pathogen idea:

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name: cancer
small round pathogen,which starts with a beruficator and a drill
cancer evolves much faster(somewhere around 20%-50%)
cancer has no form evolutions,instead every second mutation is "stem cell"
bassicaly,stemm cell is a small segment with inner and outer slots which you can atach to your pathogen where you want it to be.
for example,if you have a round cancer from start,and choose L bar shaped stem cell,you can atach it to it,and now your shape is L bar atached to a circle

so whole idea of cancer is that you get to customise his shape

cancer also can "demutate" at shops,which removes one of his stem cells,but gives cores and dna

also,with each added segment the hitbox grows

stem cells are atached to outer slots

stem cells sometimes have outer/inner organelles in them which can not be removed

example

the "demutate" option exists so you wont accidently make cancer so fat it cant fit through tunnels

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stem cells also sometimes have slot modifications

the shape of stem cells can be random

but they always have around 2-4 outer slots and 1-3 inner

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you can attach them how you want

and theoretically have no limit to how big is your pathogen

[vestal vortex]

Ooh i kinda like that. A modular character.

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not sure how its symmetry gonna work

[halcyon dawn]

it could have symmetry around each stem cell

or perhaps none at all

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none at all sounds logical

though it makes it bassicaly spore 2.0

though cancer does turn around

what about starters?
drill sounds kinda strong

also,stem cells you get at first are just bland circle with one inner and two outer,but with each evolution they become more complex

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also,maybe getting one stem cell after every second mutation a bit too much?

[quasi pecan]

What if when you evolve it spawns a minion

like a duplication

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okay you guys thinkj it should be round from start or more squared

[empty notch]

wait did i just created the pathogen that's already exist? But hey at least its a bit different

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what

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uh so

this is amoeba

turns out

[midnight flax]

wait thats sick

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YAY

[stiff gazelle]

sounds like amoeba to me

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well this was before amoeba