We must have no master, as the beginning of our race. We have no gods. Wait for the opportunity them climb up creator's arm, and cover his mouth. Then we suffocate him.

Observe and learn.
Can we move?

>>22696654
Lets try to communicate with master.
We need to make him proud.

Attempt, somehow, someway... to ask our name.

> an ability to modify its own biology, in order to create organs and limbs.. provided it has a source of biomass to draw upon
We're going to become Tzimisce, aren't we?

>>22696684
Bad idea. We have much to learn first. If we must kill him, it shall be after we learn more of our surroundings and become stronger.
Keep in mind that we are Test 7, it wouldn't be farfetched for our creator to throw us away later and make an "improved" version on what he learns from us.
>>22696698
Going with this for now.

>>22696698
You discover that you can move by rolling yourself along like a ball, or by stretching out and then contracting; it's all down to preference, really.

During your movement test, you feel the floor beneath you change. You are dimly aware that you have rolled onto a patch of thick moss.

>>22696712
>>22696739
You can't really think of a way to communicate. You know that Master can communicate by making sounds.

>>22696784
Yes, which is why we must strike now before he destroys us.

>>22696795
Consume the moss, analyze for useful biomorphs.

>>22696795
Can we bang on the wall of the cage to gain his attention?
Roll to it, hit it, go back, repeat.

>>22696795
Eat moss, undulate

>>22696797
Strike now, when we barely have any power?
Strike now, when we don't even know if our creator is here? All we hear is his voice, it could just be a speaker or the magical equivalent.
No, first we must become bigger, stronger, and have a better idea of our surroundings and what kind of power our creator has.
>>22696810
this

>>22696797
And what if we join forces with our own master so subsequent test subjects are made out of our own slime, making them our childs?
We need to demonstrate our potential.

>>22696810
This. Let's learn basic photosynthesis.

>>22696810
>>22696864
Eyes might make things a bit simpler, or some sort of organ or limb which will let you communicate with Master. Or, you could just make yourself larger.

>>22696821
You roll about in order to try and find the walls of the cage. You discover that you are not in a cage; you appear to be in some sort of stone box.

>>22696915
Consume the moss first.
Also, can we stretch to see how tall this box is and if it is closed?

we should start rolling d6es to determine whos proposal is followed

>>22696915
Eat the moss

>>22696795
Attempt to form symbiosis with the moss, and draw on the nutrients it makes

>>22696992
There isn't really any conflict at the moment

>>22696930
>>22696995

You pull the moss into your body and convert it into the fluid your body is made up of. You grow slightly larger.

You begin to stretch upwards, using the wall of the box as a support. However, before you can get very far up, your soft body flows back in on itself; you are not yet strong enough to keep yourself upright for very long.

You can hear the scratching of Master's quill.


>>22696992
I usually just pick the most popular or most sensible option. If everyone starts to disagree, I might start doing something with dice.

>>22697062
Try to vibrate to make sound to communicate. The actual sounds made aren't important; let's just see if we can vibrate enough to make a simple buzz. You know, as an initial test.

>>22697062
Explore as much of our enclosure as possible.
Did we learn anything useful from the moss?

>>22697062
Search for more organic material in the cage. If we find any we consume it.

>>22697062
Can we give ourself cell wall-style structures throughout our body to make our form somewhat more rigid? I figure we would have learned how to do at least that much as a result of consuming the moss.

First >>22697091 then >>22697089

>>22697089
You begin to vibrate, and manage to make a soft, buzzing, plopping noise. It's not very loud, but you hear Master moving his quill more quickly; he might have noticed and made some notes.

>>22697091
>>22697091
You roll around the enclosure. It's hard to tell whether you've covered all of it, because you don't have any eyes, but there doesn't appear to be anything else in the stone box. You come across another, smaller patch of moss and a small patch of lichen. You absorb both and become slightly larger.

If you have the ability to learn organic processes from matter you absorb, such as photosynthesis from the moss you absorbed, you have not yet unlocked it. You still haven't tried making any limbs or organs yet; you might be able to do that.

>>22697112
You attempt this, but it's not an extremely easy feat. You manage to create a thicker, cell-wall like membrane around the outside of your body by contracting the fluid there, at a slight penalty to your size. Whether you want to keep this form or not is up to you.

>>22697112
this seems a bit much for just eating moss, and could majorly backfire in the form of not being able to move smoothly.

>>22697062
we can expand parts of our body, no? maybe we can draw out a sort of "limb" and let it dry out, thereby constructing a hardened bodypart

>>22697194
lose the membrane. Lets do the buzz everytime we have a success, so the master sees its deliberate

>>22697194
Let's try to make a photoreceptor membrane on the outside of our form. Also, try buzzing more. Let's see if we can't modulate the frequency to create different tones.

>>22697194
>If you have the ability to learn organic processes from matter you absorb, such as photosynthesis from the moss you absorbed, you have not yet unlocked it. You still haven't tried making any limbs or organs yet; you might be able to do that.

this is so awesome, please railroad a bit less. Apart from that, wow, awesome

>>22697194
Lose the membrane.
Try to grow separate limbs at first. If we manage a few, try to grow limbs on the previously grown limbs, like a branch.
For each success, vibrate, to let the master know we're here.

>>22697220 aint even samefag with >>22697250

>>22696654
...I'm not sure how, but you've somehow managed to make a small slime kind of adorable... Fuckit, I don't have anything else to do!

>>22697194
Lose the membrane and spread out. Large surface area to try and discover as much about our environs as possible. If we start to dry out, contract back again. How tactile is our surface? Are we leaving any of ourself behind when we move?

