Chrysalis

So which magical energy type to choose?

Death sounds awesome, an unstoppable tide of undead ants would be cool but my own family would need to be killed first! Plus there may be a chance I’ll end up zombified like the death rabbit! No thanks!

Time? I mean, time would be amazing but how the heck would it work? Stopping time? Speeding up time? Travelling through time?!?! Maybe too complicated.

Entropy? Perhaps a bit too grim and macabre.

I want something I can use in a fight but also something that has some utility to it, something I can make use of outside of combat in a significant way.

I will always choose the all-around option!

No weak points is my motto!

Perhaps it is wasteful to think this way but I just don’t like the idea of something that has only one purpose. I want options dammit!

Illusion? Too artsy. I was always terrible at mental imagery and drawing.

Space? Could be amazing but I’m not certain it’ll be fighty enough.

Healing is tempting but won’t help me out much when I’m on my own.

Chaos? Sounds a little.... Unpredictable?

Mental would almost certain allow telepathy of some kind... I’m not quite as starved for conversation now that I have the pheromone language though... There is always a chance I’ll be able to gain this ability another way without spending this precious selection on it. I’ll pass on this for now.

Maybe.... Maybe this one?

Gravity.

I feel like it has potential!

Gandalf have to

the creation and exertion of push and pull

I used my forceful mana ball and made it out of gravitational

them into the

make

crush my

into a tiny little ball?! Compacting the Biomass

I like it a

I’ll pick this one!

need to decide what

and I’m gonna make use

the cost of five cunning is extreme, much higher than spending on might. Just by my feeling I estimate that +5

stat is effectively just adding more muscle, bone and sinew whereas making changes to cunning involves creating and connecting millions of neurons to

my reserve to do what I didn’t dare consider in my first

guides my thoughts as I try to shape what I want. A small, additional brain to help bare the mental load of shifting and shaping mana. Practicing my mana skills been so mentally demanding that the rate of progress is too slow. In addition, practicing these skills leaves me so tired that I can’t reasonably be levelling these skills and doing something else at the same time. To raise

I’ll be able to reduce the strain and be able to practice my magic skills whilst

a significant amount of my energy finalising my new brain matter, resulting in an overall gain of +7 to my cunning. There isn’t any point investing in this brain if it isn’t able to perform its job properly so

a moment my heart twinges with regret but I push it to one side. The organs are in the menu so there is still a chance I’ll be able to purchase one someday in a future evolution

for this evolution is building

is simply too high and there is lower hanging fruit to pick. I turn my attention instead to the Will stat. This one is also costly but I feel that boosting the strength of my thoughts and my mental

gains against the costs I spend a good chunk of energy on my Will,

of my evolutionary energy is left to spend and I apportion it

before but gives a higher raw stat boost. For toughness I make the split

Anthony is tanking up!

upgrades I’ll be physically capable

every last drop of evolutionary energy has been spent I

Name: Anthony

Level: 1 (core)