>>2369023
try to will your gooey body into a humanoid form

>Begin to Nom on our surrondings. We are hungry mungry for some reason.

>>2369023
Dope forgot tag.

>>2369028
Supportin

>>2369023
Try to form up back into our old self!

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>>2369027
>>2369032
Make a roll, of a d100, as you attempt to reform yourself to... well, whatever you can recall from "before".

>>2369028
>>2369031
As you struggle to remember what you can, and perhaps reconstitute yourself from this, you feel a strong hunger in your... slime? Maybe rather than feel, it's more like notice since it seems like that hunger was always there, and always will be.

In any case you seek to remedy this and do your best to move. Glooping and glorping around on the stone floor and trying not to leak between the cracks, you make quite an alarming discovery...

A skeleton! On the floor, bones strewn about in the rough shape of a person. Some damp clothes as well, and a few trinkets, a small sword as well. Who was this unfortunate individual... was it you? No, that can't be, you're a slime!

Trickling away from it in a mixture of worry and fright, you do however find some ripped open sack, spilling old grain at the bottom. Ripped by some rats, a couple of which regard you with a degree of caution. You suppose that will have to do... the grain, right? Or... the rats?

Rolled 66 (1d100)

>>2369048
Why not both? Eat rats then the grain

>>2369048
Why not both?
Devour the biological masses.

>>2369048
here for your skelegates? you'll only find death!

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>>2369052
>>2369053
A hearty meal of rats and grain, breakfast of champions! Something in the back of your mind tells you that you probably wouldn't normally do this, but you're oh so hungry. Trying to move as quickly as you can, you seek to grab any rats you're able to. It's not that quick, but quick enough for them not to expect it. Squeaking and shrieking, you're not sure what to do actually now, as you try and search yourself for a mouth or something. In the end it comes naturally though, as the rats can't get away from you once gotten, and eventually sinking and being drawn into your form, you feel your "body" passively digesting them. Dissolving more like, but you can't complain as you move on to the spilled grain.

That does wonders to sate your hunger, as you more or less just sift into the bottom of the bag and let the contents sink into you. It also gives you time to think...

>Who am I?

Faint glimpses at best, of a bed, a room, a bedroom in fact! Two beds in fact, a shared room? A dresser, a desk, clothes... a uniform? Right, right... getting up each day, getting ready for something, going about it every day... classes? Of course, a student! Of something, some sort of school? You try to remember more, though it's rather difficult. Particularly when your memories are hounded by a persistent recollection of some... accident. A lot of fear, panic, stress, anguish... pain. Something bad happened, and the emotions and trauma of that, play over your memories.

In any case, before you give yourself a head (mind?) ache, you come to realize that by ingesting all that "food", there's actually slightly more of "you". More slime that is. Not a whole lot, but enough to notice. An interesting discovery, perhaps with it you can do something about your shape...

>>2369093
Go to skeleton and investigate.
Also adsorb some glow crystals to bring light with us.

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>>2369093
>>2369052
>66

Try as you might however, your best efforts don't amount to much. It helps the more you try to remember, try to think about yourself and who you are. Recollection, seems to assist as you try to make something of yourself. Eventually though that same oppressive memory of an accident fusses your concentration and feelings up, that you can't focus enough to truly, properly reform or form yourself into anything meaningful. Maybe if you had more to eat, that would help... if not for the addition of more "you", then at least to ease your mind and help deal with this mess of memory.

It's not for nothing though that you tried, and at least you're getting a better hang of your "body", a better sense of yourself. It's quite distressing and strange being a slime puddle, but you're slowly and surely getting used to it. Now it's not a worry of leaking through the cracks and seams in the floor, or as much a struggle at least to spill your way around to move.

Hopefully in time it will continue to get easier, as you remember more and regain your identity. It has to be easier to make yourself into something, if you know what that something is.

>>2369113
Gnaw on the bones, see if we can get anything out of those remains

>>2369155
What about using the bones as an internal structure? Give us some definition and mobility bonuses? And possibly defensive bonuses as well.

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>>2369109
That seems like a good idea, if you could bring a light source with you rather than having to strain to see in the dim light. Well they're not that bright anyway, but it's quite a wacky display as you glorp your way across the floor to draw some of the crystals into you, which in turn cause your whole mass to illuminate! Neat, but not particularly noteworthy; what is, is a sparkly shimmer within your "body" which can't have come from the crystals. Rather a reaction to the light, that you didn't notice before.

