Chrysalis

Biomass has been spent, food has been dispensed, traps are taken care of and Tiny is happily sleeping off his food coma.

The time is ripe!

There is something so exciting and freeing about being able to become a completely new creature via evolution. A human changes over their lifetime also, going from baby to toddler to child to teen to adult but the process is so slow that the change doesn’t always feel meaningful. Only in hindsight can you appreciate the different stages of your life.

I didn’t even make it to adult in my life as a human! After more than ten years!

I’ve not even been in my new world of Pangera for a single year and I’ve already reached my second evolution. If I were to line it up with the stages of human life, then I’ve been a baby monster, currently I’m a toddler monster and I shall promote myself to child monster!

Considering how weak the ant species is individually, these analogies actually feel pretty accurate to me.

Ok, no more stalling Anthony, time to go for it!

[Would you like to use the Evolution menu?]

I would!

[Congratulations on reaching the maximum level for your current species. Evolution will allow you change your form and increase your stats as a monster.

Warning: evolving will make securing XP and Biomass more difficult as fewer rewards are given for preying on creatures less evolved than yourself.

A special core has been detected, by advancing your core beyond normal limits special options may be available.

Your evolution options are as follows:

- Juvenile Queen (formica)

- Soldier (formica)

- Monster Worker Ant

- (Special) Command ant (formica)

- (Special) Mind ant (formica)]

What the heck!? So many choices?! I only had two last time, and one of those involved changing my species! Ok.... Let’s slow down and not prejudge. Take the options one by one and let Gandalf explain each one.

[Juvenile Queen (formica). A young queen of the formica species, this evolution includes wings and an egg laying organ allowing the new Queen to begin her own colony.]

Wings! Egg laying! All very Queen like stuff. Just one problem... one little query

Wait.

so stupid? I’ve known this for

I’M A FEMALE ANT!

DAMMIT GANDALF!

funny?! Huh?! Taking someone who was a boy and stuffing them into a female monster body?! Is this your hobby? You lousy

Grrrrr...

then crawl away to die, acting like disposable fertilisation machines who are then frequently eaten by the colony. In this world I’m

gender isn’t all that important to a monster. But still!

to be honest. The wings sound awesome but I don’t really want to be stuck inside the colony laying eggs all the time. I mean... I may be moving away from my humanity but laying eggs out

Next option.

oriented worker, this evolution includes +10

worker would be the choice. This selections seems to come without any free body upgrades but instead a significant boost to the

interesting but let’s move

generic Monster worker ant, this selection allows two free body part choices

get two free choices of body part. Is this because my species would change but generally

would be forced to abandon the colony and go back to leading the solitary monster life. I guess I would still have Tiny with me but I’m reluctant to take this choice. I like staying with the colony, it’s almost like having a family, something I didn’t

a place with other creatures in it who won’t attack me is

think I’ll

the real juice. Let’s see if the special evolutions meet

With this evolution comes a +5 bonus to might and a choice of aura gland which would be tuned to

The might

workers

One to go.

mind ant. This evolution grants a +5 bonus to cunning and a free magic

Ohhhhhhhhh baby.

is also tasty! Cunning was freakin’ expensive for me to upgrade last time so a free boost is pretty damn attractive. Not to mention the magic affinity gland, would that let me produce one

the special options, they both give me options that are extremely tempting and hard to come by, with the added bonus of not

which one to

is obviously more fighty, and the aura bonus is so tasty, the idea of being an incredible ant general, leading troops into battle is so

I could be spitting fireballs or lightning, or goodness knows what?! I don’t even have a clue

Gah!

This is hard!

be able to show its full effect only when I’m with the rest of the workforce, whereas the mind ant will be more suited to a lone ant style, although

her the ideal

I just can’t decide!