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[Viirin]

@Sevak: Nope. Rolling over and trying to smash the things didn't smash them. It did keep them from moving while the slime's weight was on them, but that's it. Eating the few of them the slime did taught it a small amount of the creature's instincts. "Find food. Tell others where food is. If any of us is attacked, all of us should attack it. Now it is food". The slime understood the creature's thinking very well, but it still didn't really know how to kill it or copy it.

 

[Dragonhatchling]

Spoiler

Yes, I know, I didn't show up on Valentines day like I normally do for the holidays. Life has a funny way of making Thursdays those days where you can't do anything /you/ want to do for a few seconds and do everything it wants you to do. My power was out for 3 days....(ended up spending those nights at a friends who doesn't have internet) but we can skip the holiday event since it's passed. No biggy. I'm alive though.

Sevak was continually being bit. He didn't like it at all and could tell that rolling on the ground wasn't helping much. At least it stopped the moving, though he had the suspicion that the biting was worse on the smushed side. He couldn't tell with so many bites happening.
The slime wanted them off though. Off off not just half off or crushed while still on. They were hostile to him and he knew the reason why. He was hostile to them. They were just repeating the action. Sevak had an idea though and he flipped himself back over. Ignoring the pain as best he could, and keeping the biters off his legs, he went in search of better food. His reasoning was that if he was always in search of better food, why not these creatures? They were smart enough to repeat actions dealt upon them so he figured they also thought along the same lines when it came to what was food. He wished he could remember where that deer had been, knowing the large animal probably would be an awesome morsel for the tiny biters, but he settled on wandering around the area in search of anything else that might work.

 

[Viirin]

Spoiler: Dragonhatchling

Wanna see something I've been working on when not RPing? I can give you the link over twitter.

@Sevak: As the slime wandered around, some of the creatures had loosed themselves and began running around. On the slime, off the slime, it seemed random. When one of them ran over the slime's open wound, it tasted something and understood it. The things were using their feet to place a chemical signal for others of their kind to follow the trail and kill whatever was at the other end of it. On the other side of a patch of tall, thin, green blades, the target was finally spotted- one of the white crunchy things the slime found inside animals was there, with some food on it but not much. The shape was even the right one for the slime to rub itself against to get the things off of it.

 

[Viirin]

Out of Character: Well, as I've been waiting for a role play response by someone (all of you missed a really awesome holiday since it was April Fool's and Easter on the same day), I've been working on another game at the same time. It's a trading card game, and I uploaded all the cards to a facebook page. All 1000 cards (and counting) are of different magic items taken from movies, TV shows, cartoons, anime, manga, comics, famous short stories or published books, video games, other card games, web comics, commercials, popular game mods, and any other type of media you can think of. I actually tried using it as a second role play here instead of a card game, but no one seemed interested. If anyone puts in some effort, you can find the game, but I won't link it or even say its name since I don't want any of the moderators to get whiny at me. Wish I knew how to contact them about other things though...

Peter Griffin once said "It's almost as much fun as copyright infringement!", and I of course was inspired by other things, like Bob Chipman's video "Worlds Within Worlds". Also Calvinball, and Wil Wheaton's "Tabletop" show.

 

[Dragonhatchling]

Spoiler

Sorry for not posting... I had thought I responded a while ago and realized (once I got a new computer) that my labtop had been cutting off your last post, making it seem like you hadn't responded. But now that should be fixed...

Sevak took some interest in the way the tiny creatures had moved themselves around. Chemical signals was clever. Certainly something the slime didn't think a tiny creature could do. The white target got closer and closer as the slime wandered over to it. He rubbed himself on it, loosing some of the tiny creatures and hoped they might signal for the others to follow their position. The slime climbed over the white target as well, just to be sure that at least one creature would say there was something there.
On the other side of the potential food, Sevak looked around in case anything larger might show up. He hadn't seen a large live creature in a while. Or really at all yet but after finding the deer, he knew there should be some around sometime. One deer couldn't be the only thing around.

