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[mcpop9]

Ish wanted to test out its new tree wings. it ran as fast as it could on four legs and leaped into the air, only to fall. ish tried this a few more times before getting the hang of it.
Ish is finally in the air, soaring in between threes before the slime hits one.
it fell to the ground and layed there for a short bit in something it hadn't experienced this way: pain.

The slime eventually got up and started to wander around until it found one of the slimes it had previously encountered.

 

[ChasetheDreamer]

If Bleak thought it could get a little rest with these little itchy crawlies under it, it was wrong. Unless.... The uncurled creature stretched its slimy under body as much as it could and slammed it down on all the crawling organisms under it. While feeling the familiar effects of absorbing living things, Bleak started to relax again, until it was assaulted with flashing lights and images and symbols of strange, but somehow familiar organisms. Small crawling things, a dark creature with small orbs at the top of its body next to a sharp member that opened and closed, a massive creature with hard looking appendages coming out the smaller part in front of its body as well as flashes of other things Bleak couldn't identify. The now frightened spherical being curled into itself in an attempt to shield itself from the images. The attempt failed as Bleak was subjected to not only the flashes but the strange vibrations throughout its body. Then without warning, Pain in the highest degree. Anguish beyond even the time Bleak absorbed the small things that made it hurt before. This pain was more significant. Bleak knew that this pain was changing it into something new.
Small, soft, pitch black and hollow shafts sprouted out Bleak's shell and across its whole body. Along with this new growth, the shell split down the middle, opened outward and extended. Bleak knew this growth was because of the dead, nasty organism it absorbed before, the one with the sharp mouth. The real pain didn't come from that. The most unpleasant sensation came from the two hard outgrowths in the front of Bleak's filmy underside. Will they ever stop growing?! The pain reached a peak and abruptly ceased. Bleak uncurled, relaxed all its limbs and knew no more.

 

[Viirin]

@Saarg: This part of the hole was even more circular than the big one it just left. But also different, was that it kind of aimed up at a slight angle, only really going up after awhile. In the far distance, light came from above.

@Bosque: Ouch! The slime found the creature, whatever it was, that was in the hole with it, in the most efficient way- by getting its rear end bitten. The slime's screams let it know where and about how big the creature was, but without being able to receive most of the bounces, it couldn't get good definition.

@Ish: The durable looking creature that had rammed it for whatever reason earlier was standing next to some destroyed looking invisible skin-like stuff. For some reason, the invisible skin looked much cleaner than similar stuff nearby. Maybe it was interacted with recently? Either way, the other creature seemed interested, or at least looking in a different direction at something. The trail from earlier was there, if that's what the creature was looking at.

@Bleak: The slime was absolutely famished, so hungry in fact that it had nearly lost its sense of self. It had to satiate itself with anything, regardless of what it was, and it had to do it now! It was next to a huge organic of some kind, that would have to do.

 

[nuba km]

the slime started following the trail on the ground, it kept looking up and down making sure that the creature it who's trail it was following didn't see, from the foot prints it is clear that the animal is bigger then the slime.

 

[Khedive Rex]

Bosque lunged forward and pulled his way out of the creature's grasp. A slight tear served to remind Bosque of his foolishness.

He came to the edge of the subterranean hovel and turned to face the creature. He could feel it coming forward, chasing him. All the fear of being hunted, stored since the great whiskered jumper took his head returned in a single cold wave. Bosque reached forward with his tail, glowing stick held at the ready. A sharp push swated his weapon away and somthing large impacted with his chest.

He was pinned. Something was trying to eat him and it wouldn't settle for his head this time. Bosque struggled but the jaw of the thing was too strong, a vicelock keeping him in place. Bosque didn't know what to do. A scream of fear more than agony escaped his jaw.

The creature recoiled in surprise. Bosque did much the same. The noise, he must have been right next to the creature's ear when the scream escaped. Bosque screamed once more, testing. The creature lunged and this time Bosque ducked out of the way. He felt it fly right over his head and impact the earthern wall behind. It stunned the creature for a moment, but whatever it was it wouldn't stop.

Bosque called wildly, trying to find his glowing staff. He couldn't hear. He couldn't concentrate. It was so small in such a small area he couldn't feel the vibrations. But he did feel the creature stir behind him, not yet up but shaking awake. Bosque circled the hovel once more, desperate for any kind of weapon. He needed his glowstaff!

