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[Viirin]

Spoiler: Wrecker, Bosque, Ish

Sevak is gonna be busy for quite some time in RL, so I'll ask you to not go out of your way to interact with her cuz it'll mess up your game.

Spoiler: Dragonhatchling

No problem Dragonhatchling. I'll still keep you going, but I'll just not have you interact with the others. Also, unlocked: fern

Spoiler: mcpop9

I'm not sure anyone knows if spiders can see color or not, but I know reptiles and mammals can't except humans. But I'll let it slide. Komodos don't have scales over their eyes and snakes do, which is why snakes don't have eyelids. But you can grow scales, so its up to you what you do with it, so it's cool. I'm guessing that you nabbed the moth, since Bosque was kind of giving it to you caught in a web, since he absorbed the bat before it could land a second time. Please wait for Khedive Rex to post as Bosque again before responding.

Spoiler: nuba km

I reread a bunch of this, and saw I forgot to tell you that you unlocked grass.

@Forest slimes and desert slimes: The only remaining light is from the moon and stars. There is no more color to be seen.

@Sevak: The fuzzy-soft did not put up any resistance to being absorbed. There was a small trail [http://www.fresnobeehive.com/photos/assets_c/2009/01/blog%20snail-thumb-600x390-15965.jpg] of some sort of hard slime covering part of what it absorbed, and the trail continued along somewhere. There was no way to tell which end of the trail was slimier and which was harder.

@Ish: Now having the ability to see, the slime noticed that a strangely shaped creature was hovering in the air in front of it, making another creature it had caught [http://www.nps.gov/bibe/naturescience/images/MexicanFree-tailedBat.jpg] with its chest, apparently, slowly melt and dissolve into itself. It was absorbing the creature in mid-air! It pulled most of the creature inside its own, but the creature's two wings, one which had a circular hole in it, fell onto the ground. The flying thing came closer with a small creature [http://www.aphotofauna.com/images/moths/moth_chloroclysta_truncata_common_marbled_carpet_24-05-10.jpg] with small amounts of stringy stuff stuck on it and dropped it on the ground in front of Ish. The creature seemed to have carried the insect by stabbing it with the spikes growing on its back. It's back and wings definitely didn't look like slime, though. They looked different.

@Bosque: The odd-looking creature the flying slime was attempting to befriend looked different just in the short time it was watching. Two spots on the nob in front looked like it was cut open, but then they looked darker, and rounder. It couldn't get a clear look at them since Bosque was flying, but it looked like something happened. A dozen or so feet in the distance, something shone out like a snuffed beacon. It was the same color as the soft parts growing out of the tall organic things. Whatever had moved under the bush earlier had not continued the same direction, or if it did, the fight with the furry flapping thing distracted it when it otherwise could have noticed it.

@Wrecker: The slime noticed something odd. One of the things wiggling around near it [http://www.sarahschmerler.com/wp-content/uploads/Earthworm.jpg] felt different from the others. It scrunched itself up and then stretched out, and did this over and over again. Wherever the creature went, there was slightly more light. It did not leave a trail, the creature itself brought light with it [http://media.arstechnica.com/journals/science.media/glow_worm.jpg]. The slime felt a small amount of dirt fall in its surface. Nothing made the hole shake, where did it- thats when the slime noticed that it had grown a very small amount of something on itself [http://farm1.static.flickr.com/152/356078445_ff97cc4f81.jpg]. It hadn't intended or even noticed it did it.

 

[Shanaar]

Arq was enjoying the thing it was absorbing and for the first time it started to feel a bit full. As soon as he felt it, it went away. Instead Arq felt four things growing and becoming solid from it. Trying to find out what they where, Arq put one of them on the sand and put some pressure on it. Suddenly he felt a bit of it self go up and just feel nothing, but he also felt something new. Arq could feel the inorganic things it was standing on shift a bit as it moved it's new five things it had on the new thing. It felt if it could dig in to it now. Trying the other three things, Arq fond out that they worked almost the same as the other one.

