Deepen your roots and search for water.

bloom.

Spread petals in an attempt to attract creatures to pollinate you, turn your leaves toward the sun.

See.

Make more petals to generate more food.

Realize that Arthur Dent has yet again caused your demise.

o 2010/01/06(Wed)20:35 No. 106676 ID: 45be60
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You extend your lower extremities further. There is ample moisture here. It is nice.

>>106676
Deepen your roots a little further.

>>106676
Deepen roots further, bloom, and sprout a big beefy arm.

o 2010/01/06(Wed)20:40 No. 106687 ID: 45be60
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You turn your broad extremities to face the source of the warmth, and spread your upper extremities further.

Sprout Thorns, if practical.

>>106687
GROW

um, what. adquire perception organs? become a bush?

in all seriousness, can we develop eyes? how is the wind?

pierce drain of BLUE STUFF

become Sevi.

o 2010/01/06(Wed)20:50 No. 106710 ID: 45be60
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Concentrating further, you produce a series of narrow protuberances to defend yourself. From what, you are not sure.

>>106710
Make your stem a bit ticker and longer.

>>106710
GROW UNTO INFINITY
BECOME AS A GOD
SPROUT TITS.

spread SCENT. be ready for small flying GUESTS.

>>106710
Sprout more leaves.

Suggestion 2010/01/06(Wed)21:05 No. 106745 ID: c89b56
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>>106716
>SPROUT TITS.
?

Suggestion 2010/01/06(Wed)21:08 No. 106751 ID: 8dc9d5
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>>106745
More like this.

>>106751
Except with women instead of men, ideally.

>>106745
KILLER WEED

YES

LET US FEAST IN THE FOOLISHNES OF RANDOM PASSERBYERS LOOKING FOR A DRYAD TO WASTE THEIR BONERS

also this is the most peaceful quest i have ever seen.

o 2010/01/06(Wed)21:11 No. 106760 ID: 45be60
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You expend a great deal of effort making yourself larger. Something is amiss. There are limits to your growth! When you try to grow past certain limits, something pushes back at you!

>>106760
Grow punchan mitts. Become the plant equivalent of Rudy Mann.

>>106760
we are in a dome of glass. they know.

begin paranoia shenanigans.

also grow some roots laterally. check recipient size.

>>106760
OK, try to expand your roots as far as you can.

bamboo have a extreme sharp point. they can pierce anything.

we can do that?or our flower is unchangeable?

>>106760
i see we already did that. dang.

there are usually water drains. in some plant domes, there are ventilation holes or some sort of fan to make the air flow safely. find them with SPIKES.

>>106760
Grow roots. However, it is possible we are in a pot. If roots become blocked, all we can do is wait.

o 2010/01/06(Wed)21:25 No. 106804 ID: 45be60
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Unsure of what to expect, but hopeful, you accelerate the production of the fine particles produced in your upper extremities. The area around you is filled with them. You are proud.

You suddenly feel trapped by something, though you cannot imagine why. Spurred to action, you spread your lower extremities outward, and your worst fears are realized! You can spread no further!

>>106804
It is possible you are in a pot, being cared for by some other creature. Hopefully, said creature will notice you have grown too large for this pot, and will either move you to a new one, or plant you outside, in the ground.

>>106804
i like where this is going.

first, let us not make a dryad or a weed girl.

second. we need traction. can we make muscles? if so, go by the roots.

alternatively, passive hearing from the roots as well, to better perceive the enviroment. some sort of echolocation if you must.

i still want to find that drain, but chances are we are in sealed lab :c

>>106816
also make petals back to what they where. we should remain hidden as much as possible.

o 2010/01/06(Wed)21:36 No. 106826 ID: 45be60
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...Very well, if that is to be the way of things, you will bide your time and wait for something to happen.

>>106821
We're a bloody flower. If anything it should be bigger, showier.

>>106826
...fine

to my WILDEST imagination:

turn flower into fruit. in it, keep loads of water.

chlorofila can also turn water into its basic components, hydrogen and oxygen. the sudden urge of pressure and a spark can set you free.

burrow in the dirt enought to survive. peform GRENADE-FRUIT OF FREEDOM.

Thorned Tulip: Produce more leaves, and make them jagged like holly.

>>106826
Grow! Grow your roots until they break the container!

o 2010/01/06(Wed)21:45 No. 106841 ID: 45be60
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You continue to indulge your strange obsession with defense in the face of absolutely no evident danger.

can we move? if we are in a container we can try to spin it?

what about by grenade fruit idea?

what are our limitations?

how do we go offense? can we push the top with out stalk?

i wanted to blow up. is that not offense?

can we make traction in the walls? yknow, make a branch touching both sides, make it grow till something gives.

>>106841
Extend tendrils upward. Search for a spot that lets you go past the obstruction.

o 2010/01/06(Wed)21:57 No. 106866 ID: 45be60
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It takes a great deal of effort and concentration, but you focus and begin to channel moisture upward from your lower extremities into the center of your upper mass. You feel it start to swell. This will not be easy, but you think it might work.

>>106865
i already suggested looking for something with spikes. upward is likely to find a fan, down there should be a water drain.

develop brain meats, attempt to perceive the enviroment?

>>106866
FIRE IN THE HOLE
:Dc

>>106898
The next step WAS to detonate it, but first you should see if you can't get some more moisture from the ground. If you can, than use it, if not, set off the fruit.

o 2010/01/06(Wed)22:27 No. 106919 ID: 45be60
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This idea is not without its down-sides.

You are not entirely certain where your intelligence is housed, so the prospect of increasing it under your own power seems unlikely. You feel smart enough as it is, so you decide this is probably okay. You think really hard about your surroundings anyway, just for the heck of it.

...

Okay, this is a lot of moisture in one place. You are starting to feel dry. What was that next bit again?

>>106919

>chlorofila can also turn water into its basic components, hydrogen and oxygen.

>>106919
burrow a lot of self under the dirt. make some small petals that are sharp to pierce the dome, covering the GRENADE-FRUIT OF FREEDOM.

when the pressure builds up, we need a way to also detonate the mix of hydrogen. i was thinking of sending pieces of stones against each other, but i think its more likely to use the sharp petals.

would it be possible to focus on the light source? if the light source IS the sun, we may be in a greenhouse, focus in the heat to explode the grenade. this way we make the utmost of the bomb.

Wait, how do we know blowing up won't kill the flower?

also, from rose to explosives in less that 50 posts.

>>106919
Whack your bulb against the sides of the enclosure.

Thorned Death Tulip: Produce natural toxins, and have a bulb too.

o 2010/01/06(Wed)22:50 No. 106944 ID: 45be60
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>>106922
Focus? Greenhouse? Detonate? What are these ideas drifting through your head? You could just barely manage to muster up the knowledge to start some little bits of you processing away at the stuff inside your upper extremity, though if you are being honest with yourself, you really have no idea what it is you are getting as a result. Most of these ideas are just too far outside your limited experience.