A strange warm feeling came from the top of his form, where his head used to be. He felt like something was ... growing there. Not a full form but two fleshy sticks on either side of his gaping neck. They wrestled out of him and stood in the cold night air. And suddenly the vibrations were so much clearer. Bosque didn't know why or how but he could feel everything in the room, in such stunning detail. The exact boundaries of his this hovel, the shape of the creature now lumbering to stand, the position of his glowstick, it was as though he'd grown nerves that existed without the covering of his body. These two sticks felt all change.

The creature moved and this time Bosque felt no fear. It knew where the thing's head was. It knew where the glow stick rested. In a single sweep of its tail Bosque seized it's weapon once more, held it aloft, and waited. The creature paused. It moved slightly to the left, circling Bosque what little it could. Was there hesitation there? Or was it merely toying with the intruder it knew to be blind in the darkness? Either way, it amused Bosqeu to know he'd left such an impression.

A minute of waiting seemed to last for days before the creature snapped his viscious jaw once and leapt once more at Bosque. The little monster didn't move. He didn't have to. He could feel exactly where the creature was in air and where its open mouth could be found. And with sage-like calm he wedged the glowstaff right into it's gaping jaw, pinning the creature open and helpless. It smashed into the wall behind Bosque open-mouthed. The moment it did Bosque wrapped his needled tail around the thinnest softest portion of the creature's head and pulled until the connection was quite tight. He felt the blood of the thing come rushing into him and he felt the creature's desperate struggle to capture breath shaking him. And when the creature could ceased to move the air, Bosque felt that as well. But most of all, he felt pride, perhaps glory. He'd been an intruder in a strange and foreign climb and there he'd bested a warrior fighting in his own element. Bosque felt truely unbeatable. And fortunately now, he also felt less hungry. The fleshy spires had taken something out of him. But this creature was putting it all back.

Bosque rested and ate. He'd won himself a hiding place.

Spoiler: Explained

Bosque grew some antenae even though he didn't have a head. My understanding of antanae is that they work much like whiskers, they're hyper-sensitive to vibration but don't actually contribute to hearing. So I didn't describe Bosque as having the ability to hear (he'll need to grow some ears for that) but I did have him increase the sensitivity of his echolocation. Enough to wedge the creature (Whatever it was although I'll say I really hope it was a possum. I don't know that they live in holes but I really hope they do.) ... 's mouth open with his glow stick and strangle the thing with his tail. Now he's just eating.

 

[Shanaar]

Hurt, Hurt, Why was everything hurting Arq so much and to make matters worse, he was on his back. How did that happened Arq thought and what was that thing poking him in his side. Arq could feel that it was inorganic, but since when where there inorganic hurt things? How was that even possible? Thus far all the hurt things where organic and they where taken care off. How could Arq make something inorganic stop?

Thinking this, Arq maneged to get back on to his feet some how. Looking around, Arq spotted the inorganic hurt thing. But more importantly, he seamed to be stuck in some kind of hole off the small inorganic things. Maybe Arq could use his legs to dig him self out of it, but first there was that inorganic hurt thing. Thinking how he could punish it for hurting him, Arq remembered he had done something similar before. Thinking he could use it again, Arq attacked the hurt thing.

 

[InkBlot Royalist]

Saarg was tired of crawling through dark, dingy tunnels. The light up ahead looked somehow...inviting. Besides, The Terror was lurking down here somewhere and the slime had no intention of hanging around to meet it! At least, not yet...
The slight angle of the new tunnel would undoubtedly make climbing difficult, but Saarg hoped the tiny, grasping hairs in its limbs would permit it to scale the tunnel more easily.

 

[mcpop9]

Ish started to follow the other slime out of curiosity. after a bit, ish got bored and took to the air, circling around the other slime to look for danger.

 

[Viirin]

@Wrecker: The slime followed the trail of footprints, flying safely overhead, just in case the animal might still be nearby, but there was no trace of it. The trail winded around, seemingly random. Then it started going uphill, and after awhile, it stopped at a big, wide, black kind of dirt with two yellow lines going down its middle. Where this striped black ground started and where it ended it couldn't tell, it seemed to go forever.

@Ish: The creature that made the footprints was nowhere to be seen, but the bulky flying creature the slime was following was clearly visible. It seemed the other flying creature had difficulty flying, and it could tell why. It was way too bulky and its body couldn't glide along the air like Ish could; but it could still fly. Kind of. Eventually they came to a black ground that looked very different, and it had two yellow lines going down its middle. The animal trail seemed to stop there, but as the slime circled, it saw where the trail picked up again. Had the other creature noticed? Perhaps it should let it know somehow.