Ah, but there's more important things first. Namely, the skeleton! You creep your way closer, cautious of what might have caused the owner to end up like this. Taking the chance to slide around and examine what you can, the most obvious thing is the set of clothes which by your memories, you can tell are definitely not the uniform you're familiar with or anything like it. Quite rough and torn in places, not badly made but you get the impression that the owner must have had a busy and physically active life. Given the sword, knife you discover and some other equipment, you start to formulate a guess in your mind for what kind of life that was.

Also of course the skeleton itself. There doesn't appear to be signs of some obvious cause of death, like a cracked skull. All the bones seem to be in fine condition. A strain to think and remember again, through the clouds of your mind you think... orc, and adult. You're not some expert though, at least you don't think you are.

>>2369155
Finally mustering the courage to approach to touch, you slime and slide your way over the hand bones at least. Try your hardest though, you can't really gain anything from them. The skeleton itself seems to have been cleaned of any leftovers quite thoroughly, and your gooey form can't seem to gain anything from just bones. Same as with the stone floor for example, and those rats you ate? You eventually had to just reject the little bones.

Still, you can search about the body more, particularly the clothes where you find some tough meat. Jerky, and some bread, berries and nuts. Perfect! Though it does occur to you that if these pocket contents are as such, then the person must have died pretty recently...

>How do your proceed, as you dissolve the pocket foodstuffs?

>>2369177
Hide the bones for later, we may yet be able to use it as our frame

Look around for any doors to slip under

>>2369177
Search the skeleton's belongings.
And look at equipment of room.

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>>2369186
>>2369187
Make a roll to search the room, using your glowy form to help! A d100, plus 10.

>>2369174
It occurs to you that you may be able to support yourself, your form, with the bones. Or even any objects which your body doesn't digest. Sure you can try and alter your shape to something different but that's just propping your slimy self up with more slime; wouldn't it be easier to have something solid and shaped to basically use in the same way a person uses their skeleton?

For now though, it seems that not only are you not enough slime to really structure yourself in such a way (at least with the skeleton) but also you don't really have enough control to manipulate yourself around them. Like changing your form as-is, it's probably possible, but you'd need to try again later when you have more control of yourself.

Rolled 24 + 10 (1d100 + 10)

>>2369197
Lookin for stuff.

Rolled 71 + 10 (1d100 + 10)

>>2369197

Rolled 32 + 10 (1d100 + 10)

>>2369197

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>>2369222
>>2369201
>>2369229
>81

You're in no particular rush, so after that little snack in the dead fellow's pocket, you decide to look around why not? Slipping and sliding your way across the floor and searching around where you can, with help of the glowy crystal, you start to get an impression of the place. Some sort of store room, not so much junk (though some of it is you imagine) but just things that people don't need or want to put away till they need it. From all the stuff itself though you can start to formulate an idea, a lot of academic supplies, tending towards the magic end of things.

That's right! You recall, that place, that school. Some sort of institute for magic study, which would explain the uniforms. You must have been here, for whatever a slime might be. A janitor perhaps? Or familiar to a wizard maybe? You're not really sure how you know these things, the knowledge is kind of just creeping back along with your memories when you need it. Whatever the case though, this would seem to be an out of the way room. Otherwise, you think anyone would have discovered the skeleton by now.

To your particular needs you aren't really able to locate much more that you can eat, unless you want to try to start stripping some books of their old leather binding. Maybe the paper? But you're sure you could seek out much better and easier food to digest, particularly when in your search you do indeed find a door, whose sill you could slide your way under. Whatever lies beyond though...

If you stay or go, is there anything particular you have in mind in your search, that you may have wanted or want to bring with you? Your current "inventory" of objects is just the glowing crystal you have inside your slimy mass.

>>2369249
The stones just make us more visible so I say we leave and look for food

And let's be sneaky about it, we don't know how people will react

>>2369259
seconding

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>>2369259
That makes sense, and you may end up having to rely on the crystal anyway. Plus it won't fit under the door with the rest of yourself, so you abandon it in the room for now. Not too much a problem though, as sliding your way under the door, you find a lit corridor. No windows so you could guess it's underground but you can't be sure.

