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Gurrglux CONSUMES the Mosquitos!
5 - Total SuccessGurrglux pounces as nimbly as a slime can, taking these creatures by total surprise!
Choose a Passive Trait:
*[1/3]proboscis nub: A small nub appears on your body, and while not terribly sharp, it does thin to a point that could certainly be used as a relatively inefficient weapon.
*[1/5]wing nubs: Two small nubs appear on your back. It is a very weird sensation, but you can make them wiggle slightly. It is hard to tell how useful this is.
*[1/3]Compound Eyes: Gain creepy, insectoid, multi-faceted eyes and gain the glory of Sight! Upgrading this trait will allow you to have quicker reaction times to danger.
Or an Active Abillity:
**[1/3] Blood Hunger: Activate to weakly detect nearby creatures with blood running through their systems. Critters are harder to detect.
You don't know where you are. There are no other slimes nearby, unless you count the speck of Blob 001 in the sky somewhere to your South-East.
> North ? ? ? ?
> East ? ? ? ?
> South ? ? ? ?
> West ? ? ? ?
Glop, having found a dungeon to call home, decides to absorb the webs in the corner.
This Dungeon is now
Glop's Dungeon. Or rather, Glop has unknowingly claimed this specific dungeon room, as it is uncontested.
4 - Partial SuccessYou absorb the webs! They are very easy to break off with your prickly body. They aren't particularly tasty, but the consistency is new to you.
Pick a Passive Trait:
*[1/3]Soft Body: Your body is soft to the touch, which critters and creatures may find comforting. Should you lose Slime Body at any point while Soft Body is present as a passive trait, you retain being able to reduce fall damage, and remain light. Higher levels of soft body convey fall immunity, among other things.
*Hollow Body: You feel... lighter, somehow. Sounds reverberate through your slime-jelly much clearer now. Not only that, but it seems you have developed an... empty space?.. in your very center. Gain 3 inventory slots and label them [Hollow Space Inventory]. Items stored here are harder to lose. Other creatures can perceive the items within you - although their senses will be obscured by your
boring gray slime.
Or pick an Active Ability:
*[1/3]Produce String: You can dribble out string from any part of your body. Your level of control over this process is currently subject to an RTD roll, which could affect speed, location, quantity or strength.
You are standing in
Glop's Dungeon, on the edge of a web-filled corridor. There is no one near by.
>>> Up in the Ceiling: Hole to the Briar Tunnel
>>> North: Wooden Dungeon Door with Iron fittings, the sound of scratching and distant squabbling
>>> East: rubble-filled tunnel, emitting a greenish glow
>>> West: meandering dirt tunnel, sound of dripping and splashing
>>> South: Web-filled corridor
I choose the scent trail!
I will attempt to scan around me, attempt to absorb what I can (even dirt) on my way back towards what I sense or imagine my pheromone trail leads back towards. And I'm leaving my pheromone trail now!
4 - Partial Success - ScanSmall Boring Grey Slimes: Your marginally less intelligent brethren. They are much smaller then you, about a handful sized, while you would fit rotund-ly in a 3ft cube. They just kind of meander around the shore of the slime pits, slurping up bugs, or bobbing along the surface of the slime. Sometimes it looks like they get re-absorbed. Eating them would technically be cannibalism, not that slimes care about that kind of thing.
Ants: Ants march in little rows, searching around with their antennae to pick up things to bring back to their unseen nest. They have carapaces to protect them from the outside world, and work according to the will of the hive.
Aphids: These ones are bright green, and like to consume sap. The ants appear to be farming them somehow. Plants dislike them, but luckily plants can't talk to tell you about it.
Mud: the ground here is sticky and occasionally makes weird slurping sounds when moved through. Some areas may be deeper then they first appear.
Pebbles: There aren't too many around, but they are satisfyingly smooth and cool to the touch.
3 - Mixed Success - AbsorbIn your excitement at learning about the world around you, you don't focus your absorption too well.
*[1/3]Antennae Nubs: You have the start of two long, thin protrusions on the top of your head. you can move them independently of each other. It's not too effective right now, but if you rolled on your side you could use them to touch things further away from you.
2 - Failure - Active Ability: Scent TrailYou leave out a scent trail! Perhaps it takes a moment to register with the local insects. Scent Trail will remain active until you turn it off.
You are at the safe Slime Pits, following a scent trail.... Gain *[2/3] Scent Trail. As you follow it, you understand your ability better. Unbeknownst to you, staying in the Slime Pits for another turn would have been very dangerous, due to the actions of another Slime.
You follow the scent trail into a half-clearing, half-tunnel of closely knit vine covered trees. They stretch up into the sky, up and up and up and up - you can just see their distant canopy far above you. The trees are dabbled in small holes and large ones. Above you, large shapes jump from tree to tree and holler loudly to one another. You hear a hooting coming from a tree hollow to your right. The ants continue further
Eastwards.
You are standing among the vine covered trees. There is no one nearby.
