Omni-Zerg quest.

[Weiss Deathwind]

"Omni-Zerg quest?" you say, your monocle raised swiftly. "What is this fanciful idea. more to the point, is it edible?"
you make a conscious decision to read more, your interest raised, and your cat purring nicely on your lap.


You quickly learn that this is a quest thread, in the vein of 4chan's own, but you never browsed 4chan. Your brother said it was for nerds once, after all. Why would you want to go there? best to hang out on your roleplay sites with all the other cool kids.

the instructions are simple, you find, and work much like a choose your adventure game. you are going to be given a scenario, and asked to guide the title protagonist in succeeding at his goals... or alternately, do your damnedest to create as much scatological humor as possible. you're given a lot of freedom here, you realize.

it appears that the clearest or most supported idea will generally be the one that's acted upon by the protagonist, and then moderated by the game master. After seeing that the game's headed by Weiss, your confidence in the quality of this quest degrades rapidly. Still, it seems to require no more investment than simply stating what you want, and then invoking mob mentality if someone tries to offer an inferior idea in place of your perfect plan. Surely, everyone will always wish to rally around your ideas, after all. You're a genius.



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What, my perfect 2nd-person narration didn't satisfy you? Well, I guess I better put it even simpler then. 

So, this thread will be used for the omni-zerg quest, somewhat in honor of the original. The rules are pretty simple: After the game master(That's me, Chillins') makes a post, everyone in the omniverse is capable of making a suggestion on what to do next. You're also able to ask questions to clarify the current situation(it's encouraged if you wish to make it past the first few days alive, really.) The rules in terms of what you can post?

Keep relatively on-topic. You're allowed to generally discuss the game or even discuss things related to... but keep the conversation focused on omni-zerg quest to some extent.
Suggestions on what we do next are bound by the rules of the Omniverse itself, and all the regular rules apply. So... don't be a jerk, is what I'm saying. at least to eachother.




Beyond that... go nuts.  ask to seduce the goliath. order a sculpture of Matt Damon's head to be made out of zealot corpses. I won't stop you.

This is a very informal game, meaning that actions will be tallied at random and varying times, depending on how my time management lends itself to the game.

if you don't want to leave your actions open to interpretation to the DM, make sure you do specify things.

Above all? Try to have fun.


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The New Cerebrate's awesome notepad to keep track of things:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-lTF...sp=sharing

[Weiss Deathwind]

“Awaken, my Child, and embrace the glory that is your birthright.

Know that I am the Overmind, the Eternal Will of the Swarm, and that you have been created to serve Me.

Behold that I shall set you amongst the greatest of My Cerebrates, that you might benefit from their wisdom and experience. Yet your purpose is unique. While they carry forth My Will to the innumerable Broods, your charge is yet undefined.

It has become apparent to Me that the drive of My Will has made the Swarm's actions predictable to My foes. You shall be left free to act as you will, so long as it does not conflict with My designs.

You need not fear death, for you are part of the Swarm. If ever your flesh should fail, that flesh shall be made anew. That is My covenant with all Cerebrates. Truly, no Zerg can stray from My Will, for all that you are lies wholly within Me.

Now go, My child, and confound those who would stand in our way!”

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The overmind provides you with a small hatchery, on a world situated on the outer ring of the terran confederacy. Several drones, a pair of overlords, and an extractor are all yours.
Several Larvae sit in front of your hatchery, awaiting orders to assume any zerg form you order them to mutate into..
A spawning pool is on it’s way to finish mutating.

You are hidden in a cave just underneath your primary… well, your only hive cluster. It is incredibly dark, but as you are naturally blind, this does not occur to you as a problem.

Currently, you know little of the area outside of your hive cluster. It occurs to you you will have to scout there, in some way.


What are your first actions?

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[Sans]

Have everyone run around in massive circles while squawking?

[Crocodile]

Zerg Swarm the Overmind!

[Erik Vrell]

SPAWN MORE OVERLORDS!

[Crocodile]

Construct additional Pylons!

