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[Dragonhatchling]

Spoiler: the color

A page back (not entirely sure... computer's almost dead so I'll find it later) you mentioned a really bright greenish yellow color and I evolved that as a sort of stripeish line thing going down his body by his eye to his backend. I know from experience the bright colors do seem to 'glow' at darker times even without any actual glowing property to them... plus it's so close to his eye I figured that would certainly be a factor. And yes, that's a rough look of what he looks like XD I'll work on the description as I have time (maybe once I actually find the charger for this thing)

Sevak was trying to figure out a way to get to the sound. He was tired, yes, but the odd sounds were fueling an interest in him. He seemed to like the night a bit more because of this, though the sounds were going to take getting used to. He used his new legs to move along the ground, happily skirting around any object in his path. He found this fun. Lots of fun.
Once done playing around, the slime had moved toward a mess of tree branches it had previously left alone, climbing on top of one of the lower and less 'branchy' branches to see if he could actually climb. The legs worked sort of, though the climb factor was a bit harder. Sevak was sure he'd watched one of the centipedes climb once. Why couldn't he do that as well as them?

 

[Viirin]

Spoiler: Welcome back, McPop9

Good to see you back.

Spoiler: Dragon

What did you get the stripe from? If it's from garter snake, I had one, but it wasn't any brighter than anything else at night. With a blacklight or if as some glowing quality then yeah. Then again, my eyes are very bad, and I can only see effectively when all the lights are off, so I figure you see colors I can't.

@Saarg: If this was blood, it didn't smell like organic blood. Did inorganic things.. The inorganic blood smelled funny, like it was sweet... but.. something was off about it, issuing warning. But that sweetness was very interesting! The metal animal's eyes stayed dark, and it didn't move, but it made a click sound. No, not a click. More like a 'pang'. Then it did it two more times.

@Ish: The slime didn't see anything that looked edible besides what it already found, but there was another room connected to the one it was in where it just ate the big brown hollow furry thing. The slime tried to concentrate on the other room, or on anything else, but it couldn't seem to control its eyes or muscles very well. They seemed to be wobbly... if it would be able to get into the other room, there did seem to be small wooden parts that stuck out of the walls slightly, kind of how the big square panel on the outside of the room looked. Maybe the other panels could be opened through force as well?

@Sevak: The slime quickly ended up on its back with its legs flailing around again. Something about the slime's own size was a few body lengths away, and came up from a hole in the ground. It was difficult to tell what the thing was, but it was furry. It started sniffing the air, and Sevak caught its attention. It approached slowly and timidly, sniffing constantly. The sound from before that came from far above made its noise again, but it seemed a lot closer.

 

[Dragonhatchling]

Spoiler: the stripe

I made it be a stripe but I got it from some mint patty thing that we both mentioned being really bright. And even really bright minty stuff "glows" at night... especially when close to his eyes.

Sevak had started to try to flip itself over when he noticed something coming toward him. He paused then, watching it come his direction. The furry creature reminded the slime of the squirrel it had attacked not too long ago. But squirrels were diurnal and it was night right now. So the slime occasionally moved a leg a little now and then in hopes of getting an easy meal. Playing dead had helped the squirrel at first, so Sevak figured it would work here too. If not, he guessed backing off wouldn't harm much. Fighting probably was a given if this creature was aggressive.

 

[Viirin]

Spoiler: Dragon

Oh, okay, got it! Your slime didn't know about garter snakes or their stripe, but you did and wanted it's line, and got green from somewhere else in order to do it. That's playing with real skill. Anyway, I should stop babbling and go change the image now that I see how it happened. Plus, I can probably find a better resolution image for the scales now. Did your mouth look right?

Spoiler: Everyone read this

Did all of you guys look at the event information in the group? I know Dragonhatchling and Inkblot Royalist did, but did you, Mcpop9? Either way, all of you qualified for the event reward.