>>106944
Channel freustration into beating the shit out of the wall with bulb.

>>106944
Try straightening out your stem as much as you can.

o 2010/01/06(Wed)23:01 No. 106955 ID: 45be60
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>>106940
You absorb some of the less useful nutrients from around your lower extremities. You feel more dangerous, or at least, less healthy.

You store much of your excess moisture and energy in a centralized, protected location, from which you could regrow even if the rest of you were destroyed.

You just DARE something to mess with you now.

Investigate every inch of your prison. Attempt to find an opening.

Fuck this defense shit. We need attention. Do you understand colors, or pigments? Otherwise useless things you're compelled to put in your petals and nowhere else?

o 2010/01/06(Wed)23:10 No. 106962 ID: 45be60
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>>106959
As a matter of fact, you DO have some useless nutrients you feel compelled to place in your upper extremity. Two different kinds in fact, one of which should obviously go in the center, while the other goes in the outside bits. You are certain you are very pretty, and everyone will pay attention to you.

Devil Tulip: Attempt to spread out, like Kudzu.

d'aw. i fail.

wanna try a drill next?

o 2010/01/06(Wed)23:33 No. 106991 ID: 45be60
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>>106685
>>106713
>>106778
>>106925
>>106949
Yes! Your brilliant plan to do everything just slightly better will pay off soon. Everyone shall see that you are the winner at existing.

And you are pretty sure you won't blow up, though this seems like an irrational fear.

Snapdragon: Win at existing some more.

>>107002
DO IT

o 2010/01/07(Thu)00:51 No. 107049 ID: 45be60
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>>107002
>>107038

Man, this is gonna rock so hard.


Wait, who said that?

Prepare for harsh environments and feasting upon insects.

(hahaha, I get it now.)

Focus on pretty petals. Become an orchid. I'll be better than all you other flowers. You'll see.

>>106962
Hells yeah. We also need more smellyness. To attract some things that can't see very well. Do we have any strange oils that turn into gasses slowly? Because we need to put those out there. WHILE we're at it, get me some sugar in the center. Because these things coming to see me might need a meal.

This container is small and uninteresting.
Lets make it more interesting.
WITH FIRE.
Process nutrients into VOLATILE SUBSTANCES.
Expel VOLATILE SUBSTANCES into air together to make FLAMMABLE MIXTURE.
Just... yknow, don't do it straight up or we'll light OURSELF on fire.

>>107056
Actually, one more before I turn in. Increase rootsize and leaf number. BEGIN THE FOODENING.

o 2010/01/07(Thu)01:36 No. 107068 ID: 45be60
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>>107055
Your upper extremity is wicked pretty. Too bad all that exploring earlier kinda wrecked the rest of the look. Maybe you can come up with something sweet to do with it all later.



(Man, orchids are hard. I was hoping to avoid that one, you bastard)

>>107068
Use aboveground roots to gather nutrients from the air. Move some nutrients into petals so that I may look even better.

o 2010/01/07(Thu)01:56 No. 107075 ID: 45be60
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>>107056
>>107062
So much to do, you hardly know where to begin. There is already some stuff in the center of your upper bits. You will put some energy stuff there too, just for good measure. You also let some of the more esoteric juices flowing through you seep out of your top, advertising your prettiness to the space around you. How could they NOT pay attention to you. Meanwile, more lower extremities, and more of these warmth-absorbing middle bits.



(last one of the night folks. Glad people finally started picking up on things)

>>107075
MORE LEAVES, MOOORE.

>>107049
I figured this out. We each get our own flower

Make the 2 bottom leaves a bit bigger

Insomnia 2010/01/07(Thu)02:06 No. 107078 ID: aba0a3
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Don't give up, try to grow and help your plant brethren. Listen to 80's montage music as you rise.

Oh no!
Look at all these magnificent flowers!
I will be the BIGGEST!
Grow REALLY BIG!

>>107075

Increase the number of energy things! Then grow something to store it all up underground, safely.

well since its like that. turn petals into fractals and capture the attention of any nearby passerby.

look into my works, ye might, and bedazzled

VENUS FLY TRAP:
THE BLOODLUST WASHES OVER YOU.

o 2010/01/07(Thu)10:10 No. 107141 ID: 45be60
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>>107076
>>107091

Yes, more warmth soakers will make the other stuff easier. But you are running out of places to put them. Maybe another middle thing?

...

Hey wait, you don't remember thinking of this awesome idea. Where did it come from?

o 2010/01/07(Thu)10:35 No. 107147 ID: 45be60
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>>107134
INDEED IT DOES.

WE MUST BREED.

Any pollen yet? If not, then divert more power to color production. WE MUST LOOK LIKE A PAINTED WHORE, THAT BEES WILL COME FROM MILES AROUND.

Also, send a single thin shoot straight up to see if/when it hits anything. If it finds something it can wrap around, then it ought to. Once it reaches the top(if there is one, if there isn't then I don't know) we shall start operation smother.

i just realized i have dynamic IP :c

>>107151
Wait... that's what these voices are innit? Genetics? Pollen? Anyway, keep doing what your doing.

hay circle, do i need a tripcode?

i wanna turn into a cactus :3 make petals leafs into spikes, distribute water to stem, tickening it.

Elsewhere... o 2010/01/07(Thu)12:18 No. 107164 ID: 45be60
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Day 7: Specimens which survived initial exposure continue to appear healthy, though concrete symptoms are beginning to appear. Most manifest as a single aspect of rapid growth to the exclusion of all other functions. Possible indication of cancerous cell growth.

- Sample 445c48 demonstrates unusually rapid general growth. Outgrown containment unit. Will need to devise transplant protocols to continue observation in ideal conditions.

Sample 8dc9d5 exhibits rampant, undirected growth. It has collapsed under its own weight and continues to grow in fits and starts around the bottom of its unit.

- Sample f7bc42 has reactivated dormant thorn-production genes. Specimen also shows signs of stolon development

- Sample 4f8e95 has somehow gone to seed and produced a small fruit, despite containment protocol. Will need full dissection and lab workup to determine if there was a breech, or this is some form of self fertilization.

- Sample a64482 demonstrates greatly increased petal and stamen color and vibrancy, including new pigments in the ultraviolet spectrum.

Go, go, flower Bluebell!

//I post from two computers on different IPs. I don't know if that changes my ID.

This is interesting.

Devil Tulip: Continue to make yourself look fearsome and survivable, and develop a neat color pattern on your petals that attracts bees but warns everything else of your venomous nature.

o 2010/01/07(Thu)15:01 No. 107219 ID: 45be60
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>>107205
If all the spikes weren't enough, this ought to show the world how dangerous you are, while still being pretty and attractive.



>>107172
>>107157
(Both of you are using names, which I could work from if it came down to it, but I'll let you in on a little secret. Posters who seem to understand what is going on can offer suggestions to any flower they want, as long as they specify.)