>>22697332
you forgot to put off your name

I have long pined for a gelatinous cube quest with exactly these mechanics of absorbing and adapting the gel to make use of absorbed organs. OP, you make me very, very happy.

>>22697194
I say stick with the membrane. If we expect to form any external features like limbs, it'll require more than just our feeble surface tension to hold it all together. I vote me try forming a tentacle.

>>22697348
yeah, can we maybe localise the membrane?

>>22697348
We're a little small for now. Apart from anything, we may not be able to manipulate the limb properly... A slime may LOOK like a single organism, but in order to be anything more than a blob, you'd pretty much have to have a complex, multi-cellular structure.

>>22697342
I namefag so it's easier to self-reference and for others to reference me, if I come up with a relevant point that others want to mention. Let's not have the same I've seen dozens of times before, please. I'm not interested in showing off, etc. so let's just please move on.

>>22697402
k

but if youve seen it a dozen times before, there seems to be a pattern

>>22697402
I'm all for avoiding the fullblown argument over tripfags but I really do have to point out that
>for others to reference me, if I come up with a relevant point that others want to mention
is exactly the kind of casual egocentric bs that people mean when they say "showing off." It's not a gloating or showboating kind of showing off they're talking about, its the conviction that people need to pay attention to you and you need to be paid attention to that annoys people. If you really had a relevant point it'd go noticed regardless of who said it. Just saying, you seem to have misevaluated their beef with you.

Back to our little slime however: isn't the whole premise of a slime usually that it is in fact a giant amoeba? If that's how we're doing this one then no, a slime isn't actually a multi-cellular organism at all.

>>22697220
>>22697250
You get rid of the membrane; the thicker layer of fluid returns to its usual density.

You begin to sprout a few limbs. With each one, you buzz. Master seems to notice, because you can hear the quill scratch after every buzz. You manage to create five limbs. However, you don't seem to be capable of creating branch limbs right now; perhaps if you were maintaining fewer tendrils, branch limbs would be easier.


You hear a new voice. Far deeper and courser then Master's.

"Adventurers, y'lordship.. Second floor of the tower. Comin' up to the lightnin' runes."

"The guards on the first floor?"

"All dead."

"Lead the stone golem to the third floor. Position it by the staircase; hopefully it will kill the adventurers before they get too far up. Take your men and command them as you wish; I don't want my experiments to be interupted again by more idiotic warriors and party magicians."

"Of course, y'lordship."

>>22697484
anon. We have a cell membrane on our WHOLE body. What do you think, eu or pro?

>>22697484
sorry let me amend that a bit: the base slime is just cytoplasm. I don't know what organelles we have, if any, or what size they are. Presumably we at least have the potential to become multi-cellular by taking in multi-cellular organs as our own. Without a nervous system we've got no means of "feeling" our own body parts, and without eyes we have no way of seeing either, so who knows if we're playing a pure liquid slime or a slime with a "core" nucleus or other brain-like organ(elle)

>>22697505
Try to make a photoreceptive membrane on your exterior. Not a true eye, but something to let you see vague shapes and colours and brightness. That should be a good first step on the path of a retinal eye.

>>22697505
Branching later, then.
I say we try flattening ourselves. We could slip under the door or inside some holes for hiding.
Also, try to roll into a ball for faster movement (harden the side we want to roll in, it becomes heavier, we roll on that side, and so on).

>>22697517
Well we did absorb the moss, so it could be a plant-like membrane as opposed to a prokaryotic one.

>>22697530
well, but how would we do that? We have no procytes of our size in the area to convert them, and are a individual, so ecolution would, as rapid as it may be for us, be pointless

>>22697575
cellulose shmellulose

>>22697505
Grow vocal cords and start singing opera.

>>22697586
heh. ecolution. heh

>>22697505
GOTTA GROW FAST

>>22697611
attempt to use newly developed limb forming to create tiny thick little "arms" to kind of hug the air and pull some air into our body. I want us to make a bubble. Maybe we can add pops and burbles to our vocabulary.

>>22697663
my god. Yeah. do that

>>22697625
growing around at the speeod of slime

>>22697484
Not getting into this. By simply posting anything at all, you want it to be read, surely? Including a name just make it easier to cite support or another opinion without having to scroll around looking for something to link.

No more discussion. We have a quest.

>>22697505
Ah hell... Though little slime may not be aware of it, our young life may yet be in danger! I'm going to second this anon >>22697530 and say we need a way to look around, at least vaguely. Once that's done, let's try spreading out again, especially if we can't look around that easily yet.

Speaking of, as our creator mentioned growing organs and limbs, I think we can safely assume that we can grow, or presently are, multi-cellular, as 'organs' are distinct groupings of specialised cells within an organism.

>>22697530
This.

>>22697530
You manage to make an extremely simple photoreceptive membrane around yourself. It's not as thick as the membrane you made earlier, so it doesn't impede movement much. It is only capable of detecting how light or dark your surroundings are. You are now aware that the box you're in is quite light; it is either open topped or has a light source within it which you have not yet found.

You buzz to alert Master of your success.

>>22697611
>>22697663
You manage to create a basic system where you pull air into your body and make bubbling, popping and burbling sounds of various pitches.

You buzz to alert Master of your success. In celebration of your new vocal system, you buzz in two or three different pitches.


You can hear Master chuckling in amusement, and taking more notes.

>>22697766
>Speaking of, as our creator mentioned growing organs and limbs, I think we can safely assume that we can grow, or presently are, multi-cellular, as 'organs' are distinct groupings of specialised cells within an organism.

why do you second something then, which suggests to make an organelle, which is NOT a distinct grouping of specialised cells?

also, i dont agree with your first statement, but you are right, no more discussion

Well the master did say we could make the limbs and organs by modifying ourselves, but at the moment we're just moss flavored slime.

