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Re: Dungeon Slime Evolution! [Turn 0, 5/5]
« Reply #15 on: July 08, 2024, 01:08:27 pm »

Quick note on trait/ability conventions
* denotes the quality of the skill, ranging from 1-5 stars as standard. So * lowest quality, **, ***, ****, ***** highest quality.
[0/#] Numbers in brackets show the skill can be levelled up, and how many successful absorptions it takes to discover a new variant or improved version of a skill. (Note - not exhaustive, just based on what you have absorbed so far.)
Finally I do want to stress the North: East: South: West: are just to orientate you. The further you go from the slimepits the more dangerous things will become. There is always plenty to do in your location, so don't feel forced to travel without exploring what your current location offers you, unless you really want to ; )



Turn 1
TURNTURNTURN

Esk attempts to ooze forward and sample ferns and their insects, especially aphids (if any) and ants (if any).  But anything yummy, yummy!

1 - Critical Failure.
Esk gets perplexed as it warbles over a particularly staunch set of tubers and forgets what it is doing. But those bugs sure do look delicious...

Glop goes west and tries to absorb the thorny plants.
5 - Total Success - Absorption

Glop finds themselves in the comforting shade of the briars. Peacefully, Glop absorbs the thorny stalks around them.

Choose a Passive Trait:
* [1/3] Prickly Body - Ouch! The surface of your skin is now bumpy and uncomfortable to the touch. Creatures will not enjoy making contact with you.
* [1/5] Brittle - You can choose to break off teeny tiny pieces of you, about half inch long. When you are hit you have a chance of scattering parts of your slimebod. You can always reabsorb your parts without incurring a roll, unless the situation is tenuous.

Or an Active Ability:
** [1/3]Gnarled - You can extend parts of your body into multiple thin twisty 'branches', and retain that shape for several minutes.

You are in a briar tunnel.
North: Impossibly thick briar bushes into darkness
East: Starting Slime Pits
South: Impossibly thick briar bushes into darkness
West: briar tunnel, downhill

Blob 001 goes northward and Scans the surroundings eating and absorbing as it goes.
Accepted!

4 - Partial Success - Scan
Blob 001's senses are overwhelmed by all the colours and sounds. They ignore the moving creatures in favor of examining the easy-to-track plantlife.

You scan the following:
Luscious Ferns - large prehistoric ferns stretch lazily above to catch the sunlight as much as possible. They are leafy, photosynthesizing, and delicious to numerous species.
Golden Sun Pitcher - A giant golden-red bulbous flower temps in nearby critters with a sweet nectar smell.
Ancient Trees - Thick barked colossal flora that stretches up into the sky and ground. Teaming with life of all kinds.

3 - Mixed Success - Absorption
You absentmindedly break down the moss you roll over.

Passive Trait Gained:
* [1/3] Mossy Body: You are covered in patches of moss, which small critters love and also helps you blend in a little in greener areas. Your amorphous body has become slightly tinged mossy green - you are on your way to becoming a Boring Green Slime!

You are currently surrounded by lush foliage.
North: An Open Clearing
East: Thicker Forests
West: Muddy Foliage
South: Starting Slime Pits

Mire scans and absorbs the mud

Scan - 2 Failure
Absorb - 5 Total Success


Mire starts the scanning process and then immediately gets distracted by eating the Mud!

Mire feels it's blobby body breaking down this new resource slowly.

Choose a passive trait:
* [1/3] Sticky Body -  your amorphous body becomes more tacky, causing items to stick to you and higher tension on the surface of your 'skin'.
* [1/3] Ground Camouflage - your amorphous body becomes somewhat browner, blending into the background when you hold still or move slowly. You are on your way to becoming a Boring Brown Slime!

Or the active ability:
** [1/3] Harden: You can heat up your external skin, causing it to harden and become crusty, like baked earth. This can protect you from harm and may reflect projectiles.

Bloat simply bloats forward, eating everything he encounters, mold, bugs, even smaller Grey Slimes!

2 - Failure, Eating

Bloat moves slowly and everything scatters, even the mold somehow.

Gurrglux Heads SOUTH in search of sustenance.
6 - Overdid It

Gurrglux meanders around the slime pits and lazily dodges mysterious grey bubbles. In front of them, Gurrglux spies a thick oozing mass emerging from the slime pits, digging it's hooves into the deep mud as it scrambles free. It's covered in a viscous grey sludge that slowly oozes away, revealing the frame of a muscled male dear with giant, multipronged antlers stretching majestically into the sky. It's eyes glow a faint gold as does its luminescent antlers. The deer lets out a huge bellow as it stands, exhausted, on the edge of the pits.

Gurrglux watches as an unceremonious boulder of goo plummets down from the sky in the form of a massive fist-like pseudopod. Gurrglux stares up at the towering form of ♛ ɢᴀʀɢᴏᴏᴛᴜᴀ ♛, a skyscraper of a Gray Dungeon Slime and the Boss and 'Guardian' of the Slimepits. The deer moves up it's 'arm' as it quickly dissolves into nothingness, sizzling away inside the slime's form.

