Ant Cultivator Quest

[Skippy]

Huh! Only ten progress to clear the gunk and deposit it near our lair! Well, that's over with anyway.

So I like the basic idea of Plan Farm Life, but if we forage on Day 48, it sets us up perfectly for the next three days, as we don't have the uncertainty issue which comes with putting a forage in a three-day plan and worrying whether we will roll too low and starve. And we will need to forage sometime around Day 48-49, because after our farm produces on Day 47, it's five days until the farm produces again on Day 52.

Foraging on Day 48 in this plan rather than Day 49 in the next one means we deal with the uncertainty; either we're all set up for the next plan and don't need to forage again, or we know for sure we'll need another forage action and have hopefully lowered the chance of failure. Right now if we get a 6 or under we don't get enough food, which is a thirty percent chance of starving if we have one forage action in our plan for Days 49-51. Actually a bit worse, since we'll be at a -3 hunger penalty on Day 49.

[X] Plan Farm Life With Less Risk of Starving Four Days Later
-[X] Day 46: Work towards expanding your fungus farm. (5/40)
-[X] Day 47: Try to get a feel for the mysterious energy surging within you (Early 2nd Realm of Qi Gathering 48/70)
-[X] Day 48: Try to salvage food from the ruined colony (4/10)

 

[Perfect Dragon]

[X] Plan Farm Life With Less Risk of Starving Four Days Later

 

[Some_guy_161]

[X] Plan Farm Life With Less Risk of Starving Four Days Later

 

[ThePottedPlant]

[X] Plan Farm Life With Less Risk of Starving Four Days Later

 

[Robot # 207]

[X] Plan Farm Life With Less Risk of Starving Four Days Later

 

[Heavygenium]

[X] Plan Farm Life With Less Risk of Starving Four Days Later

 

[Cheese Muncher]

[X] Plan Farm Life With Less Risk of Starving Four Days Later

 

[Dragonofelder]

[X] Plan Farm Life
-[X] Day 46: Work towards expanding your fungus farm. (5/40)
-[X] Day 47: Try to get a feel for the mysterious energy surging within you (Early 2nd Realm of Qi Gathering 48/70)
-[X] Day 48: Work towards expanding your fungus farm. (5/40)

 

[Bloodalchemy]

[X] Plan Farm Life With Less Risk of Starving Four Days Later

 

[tdtd1234]

[X] Plan Farm Life

 

[Nando]

[X] Plan Farm Life With Less Risk of Starving Four Days Later

 

[CoreBrute]

[X] Purge the Poison Qi (0/?)

 

[Somic]

[X] Plan Farm Life With Less Risk of Starving Four Days Later

 

[Skippy]

So this is a more long term thing, but @Tam Lin, if we wanted to try and turn our Poison Qi into something special, like a technique or Poison Qi Blood or whatever, should we just try cultivating it to start with, or do we need to try something else?

 

[DreadKnight22]

[X] Plan Farm Life With Less Risk of Starving Four Days Later

 

[Tam Lin]

So this is a more long term thing, but @Tam Lin, if we wanted to try and turn our Poison Qi into something special, like a technique or Poison Qi Blood or whatever, should we just try cultivating it to start with, or do we need to try something else?

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I would suggest waiting until you have a high "Event Meter"

 

[Skippy]

I would suggest waiting until you have a high "Event Meter"

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Does this mean we'd need to time an action cultivating Poison Qi in concert with us getting a positive event, which uh, is kind of tricky to land, or more that it's probably just best to wait until we get an event and maybe good things will come?

 

[Kelenas]

[X] Plan Farm Life With Less Risk of Starving Four Days Later

 

[Tam Lin]

Adhoc vote count started by Tam Lin on Sep 25, 2023 at 8:42 PM, finished with 30 posts and 25 votes.