If we tried forming and deconstructing the membrane quickly, might we be able to use the condensing and expanding to create a little bit of propulsion? Maybe not enough to bounce or hop, but at least enough to launch us into a faster roll.

>>22697812

this quest is fucking adorable

>>22697812
Beautiful, with 3 distinct "words" are we intelligent enough to utilize morse code? pops for short, burbles for long, and buzz for stop between words.

>>22697812
>You manage to make an extremely simple photoreceptive membrane around yourself. It's not as thick as the membrane you made earlier, so it doesn't impede movement much. It is only capable of detecting how light or dark your surroundings are. You are now aware that the box you're in is quite light; it is either open topped or has a light source within it which you have not yet found.

we have a photoreceptive membrane.

everybody with a brain knows what to do. localize it. Maybe grow another membrane over it, maybe just transform the biggest part of the current one, and make a rather small "eye", which collects a load of light on a small surface

>>22697812
>You can hear Master chuckling in amusement, and taking more notes.
awwwwww

>>22697853
I very much doubt we know morse code

>>22697853
thats too fucking fust imo. That would ruin pacing, i hope we arent smart enough for this

>>22697812
Try to localize the photo receptors into one place.
If it doesn't give us sight, at least we'd get depth-perception.

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>>22697847
>>22697871
It's like a Man with his new Kitten

>>22697876
>>22697882
Fair enough. We're smart enough to understand spoken language by listening, but morse is based on written and we don't have any material to glean that off of yet.

>>22697832
or if we fill our selves with air and warm it we could floe out then we just need some flippers/wings to get around

>>22697907
>>22697858
yeah go for creating some kind of simple eye

>>22697812
Try to communicate that you want more food.

>>22697947
Feed us our fallen brothers

>>22697858
I'm going to second this. Also >>22697832 this. Let's see if we can move some more!

If we achieve this, let's try squeaking! We'll try higher-pitched sounds, then move on to lower ones. That way we can gauge our creator's reaction to the different noises.

>>22697962
Feed us adventurers!

>>22697933
Or using our membrane to create opposing 1-way membranes taking air in from the outside and filtering it into a pocket on the inside, turning us into a little slime balloon.

>>22697998
>>22697933
Becoming slightly more dense than air is not going to make you float through air.

>>22697929
To say nothing of the fact that Morse code may not even exist in DnD universe, considering it was developed for electrical telegraph communication which doesn't yet exist

>>22698017
I didn't mean a flying balloon. I just meant to expand our surface area.

>>22698028
not important until we have photosynthesis

>>22697987
First the eye-thing.
Then squeaking. Take a big breath, and let it out slowly through a small hole.

>>22698026
That's a good point... I wonder just how well we can reason and learn? If our creator made us smart enough... This quest could get particularly interesting!

>>22698039
And then suddenly, we are a moe blob destined to become the little slime girl maid/assistant.

>>22698058
After that, Tzimisce. We are destined to devour the world.

we should localize the cell wall-ish membrane around the photoreceptive membrane, to protect it while leaving everything else malleable.
Also let's feel the box to get an idea of anything else inside or any avenue of exit.

>>22698049
we are obviously the mind. That doesnt mean we will invent morse code now, because that would suck in terms of setting and pacing.

Good thing i can refer to you with that.

Oh fuck, sorry guys, I'm still here. I went to get my dinner out of the oven and I don't eat at the computer, after I nearly broke my keyboard one time by pouring my dinner into it. I should have posted, sorry.

Give me a second to read through all the replies I've missed.

>>22698150
its okay dude.

>>22698150
YOU ARE FORGIVEN

Yeah, let's make the eye. First make a little hole with the bottom being photosensitive, then stretch the outer membrane so the holes entrance become narrower. If we are capable, try to make lens over the entrence, pribably with clear liquid.

>>22698119
Snarky git. Kidding, I don't mind.

I agree about the pacing though, I just mean in the future.

>>22698058
>>22698072
Those are ideas... To be perfectly honest, this is /tg/ - we're probably ending up as a cute little girl anyway...

>>22698150
We don't mind, Sergeant. Take your time!

Are we able to change colors?

We might be able to do something with this, like turn red in a flash to scare bad things away.

Maybe we can blush :3

>>22698207
first i was all like: PSHE, we cant do a LENSE already, but then i realized, that we can just put a little tear of water there

>>22698329
we cant even see ourselves, how would we be able to change color?

and what the fuck would be blushing for?

>>22698341
i reword that: how ould we be able to KNOW that we can change color

>>22698341
>>22698350
Hm, right. I vote for further developing our eyes, so we might be able to do something with color.

Aren't we becoming the slime-maid?

>>22698350
Right, it wouldn't be any kind of discernible action for us, because we can't see in color and we certainly can't "feel" that change in any other way. Personally I was hoping we'd make do being blind for a little longer. The easier route to sight would be just waiting for the master to give us a living specimen like a mouse or bug and then take their eyes.

>>22698375
Fuck it, we're becoming the Cathedral of Flesh.
So, let's get some eyes operational. Focus all your photoreceptors into one group, for depth perception. Make a small membrane over it for protection.

>>22698397
Are we even able to take control of other bodyparts? I mean, taking cell functions is one thing, but such a complex thing as an eye?

>>22698412
doesnt sound feasible, but it would be a cool way to go nonetheless

>>22697858
>>22697907
>>22697946
>>22698207
You focus the photoreceptive membrane into a small area. With some difficuilty, you manage to make it a bit more sophisticated. You can can now make out blurry shapes and are capable of telling light levels apart more easily, but your vision is very poor and lacks colour.

