Back to the MC's point of view for awhile, it should be getting more exciting now too! Slowly but surely, just like grass!
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Stupid, stupid, stupid. If he was a regular piece of grass he should be dead by now and groveling at my feet to remove his memories from being eaten alive. Stuuuuuupid. Uggh.
How even is grass supposed to be able to use titles and abilities, it should all be instinct. Stupid. I wish I could alter the flow of this world more, the most I can do is make someone trip or something once a year.
Oh wait, wasn’t there a crazy girl I was looking at earlier, the one who reacted to the changing of fate the first time?
There we are. ‘whistle’ she’s got some power in her. She’s basically immortal already, scary. Looks like she’s about to finish a ritual to burn the city to the ground in Demonic Phoenix Fire.
Wait, I can use this!!!! Hya hya hya hya.
First, I’ll give a slight tug on her fate from the grass so that she realizes he’s alive, which should startle her and cause the magic to go haywire, and hopefully influence the peaceful glade.
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She’s not stopping. She’s not stopping. Come on, come on. I definitely see that you can tell, but HURRY UP AND STOP!!! If you kill the humans, my other possibilities of having them kill him become far harder. Don’t give me more work to do!!!!
Uggh, I did it. I had to use my small influence for the year and cause her to trip a certain way in the magic formation to throw the power towards the grass-man. That should make the monsters move around and increase human activity towards that area.
Pheew, I’m a genius!!!! Hya hya hya, but seriously, fuck that grass-man for making me waste this influence.
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Finally, I finished regenerating my leaf! Right before daylight! It took 2 growth points, all that I had saved up, and took a little more than 12 hours to completely feel whole to me. At about 1.5 points I felt that the leaf could perform its function, like everything was there, but it was missing something. So I kept pumping energy into the area until it wouldn’t let me anymore. My guess is that either the structure of the leaf needed some more reinforcement, or that I needed to finish regenerating the waxy layer on my leaf to prevent water loss and resist outside contagions. Good data, so overall if I regenerate at night, I only have a deficit of 1 growth point to regenerate. However, if I try to regenerate a leaf during the day, instead of losing 1 point overall, I could lose up to 13 points during the day.
I feel the sun coming up, time to plunge into an orgasmic bliss without losing my mind. First let’s just turn off reflection modification for today, and see how it goes.
10 seconds in, I’m doing fine. It’s like walking out of an over air conditioned office into a nice warm breeze. I just want to stretch my leaves towards that pleasant sun and let everything go. But of course I’m not, I’m a scientist! I’ve lived my life inside in the lighting of fluorescent lighting! My life was dedicated to resisting that temptation!
30 seconds in. I feel like I’m a little tipsy, like a nice buzzing is going on in my head. Last time I got any drunker than this, I had that fling with Leah, and that just caused all sorts of trouble in the long run. But I just have to remember, don’t grow.
32 seconds in. What was I doing again? Growing? No, not growing. Don’t grow.
33 seconds in. Captain’s log. Feeling good. How much longer do I have to do this? It’s like getting blue balls, I just want it to end, but in a good way. Holding onto consciousness is getting more and more difficult.
1 minute in. I’ve reached nirvana. I am at peace. I just need to separate my mind, half to feeling bliss, half to remembering to not grow.
5 minutes in. Ok, redistributing my mind. The other side, bliss, is becoming much too demanding. Plus it should be fine, 5% reserved to resisting should be enough.
10 minutes in. DON’T GROW
1 hour in. don’t grow
3 hours in. don’t grow
6 hours in. please help Rose
8 hours in. almost there, come on. resist
12 hours done. That was the most terrifying and the most amazing thing I’ve ever gone through. Somehow I made it through with only growing one more leaf, so now my status should be awesome!
[td colspan="3"] [Destined to Die], [Reincarnator], [Martyr], [Boundless], [Late Bloomer], [One of Many] [Eaten Alive] [/td]
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Name:---Age:3 DaysGender:♂/♀Level:2Class:Plant SageRace:Bermuda GrassHP:2/2Mana:0/0Growth Points:30Growth Rate:0.25 pts/hourStrength:1Vitality:3Agility:1Intelligence:116Roots:2 (+0.1 pts/hour)Leaves:3Titles:Abilities:
There we go, I’m rich baby!!!! Now that it’s night, I should invest these points wisely. First off, I don’t think roots will mess with me that much in the form of making me stick out more, so let’s make that 5 roots. This way, if my leaves get eaten and I don’t have any more points, I should be able to recuperate overnight with a .55 points/hour regeneration rate. It looks like I took some damage during the day and regenerated the damage, I’m short a whole 8 points from theoretical maximum. I’ll need to think up another defense, or at least perfect the one I have, reflection modification.
