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[Dragonhatchling]

Spoiler: Viirin

I know XD Slimes are fun to watch anyway but I figured it'd be amusing to see.

Sevak was slightly shocked when the rough moved, as it was still stuck to the odd thing. When more bugs seemed to land on the sticky parts covering the slime, the stuck creature didn't quite know what to do. It stayed still, waiting in hopes of one actually landing where it could have a better chance of reaching. When one landed near the slime's opening, the slime tried maneuvering itself to eat the little creature. Sevak did become successful and it also managed to get itself free of the rough somehow. But the short fall shocked the slime a bit more as the unexpected freedom had also gotten free a few of the bugs.
With the slime free, bugs stuck to unreachable parts of it so far, and no idea where it was still- the slime moved over to the rough again and tested where it had lodged itself. It seemed stable, though the sticky creature still was unsure if it could be walked completely on top of. After all, it had tricked the slime before into thinking there wasn't any worry behind it. Even still, Sevak did start to walk on the rough and eventually made it across, after many checks to find the edges. This still didn't help the slime know where it was but it did get some of the sticky off of the bottom of it. Another tiny creature had pulled itself along the slime's back and ended up crawling right into the slime's opening once Sevak had stopped and realized what could happen. Perhaps sitting with it's opening open for a bit would make the tiny stuck things come into it? The slime decided to try that thought and stayed where it was, keeping the opening open this time.

 

[mcpop9]

Ish wanted to grow and expand, desiring a large meal it could feed on for a while, ignoring the smaller things deeming them as not worth the energy. But something caught its eye as it was walking through the dark. It noticed these glowing things on the ground, upon touching the things they didn't run away as the other things did and these were rooted into the ground.

Ish was intrigued by these things and Started Absorbing a clump of them roughly the same size as it.

 

[Viirin]

OOC: Nuba KM's request was a good idea, and so I give you... everyone's equipment update! Click to see everything everyone unlocked and started with- from now on I'll do an update like this every 5 pages. Characters listed in order not of who requested to join, but in order of first in-character post.

Spoiler: Wrecker

Starting DNA: White Rhinocerous
Unlocked since:Stinging Nettle, Garter Snake, Earthworm, Pill Bug, Oak Tree
Abilities unlocked: Bioluminescense, immune to stinging nettle
Current body changes: 4 limb nubs, head nub with mouth-like gap, spine

Spoiler: Ish

Starting DNA: Komodo Dragon
Unlocked since: Oak Tree, Raccoon, Moss, Manzanita, Cockroach antennae
Abilities unlocked: Rabies
Current body changes: 1 foot long, komodo eyes, snout nub, wood scales, upright treestump front forelimbs with wood shields, rear komodo legs, mossy back

Spoiler: Bosque

Starting DNA: Hummingbird
Unlocked since: Mosquito, Orb Weaver eyes, Bat, Redwood, Common White Moth
Abilities unlocked: Spider web, echolocation
Current body changes: red-feathered hummingbird wings, 8 spider eyes set in wolf spider pattern, mosquito proboscis (needle-mouths) along spine, leaf-like beak, hummingbird head

Spoiler: Arq

Starting DNA: Desert Monitor
Unlocked since: Golden Barrel Cactus, Fire Ant, Desert Coyote, Saguaro Cactus
Abilities unlocked: Fire Ant poison
Current body changes: 1 foot tall, golden barrel cactus spikes along back with green surrounding, coyote ears, coyote neck, desert monitor legs

Spoiler: Sheol

Starting DNA: Bark Scorpion
Unlocked since: Pussy Willow
Abilities unlocked:
Current body changes: rudimentary pincers

Spoiler: Sevak

Starting DNA: Timber Rattlesnake
Unlocked since: Praying Mantis, Fern, Centipede, Pine Tree
Abilities unlocked:
Current body changes: same slime blob shape, but covered in rattlesnake scales, rudimentary mouth gap

Spoiler: Saarg

Starting DNA: King Cobra
Unlocked since: Apple, Wheat, Chicken
Abilities unlocked:
Current body changes: rudimentary mouth gap with cobra fangs

Spoiler: Eltanin

Starting DNA: Sundew (a carnivorous plant)
Unlocked since: Carp fins
Abilities unlocked:
Current body changes:

Also, I'm trying to get my friend to come over and draw each of your characters. If he does then I'll put the images up. He drew all my slimes for my previous version (before released to public) and I know he'll do a good job. In fact, he drew my avatar- its a slime made of horned lizard, garter snake, bat, mouse, cockroach and black widow.