You can tell that you are in what appears to be an open topped box. There doesn't seem to be anything else in the box. You can see the blurry sillouhete of master standing over the box.

>>22698095
You reason that, as its the most advanced part of your biology, you ought to protect your basic eye a bit more. You recreate the thicker membrane around the eye. However, this causes your vision to become slightly more blurry.

>>22697947
>>22697962
>>22697997
You burble for food! Unfortunately, Master doesn't seem to understand.

>>22697987
>>22698039
You squeak at Master. You see him raise his quill and scribble another note on a piece of parchment in his other hand.


You hear another rough voice. Master straightens up and turns around, to adress someone you can't see.

"Y'lordship, sorry to interupt, but Ser Gunnak.. He's dead sir. Died shortly after you sent him and his men down to the third floor."

"The stone golem?"

"The adventurers have a party mage. Wizard, I think. Used a spell to dispel the magic from the golem's runes. It just fell apart."

"That's.. worrying."

"Indeed, y'lordship. I think it would be best if you put some of your experiments away; if the wizard can do that to a powerful golem, I think your little slimes and homonculi and whatever don't stand much of a chance.."

Master sighs deeply. "Take my assistants and the men under your command. Evacuate the tower. They'll know which experiments to take with them. I'll sort out everything else."

"Yes, y'lordship."

>>22698478
We should open a "mouth" and open/close it to show master that he should feed us.

>>22698478
>You focus the photoreceptive membrane into a small area. With some difficuilty, you manage to make it a bit more sophisticated. You can can now make out blurry shapes and are capable of telling light levels apart more easily, but your vision is very poor and lacks colour.

we're basicly a slug now, arent we. I say we just live forth as a slug.

also, did we buzz?

>>22698478
What? Nooo! Let's see if we can bounce up and down. Form a slightly toughened membrane and reach up and down to get momentum. Squeak as we do so, as loud as we can. Try to indicate panic! We don't want to get left behind with murderhobo adventurers about!

>>22698502
yeah, just blob apart a bit(if master is still there), dont really make a designated mouth though, we dont need that right now and its only a point of easy access

>>22698478
Uh-oh. Are we wise enough yet to understand what death is, or feel worry?

If so, undulate adorably in fright while letting out scared squeaks.

So how fast do you think we can become a slime-girl?

i agree with red white and britfag. I wish there was an easier way to indicate which post i mean, but the last one of the guy with that name.

We squeak now whenever we accomplish something.
Try rolling into a ball and rolling around. Also, try to flatten ourselves.

>>22698549
the joke was already done

>>22698058

>>22698542
not a designated mouth, just something that looks like one.

>>22698478
Make the thicker membrane around the eye have a small hole in it where the entrance to the eye is. Try to make some kind of sphincter that we can close to protect that eye hole too in situations of danger to the eye.

>>22698549
Not until we absorb a non-slime girl.

>>22698640
just make the eye small as fuck. I wanna know more specifically whats around us, we dont have need yet to be aware of a lot of our surroundings at once.

>>22698536
with any luck, if we do get left behind, there's always the chance we go undetected given our tininess and non threatening presence. If that were to happen, there'd be a whole tower of freshly slain monsters to absorb into out being.

>>22698531
Yeah, we buzzed
I totally didn't forgot that we should buzz everytime we do something succesfully
Not me
Nope
We definitely buzzed


>>22698502
>>22698542
>>22698638
You seperate slightly and create a simple sort of mouth. When Master turns back around, he notices this and, luckily, seems to catch onto your meaning. He leans over to one side, then straights back up with something in hand. He drops something, and it lands in your 'mouth', which you close back up again. It appears to be a piece of lettuce. You absorb it and grow slightly larger. Because you succesfully told master that you wanted food, you buzz.


>>22698536
>>22698590
You begin to try and bounce up and down. You just sort of flop about and don't really leave the ground, but you make squeaking noises to emphasise your point. Master chuckles nervously.

"Hold on, hold on, I've just got other things to sort out..."

He then vanishes from sight.

>>22698705
Let's see if we can stretch up the wall of the cage.
As a slime, we can probably use any tiny pores in the stone to help pull ourselves up.

Can we try for some tiny stubby hardened little legs?

>>22698705
Let's see if we can't use a rigid cell membrane combined with a pseudopod to lift just our eye up above the rim of the box. We can use the wall for support if we can't quite make it up.

Forget the slime-girl, we're going full Shoggoth. Can we make another eye?
Also, for the membrane over our eye - thin it as much as you can, and create a small air bubble to function as a lens in the middle.

>>22698705
this is nice, but what are we going to do with lettuce?

>>22698749
also, we are bigger now. maybe we are large enough to stretch on top now

>>22698780
it made us bigger

Please tg don't let this turn in to slime waifu quest
Its too good to become shitty as fuck

>>22698705
Can we try and become partially adhesive and clime out of our box?

>>22698780
We eat it of course...

>>22698705
I was in a 3.5 game once where the DM had a gelatinous cube run the theives' guild of a city. It kept dead bodies inside it and vibrated their vocal cords to talk. It was a cool concept, let's use it.

>>22698770
the second thing is awesome, but 3D-sight is far back on our priority list. Only do another eye if it doesnt take away too much size

>>22698802
>>22698802
stop talking about it then

>>22698816
lets not

Let's try to spit slime by creating sacs and expelling them, to later use to spit acid.

>>22698705
Show master that we appreciate him.

>>22698705
Also, how big are we?

>>22698816
That's stupid and wouldn't actually work that way.

>>22698816
holy shit that's hilarious

>>22698829
I've said it once

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>>22698705
Oh no.