>>107147
Grow multiple heads, make them pretty.

>>106826

Can you grow hairs to sense movements? I know some plants can do that, SEARCH YOUR GENES. Try to make a system where, when you sense movement, your outer stems move outward.

Devil Tulip: Develop new forms of chlorophyll capable of absorbing different shades of light. Develop rudimentary sense of sight based on this.

Everyone: Let's all start swaying left and right!

>>107318
Yeah, start some swaying up in this bitch! Or rather, these bitches!

sample 4f8e95: stop touching yourself and grow more leafs. distribute water evenly trhougth self, make petals sharp and pointed upward in a _)_ manner.

attempt to develop perception of food, water and containment components. i wanna become the first flyer :3

Become a white rose.

o 2010/01/07(Thu)19:15 No. 107445 ID: 45be60
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>>107344
Rrrrgh. Getting upright again is hard work, but slowly thickening seems to be working. These extra middle bits do not seem to be helping provide much extra energy though.
At least there is moisture again.

>>107445
im assuming im going to get a spare plant? or is the bulb outside my control?

4f8e95: make leafs that arent pointy wider. grow a small branch in their leaf center.

VENUS FLY TRAP:
AS YOU SUCK THE BLAND CLEAR LIQUID FROM THE EARTH AROUND YOU, YOUR MAW RUNS OVER WITH A CORROSIVE, STICKY LIQUID ALL THE BETTER FOR CATCHING AND DEVOURING YOUR PREY.

RAWR!

o 2010/01/08(Fri)01:47 No. 107690 ID: 45be60
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>>107608
YOU SLAVER WITH ANTICIPATION, SWEET DIGESTIVE JUICES DRIBBLING FROM YOUR MAW


>>107222
Something told you to grow another maw with which to slaver, and this sounded like a very good idea too. It said you should make them both pretty, and that makes sense you guess, though it is obviously not nearly as important.

Tulip with thick stem:
Extend roots further and thicken stem a tiny bit more. Harden stem. And produce super-slippery lubricant.

Aww man, was trying to grow into a venus fly trap. I guess I'll have to either join the club or be a pitfall trap in the picture I linked earlier. Venus fly traps are so cute. :(

>>107690
WHAT! YOU CLAMP YOUR JAWS DOWN UPON THE TRAITOROUS GROWTH CLINGING TO YOUR SIDE. AS YOU RECLAIM THE LOST NUTRIENTS FROM THE VANQUISHED USURPER, YOUR ENTIRE BEING BRISTLES WITH GRUESOME BUMPS AND NEEDLES MAKING YOU EVEN MORE HIDEOUS TO BEHOLD THAN EVER.

Continue floating upon the surface of fluid -- make petals of flower more vibrant, and focus production of latex to flower petals.
LILIES HERE WE GO.

>a64482

Attempt to have second stem take root in walls to hold on. Develop ivy properties.

(maybe I am just missing something. Is the green glow effect like, how developed the plant is on some arbitrary scale?)

o 2010/01/12(Tue)22:09 No. 110016 ID: 45be60
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>>107151
You decide to utilize your new growth to explore your surroundings without messing up your pretty top. And of course you can't neglect improving your prettiness just a bit more. It's important, damnit!

This exploring is hard though. Your attempts to grow upwards keep tilting over.

>>108996
Of course! Bracing yourself against your surroundings will help keep you growing upward. Your lower extremities seem sturdy, you will try them up higher.

...

Well, there are no nutrients up here, but they seem to be holding all the same. These thoughts from outside your consciousness sure have some good ideas. You wonder where they come from.

>>107222
You reach out to see if you can find them, and sure enough, you sense other consciousnesses like your own out there, struggling with their own goals. You sense their concerns, and offer your own perspective. Of course, all their problems would be easier if they were simply a bit prettier.

>Lilium hybrid has achieved inter-plant awareness. Network node established.

>>110016
Other plants: Become more colorful.

>>110016
well since you estabilished a goal...

4f8e95: split stem into petals, add leafs in the edge of each flower.

we are going fractal

>>110016
We must attempt to communicate with these intelligences, they may be enemies, but we are so damned pretty that they should love us anyway.

Think about communication, think about cooperation, try to make these thoughts drift out to the others. We must bring them out of the ugly ages!

Do we know anything about seeds yet? Can we customize those? We really should think about spreading our offspring to the others, to spread the enprettiment.

This shall be the "red Lilium's burden", to bring the savages to the proper course of being pretty, though not as pretty as us. For we are all one body, and I am the head.

Sergal 2010/01/13(Wed)11:18 No. 110125 ID: 0a7c6b
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Thorny pretty one: develop a neurotoxin in the thorns.

Yes, you shall be a impregable fortress.

It's time to join the others in glorious conversation. Attempt to mimic the network node evolution.

Also, continue to push pigment into upper region until it stops reflecting most wavelengths of light. (I'm saying, make it black)

Pretty pretty flower: let the bioluminescence begin!

>>110302
That means chloroplasts, chromoplasts, and everything-in-betweenoplasts. We're not just absorbing light, we're harnessing it for more energy. Bigger energy stores and faster growth, here we come!

o 2010/01/13(Wed)22:04 No. 110544 ID: 45be60
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>>110302
Spurred on by strange urgings from outside your own consciousness, you reach out toward the faint stirrings around you. You find others out there, and you encourage them to do the same.
>Bastard Orchid has achieved inter-plant awareness. Network growing rapidly.

On a subject closer to home, you cram all the pigments you can muster into your upper extremities, attempting to overload the spectrum.
(Did you seriously just ask me to make a black flower in this color scheme? Bastard.)

>>110544

Hail and Welcome, friend orchid.

>>110544
Hahah wow, that's... not exactly what I had in mind. Mix the pigments together more. Spread them around.

(a dark grey would've kindof worked, but that's pretty awesome too! Psychedelic.)

>>107699
Also, have the lube produced come out where the flowers are.

>>110556
(the pigments were never meant to be a fully accurate representation of what the flowers look like. They are just markers for what the flower thinks of having done to itself. No eyes and all.)

>>110544
Increase the radioactivity of your upper region

445c48:

Scrap the big flower idea. We want clusters of small, sweet-smelling flowers below each leaf node. The rest of your stem can continue to grow- if necessary, form tendrils with fine, clinging hairs to support your weight on the barrier.

We've got catching up to do.

WHAT! GROW BARBED GRASPERS, FLAILING AT THE PINGS OF EXISTENCE GROWING AROUND YOU. ATTEMPT TO FLING ONE OF THE BARBED ENDS TOWARDS A PING.

Develop an unstampable exoskeleton from carbon in the soil... To gather enough materials, access growth in the roots.

USE LIGHT, WATER AND NUTRIENTS TO MAKE A COMPLEX CARBON MOLECULE WITH WHICH TO FEED YOURSELF!

