Saarg decided to deal with the lumps first. It forced the straight edged thing out of its body, sealing up the gap behind it. Now free from the irritating sensation, it decided that, as the other lump felt right, it would leave it there until it became a problem.
Next, Saarg turned his attention to the organic thing it was standing on. What on earth was it? Saarg found its movements unsettling, and decided to, cautionsly, see if it was edible, whatever it was.
Bosque reacted on instinct and found himself buzzing high into the air. The glow stick coiled in his tail bopped the larger creature in it's nose as it sped toward him, fully revealing Bosque's location. Not that it mattered in the long term, he did glow rather forcefully now. The creature could probably see him.
He did a circle in the air and the creature circled too directly below him. Bosque tried to get a good look at the much larger entity, with the glow it wasn't terribly difficult.
And then Bosque felt a knot in his chest, just as the feeling of stickiness faded from him entirely. Bosque didn't know, but he had suspicions this knot would never go away.
Ish was extremely happy with its new ability to consume things at a higher rate. It found it had gained some energy during that consumption spree and started to form something hard inside its upper and lower snout. Ish went searching for something to eat and finally settled upon a large carcase of something.
I just want something to feast on, surprise me on what it is.
Clinging to the inorganic form and having just had a slimy meal, Eltanin decided to fulfill an urge that it had felt for some time. The slime extended a small portion of itself upwards, becoming a long and slightly flat form as long as its body. Many smaller extensions grew from this form, each secreting a sweet and sticky drop on their ends.
Eltanin became motionless and its simple thoughts became far less frequent; the slime was content to sit and wait for food to approach it for now.
So, Eltanin's gone all plant for now because I'd expect it to be exhausted from growing a new appendage. I suppose it will stay this way until it catches a sufficient meal of flying insects.
I'm thinking this tentacle leaf may become the tail of this dragon slime swamp thing.
@Arq: The organic noticed Arq coming closer, and turned to try and escape, but the slime, being taller, was able to make a lurch and catch it with the protrusion in its upper front, getting a grip easily. The organic's skin was jagged, making any grip simple. Not worried about catching the thing since it had done so, the slime could pay more attention to the inorganic at its feet. Instead of shifty tiny grains, some of the grains were much bigger. Looking in its immediate surroundings, it could tell that some of the grains were almost as big as the slime was.
@Saarg: The tiny pinpricks got so close the slime expected they would be on top of it. At that time, something extremely thin, flexible and hard brushed the slime's surface, then was immediately removed. Whatever the creature [http://www.westoakspestcontrol.com/images/oriental_cockroach_picture.jpg] was, it was still there. The slime absorbed a small piece of what it was resting on, just enough to tell that it was similar to the soft parts of the straight edged thing. A spritz of tiny wet drops dusted the slime's surface, and judging by the movements, the creature crouched down and stopped moving out of short term fear.
@Bosque: The large creature [http://www.247wildlife.com/photos/opossum021.jpg] was furry and had different color shading on its face than on the rest of its body. It had a long tail like the slime did, but didn't look like it could fly. It kept circling around where Bosque had taken off from, jumping and biting at the slime trying to catch it. There seemed to be something in the creature's mouth coming out of it, but the slime didn't know what it could be.
@Ish: The creature wasn't moving, but none of it tasted any less fresh as any of the rest of it. For some reason, there weren't any insects on this [http://www.owl-pictures.com/barnowl-flight.jpg] body, but the slime couldn't figure out why- there were bugs on every other dead thing it had found.
@Eltanin: Something touched the slime's sweet tentacles. It hardly even registered because it was so light, but since the slime could feel the same creature touching multiple tentacles, it could tell it was pretty wide. The parts of the creature's body the slime could feel were very thin and spindly [http://la-ventana.com/mosquito.jpg].
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"Hey, I'm gettin tired. I'm goin to bed."
"Yeah, I'm gonna go, I'll see... was that stuff in the glass thing green earlier?"
"Huh...?"
"I mean it looks like its really slightly green. Right?"
"Dude, leave. I'm goin to bed."
Eltanin, still in a vegetative daze, felt a dull wave of pleasure as its tendril slowly closed on the food thing. It took a bit of time to make the spindly thing stop moving, but as it seemed less inclined to try to escape, the slime deposited the insect onto the surface of its gelatinous form and ate contentedly.
It then reached its leafy appendage upwards once more, and waited for another treat.
I assume that the mosquito was successfully captured in its noodly appendage, correct? I don't want to go GMing. >.>
Arq was enjoying the meal it had got a lot. It had hurt things, but they weren't as hurting as the other ones it had encountered. They give Arq more room to grab it and absorb it. While absorbing the organic thing, Arq decided to look around.
