>>176413
I'll have to agree... this can be considered love. A friendship that extends to the willingness to sacrifice life.

Sensation, you may not be able to reproduce hetrogenously... but We'll figure out a way eventually. It'll prolong your life and Truths (eg: you won't explode into tiny yous), and allow for more complex organisms in the future.

For now, just find a place that's safe...

Safety? No. We need more food. Sensation is still hungry.

Find food.

Yes, I have to agree. Sensation is weak from producing enough antidote for Truth. Eating smaller less dangerous creatures should be an easy method of restoring it to proper health so that it can get back to hunting larger creatures.

Keep in mind he can probably consume the poison creatures now that he's got an antidote running through him.

Alright, it's time to regain our strength! Let's go back to the starting area and farm some low level creatures to regain lost mass.

Sensation 2010/05/15(Sat)08:49 No. 177763 ID: 8d7dd2
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>>176287
>>176377
>>176399
>>176413

i do not understand these ideas. do not do not do not. need ally alive. don't want truth to die.

i realise truth has just coiled around my body. i weakly try to move and am met with gentle resistance from truth. my spikes lay flat along my body. do not want to injure truth.

-no. don't move. you are still weak.-

>>176434

anything that will let me survive longer is worth consideration. do not recognise or understand that concept, however.

there is no safety. never. there is no safety here.

safety is movement. safety is fleeing. to remain still is to die.

-we must move. cannot stay. cannot. others will kill us.-

truth unwinds itself but keeps close, swerving its head to different directions in unease.

-not right. something does not feel right. the flow is wrong. i do not sense any others nearby. sensation. stay close. you are still weak.-

>>176444
>>176475
>>176532

yes. the poison creatures. i can consume them now. ...that may have been what truth fed me. i can feel traces of the toxic fluid in my body even now. truth must have developed its own antidote organ.

my enhanced senses confirm what truth stated. there is nothing around.

i have never felt the swirl of the chaos so still and dead. something is very very wrong.

i cannot feel the flow for a great distance around us. i do not know where we can run.

if you can think of nowhere in the chaos that is safe then try leaving. if you cannot then just remain still. perhaps the chaos calms itself so as to avoid agitating something? if so then being still as well may make it pass you by.

>>177763
first: consume marital status by declaring love for each other.

now: let go of spikes and attempt to enhace quality/acuity of eyesight to perceive wtf is going on.

>>177763
Enhance your senses.

Enhance your senses more, but keep the spikes. They're so stylish. Check for creatures that may have developed camouflage like you did.

Create a bunch of sense-related stuff to either find out what's going on or get somewhere more 'normal'. Or just to find more food.

The most important bit would be getting more/better eyes so you can make sure nothing's sneaking up on you in this stillness. Another bit would be better perception of the flow. Then there's better ears.

A Talking Pie Chart 2010/05/15(Sat)12:04 No. 177827 ID: 6a5a08
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There is an unnatural power brewing...
It must be.....

ME!

Or, since that's highly unlikely given the whole different universe thing, the poison killed everything after being unleashed by the poison creatures. Maybe you and Truth are the only ones left. The only ones immune.

And then they start returning as zombies.

>>177828
well if they are smart zombies you is dammed.

since you dont have a old building to barricade, you have one option:

eat and run.

its unlikely they all have the same running speed, simply gain a headstart and ear their fastest. repeat untill you can do all of them.

Sensation 2010/05/15(Sat)18:51 No. 178035 ID: 8d7dd2
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>>177765

leave the chaos? chaos is all around! how can i leave?

>>177766
>>177768
>>177776
>>177788

do not understand "marital status". am not entirely sure i understand this word the voices continually mention. desire for other to exist unharmed?

Sensation forms temporary greater enhanced senses.

>>177827
>>177828
>>177682

what are these? do not understand.

can feel something wrong. something cold. i feel like it slowly draws me closer. i feel streams of chaos begin to flow over and through my spikes and towards it.

-i sense something strange.-

-where is it?-

it looks dead. it tastes of nothing. it is cold and the chaos is still around it. i feel it pulling slightly at every part of my body.

in my effort to resist it, i wind around truth. we drag ourselves closer towards it unintentionally. the pull gets much stronger.

whatever it is is many times greater than us. it is colder and colder. i begin to see the thing approaching us as a giant maw consuming the chaos itself.

i'm scared. i don't want to die. i don't want to die. i don't want truth to die. i don't want either of us to die. i cling to truth in fear. truth clings to me.

-no no no no no no i found food i saved your life we were going to live we were going to live-

help, voices

help

It's a World Eater!

Get away! Go as fast as you can in the opposite direction! Use the same strategy as before. You handle speed, Truth does the steering.