 

[Viirin]

Spoiler: Ish

Unlocked: glow worm (including the bioluminescence) Also I'm gonna call you 'small monster' from now on since you don't look even slightly like a slime anymore.

@Sevak: Finally the tiny creatures that flitted about stupidly were within reach- it didn't have to out maneuver them, it just had to sit motionless with its mouth open, and they'd hurl themselves into the slime's absorption-happy inner gap-lining. After allowing this to happen for awhile, the slime could finally get a hang of what it had been eating [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c2/Fly_cleaning.ogv/mid-Fly_cleaning.ogv.jpg]. The small crunchy creatures had even tinier bits of something stuck to their feet, and it wasn't the sticky the scaley slime was somewhat covered with. It wasn't even sticky. It tasted totally different than anything it had before.

@Ish: For that many of the strange glowy wiggly things to be in one place, they had to be interested in something else. Absorbing them cleared them out of the way, and the small monster was finally able to see what they were covering [http://www.mydeerantlers.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/deer-antler-sheds.jpg]. Unfortunately, absorbing them meant there was less light to see the stick-looking hard organic. It felt inorganic, but something was different about it. It was organic, that was for sure.

 

[Erana]

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>Eat

In what direction would you like to eat?

>L

You begin to eat the slimy organic substance.

Spoiler

Sorry, I suddenly had an overwhelming urge to do my post in ASCII, a la roguelikes. I won't do it again.

Still, I was thinking of drawing my dragonslime myself at some point, though its really fun to see what other people make of fictional critters. Is there a link to the full image of your avatar?

 

[Khedive Rex]

Bosque didn't like being on the ground but he accepted that he could not escape until the sticky thing and the weight on its end were fully absorbed. So he consumed, as difficult as it may have been, as quickly as he could. Just hoping that something wasn't preparing to pounce on him, removed from his element as he was.

Spoiler

Not a whole lot for me to do at the moment, tied down as I am. And what can I say, I want that rat, and the stickiness if I can get it. So Bosque eats.

Virrin, you can totally play Bosque when its necessary. Like I said, weekends are ussually tough for me so if Bosque needs an action in that time, go for it. At this early stage I predict he'll mostly be eating.

Also, pictures would be amazing. I have an idea of what my guy looks like but being able to see evryone else in the thread would be spectacular.

 

[Viirin]

Spoiler: About character drawings

If you're a visual artist (not written art like me), then by all means draw it! You know what you look like in your head, so its best to do it yourself, but I'm gonna try and get my friend to draw them all too.

Spoiler: Erana

I get the ASCII urge periodically too. But if the urge has passed, could you swap that out for a post I can respond to? Thanks in advance.

Spoiler: Bosque

unlocked: mouse

@Bosque: The mummified animal [http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2675/3973272925_9568bb6142.jpg] was at least absorbed enough to be pulled off of the thick, sticky substance. It was not a surprise that the thing got stuck to it, the flying slime had done exactly the same thing. However, the slime could absorb the stuff into itself, which was the only reason it wasn't permanently trapped as well. Instead, the sticky stuff simply proved to be an annoyance. The slime had managed to free its wings, but then for some reason they felt heavier. As soon as the slime tried to flap, its wing tips got stuck together, even though the substance hadn't touched that part of it.

 

[Viirin]

OOC: I don't like OOC comments really, but here's spoilers. What are they? Links to my friend's work on my previous slime-dragon set.