There where new inorganic things to see. They where bigger than the other inorganic things is was standing on. Some as big or even bigger than Arq. As soon as Arq was done with absorbing the organic thing, Arq went to look at the new inorganic things and search for new organic things to absorb?
Do I get the DNA for it or do I need to absorb more? I got a idea on how I am going to use it. I am still looking for a way to incorporate the Saguaro Cactus DNA in there.
my friend is interested in joining, also sorry about not posting just wasn't in the mood the last two days
the slime ate these two organic things and the one they were on, but this time it was different instead of just pulling them into its body, it instead closed it's head like extension down on the organic pieces of slime and the organic object they were on.
Something quick. Does fly include fly eyes? I would think it would but I wanted to be sure
Sevak continued to eat the odd wiggly things as it invested and though of what to do about the sticky and fuzzy object. Tasting that proved to have a much different taste than the wigglies or the flies. Whatever it was, the slime seemed to like that taste a bit more than fly. It continued to eat more of the wriggles as it slowly got to the bottom of them and started to enjoy the newer taste. It soon hit the ground from the small section it had eaten, though the slime didn't stop there. This taste was different and different in a good way. The mooshyness of it didn't bother the creature at all and it searched for another section to eat. Mooshy or not, that tasted pretty good compared to fly.
Sorry, the neighborhood's power went out earlier so I couldn't get on.
By all means join! Just either PM me with your character sheet or post it in the thread. As with Shanaar's case, which I'm telling everyone now since the 'need to know' is needed, a species was chosen as the starting DNA that I planned on giving him in the spot he chose to start anyway, so I asked for something else to be chosen.
You unlocked 'horned lizard skin' and 'horned lizard spines' (its spikes. to get the rest you'll need to find more, yes). In regards to 'I'm looking for a way to incorporate...' don't worry about it. Some DNA or chemical abilities will be totally pointless or not seem different in the slightest right away. With some things, I've been watching your styles and looking at your general idea of your dragon and giving you stuff that will enhance the traits I think you're aiming towards when you're somewhere between the size of a cow and a London double-decker bus. But at that point you are NOT going to be unlocking new DNA unless you go idiotically out of your way to do it- like raiding a fully loaded fishing boat and spending half a day eating, as an example.
Unlocked: garden snail, wild rose.
Yes, by unlocking 'fly', you unlocked 'fly eyes', 'fly wings', and even 'exoskeleton' ALSO when you fully unlock something, its INSTINCTS are also absorbed. They don't force you to act a certain way, but you can use those instincts as advisors. Example: you're being attacked. You unlocked rabbit. The rabbit's instincts would be to flee. You also unlocked dog. A dog's instincts say 'go for the jugular'. Just might be a good idea to ignore 'fly instincts'. "Smash your face into a plate glass window a thousand times in hopes that you'll pass through it". Another example is you unlock say, a frog. Well frogs have different forms, such as tadpole. Same DNA, so it's unlocked too. Updating FAQs.
unlocked: cantalope, mold
@Arq: The wet coming from up stopped just as fast as it started, with the same amount of warning. The slime heard a small sound coming from not too far away from under one of the large grains. *chirp* what was this? Standing perfectly still, it heard it again. It heard more and more of the things making that same sound, but it couldn't tell what was... something very small appeared and moved its back legs, that were much bigger than its front legs, and the sound came from it. That's what was doing it!
@Wrecker: The slime gripped the organic stick-like thing and it shook slightly, making the round things fall off. But because of the shape the slime had taken with its head-like blob, the round things simply fell into its grip. These new organisms tasted completely different from anything it had found so far. The round, smooth organic things were mostly slimy, just like itself. The other thing had hard and sharp things all over it, but much bigger than the other organic it absorbed. Also different than the first one, it could make big fluffy things at its ends.
@Sevak: Absorbing the wiggly things was a strange experience. They tasted and moved different, but then the slime could tell it was the same creature as the suicidal flying ones were. But this mooshy thing! It was soft and sweet and gooey and just great. The fuzzy stuff on it, not so much, but it was organic too. The slime would normally had taken longer to absorb such a thing, but it couldn't help but rip off everything it could find, opening its gap so wide and with such gusto that it was actually able to stretch some of its inner slime out of its own gap to rub the ground in an attempt to get more of the stuff. Unfortunately, it seemed to be nearly gone, only tiny bits of the stuff trailing up the hill.
Ish didn't care the reason, and dug in. while it consumed the flesh, the hard structure in its snout spred throughout its body, forming individual pieces. Ish was pleased with its new additions, it felt more stable now.
You grew a skeletal structure? Nice! Also I keep giving you diseased things cuz you started with Komodo Dragon and they're famous for having super-diseased mouths in addition to being a giant lizard that can break your legs with a single tail swipe. So I figure I should expand your diseases.
unlocked: barn owl
Yep, you got a mosquito in your tendrils.