Arq fond the sensation it felt with part of it feeling nothing weird, but somehow it felt right. This brought with it a whole new set of problems for Arq. When it rolled over the ground, it could feel when there where organic things. Now with this area greatly reduced, Arq needed something new to sense organic things. Suddenly it felt something new strange, it also hurt. Arq didn't know what was happening to it. It wasn't near anything that could hurt it and it was also centred on two area's. Suddenly the hurt stopped and Arq thought that it should sense something, but it didn't. Suddenly feeling disoriented, Arq went forward and it didn't know why. Trying to stop this, it tried to go back. This only seemed to make it worse.

Stumbling around for a bit on these new things of it, Arq felt it sometimes stepping on organic things and absorbing them this way. Now completely confused, Arq stumbled over it own legs causing it trip. While falling on to his hurt things, Arq sensed something for a fleeting moment. It was something above the inorganic things it was on. Getting up and trying different poses, Arq finally fond what it was searching for. A big white round thing above it. Sensing this, Arq could only sit still and watch it.

Spoiler: Explained

Arq went a grew legs from the desert monitor DNA it has. It also grew eyes. I don't know if Arq needs to get more DNA from the coyote, else it has the eyes from the coyote.

 

[Viirin]

Spoiler: Shanaar

It was only half of a skeletal leg of a coyote with barely any meat left on it, but its size was enough in relation to you that Coyote is unlocked. I know I forced the issue, but you also unlocked Pincher Bug (also known as Earwig). Also, great post.

@Arq: Whenever the legged slime clawed at the easily displaced ground, some of it fell back down, filling the holes it made, but nowhere near as fast as it dug. Then something [http://www.birdingafrica.com/IMAGES_from_Feb09/MLIdesertEagleOwl_BH_CC.jpg] a few dozen feet in front of the slime moved, and seemed to go in a straight line through the air, going from the top of one tall dark shape [http://www.montriphotography.net/nature/Other%20Places/slides/Saguaro%20Cactus%20at%20Sunset.JPG] to another. Changing its body so much at once made the slime absolutely ravenous. Even if it ignored the obvious moving thing in the distance, there was other movement in other directions within its field of vision, but they looked smaller, at least from where it was standing.

 

[nuba km]

Spoiler

sorry for not posting yesterday just kinda lost track of time. I have a small period of time to post now so I just read post relative to my slime I will catch up as soon as I am not as busy

the slime decide to start devouring all the wriggling creatures, including the one that felt different. while doing this a solid formation started growing don the middle of him, it was made of many small sections that were held together by a strings of flesh. it felt different having things growing inside him, though there were suspended in him like his food but unlike his food they for some weird reason felt like they belonged there.

after digesting all of the worms he returned to pulling himself along the ground devouring whatever he could find.

Spoiler

he is growing a spine and muscle but no nerves as of yet

 

[Khedive Rex]

Bosque watched the new creature frozenly stand in place and grow two new buldges. Bosque thought it might have been a method of communication, so he grew something of his own. Cells hardened into giant sacks inside him, in what was truely the most awkward feeling addition he'd adapted. A pipe of some kind winded up from the sacks and broke skin just below his eyes. The hole let cold seep through him as the sacks contracted in of their own accord. Bosque expelled the cold as quickly and strongly as he could, only to feel the shock of the darkness's vibrations running lightly through him.

He'd taken his oldest enemy's greatest weapon. But my it was uncomfortable. Bosque wanted something to cover the cold so finally two hardened leaves grew from the top and bottom of the gap, protruding out long and thin.

Bosque hovered in the air for a moment, after the changes. But so much had changed now, and he was so hungry... He stared at the big, mossy, scaley creature in front of him, stoic and patient. He glanced at the strange lights from under the round prickly thing... He wanted them.

Bosque opened his hard leaves and fired a single shaking-ness at the foot of the creature in front of him. Then he tried to point to the bush with his leaves. He repeated the pointing process twice, and then dashed over to find the source of the glow.

