Eltanin began to grasp at its meager form of consciousness in the shock of losing the cozy, hard thing that gave it shape. Now, it was like it was surrounded by a very very soft thing. No, not soft, suffocating and cold and restrictive of Eltanin's movements. Eltanin jiggled with this suffocating thing's movements. A feeling resembling panic swept across its simple mind, making it grasp for any hope to get away from this wet bad thing.
Then Eltanin landed on something. No, it moved, and was a lot of things that left Eltanin sinking again. Moving things incited an urge that dominated everything else at this panic-stricken moment: food. The slimey little creature grabbed at the little things that darted about, hoping to eat some.
So, do the slimes need gills in order to survive under water?
Also, if I recall correctly, the OP said one can use their own body mass to manifest the genetics of another creature. How fishy could I go before doing that?
Saarg decided, after pondering the straight edged things for a while, to consume everything it possibly could inside its strange, in-organic prison. It began to consume as much of the mixed organic/non-organic things as it was able to. But at the same time, it felt itself changeing. The energy from the delicious meal it had just had gave it a desire to...change. It felt a gap hollowing in part of it, and two needle-like exctensions sliding out of the gaps's roof...
It's too small to get its DNA, but you are getting its chemical ability to glow. But since you don't have any eyes, you can't tell you're already glowing right now, before it subsides and you can actually control it.
unlocked: stinging nettle
Updating FAQ on that one, good question to ask. Yes and no. As of now, since you don't have a resperatory system, it doesn't matter where you live since you don't breathe anyway. Now say you had started to grow such a thing, for whatever valuable reason, like making noise or for the sense of smell. If you weren't amphibious, you would drown in water. Until you have the ability to breathe, it doesn't matter one way or the other. Also, if you grew gills and no lungs, the opposite is also true. With your second question, once you unlock something you can start to change your body to look like whatever it is, but even small changes make you hungry. It also isn't possible to go from 'slime' to 'recognizeable creature' in one go, or even a few.
Very nice description, your cobra-ness. Explanation: Hard-covered books are often plastic-coated, but the pages are paper.
@Wrecker: The slime continued its absorbing undaunted. It started to notice that whatever had made it hurt was very tiny hard organic things, so it absorbed those as well as the organic that was touching it. It had hard sharp parts on it that hurt but also felt different, these stayed stuck on to the organic. The pain from the tiny pokies started spreading through the slime.
@Eltanin: The slime lashed out wildly, catching only two of the things [http://aquadoc.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/07/11/carp.jpg] that split from its group. They were both very slippery and one escaped just as easily as if it hadn't been caught at all. The water moved on the surface as well, but so slightly that it almost couldn't be noticed. Some of the movements made other movements [http://images.wikia.com/darth/images/5/50/Tadpole.jpg] get disrupted, causing the slime to get even more confused as to what was where or more important to pay attention to.
@Saarg: The straight-edged things [http://www.bvsd.org/schools/heatherwood/about/mapschool/PublishingImages/math-book.gif] tasted odd, and the slime felt strange. The straight edged things seemed to have an inorganic skin, but an organic center. There was some sort of... something in the organic part it was absorbing. The slime felt a new feeling start to overcome it, like its skin and body started to get even wetter. This new feeling started to make the slime tired. It was consuming enough to not be hungry, but this feeling still affected it.
Sevak moved from under the thing that fell on it. Bumping into it on purpose afterward moved the object slightly but it ended up rolling back to the same position as before. Whatever this was, it was determined not to move very much. Or it couldn't. The slime 'poked' it a second time with its body and got the same result. Doing this on the other side also gave the same exact result. Biting it showed it was hard like the creature it had just eaten. Could this be another animal? Though the slime knew by now that usually animals ran, or moved, when it was near.
Sevak bit off a piece of the object and put it on the ground after noticing it was sticky toward the bottom of the piece. Ignoring this, the slime picked up the piece and ate it to see if it was something worth while. The object tasted odd but the slime figured that eating more of the thing might get it to move on its own. After a while, the slime had gone through half of it and was still working its way through more when it noticed it was now covered in sap. Apparently this object liked to ooze sticky stuff and that caused an even more odd taste for the slime but it continued to work on eating regardless. Eventually this thing had to move... if it could.
If no one caught this, Sevak thinks the pinecone is an animal and wants to figure out why it didn't move yet. Sap makes stuff fun- and sticky! but from personal experience, pinecones sap an awful lot after having even one of the little 'leafs' broken off... it gets everywhere.
Unlocked: pine needles, pine cone, (you got green from the fern), pine bark (not sap yet). Explanation: the bug got slightly stuck in the sap all over you.