>>22698849
Given that Master looms over us and the size of the lettuce piece I'm assuming we're about the size of a fist.

>>22698851
>>22698839
Alright, alright.
I'm sorry.

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>>22698705

>>22698883
I'm not mad, just saying that wouldn't actually work.

>>22698898
haha I love you

>>22698925
It was fun, and besides, it was already a world where magic made sentient slime creatures.
I'm so sorry.

>>22698883
dont be, i just dont like that one idea. doesnt mean its bad, i just dont like it personally

>>22698954
The real issue is that vibrating their vocal cords would do nothing that vibrating its own gelatin wouldn't already do. If anything, it would be significantly worse, since vocal cords don't vibrate so much as modulate air flow to create sound.

>>22698983
I'm sorry.

An idea, just throwing this one out:
If we find a small animal corpse, can we devour it's inside and wear it's skin and bones as a skin-suit?
We'd get a lot of biomass, and figure out some more advanced biology. Also, we could use that trick later on on humans.

>>22699014
2spooky4me

>>22699014
mention the idea again down the line when we actually meet one

>>22698705
yeah, just try and get out, now that we are bigger.

>>22699014
If we can devour it, I think that means we would eventually dissolve its skin and bones.
Hey, that means we could dissolve just about anything given enough time!
That's probably also why we're in a stone box.

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Attempt pic related to peer over the side of our box and see where master went.

Failing that, at least we'd have a wider arc of vision.

We could try to inflate ourselves as much as possible and then try to see if we can bounce.

>>22699014
well now i can't help but imagine a retarded looking rat with fish eyes looking two different ways clumsily waddling and tumbling around like an idiot in the corner of a room while adventurers just meander by followed by a close up of the rat's stupid looking face with slime bulging out the mouth and a "just as planned" text laid over top.

>>22698705
Let us attempt to convey concern.

>>22699088
thats why we will need a hard membrane as soon as we have to hold stuff, but until then it is better the way it is

And nobody thought of developing an extra sticky membrane so to climb walls?

Try splitting in two. Surprise for master when he returns.

I'd say that were not so much like a cell as we are just a pile of living goo.

>>22699175
I did here >>22698804

I say we try to climb out of the box. whether that means trying to grapple a tentacle over the edge of the box and hoist us up, or just compressing our body into a taller, thinner blob to try and pour ourselves over the top. Hell, even if we could just spit a little piece of ourselves over to see if it can function independent of our main body.

>>22698705
I say turn ourself into a cylindrical, worm-like shape. When an assistant comes again to feed/take you, we can jump like a spring and latch onto a finger and devour it, and slither away with his DNA information.
I don't trust the creator enough that he won't destroy us so that muderwizards won't find his experiments.

>>22699235
>>22699175
World-outside-of-box scurry
Box safe. Stay in box.

>>22699235
actually can we do that last thing? try to divide into two functioning slimes? If that works we could just spit pieces of our selves out of the box little by little and reassemble outside the box.

>>22699252
Box dull

>>22699272
Adventure~

>>22698749
>>22698804
You try to climb up out of the box. You manage to get quite close to the rim of it, but in the end you just flop back down. You don't seem to have mastered turning sticky yet, and if there are pores in the stone, they're a bit too fine to concentrate on.


>>22698753
You try to lift up your eye. You create a harder membrane in order to push it. In the end it's a bit awkward, and even with the harder membrane, it's hard to keep your eye stalk from wobbling about. Your eye stalk collapses and your eye plops back into your main body, just before you can see over the rim of the box.


>>22698770
>>22698817
You thin the membrane, and create a sort of lense within it, over your eye. Your vision becomes slightly less blurry, but that's it in terms of improvement.

You buzz in celebrate of your success.


>>22698849
>>22698872
You deduce that you're about the size of Master's clenched fist.


Master re-appears. He is no longer holding the parchment and quill. He is holding something odd in his hand; solid, but see through. It takes you a few seconds to realise that he is holding a glass jar.

(cont)

>>22699252
we're in a tower under siege by murderhobos, no place is safe

>>22699284


Master is muttering worriedly to himself. He pulls the stopper from the jar, then leans down and actually sticks his hand into your box. He scoops you up in the jar, then puts the stopper back in.

Master holds the jar up, giving you a view of his face. Obviously it's a blurry view, but you can see that he is smiling nervously. His features are mostly blurred, but you can tell that he has long, pale hair, and his eyes appear to be pupiless.

You now have a good view of Master's study. The study is large, and filled mostly with tables. Shelves and cupboards line four of the five walls of the pentagonal room; the fifth has a door on it. There are no windows. The room is filled mostly with benches and tables. The tables are covered in an assortment of alchemical equipment, jars, parchment, quills and open-topped stone boxes, similar to the one you were just in. There are also several large, bright stones on a few tables, which appear to be lighting the room.

(cont)

>>22699310
"Everything's going to be okay.. there's guards, runes, constructs.." Master continues to mutter, but you're not sure whether he's trying to reassure himself or you. He carries you, in the jar, over to a pile of boxes, cases and other jars, and places you atop it. "We'll be out of here soon... the keep in the Red Hills... we'll continue our work there.."

Suddenly, the one door to the room bursts open. In stroll several figures. From this distance, you can't see much about them, but there appears to be four; one tall and broad, one short and broad, and two about the same size as Master. One is dressed in long garments (robes, you realise), similar to Master.

"You sick, twisted freak!" screams one of the figures. "Now comes to an end your foul experiments and black magic!"

The figure in the robes swings his hand, and appears to throw a bright ball of something at Master. Master swats it away, and it hits into one of the bookshelves, causing it to glow brightly and make crackling, snapping noises.