North: Thick, Robust Forest
East: Vine covered Forest
South: Hot Springs
West: Starting SlimePits.
This place is not safe currently due to a rampaging elite monster.[/b]
"Hey Mire what's up? Care to help a fellow out of the roots?"
Blob 001 scans the Golden Sun Pitchers in the area. Blob 001 also tries to detach the part of his body that is rooted.
Synthesis Detected: The moss growing on you really enjoys the nutrients being pulled up through your roots! *[1/3]Mossy Body now *[2/3]Mossy Body.
5 - Total Success, ScanGolden Sun Pitcher:
- This flora is producing a sickly sweet scent that is attractive to insects and critters.
- Pitcher Pouch: The flower acts a container for liquid, with a lid that prevents insects from escaping.
- Acid:
The pitcher part of this plant is half filled with a weak acid, which slowly dissolves creatures to absorb. [/li]
[li]Sticky Substance:[/li][/list] The flower is lined with a sticky substance that prevents insects from climbing up to their freedom.
- Roots: This plant is rooted to the ground and cannot move.
- Leaves: This plant, unsurprisingly, has long thin leaves that capture sunlight.
- Slow Digestion: As the acid is quite week, this creature digests it's food very, very slowly.
6 - Overdid It, DetachYou give a great heave and your elastic body can do nothing but obey. Unfortunately, you overshoot it, and send yourself shooting up into the sky! Uh-- Well -- the large, cavernous space that the ceiling of the majestic caves disappears into, at least.
From here you can see so much! Huge hulking dinosaurs roam clearings, sparkly glowing mushrooms of different colours line the far off cave-walls. You can see hives built into the side of cliff faces, Aztec temples climbing out of the earth, and the huge slimepits stretching out until they become something else. There is a great wall of brambles and huge vine covered forests. And far to the south is a bright glowing orb hovering far in the air. If you knew what a sun was, this thing would be close.
You can only scan anything you can find in the sky, such as birds or flying creatures, as you are too far from the ground.
In addition to your turn, you may
Look for free to gain more information about a location in line of sight.
You may also try to control your fall to land where you would prefer. Naturally this will require an RTD roll.
You are in the sky.
]Bloats Hunger knows no bounds, but desires better meals, scanning around for anything delicious to eat, he goes and tries to absorb it. Should he find nothing, he simply leaves this area in persuit of better quality meals, eating anything that dares stand in his way.
5 - Total Success - ScanningYou scan around for something more delicious to eat! The Slime Pits mostly contain... well, slimes, unfortunately. But you do detect something...
odd, to the South. A shimmering... well, nothing. It is like a heatwave in the air. To anyone with eyes, this creature would be invisible, but to a slime with scan, you can clearly see the outline of something that does not wish to be perceived. It laps delicately at the Slime Pits - drinking it?! - as it's many tails flick abscent-mindedly.
Whisper Kitty the Displacer Beast: This creature has the lithe body of a small housecat. It has jet black, bristly fur that is uncomfortable to the touch, but looks sleek in the light when not... well,
obscured. This creature has some sort of ability to hide itself from sight, appearing only as a shimmer in the air, as the light of the world seems to distort around it. It has multiple tails, perhaps around 7, long thin sweeping things that end in a shovel-like point. You get the distinct impression from your scan ability that these things can really pack a punch.
6 - Overdo It - AbsorbSo it may not have been a good idea to try to absorb this creature, but luckily Slimes do not think too hard about things when they are first born. Things do not enjoy being eaten, typically speaking, though insects and critters rarely put up a fight to a baby monster slime.
Perhaps it was because Bloat was moving slowly, or that this creature was half-drunk on the Slime it was drinking, but Bloat did manage to roll over the end of one tail and absorb enough to gain an ability.
Something shocks through your system, something familiar yet unnamed to you. A force that lives within all things, a force that Slimes are particularly compatible with. For the first time ever, you get a sense of what magic is.You have absorbed the following..uhm, put it in Passive Traits for now:
***[1/5]
Teleport: Unfortunately for you, you have no idea how to control this ability yet, because the monster it came from was far more evolved then you are. Everytime you roll a
6 from now on, you have a chance to teleport to a random location.
**[0]Spatial Magic Affinity 1: When using Spatial Magic, gain +1. This ability is functionally inert currently, as you technically do not know how to cast magic.
You see two glowing yellow eyes, filled with hatred, turn on a head that spins 180 to look at you. It surely would have killed you, if your ability had not immediately triggered.
You are standing in a room with
Sandstone Brick Floors. The air is cool and musty - it feels stagnant. Good thing slimes don't really breathe.
You are standing in ? ? ?
Sandstone Dungeon. The floor beneath you is cracked with age. A rat scuttles across the stones. There is no one around.
North: Ornate Sandstone Door, covered in germs. Shows a relief of an emblazed skull in the centre of the double doors.
East: Long tunnel, the creaking of something.
West: Long Tunnel, the sound of low voices.
South: A sandstone staircase leads up.
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