Spoiler: Swamp Linnorm

Started in the swamp. Found a bone from a bear and grew most of its skeleton, but had no interest in growing organs, muscle, skin, or eyes. Head and tail are crocodile. Its fur is a combination of cattail and spanish moss. See its paws? It grew bear muscle and fur there. It isn't actually undead- its alive [http://browse.deviantart.com/?qh=&section=&global=1&q=jon2408#/d1xmibn].

Spoiler: Arboraetum Wyvern

Can't actually start in this zone. Body is crow, chameleon head, hercules beetle horns, red scorpion tail (my friend suggested it ate a sickle so its stinger can be sickle shaped, I agreed), hercules beetle wings made of bark, tiny dots under the wings are insect hives so it generate its own swarm of bees/wasps/hornets, bird of paradise petals along spine. Do you like it? [http://browse.deviantart.com/?qh=&section=&global=1&q=jon2408#/d1wf901]

Spoiler: Natural History Museum Drake

Can't actually start here. Fully made out of dinosaur DNA [http://browse.deviantart.com/?qh=&section=&global=1&q=jon2408#/d1wf97t]. Don't get too excited about this guy, there's like two really long 'story arcs' to even get a chance at unlocking dino DNA, and only one person can do it. I won't let anyone get it with poor gameplay or teamwork (when it becomes neccessary way way later) so just enjoy yourself for now. Velociraptor body, pteradon wings, wooly mammoth tusks, styracosaur bone frill, tyrannosaurus jaw, ankylosaurus plates, stegasaurus plates. Tail is a combination of thistle, ankylosaurus and stegosaurus.

Spoiler: Sea Dragon

Started at the beach [http://browse.deviantart.com/?q=jon2408&order=9&offset=48#/d1vfq9b]. Body is oarfish, tail is angelfish, head/mouth/teeth is angler, horns are red coral, has catfish whiskers, belly is whale.

Now for the finale! A play-by-play of my avatar, going from a vial of slime dropped into the sewer, into a fully realized dragon. Let's see how it looks.

Vial breaks [http://browse.deviantart.com/?q=jon2408&order=9&offset=72#/d1vfpgu]
Slime unlocks mouse (didn't grow fur) [http://browse.deviantart.com/?q=jon2408&order=9&offset=72#/d1vfpjj]
Slime unlocks cockroach (see the chitin plating on its back and antennae?) [http://browse.deviantart.com/?q=jon2408&order=9&offset=72#/d1vfpmq]
Slime unlocks snake (grew scales where it didn't have plates, got longer and more lithe) [http://browse.deviantart.com/?q=jon2408&order=9&offset=72#/d1vfpqh]
Slime unlocks horned lizard/horny toad (jaw spikes are awesome, armor got stubbier and spikier, antennae got thicker) [http://browse.deviantart.com/?q=jon2408&order=9&offset=72#/d1vfpu4]
Slime unlocks bat (wings, body streamlined. You can see something at the end of its tail- its spider spinnerets to make web) [http://browse.deviantart.com/?q=jon2408&order=9&offset=72#/d1vfpzo]

 

[nuba km]

Spoiler

I would kill for even 1 piece of dino dna. anyway I just need 2 things to complete my dragon 1. wings 2. a large biomass so my slime can to the necessary changes. Also I am looking forward to having my dragon drawn

the slime decided do finish eating the biomass that once caused it pain, it felt satisfying. after that the slime decided to follow these strange trails of slime, maybe are there other slimes or could it be a creature that ate a slime, whatever it was the slime was driven by curiosity and hunger to find out where this slime came from.

 

[InkBlot Royalist]

The slime was incredibly perplexed by so many new sensations, none of which it understood fully. Sticky liquids, foul mixed organic/non-organic substances, and now this new urge to force something out of its body...

Saarg began prioritising. First things first, it needed to obey its basic instinct of looking for food, next, it needed to fully discover what the heck its own body was doing! The slime began too feel around for anything it could consume that tasted...edible. At the same time it paid closer attention to the urge it was having, seeing if it could figure out more details about it.