@Sevak: The slime had a good idea of what the thing was, but it still didn't know everything. The sticky stuff, for example, eluded the slime. All it knew was that it was much softer than hard things, but much harder than liquid, but it also wasn't slime. The slime did notice that it was slightly more difficult to move where the stuff was on it, since its scales stuck together. The tiny thing that landed on the slime's scales earlier came back, or at least that's what it felt like. It felt like the thing was trying to let go again, but was less than successful.
Can slimes swim? I don't want to go spending too much time being a fish if its unnecessary. Also, with all the algae in a swamp, is my slime going to inadvertently absorb their biomass?
Bosque examined the glowing things and all the organic or possibly inorganic life that surrounded it. He noticed Ish point away from the stack, but it was hard to ignore that bright green burn. Bosque hovered lower and picked at the contents with his beak, determined to make some kind of a meal out of this.
Sorry for the short, low content. I'm really tired. Weekends are always busy for me but I didn't want to keep Ish tied to one spot waiting for me.
Bosque is basically coming in for a bite of whatever's available. I'm not exactly sure, in real life, what we're collecting around. I think its a couple glowsticks in a pile of trash or something but I'm not sure and so I leave what Bosque finds vauge. but whatever he finds I want him to eat.
Yeah, you can find algae now if you want. I wasn't saying anything about it because it generally sits like a film along the water's surface and any static object, like tree roots, rocks, the shore, and the bottom, and that's not where you're at right now. In relation to swimming, just looking at you in my mind's eye, I'd say its kind of a disorganized wobbling with direction control like a jellyfish. You can accidentally eat stuff you didn't intend to if its mixed in something or inside something or on something, but usually not in regards to an organism by itself. I'll let you know what you sense, but its up to you what you do with it.
No problem, and we got a heads up about slow weekends now so mcpop9 doesn't have to stare at the thread every few hours I know you do it, dude.
Yep, its a big pile of trash- like an entire dump truck load, dumped off the side of the road. But it's just one glow stick. I don't know everything in the pile yet so there might be more that lost their glow since they only really glow for 24 hours anyway.
Explanation: you were standing on a piece of cardboard, but it slid and you're on the ground now instead of the trash.
@Ish: The slime saw its friend acknowledge its idea to ignore the glowy thing, but it pecked around it in an attempt to free it anyway. As soon as it tried to do that, it got some dirty looking thing stuck to its front, with a weird shape stuck on the thing its friend was trying to shake off. The slime then finally noticed that where it was standing started to move! The disgusting ground that it was on slid, dumping the slime off its surface. Small creatures [http://www.roachcontrol.com/aroach.jpg] got upset by this and ran around wildly. One of them even ran halfway up one of Ish's front protrusions.
@Bosque: Ignoring the kindred creature trying to dissuade the flying slime from its find, Bosque tried to use its leafy beak to pick up the glowing thing but failed. The... whatever it was that was stuck on top of it wouldn't let go. The slime tried something else. It put its beak under the other thing, and tried to lift it out of the way so it could get to the glowing thing. This proved to be a trap, since whatever the thing was [http://image.made-in-china.com/4f0j00EMFtNIaJnPpm/Mouse-Glue-Trap-gle1001-.jpg] got stuck to Bosque's face and chest, seriously hampering flight since it couldn't flap its wings as well, plus it was heavy. The extremely sticky rubbery slime wouldn't let go, but only seemed to hold Bosque on its face and sides. Something else [http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_wNXCQmEL5kM/SxSIj8JruVI/AAAAAAAAAh0/vLRoawWNOjQ/s1600/dead_mouse.jpg] was stuck on the gooey sticky thing, and it was organic. Whatever this thing was, it did not move and felt like it hardened.
Ish felt the thing on its front leg and absorbed it quickly. Ish was dis appointed by the size of the creature for not making a good meal but started to scamper off, leaving its short lived friend trapped.
Eltanin noticed other strange, squishy little creatures around it, but thought the first were more interesting. The slime wriggled about and attempted to propel itself upwards, towards the more rigid, tasty things.
In the process of doing this, Eltanin felt a strange, but familiar sensation one one side of its amorphous body. No cold, suffocating thing there! Eltanin attempted to go further into this nice feeling, but found only a small section could be free of the wet at one time.
The slime began to move aimlessly on top of the surface, hoping to find a foothold to help it be dry.
Saarg forced the peculiar feeling to one side, and made a mental note NEVER to eat straight edged things again! In the hope of somehow escaping the sickness and digusting mixed organic/non-organic things, Saarg began pressing itself against the walls of the strange new prison, hoping for a release similar to its first...
Seeing what was left of the big thing, Arq felt good about it. Like this is the way it should be, getting hurt by something should be repaid with more hurt to those things. But Arq also felt strange. As if it was higher of the ground than it had been before.
