SWARM SWARM SWARM SWARM
WAIT WHY THE FUCK DO WE HAVE A HUMAN CHILD
WAIT WHY THE FUCK DO WE HAVE A HUMAN CHILD
The Lost Swarm [Zerg Riot Quest]
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Zedalb
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In the center of your hatchery there is a pod. A small zerg cocoon with a young creature inside, unusual in that this is not a larva.
It is a young human child.
Why does a Zerg swarm have a human child in a biological pod keeping it alive as it grows?You do not know. It is however encoded into more than your DNA, your very mind and any soul you may have is absolutely seared with the idea you *MUST* protect the child.
Which is why the young one having a fever is such a concern you must leave your mineral rich cave and explore the outside world. To do so though you will need to create a spawning pool and make the much quicker zerglings in search of something that can be used as medicine.
The cave is a simple deep tunnel into the earth in search of minerals with nothing more than a hatchery, drones and queens inside.
Starting Resources:
100 Minerals
10 NPC Drones
(1) Mineral patch with a total of 5k Minerals
(1) Vespene Geyser with a total of 2.5K Gas
It is a young human child.
Why does a Zerg swarm have a human child in a biological pod keeping it alive as it grows?You do not know. It is however encoded into more than your DNA, your very mind and any soul you may have is absolutely seared with the idea you *MUST* protect the child.
Which is why the young one having a fever is such a concern you must leave your mineral rich cave and explore the outside world. To do so though you will need to create a spawning pool and make the much quicker zerglings in search of something that can be used as medicine.
The cave is a simple deep tunnel into the earth in search of minerals with nothing more than a hatchery, drones and queens inside.
Starting Resources:
100 Minerals
10 NPC Drones
(1) Mineral patch with a total of 5k Minerals
(1) Vespene Geyser with a total of 2.5K Gas
Most votes come with a roll of a 10 sided die to determine how well it goes.
For instance if you roll to collect minerals, then the die roll determines how many the swarm gets.
If a vote does not include the 1d10 roll you can still roll and do things to generate dice just to try to get a heroic bonus.
There are a number of ways to get bonus dice.
The first is that any roll (Including ones granted by this rule) that results in a 10 gives a free die roll.
If you get 3 10's in a row you get a HEROIC BONUS (HB for short).
HBs can be spent a number of ways.
Becoming a Heroic Unit, Adding 5 dice to a roll, Certain R&D may require them, Heroic buildings require a heroic drone and more HB and more if you ask.
HB's are shared by the swarm but the person who created it is considered to have dibs for a turn.
Finally every 100 Biomass gathered creates 1 HB for the swarm.
Other ways to get bonus dice include omakes.
Just 3 sentences is enough to get 1 bonus dice
OR to re-roll a die, or allow someone else to re-roll a die.
All re-rolls have to be used on the same turn.
All heroic units get +1 die to all rolls
Heroic Units also can write longer omake (5 sentences) for +2 dice instead of +1 for an omake
Art would also be rewarded.
All previous heroic units have remained.
All other voters are drones again(Sorry)
All R&D other than falcons was lost (but you can produce those until you have vespene)
R&D has now changed:
R&D will have progress instead of being instant it takes queens and heroic queens working on it.
Each one will list it's progress.
Progress is voting on the R&D and the die result is how much progress you make.
Heroic queens are now the only ones who can create a new R&D project (Custom stuff) but that will require heroic buildings normally.
Cannon techs are added to the votes automatically though.
For instance if you roll to collect minerals, then the die roll determines how many the swarm gets.
If a vote does not include the 1d10 roll you can still roll and do things to generate dice just to try to get a heroic bonus.
There are a number of ways to get bonus dice.
The first is that any roll (Including ones granted by this rule) that results in a 10 gives a free die roll.
If you get 3 10's in a row you get a HEROIC BONUS (HB for short).
HBs can be spent a number of ways.
Becoming a Heroic Unit, Adding 5 dice to a roll, Certain R&D may require them, Heroic buildings require a heroic drone and more HB and more if you ask.
HB's are shared by the swarm but the person who created it is considered to have dibs for a turn.
Finally every 100 Biomass gathered creates 1 HB for the swarm.
Other ways to get bonus dice include omakes.
Just 3 sentences is enough to get 1 bonus dice
OR to re-roll a die, or allow someone else to re-roll a die.
All re-rolls have to be used on the same turn.
All heroic units get +1 die to all rolls
Heroic Units also can write longer omake (5 sentences) for +2 dice instead of +1 for an omake
Art would also be rewarded.
All previous heroic units have remained.