Spoiler: Explained

Bosque grew lungs and a voice box from the Bat and then found that breathing cold air was unpleasent so he grew a beak from the Hummingbird. Understandably this made him very hungry, so he's gonna go check out the source of the strange lights. But he's trying to invite Ish.

 

[mcpop9]

Ish had nothing better to do so it followed the other creature into the bushes. it passive tore off chunks of the thing it went though, they were soft and Ish absorbed them.

 

[Shanaar]

Arq just kept looking at the big round thing above the inorganic things it was standing on. What was it and how did it stay there it thought, before a more normal feeling took over. It felt very hungry and it needed something to absorb. Looking back down to what it now saw as a great expanse of inorganic things and dark things that where reaching for the big round thing. A part of Arq thought that maybe that big round thing was important to those things as they where leaving the inorganic things and going toward it.

While looking at on of the dark things, Arq saw something come from it and go towards one of the other dark things in a straight line and not even touching the inorganic things. Intrigued by this. Arq tried to move towards where it thought he has seen the thing go to.

Walking towards it, Arq stumbled and fell down a lot while walking towards his goal. Reaching the round reaching thing, Arq stumbled and again fell face first in to the thing. Thinking what are those things that are coming from it, Arq suddenly felt hurt again when he hit them. "Hurt things, Hurt things" Arq thought while getting out of them. Feeling a new emotion come over it, one it hadn't felt before. It felt mad, angry at those things that had hurt it again. Thinking it had to do something about it, Arq hit the hurt thing with his new walking thing. Seeing something come of it and also notching it was something organic, Arq kept hitting it, venting its angry on it.

Spoiler: Explained

Arq doesn't has a Vestibular system at the moment, so he keeps falling over and stumbling over it owns legs

 

[InkBlot Royalist]

Saarg was both disorientated and confused by the sudden awakening from its slumber. It tried to remember if its home had always been so...spacious. However, such musings came secondary to Saarg's primary desire: Food. The two organic substances pressing into it were becoming irritating, and, following a simple path of logic, decided to remove them the only way it knew how. Saarg began trying to consume them.

 

[Dragonhatchling]

Spoiler: Viirin

I became ungrounded today. Due to me being in USA (in New York) I won't be on as often as you all are, or at the same time... band is still going on and so is school but I should be able to be on more often. At least once a night, give or take a few if I become really busy I'm gonna make use of some stuff I have too, primarily the snake part and maybe the fern... just to be "ferny" I guess XD

Sevak felt a little odd as the fuzzy-soft disappeared, tasting a bit of the hard slime. Whatever it was it covered most of the fuzzy-soft before and seemed to go somewhere. The slime didn't follow it yet and stayed where it was. It felt oddness all around it, like something was poking sharp things into it. After a few moments of this sharp poking pain, scales [http://austin.wildliferemoval.co/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/timber-rattlesnake.jpg] had grown on the slime. This provided greater traction, or at least it thought that. A small patch of dark black-green also was blotched on the top area of the slime on the middle each small black band on the scales. This felt very odd to the slime but now it was hungry again. Finding the trail of hard-slime was harder now since it couldn't completely sense it the way it was used to. After getting used to moving with this new coat of skin, the slime did realize that sensing textures and the ground was similar to the way it was before. Soon the trail of hard-slime was found and followed a little ways, changing course for a moment when another fuzzy-soft bumped into Sevak. Even though the creature had eaten one of those already, the feeling it had given still somewhat bothered the slime.

 

[Viirin]

Spoiler: Wrecker

Unlocked: earthworm, pill bug, oak tree

Spoiler: Ish

Unlocked: Manzanita bush

Spoiler: Saarg

Unlocked: Chicken (because of the egg in the sandwich), Apple (fruit and tree), Wheat. Also you're touching a couple books and still trapped in the backpack.

Spoiler: Ish, Bosque

I'm trying to describe that you've found a big, wide pile of trash, caked in a combination of rotten stuff, waste, and dirt.