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  12 people have voted

  [X] Plan Farm Life With Less Risk of Starving Four Days Later
  -[X] Day 46: Work towards expanding your fungus farm. (5/40)
  -[X] Day 47: Try to get a feel for the mysterious energy surging within you (Early 2nd Realm of Qi Gathering 48/70)
  -[X] Day 48: Try to salvage food from the ruined colony (4/10)

  • Skippy
  • Perfect Dragon
  • Some_guy_161
  • ThePottedPlant
  • Robot # 207
  • Heavygenium
  • Cheese Muncher
  • Bloodalchemy
  • Nando
  • Somic
  • DreadKnight22
  • Kelenas

  9 people have voted

  [X] Plan Farm Life
  -[X] Day 46: Work towards expanding your fungus farm. (5/40)
  -[X] Day 47: Try to get a feel for the mysterious energy surging within you (Early 2nd Realm of Qi Gathering 48/70)
  -[X] Day 48: Work towards expanding your fungus farm. (5/40)

  • Arcanestomper
  • Dragonofelder
  • o11c
  • LordEdric
  • Len923
  • GildedSergeant
  • Wolfy098
  • Uhtread
  • tdtd1234

  1 people have voted

  [X] Plan Farm Life truncated
  -[X] Day 46: Work towards expanding your fungus farm. (5/40)
  -[X] Day 47: Try to get a feel for the mysterious energy surging within you (Early 2nd Realm of Qi Gathering 48/70)(You cannot cultivate in your lair without first getting rid of the black tarry substance)

  • Fouredged Sword

  1 people have voted

  [X] Plan Farm Cleaning
  -[X] Day 46: Work towards expanding your fungus farm. (5/40)
  -[X] Day 47: Try to get a feel for the mysterious energy surging within you (Early 2nd Realm of Qi Gathering 48/70)
  -[X] Purge the Poison Qi (0/?)

  • RookDeSuit

  1 people have voted

  [X] Plan Gu
  -[X] Day 46 Cultivate the Poison Qi (0/??, costs 10 Cultivation XP per attempt)
  -[X] Day 47: Try to get a feel for the mysterious energy surging within you (Early 2nd Realm of Qi Gathering 48/70)
  -[X] Day 48: Work towards expanding your fungus farm. (5/40)

  • Orbmorb

  1 people have voted

  [X] Purge the Poison Qi (0/?)

  • CoreBrute

 

[Tam Lin]

Day 46:
1st Roll: Events (1-5= Bad Event, 16-20=Good Event)
2nd Roll: Work towards expanding your fungus farm. (5/40)

Day 47:
1st Roll: Events (1=Bad Event, 20=Good Event)
2nd Roll: Try to get a feel for the mysterious energy surging within you (Early 2nd Realm of Qi Gathering 48/70)

Day 48:
1st Roll: Events (1-2=Bad Event, 19-20=Good Event)
2nd Roll:Try to salvage food from the ruined colony (4/10)

Tam Lin threw 2 20-faced dice. Reason: day 46 Total: 36

Tam Lin threw 2 20-faced dice. Reason: day 47 Total: 25

Tam Lin threw 2 20-faced dice. Reason: day 47 Total: 29

 

[Skippy]

EXTREMELY AUSPICIOUS

THE LAW OF KARMIC DESTINY REPAYS US FOR OUR MISFORTUNES

EDIT:

I would suggest waiting until you have a high "Event Meter"

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Well, isn't this fortuitous!

 

[Tam Lin]

You work on your farm, finally tired of the rat race that was trying to keep up with feeding yourself. Despite not using any qi, it seems that your body remembers the work it did as a normal worker ant and you make significant progress.

You make so much progress, in fact, that you find the time to pamper yourself a little and take a break. You were lucky that you did, since while wandering around the general vicinity of your nest, you manage to find an Aphid Egg.

The thing won't hatch unless you actively incubate it, but it should be viable for at least a couple of days if you don't.

Aphids are a miracle of ant farming, and it's a wonder that ants managed to breed them the way they did without any awareness of Qi.

Aphids consume 1 food per day and turn it into 1.1 Aphid Dew. Aphid Dew acts like food, except Aphids can't eat it. Your ant will eat Aphid Dew instead of regular food when it's available. However, Aphids will immediately die if not fed. Additionally, Aphids don't take up any inventory space.

