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[Dragonhatchling]

Falling. The Dreaded Nothing had struck again. Why must it have some reason to always get the slime? What did the slime ever do?

Those were Sevak's last thoughts as it noticed the ground once more. Much closer. Too close. The pain racked in its body already felt horrible. It's long slender body wriggled funnily as it fell. He watched the wriggling as best he could from his vantage point, noticing the smallish twiggy up very high. And the inorganic thing that had struck it before. He wanted badly to have been kicked hard enough to fabricate this. Maybe the white fluffy noisy things had tackled it and it was imagining falling. Maybe the bigger flappy had thrown it over the edge of the twiggy after all. Or through it, as the case seemed to be.

He wanted badly to be back up there now. So badly to tackle the big flappy and throw it through the twiggy so it knew how he felt. But no. He was falling. The Dreaded Nothing was winning. Again. And he was powerless to do anything about it.

The ground came closer. And closer. An alarming rate of speed surprisingly made the ground show up much faster and closer than the slime wanted. Before he really knew it, Sevak had slammed into the ground. Sadly. His wriggly bogy from the fall had almost slammed like an accordion would have been compressed, but something had changed the body so it slammed flatter. The impact knocked the slime out cold. Or possibly killed him. Sevak didn't know.

 

[Viirin]

@Nathair: (unlocked: mosquito wings) Miss. The slime nearly missed the long hard thing, but got part of it. The very back part- which apparently had a thing that could cause injury. The slime's mouth hurt, and it unintentionally opened its mouth. Not that it was caught; it was going to escape anyway. But not the other one! The other one was captured without that much difficulty, using the angle it was. But it was menial in mass and despite its size, it didn't count for much. Except... the slime did learn something from it.

@Sevak: It was dark, and cold. The slime could see up, far up, and saw tiny points of light. But it couldn't move. Colder than the slime could have imagined, if it could imagine such things. The slime's ability to feel even basic things was broken. Everything that could break did; except for the eyes it got from the things that liked rotten things. The slime had lost three of its limbs, one was only a stub, and the other two were mangled but still present. It was bent in shapes the slime hadn't intended after slamming into a couple inorganic things sticking out of the wall. But this was not ground. The slime was on something else.

 

[booksv2]

Dropping back into the wet and thrashing around under the surface as his mouth throbs in pain. The other piece he swallows as his left head thrashes around and bites at the wet and the squishiness under his feet as the pain slowly goes away. Turning and slowly walking back towards the more firm ground Nathair slowly walks back up on it and shakes himself. looking around this time he see's more of the flying things and a few more jumpers. Watching the jumpers and some of the fliers he cant decide what to do right away. The jumpers were interesting and newish but some of the fliers had hurt him and were new. One head looking at the jumpers and another at the fliers he slowly moves around the edge of the wet. One head still watching the wet and the things on and over it the other starts looking around. Reaching out and feeling with the sense that he has to feel the warm wet in living organics he slowly moves along the wetness searching for something to eat to fill the gnawing in himself.

 

[Dragonhatchling]

Sevak closed his multiple eyes, trying to figure out what exactly had happened for sure. The Dreaded Nothing had struck again. That was obvious. Opening just one eye showed him a clear view of his dismembered leg. One of them anyway. He could tell more were gone. One of the others was actually poking him in the back. He'd landed on it.
He made no attempt to move. He stayed still, collecting what was left of his sanity. If he ever had any to begin with. His stub wiggled slightly, being tested now to see if it could move. Barely. The mangled ones? Sevak didn't dare. He silently wondered if he could absorb himself and repair his legs. Or grow new ones and get rid of these. But he had more pressing matters.
The mangled slime-snake-creature opened all of his eyes again, seeing mostly ground but also an upside-down version of the area in front of him. He moved himself slowly now to right himself. It hurt and many scales fell off in the process, oozing slime where they would, but having no bones had an advantage. Surprisingly. He was insanely sore, but moveable. Somehow. In slow motions of course. Slow and awkward motions. His mangled legs were useless. The stub wasn't much better. Instead, the slime used the odd back and forth motion he had used before in tandem with the legs to get motion. Except this time he didn't use any of the legs. He left them to drag as close to his body as possible.
The slithering motion was very efficient, albeit it also caused some pain. His head hurt terribly. But he could see. He could see all over like before, and that itself was a blessing. He at least wasn't blind.
The ground though was odd to him. His small test-circle of movement proved it definitely wasn't ground. So then where was he? And how was he going to get back to the big flappy and push it off through the hole? He wanted the big flappy to know how the Dreaded Nothing felt. So badly. So very badly.