@Sevak: The noisy thing from above passed by overhead, out of view. The sniffy thing kept creeping closer and closer, smelling the air and other things nearby. Was it sniffing things other than the slime just to make it think that it wasn't locked on to it in case it was paying attention? Able to see the animal better now, the slime could tell that its face was a different color than the rest of its body, and its tail wasn't furry. It sniffed one of the slime's legs a couple times, then opened its mouth and bit! It didn't bite hard, but tugged on the slime's leg, then let go.

 

[mcpop9]

Ish panicked and focused its energy to its wings, giving it enough control to fly into the air and the next room. It ignored everything around it and Beelined for the clear wall infront of it, slamming into the glass at a fairly high speed. Ish, hoping to break through this barrier blocking its freedom.

 

[Viirin]

@Ish: (Unlocked: brown bear, formaldehyde) The slime's head and vision were still swimming from the... whatever it was that it got out of that dead thing that didn't taste as dead as it really was. It started wearing off finally, but still affected its limbs slightly. Instead of feeling wobbly, it felt more rigid, clearly becoming free of whatever the hold was that stuff had over it. The clear wall made a loud thud sound, followed by a crack. The slime bounced back a little, but could see that a line formed in the glass. A jagged line. One that began spreading on its own.

 

[mcpop9]

Ish took advantage of whatever this wall had happen to it and used its renewed control to take off and crash through the clear wall and fall to the ground. Ish rolled around on the ground for a few minutes before getting up and checking its body for wounds, then tried to get its bearings again.

 

[Viirin]

@Ish: The slime saw small pieces of glass stuck in between the ridges of its bark in a few places, and some superficial scratches. It decided that if its was less armored than it already was, it might have actually been hurt! The leaves on its wings weren't as durable though, and were ripped in a few places, but only one of the wounds seemed to be anything worth noticing.

 

[mcpop9]

Ish was as thankful as it could be for the armor and took the pain I it's wing as an annoyance. However, it began to look around, noticing that it was finally outside again. That other place was weird and didn't feed Ish much. It looked around for something to eat and help digest to get more energy.

 

[InkBlot Royalist]

Saarg was unsre about the strange noises the beast above it was making. It wasn't even sure if the creature was truly...the slime floundered for the proper term...living? It moved and made noise, and like all other living things it seemed intent on Saarg's death, but it was made of inorganic material! It was cold and complex...and it didn't bleed like every other moving organism it had encountered. The thing unsetteled the slime, and Saarg was filled with a sudden desire to be away from it.

But the sweet scent of the fluid over-rode Saarg's instincts. The slime took a tentative step forward and, quicky as it dared, shot forward and lapped up a mouthful of fluid.

It BURNED .

Sarg staggered back, flailing and lashing its head from side to side at the bitter-sweet, noxious tang of the liquid it had just sent searing down its neck. The slime fought every instinct inside it to stop from shrieking in pain and collapsing there and then. Saarg hobbled/rolled out from under the box and meandered in an unseen direction, head spinning and innards cnvulsing.

Saarg felt something soft underfoot, and impartially registered that it had strayed onto a pool of springy green things: An oasis of softness compared to the cold, hard surfaces it had previously been walking on.

The slime sighed in satisfaction and, against every instinct, bellowing for atteon and obediance, collapsed onto the green blaket below, exhausted and in pain.

 

[InkBlot Royalist]

Spoiler

Sorry, double post. Not sure how that appened!

 

[Viirin]

Spoiler: Inkblot

No problem for double post, it happens to me sometimes too. Like I hit 'post' but the text doesn't disappear, so I click it again, but find out it posted both times. Remember I said that the story is now in Arc 2? Well I'm going to say it out of spoiler now, because of what just happened. Oh, and I was wrong. As I was doing the art for Saarg, I realized that he's actually around the size of a beagle.

STORYLINE UPDATE
Saarg was seen by humans recently, and not just a quick glance. Something else just happened, though even he doesn't know about it yet. The first story arc was Arc 1, Introduction. The current arc is Arc 2: Tabloids and Rumors. Everyone might want to think about evolving some defenses and decent movement speed, if you don't have it already. Ish, Saarg, Sevak, Wrecker, Arq, and Bosque are already set up.