Work towards expanding your fungus farm 5/40 > 23/40

You have 1 Fungus Farm, which will produce 1 food in 1 turn.
Because you do not have enough food, you are now Hungry and will experience -3 to all rolls.
You have gone 3 days without churning your Qi. If you go 4 days without churning your Qi, it will disperse and set you back to the Initial 1st Realm of Qi Gathering
You have 3 Poison Qi coursing through your Meridians.

Happy with your progress on the farm expansion, you meditate and churn your Qi without any worries on your mind. Sure, you're a little hungry, but the fungus farm will be ready for harvest by the end of the day.

As it stands, you're so close to the next minor realm of your cultivation that you can almost taste it.

Early 2nd Realm of Qi Gathering 48/70 > 68/70

Your Fungus Farm produced 1 food, bringing your total to 1 food. Your Fungus Farm will produce food again in 5 turns.
You consume 1 food, which brings your total to 0 food.
You have 3 Poison Qi coursing through your meridians

Since you have a potential Aphid in your inventory, you decide that it would be prudent to search for food to feed it. After all, Aphid Dew is the epitome of ant cuisine.

You salivate at the thought of consuming aphid dew again. Although your mind doesn't remember the times you ate Aphid Dew as a non-cultivator ant, your body remembers.

You're lucky enough to find a piece of food, but it's only enough to feed yourself. You'll have to step it up if you want to keep an aphid fed and alive.

However, while rooting around, you find the remains of an earthworm. Not only that, but it seems the earthworm was a cultivator. You can sense the earthy scent of its dying Qi. You'll have to decide whether you want to eat it or use it as cultivation material.

[][WormCorpse] 5 food
[][WormCorpse] 25 Cultivation XP

Try to salvage food from the ruined colony 4/10 > 14/10 >4/10
You found 1 food, bringing your total to 1 food

You have 1 Fungus Farm, which will produce 1 food in 4 days.
You consume 1 food, bringing your total to 0 food.
You have gone 1 day without churning your Qi. If you go 4 days without churning your qi, it will disperse and set you back to the Initial 1st Realm of Qi Gathering.
You have 3 Poison Qi coursing through your Meridians

Select 3 actions to be taken over the next 3 turns. Qi Burst is on cooldown for 5 more days.

[] Try to salvage food from the ruined colony (4/10)
[] Try to expand your meager shelter (10/40)
[] Work towards expanding your fungus farm. (23/40)
[] Incubate the Aphid Egg (0/?)(Egg is viable for 7 more days. If not hatched, then the egg will become Inert and turn into 5 Food)
[] Try to get a feel for the mysterious energy surging within you (Early 2nd Realm of Qi Gathering 68/70)
[] Cultivate outside your lair (Small chance of summoning a predator)
[] Purge the Poison Qi (0/?)
[] Cultivate the Poison Qi (0/??, costs 10 Cultivation XP per attempt)
[]Seek out Qi Vein (0/???)
[] Train the (QiBlood) technique, Qi Burst (Initiate 0/???)
[] Train the (Lightness) technique, Beetle Charge. (Initiate 0/???)
[] Try to integrate into a new colony (0/??)
[] Take over another colony (0/???)

 

[Skippy]

Aphids consume 1 food per day and turn it into 1.1 Aphid Dew. Aphid Dew acts like food, except Aphids can't eat it. Your ant will eat Aphid Dew instead of regular food when it's available. However, Aphids will immediately die if not fed. Additionally, Aphids don't take up any inventory space.

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Just to clarify, how often does the Aphid need to be fed? Is it every day?

 

[harnackam]

There's no way we'll be able to keep the aphid alive in the long term. It would take 50 food for it to make the 5 food the egg will give us. I'd recommend expanding our farm.

 

[Void Stalker]

If we take the worm as food and feed it to the aphid that will be 5.5 dew, and we have the fungal farming procing before that expires. So incubate the egg, earthworm as food, do QI and work on fungal farm?