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[Viirin]

@Sevak: By absorbing these things, the slime had an idea how to copy a little bit of each. The hard things inside the fluffy were understood now, and the structure of them could be copied, but the hard thing that had hit the slime earlier evaded it. It did know how to copy the.. wooden plate on the top of the thing. The bright light from above stayed the same, but the noise nearby went away.

@Saarg: The thing didn't move. A different sound came from another part of the huge room- the sound of metal vibrating loudly was the best the slime could understand. Whatever it was, it made some of the animals stop making noise. It sounded again. The rest of the animals were quiet. A third time, and its sound was easy to hear, but still gave no clues what it was. It didn't sound again.

 

[Headsprouter]

Ravager began to secrete a liquid with the same kind of properties from what he had just eaten. It was sticky and came from a newly formed barrel-shaped gland at the bottom of his mouth. It didn't taste like anything, however. It was like sticky saliva. He swallowed it down. And felt just a sense of loss from it's production. Ravager tensed himself and opened his mouth wide. By moving some sort of muscle in his gland he shot out the liquid a few feet away. Ravager hopped over and inspected the liquid again. Realising that this liquid had a purpose that was not use as sustenance, he hopped off, dexterously with his strong rear limbs, the liquid bubbling out of the sides of his mouth.

 

[Dragonhatchling]

Spoiler: Sorry I haven't been on

School has me bogged down with homework (i'm up till 2am doing this from 3pm when I get home... nearly every night and the exams are annoying me... Marching Band decided to have practice all this week for the upcoming trip. Speaking of which: Marching Band is going to Disney from the 15th to the 21st so I definitely won't be on then unless we somehow have internet (which I doubt they will allow it... it's kinda a 'school trip' so obviously internet for fun is not allowed... but if we do, I'll be on at least once a night if I'm able (and not so tired that I can't read or type). I'm really trying to get on more Virrin... really I am.

Sevak moved toward another hardround inside the fluffy as it secretly searched for more of the odd round objects that had been thrown before. Those puzzled the slime more than anything at the moment. It knew they hurt. It knew they could be thrown... or flew. It knew they were round and hard like what it was currently eating, yet it wasn't the same. Not close to being the same it seemed. Possibly it was.
Another of the odd object was found nearby, lodged inside the bushlike tree [http://www.manzanitatech.com/manzanita.jpg] (you gave me that picture) that had protected the creature from the onslought of chattering and throwing. Now how would it get up there? The slime looked around a little, noticing a few more were lodged up there still higher, yet near enough to be able to see. There was nothing in back of it aside from ground and some fur. It didn't care about the ground anymore though, it wanted the object stuck up high.
To combat this, Sevak moved toward the thick center, trying to figure out if it could climb up or not.

 

[Viirin]

@Ravager: The dry, hot air picked up, spraying a light sprinkling of sand all over the slime. Nothing organic and nothing interesting in this stuff, unfortunately. The air blew from behind the slime, but in front of the slime, the ground rose up gently, but to a far height. The ground didn't seem as grainy there, but looked like much bigger clumps of inorganic; some of them making areas under them that the light didn't touch.

@Sevak: The bush's surface was too smooth, and the slime found it couldn't slide up it at all, and trying just made it slide off again. The twigs holding the wooden round thing was not very high up, in comparison to the slime's size. The slime noticed something else- small red circles near the round thing the slime was interested in. These seemed attached to the bush, though...

 

[Dragonhatchling]

Realizing that no matter how many times it tried to climb up the bush, it wasn't going to get anywhere, Sevak stopped. It wasn't quite sure how to completely get the odd red circles, though a few branches seemed low enough around the wooden round thing that it might provide insight on the new objects. The slime made its way over to the lower branches, ramming its 'head' into them just to see what would happen. The wooden round thing moved in response, getting lodged again a little lower after flying up in the air. Considering the options, the slime didn't ram the branches again and instead tried to reach one of the little red circles in hopes of possibly loosing both the odd circular objects.