>>178035
Get us away from it! Hold onto Truth! Develop even more things to make you faster!

Oh hey... could you make poison and drop it into the Chaos Eater?

ALL POWER TO SPEED!!

Swim past it! Use the current of chaos to propel yourself sideways through the flow and escape the vacuum! If you can't get away from it, you can get past it by using the flowing chaos. If it is a whirlpool shape, you have a better chance hooking around it to gain momentum than propelling yourself directly away.

>>178043
GENIUS!! DO IT!

>>178043
You're thinking in 2 dimensions. This is a 3 dimensional space.

>>178048

If it's a three dimensional vortex drawing in chaos from all directions, that would be a 4th dimensional construct, since all that chaos had to go somewhere. Kind of like gravity. Anyway, either way you'll have better luck as a comet than as a rocket ship.

>>178043
>>178050
it will work. even if it is trhu time.

both of you, drop every buff you have except for lucidity, gain speed and aerodynamics. if possible develop a link system, one can ride the vacuum of the other.

orbit that fucker, gain speed and trhow yourself to far away.

>>178050
Wat?
Black holes are a three-dimensional construct, not a 4D one. They're not extra-dimensional, just hyper-dense.
Sensation, affix yourself to Truth with an CONDUCTIVE ADHESIVE, and develop an SYMPATHETIC CONTROL synapse so you can let Truth act and have your body instantly and automatically sense what he will do and take whatever actions will best enhance his intent.
Put everything else you haven't yet allocated into movement.

>>178262
Oh, also, ditching your spikes will help you move through the flow, but you should spread yourself out around truth to form a more even coating, and have any lines required go from front to back instead of side to side.
If you can do it without losing an advantage, then put a shallow dimple where each spike used to be.

Sensation 2010/05/16(Sun)10:23 No. 178287 ID: 8d7dd2
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>>178038
>>178041

trying!

>>178042

already doing!!

>>178043
>>178047
>>178048
>>178050

it pulls from all directions - the flow of chaos gets stronger and stronger against us! dragging us closer to it!!

>>178100
>>178262
>>178263

Sensation replaces spikes with aerodynamic dimples. It adapts its fluid channellers into more aerodynamic forms. It replaces its enhanced senses with an adhesive generator. It does not remove or change its eyes or antidote organ.

-truth forget scales forget blades we can escape we can escape-

Truth removes its scales and antennae. In their place, it develops aerodynamic channels and fine steering fins. It adapts its fins and bladed edges into more aerodynamic forms. It adapts its jaws into a more aerodynamic form.

Sensation 2010/05/16(Sun)10:24 No. 178288 ID: 8d7dd2
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we can survive

we can survive

we can-

-sensation?-

no no not letting go no letting go

the pull is too strong

it gets harder and harder to resist

the adhesive does not work! something pulls me away from truth!!

-sensation! sensation no no sensation escape escape no-

-truth help can't move help-

-sensation!!!-

it burns burns cold cold it burns can't think losing focus hurts hurts can't think

truth

Sensation 2010/05/16(Sun)10:24 No. 178289 ID: 8d7dd2
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do not know where i am.

thousands of tiny jaws or tongues or teeth are pressing into my body.

it hurts. everything. it hurts and i do not know where i am.

i do not know where truth is.

i am scared. where am i? where is truth?

the swirl of the chaos is all i understand. it ends further away. i don't understand. is this the end of the chaos?

Number of permanent features has fallen to two due to external factors. Sensation has eyes and forced lucidity left.

>>178289
Calm down. What are the things inside you doing to you?

you have been captured by things from outside the chaos. they are trying to study you, see what you are. try to pull one of the tiny mouths off and eat it. if you can't then try making a blade to cut them away. then make a spike and smash it on the spot where chaos ends.

No, don't resist. If they think you're a threat they might do bad things to you.

Carefully create features to see better and feel better. To understand what is past the chaos you can feel.

give up eyes, develop omnimouth and eat away!

Consolidate your body matter. Try to protect yourself from damage by the teeth.

The chaos cannot end, so something must be preventing you from sensing it. Are your sensory organs not working right, perhaps? Or maybe the chaos is different out there? Or maybe there is a wall that blocks you from seeing the chaos in the black. Truth is probably out there, where you cannot see, but still there.

>>178417
psst, Sensation is in a glass tube. Hooked up with... I don't know, either electrodes or feeding lines or something.

So this is all an experiment? Huh, chill out sensation replace forced lucidity with pain nullification. Simply stop feeling the pain. Time to observe.

>>178419

or a stomach. But yeah probably a glass tube; stomachs don't have that glass-like sheen to them.