@Ish: The soft stuff on the outside of the creature wasn't as soft as it seemed. It was lots of different pieces, each a thin strip of hard with lots of soft around it, but the whole thing flat. Whatever, the slime kept ripping out as many big chunks of the animal as it could, absorbing what it had bitten off. Two new feelings hit the slime. It was still hungry but it couldn't make itself eat anymore. The hollow area inside it felt full, even though the slime still wanted more to make up for its use of its mass to grow hard stabilizing things in its body. There was still a third of the creature left, but the slime couldn't bring itself to eat more. That hollow spot seemed to force the rest of it to rest. The other feeling was dizziness. The world seemed to be spinning slightly, each of the slime's eyes said it was going opposite directions. The slime's legs even seemed uncoordinated for some reason.
@Eltanin: Another spindly thing, much bigger, but feeling like it was shaped the same, came almost immediately. It seemed to be trying to do something to the other thing that was caught. What could this be? It wasn't as interested in the sweet as the other thing was, but seemed very interested in the thing the slime caught.
Eltanin felt confused.
Things come to the slime, and the slime tries to eat it. Things try to go away when Eltanin does this. Food things doing stuff to other food things..?
Some food things do stuff?
...Why?
The slime postponed a bout of half-vegetative contemplation in order to fulfill a different curiousity- figuring out what this thing is. Eltanin did what it felt most appropriate and reached its new appendage in the general direction of this new flappy spindly.
Saarg smiled inwardly at its first encounter with a living organism. The creature seemed to be hesitating out of fear, and Saarg didn't give it a chance to act on it! Pointed extensions bared, Saarg threw itself at the creature!
Once it was caught, Saarg began absorbing it. Realising how easy it had been to catch the creature, Saarg decided a new defence mechanism was neccassary. It created a gland in its mouth, inbetween its two extensions and filled it with the liquid substance it had absorbed from the straight edged things. Saarg hoped that, if it needed to flee, its new ballistic weapon would be most helpful!
Ish wanted to be full again, it focused the energy it had to grow, it's body extending to be a bit longer with a narrowed midsection like an hourglass. After the growth spurt, Ish ate again to get rid of the hunger and the hourglass like area grew in to look normal.
You'll get to that size and bigger eventually, but remember RPs are more about adventure than 'winning', no need to rush. You can concentrate on growing, but not 4x as big as you are now. Please, no specific numbers. Just out of curiosity, I'm wondering what the 'hourglass like area' is. By eating the owl, you did grow to 1.5 feet though.
You're on the right path with using your ink gland as a breath weapon, but you haven't unlocked anything with a projectile attack, so no can do as of yet. Plus, your slime doesn't actually know that the 'lump' is an ink gland yet. I do admit this is the hardest thing in RPing- making sure the character doesn't know what the player knows.
Perfect! I'd say you're probably around 2.25 feet long now. You can no longer gain DNA from insects, worms, crawdads, goldfish, or anything else of similar size.
@Ish: The slime had stretched in every direction, and became larger than it was before. The hardest thing for the slime to grow in this new increased size was keeping its hard stabilizers inside it the same ratio, but more important than that, the slime had to eat. It had to eat a lot, and it had to eat now! There was that huge pile of bad-tasting organic that was covering whatever organic/inorganic that it had found earlier. It was a disgusting choice and not desirable, but it was guaranteed intake. Out of voracious hunger, the slime highly considered running back to the pile.
@Eltanin: The other creature tasted almost exactly the same, but somehow different. The slime had no idea what this meant. Catching it with another tentacle would probably be just as easy as the first one. The cold/wet got the slime's attention. It dripped up? It felt like something slightly hard and very small was under the up-drip.
The slime started wondering just how many different organic things could grow these hard painful extensions, maybe growing some of these spikes could help the slime defend itself from other things like the wriggly thing that bit him. He then returned to his feeding frenzy, with the hard line in the middle of his body complete, he started growing and long thin extensions on the opposite side of his body from the one he used to eat the three organic things, as well as that more of the hard yet bendy thing inside his body started growing through the tail and extension of this going towards his other growths.
Your turn for a tail and skeletal system, huh? Nice. Also did you like the pillbug DNA I gave you earlier? I figure you could use it eventually. You've grown 6 inches.
@Wrecker: The slime continued consuming the large rose bush along with the snails covering it. As the slime continued slowly moving along so it could easily access the plant as it absorbed it, it noticed a different organic. This one wasn't gooey or hard, but really soft and fluffy. It couldn't detect any meaty flavor on the fluffy... but something in the slime told it that it was probably from an animal of some kind. The slime started feeling like its limbs were heavier; but its increased hunger from changing was curbed since it was constantly eating as it grew.
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