Oi, networked plants. Start cooperatively feeling at what's preventing you from expanding further, each individual plant exploring one section so that we may all discover more details faster and in a more thorough fashion.

4f8e95: Ok. We may be slower but we are going to make sure that we are the best one out there!!!

For now, make more leaves and thicken roots.

what did I do to deserve this? o 2010/01/14(Thu)20:56 No. 110944 ID: 45be60
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>>107699
>>110558
You thicken your core further and harden the outer membrane, making you rigid and straight. After some experimentation, you manage to develop a runny, fragrant nectar which flows well. You begin to secrete it in quantity, till it overflows your cup and runs down your core.

You do not find this combination phallic in any way, because you reproduce via the cross-contamination of tiny particles located in your upper extremities.

o 2010/01/14(Thu)21:48 No. 111010 ID: 45be60
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>>110577
Hmm, mysterious voices giving advice count as something happening, right? Yeah, of course they do. Okay, doing something sounds more interesting than continuing to do nothing. More flowers it is!

Supporting your weight actually isn't an issue, as extra support was included in your wild growth spurt, but you will keep that in mind for the future.

34470e, 445c48: Join the network! C'monnn it'll be fun!

>>111034
You know what's fun? Producing nectar. You should try it.

On an unrelated note, thicken and harden stem a bit more.

>>111037
Maybe I will! Just a little bit, so as to not spill all over the place.

>>111039
Whatever. It'll never be as good as my nectar.

o 2010/01/14(Thu)22:21 No. 111044 ID: 45be60
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>>110042
You start to hear strange voices urging you to stop relaxing and be prettier still. It is startling and not relaxing at all.

AHEM o 2010/01/14(Thu)22:23 No. 111046 ID: 45be60
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>>111037

>>111046
Hey I am NOT going to have my stem broken by some crazy broad who wants a flower for her lover, damnit!

Small!
You are all so SMALL!
BIGGER!
TALLER!
THICKER!
BIG AND TALL!
AND BIGGER MIDDLE PART SO YOU CAN FIR MORE PETALS ON IT!
TINY LEETTLE BABBY FLOWERS, ALL OF YOU!

>>111037
And don't forget to deepen roots more.

445c48: You are beautiful, dahling. Now, I want you to add sections that break off to the end of each leaf. You're going to use them reproduce asexually, so include a meristem (think plant stem cells). Let's hope there are large, clumsy animals out there.

Then join the network, and let the others baulk in envy of the complexity and elegance of your design.

>>111125
Relying on others to try and make yourself stand out? HA! Such foolishness!

>>111126
Hecklers! Be strong, dear heart!

Cannibalize our flower! Devour the nasty colors and petals. Produce wonderful creeping vines and leaves!

>>111044
Concentrate nutrients to developing more petals, and expand the size of the outermost petals.
Dig roots deeper into the solid surface below fluid upon which the petals float -- search for nutrients which would be useful for production of petals. Other nutrients should be used for changing the qualities of the petals. Devote a single petal for each kind of nutrient found -- concentrate the nutrients which aren't being used in the flower petals. Don't make individual petals bigger/thicker though -- make more if a petal is filled. Similar nutrients are placed closely together in petal arrangement.

o 2010/01/19(Tue)20:57 No. 115057 ID: 45be60
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>>111446
You do your best to comply with the idea.
Is this okay? There isn't a lot of nutrition to work with here. Where are these thoughts coming from anyway? Are they you too? No, probably not. If they were you they would chill out. How are you thinking them though? Hello? Are you out there thoughts?

>>115057
Lily: Yes, we are! Try to develop sensing fibers so you can talk to us as a group!

>>115057
A long stalk reaching upwards worked for me.

o 2010/01/19(Tue)22:04 No. 115118 ID: 45be60
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>>115071
This whole "up" thing really doesn't seem to be working out.

>>115070
I can hear you just fine like this. So who is "us"? and what's all the excitement about? You seem to be in an awful big rush for something.

>>115118
We are others, like you but different.

Hey, if you want to chill that's fine I guess. We'll figure things out eventually and keep you updated.

>>115118
QUIT BEING SO RELAXED YOU TINY BABBY FLOWER
YOU ARE TOO SMALL
SOMEONE IS GOING TO STEP ON YOU
TINY LEELTE BABBY
GET BEEG
GO GO GO NOW

>>115118
forget size for now...
start expanding the roots and get some extra nutrients for whatever you want to do...

And find some way to sense light, and how much of it is coming from all places around you, and the kind of light it is...

Expansion of root network could be helpful, as one of these voices seems to have indicated.
Proceed with that for now. Grow roots outwards mostly, but have the central root go deeper until it can't go any deeper. Outward going roots should go out as far as they can. If they reach a barrier, stop growing them, and begin growing another sidways feeling root lower on the main root.

o 2010/01/20(Wed)21:09 No. 115600 ID: 45be60
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>>115225
Like I said, from what I can tell, my nutrients are considerably poorer than what you guys have available. Easier to grow through though, at least up higher. They get harder lower down, till I really can't make more progress. Going outward is easy though, at least till I get this far.

I can say with confidence that the "light" comes from up, and it is better the higher you get, at least until the surroundings change. I haven't really managed to explore beyond that.

>>115172
Is THAT what you are all so concerned about? getting squished? Man, I don't care about that. I could get smashed way down and I would just come back up again. I'd have to try pretty hard NOT to. But I wouldn't try, it's nicer up here.

HEY! Why hasn't my tulip shown any progress at all?

>>115601
You are currently experimenting with a substance you have decided to call "bark." It is not very visually interesting, and I am pointing the camera this direction in any event. But rest assured that you are still doing stuff over there.

Given my limited nutrients, I feel I should for now test factors of my environment carefully.
The core horizontal part of my being -- I'd like to try to flex the edges of it to lean my great leaf around -- to locate the brightest area of usable light within the limits of the current length of it. If this isn't possible, try to convert some of the mass of the stem into specialized tissue which can be used to manipulate the great leaf's position.
Once located, attempt to reclaim any extra nutrients in the excess length produced when attempting to grow up -- these nutrients should be used to first attempt to extract nutrients from the fluid which I float upon -- using a single small root-like appendage. If unsuccessful, stop supplying nutrients to the appendage and let it die; instead devote remaining nutrients gained to making the grand leaf larger.

445c48: Become alarmingly large.

So Anyway... o 2010/01/26(Tue)20:56 No. 119229 ID: 45be60
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And so it goes. One identity at a time you form connections and perceive others. Some grumble at the intrusion, others embrace the camaraderie, but there is no resisting the connections that form. The collective awareness grows, and as it does, you begin to piece together some things about your surroundings. Though it is difficult for you to learn precise distances, because none can reach another directly, you soon learn to identify direction. The array of consciousnesses spreads to either side a long way, indeed, you have yet to find the ends. However, in the directions of the light and the nutrients there are definite boundaries. Those consciousnesses at the lowest level report different experiences with their surroundings, and seem on the whole less stout.

