You consider making 'slimes'...
Well, it certainly seems as though such a thing exists, though you can't be entirely sure how you'd know that.
Nevertheless, you believe that a Slime is a creature belonging to the 'Monster' class. Monsters universally have
Health Points, which means that they require
Vitae to create. They have a relatively simple, but existent mind, meaning that they have a handful of
Mind Points and thus require a pittance of
Mana to create as well.
A good way of thinking about it is that most creature have
Health Points (HP) and
Mind Points (MP), which are just the words used to refer to
Vitae and
Mana while invested in a creature.
Meaning, if you need
Vitae, a good place to start would be to look for something with
HP and make it
stop having
HP. This will release the
Vitae into a free-floating state, which you can then absorb.
However, for the moment the only things you see with
HP are yourself and the storeroom. You suppose that you may be able to use
Magic to scratch off some of the room's
HP. Is that a good idea?
Attack the room to gain Vitae?In addition, you think that you could create an
Addition using your
MP. Additions are generally not themselves living things so much as
equipment for a room. With an investment of
Mana, the room itself will rearrange to form the desired Addition. This could be used to create a trap... perhaps something like corrosive ooze? That would be something like a dead slime.
Use Mana to create an Addition/Trap?You inspect the
Manaspring. This is a nonphysical object, overlapping your current position. Despite the name, it currently isn't outputting any
Mana.
You experimentally try reaching out to drink from it and... when you interact, it slurps up a little bit of your mana! Thirsty bastard! You suppose that there must be mana... "down" there, but it's too far for you to reach without losing all of your mana in the process.
Your ponderings consume another hour... which you know is less than one Pulse. If you don't want to do anything right now, you could always just wait to see what happens.Room Storeroom HP:full MP:none
Addition Dungeon Core HP:low MP:moderate
Addition Minor Manaspring