If I just stay like this, I’ll become a point bank! It seems like I can just stay like this without doing anything else, as long as I can maintain my 2-3 leaves I should be ok. But I hate being blind!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I’m being deprived of learning new things, I want to be able to see dangers coming towards me and to react!!! I want to learn to survive!
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If this world is like a fantasy, with abilities or something, and that mana stat isn’t there just for show, there has to be mana floating around here. But how do I sense it, it’s nothing like I’ve ever done before. I imagine if it’s like radiation, it would be impossible for me to detect it.
Let’s meditate or something, see if I can feel anything.
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Uggh, over an hour and nothing. Maybe I lack the ability to sense mana, being grass and all. But it has to be there!!!!! If not, then I don’t want to live anymore…. Not, it’ll just make this whole thing more boring for me. What’s the point of coming to a fantasy world if I can’t even use magic?
I MUST have it. Fuck. This. Whole. Thing. Be. Fucking. Easier. Damnit.
If I can’t do this, then I’ll have to just take it. The grass beside me must have the ability, or at least the capability to sense mana or use it. Give it to me, let’s see if this link ability of grow will grant my desire! Link to my nearest brethren hahahahahaha!
Go, Link!!
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I’m feeling something, like there’s somebody right next to me. But that’s it. Wait, it’s draining me, it’s sucking the life from me! What the heck does link do?
[td colspan="2"]Active: Connect to the nearest plant via a root or vine if appropriate. Passive: Balances growth points between the two plants. [/td]
Shit!!! Fuck!!!! Quickly, what did plants do back on Earth? In parasitic species, they only siphon, but that could be explained by the opposite of what’s happening to me. The tree has a lot of growth points, but the creeper vine doesn’t have many. I basically gave the grass beside me the ability to steal from me. Since we’re both so small, and the same size, the transfer must be really fast if we liken the ratio of size to the speed of transfer of energy. Crap crap crap, trees defend themselves from these type of attacks by either creating a toxin against the other species, or by killing off the limb. I can’t create a toxin to kill them, because it’ll kill me too! I really don’t want to lose my only link to the chance at mana, plus I don’t know how to kill off a part of myself that’s not already damaged/dead. This type of link doesn’t actually damage my cells, it only allows each other’s cells to be next to each other, the flow of nutrients in-between the cells get shared.
Let’s see if genetic mutation can help me here! Can I stop this energy drain?
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Genetic Mutation – Parasitic Resistance (35)
Greatly reduces the energy drain from parasitic organisms. Also reduces the chances of them successfully infecting you. Passive.
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Genetic Mutation – Plant Control (50)
Gives the ability to control other plants linked to through the transmission of chemicals. Passive.
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Genetic Mutation – Self-Mutilation (100)
Gives the ability to selectively and accurately damage yourself. Consumes growth points to use.
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Genetic Mutation – Plant Assimilation (100)
Gives the ability to absorb and control another plant. Consumes growth points to use.
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Damn, if I thought of this just a few minutes before I randomly activated link I would be fine, or at least better off than I am now. I only have 30 growth points left. Come on, I know this. What are the mechanisms behind these three mechanisms?
Passive parasitic resistances are thicker waxy cuticles, bark, and harder cell walls. The actives are cell suicide and pathogen-degrading enzymes. Making those enzymes will cost a lot though, and won’t help me very much here. Cell suicide I understand explicitly, it just involves the destruction of organelles via large vacuoles before the nucleus is destroyed. It’s just one of the ways of self-mutilation, but it could definitely work for me right now, and that’s what’s important!
What is the cost for cell death?
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Genetic Mutation – Cell-Death* (15)
Gives the ability to selectively cause your cells to self-destruct.
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Gotta buy it quick! Or learn it, however it works!
Go cells in that root connecting us, self-destruct!!!!!!!!!!
Owwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww, fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck that hurt. Felt like I had a finger chopped off, which almost happened before. Won’t fuck around with carving again, they said if you stick with something you’ll get better at it, bullshit. The more I tried the deeper I cut myself.
My energy level is stable for now, but damn that hurt. Before I do that again, I need to up my own defenses, or learn how to control other plants or to assimilate them. I still want to be able to see mana, so my first objective, before trying to tame these eggs on my leaf, shall be to absorb the grass next to me that stole all of my growth points! No more spending points until I can absolutely dominate that free-loading grass beside me!
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