Those at the edges are busy expanding the network, but what about the rest of you?

Please decide on an action.

>>119229
can i get a closer look on 4f8e95?

also estimate location of flowers using distance in the flower network. failing that, roots must adquire a vine like quality to allow quick grip and release of soil.

i dun care to prettyness, i just want to be more useful ._.

o 2010/01/26(Tue)21:26 No. 119270 ID: 45be60
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>>119244
Indecisive Tomatofern begins to work on loosening fibers within its root system, in preparation for contraction in an attempt to change root position without active growth.

How's my flower's bark coming along?

ATTACK THE CONFINES WITH OUR VICIOUS JAWS

WTF is that dark thing immediately below me? Is it a plant?

... I think I'm pretty enough. Switch all non-vital personal resources to communicating with that lost soul!

How are we communicating anyway? Perhaps we should stop for a moment, and release a built up pulse to alert others at long distances that someone besides them exists!

I've got an idea. LET'S SPELL OUT A MESSAGE!

Try spelling out "Hello" in the top row. Then "we are" "self" "aware". The flower between 'we' and 'are' should remain unchanged.

WHICH COLOR IS BIGGEST?
I WANT TO BE THE BIGGEST COLOR.
AND THIS TINY BABBY CONTAINER IS NO GOOD
I WILL BREAK IT
THERE MUST BE A HOLE SOMEWHERE AND I WILL FIND IT AND GROW INTO IT BREAK IT TO PIECES!

It has occurred to me that we don't actually know what letters look like.

Instead, let's try showing our intelligence through mathematics, the universal language. Make the first row have 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 leaves.

I believe we can show our awareness through getting one of the more nutrient rich members to replicate separate individual. Maybe Tomatofern can produce something very like Venus Flytrap?
That would demonstrate our ability to control ourselves and communicate. . . It would be easier if we could share nutrients though.

if you are serious about communications, we can set the bar pretty low.

we should show we are communicating with each other. if we can pinpoint out physical location that would be easy, we change collors in specific directions.

failing that we can peform individual communication. tapping was a good idea but we need something a bit more dynamic and 2way. either a lens of water to change direction of light or quick changing pigments to indicate current conditions.

4f8e95: straigthen sterm, make it bamboo-like and fill with... nothing. former flower link should grow a sharp, small, fin-like flower able to move sideways.

ill figure hydrogen later on. i also need a containment for nutrients and water, but my fruit is out of control, apparently.

...if it isnt: prepare to ASPLODE, make a shell to contain the soon to be found water pressure

Bioluminesence, bitches. Do you have it?

>>119419
This is actually a good idea.

Can those of us who are privileged somehow create light to help those less fortunate?

It would also be very pretty.

>>119442
I'll do it! Blacklight, bitches!

pigments should be resource sample. we cant perceive light, just luminiscence, so i quess the scientists wont really understand it.

4f8e95: grow small faint intermitent bioluminiscent light in the tip of megaleaf.

o 2010/01/27(Wed)21:33 No. 119876 ID: 45be60
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>>119346
Oh yeah, THAT guy. He's um... special. He is sort of hard to sense or connect with, and when he replies, well...

Olá amigos! Estou feliz cumprimentá-lo. O que devemos fazer? Se você estiver curioso sobre como a brilhar com sua própria luz, talvez eu possa mostrar a você? É fácil de manter, uma vez que você sabe o que os nutrientes para combinar.

Bom-Dia, sr Feijão :D Quais são os planos de crescimento para o dia de hoje?

A message from 34470e to 6h792f:Saia comunicar assim!

Creces a ser un rostro brilliante de :3

lo siento, pienso hablaste espanol, no portugues. puedes traducir por favor?

"Gostaria muito de aprender, amigo."

He speaks Portuguese, not Spanish. His message is like "Hey Friends! Happy to meet you! What we'll be doing? If you're curious about how to shine by yourself, maybe I can show you? Its easy to keep, once you know what nutrients to combine."

(In case you're wondering, I'm the Brazilain voice. -Farmer)

My first statement was something to the effect of 'Maek glowy :3 face plox!1!'

The second was 'oops, you speak portuguese. could someone translate, please?'

o 2010/01/28(Thu)01:11 No. 119901 ID: 45be60
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Oh! Isso é muito mais fácil. Obrigado amigos! Eu estava tendo dificuldade em compreender que a comunicação tão rápido que antes. Eu vou te mostrar como fazê-lo. Eu tenho praticado. Você deve fazer nutrientes dessa forma e dessa forma, em seguida, colocá-los em conjunto com a umidade. Espero que ele irá trabalhar para você.

The strange consciousness demonstrates its ability with an inward focus that is impressive. It seems much more in tune with its internal composition than the rest of you, possibly because its various parts are less distinct. It is also interesting that it is drawing nutrients from a source much different from what most of you are familiar with. In fact, it seems more similar to 34470e itself than to the nutrients it grows in. This means that in order to copy this ability directly, you will need to scavenge some of your own composition.

Boys, I think we have a mushroom.

This is so interesting!

I will grow four additional leaves, then sacrifice them to make fuel for this new ability.

"Oh! Thats easier! Thanks, friends! I was having a hard time comprehending that communication! I'll show you how to do it. I've been practicing. You need to make nutrients this and that way, and then mix with moisture. I hope it'll work for you."

>>119901
Message from 34470e to 6h792f:
De que formas eu sou semelhante a você?

i am somehow willing to turn my fruit into a huge lamp.

4f8e95: do the bioluminiscence recipee in the tips of the huge leaf.

BR? BR? HAUEHUAEHUAHEHAE

sou brasileiro ._. surtei quando vi portugues aqui.

>>119918
((misunderstanding due to poor pronoun usage. This is what I get for constructing sentences in the wee hours of morning .

The nutrients it grows in have more in common with 34470e himself than with the nutrients the rest of you grow in.))

AKA we have different soils.

is it still do-able?

>>119937
Oh, I guess I'll try it. On the leaves I have.

To some non-pictured flower:
Try your best to make your organism look like one of these: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File%3AHuman_anatomy.jpg
Make the experimenters shit brix :D

o 2010/02/08(Mon)15:45 No. 128172 ID: 45be60
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>>119903
Fortunately, you were already growing some extra leaves for unrelated reasons, so it is simple enough to change gears. You are certain your top is now the prettiest ever.


Those of you who chose to follow the strange consciousness's instructions all eventually feel its effects. You learn to transport the nutrients separately, and combine them in the areas you wish to shine for maximum effect. This combination results in a slow reaction which, in addition to the glow, produces a nutrient you could easily consume, and another which seems to disappear into the surroundings. The process is not difficult, but it is taxing. It seems part of the nutrients required for the synthesis are the ones which give your extremities strength. The soft portions you draw from droop pitifully, and the stiff sections snap easily under the minimal weight. And though you continue to supply the affected areas with the nutrient you have come to think of as food, they seem increasingly unable to absorb or utilize it. Nothing short of active growth seems capable of fighting the process, so you begin abandoning the dying sections once they start to run dry, and focus on new growth to replace them. Glowing is a full time job it seems.

