Growing, Building, Surviving: A Newborn without Parents[QUEST]

You decide that things will be okay if you go - so you offer no complaints as Annabel puts on her backpack and hauls you out, beginning the path to school. Along the way you find yourself watching the things around you through Annabel's eyes; it seems like you're in a slice of typical suburbia, and as Annabel walks you notice that several other people are walking around as well.

There's a very large city clearly visible in the distance, and every few minutes annabel hears jets, helicopters, and various other airbourne vehicle flying around.

Eventually you make it school, where Annabel shoves you in a corner right by several animals. Interestingly, you're not the only 'plant' there, though the animals most certainly outnumber the plants.

There are quite a few interesting pets though. Turtles, a pigeon, lizards, dogs, cats, a rat, and - if you're not mistaken - what you believe to be a pair of Goliath Birdeaters. You recognize them from a very informative documentary you 'saw' the other day.

Unfortunately, the spiders are locked up pretty tightly. The lock is too far for you to reach without flat-out leaving your pot, the spiders don't have fingers to open it with...

There does happen to be a child nearby; you scan his mind quickly and discover that he's a troublemaker. In fact, he plans on doing something to Annabel in just a few moments. Well, can't have that now can you? You'll just shove in this new plan, give a couple reasons for it, and...

Wallah! The brat lets out your new Goliaths thinking it would be blamed on Annabel for nebulous reasons. Instead the spiders quickly run out the window, following your instructions to hide out in the garden of your home. Not only will you be able to breed a new generation of the bird-hunters, but you'll have one readily accessable for consumption.

Letting out the best evil cackle that an immobile plant without a mouth or lungs you can, you continue patiently waiting, in the meantime experimenting with your psychic abilities on the animals around you.

Dogs, cats, lizards... you manage to give most of them directives to wander aimlessly around your area as soon as they can, so you should have a good source once they've escaped their masters.

And finally, it comes for the actual Show and Tell. Some boy named Johnathan is pissed off that his spiders are gone and the boy you tricked into releasing them in the first place gets into a fight with him, so they end up escorted outside.

Other than that, the rest of the children are reletively docile, giving basic summaries that you find somewhat boring. You find it much more interesting to dig through the teachers head for lesson plans, information on basics taught in school, ect ect.... It isn't as easy as you'd like, but you do increase your understanding of math andthe english language by a fair margin.

Finally, comes your turn.

"This is my plant, Flower! Flower, say hi to the people!"

You fail to respond. Or more like, you refuse to respond. No way in hell are you going to out yourself like that. However, you do allow your flowers to expand slightly and turn a bit brighter. There, a simple response that could be attributed to anything.

Annabel describes you quite well; you like learning, you like animals, and your her best friend. She also mentions your rapid growth, citing it as being because "he's such an awesome plant!"

And there. Class done, toodaloo, you don't have to be afraid of people trying to rip you apart or sending children to the hospital or any number of disasterous scenarios anymore.

But before you leave, you notice that you're in close proximity to quite a few of the people who have been 'unpleasant' to your human.

[ ] Try to make them ignore Annabel.

[ ] Try to make them focus on someone else.

[ ] Try to make them like Annabel.

[ ] Actively threaten them. (specify how)

[ ] Other?

Whatever you do(or don't) to the the bullies and detractors, soon the two of you are back at home. Unfortunately, by now you understand that the Goliaths are going to need some active help to survive in a place like this, and the little creatures you have right now aren't going to cut it to catch most of the animals you directed to escape and come to your neighborhood before they'll be captured again.

You need to make a choice.

[ ] Get Annabel's active help with caring for your 'pets' and capturing the escaping animals.

[ ] Take on a new form: By now you'd be about the size of a particularly large cat if you took animal form, and you know what they look like enough that you could fake being a cat or a small dog for long enough to catch one and make a more accurate copy. Specify body strucutre limbs ect ect.

[ ] Take more proactive measures in mind-controlling something large enough to be able to take down a cat or something similar.

[ ] Ignore it all and continue as you have been.

Have the ones who torment her focus on each other.

Take on a new form. A cat with slightly larger than normal ears and grey fur.

[x] Other?
----- Get them to think of her as an annoying little sister, not as someone to like or hang around, but someone to protect.

[x] Take on a new form: By now you'd be about the size of a particularly large cat if you took animal form, and you know what they look like enough that you could fake being a cat or a small dog for long enough to catch one and make a more accurate copy. Specify body strucutre limbs ect ect.
----- General body of a cat: 4 limbs, a head (with 2 eyes, whiskers, a nose, a mouth [aka, cat head]), a tail (with a retractable stinger with our most lethal type of venem in it) that looks like a cat's tail, fur, and female sex organs (easier to make [visually] than male organs without more understanding). Once we can, kill and eat a cat to fix any discrepancies.