Looking around, Arq noticed a couple of new things. First it could see a bit from it self suddenly if he turned something on the front end and it there was also a faint buzzing sense. This sense also brought with it hurt on two points on it's new something. Gradually the buzzing stopped and was replaced by a new sense. This sense also brought with it a sense of balance. Something it had missed before. All this made it hungry and Arq went in search of something to absorb.
Arq grew a neck and a pair of ears from the coyote DNA. Now Arq can walk with out falling over every time
Sevak felt the tiny thing on it and stayed still to observe what it might do. It felt like it was struggling but the slime couldn't figure out how to get its opening over the odd creature without flipping over. It couldn't possibly bend that much, could it? Trying resulted in a no. Perhaps before when it was actually slime it might have been able to, but now with scales it was less flexible in that aspect. The slime moved a little to the left, pressing itself up against the rough it had felt before but not so far that it pushed anything into the hole behind it. Doing this gave it some leverage to push itself upward and pinning it's back, hopefully enough for the slime to reach the bug. The first try didn't reveal anything and neither did the second. The third try got only itself stuck to the rough texture more and this time the slime was stuck in a position where it couldn't reach down far enough to get itself off. Regardless, Sevak tried to reach the bug but it couldn't tell where it was in relation to its opening when the bug had stopped moving for a little while.
In Rex's above post, he said that he's busy on weekends and wants to eat whatever he finds- so I find that sufficient to have me play as him for today (sunday).
Unlocked: cockroach antennae (didn't eat enough to unlock the whole animal)
The books were too processed to figure out what tree was used to make the paper, but you unlocked Ink. With your name, I had to.
Watching a snake-scaled puddle try to eat a fly is hilarious.
@Everyone: It's the middle of the night now, all the nocturnal animals and insects have woken up.
@Bosque: The flying slime was having serious trouble flying, trying to fly higher and lower to make the sticky thing let go so it could get to the glowy thing. The sticky substance and the hard organic would not let go. The slime tried flying in various patterns, but none of them worked, and it wasn't very skilled in flying anymore either since the sticky was getting over even more of itself as it struggled. The slime finally just landed and tried rubbing the thing off of its face, to no avail. The slime finally realized it had no choice but to try and absorb this thing first if it planned on going anywhere. Out of its frustration, it concentrated only on absorbing this sticky stuff and organic for the time being.
@Ish: The slime started going a different direction, not being interested in helping the other creature. The slime was more interested in its next meal. Creatures that looked similar to the one it just absorbed huddled around something. These creatures [http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT1kJ3ilKPKoC4JnPBQYtZvvo1VxRDJ8eLnNHGuaFkRk2-Fd2yx3_Ky3ubxKQ] were much smaller, but there were a lot of them. Other small movements were throughout the forest now, too many to pay attention to all of them.
@Arq: The array of sounds the slime was now able to notice was very confusing. Various animals making noises big and small from every direction was too much to pay attention to any one of them specifically. Then a big sound came, and when it did, all the fluffy-looking organics bowed as if to let the sound get what it wanted. 'whsssshhhh' the big sound said, making little flecks of the shifty inorganic get flung onto the slime's surface. Other organics ran from the sound, hiding in holes or behind other organics when the moving inorganic and sound got close to them.
@Saarg: The slime pushed against the new cage, but it was much more flexible than its first one was, and all that seemed to happen was the container started to roll when the slime did. The slime noticed it felt like something wet and sticky was covering it in a thin layer. Everything the slime touched felt like that. What was going on?
@Eltanin: The surface of the cold/wet felt like it had something stuck on it, a small amount of it making tiny movements, but most of it only moved when the slime pushed it. It tasted... slimy, yet satisfying. The slime got a large amount of the... whatever it was [http://www.aquariumfishhome.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/algae4.jpg] stuck on it as it kept bobbing about in the cold/wet, until bumping into a slippery/slimy inorganic that stuck out of the cold/wet. The slime had tried to climb up it, but it was somewhat distracted while still holding the creature it had caught [http://www.thefreequark.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/common-carp-2-2.jpg].
@Sevak: The rough seemed to give way slightly, being shoved into the softer inorganic around it. The rough was only halfway in its way now, making a flat-ish surface of its own halfway in between the scaled slime and where it was trying to go. Moving the rough caused even more of the small bugs to land on it, the ones that could let go again. More of the small creatures were stuck in the sticky, finally one of them not far from the slime's opening.
Eltanin was becoming quite hungry from this exhertion, and clung to the solid and slimy inorganic surface. The slime took this time to try to consume the creature that was proving to be quite troublesome to hold.