>>128172
Shouldn't glowing be easier for me or something because I have similar soil?

>>128172
With the lack of anything better to do for the moment, continue glowing. Turn the upward-reaching roots into additional stalks with smaller flowers on them. Drain all pigment from the one on the left, and make the one on the right similar to the middle but less dense (attempt to make it grey?).

>>128189
I believe the phenomenon described was that the nutrients being used by 6h792f are more similar to our bodies than what we grow in.

o 2010/02/08(Mon)16:16 No. 128201 ID: 45be60
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>>120966
All that jabbering out there is getting hard to ignore, so you decide you may as well start actually listening to what it has to say. Mostly seems to be a steady din of salutations bouncing back and forth.

Can I have a plant with a parabolic dish shaped leaf?

>>128193
Well, in that case I stop glowing.

>>128205
Is there such a plant? That might be a good starting point for doing stuff, but I don't know an example. Everything so far has at least *started* as a real flower of some kind.

Plant at the bottom right: You look kinda... flat. What kind of thing are you?

/questdis/ is pretty slow anyway, go for it! Suggestion 2010/02/08(Mon)16:40 No. 128232 ID: 4531bc
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>>128220
As much as I'd like a big saucer-shaped plant, the only ones I could find that would look similar are aeoniums, like aeonium undulatum, aeonium tabulaefoeme.

(pic unrelated)

o 2010/02/08(Mon)16:58 No. 128254 ID: 45be60
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>>128222
What? Oh, me? Nah dude, I can just sorta be any ol' shape. I kinda chillax wherever, try and get close to the light if I can. But like ddc400 said, ya can only get so close. The flat is just the closest I can get.

>>128232
>(pic unrelated)
Wait. I meant pic related. :|

>>128254
Looks like moss.
How do you reproduce? Do you know?

>>128264
I think it's algae. Some of the plants in the bottom row are suspended in water.

Mandrake: Develop screaming ability for whatever unlucky twit decided to try to pluck you from your home.

o 2010/02/09(Tue)19:25 No. 129017 ID: 45be60
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>>128190
You take a cue from that relaxed dude to your lower left and start messing with runner development. He even gives you some advice about root placement. Go teamwork? It isn't easy though, trying to juggle the demands of the growth and the glowing. Once these other two are finished and you are ready to bioluminesce them, that will probably require all of your concentration.
At least the extra food-like nutrients the glowing reaction produces make it easier to keep going. You briefly wonder what the other one might be good for. The strange glowing consciousness didn't seem to have a use for them, and just let them drift away.

My flower hasn't been pictured in a while. I'm going to try and make my bark visually appealing and/or easier to draw.

>>129017
Hmm. Try to create a container of some sort to hold the extra byproduct until it becomes useful somehow. If its release cannot be controlled, create a glowing bit inside an enclosed space. Use resources normally allocated to the main flower to produce this extra glowing bit for a while, to see what happens.

Understanding of this glowing sensation seems to be interesting. I should like to devote a small amount of energy to attempt to produce a small glowing portion -- on the inside of the flower make it out of underdeveloped petals which lack specific nutrients. My flower shall be the most distinctive -- each section with its own unique function, even if mundane!

o 2010/02/10(Wed)22:20 No. 129730 ID: 45be60
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Awright! Time to call Project: Bark complete. The stuff making up your core is now as sturdy as you can figure out how to make it, and coincidentally, almost exactly what 45be60 seems to be growing in. It would probably me much more efficient to burn through this sort of material to produce the glowing effects, if only it were not so vitally important to your continued survival. Ah well, maybe we can figure something out later, the leaves seem to work alright for now. Your lower pair is feeling a bit poor from your personal glow experiment, but they are probably still salvageable.

o 2010/02/10(Wed)23:16 No. 129749 ID: 45be60
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Well this will work. The other nutrient doesn't seem to come in a form you can just collect, but you can certainly trap it. It is a simple matter of internalizing the reaction in a space you can enclose. You may be a bit less pretty for now, but if this stuff turns out to be useful, it will be totally worth it.

You let the reaction go in a place within your core, and as it runs you feel a void begin to grow within you. It is much easier to figure out what it is when you can concentrate it this way, instead of trying to clutch at wisps. The substance does seem particularly nutritious, though you could work nearly ANYTHING into your structure if you really wanted to. What IS immediately obvious is that the nutrient does not take up a predetermined volume. With some effort, you can squeeze more into the same space. (that's science, kids!)

A quick test indicates that the stuff is pretty easy to react with, though it does not produce anything you don't have in abundance already. It makes moisture and the nutrient you have been expelling from your leaves as waste for as long as you can remember.

>>129730
Wait, who's 45be60?

>>129751

Hu-DURRRR thats my trip
meant 6h792f, the fungus.

>>129730
Okay, now that my bark is done, how about I focus more attention to my poor leaves and repair them?

Why is everyone around me glowing?

I'm the pretty one, people should be paying attention to me.

Look at them, they're atrophying, sacrificing their beauty of form for some flashy effect. I know how to make a REAL impression.

45be60! Give me the recipe for this hard substance of yours. I require it.

Turn all nutrients not needed for basic upkeep to a single mission, growing a hard unyielding extension of my body, just under of the soil. Expand in into a strong beam against the sides of my prison, then begin exerting pressure. GROW UNTIL OUR PRISON CRACKS, AND BEYOND.

He he. look at those fools, rushing to be the best. Don't they know that slow and steady wins the race?

>>129749
Huh. If we're eating oxygen and expelling carbon dioxide, then this new nutrient is Methane. Anyone wanna explode?

>>129910
Well, not necessarily methane. It could be ethane, acetylene, butane, propane, or some other flamable hydrocarbon. The important part is it looks like it follows the combustion formula. So yeah, boom. Lets do this thing!

>>130167
I'm certainly not going to go boom. If someone else does, they'd better hope I don't get caught in the explosion!

I'll go boom, for the good of the collective. I would like to grow some sort of hard bit from which I may grow again, however. Store nutrients and such inside it.

>>130173
Alright, here's what I was planning: Make a large, hard-shelled bulb and start glowing inside of it. Keep it up until the gas cannot be compressed anymore, then start a reaction. If the 'reaction' doesn't actually cause an explosion, then just keep glowing in there until the container bursts. Hopefully some shrapnel will break the cage.

Message from 34470e to 6h792f:
Você pode querer se preparar para o impacto. Não pode haver uma explosão acontecer perto de você a qualquer segundo.

o 2010/02/17(Wed)21:06 No. 133906 ID: 45be60
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>>130173
You decide to try something new, but to your surprise, when you attempt to return your focus to what you think of as yourself, you... cannot find it? Whatisgoingonhere??

