#perhaps its bcs ive been actually talking with people

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RP:

Log 233

FTL: Progress has been made, now all I need to do is wait. I highly doubt that this'll work, though I do hold my hopes that it will. I do not have many other ideas, and I'd rather not ask for help from those who know about purposed organisms. Not from a matter of pride, but from a matter of wanting to figure this out on my own. Which I suppose could be interpreted as pride, but that is not the case.

FTL: I've released the lizard in the aforementioned barren area near me after attempting a few modifications to its instincts. More territorial, more driven to explore and expand its territory. I also modified it to be a more efficient herbivore than carnivore, though it does remain an omnivore. It does not lack any of the defences that it would have normally had, so it should be capable of defending itself from any other lizards or creatures that attack it.

FTL: My one uncertainty in regards as to the fashion in which I released it was that perhaps it was too young. It is likely that such a young lizard would be unable to properly survive, but it very well could. They're adaptable, and green lizards do not often raise their young, I believe. So it should be fine, it's not all that different from how it naturally is.

FTL: As I said, all I have left to do now is wait. See if it ends up travelling, finding poleplants, and returning with some. Considering lizards' tendencies to bring food back to their main territory, I'm sure this will occur.

FTL: It keeps hitting me how absurdly convoluted this plan it. If only I were capable of producing normal purposed organisms, this could all be so much easier-. That is irrelevant though. I am doing what I can with what I have, and this will not be all that important in the long run. If this succeeds, it'll ensure the potential for many, many experiments. And even this roundabout way of creating purposed organisms is, at the very least, something. Even if I'll be incapable of utilising the knowledge of such overcomplicated plans in everything but the most specific situations.

FTL: Perhaps I should, at some point, ask LIFEGIVER how proper purposed organisms are created. The knowledge will be useful, if irrelevant to my main task.

FTL: The waiting for this all to play out will be rather boring. I will be thinking of ideas for future experiments, perhaps putting some into action. I'll have to think about it.

FTL: Maybe with this time I now have, I have no excuse to not talk to Echoes of a Paradox. Maybe.

FTL: Either way, this'll be a long wait. Of course the only thing that works results in such a dreadfully boring end. I'll be using this time the best I can, though. Even if that is to stop avoiding conversations that I have indeed been avoiding. Hm. We'll see.