Alter Ego: Troll Edition [Still Technically Alpha Grub]

[EnigmaticD]

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This is inspired by Alter Ego, my favorite weird browser game thing. Basically, this is a life simulator game. I'll just type the thing up.

You're in a warm, wet, dark place, and you're just sitting here, curled up, carefree.
Soon, however, the space you're in grows stifling, and breathing becomes more difficult. You open your eyes. You're floating in a case of sludge, the area around you still too dim to see. You don't know it yet, but the color you're seeing will define your place in life.

What color is it, exactly?

[Eonart]

>Pink

[OrangeAipom]

> i'm color blidn stutid

[Calamity]

>Hot pink.

[Bat in a Suit]

Hell yes.

Hell fucking yes. Alter Ego was one of my favorite games.

>Aqua

Edit: Or slate blue.

[EnigmaticD]

You are not only extremely high on the hemospectrum, but you are also pretty much off the hemospectrum due to your freakish bright blood.
You are immediately squished by a drone in the caverns, programmed by the Condesce to stamp out the competition.

Try again?

[Calamity]

>Main Menu.

[Calamity]

Derp.

>Try Again.

>Teal.

[Bat in a Suit]

Fastest ending ever.

>Repeating my derpedit, slate-blue

[Eonart]

> Navy Blue

[EnigmaticD]

You end up on the slightly greener side of azure. You may be nobility, but here in the spawning caverns, that doesn't mean anything at all. In fact, that means that death might come a bit faster.

Getting off the subject of death and its application to you, not that you can really tell, but what gender are you? And how are your horns looking?

[Bat in a Suit]

>You're turning out to be male, and your horns resemble what some unknown, non-existent alien species might call ibex horns.

[Calamity]

>You're turning out to be male, and your horns resemble what some unknown, non-existent alien species might call ibex horns.

Sounds good to me.

[Vincshad]

>You're turning out to be male, and your horns resemble what some unknown, non-existent alien species might call ibex horns.

Seconded!

[Reecer6]

>You're turning out to be male, and your horns resemble what some unknown, non-existent alien species might call ibex horns.

Seconded!

Thirded, except the horns are all up in your face.

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OH MAN ALTER EGO! It was pretty fun when I downloaded that free version but it never saved my progress and I never took any risks!

[lexeous]

>You're turning out to be male, and your horns resemble what some unknown, non-existent alien species might call ibex horns.

Seconded!

Thirded, except the horns are in your face.

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OH MAN ALTER EGO! It was pretty fun when I downloaded that free version but it never saved my progress and I never took any risks!

fourthed if they somehow extend from your chin

[EnigmaticD]

You are a male, for all of the distinction that that's worth in a society made up of effectively genderless individuals, but since you are a grub, you cannot quite comprehend the vast size and breadth of troll society, especially since you aren't part of it yet. Your horns are the horns of a mountain-dwelling capracine hoofbeast, but since you have not even been born yet, you don't know what that means. All you know is that these horn things are growing out the back of your head, and running parallel on each side of your face.

Now that we have blood and other basic biological information down, do you want to see if you have any mutations, or do you just want to bust out of this warm, fluid-filled prison you're in?

[lexeous]

DRAMATICALLY BUST OUT OF YOUR PRISON AND STRIKE A POSE

[Reecer6]

>Look at yourself to find that you are nearly made of mutations

[Vincshad]

>Find out if you have any mutations to bust out with

[Calamity]

>Burst out of prison like "the one".

[Bat in a Suit]

> bust out with your awesome not-going-to-get-you-culled-though-because-we-don't-want-another-game-over mutation

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I prefer losing Alter Ego in the "I'm a stupid teen" stage 8D

[EnigmaticD]

You decide to contemplate whatever mutations you have, and how they may help you out of the place you're in. As you are a highblood, there are restrictions to your mutations:
If they're psionic powers, they have to be subtle, geared less towards things like blowing stuff up and more towards mind control, or clairvoyance, whatever those terms mean to your tiny fetal grub mind. Any physical mutations also tend to be somewhat more subtle. Tentacles erupting from your body, or a third eye appearing on your head, those things are more for rustbloods.
With that in mind, how is your DNA all twisted up?

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In Alter Ego, the later stages just break my heart. The baseball ending? All of my tears.

[DarcDiscordia]

Psychometry, the ability to psychically "read" objects. Handling an object can give you a sense of the materials it's made of, the last person to use it, any flaws or defects in it, and so on.

[Bat in a Suit]

Psychometry, the ability to psychically "read" objects. Handling an object can give you a sense of the materials it's made of, the last person to use it, any flaws or defects in it, and so on.

This.