>>133906
EH?! Quick, where's a map of the network?

o 2010/02/17(Wed)22:08 No. 133992 ID: 45be60
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>>133958
A ripple of panic spreads through the network, and everyone does a quick count. Fortunately, it seems like MOST of us are still here. Not ALL though...

Okay, okay. That's... Okay. Let's just wait and see if they come back.

>>133992
Are the glowy mushrooms damaged in any way?

o 2010/02/17(Wed)22:31 No. 134024 ID: 45be60
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>>130177
Slightly more nervous than you ever recall being, you start to implement your glow-reaction experiment. There is now a hint of urgency to your actions, as well as some slight apprehension. The other one who was thinking about trying this is gone now. So is that one who wanted to do something like this earlier.

I'll create a small, hard shelled object hidden in the nutrient that contains resources I can use to rebuild myself.

>> - Sample 4f8e95 has somehow gone to seed and produced a small fruit, despite containment protocol. Will need full dissection and lab workup to determine if there was a breech, or this is some form of self fertilization.

Oh noooo

>>133992
>>134230
oh bonk. im gone.

right when we had a small chance to make helium/hydrogen baloons =c

o 2010/02/21(Sun)18:57 No. 136904 ID: 45be60
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>>129854
Those fools, trying to be flashy to make up for their lack of true beauty, and toying with forces they cannot possibly understand. You will show them that you can best them at this task as well, using the only the tools you were meant to have.

...Unfortunately, this dense growth is very resource intensive. Though you do not know quite where the finish line is for the task the others are trying, you suspect they may well complete it before you.

While you are working, you idly wonder at the strange properties of the prison wall above you. Rather than the solid, unyielding walls, the top is covered with a tight grid of small holes which you have been able to grow through. However, just above this line, upward growth becomes impossible, though it is unclear why. Though you try everything you have learned, bracing against the surroundings, probing for openings, even reinforcing weak fibers for strength. And yet, whenever you reach to further altitudes, into what feels like open space, you find that you somehow gain no height.

o 2010/02/21(Sun)19:10 No. 136918 ID: 45be60
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>>134019
The strange glowy entity seems fine. In all the excitement, it seems to have simply pushed its own luminescent reaction into overdrive as well.

>>133906
>>136735
Strange, though the physical forms they were once bound to are no longer present, the consciousnesses which they produced continue to exist within the network, the focus of their attention drifting from one flower to the next just like the rest of you.

So, we're in the network.

>>136904
Grow out laterally. There is obviously a space between the part with the holes and the part that keeps you from going up anymore.

>>138291
if you really think of it, there must be a opening for air and nutrient recycling.

you should look with your roots for a grating or the likes of it under the dirt.

>>138305
Could be a tube or something I guess. But as long as we're being meta, remember that we're separated to prevent pollination.

45be60: Continue experiments.

Venus Flytrap: Become even more fangly.

o 2010/02/27(Sat)20:30 No. 139832 ID: 45be60
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Encouraged by the attention of others, you do a bit more exploration of the upper extremities of your prison. Over to the side, near the wall, you find a narrow region where you can sneak upward. You begin to spread outward into this new area, testing its walls.

Strange, there is a bit more downward pull than you are expec- OW! Gah! arglebable! Man, you really wish your limited realm of experience included some cuss words. Your container somehow pulled your new growth down and attacked you!

How shall we deal with this injustice, my fellows?

>>139832
Rip and tear!
Try the bark growth thing up there somewhere, see if you can break the narrower spaces easier, or jam the fansomehow for direct vengeance

Alternatively, find metallic ores in your soil and gather them into your upper extremity to fashion a magnet and disrupt the fan motor, if it is a fan.

Am I close to exploding yet?

>>139832
I suggest trying to crawl further up, and over the dangerous cutting device.

o 2010/03/08(Mon)20:48 No. 144014 ID: 45be60
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(sorry about the unusually long delay there. I was refusing to draw with a laptop touch pad.)

HAH! That showed the mean thing! It was no match for this hardened bark stuff. Well, okay, it was a little bit of a match, because it managed to slam halfway through the bark in a flurry of activity that was really too fast for you to process. But now it is held firm and has stopped struggling. After wrapping around your defeated foe in triumph, you are free to explore the upper reaches now.

Just above the evil thing is a hard wall which appears to be the source of the delicious warmth, though it is actually a bit uncomfortable at this close distance. And perhaps your enemy is not completely defeated yet, because getting too close to the center of the stopped bar yields a pain unlike anything you have felt before. It spikes through the entire length of your exploring arm, burning small bits of your structure to death all the way down. You quickly let the tendrils which grew too close rot away, and the pain stops, though the damage will have to be repaired. You shall use the time to consider how to deal with this new threat.

o 2010/03/08(Mon)21:02 No. 144025 ID: 45be60
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>>142402
You are unsure when you will have reached "enough," but at this point you are pretty sure you have reached "as much as you can do." The strain of compressing more of the nutrient into the space you have set aside is now enough that you can feel wisps seeping out through your walls. The sensation is not really very comfortable at all. Now would probably be the time to execute your cunning plan.

Now um... What were you going to do with all this again?

Have I repaired my damage yet? Hmm... I seem to be good at secreting nectar. Let's try something more difficult. I'm gonna try and secrete nectar through my leaves.

>>144025
Drat, the bark refuses to leak violently. I doubt that 'reacting' the nutrient will cause anything to happen, but this new development with the rotating bar gives me an idea.

Grow a vine from the pocket of gas, and climb it up to the rotating bar. Freeze it in place with bark... then touch the PAIN. Let's see how this painful force reacts with the gas.

o 2010/03/08(Mon)23:47 No. 144139 ID: 45be60
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>>144031

Simple enough for one skilled as you. The nectar flows slowly and thinly from both sides of your petals, seeping down to pool thicker at the base. If any potential pollinator ever DOES find her way to you, you are gonna have so much delicious nectar, she isn't gonna wanna mess with ANYBODY else.

Your leaves seem to have recovered nicely, with no permanent damage. You are glad you stopped before the rot was too thick for your nutrients to get through and repair things.

>>144139
Okay, now let's try secreting nectar through the LEAVES, not the petals. I said that last time.

o 2010/03/10(Wed)00:07 No. 144811 ID: 45be60
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>>144430
...Derp

...where am I? ...what am I? For that matter... what's an I? I guess I is me... Um... this is new...

>>145476
A new presence? Make yourself a flower, new guy!

Okay... let's see... Stem... check. Roots... check... leaves... check. Pistil... check. Stamen... stamen... OH GOD where are my stamen I should have stamen oh god they were right there a minute ago!

so do we just make a suggestion and assume we start as the base flower?
while i am aware of the other flowers that surround me, that i am i, and that a a warmth is above me, what is in the space between? from what the others have done it is something that stops growth. but what is it exactly? trying to fathom it is hard. perhaps something that will make me better able to fathom would be the ideal growth.