All other voters are drones again(Sorry)
All R&D other than falcons was lost (but you can produce those until you have vespene)
R&D has now changed:
R&D will have progress instead of being instant it takes queens and heroic queens working on it.
Each one will list it's progress.
Progress is voting on the R&D and the die result is how much progress you make.
Heroic queens are now the only ones who can create a new R&D project (Custom stuff) but that will require heroic buildings normally.
Cannon techs are added to the votes automatically though.
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Your can vote for any option that is unlocked by your Species (start as a drone)
You can also vote for any generic option provided below
[] Create an NPC unit: Write in (Cost is listed in that unit section)
[] Become a Unit: Write in (Cost is listed in that unit section) This is required if you died or became a building -
Cost: 50(M) New Voters start as one for free.
NPC Drones:10
[] Mine Minerals (1d10)
[] Collect Vespene Gas (1d10)
[] Collect Biomass (1d10)
[] Transform Into a unlocked Building (Check Unlocked Buildings)
Heroic Cost: 100(M) 1(HB)
Heroic Bonus:+1d10, can become heroic buildings , Long Omakes
@TempestK: Heroic Drone -
Cost: 150(M)
[] Improve mineral collection +1
[] Improve Vespene gas production +1
[] Improve Biomass production +1
[] Work on an R&D project from the list: (Write in which) (1d10)
Heroic Cost: 300(M) 3(HB)
Heroic Bonus:+1d10, can create new R&D Projects, Long Omakes,+3 Collection
@BeeBadidoo: Heroic Queen
@kingreaper: Heroic Queen -
Cost: 25(M) 10(G)
A flying ranged unit like a tiny mutalisk mixed with a falcon
Heroic Cost: 50(M) 20(G) 2(HB)
Heroic Bonus:+1d10 -
Hatchery:Costs: 300(M) Unlocks nothing (Already have 1)
(Heroic Version Costs 5 Additional HB+Double the Minerals cost but unlocks custom Drone strains and upgrades)
Extractor:Costs: 25(M) Unlocks Vespene Gas
(Heroic Version Costs 1 Additional HB+Double the Minerals cost but auto mines)
Evolution Chamber:Costs: 75(M) Unlocks Basic R&D projects
(Heroic Version Costs 2 Additional HB+Doubles the Minerals but automatically adds 1d10 progress to 3 different ongoing R&D per turn)
Spawning Pool: Costs: 200(M) Unlocks Zerglings and the scouting action
(Heroic Version Costs 2 Additional HB+Doubles the Minerals cost but unlocks custom zergling strains and upgrades)
Spore Crawler: Costs: 100(M) Can attack flying units
(Heroic Version Costs 1 Additional HB+Doubles the Minerals cost but has massively improved combat capabilities) -
R&D is paid for the first time a queen votes to work on it
Burrow: Costs: 100(M) 100(G)[0/20 Vote die result)
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Zedalb
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I wanted to ask people to please consider my Patron or paypal so that I can dedicate more time to writing and riot quests.
I had to quit my job due to medical reasons, and am in desperate need of income until school starts.
I won't bore you all with my tragic tale, but I feel I have created a lot of hours of content and enjoyment and done a lot of work for the people of SV.
I would love to do it more, and for that I need to have more time not taken up being a delivery driver.
Anyway, you all are great, links are in my signature for your consideration, everything helps.
I had to quit my job due to medical reasons, and am in desperate need of income until school starts.
I won't bore you all with my tragic tale, but I feel I have created a lot of hours of content and enjoyment and done a lot of work for the people of SV.
I would love to do it more, and for that I need to have more time not taken up being a delivery driver.
Anyway, you all are great, links are in my signature for your consideration, everything helps.
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[X] Transform Into a unlocked Building (Check Unlocked Buildings): Evolution Chamber
Sir Plusse
Overly Vicious Quester
- Location
- Kansas
[X] Mine Minerals (1d10)
We require more minerals... Crunchy, delicious minerals...
Also, why is there a kid indeed. I'm sure we'll find out if we can get her to wake up, though.
edit: Derp, didn't realize we were expected to roll for ourselves.
edit2: Decided to try for an omake bonus.
This particular drone... probably had a slight genetic imperfection; it worked just fine, but it was particularly dim, even by drone standards. It had no understanding of species; to it, only "us" and "not us" existed, so it did not question the strange larva's presence. At least it understood its purpose and served adequately in performing it; if it weren't for that it'd probably be broken down for biomass to feed the colony, since the closest it could manage to a coherent thought was 'Larvae hungry. Larvae need crunchy to grow. Get crunchy for larvae.'
We require more minerals... Crunchy, delicious minerals...
