Ish was happy it found some energy in the ground. it spent the while sucking up energy and filling its small reserves. being careful not to spend any of its own energy, only the energy it was soaking up, Ish started to create a snout in between its front legs. it however would take a long time.
Please don't say specific amounts of time. Plus remember, plants spend all day long absorbing energy without getting much out of it. You do have a much faster metabolism and everything over natural things, but please don't say specific amounts of time. I'm kind of thinking I'll leave you acting like a tree until night is really going and there's something interesting to do. If you wanna try and grow some more go for it, but you're gonna get super hungry. Getting 10 calories per hour from the dirt is totally not even close to 1000 calories from actually eating something.
Way to go Ish on skillfully role playing a tree! And congrats to Bosque too for role playing a hummingbird.
Ish was getting getting bored with the time it took to grow a snout. the thing had only become a small indent on the slimes body when ish got up from the ground, returning the roots into energy. Ish started to wander hoping to run into something more like its previous meals.
Arq felt something organic under him that was trying to get away from it, but it also knew that there was another one near by. It already had managed to get out under it. It could first consume the thing that was currently under it and go after the other one after it was done, but it might miss the other one.
While thinking this, the thing under it was still trying to get away from it. Getting annoyed by this, Arq got of the thing under it and then proceeded to roll over it, trying to hit the thing with the hurt things it got. Rolling over it, it felt on of the things hit it and suddenly Arq felt something go out of the tip of the thing and in to the organic thing. Confused by this, Arq went back to lying on the organic thing. Feeling it lay still and not moving, Arq became even more confused. Thinking about it, Arq thought that maybe the thing that came out of it maybe caused this. Pleased with this, Arq went in search of the other thing that got away.
Searching and not finding it, Arq tried to find the thing it had hurt. But having no way to see, hear or smell, Arq couldn't find it any more.
the slime out of curiosity tried to grab the small soft creature, but the creature was easily able to slip out of the slimes reach, the creature then seemed to have disappeared into a hole to small for the slime.
Bosque studied the small grey creature in the net. He was hungry, very hungry and wanted quite badly to consume the little struggling thing. But he had nothing to grasp the net with. If he could work a needle into position he might be able to suck the moth dry ... but his lowest needles were already spent holding the net.
Bosque accepted that, for the moment, he couldn't reach the creature safely. He also accepted that, for the moment, the creature couldn't escape. Making it his to consume. Reliable, stored, living organic munchies... Bosque rather liked that set up. Capture food and keep it, not quite dead and not quite free. This netting was a good investment.
But Bosque needed food now. He searched across the horizon with his new 360 degree vision, scouring the fading light for any sign of that bright spark he'd seen earlier. In the absense of that, he'd have taken anything he could land on safely.
Name: Sheol
Location: Sewer
Bonus DNA: Scorpion
Description: A small, fist sized ball of clear slime.
Equipment: -
Sheol had been decanted, again.
It had been placed in a small cage, and barely had a moment before the world had raged and spun and thrown Sheol, sweeping Sheol up and away into a maze of routes. Sheol was used to mazes, and to short violent attacks on it's consistency, but never together or for this amount of time.
Eventually, the rush launched Sheol out of the wet and into the dry. It could sense no edge of the cage at all, until suddenly it hit an edge, quite hard. Sheol was dazed for a moment, then soon was engrossed by the hard, wet edge. It tasted... funky...
Sheol began to explore this new cage, seeking another edge. Be it maze or cage, Sheol needed to know it's new place.
@Arq: As the slime rolled back towards the thing it had poked, it noticed there was another couple of them. Off to one side, there was another, barely touching the slime's surface. Then again maybe it was something else that felt smooth. It did seem harder and pointier than the other things, maybe it was part of a bigger creature.
@Wrecker: Then the creature came back out, all the way. Then another two came out from other tiny holes, now flooded with water. It seemed wherever the water had gone, the small things were coming out of the ground. Some of the things that came up weren't even that small! The safety of the hole was getting uncomfortable with all the wiggling. Small flecks of organic dusted the entrance to the hole. The air was not moving, but something had made organic material get all over the place.