>>144811
Okay, onto something even more difficult: I'm going to try and absorb some of the nectar.

>>145490
You need to get more descriptive than that. What KIND of flower? Heck, it doesn't even really need to be a flower, apparently. You can make some other kind of plant.

I'm like... half the plant I used to be without my stamens, man...

...wait... do I hear voices? I think I hear voices. First I lose my stamens, then I start going weird? ...well... and this whole able to think on things. oh god... oh god. I've... I've got to get a hold of myself. Just sway in the breeze.. sway in the breeze... just... fuck. kinda hard to do that with no breeze. What the hell's goin' on, maaaaan... I gotta make somethin' to calm down. Something.. something..

(Oh, and just pick a random plant. I'm not picky.)

>>145527
YOU ARE NOW A CACTUS. With a flower on it.

o 2010/03/12(Fri)21:24 No. 146489 ID: 45be60
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>>145523
...maybe ..maybe grow some stamen? yeah.. that will help.. at least you don't feel like a freak any more... it's helping. There are still voices though. They seem to be getting worse actually.

>>146489
Eh, you'll get used to it eventually.

>>146489
Where are you? We are others like you. Reach out, and find us.

o 2010/03/12(Fri)22:24 No. 146526 ID: 45be60
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>>146506
>Where are you?

Right here.

>>145495
am i getting this one or should i try something different?

>>146530
I am currently trying to fathom growth that will make fathoming easier.

>>146489
That's better... but... how was I able to just... GROW new stamens? ... hmmm... can I grow... BETTER stamens? maybe I can make 'em longer. it'd be easier for passing insects to get on 'em. ...but... hmm... i wonder if it's possible to make 'em long enough to skip an insect carrying pollen and just drop a lot of pollen directly on other plants that might sprout closeby. ...but that might be too weird an idea for a plant like me.

Are those voices other plants, maybe? let's test...

Hello? Hello out there? um... are you plants? or bugs? or weird other animal critters?

Can you give a run-down of what's going on and why I'm having these weird thoughts and hearing you? I don't think I used to be able to think before.

>>147371
Just stop worrying about it and make yourself awesome. Though you'll never be as awesome as I am.

>>147371
We're plants! We don't know why we can talk now. We can reach out and connect to those near us, who can do the same to others, and so on. It's pretty neat!

Right now some of us are trying to explore outside our restrictive containers! It's exciting!

I wonder, am I close to touching the PAIN yet? I guess I'll try reacting the nutrient that I have ALL AT ONCE if I'm having trouble reaching up there.

oh god where am I

>>147378
You still don't have a plant. I guess you could try helping someone else modify theirs!

Or maybe just take over someone's inactive plant completely

>>147377
Oh fuck! I'm trapped?? How will I get to the bitches now?? hmm... guess those stamen might be kinda tricky to use, then... I'll have to get... creative.

>>147376
Pff... while you're busy being awesome, I'll be out pollinating all the flowers out there.

Hmm... if I'm trapped... I might need to make those stamen movable... but that can wait. Longer, bigger, better. Bitches will be all over these! ...or... bee-tches, if insects come into play. heheh.

...but wait. Why am I trying to break the container my plant is in? The plant is not me. If it leaves, I will not follow it. No... instead, I should try to let my mind escape.

I'm going to try to expand my consciousness somewhere the plants are not... In the direction of the warmth.

o 2010/03/14(Sun)15:43 No. 147583 ID: 45be60
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>>147378
...Oh, um... Hey guys. I uh, guess you can have your home back 445c48. I was looking at it, and then I was somewhere else, and couldn't find my way back. I've been trying get back to my spot and chill, but I didn't wanna just leave your stuff with a bunch of strangers to look after it. I tried not to mess anything up...

o 2010/03/14(Sun)18:43 No. 147643 ID: 45be60
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...What the wish-we-knew-a-cussword is he doing over there? Is 4f8e95 over there somewhere too?

...no, seems not.

>>147412
There doesn't seem to be anything you can perceive further up, beyond those entities you have already met. There are faint hints of the familiar sense of life somewhat further down, but they are quite small, and in any case, do not respond to questions directed their way. Beyond 445c48's new location, the line of entities strikes off in a new direction Its s corner of the room. I am not wasting time describing spacial reasoning as it comes up, and not trying to draw it in 3D Past this point, the entities become larger on the whole, and apparently less intelligent. They are slow to respond, and not nearly so eloquent in any event.

>>147583
Test if you can GROW more. Higher, Straighter.

You have disappeared. You must protect yourself! Create needles on your stem, which should be waxy and full of water. Thicken your stem and straighten up.

>>147583
So, we can follow our bodies after all! Very well, physical escape is still in the cards.

I have an idea. Can I try to eat the container itself? Perhaps try out a variety of digestive fluids on it.

I shall ask the new stupid things a question: "What are you?"

>>147776
That's my shtick.

>>147783
I'm trying to be the cactus.

once my fathomer is up and running i'm gonna pull off something crazy

o 2010/03/20(Sat)00:00 No. 149905 ID: 45be60
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Progress has been made. It seems like you have pretty much the same strange structure above you, hopefully it will behave the same way when you mess with it.

>>147778
But just as you are about to begin growing your own bark segment, you get another idea you want to pursue. But.. wary of following in the footsteps of the still missing Indecisive Tomatofern, you are unsure if you want to change plans before seeing this one through.

Fortunately all this recent chatter has given you an idea...

o 2010/03/20(Sat)00:05 No. 149910 ID: 45be60
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You reach out to the aggressively introverted one, who already HAS produced powerful digestive juices. You find the form empty of thought once more, though it still bears the marks of angry reprisal from the last time someone told it what to do. Nevertheless, you manage to put your second experiment in motion, and await the results eagerly.

445c48: BECOME MORE HUGE. Grow to match the size of your new container!
a64482: Explore further! Try above the rotating bar, and to either side of it.
f7bc42: Become very, very smelly. Use that stench to drive off anything that might trample you!

Nng! Grr! C'mon... longer stamens! ...maybe I can find a way to waggle 'em around, too. That'd impress the babes!

Hmmm.... Maybe I can like... I dunno... put capillaries in 'em and pump some moisture to move in that direction. That 'bend toward the light jazz is good and all, but that's just food, man. ... yeah... food. Maybe I should consider trying to get some more of that delicious light. Hm... bigger leaves too? ...or maybe just try and make my leaves better at getting the light? Dude... what do you guys think?

>>153564
>Nng! Grr! C'mon... longer stamens! ...maybe I can find a way to waggle 'em around, too. That'd impress the babes!
Ehm, stamens are a plant's girl parts.

>>153788
Don't judge.

no the stamen is the part with pollen, which is the planet equivalent of sperm.

>>153788
Nope. That's the pistil, dude. And my pistil's just fine. ...for now. I mean, if I got desperate enough... but yeah. That can wait.