 

[Shanaar]

Arq didn't know what happened. One moment it had been hurting and the next there where all these new sense giving it a sensory overload on it's new ears. Trying to stop this, Arq tried to put his front legs on his new sense things. Before it could do this, Arq was hit by several inorganic things.

Arq sensed that before it got hit by these things, there was some something making a weird sense. Arq then went in search of the thing that caused all this.

Spoiler: OOC

Sorry for taking so long and that it is so short. I really don't know what to post at the moment.

 

[Khedive Rex]

Bosque called once with the blackness's vibrations, not quite sure what it was calling for. A plea into the darkness, perhaps. When nothing came Bosque knew it had to settle its problems by itself.

Bosque could see where the wings had stuck, although for the life of him he couldn't figure out why they'd stuck. It mattered little though, there was only one thing to do now. Find something the seperate them with.

Bosque tried to lean back with his beak first, but he simply did not bend that way. He needed something long and thin and dexterous to wedge between the wings. Instinct took over and Bosque felt himself stretching a fleshy, smooth protusion from behind him, beneath his wings. It grew long, quite long indeed, and more of those mosquito needles popped up from it at regular intervals as it stretched farther.

Finally it was fully formed. Bosque shook it once, cautiously, and discovered it was quite lithe. He coiled it once to equal satisfaction before putting right between his wings and pushing up, trying to wedge the two stuck entities apart.

Spoiler: Explained

Grew a rat tail with mosquito probisci on it and now I'm trying to sweep that between my two wings.

 

[mcpop9]

Ish felt something harder than the tree it absorbed and still organic, it quickly set to work processing it.

 

[Viirin]

Spoiler: Shanaar

No problem, I was having the big wind lead up to this post.

Spoiler: Khedive Rex

Congratulations! You are the first slime with a disadvantage. The 'glue trap' chemical ability your body is achieving is a chemical ability. Like all chemical abilities, it forces itself through every cell in your body before receding and becoming a gland, but since you grew a new part during the process and it didn't get sticky, you won't be able to use glue from your tail.

Spoiler: Erana

I had you eat the algae and flatworms, then rest on a dry rock sticking up out of the water.

Spoiler: nuba km

Hint: various daytime insects sleep at night, too.

@Everyone: It's about 2:00 AM.

@Wrecker: The slime had followed the trails of hardened slime, and found a dead end. There were small creatures that were at the end of the trail, though. They were round and smooth, but some of the creature was sticky and wet... this is where the trails came from [http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2uosoNs_bgk/S83b4FiBnEI/AAAAAAAAAOM/FwCvQnf44rE/s1600/garden+snail.jpg]! The little creatures were about a tenth the slime's own size, and they seemed to be sliding up some other organic [http://images.fineartamerica.com/images-medium/wild-rose-john-winner.jpg] really, really slowly.

@Saarg: The slime was calming down, able to concentrate better. Some of the straight-edged thing was still inside it. That's what its body was telling it to force out. There was a different feeling inside it too... it was a lump but it felt like it should be there. One good lump one bad lump? The bad lump was bigger. Tiny pinprick vibrations could be felt on whatever organic, but disgusting thing the slime was resting on. They seemed to cautiously come closer.

@Arq: Wet. The sound had made a little of the inorganic fly at everything, but now it felt something else. Wet was falling from up. The slime could see that it was getting all over everything everywhere, organic and inorganic. After it was falling for a few moments, there was movement in the inorganic a few feet in front of the slime. Something organic [http://www.richard-seaman.com/Reptiles/Usa/Nevada/ValleyOfFire/HornedLizardCrouching.jpg] came up, and opened a gap in its front and just sat there. It seemed to enjoy the wet.

@Bosque: The new... limb didn't get the sticky feeling that the rest of its body was getting. The little bird monster's stickiness was all over the rest of itself though, and enough of the trap it had caught itself in was absorbed to the point it finally fell off, what remained of the hardened animal now completely within the monster's slime.