@Bosque: While looking around, a couple low branches of a bush moved slightly upwards. In another direction, a circular thing rolled off of a wide pile of various inorganic-looking shapes. The dull yellow light was nearly replaced by white. Instead of being brighter towards the horizon, this light was brighter from directly overhead. Small things that resembled the caught insect flew about in small number far from each other, but still within a few feet of each other.
Bosque turned in mid air and darted at the drifting lights above him. He tackled the cloud, absorbing as many of the little organics as he could spot before turning around and cleaning the edges of the glowing crowd. The little points of light scattered but Bosque was quicker and more accurate. Where they ambled Bosque dove, where they buzzed Bosque darted. They were picked off quickly and mercilessly, herded back together only to be barrelled through again. And again.
Bosque finished his labor slightly less hungry, though never quite full, and very proud of himself. He'd eaten so much and caught so much for later. His net, once a hated enemy, was now his loyal servant and the glowing bugs littered it all around the still twitching gray thing. Meals for later. Bosque prepared for his descent back below the tree tops when ... What was that?
A fast patch of moving darkness flapped right past him swiftly annihilating a patch of his own winged organics. It was some kind of competition, Bosque knew. Perhaps even worthy competition.
I usually start everyone off myself, but I can actually work with what you did. With a little modification of my idea, it even kind of fits with what I was going to do.
@Bosque: As the flapping thing flew over it, grabbing some of its captured prey, they stopped glowing. Only the ones with white light on them still glowed. It must have just been a trick of the light, the shiny thing that was overhead earlier must have been something else. As the flapping thing [http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/13-incredible-bat-facts.jpg] picked some of the insects off of the trap, it did something with its mouth that caused countless tiny but powerful vibrations to penetrate the slime's body.
@Sheol: Something that tasted horrible stuck in its way. Something thin, maybe a half inch, but much taller than that, and sticking straight up. Whatever it was, it was organic, but did not taste desirable. In tiny patches, a different taste was under the first, and that tasted good- as long as it sifted out the other taste. The water itself was disgusting too, but in a different way. At least the water was warm. Bad tasting who-knows-what seemed to cover the floor and everything else in a film, but within the bad taste was other stuff that was much better.
Hello there! This really looks good! Hope I'll do ok and not get eaten within 10 seconds! Here's my little dragon-to-be!
Name: Saarg
Bonus DNA: King Cobra
Starting location: Sewer
Description: a small, fist-sized clear slime
Equipment:
Ish was running around with its new energy when it felt a thud of something hit the ground near by. interested in what it was so it moved near. Ish could feel loud and quick vibrations though the air from the things call. upon touching it, Ish felt something like it never had before, it wasn't the bark, flesh or fur. Ish decided to absorb the thing.
Going around aimlessly for a bit not knowing what was around it, Arq suddenly felt something else. It felt something new. I felt smooth but also had those hurt things on it. It also felt harder than anything it had encountered before. Thinking that it maybe part of something organic. Arq tried see if it could eat the thing.
No fireflys? I had a whole blinding bio-luminescence plan set up. Damn. Well, Next time.
I don't know what you had in mind for the bat, but considering its about my size with about my level of speed and sophistication in the air, I'm treating this like my first boss fight. Ought to be fun.
Every portion of Bosque shook sharply creating a terrible cacaphony of sensation. Bosque quivered lightly and flew to the side of the Blackness's open mouth. The creature paused for a moment, curiously, before flying a perfect wide loop and returning the shaking in full force.
That would be enough. Bosque flew right at the blackness charging at him, as fast as his wings would carry. Just before impact he soard higher over the back of the creature, intending to ensnare it in his web. But no impact was felt and the blackness could be seen darting away from the Bosque's side. Without hesitation, Bosque pursued.
The blackness flew much differently. Bosque liked smooth flowing lines but that shaking creature seemed to bounce on invisible currents and lope widely through corners. It was fast though, just as fast as Bosque. It raced in its bobbing gate above the treetops with Bosque steadily behind, the scene sillhouetted by a raising white globe in the sky. And then when it was obvious no victor could be claimed in open sky, the darkness descented low into the treetops. Bosque followed.