 

[Viirin]

Spoiler: Dragonhatchling

I love your badge! Blue magic! Final Fantasy Blue Mage is half of how I designed this game. Why do you think it's called "Azure"?

@Nathair: The warm-wet sensing ability refused to work under the wet. Organics were all over, the surface of the wet covered in small colory circular shapes. Small ones. The bigger ones that the jumpers were jumping on were harder, more durable. The small ones were nearly pointless. What purpose did they serve? One of the long, hard flying things landed nearby. A brightly colored one, so bright it almost hurt the slime to see. But only if it looked directly at it. It was of minor interest before, being a dullish colored thing [https://www.facebook.com/243704349049339/photos/a.314604328626007.76277.243704349049339/701502123269557/?type=1&theater] sticking up partway out of the wet, but with something to grab its attention, maybe it wasn't now.

@Sevak: Bouncy. The ground.. no, it wasn't ground. The slime knew that. Its thoughts were still spinning and blinking in and out. The bouncy ground was bouncy. Yes. Other colored ground was off the edge of the bounce ground. Groundy bounce. No. Yes? It wasn't the same color, and didn't even look the same, as the other ground the slime was on before with the big organics all over. There were organics, but they weren't around here. The slime saw one of them far off, and it would take awhile to get to it. The slime also saw a shadow of something... shadow? The Chaos was being funny again. It was moving, but it couldn't be organic. Organics weren't shaped like that. Off another edge of the broundy gounce... no. Were some strange-looking things [https://www.facebook.com/243704349049339/photos/pcb.701508326602270/701508289935607/?type=1&theater] that were somewhat shiny. There were a couple other things near it that were even more different [https://www.facebook.com/243704349049339/photos/pcb.701508326602270/701508293268940/?type=1&theater].

 

[Dragonhatchling]

Sevak didn't know what to make of the confusing bouncy but not bouncy ground but not ground. He was moving on it at least. Yes. At least he was moving. Or was he? Was it just the bouncing making him move? He wasn't so sure anymore. He started to think about the bouncy again when his attention remembered the odd somewhat shiny things nearby. Maybe those could help him figure out what the bounciness was? Maybe not. But they were off the bouncy ground it looked like. Which probably was a good thing. The less bouncy the ground the better. Maybe not. Maybe bouncy ground was good. Or no? The confused slime didn't have a clue anymore.

So, being confused as it was, the slime slithered bouncily over to the edge where the objects were. Not realizing quite yet how well it was moving, the creature ended up bouncing itself off the edge completely and landed on one of the shiny shapes and a smaller odd object in the process. What were all these? The bigger shiny reminded Sevak of the containers it had gotten stuck in a few times before. One of those caused it to be flung down a hill in darkness. That was terrible. Come to realize it, that also caused it to nearly get here. Or, well, kinda. Wandering around aimlessly got it stuck inside the Big Flappy's grip and falling got it here, but to get to where the Big Flappy could have gotten it was helped by the weird darkness fall it had taken from the containers. Keeping that in mind, Sevak searched to find an opening for one of these. Along the way, the slime scooped up one of the smaller odd objects and bit into it without realizing. His thought process was still very messed up.

It took a long time to find the opening and a few more tubes had been eaten after thinking they could cause an opening to appear. One of the sides of the shiny had seemed dented in a spot and that lead it to the actual opening of the container after many repeated tries of running into the dent. It was big enough to just squeeze the slime's head inside. Which lead to another problem. It was stuck. His head was stuck. He couldn't see. He could barely move the container the way he was positioned. He was stuck. But an odd liquid started to lap up against the head's surface as the slime-snake lifted his head a little. The container rose, causing the liquid that was left inside this dented one to flood to where the head was put. He would have realized he was nearly drowning had his thought processes been crippled from the fall still.

Some of the liquid seeped out past the part where the head was stuck. Soon after, the container slipped off. Freedom!!! Sevak was free!! But, curious as ever, the slime shoved his head back inside to see if that would make a difference to the lighting issue. More liquid sloshed around inside as the container and slime-snake moved from time to time.

