish it off. Primary objective is to keep the spider from recieving fatal wounds untill the strikeforce gets there. When the scorpian diploant gives the word and we open the tunnel I want all but 25 (inferinic warior II) to burst out of the tunnel and suport the spiders, try to talk them into a retreat, if not help them fight. The 25 that remain will act as a sternguard keeping wasps out of our tunnels.

>>6124484
also mention that we have a digging party headed over to give an escape route/refuge from the wasps as well as some food that's on the way.

>>6124513
I like this plan

>>6124513
thirding

>40 units of earthworm flesh will be brought to the spiders and scorpions, 20 to each group. Is this acceptable?

>The diplomat ants attempt to communicate with the Silverspider: "We are the Hive Eternal, brood of the Tyranid queen....Wasps huh? We're working to try to get the scorpions out of here -- it seems like you're guarding them from the wasps. We'd like to help out if we can."

Silverspider: "We recognize no such hive -- and surely you must be joking? You--help us?
Kah kahahahah.
These three wasps could devour your whole hive I'd bet. Scorpions are far more useful allies than any ant.
And you think you can get the Scorpions safely out of here? It takes all three of us to keep them somewhat SAFE HERE, in our homes. How can you hope to protect them better than we?
No. I think you'd best move along little one, before I get hungry or someone gets hurt. Move along now, I've got to deal with these flying bastards."

>>6124607
Tell them that we are bringing a food offering and that we do not mean to insult them.

>The 20 observers will form a circle around the wide spider, along the ground, and try to protect it.

>>6124640
Make sure the hurt spider understands we are trying to help him. I don't want him to think we are trying to do him harm.

>>6124607
Responce:

Numbers are our allies, and the earth moves by our command, The wasps have free reighn in the open but in our caverns their wings are for naught.
The Wasps have wronged us as they have wronged you, our goal is mutual.

>>6124607
politely ask if that means that we should stop building the large tunnel under the scorpions and send the earthworm meat that's on the way back?

>>6124635

Agreed

>>6124672

And Agreed

ANTS ARE FOR FAGGOTS, WHY NOT SOMETHING COOLER LIKE INTESTINAL PARASITE QUEST?

SOUNDS ABOUT THE SAME

rolled 8 = 8

>The 20 ants are a bit clumsier with communications than SPLENDOR ants, but they seem to have imparted that they mean no harm.
>Diplomat ants: "Numbers are our allies, and the earth moves by our command, The wasps have free reign in the open but in our caverns their wings are for naught.
The Wasps have wronged us as they have wronged you, our goal is mutual.
We even bring an offering to you of food. Please, take no offense at our good will. -- Or would you rather we not offer the scorpions escape into the ground itself, for us to keep our foods for ourselves?"

>>6124719
"Ant" really needs to be taken as a past, a beginning, for while we currently exist as mere ants our course is set to expand far beyond such humble roots, we are not the Tyranid Brood for nothing.

>>6124814
Are you suggesting having them evolve and conquer the earth or some shit?

>>6124827
I think he means that we shouldn't talk about our brood so lightly. We should be proud of what we are.

>>6124759
rolling eh? the fact that they are currently under siege from the wasps had better add a heavy bonus to our diplomatic overture.

>>6124827
conquer the earth?

lets call that a good initial short term goal.

>>6124870
Considering we're fucking ants right now, I'd say that's a good plan.

"You cannot possibly produce a tunnel large enough for the our friends before we would fall. You yourselves are tiny. I, Sliver, am at least five times your size, and my friends at least five times my own.
No, you cannot possibly make such a tunnel in time. Leave now, and you may yet keep your lives this day."

>>6124881
"Fuck you and suck my dick, bitch. Only douchebags talk about themselves in third person."

>>6124881
Let him know how large the tunnel currently is and that is almost finished. Tell them we will send our biggest and strongest warriors to assist them (send war2s to help).

>>6124848
Eh if we fail (dispite how much of an elig/ant/ bastard I was) we just burst through the escape tunnel have the splendor diggers act as our mouthpeace directly to the scorpians, and we can decide weather or not to forgive silver spider for being condensending when the crises is over. Also we have 75 IIwarior that just hatched this timestamp we can send more suport as needed.

>>6124914
agreed

I vote we tell that spider bitch to suck our dicks.

>>6124881
"considering that you all don't seem to have any better ideas we're going try anyways, we'll send some meat up you way when it arrives, best of luck!"

Yeah, suck our dicks

Yeah, yeah. Tell 'em to suck our dicks. Fucking bitch spiders.

Sure is /b/ in here.

>>6124881
"I am bred to speak and labor, it is the Warior that is bred to fight, our wariors await in our tunnel, and our tunnel waits for but our signal to crack the surface and bring the scorpians to saftey. We may then fight the wasps without worry"

Give this one last shot, but for good or for ill, after this atempt one of the diploants will warpdown and give the signal to the tunnel.

>I'm running out of brain power here. Gonna call it quits at the hour mark. Someone make sure to archive this for next week.

>"We already have constructed half of a tunnel large enough for the scorpions -- We should reach the grounds the scorpions stay in in half an hour. Our offering of food still stands."

>Sliver has already begun to return to the battle as the diplomacy ants are conveying their message. It seems he did not find them particularly believable. Maybe he will be a bit more understanding when you follow through -- but it seems for now he believes his time would be better spent aiding his cousins.

>>6124941
>>6124963
there's no reason to be rude, his concerns are not unjustified, we may indeed not arrive in time to lend assistance and warped burrowing is a difficult concept to convey, go with >>6124961 and just lend polite assistance anyways.

>>6125022
Ok Sounds good Fate.

Its been fun

archive here
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/6120589/

we will soon feast on the corpses of wasps.

>>"15 Moving to offer aid to spiders if requested (SPLENDOR)"

have these travel the tunnels and join the 90 infernic warriors currently in there.

>>6125231
Naw let the overlands go overland, they are a bit behind the tunnelers, could make a minor pincer formation. we do have 90 IIwarrior and 115 wariors in the tunnel helping build it (though 25 of the IIwariors will play sternguard). Our burst forth should be impresive. We also have another 75 newborn IIwarior, we should send them also, as a second wave. Lets just hope this other ant hive we are talking to is not hostile