Also, why is there a kid indeed. I'm sure we'll find out if we can get her to wake up, though.
edit: Derp, didn't realize we were expected to roll for ourselves.
edit2: Decided to try for an omake bonus.
This particular drone... probably had a slight genetic imperfection; it worked just fine, but it was particularly dim, even by drone standards. It had no understanding of species; to it, only "us" and "not us" existed, so it did not question the strange larva's presence. At least it understood its purpose and served adequately in performing it; if it weren't for that it'd probably be broken down for biomass to feed the colony, since the closest it could manage to a coherent thought was 'Larvae hungry. Larvae need crunchy to grow. Get crunchy for larvae.'
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- Location
- Dragyxx
- Pronouns
- He/Him/His
The philosophical mind was a drone... again. Oh well, at least things were new and there weren't birds everywhere eating everyone. It figured it would continue to dislike birds. Well, except for the bird strain it had invented, which was still here. Along with some other weird things. Who knew what the Terran was about. Probably something dramatic and important later, but right now just another thing to prevent from getting eaten by birds.
Oh well, the drone decided it could at least give this whole collecting minerals thing one last shot.
It actually did pretty well at it even!
[X]Mine Minerals
Oh well, the drone decided it could at least give this whole collecting minerals thing one last shot.
It actually did pretty well at it even!
[X]Mine Minerals
- Location
- Manchester, UK
- Pronouns
- He/They
Are Zerglings available, or do they need to be researched?
Zedalb
I just started a Patreon!
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A spawning pool is required.
However all heroic units remained , so you may notice you are still a heroic queen.
Sir Plusse
Overly Vicious Quester
- Location
- Kansas
We need a Spawning Pool for them; it's right there in the "unlocked buildings" tab.
Does bring to mind the question of "do we get to control both twins if we decide to become a Zergling?" though; it was probably answered before the reboot, but that's a bit much for me to look through right now.
Zedalb
I just started a Patreon!
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You control one that's as good as both, or control two if you want, it's narrative I don't mind how someone wants to work it out.
- Location
- Manchester, UK
- Pronouns
- He/They
D'oh, of course. Well then.
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The Reaper Queen looked over her new domain sadly. With no zerglings to command, their reaping of biomass would be inefficient. And there weren't enough minerals to get some
So, while she would prefer to be reaping biomass, she sent forth the order to all drones to concentrate their efforts on mining minerals - and began spreading creep tumors to ensure that the drones travel would be as smooth and efficient as possible.
After all, they had a child to care for now. And not to eat. Definitely, no eating the tasty human child...
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[X] Improve mineral collection +3
(I'll hold onto my rerolls for now, will hand it out to someone who falters in their mining operations.)
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- Location
- Manchester, UK
- Pronouns
- He/They
The Reaper Queen sees CurieZerg humming to the human child, as though CurieZerg was a queen caring for a mutant larvae - and pushes CurieZerg back to work. The minerals will not collect themselves - and with your radiation resistance you are well-suited to gathering from the richest veins!
(You may reroll your two)
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[X] Mine Minerals (1d10)
The drone knows that minerals makes the workd go round. The drone hopes to one day be more then just a drone. The drone is confused about human child. But drone is drone not something to think. So drone will dig dig so drone can dig more. Thus is drone life ( threw third dice when saw second was 10. Hope i did that right?
The drone knows that minerals makes the workd go round. The drone hopes to one day be more then just a drone. The drone is confused about human child. But drone is drone not something to think. So drone will dig dig so drone can dig more. Thus is drone life ( threw third dice when saw second was 10. Hope i did that right?
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[X] Mine Minerals (1d10)
This drone was... confused? Disoriented. It had been so long... had it done this before? No, it would remember protecting a human. But... this drone still remembered growing the Swarm with minerals... even though this drone had only recently spawned. This drone stopped the unproductive sequence of thought and started mining. The Swarm needed minerals to grow.
This drone was... confused? Disoriented. It had been so long... had it done this before? No, it would remember protecting a human. But... this drone still remembered growing the Swarm with minerals... even though this drone had only recently spawned. This drone stopped the unproductive sequence of thought and started mining. The Swarm needed minerals to grow.
Zedalb
I just started a Patreon!
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So we can create 10 Drones per a successful action? Do they add to our dice or do they do random things decided by you?
Is there tab to keep track of mineral and vespene gas collection? Biomass? How do we know if we have enough? Or...how does that work? I came late to the party in the last thread do I am unfamiliar.
Is there tab to keep track of mineral and vespene gas collection? Biomass? How do we know if we have enough? Or...how does that work? I came late to the party in the last thread do I am unfamiliar.