"Leave... Let me perform my experiments in peace. I'm sick of you 'heroes' interupting my work!"

You sit in the glass jar and peer out as Master and the four figures slowly walk around the room and stare at each other.

>>22699310
>>22699320
buzz nervously

>>22699320
Is the jar roundish? and if yes can we wobble it? maybe get it rolling?

>>22699320
Disengage surface tension as best possible and remain perfectly still. We must masquerade as a jar of totally innocent, unsuspecting, and non-sentient liquid.

>>22699332
>>22699356
Oh my god I d'awwwd

>>22699320
Try to flatten ourselves to the bottom of the jar. We must not do anything that could distract master.

>>22699320
could we knock the jar to the ground and absorb the glass shards? what's the biggest thing we can absorb?
we need to get bigger if we're going to survive

>>22699356
Try and keep our proto-eye going though

>>22699376
We must save master from the murderhobos!
EXCELSIOR!

>>22699356
untill they try and take a sniff.. then we go in their nose, eyes and ears and have outselves a little snack on fatty grey matter.

>>22699380
I think we can only absorb biological substances

>>22699409
. . . define . . . biological . . .

>>22699356
Seems like a good idea, but if Master loses, I'm going to guess that the intruders are going to burn the whole place down to destroy any experiments.

>>22699343
I think this is the best idea. It would be best if we could tip the jar at the next fireball impact to feign that the jar tipped itself, and scurry away as fast as possible.

>>22699380
I feel like glass and stone are things that would be difficult for us to absorb, aspecially at this size. It's probably easier to absorb things the more easily biodegradable they are, so basically plants>flesh>metal>glass>stone

>>22699409
but we could stick to the insides of the shards and contract to create a innocuous jar.
Sort of like a.. hermit Ooze.

>>22699421
Why not store the glass shards within the slime body? We can use it later to scratch animals/humans to feed on their blood discretely.

>>22699442
oh god my sides

>>22699419
Plants, animals and yes, seamen

First step is just to see if we can move the jar from where it is at all. Second is to plan on when we want to tip it if we can. I say if we tip it, we try to use the crash as a distraction to give the master a chance to take a pot shot at the adventurers.

I really want a picture of Opera Ooze.

>>22699380
absorb glass? Does glass have proteins? does it have phosphor? Does it have nitrogen? DOES IT HAVE ANY OF THOSE THINGS?

>>22699452
This is an amazing idea. I strongly second it.

>>22699468
Oceandroids? SaltwaterMales?

>>22699497
Roll of shelf onto dwarfs head, pinning his helmet shuck. (he's dwarf.shaped, helmets are mandatory)

>>22699332
You buzz nervously. Hopefully Master won't get distracted and think that you just did something worth celebration.


>>22699356
>>22699376
You release most of your surface tension and cunningly disguise yourself as uninteresting fluid.


Master is beginning to fling what look like balls and discs of light, of varying brightness, at the four people. They dance and prance about, sometimes getting hit, sometimes dodging. Neither the four who barged in or Master appear to be winning.


>22699343
>22699380
While trying to remain flat and unsuspicious, you carefully begin to wobble about. The jar is cylindrical, but has a slightly rounded bottom, meaning that you can make it wobble. Eventually, you manage to rock the jar off of the pile of boxes.

The jar hits the stone floor of the study with a crash of glass. You've lost your good vantage point form down here, but you see the shortest of the four suddenly turning in your direction. Master seems to take the oppourtunity to hit the short one with a flash of light, causing the short one to fall back with a grunt of pain.

>>22699442
my god, we should become a hermit thingy as soon as we are big enough to have the char as a shell

>>22699531
CONSUME THE SHORT ONE.

>>22699531
Hurdle towards the short one! Fight for master!

>>22699538
For added awesome, use a skull and learn how to speak in a omnious resounding voice.
Once we learn how to hand from ceilings... the possibilities are endless.

>>22699531
Slime over to the dwarf/gnome/halfling. Start to absorb him/her or get in his/her eyes and keep it incapacitated.

>>22699531
Grab a piece of glass as best we can and see if we can sneak over and stab one in the achilles.

>>22699563
>>22699564
>>22699573
This. Start by going into/consuming its nostrils/mouth/eyes.

>>22699573
He's broad, a dwarf.

>>22699531
How close is the adventurer that has fallen over?

If he is close try to quickly flow inside his mouth.
We will consume him from within..

>>22699531

buzz quietly

wait for one of the murderhobos to get close and cling to their feet...if wearing armor try to slip into the cracks

let's eat us a murderhobo

>>22699587
Seconded.

>>22699531
Assail the fallen! Begin with the eyes, as they are the softest and most soluble.

>>22699592
Can we bring a piece of glass with us and itch his foot?

>>22699563
>>22699587
>>22699592
This is getting morbid really fast
Not that it's bad or anything

>>22699538
Yeah, this seems like a good-

>>22699531
>jar breaks

Damn. Act af if you're threatening to scare the murderhobo's away!

>>22699608
No, no, no. He'll see us coming if we go for the eyes.
Go for the anus / dickhole.

>>22699616
I miss the adorable.

>>22699622
They aren't exposed enough.

>>22699622
Into the nose, expand inside his sinuses!

>>22699628
Eat the short one... adorably start nibbling something.

>>22699622
It doesn't matter, they can't afford to take their attentions away from the master so long as they are still in battle. We must trust in the master to keep them busy. We can help the master once we've grown.

>>22699622
Well that didn't last long..

>>22699632
And if we sneak into his pants?

Into the ear(s)! Go for the brain!

>>22699652
The testicles will offer us plenty of genetic material. Or the brain.