[Weiss Deathwind]

>Have everyone run around in massive circles while squawking?

what, that's ridiculous! running around in circles is a complete waste of time and...

Well, looks like your psychic control isn't too good yet. The notion hung just strongly enough in your mind that your drones went on a little run from point a to... Point A, again. Your mineral income stagnated while this occurred, too.
Seriously, just look at this malarky!



on the bright side, your spawning pool finishes while you engage in this tomfoolery, so you can create zerglings now. Hopefully to do more with them than defining an abstract radius with clawmarks.


>Zerg swarm the overmind

You could never do that! no, really, you couldn't, even ignoring the undying respect you have for him, and your completely insufficient resources at the moment, it's sort of hard-coded into you genetically that you can't take direct action to hurt your dad. Looks like he planned ahead when he designed cerebrates.

[Erik Vrell]

Forget the Overmind. We need cash. Harvest some minerals.

[Weiss Deathwind]

>SPAWN MORE OVERLORDZ
that's... not a bad idea, actually. Your natural psychic abilities only go so far, and you're already almost at the limit of zerg you can control. you start building a couple overlords, and start on some drones too. You're getting a handle on this whole "hivemind" thing, which is pretty impressive given you're relatively sure you've only been alive a few minutes at this point.

you float one above each of your currently mutated buildings so far. it feels right for some reason.

>Construct additional Pylons!

Construct pylons... Construct pylons! Of course you should be constructing pylons! What are those probes doing! For mechanically built drones they seem to be very inefficient at building the necessary structures to warp in brave warriors from the home world and... wait a minute, what are you even thinking about? you decide to stop thinking about inane nonsense.
Still, something inside you seems to continue to be frustrated. Frustrated by a lack of large blue crystals.

[Crocodile]

I feel like we need more dakka. We will now make more dakka.

[ElFailzalot]

Heedlessly charge off into unknown darkness and/or territory to explore. Make map of findings. Affirm that nothing could possibly go wrong.

[Crocodile]

Change Adam's avatar to Colonel Sanders!



WITH MY MIIIIIIIIND!

[Amaterasu]

Send all Overlords out to scout the surrounding area. Do not engage, repeat, do NOT engage hostiles. Instead, poop Zerg creep on them so our future Zerglings can run around on top of them faster.

[Crocodile]

Conceive of a new system of governing for the Zerg race in which the Overmind is chosen by consensus of the drones, hydralisks, and other members of the hive, convince said underlings to choose myself, and thereby overthrow the current government for my own iron-fisted rule in which nothing will change except I'LL be the boss.

[Weiss Deathwind]

>forget the overmind, we need cash. Harvest some minerals.
You focus on mineral production first, building up a decent amount of cash while creating more drones while you're at it. you think it's up to... three dozen? At least?
Still, after thirty minutes, you have a respectable amount of minerals.



>I feel like we need more dakka. We will now make more dakka.

it occurs to you that right now your hive cluster is as vulnerable as a... Well, a blind, giant worm sitting in a cave.
you immediately send orders to create zerglings, and, realizing that while zerglings are perfectly choppy, they won't really suffice for Dakka. Immediately, you begin work on a hydralisk den, realizing they're the closest thing to dakka you can easily access right now.
Several dozen hydralisks easily sprout from your hive cluster, though you end up building a second hatchery to facilitate this.
You consider yourself well-defended, though this has eaten into your mineral surplus.


>Send all Overlords out to scout the surrounding area. Do not engage, repeat, do NOT engage hostiles. Instead, poop Zerg creep on them so our future Zerglings can run around on top of them faster.
>Heedlessly charge off into unknown darkness and/or territory to explore. Make map of findings. Affirm that nothing could possibly go wrong.
both of these ideas creep into your head. while you admit it puts your vulnerable overlords and fledgling army at risk, you decide to send both out.
You send both out, boredom creeping into your mind as you wait to see what they might discover...

>Conceive of a new system of governing for the Zerg race in which the Overmind is chosen by consensus of the drones, hydralisks, and other members of the hive, convince said underlings to choose myself, and thereby overthrow the current government for my own iron-fisted rule in which nothing will change except I'LL be the boss.