 

[Viirin]

@Sevak: Rubbing against the white branchy thing pulled the slime's closing wound open a little, forcing it to stop. Some of the crawly things did climb off in their nonstop frenzy though, but some of them had been getting left behind as the slime ran. The thing that hurt the slime hadn't been following, or had it? The ground felt... like it was thudding?

 

[Dragonhatchling]

Sevak sort of bounced as the ground-thudding came closer. He didn't like that- the bouncing- or the fact that he couldn't tell what it was. The ants somewhat flew off too with each bounce, but his wound started to hurt again. Another bounce. Then ground. Looking around wasn't helping. Where was it coming from?

 

[Viirin]

@Sevak: A large creature, but smaller than the thing with the white branches, came running out from some nearby green branchy things and headed up the incline at a speed the slime had fallen down the incline. It was furry, and a light color. When its feet hit the nearby hard inorganic, it made a hard sound, almost like a click, but deeper. It was too fast for the slime to catch it, but it had nearly stepped on the slime. One of the round inorganics the thing jumped onto loosened itself from the ground, some of it tumbling away. Then the inorganic started to fall- not directly on the slime, but close!

 

[Dragonhatchling]

Sevak was scared. Was it scared? What was scared anyway?
He didn't know what was exactly going on with this smaller furry thing but when it tripped, he had the sudden impulse to not only move, but to get a bit closer. He wanted to know what it was, and not just by looks. He was being careful to not get squished, but was also determined. The slime expected the furry tripper to attack or something, but that didn't stop him.

 

[Viirin]

@Sevak: The big furry thing with armored feet scrambled and got up, shoving its back legs against the big inorganic in order to do so; which made it finally lose its grip in the ground and come loose. The inorganic completely blocked the slime's forward vision, though its peripheral could see the furry thing's shadow move on the other side and disappear. The inorganic for a moment stood up as it fell, rolling on top of the slime. By the slime's own luck, an indent on the inorganic matched the slime's location, and it was unharmed, though it was pressed into the dirt a little. The inorganic rolled again, flipping over and smashing things as it tumbled down the decline. The furry thing was still there! Its head was moving strangely, and one of its hind legs seemed to be caught in between some smaller (smaller compared to that big one) inorganics somehow.

 

[Dragonhatchling]

Sevak stopped moving once the inorganic big thing came at him. He expected to die right then, but was very surprised when he got pressed into the dirt a bit instead of dead. Anything was better than dead right now. But the inorganic big thing rolled away, smashing stuff. Better them than him. But the furry thing caught his attention again, it being still there and all. That itself the slime knew shouldn't have happened. But hey, he'd take it! He charged at the furry thing without really thinking. If it was still there, it could get away. He didn't want that. But he didn't want to die either.

 

[mcpop9]

NEW CHARACTER SHEET
Name: Luna
Bonus DNA: African driver ants
Starting location: forest
Description: a small, fist-sized clear slime
Equipment: nothing

 

[Viirin]

@Sevak: The creature [http://www.fieldandstream.com/files/photo/23/shocking-mountain-goat.jpg] didn't even notice the slime; it was too busy struggling to get free. The slime caught up to the thing's back end easily, it still trying to kick with its pinned leg. The slime could see that one of the front legs had red stuff coming out of it, and was bent somewhat to the side and not like it had seen other things bend such body parts.

@Luna: (added bonus DNA: Crown of Thorns [http://www.milwaukeedomes.org/files/crown_of_thorns.jpg])
"Whatever the hell junk was in that vase melted my flowers!"
"Flowers don't melt."
"Get rid of it!"
"You said to get you a round vase, and I did. You didn't say to empty it out, and anyway it looked like water."
"GET IT OUT OF MY HOUSE! Those were very special flowers!"
He rolled his eyes, and picked up the vase. The junkyard was nearby, but he wanted to get out of there. He'd drive further. To the forest, why not? He could get there in a few hours. That would give her time to get control of herself. Not that she would.
The clear slime in the container didn't even slosh when the car bumped on the bad road, though the driver only paid attention to make sure it didn't spill periodically. Once the road's scenery changed from city to desolation, then to lightly forested, then mountainous forest, he knew he got to his destination- and out the window the thing went.
The slime felt everything, though unaware of anything else. Just some jostling for awhile.
Until it felt itself spinning, falling, then smash on something hard and organic. The slime was stretched out far, just as a scoop of ice cream splatters but remains a single orb-like shape when it falls.
The organic thing it was on was dry, and very hard, but there was a small coating of very soft something else on it. But why was it all so cold?

