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 say about

for the creation and exertion of push and pull forces beyond

would happen if I used my forceful mana ball and made it out of gravitational energy? Would

into the air

make

my enemies into

I even squash them in on themselves, squishing them into a tiny little ball?! Compacting the Biomass

like

I’ll pick this one!

the way I need to decide what to do with

to spend and I’m gonna make use of

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

whereas making changes to cunning involves creating and

of my reserve to do what I didn’t

brain matter would be a rather complicated matter I don’t doubt, but thankfully it is relatively simple for me. The evolution menu assists and 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

reduce the strain and be able to practice my magic

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 I gave a significant

into the body part menus, idly I take a quick look at the aura organs and their cost in energy is simply staggering! For 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

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 defences will only serve me well in my pursuit of

good chunk of energy on my Will, raising it

is left to spend and I apportion

emphasise size over density, going for a 3 to 1 ratio. This will make me significantly larger than before but gives

Anthony is tanking up!

these upgrades I’ll be physically capable of holding my

evolutionary energy has been spent I take a step back

Name: Anthony

Level: 1 (core)