It's quite a ways in either direction though, but you can see a set of stairs to the far right. Along the corridor are several other doors of either side, so the room you came from may not even be the only store room. Naturally you seek to explore the first one you encounter right across the way, but hear quite a commotion coming down the hall. Quickly sliding just under the gap of this other door without fully entering the room, you watch and wait, as a few people hurry along the corridor. When they get close enough you can tell they are orcs, and they are clearly quite busy carrying a bunch of goods... or loot, by the looks of one hefting a prisoner over his shoulder. They're talking heatedly among themselves, and after a certain way, they start looking around. Something about regrouping after the attack, and though they mostly go on farther down the hall, the one carrying the prisoner lags behind.

Calling out something, a name if you had to guess, he starts checking around to the different rooms down here (never more than a peek) for what he can find. Maybe looking for the skeleton of the one you found in your room? But if that's the case then your roommate must have died very recently. After about the fifth door checked, the orc fellow is joined be a younger lady orc as well and after a quick exchange she starts helping the effort as well. Though she's not calling out, probably just looking for more loot since compared to the others, she has hardly anything to carry.

You expect that in their checking, the orc fellow should reach your original room in a minute or so, while the orc lass should reach the door you are currently hiding under a couple minutes after that. The one is quickly searching for someone, the other is taking her time to look into each room for goodies.

>How do you proceed?

>>2369288
Follow orcs and steal food?

Going to sleep here op
G'night Y'all

>>2369296
That's fine, thanks for playing!

>>2369293
These green-skinned hooligans are the biggest thing going for you right now, in more ways than one, so part of you imagines going with them and seeing if you could even share in their success. However, you have reason to fear any people you think, as a slime. You could try just slipping and sliding up to them but you can imagine that going as poorly just as much as it may go well.

Perhaps you could instead stalk them and see where they go, but you highly doubt you could keep up with them as you are, just a sticky puddle mostly. If you have some means in mind though of going with them, you could certainly try it.

>>2369306
See if we can slip into a crack or something to hide and hope they pass us by.

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>>2369413
A fair plan, you'd rather avoid attention in your condition right now. So you slide further into the room and just hide in the dark. Eventually you hear some commotion across the way, your original room. It seems the orc fellow must have found his skeletal friend, which is followed by some arguing and sounds of smashing from that room. Eventually his voice fades, though angry all the way. You think the coast clear, till the lass throws open the door to the room your in, mumbling to herself and all frustrated, while she rummages about the room for anything valuable. With her opening the door some light spills in, and you can see this room is mostly old furniture, though she takes a particular focus to some metal candlesticks. Silver maybe?

In any case, now seems to be your chance to escape the room, or else just continue remaining hidden and hope she leaves soon. Unless of course you have some other plan in mind?

>>2369423
Just keep hiding for now, unless she finds us in which case quiver adorably.

Once they are gone we can do some exploring when its more safe, I have a feeling that it was us who striped their friend of his flesh.

>>2369427
Very well then, you remain in hiding, till she pilfers what she can and takes her leave. With a slam of the door the room returns to darkness, and you're able to escape your hiding spot and move freely again. You hear another door or two open and close over the next couple of minutes as she checks further down the hallway afterward, but eventually silence.

>How do you proceed?

>>2369434
Slip on out into the hallway and see if we can find where they sleep or eat, both places will have good food for us.

>>2369438
Make a roll, maybe you can find something special? In your searching for more... well, anything really.

Rolled 50 (1d100)

>>2369443

>>2369288
I recognize that hallway!

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>>2369446
>50

A passable effort! You slide out from under the door and back to the hallway, and along you go. Glorping your way along, you figure there's no need to check any of the rooms the orcs already did, otherwise if there was something good then they would have taken it already, right?

You near the staircase at the far end after awhile though, and one of the doors nearest to it is smashed and broken open. Inside, you can see two bodies on the floor, a quick look from the doorway and you'd guess one is dead for sure with a significant wound in their neck and blood all around. The other though looks to be out cold, or at least they're still breathing. What transpired you can't say for sure, but it looks like they had been hiding in this room, when the orcs found the door probably secured and smashed it down. Having done this to the occupants, that might even have explained the one captive that was carried off. The most notable detail though is that the two in here are wearing those school uniforms you remember.

Otherwise, the room itself doesn't seem to have much beyond a bunch of racks with chopped wood. For fires maybe? Or something else. The good news though, aside of the room, is that you're right near the stairs now so seeing what lies above should be easy enough.