@Saarg: The hairs gave the slime just enough grip on the semi-rough surface to climb the uphill slope. Once it reached the top, it wasn't an exit yet but it did see it. It also saw that the tunnel evened out again, with the light-filled exit parallel. Maybe the smell wasn't sweet, but the air coming from outside smelled much better. A small drip of liquid dripped down from outside, right at the corner of the exit.

@Bosque: The creature was long, and both smooth and cold to the touch. Draining it before absorbing what it could with the small amount of itself that was still slime was taking a long time, but it was in no danger, so it didn't really matter. After awhile the slime could tell it had learned what there was to learn from this thing, and continuing to consume it would make itself grow bigger since it didn't need any more mass to heal or make up for growing.

@Ravager: The slime was on its last amount of conscious energy, but saw a strangely shaped creature somewhat smaller than itself flail around, then stop moving. At least some of it stopped moving. Had it noticed the slime? Somehow.. the slime felt kindred to whatever this thing was. Something else like it was?

@Arq: Biting the inorganic thing that poked him, or he fell into, the slime got a very cold blast of air from the thing! The slime jumped back, startled. But the cold air feeling in its mouth started to spread. What was going on here? The feeling wasn't just cold, it felt like wherever it spread, the slime froze. It couldn't even move the freezing parts of its body! Even worse, the slime saw another creature... no, this was a slime! Another one! But this slime hadn't changed its body much at all, and was bigger than Arq. It... no, it didn't notice Arq. Or did it? Was it asleep?

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The other punk came back slammed the front door again on the way back in, and ran up the stairs and into the bedroom.
"Open the cage!"
The guarding punk turned to his friend, saw what was in his hand, and did as he was told despite usually being the one in control.
The punk threw the ant-covered dead garden lizards [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Garden_Skink] into the cage with the... small iguana?
"You think the slime can resurrect those things too?" asked the punk as he closed the cage.
"Why not? It brought your iguana [http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2V0OkPnSMlE/TXLRd5NPIcI/AAAAAAAAFuQ/GIirUAGShIQ/s1600/iguana%2B4.jpg] back to life. Don't know why its smaller, though. Or where the spider webs are."
"Or why the ground coconut bark substrate has a big indent in it, like it's gone or something."
"Hey, let's go get some food."
The punks left the slime unattended, in the closed aquarium.

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The janitor was ready for another long day of work, but his first job of his afternoons was as a landscaper. Getting into his truck, he made sure the vial he still thought was some sort of cleaning acid was resting safely with his cleaning chemicals and gardening fertilizers.
Arriving at work, he sat in front of a small flower garden, and opened the vial as well as other things, and began to aerate the soil with his trowel. The slime got out and started to absorb some of the marigold [http://images.flowers.vg/1024x768/marigold.jpg] flowers that the janitor had taken off the plants, as the removed flowers had died. The vial, being tipped over, was noticed after a short time, only because of the janitor wiping the sweat from his forehead.
Shocked, he scooped the slime back up into the vial and stood it back up, making sure it couldn't be knocked over again.

 

[InkBlot Royalist]

The smell of the air was...new. It litteraly smelt new! Saarg greedily advanced towards the exit. It felt strangely optimistic about whatever lay ahead. He'd been living in a dark, cramped, dingy space since as far as he could remember, but now, with the pleasant air and light ahead, maybe things would be different! Maybe he'd finally find a place where he could eat and grow in peace, and nothing would try and eat him for it!

 

[Headsprouter]

Ravager lathargically moved it's body towards this other creature, like itself. When within range, ravaged extended itself enough to lightly tap this familiar shape. This tap was followed by two more flicks, whipping at the air above this new food. Or fiend, alternatively.

 

[Viirin]

@Saarg: As it emerged from the long rectangular hole, the slime noticed the ground didn't feel any different than the ground in the subterranean passages. It wasn't wet though. Out of the corner of its right eye, it saw something. It was big and brown and somewhat flimsy-looking. It was a perfect cube.. or it would be if it wasn't for one side being split in half, and the halves open. Something inside the cube moved. Something else moved, too. It.. was just as thin as the green things that were stuck on the hard thing it had eaten before, but instead it was white.

 

[Shanaar]

Wait, what was happening? This was a completely new feeling for Arq. It felt weird and the feeling was spreading slowly. But the thing that scared Arq was that he couldn't move the parts that feeling had spread from. They felt stuck some how. Trying to get those parts unstuck, Arq noticed something. A strange thing was standing at the top of the hole Arq was in and it was moving something towards him.