 

[booksv2]

Nathair pulled his heads below the water again and thrash around a little in anger about missing the things he had been going for. Looking up and catching an eye of the bug that had landed he moves closer and gets right under the thing it had landed on.

slowly lifting one head up to the side and looking at the bug Nathair slowly moves his head just slightly above the water so there is no splash. Still staring with the one head his others move up and move around the hanging organic under where the bug had landed a few times before opening his mouth with his fangs extended, on both his mouths. His right head out of the water moves forward with his mouth open while his left grabs the organic and jerks it down under the wet.

 

[Viirin]

@Sevak: The slime was only doing what it knew, but it made the wrong decision. Or right one. Savagely consuming the tubes and sloshing strange liquid all over itself made it start to feel strange. Like various things it had encountered before had made it feel- every one of its cells were changing. Being affected by something.. no, two somethings. Three! The slime's surface and head began to mostly feel the same; barely different. The slime around one of the tubes it had consumed had somewhat leaked and hardened; but within the slime the affect of the stuff spread outwards, also only minor difference. But when the two effects made their way through the slime, they felt completely different. More different than.. no, maybe? It was somewhere around the opposite of the smooshy feeling it felt when it was pure slime. It was hardening. All of it was hardening! But one of the other tubes was doing something different. As the strange feeling swept through the slime, it felt all its wounds closing. All of everything closing, actually.

@Nathair: It wasn't possible to miss this time! The slime caught the long hard flying thing in its mouth, and half a mouthful of the puffy plant along with it. But the puffy plant was actually surprisingly soft and easy to tear apart, which gave the slime twice the amount of organic to consume than it would have otherwise bitten into. A couple of the other similar creatures flew away a short distance at the sudden burst of movement, but they returned mostly to the places they were just at after a moment. The nearest jumpy thing didn't come back, though.

 

[booksv2]

Chewing and swallowing the bug and the organic puffy plant Nathair lowers that head down under the water again as his other head goes above it and starts biting and swallowing the rest of the plant. After the right is done swallowing the bug and rest it goes back up to start taking bites out of the other side. Taking bites and tearing pieces off of the organic and swallowing it till it is just the hanging root. One head grabs it and holds it as the other chews on it, getting pretty much no where.

Dropping the bottom of the organic and walking along the bottom of the wet to the edge he walks up till he is out of the wet. Shaking his heads and looking around he starts walking away as he looks around for warm wet. As he walks he pokes organics with his heads and bites a few, but doesn't try tearing or eating them.

Nathair stops and looks above himself as he feels several small things of warm blood above himself. Looking up and moving around slightly and slowly follows the organic they seem to be on down a larger one to the ground Nathair is standing on. Walking over to the organic and trying to walk up it a few times he bash's his heads against it a few times. Shaking his heads and backing up he feels something happening to his heads. Shaking them again he can feel something growing from them, hard and pointed when he looks at each of his heads he can see a dark pointed thing growing from each of his heads between and above his eyes. His left head slowly reach's up and touches the right the thing growing from his right, jerking back when it pokes him and he can feel the pain.

Turning back to the organic he buts his head against it again and looks at the small wound on the organic. Turning his heads back and forth as he looks at it his heads slam against the organic a few more times and each time his head itself never hits the organic but the new thing does and it makes a small hole in it. Turning away and walking to another organic he hits it with his head and pulling back shakes his head when it drags the organic with it. Moving his heads together and tapping his pointy things together he starts moving away looking for organics that moves and had the warmwet he could feel.

 

[Viirin]

Spoiler: Wow that long? Crap.

Okay, I didn't intend to not update for this long. I'm trying to have consistent internet, but I hope I don't get it due to being fired at work due to office politics. Also did a bunch of work on the site, it's already up. Not useful yet, but up.

 

[Viirin]

Spoiler: Books

You growing horns?

@Nathair: (unlocked: cattail, dragonfly) Using its senses, the slime recognized far too many small dots of warm wet-filled things all around it, and all its eyes allowed it to tell what they were. Mostly things it had already seen. But the big one it had seen was still no where in sight. But the slime... maybe because of its heads hurting and mashing things, got an idea. If it ever was to find that creature, it couldn't survive trying to fight it at its own current size. It was only around the size of one of the creature's limbs, and those were small compared to most of the rest of it.

 

[booksv2]

Looking around for the thing that is bigger than himself Nathair shakes one of his heads and turns to move away. Moving quickly along the ground and poking the organic things around him he bites a few of the leafy organics around to taste them and see if they tasted good. Slowing down close to one of the plants he feels warm wet under the inorganic he is walking on.