♛ ɢᴀʀɢᴏᴏᴛᴜᴀ ♛ has a habit of absorbing everything that comes into the slimepits - including smaller slimes. Better not to draw it's attention...

> North: Starting Area
> South-East: Gargootua!
> West: Hotter Slimepits
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Re: Dungeon Slime Evolution! [Open: 0/5]
« Reply #16 on: July 08, 2024, 01:20:14 pm »

+Prickly Body

Glop scans the area around itself, and absorbs more brambles to see if it becomes more prickly.

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Re: Dungeon Slime Evolution! [Turn 1, Full]
« Reply #17 on: July 08, 2024, 01:26:18 pm »

Realization; trying is for slimes that never grow.

Esk scans for these delicious looking bugs and eats some!  And whatever else is close and scans as yum.

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Re: Dungeon Slime Evolution! [Turn 1, Full]
« Reply #18 on: July 08, 2024, 01:49:56 pm »

+Sticky Body
Mire heads north and scans the area.
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Re: Dungeon Slime Evolution! [Open: 0/5]
« Reply #19 on: July 08, 2024, 02:11:16 pm »

Gurrglux Heads WEST.

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Re: Dungeon Slime Evolution! [Turn 0, 5/5]
« Reply #20 on: July 08, 2024, 07:34:19 pm »

Blob 001 scans more in the area and absorb the stuff around it.


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Re: Dungeon Slime Evolution! [Turn 1, Full]
« Reply #21 on: July 09, 2024, 06:29:50 pm »

Bloat calmly changes trajectory, intent to eat everything he can get his...well not hands on, but you get the idea!


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Re: Dungeon Slime Evolution! [Turn 2, Full]
« Reply #22 on: July 11, 2024, 02:41:05 pm »

Turn 2
TURNTURNTURN

+Prickly Body

Glop scans the area around itself, and absorbs more brambles to see if it becomes more prickly.

1 - Catastrophic Failure - Scan
1 - Catastrophic Failure - Absorb

Glop moves forward to nibble on some brambles and finds the ground give way underneath them! Glop tumbles into the darkness...

Glop finds themselves resting on cold dungeon slabs. They can see a hole in the ceiling above them where they fell letting in the smallest amount of light. The room is mostly empty with an exit on each wall.

You are in a Unassuming Dungeon Room. There are no other slimes nearby.

>>> 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


Realization; trying is for slimes that never grow.

Esk scans for these delicious looking bugs and eats some!  And whatever else is close and scans as yum.

4 - Partial Success - Absorb

Esk finally gets to eat those tasty treats! Esk chomps down on a plethora of ants. There are some gem like scarab creatures mixed in among the fern foliage.
Choose a Passive Trait:
*[1/3] Hardened Body, Partial - You feel your back and sides harden, mimicking the exoskeleton of the bugs you consume.
*[1/3] Glistening Body - You take on a slight iridescent sheen, glinting in the light. Pretty!!

Or an Active one:
*[1/3]Scent Trail: Leave behind a trail of pheromones that some insects can follow.

1 - Critical Failure - Scan

Ouchy! Your goo-brain(?) hurts from all this thinking! You flee in a random direction...

You are standing on a smooth, slick rocky outcropping. In front of you is a steaming pool of water. The air here is thick with a mint-like scent. Shrubs squat in between the cracks of the rock.

A large rodent-like creature, with reddish brown fur and huge gnashing teeth, lazily paddles across the pool. 

There are no other slimes nearby.
> North ? ? ? ?
> East ? ? ? ?
> South ? ? ? ?
> West ? ? ? ?

+Sticky Body
Mire heads north and scans the area.

Mire enjoys the sensation of things lightly sticking to them and then dropping off, leaving a slight trail of debris in their wake. They scan happily at the new location.

3 - Mixed Success Scan

Flies: Fat buzzing flies with bulbous, multi-faceted eyes dart around, curious about the carnivorous plants. You watch one meet it's slow demise inside a golden sun pitcher's belly. They have tiny wings and bristled legs. While they do not directly poison, they are harbingers of disease, due to their favourite places including dungheaps and rotfiends.

Odorous Flower: This pungent red flower sits innocently in the middle of a cleared area on the dirt. Critters avoid going near it, but flies and other insects are buzzing around it like mad.

Ancient Trees - Thick barked colossal flora that stretches up into the sky and ground. Teaming with life of all kinds.


You are currently surrounded by lush foliage. Blob 001 is here, rooted in place.
North: An Open Clearing
East: Thicker Forests
West: Muddy Foliage
South: Starting Slime Pits


Gurrglux Heads WEST.

1 - Catastrophic Failure

Gurrglux gets lost!