@Wrecker: The wiggly things were gone, finally. The slime was in a feeding frenzy, absorbing every organic it could find, no matter what it was. The slime found some small hard things [http://onewaypestcontrol.com/sites/default/files/images/pill%20bugs.jpg] that tried to escape, but they all failed, or at least the ones that the slime came in contact with. The slime even found some fluffy stuff from some creature it hadn't encountered [http://ih0.redbubble.net/work.6695054.2.flat,550x550,075,f.forest-wolf-canis-lupus.jpg], but the creature itself was nowhere to be found. Absorbing constantly, the slime was finally stopped in its tracks by severe pain all over its upper surface. The pain started the moment the slime bumped into a soft organic [http://www.reluctantgourmet.com/images/stinging_nettle.gif] with tiny sharp, hard things. It felt like the slime's upper surface had been poked by the soft organic's pokey things, but it felt that way even if it that part of the slime didn't touch it.

@Bosque: The colored light [http://www.veritemp.com/4-inch-Green-4.jpg] was much bigger than it looked, covered in a bunch of possibly inorganic things, or organic, or both, the slime couldn't tell. The other creature was following shortly behind, and seemed to notice the treasure as well; but was also slightly distracted with the ground for some reason.

@Ish: The slime followed the flying creature, but not as fast. The flying one seemed to have found something interesting. As soon as Ish didn't have its view blocked by random rises and dips of dirt, it saw what the flying one found [http://www.veritemp.com/4-inch-Green-4.jpg]. Ish noticed something in addition, though. This strange pile of whatever it was was covered in foul-tasting organic, but had a lot of organic within it, too.

@Arq: The hurty things on the organic thing ripped, and the organic's skin broken and was ripped as well. Just as the slime had dug in the inorganic that everything seemed to be on or in, the organic thing got large chunks removed too. These chunks did not rebuild themselves like the inorganic did. Something wet started to ooze onto the slime's protrusions as it kept digging through the organic. The slime kept doing this, then noticed that the organic seemed to be coming towards it, at least the top part was. The bottom part seemed to slightly be bending backward, or folding.

@Saarg: The organic things tasted great, and the slime learned a lot from them. There was still the inorganic thing in there, and a couple other things that had all straight edges. Whether the straight-edged things were organic or inorganic the slime couldn't tell, maybe it was a combination of both? Able to feel it now, the top and bottom of this new cage felt inorganic, but soft and very flexible.

@Sevak: The slime's scaled surface made it much less sensitive to everything, but still able to tell basic things like if it was being touched, even by something light and soft like the fuzzy-soft. The ground seemed slightly colder and wetter than the rest of the ground did, but just in a crisscross of straight lines that went slightly deeper where the lines touched. The slime kept getting bumped by small stringy things. Then something bigger with countless pokey points [http://drugster.info/img/ail/758_763_2.jpg] came out of nowhere and started crawling over Sevak.

 

[Dragonhatchling]

Sevak stopped when the odd crawling object moved over it. The slime followed the feeling in the direction where the bug might be, bumping into something hard and rough before feeling the thing over it again. This time the slime didn't move, not wanting to bump into the rough again. That had hurt. The object stopped for a moment and the slime stayed stone-still. It continued to walk on the scales for a moment before moving off. Though Sevak stilled sensed where it was going if it judged by the direction. Following this direction the slime bumped into another rough object but found it could climb over it. Or under, though the latter seemed tighter so the slime climbed over it. Unknown to the slime, a small hole was on the other side, where it soon fell in just as the pokey-points crawled out. Confused, Sevak pushed at the ground for a moment thinking it had run into a rock. When nothing moved, the slime pushed upward to find nothing to get a hold of. This hole was not very deep, though having no eyes, the slime could not tell this. Sevak pushed at the side of the hole again before it flinched, feeling something drop onto it. The pokey-points was back and feeling the slime with it's antennas before trying to climb out as before. This time, the slime didn't allow the pokey-points to get fully out. This caused the creature to seem to struggle. Sevak could feel it flailing about as it whacked it's body on the scales once. Twice. Three times, before stopping that and trying to move the legs that were caught in the slime's grip. They were both stuck for the time-being.