>>178433
We don't need to replace anything. We can currently create temporary features under duress thanks to Forced Lucidity. It's a powerful feature and we should keep it active.

If you can, create a tendril with a sharp blade on the end. Use it to begin severing the small tongues. See if they are edible as well.

The glass sheen makes it look like you are in a tube, but the little tendrils suggest otherwise. Maybe you are in a large creature and it keeps other creatures alive while slowly eating them.

Cut the small tongues. Find Truth.

Sensation 2010/05/18(Tue)16:51 No. 179409 ID: 8d7dd2
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>>178291

do not know. they are not trying to harm me but they hurt.

>>178302
>>178302

feel fixed. cannot sense.

>>178293
>>178766
>>179108
>>178417

can... can almost form blade. can cut tongue!

!!!!!!

tongues hurt! tongues hurt tongues hurt hurt hurt losing

pain gone

so dull

everything a blur

voices

truth

come back

...

Link to Sensation has been severed.

-UNLINKED- 2010/05/18(Tue)16:51 No. 179410 ID: 8d7dd2
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...cohesion maintained. Readjusting. Memory loss avoided. New context.

"Hrm. Can't believe the plan worked."

Currently bound to an inanimate object. Without a bind to a sapient mind, memory decay is inevitable. Innate knowledge of chaos creature anatomy and features is beginning to decay.

"Excellent. This thing might actually have some use to us after all. If it can latch onto one of those things, I'm sure a decatur or a sserred would be simple."

With no current target for binding, we are left independent, perhaps bound only to our own whims and the whims of our previous charge.

"I wonder if the accursed thing can even talk. Have you attached the communication apparatus? Good. Entity! I am your new master. Have you twisted the chaos creatures to our will as we desired? ...Ha! Do you even know what you are after being torn from that monster?"

Put us back. We want to be Sensation once more.

we are the thousand-fold and without being attached directly to a mind we will fall apart. as we have done when you sent us in. we do not know how you wanted us to change the chaos creature because we do not remember. we remember we promised to help it though.

>>179410
A new master you say? Well I guess this could be fun, although you're probably going to regret this in the future.

As for having done as you instructed? Not really sure, we may or may not have done it. Why should we even care?

>>179410
Oh hey, I'm gonna warn you right now
Death and destruction awaits you.

I'm sure you'll have fun with that~

>>179411
They won't put us back. We're nothing but a tool to them. Regrettable.

>>179410
Monster? You don't know anything. That chaos creature was beginning to understand friendship. The feeling of wanting to keep someone alive, even when they become a burden. Do you understand? Sensation and Truth were friends. They are not monsters. They're just from a world different from ours. Harsh. Deadly. Betrayal at every corner.

We helped them realize that life didn't have to be like that.

If you hurt them, you will make us your enemy. Then you'll see just what a monster truly is.

We know what we are. We are the Thousandfold. Who are YOU? Did you create us?

>>179410
You familiar with karma? :V

-UNLINKED- 2010/05/18(Tue)18:21 No. 179473 ID: 8d7dd2
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"Hrmph. Contemptible voices. Powerless sound and fury."

>>179413
>>179414

"Most reasonable ones in the rabble. Well, that part of the plan clearly failed. You were to latch onto one of these creatures of the chaos. Make them more... understanding of the concept of assisting another. Specifically, us."

>>179411
>>179418
>>179424
>>179468

"You voices, however, are the thorns in our sides. You care of the fate of that creature you had the misfortune to be linked to? Chaos creatures? Friendship?! We had to contain them separately to stop them trying to consume one another! They were stuck to each other, too. One of them probably slowly eating the other, I assume."

"...What's that? The machinery's prepared? Excellent! No, I think this Thousandfold is too rebellious to further the aims of the Empire. Keep the crystal locked up. Now, I want to witness this for myself. Where 14 failed, perhaps the new Opus 15 will be the answer to our problems! An unstoppable force driven by one of the apex predators of all known reality!"

"The other one? I don't care, go throw it into containment or something. Don't destroy it just yet, though. Live specimens are difficult to come by. Actually, no. Don't throw it into containment. Send it to Logos for further study."

-UNLINKED- 2010/05/18(Tue)18:21 No. 179474 ID: 8d7dd2
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"Let's see if we can find out everything that makes these creatures work."

"What is that thing staring at? Probably upset we're taking its meal away. Whatever. Take it to processing."

-END-

Okay guys, remember that we can use this information in Resonance. Don't just blurt it out to Truth, either. We can trade it. We help him find Sensation, and he helps us fend off the Dream and disable the Resonance weapon.

>>179486
i agree. that sounds like the best plan.

This seems kinda verging on questdis territory. You can discuss this and Resonance here:

>>/questdis/322914