NPCS
Also, don't forget about the NPC slimes. One of them started with Planarian [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXN_5SPBPtM], one started with Coast Horned Lizard [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE_fZNZjJcQ], and the other started with Cordyceps [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuKjBIBBAL8]. They will be seriously dangerous, in time. They won't be encountered for a couple arcs yet, though.

@Ish: Lots of green in many directions, and each seemed to be different, as the slime expected. The sharp-edged place the slime left was on top of ground that was higher than where it came from outside, and it had a somewhat better view because of it. Some of the tall brown things the slime had eaten parts of before became lush and leafy at their tops, except for one. Its twigs didn't have leaves, and had some sort of green tangled-looking hair-like thing [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mistletoe] stuck at the top.

@Saarg: The up was still dark, but the lights on the long, thin things weren't on anymore. Saarg heard a click sound, but different than the ones the inorganic thing made. It also didn't come from its direction. The sound of one of the big inorganic things roared near the slime, which instantly started going away from it. It wasn't the one the slime was just under, but another. Did it come from the wide flat? Saarg was far less tired, and wasn't wobble-minded anymore. It also noticed yet another lump inside it that seemed like it was supposed to be there, but it wasn't there before it licked up the inorganic blood.

 

[mcpop9]

Ish looked at the plant with curiosity. It got some running speed and too to the air, flapping its wings with a bit of pain. It struggled to fly, but did make it to the odd plant in the tree, it grabbed the plant in its mouth, clamping down and ripping it out of the tree before gliding down to the ground. It began to chew and take in the plant, hoping to get something out of it, even if its just energy.

 

[InkBlot Royalist]

Saarg was perplexed. Had it...what? This had ever happened before. One moment it had been dark, painful and silent, then the next...this. It ws likthe slime hadn't been...there, in its own body, for a brief moment. Saarg didn't ike this. Fortunately, the pain had diminished, and to the slime's suprise, it could move its jaws again. Its body ached from the regenerative process it had come to rely on, but it was a good pain.

It reminded the slime it could hunt again.

The fact that the large inorganic organisms were waking up was of great concern to Saarg, and the fact that it seemed to be getting lighter (how this worked the slime had no idea) meant that the slime really needed to get out of the open. Forcing itself up, the slime crept with forced patience towards the enormous square it had been maing its way towards originally. Glancing back over its shoulder, it saw, to its increasing bemusement, that one of the light weilders had just opened up the flank of one of the light eyed things and got inside. Had it eaten him? This was al too confusing for a now very stressed and very hungry Saarg, who decided to take one of those metal things apart ad find out how it worked once it was big enough.

There was no obvious way into the large square ahead, so Saarg began sneaking around its side, looking for a way to access it, and the food that was doubtlessly inside.

 

[Dragonhatchling]

Sevak didn't take to the bite too well, even though it didn't hurt as bad as the slime figured it would. It somewhat reacted to the bite at first, only to keep the creature's attention before the slime righted itself. He didn't realize how quick he was able to right himself at that moment, occupied with attacking the creature. He lunged at the odd sniffy thing, attempting to slam into it or knock it over. Knocking it out would've been nice too, though the slime did not believe he could do that with the thing so interested in him.

 

[Viirin]

@Ish: The stringy plant wasn't very filling, but it tasted slightly funny. After consuming the whole of it, which wasn't difficult or time-consuming, the slime had an odd feeling, but it couldn't place it. There was something about this stuff... The plant had been attached to a bigger plant, so maybe Ish could figure it out if it did the same thing.