Spoiler: explanation

Pokepoints is the centepied.... and they're stuck in a hole.

 

[mcpop9]

Ish didn't like the taste of the stuff on the ground so it kicked some dirt up at the other creature to get its attention. it pointed at the light thing and then away from it, pointing away from it multiple times. It started to back away from the lighted thingy slowly, fearing the bad taste on the ground.

 

[Viirin]

Spoiler: mcpop9

Waiting for Khedive Rex, then updating you both.

@Sevak: The pokey thing kept flailing around, then tried going towards the hole, then away from it. Then it started getting shoved out of the hole with a large amount of force, the scaley slime being forced to go with it. The slime couldn't tell the exact texture of what was pushing them, but it was big enough that the slime could tell it was a few times its own size, because of its strength. The slime for one moment attempted to instictually absorb some of whatever the thing was, but found it could not absorb through its scales.

 

[Dragonhatchling]

Spoiler: g'night now

yep, I'm going to bed. I have a big day tomorrow full of band... I need the extra sleep.

Sevak got shoved out of the hole, landing on top of the pokey thing as it continued to try to crawl out from under the slime. Being unable to absorb had confused the slime even more. Apparently scales weren't the same as it's old body but it did provide a bit more extra protection. Either way, whatever had shoved them out of the hole was still around and the pokey thing was getting increasingly agitated but still was unable to squirm its way out from under the slime.
Sevak tried to stop the squirming thing by pressing it's body downward but that only made things worse. Though something else caught it's attention. The feeling of an opening forming on one side of it worried the slime and it wondered what was going on while this happened. Though this worry soon subsided into even greater hunger. The squirming stopped by now, the pokey thing either had either given up or became dead. Either way, the slime used this new opening to touch the unsquirmy thing. It was hard which confused the slime but it closed the opening on the creature, clamping down harder when it started to squirm again. A soft snap could be heard as the creature stopped moving. Had Sevak killed it? The slime didn't care right now though, biting down a smaller piece of the creature before eating what was left of it after Sevak had gotten used to the odd taste.

Spoiler: about this

if any of this is not alright, I'll change it next time I'm on. it's all I could think of... the opening is obviously a mouth, though no teeth are yet here, it's just an openingish thing of a toothless gaping hole for a mouth that can be shut to seem like a normal slime again (picture our mouth I guess without teeth, a tongue or anything else...) so yeah, I can change it if I have to but I won't until sometime tomorrow (which is saturday the 17th for me) or sunday the 18th- depends on how busy I am.

 

[Viirin]

Spoiler: Sevak

Unlocked: centipede

@Sevak: The inside of the hard-skinned pokey creature was extremely soft, even squishy and gooey. The slime's new opening-grabber felt unfinished, but it did what it needed to well enough. Something small landed on the slime's scales, but didn't seem to be doing anything. Then for some reason the thing let go and could no longer be sensed. Just then, something organic [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/50/Pine_cone_edit.jpg] and the same size as the slime landed on top of it. Whatever it was seemed to fall from above, since that's the direction it was hit by the thing, whatever it was.

 

[Erana]

Spoiler: Perchance I could join? This sounds fun!

Name: Eltanin
Bonus DNA: The Sundew [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drosera]
Starting location: Swamp! (I'm not mistaken in thinking there's a slot available for that, am I?) More to the point, what kind of swamp are we talking?

Hell, I think I'll just go and assimilate a bunch of buggies. But they grow quickly while small, right? After a certain point, will Ellie not be able to unlock insects?

 

[Shanaar]

Arq was enjoying it self very much. The hurt things where feeling what it felt and this just felt good. Arq kept doing this even thought it now felt some kind of ooze coming out of it. Suddenly Arq noticed something. The big thing with the hurt things on it looked like it was coming for it. Was this because of what Arq had done do it? Was it instead of trying to reach the big round thing, was it trying to reach it? Seeing it come towards it and noticing that it had more hurt things on it, Arq tried to get away from it.