Gurrglux is standing on a muddy plain. Hardy shrubs squat defiantly close to the ground as mosquitos buzz between small puddles. Misshapen boulders offer respite from the dangerous terrain.

You don't know where you are. There are no other slimes nearby.
> North ? ? ? ?
> East ? ? ? ?
> South ? ? ? ?
> West ? ? ? ?

Blob 001 scans more in the area and absorb the stuff around it.
5 - Total Success

Blob's whole body reverberates as they receive a moment of pure understanding. It is not like a verbal or visual thought, just pure instinctual knowledge. This is what it means to be a slime.

Blob learns the following:
Mole Underground: You can detect something digging in the ground some ways beneath you! giant hardy claws work away at the earth as a whiskered snout twitches, detecting it's environment.

Horned Rabbit nearby: A grey-tufted rabbit prances through the foliage, it's two muscled back legs propelling it forward. A small, cone-shaped
Bird diving down among the ferns to eat bugs: a cyan-plumed bird with a viscous beak swoops down among the ferns to scoop up tasty bugs that catch it's eye.

Chameleon hiding halfway up the tree, camouflaged: Lucky you have your slime scan ability! Regular eyes would not pick up this strange creature, camouflaged against the thick bark, nearly invisible.

6 - Overdid it
Absorb -

Oh no! Blob became overconfident in their ability after such a successful scan and the absorption goes horribly wrong! Blob is Dazed and cannot absorb this turn.

Blob has gained the passive trait, Roots, and is currently immobile, rooted in their spot! Blob will have to do something to get out of this jam.

Gain ?Passive? Skill:
*? ? ? Roots - You have sprouted small white brittle roots that have buried themselves in the ground. Gain awareness of what's happening underground in your immediate vicinity. Gain the ability to absorb nutrition from the soil. In your current condition with a 100% slime body (no animal or creature traits adapted fully yet), absorbing nutrition feels pretty good but doesn't remove your hunger, as Slimes are always slightly peckish. But it is satisfying.

You are standing with Mire among the foliage.

Bloat calmly changes trajectory, intent to eat everything he can get his...well not hands on, but you get the idea!
4 - Partial Success

Bloat is really starting to get the hang of this! Bloat rumbles forward and starts absorbing everything in his vicinity.

Choose a Passive Trait:
*[1/3] Unsettling: Creatures in your immediate vicinity will feel unsettled by your off-putting aura...
*[1/3] Stinky: There is a notable odor emanating from you. Whether this is a positive or negative thing depends on the creatures nearby and how you utilize it.
*[1/2] Feeler Nubs: Two small mounds appear on Bloat's head. They seem useless in their current state - purely cosmetic.

You are in the Safe Starting Slime Pits.
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Re: Dungeon Slime Evolution! [Turn 2, Full]
« Reply #23 on: July 11, 2024, 02:45:09 pm »

I had a post ready to go yesterday, in which nearly every roll was a 2, but got signed out as I posted and lost it, so I've changed my process a bit to prevent that happening. With the repost it seems people either did well or got horribly lost, may the RNG gods have mercy :p

In other news I might adjust SCAN a bit: you have a chance to scan any creature in your vicinity. Rolling 5s mean scanning more creatures/critters instead of flora. Adjustment is: You can also choose to Scan an individual item/creature you have already scanned before to get a sense of the possible traits you can gain from it.
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Re: Dungeon Slime Evolution! [Open: 0/5]
« Reply #24 on: July 11, 2024, 03:40:18 pm »

Gurrglux CONSUMES the Mosquitos!

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Re: Dungeon Slime Evolution! [Turn 2, Full]
« Reply #25 on: July 11, 2024, 04:00:56 pm »

Glop, having found a dungeon to call home, decides to absorb the webs in the corner.
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Re: Dungeon Slime Evolution! [Turn 2, Full]
« Reply #26 on: July 11, 2024, 04:18:57 pm »

I choose the scent trail!

*[1/3]Scent Trail: Leave behind a trail of pheromones that some insects can follow.

I hope insects will follow me and gather, and I can have a meal right behind me sometimes!

I also wonder if by any chance I can smell my way back home.  If I can smell my own pheromones!

Spoiler: Imp - Esk (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Eskentory 10/10 (click to show/hide)

This appears to be part of Monkey Mark Mario's info:

You are standing with Esk among the foliage.

But I didn't get told about it.  Granted, he has super senses, but his area seems and sounds different!

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!
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Re: Dungeon Slime Evolution! [Turn 2, Full]
« Reply #27 on: July 11, 2024, 05:51:52 pm »

Good catch, tis Mire who is in the same region as Blob, Esk is on their own merry adventure
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Re: Dungeon Slime Evolution! [Turn 0, 5/5]
« Reply #28 on: July 11, 2024, 07:17:39 pm »

"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.



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Re: Dungeon Slime Evolution! [Turn 2, Full]
« Reply #29 on: July 12, 2024, 01:40:25 am »

    Ill take Unsettling

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.


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