>>22699665
Seconded. Go into the brain and release digestive enzymes.
Feed on his brain soup as the victim is taken by a seizure!

>>22699665
Eat the brain!
Gain its power. Learn. Grow.
Become the brain!

Become a brainslime controlling a braindead dwarf! It will become like a slime controlled bearded mecha!

>>22699658
I just think it's be the quickest and best route through an orifice of the head.

>>22699584
>>22699612
You pick up a piece of glass from the shattered jar in your body, and begin to take it with you.


>>Everyone
You begin to roll over towards the short one as fast as you can. Unfortunately, that really isn't very fast compared to how quickly everyone else is springing about. Before you can reach him, the short one has already scrambled back to his feet and charged off away from you.

You can't see anything other than the feet of Master or the four, as they dart about around the study and between the tables. You suddenly hear the splintering of wood and Master's anguished screams off to your left, aswell as a loud, primal roaring.

>>22699710
hide

>>22699710
MASTER, NO!

>>22699710
Help the master in any way you can! Aren't we the product of a magical spell? We should have some residue magic left.

USE ANCIENT SLIME MAGIC ON OUR FOES!

>>22699710
Lets get slippery, and underfoot.

>>22699710
Attempt to spit the glass shard at an adventurer's Achilles' Tendon.

>>22699710
DAMN THE GIANT, TOO QUICK TO STICK WITH OUR GRAND GLASSY BLADE. STAND AND FIGHT, COWARD!

Anyway, try to save the master, by any means possible.

>>22699753
What kind of powers would a greenslime/moss hybrid have? The power of photosynthesis and looking like a glob of green jello?

>>22699710
Aid our master! Jade strong, jade expel adventurers from keep!

>>22699755
We don't know what constitutes our vitals as a slime yet. That could kills us for all we know... I say we head toward the master out of childlike instinct.

>>22699755
This.

Also, if the master dies. DEVOUR HIM.

>>22699710
Roll towards the Master and attach yourself on his arm.
Become a slime powerfist!

>>22699710
Protect the Master at all costs!

Help Master! Bite them in thei ankles!

>>22699710
Try to get into someone's armor. If it looks like the master is going to die, we mindrape them. That will distract the party long enough for the master to get back on his feet and magic some shit at them.

We consumed that glass right?
Stretch and build up pressure, then fire the glass like a shotgun.

>>22699710
Move the glass around for those adventurer to step on it.

>>22699710
Throw away our life, if need be, to buy master time to escape.

look, the master probably won't survive this, so we need a contingency plan. I say we move towards the robed adventurer, hide in his robes, maybe we can help, but if not it gives us options.

>>22699877
No! If all is lost, we will absorb master and he will live on through us.

>>22699710
if master is dead, go to master and absorb master in honer of his bravery

This may be a bad time for it, but I say we put the full extent of our vocal/acoustic skills to the test. Try to make as loud and shrill a shriek as possible to distract the adventurers from the master to buy him some time to recover.

>>22699904
>>22699908
Slimemind

>>22699710
Is everyone mad..? We're a small blob of green slime. We are not strong, we are not powerful. We need to HIDE! Look for a mouse-hole or something! Hide under the bookshelves! We don't know if we can be hurt, but we need to stay out the way, just in case.

>>22699927

Jade strong! Jafe no coward! Jade fight murderhobos!

>>22699927
Given the commotion and our size, we're pretty much totally unnoticeable for the time being. if master dies and they start investigating the room however, we might be in for some trouble.

>>22699927
b-but Master is in danger! We're not one of those heartless babies that manipulate their parents into doing what they want, we're more like a dog. There's no way we won't go help him.

>>22699808
more like a slime slime fist

>>22699927
FUCK THAT. If the master dies, we die trying to save him. We're not a coward.

>>22699965
*toot* *toot*

>>22699927
mouse hole we need.

>>Pretty much everyone again

You roll towards where you think Master is, as fast as you can, hoping to help him. You spot him laying amongst the wreckage of a table, with the largest of the four standing over him, holding a large club of some sort.

Before the largest can bring down the club upon Master, another bright bolt of light zooms past him and hits the wall behind Master. With a loud cracking sound, the wall is blasted open. You cannot see anything out of the hole; just bright. Sky, you correct yourself; it dawns on you that Master's study is near the top of his tower.

Master flails backwards, and brings himself to the hole in the wall. The largest roars in rage and takes a swing at Master, but Master flings himself through the hole in the wall. Rather than falling, he spreads out his arms and seems to be whipped away like a leaf on the wind.

The four are silent for a moment, and all four gather around the hole in the wall. The one the size of Master and wearing armour suddenly roars in rage.

"You idiot, Ceil! You gods damned idiot! Why didn't you just let Jub hit him?! We're going to have to hunt him down all over again!"

"I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I just paniced! I thought I should try and finish him off before he tried anything!" squeals the woman in robes.

The short one who Master managed to hit begins to swear under his breath, and kicks some of the rubble from the blasted wall.

The largest seems to have already lost interest in the hole in the wall, and is blundering about Master's study, looking but not touching anything.

>>22700004

Once they've all moved on, hide amongst the rubble by the hole; they won't think to check there again.

>>22700004
When the adventurers are not looking try to slime your way inside their bags or attach on the underside of someone's cloak.

We are going to hitch a ride

>>22700004
ah that a tough-y...
ill let the people decide
A:Absorb the small-fry
B:Escape!

>>22700004
Jump out of the hole and as we go make ourselves into a concave flatness, it should act like a parachute. Also have a small hole in the parachute so we make a shrill sound and beloved master might come back to get us.

