#brick the bulborb

[bulborb-nasa]

hhihihihhihiihh

ihauave a abaabyay nnoww

mittiosids

@ghoopp-pposstign

That’s cool

…wait what

[bulborb-nasa]

Grub it’s ok we’re here to protect you and help you

I HAVE A CAKE FOR YOU AND ALSO A LICENSE TO KILL PEOPLE MEAN TO GRUB

Thank you brick

[lunasilverpelt]

Loud Speaker, Cupcake, Lil Helper and uh. Brick.

I've never drawn a bulborb before let alone a bulbmin

@catboybeebop

[amalgam-posting]

Hi, I’m Brick from @bulborb-nasa

We’re currently dealing with some really unexplainable stuff but we think you might be the key to figuring it all out due to your unique nature as. “Hybrid”/“Fusion”. Long story short, we’ve found virtual Pikmin in a computer.

We are calling them Glitchmin due to their erratic behavior when unsupervised and their generally virus-like tendencies. Thing is, they physically glitch out all the time. There might be a link here between their behavior and origin and your origin, possibly leading to a cure for either them, you, or both. …only if you want a cure, of course.

If you want to be a part of the research, feel free to let us know. If not, no worries. Have a good day :) -Brick

(Attached to the note is a sap-roasted Pikpik carrot, likely as an incentive or bribe. It smells good)

errrrrm…,,,immnot ,sure . , hhouw am i. relatded to giultchmin?????

wwqait. ok. ithuink,,itll be good danddory, so y- ISTHAT A . PIKPIK CAROUT???

[cronch munch crunch!]

yeagh i’ull help

[bulborb-nasa]

Where am I now

YO IS THAT JENNY HEY HOMEGIRL!

hungry

[frustrationinexcelsis]

So, here’s an idea I had for a Pikmin game that, let’s be honest here, is never going to be made -- a Pikmin city/settlement-management sim.

The basic pitch is that the core premise is much the same as usual for the series, but Hocotate Freight/Olimar/the Koppaites/whoever decided that with how often people have to head off to PNF-404 they might as well make a permanent base of operations. Thus, rather than flying off every night, you and the Onions bunker down in a small cavern, creating some sort of gate across the entrance -- perhaps closing it off with a slab of stone or brick or something.

The gameplay would work out the same as usual for the most part, with you controlling squads of pikmin to send off on various tasks, building bridges, clearing roads and gathering resources. Each night, you need to retreat to base; every pikmin caught outside when the doors close is lost as a casualty. However, within the base, work would continue all night long. You would also control much more than a hundred pikmin, and would be able to delegate much larger groups to tasks as a result.

Your general goal would be to increase the size and complexity of your base, which you could accomplish by setting squads of pikmin to dig tunnels and chambers and create walls and structures within it. Over time, you might even establish secondary bases, perhaps fully independent or connected to yours by tunnels.

You would need resources for all this, and have various means of gathering them -- stone would be obtained by digging, wood harvested from trees by day or tree roots underground, crystal from shattering glass walls or crystal clusters. You could find metal by digging very deep down (and could also add additional levels to your base), but there would also be subterranean beasts whose nests you would risk running into when doing so.

Enemies and beasts would also yield resources; mostly they’d be corpses to bring back to make more pikmin, but some could provide more exotic things. Things like joustmites could be harvested for their shells or needle-like probosces, to make buildings or weapons with; armored enemies could give crystal; biomechanical enemies like the man-at-legs could yield metal or even pieces of technology that you could use to upgrade structures in your base.

You could also build things outside. Roads and bridges are obvious enough, but you could also create traps for wildlife to harvest in the morning for meat or farm fields of berries or pellet posies. All these things would remain unattended each night, however, and would risk being trampled or damaged by wild creatures unless you create special structures to lure them away or keep them out.

Another fun idea could be domestication -- something inspired by Brittany’s comment in Pikmin 3 about riding dwarf bulborbs. Most animals would remain purely dangerous predators, but a select few could be captured alive -- perhaps through specialized traps -- and trained or domesticated. Dwarf bulborbs as mounts do sound fun -- perhaps they could be ridden by captains or used as beasts of burden and to pull things around; I imagine they’d be stronger than pikmin are and could carry heavier burdens. Another idea might be penning sheargrubs (probably the swarming kind, since the males of the regular strain are too dangerous), getting them to breed as using them like pigs as a steady source of food.

Of course, all these creatures would need sustenance aside from the Onions, and would need to be fed on nectar or corpses.