 

[Viirin]

@Sevak: Attacking the branches of the bush made it shake slightly; the thicker the branch, the less it moved. The red circular things remained out of the slime's reach, but the hard round thing moved. Apparently it hadn't stopped moving, it only slowed down and lost its balance and tumbled through the rest of the twigs until it fell on the ground. Something else moved in a different direction, a layer of random junk shifted and revealed the layer underneath.

 

[InkBlot Royalist]

saarg was perplexed by the strange, unnatural noise. He had never heard its like before! Still, if it could silence these creatures, maybe it was some kind of Alpha predator. Saarg could feel the hairs on his limbs he'd taken from the poisonous eight legged things tingle between his scales. He was too heavy to move on walls like that creature could, but they would at least augment his grip. Saarg began looking for an ambush location. He needed to get higher. But first...
saarg had no idea what the thing he was close to was, but it was probably edible. Saarg shot his head forwards in an attempt to take a bite from...whatever it was.

 

[Dragonhatchling]

Spoiler

Won't be on much this week... even though that's probably not going to make a difference because I haven't been on much since school started... it likes to eat my freetime and I'm trying to change that...

Sevak noticed the odd round thing as it fell, being somewhat startled by the other movement that happened nearby. The slime was interested in the motion, though it was slightly more interested in the wooden round object. The slime moved over to the wooden object, grasping it in its mouth before letting it sit inside there as the slime's attention was turned back to the second movement. Whatever had caused the second movement had lifted a layer of stuff the slime couldn't name, revealing a similar layer underneath.

 

[Viirin]

Spoiler: March 6

Mass Effect 3 comes out! I'm going to be at the midnight release to pick up my pre-order. Very very excited... Oh, I also made a facebook page for Azure Wyrm, and here's the link [https://www.facebook.com/pages/Azure-Wyrm/243704349049339].

@Saarg: *CLANG!* Saarg chipped a few teeth on the thing he thought was food. It had four legs, but was apparently inorganic. It was heavy, too! The force of the blow knocked the thing backwards, making it lean against the wall. The slime's mouth hurt. Wherever that flying creature went, Saarg didn't know since it escaped when the slime's vision blurred when smacking its head.

@Sevak: There didn't seem to be any new smells coming from the underlayer, but the slime could see new colors revealed, and odd shapes it hadn't seen before. There were at least a half dozen invisible skin things here and there, and one of them seemed to have what looked like dark dirt inside. A very dirty colorful thingy that looked soft and furry was half revealed a short distance from it, and some sort of wide cylinder that had an opening on one side rolled a short distance.

 

[InkBlot Royalist]

Spoiler

Apologies I've been out for a while, but now I return!

Saarg wobbled as his vision spun. The room around him charged closer then blurred and retreated. Saarg took a few moments to steady itself, and used some precious energy to heal and where necassary, re-grow teeth. If the slime understood what curses were, it would certainly be raining them down on the flying thing.
Shaking his head one final time, Saarg abandoned his attempt to set an ambush, this area was simply too strange and the surfaces too steep to scale with its new armour and weight. The slime instead turned its attention to the vibrating metal that it had been hoping to attack in the first place, then set off in its general direction, eyeing the rows of silent animals with contempt.

 

[Viirin]

Spoiler: lateness

I saw the post earlier, but couldn't think of what to write.

@Saarg: Something strange seemed to be happening outside the room, near the large force field in the wall near the inorganic thing Saarg slammed into. The animals all seemed transfixed on whatever it was, and the slime could feel danger approaching. Whatever it was, it would probably be a bad idea to be seen by it. A huge light turned on outside, and started scanning the room.

 

[InkBlot Royalist]

Spoiler

No worries man, in retrospect it wasn't a very helpful post, sorry! I'll try and be a bit more specific in future!