Zedalb
I just started a Patreon!
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I will have math up to track as of the next update, there isn't a lot to track this time.
If you mean a running total someone just has to count every so often.
If there isn't enough bad things will happen, the swarm lives and dies by good drones.
- Location
- Canada
- Pronouns
- He/Him
[X] Mine Minerals (1d10)
It was confused. Memories of drudgery, scrounging for materials, then the body falling away to become something else. Its mind set free, then ensconced in a proper body, one that could run and hunt and harvest the biomass of other creatures for the good of the Hive. Then...snatched away, by the damnable birds-
But now it was back in this slow, dull, stupid body, the Hive safely hidden below ground, with a weird flesh-thing inside the central nest.
It wanted to be a Predator again, and was willing and ready to throw away this useless body to create the nest needed to take up that form, but...
They didn't have enough, not after another had already devoted their body to creating an Evolution Chamber. Even with the Beautiful Queen nudging and helping the other Slow Ones to collect the minerals as efficiently as possible.
So, angrily, begrudgingly, it waddled over to the horrid blue crystals and started to gather.
Soon...soon, it would be fast again...
(glad to see this back Z 🥰. Also, by my maths, we have 161 Minerals rn, taking into account the 100 Auto-harvested minerals from the NPCs)
(Edit: Not terrible, I suppose. Make that 171 Minerals. Also, no one else steal the Spawning Pool from me, I want to ditch this body ASAP and I don't wanna waste it. I will return to my true purpose of Grinding out those Biomass Heroic Bonuses Gosh Darn It!!!)
It was confused. Memories of drudgery, scrounging for materials, then the body falling away to become something else. Its mind set free, then ensconced in a proper body, one that could run and hunt and harvest the biomass of other creatures for the good of the Hive. Then...snatched away, by the damnable birds-
But now it was back in this slow, dull, stupid body, the Hive safely hidden below ground, with a weird flesh-thing inside the central nest.
It wanted to be a Predator again, and was willing and ready to throw away this useless body to create the nest needed to take up that form, but...
They didn't have enough, not after another had already devoted their body to creating an Evolution Chamber. Even with the Beautiful Queen nudging and helping the other Slow Ones to collect the minerals as efficiently as possible.
So, angrily, begrudgingly, it waddled over to the horrid blue crystals and started to gather.
Soon...soon, it would be fast again...
(glad to see this back Z 🥰. Also, by my maths, we have 161 Minerals rn, taking into account the 100 Auto-harvested minerals from the NPCs)
(Edit: Not terrible, I suppose. Make that 171 Minerals. Also, no one else steal the Spawning Pool from me, I want to ditch this body ASAP and I don't wanna waste it. I will return to my true purpose of Grinding out those Biomass Heroic Bonuses Gosh Darn It!!!)
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Sir Plusse
Overly Vicious Quester
- Location
- Kansas
And the award for "worst Drone" goes to...
Seriously, though, that sucks. Probably especially galling for you when you compare it to my roll.
- Location
- hells gate with a BFG
yeah, like night an day, but bright side it'll keep the youngin somewhat full if its fruit or somthing.
- Location
- Wherever I feel like being
- Pronouns
- He/Him
The advanced Drone shrugged off the lethargy and the fog. It felt like it had been placed in a deep hibernation for a prolonged period. Raising its head, it took in the new surroundings. Underground was good. Underground was safe. It remembered the birds, the deaths of the minds that moved through the swarm with them. The attempt to lure the strange predators into fighting against gigantic kin to the brood. And then the fog had descended.
Exploring around the new surroundings though, had found something else new. A creature, in a bio-capsule. And a command, branded into its very brain. That this being, this human was to be protected. Was to be nurtured. And was... currently running a fever. Amon take it, this wasn't what they needed right now! With a grim sense of determination they began to harvest minerals to feed the hive and encourage the growth of new spawn. Medicine must be found, and zerglings were what was needed to scout for it!
Edit: Eh, decent. 188 minerals now!
Exploring around the new surroundings though, had found something else new. A creature, in a bio-capsule. And a command, branded into its very brain. That this being, this human was to be protected. Was to be nurtured. And was... currently running a fever. Amon take it, this wasn't what they needed right now! With a grim sense of determination they began to harvest minerals to feed the hive and encourage the growth of new spawn. Medicine must be found, and zerglings were what was needed to scout for it!
Edit: Eh, decent. 188 minerals now!
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[X] Mine Minerals (1d10)
Swarm is weak, need resources...must gather minerals to make swarm stronger.....
Swarm is weak, need resources...must gather minerals to make swarm stronger.....
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