The end goal’s a bit fuzzy, but I imagine the idea would be to eventually create a thriving settlement (for a necessarily arbitrary definition of “thriving”), perhaps even one the pikmin would be shown to have learned to keep running on their own once you inevitably have to go back home.

Like I said, this is likely never going to happen, but I think it sounds like a fun way to reinterpret Pikmin’s core gameplay concepts (strategy, time management, resource gathering) with a new twist.

[lunasilverpelt]

@catboybeebop YOU FUCKER!!!! (Joke)

YOU KNOW HOW YOU SAID THAT THING ABOUT FAKE PEPP AND YELLOW PIKMIN SO UH 1. PIZZA TOWER IS MY CURRENT HYPERFIX, 2. PIKMIN IS MY #1 CHILDHOOD INTEREST SO YKNOW WHAT. PIK-TOWER. THAT'S RIGHT.

I'M TURNING ALL THOSE JOLLY FUCKS INTO PICK MEN I'M TRYNA AVOID REUSING TYPES BUT IK I'LL HAVE TO BUT WHATEVVZZ PEPP + FAKE PEPP: YELLOW (BC WHAT U SAID ORIGINALLY) NOISE: WHITE (HAHA SMALL. ALSO QUICK AND TOXIC ASF) NOISETTE: PINK/WINGED (I think it's cute. Lol.) GUS: BLUE (WHY NAUT?) BRICK: BULBORB OR LIKE BREADBUG OR SOMETHIN IDK. MAYBE A BULBMIN. (LARGER THAN PICKET FENCE MAN) MR STICK: RED (THE FUCKIN SCHNOZ!!!!) IDK ABOUT PEPPERMAN VIGILANTE OR SNICK BUT AUGH!!!

Here's the part we wonder about Pizzaface/head. Ok so hear me out.

Plasm Wraith. Think about it. It chases you around through the area and makes fake copies of enemies to block your path before finally fighting you with its true(?) form in the final fight. ARE YOU HEARING ME OUT

GOD this stuff is so good Oh yea also instead of saying "IT'S PIZZA TIME!" it says "It's nearly sundown!" or whatev idk

[bulborb-nasa]

Scrapped Experiment 26:

“Throw Tim into a Glowing Wormhole”

Reason for experiment:

“To see what would happen” -Chief Blorp

Reason for scrapping:

“We’d miss Tim :(“-Brick

“Fucking OBVIOUSLY NO.”-Bluke

Lack of Glowing Wormholes

Arrival of a robot Bulborb Larva calling itself the “Timinator” demanding that Chief Blorp abandon the project after proceeding despite being scrapped behind Bulborb NASA’s back

Note:

How he still has his job is beyond me. -Bluke

[bulborb-nasa]

…thank you. …I needed that.

I’m not… feeling good, but… I am feeling better.

…now I really want to keep you safe. I don’t want Blorp launching you off the planet just because he’s mad.

(Noises of running running scuttling scampering)

hwat was that noise

[bulborb-nasa]

Digitim, if you’re seeing this, how would you feel about using Brick’s anime Bulborb larva OC as a temporary model until we can code you a better one? Apparently Brick was preparing to be a Vtuber on the side and has a rig of a really muscular Bulborb Larva you could use.

(For the record I think this is a bad idea)

[bulborb-nasa]

bulborb breakdance?

Doing my little dance

-Brick

[bulborb-nasa]

Yes!!!!!!! Brick!!!!!!!!!!!

So sayeth I, Brick the Bulborb:

Brick :)

[bulborb-nasa]

…I think I see something!

…oh, hey Brick

Hi boss :)

Have you seen my friend/possible kid?

Uhhhh? No?????

…my hero sense went off so I ran this way, now I’m looking for Goop :(

I mean you sure saved the day.

…what’s that up ahead?

I thingks we're fclose.,.i thinks cory dad fells over here! [Grub is still sitting on Blorps back, the bulborbs are looking around the woods not that far from bulborb village. A small clearing seems to be up ahead.]

[bulborb-nasa]

what types of bulborbs are you

I (Bluke) am a regular Bulborb, my boss is a Bulbear, Brick is a Hairy Bulborb, and Bulbalina is a Frosty Bulborb.

…do we have more staff?

[bulborb-nasa]

🧱

BRIMK!!!

-Brick the Bulborb, Rock(et) Scientist(?)

[bulborb-nasa]

(It seems our hero’s work isn’t done! Brick! Awaaaaayyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!)

…hey, little one? Do you happen to know a blue-haired space person?

gwaggg hegllo Blorps! - @grub-posting

Good morning :)

How are you feeling?