Chrysalis

These menus are always intimidating due to their sheer size, but I’m prepared to go the distance on this one, I can’t afford to make a mistake and pick the wrong options. There’ll be no reset after this one.

I suppose it’s technically possible to do one, but that would be a criminal waste of evolutionary energy. Basically a punch straight into my own face.

So I have to be careful, no yahoo off the cuff stuff. I’m going to peruse these menus with extreme focus.

Focus….

Focus….

Zzzzzzzzzzz….

Hah!

Wazzat?! Curse these damn lists! Despite having so many brains and such a high Cunning score, how is it possible my attention span and capacity to look at fine details remain so terrible?

But I can’t give up, I won’t!

With renewed determination, I begin to scroll once more. Most of these, I’m not interested in, obviously. Long ago, I decided against using mutations for specific resistances. I want my improvements to be as broadly applicable as possible. Naturally, that means I have to settle for a bit of oomph in many areas rather than a huge shazam in one. It’s the wiser tradeoff.

menu, I start to wonder more and more if I actually need to make myself tougher via mutation. I mean, my gravity compressed diamond is already hard as a brick. A brick formed from the heart of a neutron star, that is. Most mutations add a layer to the outside of the carapace, like my diamond mutation which coated my exo-skeleton in a fine layer of the precious gem. That worked great, since the outer coating was harder than my carapace and helped protect it from harm. What am I going to coat my new carapace in? Something even harder? There’s barely anything harder than

that issue with my own mana skills. I can create shields to

are mutations that

The humble gravity bolt, welding my opponents to the floor, the gravity spear, or even the

a gravity ant! Now, finally, after all this time, I can make

holds an affinity for that type of energy, it’s only natural that there should be some specific mutations for it attached.

find only three that are relevant to

Harnesses gravitational energy to repair damage

There’s synergy there, sure. I want to use gravity mana in

what I’m looking for. I can use my inner-plating for something like this, or rely on my regeneration gland, which

Absorbs gravitational energy to further compress and harden the

I use gravity magic, which I intend to do, all the time. I can already see myself floating gracefully through the air,

properties of Gravity Compressed Diamond to provide a boost to any Gravity

quite sweet. Turn my defence into offence! I can get behind it. The more I reinforce this mutation, the stronger the resonance will

melds quite well with the second I considered. Perhaps I should take both mutations and then fuse them in order to get the best of both worlds? My carapace makes my gravity magic more powerful, which in turn hardens my carapace, which

I love it!

all the way to +30, selecting Magnification at +5, Hardening at +10, fusing at +15, then

results is: Intensifying Compression Carapace

I lock that in and turn to