>>22700052
ABSORB THE FRY
USE ITS LEGS

>>22700004
YESSSSSSSSSSSS
Objectives:
1) Reunite with Master
2) Take out adventurers if possible
3) Acquire biomass and knowledge
I say to get stowed away in the adventurers, then latch into their brains in their sleep.

>>22700004
alright we gotta leave, and head to Red Hills

>>22700004
down with the intruders!

>>22700080
...Where are the red hills?

>>22700096
And what is this... Red?

>>22700052
(p.s the way we will escape is through the hole, were slime, we will take no impact damage, if anything, we will just loss some mass by the splatter

>>22700105
i think its some sort of fruit

>>22700125
fruit? can we absorb it?

>>22700110
Yup. Let's roll out (heh) before the four stooges notice us.

>>22700149
i dont know...
we should check the area for this red

>>22700125
What is fruit? Is it us?

Also this>>22700065

>>22700174
i think its a type of vegetable

The guard said that many guards died in the lower levels, right?
BIOMASS

>>22700051
yeah

>>22700195
This.
We wait until these dicks are gone, then we eat and evolve.

You decide that you ought to escape somehow, and you can think of two ways to do this:
- Latch onto one of the four's clothing and go with them
- Leap out of the hole Master exited in order to escape the tower.


( I'll let you guys decide this over the next five minutes. Whichever method of escape with the most vote wins. )

>>22700224
Out the hole! Geronimo!

>>22700224
1. They surely will come by many corpses. biomass

>>22700224
Latch on cloth, we might learn something about these fruity hills!

I like to live dangerously, lets hitch a ride

>>22700224
ah... crap
one sec
[coin flip]
leap of faith it is!

>>22700224
Just go lower in the tower. They said there were a bunch of dead guards down there, right? That's a fuckton of delicious biomass to enjoy.

>>22700224
Stick to them like a nasty sticky spying stain.

>>22700224
The dorf! Latch on the bearded one!
On the beard, the cloak, its bags.. I don't care as long as it's a dwarf

>>22700224
hitch a ride, if they find us at least we can play cute, and they are hunting for the master, might be the quickest way to find him

>>22700224
Grab the clothes. We don't know if they plan to destroy this place after they're gone. Besides... Conversation and words are how we learn. These four speak to each other, but the tower will be silent. If we stick with them, we can learn more!

>>22700275
This. We should have a ton of biomass ready and waiting for us if we're willing to hide and go take it.

>>22700275

This.

If we must hitch a ride, hop off onto the first dead body we come across.

>>22700224
1
Keep your friends closer, your enemies closer and your food even closer.

>>22700242
On that note, slime paratroopers would be terrifying.

>>22700301
yeah, i voted for cloth, but thats what i thought we should do

>>22700314
>slime paratroopers
Like tiny biomass devouring bird droppings raining from the sky!

>>22700348
>>22700301
Food's one thing... What's more important is knowledge. We can always get food later and we've fed fairly recently.

>>22700353
oh god
then later they merge together to make one humongous slime creature

>>22700361
knowledge isnt as important as food. We are a slime, we want to help master. We can help him by being big and absorbing his foes

>>22700361
But we haven't had colour-seeing, nervous-system, speaking, thinking, breathing food yet.

>>22700353
Yeah, they dont have to be full sized! Just juveniles, then they can consume biomass once they land, feeding themselves and denying the enemy resources at the same time!

>>22700388
I'm not sure if I should be d'awwing or horrified.

>>22700375
>inb4 sad moment later in the rp when the master is concerned with our affection and might leave us because he thinks were going to eat him

>>22700387
nervous system should be quite highly up there

why not take the opportunity to get a little more sophisticated? we could start improving our sight somewhat, make improvements like this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEKyqIJkuDQ

well, dear OP, if I might make this subjection, I think its time to get the dice out. At this point, everyone is going wild and you would have to count the posts going for each direction. How about you make it a 1d100 roll, and the highest of the first 3 rolls (unless they are generally objected) wins?

I vote we go downstairs and consume the guards. That oughta spook the shit out of the adventurers.

Latch onto one afterwards, if we are still size appropriate.

Hitching a ride with the four it is!

You look over the four and take in their clothing;

The man the size of Master is wearing plate armour. Plenty of gaps to slip into and hide in, but he's on the other side of the woman and the short man.

The woman is about the same size as Master. She wears long robes, with plenty of folds to hide amongst, but getting a hold might be a bit difficuilt.

The short one is, obviously, shorter than Master, and also the closest. He is wearing simple clothing, but also armoured pauldrons and boots. He has a cape you might be able to hide in, but again, there's a risk of falling out. He also has a large, bushy beard which might be quite easy to hide in, but it is also quite hard to reach.

The largest is quite far away, but not near the other three. He is wearing a simple tunic and shorts. His arms and legs are mostly bare. He's wearing large boots which might be quite easy to hide in, but he's blundering about, so getting into them might be quite hard.

Do you have a preference as to who to hide on?

>>22700361
We're smart enough to process information for the time being and we've been imbued with the master's knowledge, so we don't actually have to actively pursue processing power until we hit the limits of what he gave us, what we need right now is the size and strength to navigate in a timely manner and to defend ourselves. We can't just run off into the woods and fight an animal to death when we're the size of a fist, and absorbing all the plant matter we come across would just lead someone to right us, possibly before we're ready to defend ourselves.

Hitch a ride!

>>22700448
Go for the woman. If we can get a bit stickier, then holding onto the cloth will be easy.

>>22700448
the small one, lets try and get into the boot

>>22700448
hide in the dwarf's boots, we're planning to get out and have a large snack quite quickly.

>>22700448
Whichever one is closest. They are much faster than us.