You Daydream about a society where the zerg are a democratic race, just like the terrans of old! Images of hydralisks on pedestals, votes made on purple, slimy paper, and debating down the overmind's "no killing the overmind" policy.
Just as you successfully win the point that "Okay, maybe we SHOULD give the mutalisks a bit more protective carapace", to the clapping... well, the cheering of thousand of zerg below you, with or without arms... 

you realize important information is passing by your several dozen pairs of eyes:


Immediately, you find a pair of mineral clusters to your west. You also find what looks like an impractically large metal box, the size of a siege tank, sitting in the wilderness.
The local fauna of this planet is noticeable, and the area is fairly temperate. a few roads immediately make you realize that there's a local terran presence here.


to the west, however, one of your zerglings only barely dodges into the bushes, about a kilometer away from your hive clusters position, as a terran jeep drives past, rushing down the road. It appears the terrans are far closer than you might like.

sadly, despite putting quite a bit of effort into it, not one of them comes close enough to appropriately poop creep onto the jeep. The loss of potential comedy for your childish, childish mind brings you close to depression.

This whole "hivemind" thing is getting difficult to keep track of, you realize, and it's likely to just get harder from here. You begin thinking of a way to track everything. perhaps on some mental notepad of sorts...

[Crocodile]

After seeing the Terrans' awesome vehicles, I decide that they are clearly the best race ever. They probably have shit like Netflix and computers and porn. I send a drone out with a message of peace and cooperation!

[Amaterasu]

Terrans! Flesh to corrupt, resources to be reaped, minds to be consumed into the Swarm!

Proceed to build Infestor pits (or whatever they are called) in order to infest their settlement in the near future and bolster our military forces! Meanwhile, call the Overlords back and have them empty their bowels around the base, so that our Zerglings may run faster. Also, mental note to self: wonder why our ground troops run faster on Overlord defecations. Maybe they want to leave the area as fast as possible? Or are they slipping and sliding on it?

[Erik Vrell]

Terrans! Flesh to corrupt, resources to be reaped, minds to be consumed into the Swarm!

Proceed to build Infestor pits (or whatever they are called) in order to infest their settlement in the near future and bolster our military forces! Meanwhile, call the Overlords back and have them empty their bowels around the base, so that our Zerglings may run faster. Also, mental note to self: wonder why our ground troops run faster on Overlord defecations. Maybe they want to leave the area as fast as possible? Or are they slipping and sliding on it?

I second this notion!

[Weiss Deathwind]

>Terrans! Flesh to corrupt, resources to be reaped, minds to be consumed into the Swarm!

Proceed to build Infestor pits (or whatever they are called) in order to infest their settlement in the near future and bolster our military forces! Meanwhile, call the Overlords back and have them empty their bowels around the base, so that our Zerglings may run faster. Also, mental note to self: wonder why our ground troops run faster on Overlord defecations. Maybe they want to leave the area as fast as possible? Or are they slipping and sliding on it?

You attempt to build infestation pits, but then realize this is not a zerg structure you've ever heard of. You also realize that our zerglings don't actually seem to run much faster on creep than off... though even as you think of this, you wonder if this fact couldn't be changed with the right modifications...

(To note these zerg date back to starcraft 1. You've got access to the regular SC toolbox of zerglings, hydralisks, and mutalisks, but things like roaches and infestors don't exist yet).
you realize thinking about things you may or may not be able to create with your current DNA reserves is a waste of time and add a list of things you're relatively sure you can create with your notepad here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-lTF...sp=sharing

Even so, you are relatively sure that if you alter conditions just right, and allow the zerg virus to incubate, you could slowly convert the terrans. alternately, you suppose there's no harm in capturing them and infesting them in this manner... perhaps you could experiment on them to learn further ways to modify the terran genome...

[Crocodile]

I curse myself for not wanting to ally with the humans to destroy the lame-ass Protoss. Pylons are for suckers! /pylonenvy

If I can't be friends with the Terrans, then I'll just make my OWN Terrans! With blackjack! And hookers!