Leaning in and poking the inorganic with his pointed things he looks at a darkness under the brush. Poking one head in slowly with the pointy thing out he sticks his head in deeper and deeper looking for the warm wetness he can feel down there.

 

[Dragonhatchling]

This new sensation scared Sevak tremendously. He felt like he was going to die an all-closed-up-mess. He was missing legs. Missing scales. The wounds were closing, yes, but that didn't seem right. He wondered if it was being stuck in this container that caused it. Should he try to get out? Could he? He had stuffed his head into the can pretty far and was still a little dizzy from the repeated hitting he had done to get here as well as the fall.

But the slime tried. He used what was left of his legs to try and push himself out of the container. Doing so also made him realize his broken legs were also regaining strength again somehow. Or maybe it was just the hardening fooling him. Either way, he could use them again mostly. At least for pushing he could. But pushing didn't help him here. He was stuck. The liquid that had hardened around his head had sealed him inside the container.

What was he going to do!!??

Something in Sevak told him thrashing probably was a good idea. Thrashing and banging his head into the sides seemed to be the only option in his messed up brain at the moment. The sight was something to see all right. A snake-like centipede slime thrashing a container around and bumping it into anything nearby certainly was something to record. The poor creature ended up making his situation worse as the container bumped into something else and got stuck itself. Now what? He was doomed. And partially freaking out. His body still thrashed in an attempt to break free.

 

[Viirin]

@Nathair: A huge creature! The slime couldn't tell if it was bigger than the other one that kept disappearing, but this creature was standing in a strange position and the golden warm wet was coming from under it, trickling down the inorganic and pooling under the slime's legs. It wasn't facing the slime.
Down the hole was dark, with a different warm-wet (where it came from was thought to be known, but maybe not!) and for some reason, the wet seemed to fill the hole. A little bubble came up from below the surface and popped in the slime's face.

@Sevak: The container the slime's head was stuck in was totally immobile. Moving around as psychotically as it was, the slime finally realized something that should have scared it earlier, but for understandable reasons, didn't at the time. The circular hole where the slime shoved its head was a little sharp, though not on the outside. Like it was curved a little on the inside, and that part was sharp. The thrashing movements caused the slime to start slashing its own neck, and it didn't feel like it would be able to heal properly, at least not while also remaining free. It could always purposely cut off its own head and just grow another one later if it could find some organics... which it sorely needed anyway for healing reasons, in addition to its furious hunger.

 

[booksv2]

Nathair looks at the large thing for a few minutes and after tilting his heads back and forth he slowly moves forward keeping an eye on the thing. Stepping slow and careful he reaches his heads forward closer and closer to it. Looking for a place where he can reach where a lot of the warm red wet is.

Setting his foot in the warm wet on the ground slowly and moving forward he pushs forward as hard as he can and sinks both his mouths into the things body. Venom and poison and everything else pumping into its body as he holds onto it tight.

 

[Viirin]

@Nathair: The large creature flicked the appendage the slime had bit and latched onto; and if the slime had known just how powerful the creature was, it might have held on. But alas; it didn't, so it wasn't able to. The slime flew backwards, hitting its back on something hard and erect in shape. It must have been one of the gigantic organic things that didn't move. The slime was somewhat dazed, and fell behind a different organic; leafy this time with small points all over it.

 

[booksv2]

Nathair rolls onto his feet and looks at his back, standing slowly. He falls down again and groans silently at the newly found pain that had happened from hitting the hard large organic. Laying there and looking around he pokes his head through the pointy organic between him and the large thing that had made him fly through the air. Jumping slightly when he gets poked by then he bites the organic he is behind and pulls on it, both his heads biting at the organic and chewing as best he can.

The little needle like things all over his body sliding out of his body before going back. watching the large thing with one head as the other keeps gnawing and chewing on the organic around it. Staring at the large thing trying to find where he can bite it again, knowing that his bites before had nearly drained his sacks in his heads into it.

Nathair could feel something changing in his back and tail, something was growing and pushing out of his skin just a little. Under the surface a greater change was happening, old pieces of his DNA changing and things seem to take shape back there as he stands there. Looking back he stares at the small protuberances coming from his back and tail he looks at them closely. Inside a small thing was being formed from his own skin and flesh but taking its own shape and seems to be moving on its own. As he stares a small thing pokes out of the little things on his back and slowly something starts to crawl out and stands on Nathairs back, looking up at him. He could feel the things it was from, all of them things he knew himself and he realized he had made them.