@Ish: The monster shoved a pointed part of the hard organic into its front nub, absorbing what it could, but the monster was having trouble figuring out a comfortable position to rest in while absorbing with the very little of itself that was still slime. It had absorbed a very small amount, but the slime was forced to stop. It had seen other creatures eating faster than this. Before it had grown its armor it was able to absorb much faster and pull much larger things into itself... maybe it was time the monster found a faster way to consume more.

@Eltanin: The slime did the only thing it knew to do. It absorbed the organic covering the inorganic, and the organic that had stuck on it while it was bobbing around trying to find something dry, which it finally did. The slime was able to rest easily on the inorganic rough thing sticking out of the cold/wet.

 

[mcpop9]

Ish was annoyed with the speed of absorption, in its rage Ish completed the snout and teeth inside it, afterwards Ish started to feel tired and set its focus on crushing the organic thing in an attempt to consume it a second time.

 

[Viirin]

Spoiler: Ish

You requested deer, and.. unlocked: deer

@Ish: The monster's new teeth were able to break the hard organic without much difficulty. It was still a small monster, but if it gnawed at the organic, it was able to get chunks of it to break off. The slime found that it had what seemed like some of its cells were almost pure bile, instead of just containing it. The organic dissolved in this area of itself twice as fast as its absorption had done.

 

[Khedive Rex]

Bosque pushed the limb through his wings, quite pleased with himself. He still felt sticky all over but the new thing he'd grown was not suffering any of those effects. He whipped it around once, victoriously, only for it to smack the glowing light in the pile of organic and inorganic substances.

Bosque had nearly forgotten. He was still uncertain of his flying, being so sticky, but he could reach with his newest limb, and wrap it around the length of the glowing cylender. He caught the glow and brought it toward himself. All the little needles in his appendage sunk into the cylander, and then Bosque felt something quite strange. It was as though he was absorbing something incredably thin, like water, and only at pinpoints in his body. The thing he absorbed didn't appear to have form but it did flow through him, steadily. Bosque turned to examine the glow he'd picked up, and noticed that the edges of his new appendage had started to radiate the same way, particularly the needles.

Bosque shook his wings delicately one more time, to test if they were yet ready for flight. He'd figured out the purpose of those limbs long ago. Now, Bosque wondered if he hadn't finally figured out the purpose of those spines...

Spoiler: Explained

Wrapped my tail and its mosquito needles around the glowstick. The mosquito needles automatically started drawing any moisture present in the glowstick out, into the tail, and up through the rest of Bosque's body. This is actually how I plan for Bosque to consume most things in the future. I have one other plot for what he'll do with the carcasses after they're paper dry, but thats another story.

Spoiler: As for the disadvantage

I can work around that. Far from crippling, it might actually add an interesting element to the character. Actually, on the subject of chemical abilities, I no I have glue excretion. And then I'm also hopefully gonna get bio-luminesence soon. And then, not quite chemical, but the spider web. Do any of those combine to make curious things? Would I be able to make bioluminescent spider webs? Or ... really really stick spider webs? Just curious.

 

[Dragonhatchling]

Spoiler: Virrin+Everyone

I could draw my slime if anyone wanted... though I'd pick what I currently have (the slime sitting with it's mouth open with the flies, since I figured it'd be fun to draw- or it being stuck to the stick) for right now. I'm not that skilled in artistic way like Viirin or the friend who (if I remember/read correctly) drew the others. Not in anyway that skilled from my view... but well off enough to draw a slime and something in dragonish form later I could help anyone else if they wanted too, just expect it to be a bit- I'm busy with practices and stuff (school and marching band take over my life for most of now until Oct31 and then it's just school) so I'll work on it all when I can and have them up when I get the scanner to be nice (it won't scan for some reason... it does everything else but!). So yeah... Yay... maybe?

