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As I suffered during exam season, specifically when I read my genetics textbook I kept thinking about how badly I would like to do a blind genetics playthrough of Niche. And now that my exams are finally over (since friday!!) I can finally do it! Time to try out the Whims of Fate for myself! Here are all the rules again, just in case someone needs a refresher (or, if I abandon this playthrough and return to it in a few weeks/months/year so future me can catch up): Blind Gene mode is on For each generation a tribe leader is picked and a number is rolled from 2-20. Throughout the tribe leader's life, that is the maximum number of nichelings allowed in the tribe. When the leader dies a new leader is picked and the tribe size is rerolled. If it is smaller than before, nichelings must be banished to reach the correct amount. Upon reaching a new island, a random number is rolled to determine which port the tribe may use is they wish to leave the island. No other ports may be used. Every Nicheling gets one mutation randomly assigned by this generator: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/214535915/

During the night Frakivi and Zeeerzur pass away. A new leader must be chosen - who will it be?

Here's a version with less intense fog

@YourLocalStranger I got a little experimental with this one, I hope you don't mind (If you do want something changed, just let me know!)

Frakivi has given birth to a son named Arrah. When Zeeerzur comes to congratulate her, he gently plays with the newborn.

To everyone's shock, Ithlurlee passes away during the night. Eluthna grieves her mate, and Babhelrin is distraught over the loss of her father. Dradeiith doesn't speak much the whole day, and when she sees Obtu and Nifra standing close together, purring, she gets upset.

Obtu sits next to Nifra and begins purring. Niva isn't used to being this close to someone else, has the tribe has stayed away from her due to her sickness since she can remember. When night falls she moves away from Obtu, hoping he won't get sick.

Ithlurlee and Dradeiith have been talking a lot, and Dradeiith's belly appears to be growing.

Babhelrin meets a stranger named Obtu. She invites him into the tribe when he tells her that he is a healer. His random mutation is tiny pattern.

Eluthna and Babhelrin go hunting together, while Ithlurlee and Dradeiith reminisce about their old tribe together. Frakivi and Zeerzur picks berries.

But for now, it is time to settle in.

The tribe finds themselves on a small, much warmer island. The port that they will use to travel on is the middle one...

Time to travel on!

Eluthna has found it! Out comes Dradeiith. The god's must like her, for her random mutation is armored body, the extinct gene she herself carries.

Ithlurlee wishes to break the ice block that the tribe has seen standing somewhere around here before the snow. However, finding it is a tough task.

Eluthna joins the tribe! Her random mutation is green eyes. She gets along very well with Zeeerzur and the two decide to start a family. Ithlurlee and Frakivi have made the same decision a while back.

The tribe is close to the port now. But with food gathering going the way it is now, they are unsure about whether they should already leave or not. And then a stranger appers!

On day four it begins to snow. The tribe travels on, still gathering some food as they go. There is a long way left...

We are progressing slowly, but getting a good amount of food. It is important that the tribe's food stores are well filled when the snow begins to fall.

While the leeches are a good food source, they are also distracting. Zeeerzur is already quite cold, which is not ideal for the journey we are about to undertake. Time for us to crack open that ice block! Our new addition to the tribe is Ithlurlee. His random mutation is brown horns. With him, the tribe is big enough so that everyone stays warm as night falls.

First course of action is to get food, while also getting closer to this suspicious ice block! Frakivi jumps into the water so she can get some food using her snout. While she does this, a leech gets to her. Luckily we have Zeeerzur around to help her. The leeches are almost lining up for us! I'm glad about every piece of food we can get.

Frakivi will be out first leader, with a tribe size of 15. I don't think we'll be able to reach that number this soon, but we'll see!

Here are our two starters: Frakivi, whose random mutation is short snout: And Zeeerzur, whose random mutation is black pattern:

Lost my original thread so I made a new one

Mind: maybe I should go to the swamp the smoke nichling seems scary anyway

Ewwwww Old thing

RAAAAAAAGH HUGE BUMPEROO WAKE UP FROM YOUR LONG SLUMBERS EVRYONE THIS RP SHALL BE DORMANT NO MORE

Sharp ran after the sound until the Nervous Brother was in view. "Thank goodness we found you. Now let's get back to the group." He started making his way back towards the smoke-scarred one and the new nicheling.

Cool! I want seven hundred and twenty four games made by next week /j

This is testinganimal Testinganimal does not speak, but he is favorite. be like testinganimal

THE GUY!

the horror

(You may want to get @Ghost-tuft's permission before rping as this character. It kinda defeats the point to have someone who keeps all their memories here, but on the flip side having a ghost-like creature that can travel in and out of this realm may add something lore-wise.)

rainworld is mr beast 🤯🤯🤯🤯

Nervous brother heard a noise in the distance, and then another, that had to be someone! But as they got ready to head that way they heard another sound from the other direction. Another one? How many are out here in the fog? Or was it the same call, bouncing around, appearing to come from many places at once. The second call seemed more distant. Was there a way to get to both of these others calling out into the fog? An idea suddenly occurred in their mind, so the nervous brother called out to both, "I'm here!" they yelled as loud as they could muster, "Come this way!"

This looks cool so far! Just asking, you don't mind if I react to all your posts? If you do I'll stop lol, I don't want to annoy you

Frakivi announces that she is pregnant once again. The tribe is surprised, as she and Ithlurlee seem to have been distant since Nifra's birth.

Okay, here we are! It doesn't seem so bad- let's zoom out a bit That is one big island. Now, not to be pessimistic or anything but I will be rolling a random number generator in order to see which of the two available ports we can use to leave. I count clockwise and start with the port our nichelings arrived on, so the port to the left is number one and the one to the right is number two. Naturally the random number generator chose number two for us to take.

OMG thank you! This is so cool! I want nothing changed lol this is perfection.

I needed another rootitoot. I got two of them.

I have no idea if you are still doing theses, its ok if you arent, but here's Koko, the bubbliest most happy-go-lucky raccoon fish creature you will ever meet.

so you basically just went to earth again and made a new earth with purple ooze and wrong placement

UEHUEHUEHEUHEUHEUE I LOVE IT TYSM!!!!!!!!!!!

save me a spot 🔫

Drew your scrunkly scrimblo Pale Pale (there’s no shortening of Pale lmao)

I knew I'd have a Sleeping at Last phase eventually ever since hearing Saturn some years ago and it seems to finally be happening. I was listening to Venus and after connecting the lyrics to Guiding's (unrevealed) story I got inspired by the image on this lyric video and just had to draw her like this

Rabbil Burrow, the youngest of Woodland, had adventured out a bit too far once the group started moving. She could hear her family calling her back, but something had urged her to keep moving. When she came across a hill, crawling full of bugs, she grew strangely curious. She’d poke at it, but quickly drew back when some bugs came towards her paw. She blinked, before giving an odd smile. “I like you guys! Wanna be friends?” She’d ask, only for the termites to skitter back to their spots in line. “You’re silly little guys! Here, I’ll help you find some leaves in the morning!” Once she said that, she got to getting comfy within the tall grass, and eventually went to sleep next to the termite mound.