Saarg looked furiously around for a hiding place. The light scanned the ground before it, sweeping around the walls and floor. Saarg looked at the small gaps beneath the rows of...shields, but quickly realised it had no hope of hiding there. The way back didn't seem an option, so saarg concluded, the only way was onwards. Saarg waited for the light to pass up a wall, and bolted across the floor. The suuden opness terrified Saarg, it felt momentarily exposed, then it was behind a row of shields. The light shot across the floor, dashing across the ground like a sentient puddle, and stopped just infront of the corner saarg had just rounded. The slime frozen, and waited, unmoving. After a few seconds the light moved again, but this time it was accompanied by loud thumps. Saarg risked a glance around the corner.
The creature holding the ray of light was...collosal. It was just about as tall as the underground Beast was long. It moved with startaling speed and co-ordination, towering up on its hind legs. A deep, rumbling sound croaked from it, uttering strange, rolling noises. They made no sense at all to Saarg.

Spoiler

I'm assuming this was a security guard/human of some kind? If this wasn't what you had in mind I can edit if necassary

 

[Viirin]

Spoiler: Inkblot Royalist

Actually it was a police officer using his cruiser's spotlight, but a guard using a maglite works too. However, you wouldn't yet understand human speech. That's one of the 'information' type loot. Take part in the event and you'll unlock the ability. Also, depending on how Saarg acts in this next post, it might advance the story to Arc 2. Arc 1: Introduction. Arc 2: well, I'll say it once it starts. Oh, also I'm kind of trying to get as many people as possible to 'like' the facebook page I made for the RP. Has art, and if google groups didn't eat my files, it would also have the theme music.

@Saarg: The thing with the light moved the light again, and fixated on the broken shields. Then it seemed to cautiously move the light around a few feet near it, then it shined the light on the back area where the slime came in. Then the thing went past the shield in the wall, and a small metallic sound came from a round part sticking out, which started to turn.
Some of the larger, soft-looking animals started to make noise at this, and so did a couple flying-type animals, which flapped their wings without lifting off, stuck inside their cages.

 

[ChasetheDreamer]

After a short rest, or so it seemed, the ball-like organism was ready to explore farther into the darkness. The creature aptly named Bleak rolled loftily along the border between a dry surface and one that felt a bit like the creature's body. The dark orb spun into the grassy surface until it bumped into something hard and big. Now Bleak was not intimidated easily, for the reason that all it could feel were curiosity, fatigue and hunger. So as curiosity compelled the creature to understand this bulky thing in front of it, Bleak set forth to doing so. The underside of the ball-like being was still soft, and by experience it knew that was how it ate food. Uncurling, the slime crawled along the hard mass and attempted to absorb it. It soon found that this was an inorganic substance, just hard mass taking up space. Bleak couldn't eat something like this, it's pointless! The feathered ball started to curl up again to roll away when it felt creatures crawling nearby and on top of it. On this bulky mass was living things! small things, but they were alive and that meant they were food. The orb set out to catch them all and consume them.

 

[Viirin]

@Bleak: The creatures [http://www.securitypest.com/images/photo/Termite_Worker_magnified.jpg] were very small in comparison to the slime, but after consuming so many of them, the slime began to realize a few things. It knew how to copy the color of its exoskeleton, and even how it created its home. There were still creatures remaining, now in total disarray, though difficult to get to- the hard inorganic they were coming from was protecting the majority of them.

 

[InkBlot Royalist]

Spoiler

Ah, apologies! Didn't realise that was what it was! I edited the post slightly to allow for the speach. So this post could advance the story? Yay! No pressure then!