[x] Other?
----- Get them to think of her as an annoying little sister, not as someone to like or hang around, but someone to protect.

[x] Take on a new form: By now you'd be about the size of a particularly large cat if you took animal form, and you know what they look like enough that you could fake being a cat or a small dog for long enough to catch one and make a more accurate copy. Specify body strucutre limbs ect ect.
----- General body of a cat: 4 limbs, a head (with 2 eyes, whiskers, a nose, a mouth [aka, cat head]), a tail (with a retractable stinger with our most lethal type of venem in it) that looks like a cat's tail, fur, and female sex organs (easier to make [visually] than male organs without more understanding). Once we can, kill and eat a cat to fix any discrepancies.

[ ] Take more proactive measures in mind-controlling something large enough to be able to take down a cat or something similar.

...I laughed.
[x] Other?
----- Get them to think of her as an annoying little sister, not as someone to like or hang around, but someone to protect.
[x] Take on a new form: General body of cat.

As you focus on their brains you come to the conclusion that them having a protective streak for your human would be best. So you dig through their brains, moving through thoughts and feelings and chemical reactions until you flip a switch that seems promising.

There's an immediate reaction and suddenly every thought within their head is being tainted, like a virus spreading through the brain with almost frightening speed.

.You're not completely sure, but you THINK you just activated a form of paternal protectiveness. Permenantly.

... Oops?

On the bright side, if they see everyone as their children they'll certainly be much nicer. On the other leaf, a bunch of six-to-seven year old children thinking of everyone else as their kids seems like it's just asking for trouble.

Oh well - not your problem!

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Before you start transforming you have Annabel drag you into her room, where you tell her that while she sleeps you'll be growing from a plant to a cat. She's surprisingly happy at the thought, but then you realize that people generally seem to think of cats as 'cuter' than plants, and for little girls 'cute' is best, even the tomboyish ones.

Happy that there'll be no problems in the morning, you let yourself be hidden beneath her bed and begin your transformation.

Despite your intimate knowledge of how the various animals and such you've eaten work, probably to a supernatural degree, you find it surprisingly difficult to get started. Muscles, tendons, bones, blood, all the little organs and such, it's all so ridiculously complicated compared to what you're used to.

You amange to make it work though. You're fairly sure you're taking a few shortcuts in places, such as your very much non-standard digestive system, but so long as you look normal it doesn't matter.

It's difficult to properly find a way to 'sheathe' the stinger in your tail, and the tail itself is hardly as flexible as it probably should be. In fact you're pretty sure that even a cursory physical examination would reveal that you're not a normal cat. There's also the fact that you're pretty sure your 'female' parts aren't right for a cat.

And finally the last difficulty is creating a proper brain and nervous system. You'd already had the basics before, but now you're truly developing everything into something that will send signals to the muscles, control chemical reactions, ect ect.

Eventually though, by morning, you're walking around, though stiffly. It'll take a while to get used to this whole "mobility" thing, especially considering you think you might have made some errors in recreating the bones.

Still, by mid-morning you've managed to get used to your body enough that you've found one of the cats set to escape and find your neighborhood.

Tearing down it's mind you quickly drag it out of sight and eat it, and after an hour or so you've more fully accustomed your body to mimic a cat. A few more days to get used to this and you'll practically be a carbon copy! Not that you're sure what carbon actually is.

With your now fully cat-mimicking body, you've got a lot more options.

[ ] Actively hunt down the various animals that should be around here or coming around.

[ ] Start working to make your pets lives and enviroments more suitable for them. Those Goliaths in particular are going to be a pain to set up; they're definitely useful but you don't particularly want the neighborhood in a frenzy about dog-eating spiders.

[ ] Explore, seek out information, see just how much info you can pry from the minds around here.

[ ] Spend the day with Annabel - now that you've got yourself mobile you can spend all your time with her and it won't seem strange. If you spend the day, not only can you help cement her loyalty but you can try to develop her mind and brain in the directions you want. (Specify what you want to try and do with/to her. Specify whether you want to try and use psychic powers to develop her brain/dump info into her mind.)

[ ] Experiment (How? With what?)

[ ] Other?

[X] Start working to make your pets lives and enviroments more suitable for them. Those Goliaths in particular are going to be a pain to set up; they're definitely useful but you don't particularly want the neighborhood in a frenzy about dog-eating spiders.

