Chrysalis

After the discovery of the wondrous Dungeon aphids we spent two more days pushing into the Expanse. Monsters became more and more common the deeper we went. Hippo-Turtles, Double Crocs, bewitching flowers, a tree that tried to eat Tiny and got punched to pieces, all sorts of stuff.

I didn't care about any of it.

APHIDS.

They represent something incredible to me in this world of Dungeons and monsters. A way to get Biomass, WITHOUT fighting. The possibilities boggle my mind. You could have newborn ants fed from the aphids until they have achieved a decent level of strength, they'd be under no risk whatsoever as they collected food, from trees and leaves of all places!

I'm hungry for the details. To what level can these creatures be pushed? Can the stuff they excrete be improved in some way? Is it an organ that they have? Can they mutate it? Can we breed them? They're almost like fuzzy little dogs, would the ants be happy to care for them, defend them?

I need to know so badly! I can't however. Until the Expanse has been purged of our foes and made safe for ant kind I can't afford to be side tracked by anything!

So we keep fighting.

The constant fighting and eating has been good for my little group. Crinis in particular has continued to feast and take in more Biomass which I demand she spends during our rare breaks. As a result she's been able to gain several more mutation advancements, including her Durable Shadow flesh +5 and Disintegrating Void Maw. The first upgrade has made her rubbery shadow flesh tougher and harder to damage. The second has caused her mouth to achieve a disintegration property. From what I understand, anything she can get her impressive maw around will slowly start to disintegrate, crumbling out of existence.

She was apparently frustrated that her tentacles weren't up to the task of tearing the Hippo down and wanted another avenue of attack against monsters with tough defence.

With that she has achieved +5 in all the body parts she is currently able to spend Biomass on. Having already evolved once, her limit is presently +10 so she's pushing forward with upgrading her tentacles, getting them to +9 so far.

infinite darkness is certainly starting to come into her own! At level

to +10 and took the unbreakable mutation, making his reinforced skeleton even stronger. I suspect this is only so he can try and attach even

enough to go up a tier but I

Enhanced speed aura gland is giving all of us a significant speed improvement. Nothing crazy but certainly enough to

own improvement has been more modest, by comparison. I'm still biding my time and testing out my bag of tricks. I want to have plenty in the tank by the time we

Biomass

of the nearly impossible to climb large ones, but rather a

Hippo Turtle decided to run into the middle of a battle against a posse of crocs. It got messy real fast but fortunately we were able to lock down the hippo long enough to finish off the crocs before turning onto the hippo and devouring

I decided we should retreat to

curious that after we clear out the Crocs the local marsh monsters begin to come out of their shells. Their activity increases and what I would consider 'normal'

I can learn how they do it I'd be most interested in exploring the applications of such

Gweheheheh.

crocs to for eating. I mean fighting. Also

the Dungeon then they shouldn't have made their offspring so tasty! It's a

I think a monster would care about how I tasted considering

thinking about yourself getting eaten Anthony!

the monster that eats me