>>2369453
What? Surely you must be mistaken!

>>2369459
Get eating on that dead body.

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>>2369462
Why let a good body go to waste, you figure? It's not like they'll be needing it anymore! So you shlorp over to it and make contact, to start consuming and dissolving everything you can. By the looks of the other person, you think it best to start out of plain sight so you trickle your way under the clothes and begin absorbing everything you can from within. By the time you consume all of that, only the hands and head will be left exposed so you can finish them last.

>Magic body consumed!

It takes awhile, particularly since there's so little of you (relatively) to begin with, but eventually you are able to consume the dead body entirely, leaving not by a skeleton and damp clothes remaining. It's nice to have your hunger sated, however interestingly you gain a greater sense of yourself in the process, particularly when dissolving the brain. Not only was it a tasty meal, but you can tell this person had magic power, a wizard perhaps. In any case, you attain a higher level of self control and can attain an improvement. As you are only just starting out (to your knowledge) your choices are limited, but you can only imagine what sorts of feats you may be capable of in time.

Would you like to improve something relating to;

>Interpersonal; your ability to interact with other things, other beings

or

>Subsistence; how your form gains nutrition and consumes

>>2369475
>>Interpersonal; your ability to interact with other things, other beings

>>2369482
Yes, that seems like a good idea. Why, when those orcs happened past and you had no option to interact with them, it was quite scary. You'd want to avoid that in the future. So of the possible upgrades you could seek, those initially available are;

>Communication; in this case the ability to make noises
>Self Image; the ability to control your own form better, as to try and attain some physical identity/appearance
>Consistency; that being the cohesion of your body, and how consistent you are

It seems at some point before this, you must have consumed another body, as you already have the Interpersonal improvement for

>Sensory; the ability to detect external stimuli, basically having senses like sight and hearing

>>2369497
>>Communication; in this case the ability to make noises

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>>2369499
That feels "right" to you, as you recall more of your self, and understand the ability to be able to make noises by altering your body shape in ways and either vibrating or manipulate goopy sounds. For now, it's just noises, but with another improvement made, you think you could do what those people do, and be able to talk.

Not half bad from consuming a body, and just in time, as you notice now the other person stirring and quickly seek someplace to hide among the chopped wood. Probably for the best, as the fellow yells in a panic, still disoriented but obviously alarmed to find the other person not but a skeleton and their clothes. He probes the remains and feels said clothes damp, but is at a loss for what happens. Attempting and failing to reach his feet in a clumsy stagger and fall, he crawls to the smashed open doorway and looking out in either direction, he weakly tries calling up the stairs.

>How do you proceed?

>>2369504
Follow him, for now, he should prove a decent distraction to let us look around up stairs.

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>>2369509
As sneakily as you can, you emerge from the stacks of chopped wood, and creep after the fellow. Eventually some help does come at his calling for it, another person in the uniform clothes and helps him up, after also panicking at seeing the new skeleton.

Together they struggle up the stairs, which is enough of a distraction for you to continue sneaking after them, and at a pace you can keep up with if you try your hardest. Thankfully it's not that long a flight of stairs, before the cross another broken door to some sort of small but open room. It's pretty sparse but by the look of things it's probably the access to the lower levels of this structure; there are a few other doorways, two of them open and both lead down.

The two you are following though exit the room to the outside, the actual outside where you can see the sun. Late afternoon by the look of things, though the scent of smoke on the air and the sight through the open doorway of some small fires here and there outside, indicate some greater conflict going on.

You could remain in here, try another of the doors in this open room, or try sneaking outside. For the latter two choices, if you want you can roll to try and see maybe what you can notice or find out about them; either the other doors, or what is outside.

>>2369532
I's say we take a peek outside to see what is going on before searching more rooms for bodies they are yummy.

Probally better to wait for night if we are to head outside

Rolled 78 (1d100)

>>2369562
And roll for searching the the other doors in room.

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>>2369562
A peek outside never killed anyone, as you creep to the open door and get a glimpse out. It looks to be an open courtyard of a decently large complex, like a castle. It seems some attack, an orcish raid to your guess is taking place as there are signs of destruction here and there, fires as you already know and some bodies and injured people and animals around. Not like the place is in danger of coming down from what you can tell, but the greenskin raiders have made a mess for sure.