 

[illuminatus-shadow]

New Character Sheet
Name: Maculun
Bonus DNA: Planarian flatworm
Starting location: Swamp
Description: A small, fist-sized clear slime
Equipment: ...

 

[Viirin]

OOC: Welcome to Azure Wyrm, Illuminatus! Your character is accepted.

@Maculun: The dump truck's compressor had long since broken. The crew knew this, and used it as an excuse to have shorter routes overall. The route for the day was finished, so they went to dump their load of garbage. There was a swampy area nearby, and the road went alongside it so they went there. They had before, no reason not to do it again.
The dump truck's back end raised upward, spilling its contents all over the side of the road, a decent amount of it slipping into the murky mildewed water.
The slime's canister slid into the water, hitting a rock and cracking. Something heavy mixed in to the refuse rolled and fell against the canister, breaking one end off of it before rolling away and sinking into the silty mud. The slime activated, or woke up for the first time. It felt wet, and cold, and like tiny specs of inorganic was being dusted on one side of it. Why was one side of it wet and cold, the other side wasn't? What were these sensations?

 

[illuminatus-shadow]

Coldness and wetness and... something touching? All around the slime Maculun felt slick inorganic surface but now there was something else enveloping from one end. Instinct driving the slime into a new environment, it tentatively slid from the remains of its 'home' and deeper into the cold wetness. Little particles of inorganic irritants stuck to the slime's surface as it sank away from broken remains of its container. What were these things?!

 

[Viirin]

@Maculun: Whatever the things touching the slime were, it wasn't food. Something the slime bumped into was organic though, but it tasted.. somehow something felt wrong with it. Whatever it was, it was extremely hard and had many long, but segmented... things sticking out of a different shape. The ends of these roundish long things were very pokey. The whole thing was smaller than the slime was. Feeling further down, there seemed to be an endless surface of inorganic.

 

[illuminatus-shadow]

Maculun instinctively recoiled from the bad tasting organic thing, surface rippling with displeasure. It moved forward, exploring the pokey hard thing, solid body flattening and carefully crawling over the rounded segments to feel without being impaled. The slime searched for different feelings, different sensations, a growing need driving it further into the cold wetness in search of tasty organics. But what was this? Another thing, indigestible and much larger! More ripples of displeasure!

 

[Viirin]

@Maculun: Sliding along the endless inorganic surface began to taste different. There was some organic after all! It was slick and easily dispersed, though it mostly retained its cohesion. It seemed very soft, whatever it was, and not pokey at all. No longer considering the wet to be such a new experience, the slime tasted tiny hints of other things nearby, some inorganic, and some organic.

 

[Dragonhatchling]

@Sevak: The creature [http://www.fieldandstream.com/files/photo/23/shocking-mountain-goat.jpg] didn't even notice the slime; it was too busy struggling to get free. The slime caught up to the thing's back end easily, it still trying to kick with its pinned leg. The slime could see that one of the front legs had red stuff coming out of it, and was bent somewhat to the side and not like it had seen other things bend such body parts.

((Sevak might meet new slime perhaps??))

The oddly twisted leg interested Sevak more than the kicking one did. It seemed safer too than staying where he was. But, instead of going around the kicking and struggling thing, he did his best to climb on it. That took a bit of time, but he was able to use his legs to climb up. The white stuff covering it kept getting in the way, but the slime kept pushing and climbing up until he reach the top of a sloped surface. It was harder than it seemed, with the thing still worried about getting out of the mass of branches. He sure hoped this thing wouldn't get free. That'd be bad.
But the slime made his way for the twisted and red section of this white moving mass. He ended up sliding down most of it, not realizing where the ground was in all the white furry stuff, and actually landed rather near the red stuff. Picking himself up, Sevak moved toward the source of the red stuff and hoped he didn't get smashed.