Saarg was completely lost. The slime was under no illusion that attacking the huge, light weilding creature in its current form would be suicidal, especially head on. No, escape seemed a better option. But then Saarg realised the shield was closed. There was no way Saarg would be able to get out the way the creature had come in, and getting out the way it itself had was out of the question, now the creature had taken an interest in its enterance.
The winged creatures seemed to be getting increasingly flustered, and Saarg longed to attack them, the wings seemed appealing...almost as if Saarg was incomplete without them.
The huge thing and the actions it was taking were more pressing however. Saarg had no idea what was going on, but suspected that the creature didn't have particularly sharp senses. It hadn't detected the slime yet, and Saarg wasn't that far away.
Perhapse...a plan of attack began to form in Saarg's mind. It was extremely dangerous, and relied heavily on the assumption about the creature's senses, and that it shared a similar anatomy with the other creatures it had killed.
Saarg shot out from the relative safety of the wall towards the winged things. Pulling back the pincer tail over its head, Saarg slammed it into the shield protecting the creatures. The was a loud crunching noise and Saarg's view through the shield was spoiled by the white zig-zags, splintering the image beyond. Without waiting to see what happened, Saarg shot back to the wall and pressed itself tightly against it. With any luck, the creature would come and investigate. Saarg waited.

 

[Viirin]

@Saarg: The small birds became surprisingly quiet after the shield shattered, pieces flying all around and at them. The sudden noise drew the attention of the creature's light beam, though the creature itself didn't move. Almost unable to be ignored, Saarg saw something. The light beam went straight across the creature's limb, but it was standing far enough away from the entrance it made near the large shield in the wall. Just enough darkness to possibly sneak outside. Able to see a small amount of light reflect on the creature, the slime could tell it had some kind of armor [http://blog.latcarf.com/uploads/misc/PoliceBadge.jpg], or at least something that looked shiny- the kind of shiny that the slime had noticed before but didn't pay much attention to. Impossibly hard, like it was the world itself concentrated in a single point- fighting something like that...

 

[ChasetheDreamer]

Bleak the orb-like creature of hardened slime moved rapidly around the cold, stony surface consuming all the organic masses that scattered about in the confusion. As the tyrannical black mass devouring all life before it, Bleak was in its element.
These creatures were small, insignificant, but as a collective energy they became strong and organized. They burrowed under the surface and as a team, a colony. This sort of mindset was confusing to Bleak due to its solitary nature. The slime ball thought only of itself, for itself. There was only Bleak. These... Insects had no thought of themselves, only the colony. All would lay down their lives for the colony.
Well, now the colony is Bleak.
The hunger still ached at The slime's insides even after the consumption of all life along the cold, hard and lumpy surface. Bleak left the stone in search of more creatures and colonies. If the minuscule lifeforms gave Bleak any knowledge at all, it was that the flat plane that the ball-like slime has been traversing on all this time had even more depth than Bleak ever imagined. Also, the tall, armored towers Bleak rolled into before could truly be consumed.
Curiosity struck again. Could Bleak eat the very surface it traversed? The black sphere tapped into the newfound memories of the life it just extinguished, finding just how those creatures coexisted with the life around them. What did they have that Bleak didn't, yet. And more importantly, was there food to be found under the earth?

 

[Viirin]

(can't update Chase until he makes the agreed changes)

 

[Dragonhatchling]

Spoiler: sorry for absence

School's kept me plenty busy... I haven't touched the computer since my last post because of it and well, due to me having a two-week break.. I can be on a little more So I should be on more often... at least I hope to be. Life might through stuff at me once in a while but hopefully it won't be anything too major.

Sevak collected a few of the odd invisible skin things by eating them, seeing really no other way to collect anything. He stopped after sucking up the dirtied skin thing, taking more interest in the odd fuzzy colorful thing as the slime moved by it. Poking it gently, the slime waited for it to move. The other furry thing had moved before, so why wouldn't this one?
The colorful furry moved only slightly, though it was because of the light touch from the slime. Disappointed, Sevak moved over to the wide cylinder and moved its body halfway inside the opening. The slime felt a familiar feeling from this cylinder. It felt safe, yet at the same time, eager. Eager for what, it couldn't guess, though Sevak moved back out of the object and stayed there, confused. There was so much new stuff to check out more.