Notably, getting the look outside and you can tell for sure by familiar memories that this is that same academy you know to have been in, with the uniforms, your own room, daily routine and all. But that's enough a look for now, as you shlorp back inside.

>>2369570
>78

In the meantime you go checking each of the rooms in this open hall, keeping to the outer walls and behind the few bits of furniture or stone work. Of the six available, three lead down including the one you came from, to other lower areas. Another seems to just be connecting to some corridor running through the building up at this level. Two though are just farther back into the building here, rooms on their own. One at a quick look around, appears to be some room for keeping animal feed, for a stable you can recall. A bunch of hay and similar provisions, which based on your take of the grain down below, won't do you much. However there is also some barrels of slop and mixed food waste, probably for pigs and the like, and interestingly there are a number of enclosures of smaller living animals. Not like a chicken coop, you expect that elsewhere. These are more like, spaces for a bunch of rats and mice, insect and lizard enclosures, even an artificial fish pond. These are feeder animals you'd guess, for bigger and meaner captive or pet animals.

The other room is a little more disappointing, just a laundry room though quite big and also has a back way outside for drying and such. Though there are a couple people holed up inside here, and a couple injured as well.

Rolled 28 (1d100)

Dammit, too late to this thread to vote for digesting the unconscious fellow in >>2369459. But it seems all is not lost...

>>2369591
Lets clear the room with feeder animals and after that continue our rampage in the laundry. Safe is boring - I want to know how well will we fare against frightened group of students. Let's try to form tendrils inside our mass and via them incorporate mice ears and human eyes into our form. In the laundry room, focus on the most injured folks first.

btw Familiar by Mieville should be required reading for anyone in this quest.

Rolled 63 (1d100)

>>2369605
Support on feeding animals, but attacking bunch on people, when we can only slowly digest them seems like bad idea.
Courtyard would be better option or heading to the lower levels

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>>2369610
>>2369605
>63

Well it's quite the commotion in the feed storage room, as you basically clear the place out of anything organic in about an hour. You have impulses, an urge to move on to the laundry room afterward and continue feeding, on those in there. However your thoughts and memories play through, and remind you that it may not be so easy when your digestion rate is slow and also those would all be people compared to mice. People in fact, who may have magic abilities. Plus, if your memories have any truth to them, you get the feeling you may actually know or have known them. Consuming the dead body of a possibly former comrade is one thing, in this state you find yourself, but attacking and consuming living folks? Your hunger insists, but your better sense asks if any of them might not have been a friend?

In any case though you've cleared out this room at least, and now are around the relative mass size of a beach ball, if you were to entirely withdraw all your mass into a sphere. And if you knew what a beach ball was. It seems to be that feeding increases the amount of your "self", with animal flesh consumed doing you the best. If you start to starve by contrast, it seems the amount of your "self" will merely diminish, possibly to nothing. But it's not as if you can starve to death (in the traditional sense) or eat too much and get sick; you just grow or shrink in slime mass depending on how you feed or don't.

Ah but the passage of an hour, in leaving the room you try checking outside again, and things seem to be more under control. By the sound of the place there's still an attack going on, but it's not like there's fights going on in the courtyard and random orc raiders running around looting and pillaging. Chances are they have either been killed, repelled, the retreated, or like the ones you saw below are in small groups or on their own, running around to cause what last havoc they can before leaving.

>How do you proceed?

>>2369621
Head down to one of other lower areas.
Lets try to find someone relatively harmless looking person and try to communicate with it.
We kinda need to figure out what happened to us before we woke up

>>2369624
You've had your fun eating whatever you can, including at least two bodies that you're aware of. It seems then that now might be the time to actually try to make sense of things, as long as you're not starving anymore and can somewhat communicate with noises.

Make a roll to follow up on the door you want to take. Assuming that is, not the same door you came up from to start with.

>>2369621
>Well it's quite the commotion in the feed storage room
This is golden

Let's head outside. Now is not the time for such trivialities as "figure out what happened to us before" or "make sense of things".

Rolled 42 (1d100)

>>2369626
Just head down by one of doors we have not yet to use

>>2369629
>>2369630
Oh dear, conflicting choices! Roll off to decide? Or that is, just Xmh player roll, and see if better than 42.