[x]Eat the Goliath spiders, then begin systematically hunting down stray and wild animals. Particularly birds, if possible.

[x]Spend the day with Anabell work on communication. Try to learn how she works but don't fiddle around with her mind. Plenty of fish in the see who haven't been helping you.

[x] Eat the Goliath spiders, then begin systematically hunting down stray and wild animals. Particularly birds, if possible.

[X] Find where humans dispose of their deceased(morgue). Furtively eat fresh corpses to get insight.

[X] Start working to make your pets lives and enviroments more suitable for them. Those Goliaths in particular are going to be a pain to set up; they're definitely useful but you don't particularly want the neighborhood in a frenzy about dog-eating spiders.

[x]Spend the day with Anabell work on communication. Try to learn how she works but don't fiddle around with her mind. Plenty of fish in the see who haven't been helping you.

I think a graveyard where freshly buried corpses are might be better, we would probably get caught if we ate corpses at a morgue.

That was just an example but you are right.

[x] Start working to make your pets lives and enviroments more suitable for them. Those Goliaths in particular are going to be a pain to set up; they're definitely useful but you don't particularly want the neighborhood in a frenzy about dog-eating spiders. Then spend the remaining time with Anabell.


Edit:

@ GM: Don't forget about your other quest. There are people patiently waiting for you to write part 2 of the update, we can't even vote/argue about anything until you do.

[x] Start working to make your pets lives and enviroments more suitable for them. Those Goliaths in particular are going to be a pain to set up; they're definitely useful but you don't particularly want the neighborhood in a frenzy about dog-eating spiders. Then spend the remaining time with Anabell.

[x] Start working to make your pets lives and enviroments more suitable for them. Those Goliaths in particular are going to be a pain to set up; they're definitely useful but you don't particularly want the neighborhood in a frenzy about dog-eating spiders. Then spend the remaining time with Anabell.

[x]Be a plant again. Germinate.


I really wish we hadn't already gone animal. Why is this thread moving so fast?

Because we are likely working against a set timetable (especially if I am right about Evangelion) so the quicker we go (to a point), the more likely we are to survive/win. We should also NOT germinate until we are sure that we can control whatever we spawn. Don't bring up what you can't put down. We don't need a bunch of duplicates of ourselves running around right now (or ever).

Truth - what told you it was Evangelion?

Besides even if it was, it's one that's past what would be third impact, it's 2020.

Your very first post. Read below, emphasis mine:

Akagi's mother in Evangelion was also a Doctor/Scientist, and gave birth to Ritsuko, then killed Rei MK1.

You decide to spend the day focusing on the various little pets you have. Mice, ants, spiders, all kinds of creatures are under your control and spreading throughout the garden as you direct them.

Hours pass and soon you've formed a stable form of mini-ecosystem, the Goliaths in particular set up in small soggy holes to begin reproduction. As soon as you're sure the female is going to lay eggs you can consume the male for a superior arachnid body. Damn things are massive compared to all the other insects you have, even the largest dragonflies.

You're also learning how to use your psychic powers to do more complex things. Their minds are being reformed, reshaped by your will, and now most of them don't simply take basic directions - they operate as more individual beings working for you, and can act as extensions of yourself.

It's quite exciting and gives you quite a bit of insight into how their bodies work, should you require the use of an insect or arachnid form.

The ant queens in particular are thriving; they even found a baby bird fallen from a tree for you to eat. Unfortunately not only was the bird rotted and broken, but it was young and underdeveloped. You have the basics of how birds fly from it, and if you were to combine that with what you know of how insects fly you could likely create a form capable of limited flight, but you'd probably crash quite a few times before you got anywhere near the correct method.

So flight still isn't truly an option, but it's on the table at least.

The ants themselves are spreading throughout the neighborhood at a rapid pace, and the queens seem to be developing a rudimentary psychic ability - likely from how much you've been directing their siblings and children through them. It makes you wonder whether you could make Annabel psychic, but you shelve that for another day.

By the end of the day you're thoroughly tired from all your moving around and are experiencing quite novel - sleepiness. Your body wants to sleep, not just to rest the muscles but to rest your new, larger, brain and nervous system.

You let yourself be carried to Annabel's room, taking comfort in the warmth that surrounds you, reveling in the brand new experiences that you'd never had as a plant. Soon, you fall asleep within her arms.

You dream of...

[ ] Steel and Hatred; watching as They conduct experiments.

[ ] School and Life; enduring ridicule and jealousy.

[ ] Tunnels and Blood; endlessly working and waiting for the Master to return.