Arq felt him self get hit by the thing on top and afterwards getting hit twice again by the same thing. Just what was that thing thinking, hitting Arq like that. When he finally would get out of the hole, he would hit the thing back. But first he would need to get the stuck parts unstuck.

 

[Viirin]

@Ravager: The other creature didn't look it, but it was extremely cold to the touch, and didn't seem capable of moving. The last flick it gave the other creature felt warmer than the other times it touched it. Was it always this cold? Wait, what was going on?! Ravager started to feel cold, now, too! The cold feeling forced the slime to be unable to move; wherever the cold feeling spread, it felt cold and was immobilized. If the other creature was anything like the slime, maybe the same thing was happening.

@Arq: The whole of the slime was frozen and stuck now, but the cold started wearing off, returning the slime to normal temperature. As he.. thawed, he started to regain a small amount of stiff movement. The thawing started at the same point the freezing began; right where the inorganic pokey breathed at him. Arq was still mostly frozen, but could move his head at least.

 

[mcpop9]

Ish flew over to the other creature and tapped its wing on it. ish then flew down to where the trail resumed and circled above it.

 

[Khedive Rex]

Bosque felt himself swell. The creature caused him to grow larger. He wondered what there was to do with all the energy he had acquired. And he decided there was exactly one thing he wanted back in all the world. Bosque's body began to contort, a single bubble forming at his top. The bubble rolled and bent and soon form grew from it. His eyes returned in burning holes that were far less unpleasent now. His antennae shifted position, starting at the back of the base of his neck and curving forward to silhouette his head, stoping just below where a chin might be. He was whole again, his world exploded with color and sound and he could see and hear it all.

Bosque finished feeding on the creature and wormed his way outside. It was harder now than it was before, the tunnels had shrunk or he had grown, but he found his way to the great wide blue again. And he once more erupted into the sky.

 

[Viirin]

@Bosque: The slime frustratingly wiggled itself out of the hole, but seeing forward and up the brown inorganics, there was something high up, very high up. It hadn't noticed the thing with its sound bounces since it didn't look up that far, but since the slime was aimed that way as it escaped the underground area, it could see it with its eyes just fine. Whatever it was, it was oddly shaped and had small things flying clumsily around it, but some of the clumsy things were walking on it, coming out of it, or going inside it, too. There seemed to be quite a few of these small orange and yellow things, but since they were so much smaller they probably weren't dangerous [http://whim.nordquist.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/wasp.jpg].

 

[Shanaar]

What is happening? Where the thoughts of Arq as more parts of him became stuck and cold. How is this happening to him? Was the last thought of Arq before becoming fully frozen.

Slowly Arq started to feel sensation returning to him. He could move his thing in his mouth slowly. Slowly Arq could feel that the thing in his mouth started to move more quickly and he also felt that he could with difficultly move his mouth and he started to see things again.

Arq was frightened by this. How could something do this to him. Having no feeling was so ever and being stuck in one place was a experience that Arq would try to avoid for the rest of his life. Life.......? Did that mean that he would some day just stop? Thinking back to his more earlier moments, Arq noticed that it had stopped the life from other organic things in his hunger. Was this how life was meant to be? Stop life of others and take there organic matter? Wasn't there another meaning to life than that?

Regaining some movement in his neck, Arq noticed that the other slime was still on the top of the hole. But there was something weird happening to it. Maybe the same thing was happening to it to. Arq decide to see what this slime wanted as soon as he was out of this hole. It was still going to hit the slime back for hitting him.

 

[InkBlot Royalist]

What a peculiar shape! The simple oddness of the thing's appearance drew Saarg closer, intrigued by the straight lines and equal sides. Also, Saarg now knew that if it moved, it was organic, so with any luck Saarg would soon be consuming something new! Looking forward to its first meal in this new area, Saarg advanced slowly, still a little unsteady on his new legs. Saarg hoped that sooner or later it would get used to them, as the slime would undoubtedly meet new predators in this area.

 

[Viirin]

@Saarg: As the slime moved around to get a better look inside the tan cube, it saw something it didn't expect. What it might have expected it didn't know, but not this. Four small furry animals [http://www.fridaydesign.com/images/thoughts/baby-kittens-cats-feline-tabby-cats.jpg] of some kind were laying in a small bunch, half climbing on each other, half being climbed on by the others. The animals kept making this noise. "Mew" is all they seemed to be able to do. They kept doing it. The creatures looked clumsy, like they weren't fully grown, just like Saarg's clumsy footing.