I updated FAQs on page 1 with links to some of the things that inspired me to make this game or gave me ideas. Not sure if it would be of use to anyone, but I wanted to point out that it's there now.
Unlocked: carp fins (I know the pictures are of big ones but it's actually small)
@Eltanin: The creature had stopped moving, and was pulled into the slime. As it slowly disappeared, the slime noticed the tiny movements in the film on the cold/wet again. What was making the movements [http://www.naturegrid.org.uk/biodiversity/invert/graphics/flatworm.jpg]? It was starting to get annoying. The surface of the inorganic was too slippery to even get a hold, but the slippery part was organic.
The sticky substance, combined with Saarg's desire to escape enfuriated Saarg. An instinct deep inside called to it and, with no better option, Saarg heeded the call. It lashed out at the walls of its prison with its pointed extensions. To Saarg's suprise and joy, they punched straight through the wall! Elated, Saarg tore furiously and, after a few moments of struggle, ripped his extensions free. A small hole had been created. Saarg made a bid for freedom. As he did so however, he began to wonder if the sticky stuff came from its own body?
Sorry I'm late. I'm afraid that, ironically, I have little free time at weekends.
As to your question: white scorpion, methinks. Dexterity of claw, but not without the poisonous sting...
Sheol reached around, trying to find the delicious while avoiding the horrible. The going was slow, and Sheol found itself wishing for a way to distinguish between good and bad without having to taste it all.
After a time, hunger overcame distaste, and Sheol ingested some of the bad along with the good, speeding up his rate of ingestion. As the good transferred to him more energy, it found that it grew small protrusions, jointed at the ends. These limbs had cost it in hunger, but the overall procedure felt.. satisfying...
Sheol waved the limbs a little, and flexed the joints. With a little experimentation, it found that while the limbs could not ingest things, they did have the ability to lose around things and thus manipulate them. Sheol was pleased in the extreme; now the bad could be sorted form the good, and the feeding could be both faster and more pleasurable.
Now, if only it didn't have to taste the floor all the time...
ok I have not gotten round to catching up what everyone has posted so next time you post could you just mention in a spoiler what dna you slime currently has and its dna access, so I don't have to read the entirety of page 3, please?
the slime now filled with pain decided the best course of action is to wait. digest what it has eaten, and to wait till the pain subsided.
I have each player's story as seperate Word files, and an excel spreadsheet with the information you just requested, so I'll just PM it to you after I update the story and excel.
Unlocked: bioluminescence (animal ability in glow worms, fireflies and abyss fish like the angler. Can grow glands now that glow in the dark. Also, because you had Stinging Nettle unlocked and you were stung by it again, your body grew counter-poison glands. That species can't affect you anymore.
Unlocked: pussy willow
I'd actually say your scorpion claws are much more rudimentary than that, but I'll give you it this time since I'm imagining it more like hardened slime without the benefit of chitin, and the claws aren't serrated so you'll still lose your grip sometimes until you change that. When you say 'rip your extensions free' do you mean 'use your extensions to rip free'? Sounds like you ripped your fangs off, but I think you meant you got out of the backpack, right?
Here's an image of your original DNA [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arizona_bark_scorpion] in case you didn't get a good look [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/Bbasgen-scorpion-front.jpg/220px-Bbasgen-scorpion-front.jpg].
@Saarg: The flexible container was no match for the hard extensions the slime had developed. The new surface was wet and felt disgusting, small, and not-so-small bits of... whatever foul thing it was forcing the slime to taste it as it touched the slime's surface. It seemed a mix of organic and inorganic. The slime did notice however that the wet made its own sticky not sticky. Without anything dry to use for reference, the slime didn't even know if it was making it anymore, if it even was to begin with. A strange sensation came over the slime. Something was giving it the instinct to push something inside its body out, but it didn't know what it meant.
@Sheol: The good-tasting organic [http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/audiovis/munroe/images/cropsb1.jpg] made the slime feel better. The organic's tastiness wasn't its own taste, it must have just gotten something on it, or in it? The tasty stuff had a small trail going off somewhere else. The disgustingness didn't. The slime noticed something bump into it, and being distracted with its food for a moment, it noticed that the wet was coming from a specific direction. As the slime finished dissolving the organic within itself, it started feeling the need to push something within it out of its body. It was a new feeling, not really knowing what it meant.
@Wrecker: The pain suddenly started to relieve itself, nearly immediately. This isn't what happened before. The stinging spiky organic that poked it and made it hurt was recognized. It was just like the first one! Small lumps inside the slime's body seemed to grow on their own, erasing the pain. Once all the pain was gone, it was able to concentrate and noticed a few small trails of hardened slime.
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I know you do it, dude.
