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One Ant Versus the Heavens (Ant Cultivation Quest)

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[ ] Merge colonies (Not guaranteed to work)

I'm all for a genre shift - enemies to lovers make for the best narrative drama. :V Plus, a strategist like the ex-rival would be useful to cover different specialties if we can make it work.
 
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[ ] Merge colonies (Not guaranteed to work)

is exactly what I'd wished for and voted for.

Catpetter1981 said:
First, we
[ ] Accept Parley
and forge an uneasy truce filled with passive-aggressive verbal sniping and increasingly steamy (a)sexual tension.

Then, we challenge the opposing Young Mistress to
[ ] Fight Rival
in a friendly duel to exchange pointers. After all, it is not said that "不打不相识" / "Only Through Trading Fisticuffs Feeticuffs Do Comrades Truly Come to Know Each Other"?

Finally, after the duel, as both ourselves and our rival lie exhausted on the ground in a tangled heap of sweaty segments, we shall
[ ] Accept Rival
into our hearts dorsal vessels, and form the First Union of Sects in the History of Antivators.
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Considering everyone seems to want that option. Yeah I guess were going to try merging colonies.

To think we went from mass murder to integration! Yayyyyyyyyy!
 
Arcanestomper said:
The Rival is larger than she was, but still smaller than the Ant. Her antennae are extremely long and claws and mandibles appear delicate. More suitable for grasping than crushing. Her energy is soft, but with a hidden edge.
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Arcanestomper said:
[ ] The Dance of Light (Active)
Gain 1 Solar Qi (Cooldown: 6 Days)
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Based on the ex-Rival's description, I'm guessing she might have acquired a subtler Qi for her specialty - we picked the Path of Blood, while she probably picked the Path of Silk. This helps explain how she created thousands of Myrmidons with her specialty to boost the efficiency of the infusion. It also fits the ex-Rival's description - delicate mandibles for grasping, soft energy with an edge, manipulator behind the scenes.

Almost the opposite of our murderhobo build :V
 
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The most important issue if we merge colonies: what will the new sect name be? The Triumphant Sisterhood of the Ever Descending Spiral? The Triumphant Spiral Sisterhood Ever Descending Inversely Heavenward? :p

Also TIL ants can merge to form "supercolonies" with multiple queens. One of the largest on record included an estimated 306 million worker ants and one million queen ants living in 45,000 interconnected nests.
 
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I think the reason why they blinked first even though they had the numbers advantage of having infinitly good enough ants against our one near perfect ant is that they had to send 100% of their warriors against us every battle like how during the battle of Britain the Luftwaffe had sent every plane they had in each air raid making the British believe that the Germans had more planes than they actually had.
 
[X] Merge colonies (Not guaranteed to work)
It's not common, but occasionally ant colonies can merge. I'd be willing to try it.

Long live the sect of Blood and Silk!
 
eumarthan said:
I think the reason why they blinked first even though they had the numbers advantage of having infinitly good enough ants against our one near perfect ant is that they had to send 100% of their warriors against us every battle like how during the battle of Britain the Luftwaffe had sent every plane they had in each air raid making the British believe that the Germans had more planes than they actually had.
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They blinked first because we objectively won - we pushed close to the enemy Hive and left a Wall of Death blocking off the regular ants which favors us as a "one-ant army" while neutralizing the ex-Rival's specialty. Nothing they tried worked on us - the ex-Rival and thousands of Myrmidons tried to ambush us together and we single-handedly beat them regardless. We overpowered them through brute force.
 
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Resonant said:
The most important issue if we merge colonies: what will the new sect name be? The Triumphant Sisterhood of the Ever Descending Spiral? The Triumphant Spiral Sisterhood Ever Descending Inversely Heavenward? :p

Also TIL ants can merge to form "supercolonies" with multiple queens. One of the largest on record included an estimated 306 million worker ants and one million queen ants living in 45,000 interconnected nests.
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Like a true Xianxia MC, we should start Ant Empire. :p
 
[X] Silk Qi Secrets (How to extract it and use it more efficiently)

[X] Exile (The Ever Descending Spiral Colony will pack up and head far far away.)

Because I'm contrary.
 
[X] Merge colonies (Not guaranteed to work)

time to max our work into this shit...and of course some colonies can confederate.

its just that its usually a similar species, but considering magic is at play? we might end up with warrior caste, spell-caster caste, ect.

just specialties that can work, plus with how it goes we MIGHT be able to keep the worst of the traits at bay if we play and then twist the expectations.
 
So, time to get the Queens cultivating to try to get all ants to be low level cultivators.
[X] Merge colonies (Not guaranteed to work)
 
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