The lopping thing rounded the trunk of one of the brown spires and curved its way through the forest like a ball rolling through a maze. Bosque's turns were tighter, sharper, harsher. It wasn't long before he had bridged the gap between him and the darkness, flying just beneath the creature's breast. The walls of the forest were closing in on both sides, no room to turn and no ceiling to escape through, the bramble of the middle branches hedging in their contest. Satisfied with these conditions, Bosque determined once again to capture the thing in its web. He did a flip mid dash and sent the net flying above him. This time the impact was not from the net but from the branch near by as the darkness collided with it. Impetulent little creature had again dodged Bosque's perfect net.
He stopped his flight. The blackness was cornered now and could not run. And by itself on the ground the thing was truley pitiful, lying on its legs to bring its head to bare, breathing deeply, quickly. Bosque hovered low for the final act. And felt the cacaphony return.
A moment's anguish gave way to confusion. The blackness had fired its weapon and leapt for freedom off the branch, but as it's wings spread the farthest corner had been ensnared in Bosque's web. The lopping thing flailed and screamed its horrible scream and Bosque felt himself falling toward the ground in a struggling ball of slime and darkness. He was being dragged toward the surface, into the little pool of blue that laid below him and his foe. And now it screamed a scream that shook him like the chilling laughter of something truely mad.
Bosque flew with all the strength in him. He flew until his wings burned, desperate to reach the sky again. But still he fell.
Jargon and etiquette [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/362.116378-Escapist-role-playing-and-you]
In my post to Saarg, the first slime is ThreeWords and the second is Inkblot Royalist, in case you were unsure. The third canister I'm leaving for something later.
I should have asked. What species of scorpion? There's red (primary attack is poison with tail) black (primary attack is crush prey's spine with its claws) and in Mexico there lives a white one (grabs on to something then poisons it)
I wasn't gonna have you two meet up yet, but you posted so perfectly...
I do actually want to give out fireflies, but since the setting is southern California and they don't live here, no can do. There are other glowy things but they don't show up until later in the night. Also there's a few chemicals that do it...
@Saarg: "Hey, what are these things?" the second punk asked the first. "How should I know? We'll figure it out later, just get another one and lets go!" The second punk piped up again. "Hey, why do you think that door was open, and what's with the signs that say 'this warehouse is not suspicious'"? "You gonna stand around and talk or get out of here so the cops don't find us?" "Alright alright alright!" The punks left from the lab. *clink* *scrape* *shatter* "What was that?" the first punk asked. "I didn't drop the canister into the sewer if that's what you were asking." The first punk looked angry and disappointed. "Hurry, let's get back home and see what this thing is." *bweeeop* A police siren sounded for a half second from behind the two running punks. The second punk raised his hands straight above his head, shrugging off his backpack at the same time, it easily falling into a sewer drain. The first punk got angry again. "Dude, that was a cop pulling someone over down the road! Really? You lost both of them?" The second punk looked at the first punk's canister glistening in his hand. The zipped backpack fell into the sewer, hitting the ground and breaking the canister open within the still closed and zipped backpack. The slime woke up immediately as the other slimes did when they contacted air for the first time. The slime immediately felt a couple organic things [http://www.waterfootprint.org/images/gallery/original/apple.jpg] touching and somewhat squishing it. Something inorganic was covering part of a different, soft thing that tasted like multiple different things [http://whatscookingamerica.net/Sandwich/EggSaladSandwich1.jpg].
@Arq: Attempting to absorb the thing proved fruitful. The slime was able to absorb and digest the thing, though it took a lot of effort since it was so hard. Some of the less hard parts of the thing didn't taste very good, but at least the slime was able to recognize what it was a part of [http://rlv.zcache.com/california_desert_coyote_postcard-p239466627152782378qibm_400.jpg]. Some of the small things it had noticed earlier [http://www.happypestcontrol.com/images/earwig-pincher-bug-extermination-san-diego.jpg] were also climbing on the hard organic thing, apparently also interested in eating it.
@Bosque: Crash landing on the ground got the slime to just the right angle to see a very oddly shaped creature moving towards the prey it had brought to ground. The new creature that seemed like it was going to try and steal its target had moss on its back and a weird pokey thing in its front. The odd creature started to absorb the darkness the same way the slime had done to its earlier meals! The difficult to capture creature [http://wishididntknow.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/vampire-bat.jpg] screeched and lept up onto a thick, tall, organic thing nearby and started climbing up it, panting and trying to rest. It could no longer fly, and had a noticeable spot in its left wing missing.
