Antarctic Termite

Stick Fortress

>climb the closest tree.

Stick Fortress

>Create self-aware air conditioner

The Nations of Tethys

Fuzz starting location depends on how aggressively we want it to expand in the first few posts. Put it in a desert and it could be centuries before it makes its way out unaided. Put it in a rainforest and it'll explode, giving it easy access to new territory and resources.

E: Also preferably not on an island. Short of assimilating the surface of an entire strait, fuzz has no way to cross seawater.

Question for spam

The Nations of Tethys

Mycelia

Full Name of Nation: [As the species acts by reflex and hormonal signals, there is no official vocal name.]

Common Name: Mycelia. Colloquially, 'fuzz'.

Government Type: None.

Demonym: Mycelian or fuzzy.

Dominant Species: Fuzz is a connected body of fungal tissue, mostly soft and fibrous like mould, but capable of interlocking into hard or elastic shapes, such as tubes. Fuzz exists only to expand by decomposing any organic matter it encounters, out-competing native species and eventually driving them to extinction. When an area of fuzz has exhausted its nourishment and is not contributing to the continued growth at the periphery, it goes dormant and eventually dies.

Technological Level: Adaptive. The growth reappropriates nearby objects into its architecture but manufactures no objects of its own accord. Fuzz exposed to more complex stimulus will reuse or respond to it in more complex ways. Fuzz has no memory- When stimulus is removed, it will very gradually revert to the state it was in without that stimulus, and will have to be re-exposed in order to 'learn' again. However, complex growths with positive results will slowly spread through the mass provided that form of growth has the tools required to function. Living creatures can be stimuli. For example, idle fuzz in a moist environment may culture algae or small plants symbiotically to produce nutrients for itself, while coastal fuzz exposed to shellfish may reuse nearby sources of calcium to produce its own covering.

Cultural Traits: Uniformity, unsustainable consumption, impassiveness, grey colour.

Language: None. Fuzz cannot speak (derp) or be taught to write. It may try to use basic symbols it is exposed to, but does not consciously understand their meaning.

Population: An irregular growth of various density, ten kilometres long from furthest end to furthest end. Growth speed depends on the availability of organic matter and the climate. There is only one growth of fuzz- Attempts to 'plant' a sample outside of the main body will always fail.

History: The mycelia was for untold aeons locked away in a subterranean chamber with no access to the surface. A series of landslips and the erosion of several hundred years exposed it to the surface, where it began to grow.

Military Type: Currently the best defences fuzz has are smooth vertical walls strutted by sticks and mycelium and imbedded with stones, a few metres tall at their highest. These develop at the periphery of the mycelium where it has been actively and persistently damaged, usually over the course of a few weeks.

Population in Military: <1%.

The Nations of Tethys

* Fungus?

@Vahir

Love the question mark.

All will tremble and behold the itty bitty fuzzy wuzzy fungal lord.

The Nations of Tethys

It'd be helpful if the information in the interest check was also put here, but anyway this is a thing.

Mycelia

Full Name of Nation: [As the species acts by reflex and hormonal signals, there is no official vocal name.]

Common Name: Mycelia. Colloquially, 'fuzz'.

Government Type: None.

Demonym: Mycelian or fuzzy.

Dominant Species: Fuzz is a connected body of fungal tissue, mostly soft and fibrous like mould, but capable of interlocking into hard or elastic shapes, such as tubes. Fuzz exists only to expand by decomposing any organic matter it encounters, out-competing native species and eventually driving them to extinction. When an area of fuzz has exhausted its nourishment and is not contributing to the continued growth at the periphery, it goes dormant and eventually dies.

Technological Level: Adaptive. The growth reappropriates nearby objects into its architecture but manufactures no objects of its own accord. Fuzz exposed to more complex stimulus will reuse or respond to it in more complex ways. Fuzz has no memory- When stimulus is removed, it will very gradually revert to the state it was in without that stimulus, and will have to be re-exposed in order to 'learn' again. However, complex growths with positive results will slowly spread through the mass provided that form of growth has the tools required to function. Living creatures can be stimuli. For example, idle fuzz in a moist environment may culture algae or small plants symbiotically to produce nutrients for itself, while coastal fuzz exposed to shellfish may reuse nearby sources of calcium to produce its own covering.

Cultural Traits: Uniformity, unsustainable consumption, impassiveness, grey colour.

Language: None. Fuzz cannot speak (derp) or be taught to write. It may try to use basic symbols it is exposed to, but does not consciously understand their meaning.

Population: An irregular growth of various density, ten kilometres long from furthest end to furthest end. Growth speed depends on the availability of organic matter and the climate. There is only one growth of fuzz- Attempts to 'plant' a sample outside of the main body will always fail.

History: The mycelia was for untold aeons locked away in a subterranean chamber with no access to the surface. A series of landslips and the erosion of several hundred years exposed it to the surface, where it began to grow.

Military Type: Currently the best defences fuzz has are smooth vertical walls strutted by sticks and mycelium and imbedded with stones, a few metres tall at their highest. These develop at the periphery of the mycelium where it has been actively and persistently damaged, usually over the course of a few weeks.

Population in Military: >1%.

Either I just made a completely underpowered race, or a completely overpowered one. Let's find out.

I hate English Lit.

@Hank Angsty teens going through their emo phase wanting to look unique by rejecting electronic entertainment?

i dunno how to be condescending

I hate English Lit.

Finished it, turned it in, proceeded to complete a maths test without a calculator right thereafter

Basically a long rant about a sexist ass, a dude named Krogstad and how he definitely wasn't a dick. Society was. The late 19th century bourgeoisie was the real dick all along.

How's it going guys!?

You missed an awful landslide of 'Ask me anything' threads.

Be glad you didn't return 48 hours sooner.