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

for the creation and exertion of push and pull

mana ball and made it out of gravitational energy? Would I be able

lift them into the air and

make

I crush my enemies into the

on themselves, squishing them into a tiny little ball?! Compacting the Biomass

like it! I like it

I’ll pick this one!

need to decide what to do with

got cash to spend and I’m gonna make

With my cunning already so high the cost of five cunning is extreme, much higher than spending on might. Just by my

more muscle, bone and sinew whereas making changes to cunning involves creating and connecting millions of neurons to

and some of my reserve to do what I didn’t dare consider in my first evolution. I shall

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 my skills all the way I’d have to become a recluse in the colony, letting the rest of

able to practice my magic skills whilst also being

end I use 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

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

focus for this evolution is building the

energy towards cunning but eventually dismiss the thought. The cost 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

the gains against the costs I spend a good chunk

left to

reluctantly decide to emphasise size over density, going for a 3 to 1 ratio. This will make me significantly larger than before but gives a higher raw stat boost. For toughness I make the split roughly the same,

Anthony is tanking up!

and hopefully with these upgrades I’ll be physically capable of holding my own against most monsters before

every last drop of evolutionary energy has been spent I take a step back and

Name: Anthony

Level: 1 (core)