Bosque darted up and hovered just above the ground, watching both the black screeching creature in front of him and the strangly shaped one behind him. The blackness was missing a wing. It would be easy to capture now. The new thing was ... Strange. Bosque didn't know why but he felt some kinship with it. As though he'd seen it before, perhaps a long time ago.
The web was discarded on the ground now, thoroughly broken but still containing it's prisoners. Bosque left it and flew halfway up the tree to where the little blackness was trying to climb. It shouted once more, pitifully, but Bosque circled to the other side of the tree. In a single move Bosque circled back and pushed the thing off its perch. Bosque kept pace with the creature as it fell watching it desperately try and right itself. In the end it was all for naught. Moments before the final impact with the ground Bosque moved into the creature, absorbing it into himself. It had been his hardest battle yet, but as the little blackness digested Bosque hovered proud and content.
Next he moved over to the remains of the nest and caught a portion with his needles. He flew over to where the strange familiar creature stood and dropped his first quarry down in front of it. He wasn't hungry at the moment. And he was very curious who this creature that absorbed like he absorbed might have been.
I was watching cartoons and this is the song that came on while I was reading your boss fight. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jr0ZPTdhtcQ]
Unlocked: bat (which includes echolocation)
I'm describing that you notice Bosque in front of you- but you still can't see so its just what your skin tells you.
@Ish: The creature that landed in front of the slime [http://wishididntknow.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/vampire-bat.jpg] was incredibly easy to absorb, but it screeched, causing the still-slime parts of the slime's body to vibrate and then the creature was nowhere to be found. The slime tasted something awful but somehow attractive leading in a different direction. A minute after the creature disappeared, the air around Ish moved, but much differently. It was again lots of movement, but gentler, wider movements of air; still too fast to tell exactly how many.
Ish, confused by the many movements around, decided it was time for a new outlook on the world and started to grow eyes from the Komoto dragon it was fed. During the time it took to grow the eyes ish was solid as a stone. it took some time but the eyes finally grew, carefully hidden behind ultra thin scales on the front of its body. the rush of colors and shapes was too much so it shut shut it's eyes.
Slowly Ish opened them slowly and got adjusted its eyes, they were still hidden to the world so it didn't fear what others would think. The eyes were komoto dragon looking in appearance if the scales were to be removed.
Ish stared at the new thing on the ground in front of it, then up at the thing that was in the tree. it still couldn't make sense of any of the objects it saw but it felt the vibrations of the thing that was caught squirming so it moved over and absorbed the caught creature.
I won't be on very often until Marching Band season is over anyway (ends Oct 31st) and until school allows for me to use the computer a bit more. Usually while I'm on I'm doing homework so I'm able to fake not being here while still being grounded. Though once the 23rd comes around, band is going to take up my time as I've already said (it already started to actually) so yeah, I'll be on when I can. Alright? If not, I could leave if you want......
Sevak felt hungry again as something kept bothering it. The slime was unable to pinpoint what the object was though as it was bothered by conflicting feelings of uncomfortableness and confusion, as well as hunger after the creature had digested. The slime sought to deal with the uncomfortable object first and the determination of feelings later. Sevak pushed at the object, noticing it bent the way it pushed, though the bothering still persisted. Annoyed, the slime backed off, backing up more when the wind blew the fuzzy soft thing at it. The feeling of it bothered the slime more when the creature backed into what seemed to be another fuzzy-soft.
Sevak moved to the middle of the two fuzzy-softs, not wanting to touch them for the moment. Not until it determined whether or not the fuzzy-soft was ok to touch again without being bothered.
The slime gave that up after a few moments once the wind had pushed one of them into it again. This time the creature climbed over it, staying on top but noticing the underside of itself was not being bothered so much. Had it flipped over? Or was this new? A quick reach under a 'limb' of the fuzzy-soft revealed it was the same bothersome thing. Even though the slime knew this, it decided to absorb what was under it to get rid of the annoying factor. While doing this, Sevak figured going for the second might be good too just to make sure no more fuzzy-softs would attack it or drag it into the 'nothing' again like before.
I made the slime afraid of fuzzy-softs (the ferns- I though it'd be fun to call them that) and the dreaded 'nothing' which is really just a fear of not feeling anything those few times it fell. It's crazy XD and now I'm going to call every fern I see a fuzzy-soft.
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