Rolled 44 (1d100)

>>2369634
I'm not sure what Xmh is, but I'll roll 1d100.
>inb4 we split off into two blobs

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>>2369635
Well Xmh is your ID. But 44 is just barely higher than 42! Maybe a fair middle ground;

You decide on just choosing the one closest, and what you find is a passage down, but only to another room. A big cellar with great big vats; drinks storage! At least you think so, certainly some of the great vats and barrels are wine and such, others are probably magic brews and whatnot. Down here, you find some orcs whom got their way in and hit the drinks despite a battle going on. In total four, two passed out, two very tipsy and supposed to be on guard.

That's just a look to that room, checking outside again and moving so, you see that things are more under control now. There's no more open fighting in the courtyard, some of the bodies have been moved, the injured carted off, and some subdued orcs being watched. Also the fires and damage are being seen to, from academy personnel personally dealing with it (some flying even), to other attendants being things like magic servants and magically animated objects. It's not totally safe as in your time watching, you notice some pillaging group emerge from an upper balcony, and try to rough their way to escape, some of them making it or even freeing a captive comrade or two. But the conflict is for sure on the downturn.

In any case you should still have no trouble sneaking if there's a place you want to try to remember, or think would exist in a place like this. Or if you just want to follow the blood.

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>>2369638
>>2369621
I realize I kind of double described the courtyard situation, but the choice of where to go is the focus anyway.

Rolled 89 (1d100)

>>2369638
Well we have few options here, but I'd rather not run out of here untill we know more.
Lets try to kill those four orcs, if we can jump on and wrap ourselfs around guards face, we should have good change to win.
>roll for sneaky attack one of orcs

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>>2369638
Supporting this >>2369648

>>2369648
This better works, and I have a tweeest - jump orcs face, wait until he screams in surprise, get inside his mouth, then lungs, then proceed to eat.

>>2369648
>>2369656
>>2369717
Dammit I realized we probably cannot jump like this yet. Gonna consume more bodies for stunts like this.

>>2369765
Cant we just glop up onto something high like the wine casks and then slop on top of an orcs face when they pass by

>>2369648
Sneak attack or not, I doubt the orc is just going to let it happen peacefully which will alert the others

>>2369648
We could just slime into their mouth and digest them from the inside out.

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Rolled 15 (1d100)

>>2369648
>89

It seems to be a unison agreement to go after the orcs, considering they attacked the establishment you think to call home, and of course are on their own.

So you gloop and glop your way under the door and down the stairs, sliding along the dirt and stone floor of the damp cellar. In the dim light you're even harder to see, such that you can creep up to the most sober (though still tipsy) guard. Springing an attack on the guy would be your preference, but as you are, you're not able to just leap up to a height or across a distance. You are able to climb though decently well, so you shlorp up the side of one of the big casks against which the orc is sitting and watching.

Slowly, carefully you drip down, trying to keep all of yourself together so that you don't alert him to your presence. Unfortunately your consistency isn't high enough, nor is your control over your self that some doesn't pour down onto him first. But in his noticing and looking up in confusion, you take the chance to drop onto his face. Immediate panic as your slime starts dissolving whatever it comes into contact with, and the two of you are at odds with him struggling to try and get rid of you and pull you away from him, while you're trying to shove yourself down his throat.

>But do any of the others notice?

>>2370361
Methinks they are quite thoroughly soused.

>>2370361
>15

Well they are simply hammered! The other orcs hear the noise but since it's not audible yelling with you covering the mouth, and they can't see anything from past the big cask, they can't be bothered to check for what they assume is no big deal.

The struggle continues, but before long you feel the orc weakening as suffocation takes its toll, and finally his struggle dwindles till collapse. He drops to the floor slowly but surely, though for good measure you make sure he's dead. After which you can consume to your hear- slime's content! As you are, the dissolving process takes about an hour, for you to fully digest the body from top to bottom leaving only a skeleton and clothes in your wake.

>Body consumed!

As before, not only do you increase in slime amount, but you also gain a greater sense of yourself. Since the body wasn't magical you don't really gain a deeper understanding of your physiology, but you can still improve based on what you already know from the categories of;

>Interpersonal, and Subsistence

as described here >>2369475

>>2370380
>Subsistence
So we can have a more firm body that we can do acrobatic maneuverings with.

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>>2370429
An ability like that is not exactly under those two categories you currently know. The best you can manage with that in mind is under Interpersonal, whether you want greater cohesion or stability. Basically how well your "self" can keep together, or how well you can maintain control under certain conditions, like moving. Though, on the latter, since you can't yet maintain a proper "shape" more than puddle really, stability might not be so useful.