@Saarg: Around the opposite side of the square, the slime saw something it had been seeing periodically. A hole in the wall about halfway up. But there was light inside this one, and a light-wielder inside, moving around. The angle the slime was looking didn't allow for much information, but it could see that the light-wielder had things the slime recognized as food, since it had seen rotten versions of it before underground. It was somewhat difficult to tell also, but Saarg saw it- there was a tiny bit of movement, almost invisible, reflecting on the invisible hole that seemed to mimic the light-wielder.

@Sevak: The animal didn't resist being knocked over, really, though the creature was quite soft. It simply flop over on its side, but then sturdy itself and turn its head to the slime, opening its mouth wide and showing off its sharp and glistening fangs. The creature made a hissing sound [http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3-C5RfccpB8/TA7e9hkYDCI/AAAAAAAAACE/9qmFfvpIe48/s1600/ugly-possum3.jpg], and a combination of breath and spit splattered on the slime's face. What kind of thing was this!?!?

 

[mcpop9]

Ish had noticed something and decided to out it to work. It began extending its rear section into some sort of a twirl, it saved enough energy to fully develop the same mechanism that the plant used to suck nutrients out of the tree, only on a larger scale. It looked like a tree root, but was as flexible and strong as a solid mass of muscle. Ish backed up to the tree, flexing its new appendage. It forced itself into the tree. It forced itself into the tree and the roots of the slime spread inside the tree and began to sap energy from it, nutrients needed to grow itself.

 

[Viirin]

Spoiler: Ish is huge-ish. heh heh, see what I did there? I'm not funny.

You were 28 inches long, but didn't have a tail. Then you grew a mistletoe-like tail, is how I'm imagining it, adding a lot onto your length. Then you grew 4 inches past that, so you're around 40 inches long! How much bigger you want to get?

@Ish: Ish had tried to act like a plant before, with minimal success at best, and even that took forever. With this new ability though, the slime could actually watch the branches and bark of the tree start to die as it used its tail to penetrate into the tree's bark and forcefully remove its mineral content, giving the slime more energy than it was using (which was a lot) and actually filling itself up at the same time. Though the tree was far bigger than the slime, it was only able to grow itself by a comparitively small amount, but it came to recognize that it was because the slime's muscles were so much more dense than anything it ate. Ish's weight and the decreasing strength of the tree soon were unbalanced, and the branches the slime was sitting on broke and fell to the ground; though the tree was clearly already dead.

 

[mcpop9]

Ish's tail embedded in the let it stay attached to the tree. The root like tail retracted from tree and Ish glided down to the ground. It used some of the new energy to heal itself. Ish then went over to another tree and sucked up nutrients, trying to store it for later. It began to build up a layer of stuff similar to the white stuff in cocoanuts it's under it's bark.

 

[Dragonhatchling]

Spoiler: hi

Well, the title is because I felt like saying hi... but... this is for me telling you all (especially those who might've read the group post thingy I made -dunno what to call it- about rattling scales... I planned to utilize that today whether or not I was attacked by something XD so being attacked just makes it better... but darn you Viirin for beating me to the explanation of the idea

Sevak was starting to think this was a horrible idea. Not only was he covered in some odd combination of spitting and whatever else it was, but this thingy was angry and had sharper teeth than originally thought. But he had initiated the fight, and getting out of it again was probably as likely as him climbing. Which reminded him he still didn't know how to climb, nor did he think he could with these legs the way they were.
Sevak slowly backed up a little as the animal hissed again, clearly unhappy about being attacked by such an odd creature. What the slime didn't realize was that his scales were starting to rattle a little, almost as if in response to the hissing. It took a few moments but the rattle became noticed by the slime as the scales rearranged slightly to produce a more effective rattle against each other. That was different. Surely this sharp-tooth creature hadn't witnessed that before. He would use that to his advantage then.
The slime forced the rattle this time, making it louder and softer as he realized he could control the sound. He moved forward slightly each time the sound got louder, trying to make himself as threatening as possible before he pushed with his legs and lunged forward. Now it probably was considered jumping. Pathetic jumping, but jumping anyway. Sevak quit the rattle as he did this, hoping to knock the creature on its side again as easily as before.