Sevak ate more of the odd creatures without any effort. They flew stupidly into it's gaping opening and were absorbed just as quickly. Though after most of the flies had been devoured, the slime noticed the odd aftertaste a lot more. It thought it had tasted funny to begin with but it tasted more off than the flies. Or, it just didn't taste like fly to the slime. Due to this new curiosity of the taste, the slime set off in search of it.
Sevak used the opening to 'taste' the ground and ended up sucking up a few dead flies near it. They tasted more of the odd substance but still that different taste was not found at the source.

 

[Viirin]

Spoiler: New abilities gained by combining natural abilities and unlocked chemicals

Isn't something I'll make so obvious as to put it in a spoiler... Also, I'm introducing one of my own characters- partially for story purposes, partially for giving possible ideas, and partially because I want a slime to eat some grapes. This slime is miles away from everyone.

Spoiler: Sevak

Unlocked: fly

@Bosque: The bird monster's face didn't feel sticky anymore, and the not-sticky-anymore feeling started spreading slowly through its body, from its face to its tail. The warm glowy started doing the opposite, spreading from its tail to its face, quickly and with brighter and brighter warm light. The slime got dizzy and felt squished, like something was gently stroking it from face to tail while something else slightly more forcefully squeezed it, going from tail tip to face. With the light as bright as it was- no match for the big round thing in the sky that made the whole world glow, but a few times brighter than the glowy cylinder was, gave it enough light to see a large creature coming towards it rather quickly.

@Sevak: Something else WAS found at the larger concentration of flies, however. Small things, half the size of the flies, were wiggling around [http://ransackedmedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/maggots.jpg]. They seemed much wetter, but still tasted fly-ish. These had an aftertaste too. Investigating the wigglies, something sticky and fuzzy was there. It was extremely soft and mooshy, whatever it was [http://www.wpclipart.com/food/fruit/melon/cantaloupe.png]. The first aftertaste from the adult flies was completely gone, but not the idea that there was more food that tasted interesting nearby. A small creature of some kind jumped on the slime, but then was gone, and with no way to track it, the slime had to concentrate on the problem in front of it.

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"So, what is this thing anyway?" the second punk asked the first rhetorically.
"I don't know... it's a trash can. I just wanted to see if we could get whatever it was, I didn't actually wanna keep it."
"Oh. Well then let me open it real quick and throw this in there."
"Why not just use the trash can?"
"You just said that's what this is."
The punks who had stolen slime canisters from the lab had managed to keep one. They undid the latch and unscrewed the top, and put what remained of a bunch of green grapes [http://static6.depositphotos.com/1041979/574/i/450/dep_5745067-Branch-grape-empty-for-the-trash.jpg] inside.
"Did you see that?"
"See what?"
"I put it in there and the stuff dripped."
"Who cares?"
"No, I mean like when you drop stuff in water, the rock or whatever dumps into the water and it splashes, right?"
"Yeah..."
"Well, it splashed before the junk dumped in. It like, touched it and then the stuff dripped up and grabbed it."

 

[Shanaar]

Arq was first confused by this new think. There where wet things falling from where the big round thing........ WAIT where was the big round thing gone to. Arq looked around frantic in search of the big round thing. Where did it go to? How could it suddenly disappear? Seeing a opening in the clouds above it, Arq saw the big round thing again before disappearing again behind the clouds. Arq didn't know what those things where before the big round thing. It couldn't reach it and it didn't know if it was organic or not.

Deciding not to dwell on it and hoping that the wet big round thing hiding things would be gone soon, Arq again looked at the inorganic it was standing on. Suddenly it saw some of the inorganic things before it moving and something came out of it. Arq was puzzled by this. Was it organic or inorganic and how was it able to move trough the inorganic things? Arq knew that it could move it with it's legs. Maybe it could do the same some how?

Nearing it, Arq noticed that it was organic and Arq felt hungry. Arq also noticed that the inorganic things it was standing on was some how changing. Some how it could walk faster on certain parts of it. Coming close to the organic thing, Arq tried to absorb it.

Spoiler: OOC

I am a brony, sue me