Your current consistency is like syrup. If you were to improve it, you can tell that it would be more like gack, or those DIY slimes. Thicker, more goopey rather than liquidy.

>>2370380
>>2370473
I vote for Consistency.

Also, welcome back OP. I thoroughly enjoy this quest. >>2370361 had laugh at that gif in the context.

>>2370494
>>2370429
Consistency then, as you reflect on your improved understanding of yourself and learn the ability to improve your cohesion. Originally just a syrupy puddle, now you actually have some consistency to your form. It's not like you can up and start performing acrobatic stunts, but it's definitely much easier now to keep ahold of yourself, keep all of "you" together. Not as much worry about moving over an open grate and pouring through by accident. No, you're a proper slime now!

That took an hour though, all things considered. By now you can hear the next most sober orc talking to the others whom are at least stirring, and it sounds like there's an interest to find out where their comrade went. He was only just sitting guard, did he fall asleep over behind that cask?

>How do you proceed?

Rolled 50 (1d100)

Huh, the sneak attack actually was sneaky.
>>2370623
Lets go behind some barrels and try to lure most sober orc there with noises.

If the two others are still just laying around we can kill them somewhat easily, while sober one is at other side of the room.

Rolled 30 (1d100)

>>2370718
Supporting

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>>2370718
>>2370734
>50

Making noises is within your toolbox of abilities, and the ability to lure with them occurs to you. If one is already curious as to the whereabouts, then some suspicious noises should draw her away.

So you go elsewhere from the bones, and hiding at among some barrels you start making noises. Clicking, chirping, whistling, a good practice to see what you can do. Eventually the most sober orc of the three does struggle to her feet, calling out a name as she comes over to investigate the noises. You retreat further among the barrels and making the noises more tantalizing, and while eventually it's clear to her that it isn't her friend, curiosity still gets the better of her as she looks down among the barrels and tries reaching down to see what she can find. Probably thinks it's some animal maybe, but once she's leaning down, as (relatively) quick as you are able, you gush forth and try to cling to her face again like the last.

Because your form is more cohesive though, while maintaining control is easier, it's also easier for her to try and remove you. Because if she can get ahold and pull enough, then the rest of you is going with it.

How does she fare?

Rolled 46 (1d100)

>>2370779

>>2370779
Does the slime have a penis? I'm just asking because I know we are all thinking the same thing. Not that we would go there or anything.

>>2370779
>26

Well now, it seems she wasn't as sober as she should have been, and your little surprise attack was well timed and executed; in her sudden panic and struggle, she ends up losing her stance, and falling head over heels entirely down in between the barrels with you on her.

It's not that she's stuck, though it is a difficult position to be in, but in fighting against you and the disorientation of having a corrosive slime on your head... it's too much for her. Like her friend, she struggles and tries to both pull you off and get out of the spot between the barrels. Unfortunately for her it doesn't amount to much, and also tires her out quickly for suffocation to set in. After that, a hearty orcish treat to digest in much more privacy than before!

Another hour to go for you to render her a skeleton and clothes, but you've done it. And again, the more of you there is and hunger sated, you gain more sense of yourself.

>Body consumed!

What do you want to improve? From the list already shown, since the body wasn't magic so no new categories learned.

>>2370796
Well you're just a slime. It seems possible that if you further improved your consistency to be firmer and closer to solid, maybe you could do something like that.

But you're just a slime! You don't even have a gender, at least not that you can tell, and none of that stuff really matters to you.

>>2370806
>Interpersonal

>>2370819
Another improvement to how you interact with the world around you? Yes, that seems like the best idea to begin with, gain some basic necessities before you start to really see what you're capable of. For the available options as listed in a previous post then, >>2369497 , which do you want?

>Communication (2); you can already make noises, so now you would be able to talk
>Self Image; the ability to control your own form better, as to try and attain some physical identity/appearance
>Consistency (2); with the cohesion of a proper slime, further improving this would put you at the consistency of something like a water baloon, a firm outer surface with a liquidy interior

>>2370836
>self image

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>>2370806
Yeah... just asking for curiosity's sake.
>>2370836
I second self image

>>2370836
>>Self Image

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>>2370860
>>2370838
Self-Image it is then, so that you won't forever just be a puddle of slime. That should be useful for sure, and with a little practice, with thanks to your improved consistency, you can now form some basic shapes out of your "self". Whether that be a cube for the classic look, a sphere to roll around, or whatever simple shapes you can imagine. If you continue practicing and improving yourself in this way, then you suspect eventually, to be able to take on more complex forms and even fashion an identity for yourself.