It had the head of some of the small stinging things from before with the same little pokey things on top, but a longer body. Several little wings on its back and a large stinger at the back it doesnt have legs so much as many little fang like things that are made to grab and hold onto something. Inside it is a complex mix of things that even Nathair was having a little hard recognizing but he can tell that it is many of the poisons and other glands inside himself packed into its body. Its mouth was a combination of the small things from before and some of his original organic, which means that it would be able to grab and even rip into flesh or plants. But its biggest thing for Nathair was that it's body would be able to stretch, taking in a lot of organics or other things and flying them back to Nathair for him to eat and they could also pump lots of mixed poison and venom into things. Nathair felt his legs weaken and he fell to his belly as more and more of these things seemed to crawl out of him. After just 5 he felt a shiver go through him and he stopped creating them. weakened now and watching these 5 little parts of himself crawl over him he watched as they all turned towards the large thing that had sent him through the air and one by one they all lift into the air and buzz over to it.

Showing that they also got some instincts from their parent they all dive for large thick veins and clamp onto the flesh tight as their stinger/fang/needle slides into the large vein and pumps as much mixed poison into it as they hold on, most of them already trying to rip into its flesh and eat it.

Spoiler: new creature looks

It's small.
Has an ants head and antenna and pincer.
Mixture of fly and mosquito wings.
The stinger at the back is a cross between a snake fang so it is hollow.
its pincers have the strength of a hercules beetle
it has a semi thin ecxoskeletan around the front half of its body to help with biting and lifting while the back doesn't so it can stretch.

This is an attacking/eating insect he can create. they will attack anything living around them or Nathair and ear it as best they can before flying back to be eaten by nathair themselves giving him what they were made from as well as what they have eaten.

 

[Viirin]

Spoiler: Books

This is an awesome description for a new power of yours. Is this why you wanted to start in the swamp and collect bug DNA? It sounds like my favorite special attack from Warcraft 3, used by the Crypt Lord.

@Nathair: The large creature continued along its path, getting farther from the slime. The little attacking things didn't seem to matter, but the slime didn't know why. It was getting weaker and weaker quickly, and had been even since before the slime had attacked. The creature didn't make it much farther before collapsing. But the quintet of slimespawn was already on its way back to the slime, each carrying a small amount of material taken from the animal.

 

[booksv2]

Spoiler: OOC

Actually because i wanted snakes but i come up with this a bit ago and im loving the idea hellava lot.

Nathair stays on the ground where he had fallen after birthing the flying things from himself. As he feels the pieces of himself fly towards him he opens his mouths and raises as the little buzzers land right in front of him. Taking them in his mouth and easily absorbing the material they are made of even the harder bits he swallows the pieces they left behind and lays there letting them dissolve as he gains the strength from them. Standing and walking slowly on wobbly legs towards where the thing had fallen.

Walking up to it and biting its side he feels very little blood moving inside it as Nathair pulls on the tickling thing over the rest below. Pulling on the fur more and finally letting it go he slowly crawls up the large organic thing and uses his fangs to pull himself up it. Straddling the large part and poking its body a few times with his horns he pulls his head back and slams it back down, his horn breaking the outside and going down into it making the blood ooze out of the hole he made.

Staying where he is and moving his tail down close to where the new hole is he sits his body down on it and rests as new creations start forming in the small areas on his back. Rather than a few things this time dozens of tiny forms are created in each, quickly spewing out of the multiple spots on his back to swarm down his back and into and over the hole that been made.

Spoiler: New bug

This looks like a small ant
with double the number of legs and a body with a very high elasticity and stretch.
They have a smaller version of the Gambian Pouched rat teeth.
Each has a strength equal to a Hercules beetle, and its body can hold 10 times its own weight in food.

After they are full they return and are eaten again
They have zero attack ability, their only interest in eating and returning to Nathair.

They dont care if they eat meat or vegetables just the closest organic thing till they are full and then back.

 

[Viirin]

@Nathair: The creation and reabsorption of the insectoid spawn returned most of the energy and mass that was required to make them, and they brought back mass, but it wasn't a perfect amount. There was still some loss. But the slime had a huge creature in its effortless grip, so it didn't really matter right now. The slime would have to figure out a way to recover its swarm without having to be created/absorbed, and just carry it somehow.
The creature the slime was starting to consume had a few expansions and contractions, but they were not severe, and only a few of them before they seemed to stop entirely.