Notail Simulator Beta (4/4)

You set up a game plan and get to work.

Fortuna rolls a 20 sided die. A 9 is rolled.

First you start working on your endurance. As an E-class you're already naturally pretty defensive to the elements, but you need to be able to endure more if you're going to be able to survive the woods. You're training has a lot of ups and downs, a little more downs than ups, but as you are strong you tough it out and gain a bit more endurance. You also gain a bit of skills in exploration, skills you would have become a pro at had you swarmed like everyone else but better late than never.

Fortuna rolls a 20 sided die. A 16 is rolled.

Your training of midnight has been going amazingly. Midnight is now a full grown adult male gwech, and yet is the envy of every other gwech owner in the village. He's bigger than a normal gwech, and because he's a wild gwech he's stronger. No one thought you could control a wild male because they're aggressive loners who only ever meet up with other gweches to fight for mating rights, and yet yours is a lovable pal to you.

You decide to see if you can train your faces the same way you trained Midnight. You toss a stick on the floor after separating the faces from floating around you. You point at it and tell them "Attack!"

Fortuna rolls a 20 sided die. A 1 is rolled.

But Midnight accidentally misinterprets this as an attack command and leaps up at the faces. You didn't know he could jump so high.

He grabs one of the faces and tosses it about. He uses his tusks to dig into it. You run over to Midnight and pull him back while telling him to stop. He stops and starts licking your arm, wondering if you're yelling because you got hurt and need your wound cleaned.

The face is covered in cracks and barely keeps itself together. It can no longer float and the other two faces keep their distance, scared of Midnight now. You scoop up the injured face and run to the only people you know who are anomaly pros hoping they could help.

Fortuna rolls a 20 sided die. A 6 is rolled.

But as they pick at 1/3rd of your new face capture creature, it dies. Well, breaks apart you don't know if faces can die. The other two faces seem to hover around their broken pal who anomalously crumbles into dust without any intervention. The other faces go back to following you but now they seem scared of you and fairly untrusting.

"Well we tried. ;)"
"I guess a bunch of anomaly hunters aren't the best people to try and save an anomaly huh! >:)"

They laugh off the event but you yell at them due to being [Easily Agitated]. They slink off for the day.

Fortuna rolls a 20 sided die. A 7 is rolled.

You don't listen as well when your tutors try to help. Maybe it's because you feel like they didn't try hard enough to save your face, or maybe it's because you're tired of them prodding you with questions. They try hard to teach you though. They go the extra mile because you won't. You're the only anomaly they know who can talk an they refused to let you go unless you do something terrible.

You get a bit smarter this year, now you're up to 5 year old level.

It's nearly the end of the year and you have yet learned to swarm. The swarms before you seem so natural, the E, K, and Q-classes know just that right steps to take and while the other classes are poor swarmers even they're doing better than you. Notail swarms just look like giant groups of notails moving about or standing still, it's hard to figure out what swarms are around and what type they are until you put your antennas to work, and that's when the part that's the hardest to you comes into play.

Noise. So much noise.

Notails tossing their thoughts back and forth, leaders asking their swarm to emit certain signals makes a break in some of the noise. You stand back, just getting use to the noise. You watch the natural formation and breaking of swarms as notails join one swarm only to find another they would enjoy more. You listen to notails pinging swarms back and forth checking if the swarm has room for them.

It's a complex system and all the noise overwhelms you, but you have to learn.

Fortuna rolls a 20 sided die. A 14 is rolled.

You go forward and announce using your antennas that you're seeking a swarm. You get a lot of pings back checking who you are. It's overwhelming just like you thought it would be, but you're determined to do this. You announce who you are to everyone who pings. Most of the smaller swarms instantly reject you, they know who you are and don't want to work with you, but after a lot of tiring work, you get 3 swarms who react at least neutrally to your existence.


The first swarm was a large group of E-classes going on a week long camping trip with minimal supplies. They wished to learn better teamwork skills, as well as survival skills in general. They were composed mostly of 8 and 9 year olds who were surely training to get ready to go into the woods.


The second swarm had a leader who....how do you put this....didn't have the clearest of signals, they appeared to be going to...pick and learn about woodland plants? The group was made of 7 to 9 year olds, oddly half the group was made of Z-classes, while the rest was a mixture with a fair bit of E-classes in there. The leader of the group was a Z-class who had the strangest signals. You just got into swarming but you could already tell he was a little off.

The final swarm was going to capture beasts. You were surprised when you saw who was leading the group. They were taller and stronger than you, you could easily see that. You wondered how many snacks she must have stolen from the ration area, until you noticed she was an adult. You've never seen an adult who wasn't an M-class before, not counting the bus driver who brought you here or the scary pastor, and this adult was a V-class. The group was made of mostly younger kids, but there were a few 8 year olds in there. Half the group was made of V and Z-classes, while the rest was a mix with a slight leaning on E-classes.