Trying to run away, Arq stumbled again and fell. Trying get back up, the big thing landed on Arq's back lag pining it under the big thing and driving a lot of the hurt things in to it's leg. If it had anyway to shown the hurt Arq felt, it would have used it. Arq blacked out from the hurt it felt. Regaining concious after a short while, Arq still felt the hurt things in it leg and also a new sensation. There was something heavy on it's leg and was pushing the hurt things in to it's leg. Seeing and sensing this, Arq tried to get the big thing of it's leg. When it was done, Arq noticed that, he couldn't use it right back leg that much and it hurt when it would put pressure on it.

Looking back at the big thing, Arq finally noticed that it was organic. Feeling hungry and out for revenge, Arq went and tried to adsorb the thing as slowly and as Arq thought hurtingly as possible.

 

[Viirin]

Spoiler: Erana

Very happy to have you, Eltanin! Character accepted. Yes, there are 3 slots- two now- for the swamp. The kind of swamp I'm talking about is similar to an overgrown, permanently flooded floodplain. Southern USA's swamps are magnificent but not what we have here in California. I put together a [http://www.calacademy.org/academy/exhibits/naturalist_center/nnotebook/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/swamp.jpg] [http://files.myopera.com/rfhurley/albums/6819902/swamp.jpg]few[/url] pictures [http://www4.samford.edu/howard/biology/wetlands/assets/swamp2.gif] to describe it. You're also the first person to request a plant as their starting DNA, which excites me. If your avatar is '8 bit theatre', you win. You also win if it's from 'dorkly bits white mages are dicks'.

Spoiler: Arq

Unlocked: saguaro cactus, and you grew a little

Spoiler: OOC FAQ Erana, others may totally read this too!

In regards to your question: As a small slime, you can grow very easily, and yes, yes yes and more yes to the question of 'is there a size that I can't gain abilities from insects anymore?' Think of this extreme example. You're a full-sized dragon the size of a school bus. Eating enough ants to equal 40% of your body mass at that point is impossible. You'd better do it sooner or you'll miss out. 99% of all species on this planet are smaller than your hand, which is why everyone starts small, so they miss out on the least possible. If say, you eat a single Daddy Long Legs [http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_d4wmYsZbrtE/S_HPlX3Ll1I/AAAAAAAAAAc/qa0xfrFAMkw/s400/daddy-long-legs-garden-spiders-3%5B1%5D.gif], you won't unlock it, because it's too small. Go find more if you're interested in its body or powers. Now, if you just eat enough to unlock everything or satiate yourself, then you won't grow. If you eat more than you need to, then you will.

@Arq: The tall organic thing just laid on the ground, collapsed. The slime ripped into the organic's skin in random locations, wanting as many open sores as absolutely possible, angered further by the fact that almost every successful wound poked its skin with even more hurty things, the organic was almost totally covered in them. If the slime absorbed deep enough into the organic, the liquid it noticed earlier came out. The slime made enough of these liquidy drippy places that there wasn't much liquid left in the organic anymore. The slime finally got slightly tired from exerting itself. Whether it was because it was tired now or because of something else, its skin felt like it had been stretched, or pulled.

 

[Viirin]

@Eltanin: It's night time right now. This way you're at the same time as everyone else.

@Eltanin: "What is dat thang?" "Ah don't know, ah saw mah frien when ah wuz on da way back here an he gay me it." A sound was heard from outside the shack. "Wat was dat?" "Ah don't know. That looks good to chuck at it doh." The hick threw the canister outside the glassless window, shattering it against a tree. The tree's roots were submerged in the stagnant water, and both halves of the canister sunk to the bottom, the slime groggily waking up as it sank into the cold, dark water. Besides the splash and sinking slime, the water moved from below as well; it at first seemed like one large movement but then it split into many small movements going in different directions.

 

[nuba km]

Spoiler

don't I also get the glowing worm thing?

the slime noticed this thing felt different wrom other thing that caused the slime to have a stinging pain, the slime decided to absorb this organic material as well, as they may be others like it and it has to get used to the pain if it wants to continue eating undisturbed.