>Identity

...that's right. As you practice and try to think of shapes to form as, you come to recall and remember the shape "you" should have. A memory, a feeling of a person, a body. Not a slime one either, a solid form. That's right, you may be as you are now, but you weren't always so. It seems your assumptions of being someone's pet or familiar were too low; you may have in fact been a person. Exactly who, and how you came to be as you are now, isn't clear. But it's both a tremendous blow to your psyche and emotions to know how you are now compared to how you should be, or at least were. At least some reassurance, to recall a little more about yourself, however little. At least you're somebody, not that being a familiar or pet is a bad thing.

Ah, but back to matters at hand. It took another hour to digest that orc, and by now the other two are staggering about. You can tell because of the commotion when they find the skeletal remains of one of their buddies on the floor. They quickly get quite angry and worried, taking up arms and gathering their loot. Clearly they want to leave, but first the hope to find who did this to their friend, and second they want to find their missing friend. Also, they have to be careful in case whatever did it is still here.

Though as you know, they're still a little tipsy so not the top of their game.

>>2370920
Lure them farther down the cellar.

>>2371079
There's not really a "down", it's just one great room down here. If you mean farther from the stairs though, you can do that. Make a roll, for whatever your plan is, as you shlorp along through the cellar avoiding these two orcs.

Rolled 61 (1d100)

>>2371089
Alright lemme just roll for >>2371079 and also to wrap ourselves around both their necks to choke them
Maybe we can find a tall thing to fall off of and onto them

>>2371169
You can stick with that roll, but you're not capable of performing a feat like that on the two of them.

You can however try to dismount one of the casks to roll onto them, if you want to try with that roll.

>>2371214
Yes
>Crush them

Rolled 20 (1d100)

>>2371237
Very well then, let's see how they fare.

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>>2371253
Oh dear, they hadn't a chance!

Based on their movements around the cellar, you try to plan ahead for a trap. They won't be here long though so you have to be quick about it. Hurriedly, you move ahead to a few stacked casks, and struggle as much as you can to try and tip one over. Eventually you do manage, for one that is empty and just on the stack, by getting inside the barrel and throwing all of "you" back and forth. Eventually after quite the racket you cause the thing to topple over and hopefully crash into the orcs. Not that you can see since you're slopping around inside as it rolls. However you feel a thump and hear yelling before coming to rest. Without immediately jumping out to action, you cautiously check to see what the end result is. To your credit, the cask rolled and smashed into one of the orcs, pinning her under it. The other orc is checking if she's alright and will try to move it off her.

So you have a chance to launch an attack on one of them probably, if you're quick, before they can get the thing off again.

Rolled 29 (1d100)

>>2371286
It's not exactly dignified but if we can force ourself into the anus of the downed orc while they're distracted we can kill them from the inside and the do a chestburster impression to catch the other by surprise.

>>2371361
That's... rather specific? Why not the mouth? Either way, the trapped orc is going to know what is going on and raise complaint.

Rolled 57 (1d100)

>>2371361
Any orifice would be good.

>>2371382
>>2371361
>57

Well you resolve to destroy the trapped orc from the inside out, and in a surprise attack, slorp your way from out of the barrel and for her mouth. The fellow helping her is caught off guard and draws back in alarm at the sight of you first, while the trapped orc can't do anything herself. Before they can stop you, you've already slimed at her face and into her mouth, aiming for her gut.

Needless to say, it's quite dark in here! A lot of struggle, attempts to spit you out, and screaming. Unfortunately you don't have the kind of control or consistency yet where you can just force your way down her throat, however you made it inside her mouth and you're too goopy for her to spit out. If you wait long enough though, eventually you could corrode your way down her throat.

Do you want to just dissolve her entirely then, or try to make it farther inside?

>>2371436
Why not both?

>>2371540
Well it would mostly be the order you do it in. But sure, you can just passively dissolve everything around you, till you sink deeper, and eventually just consume her from within. Not the same as forcing your way into her stomach and chest bursting, and tremendously slower. But it's a gruesome end which she can't really fight. Eventually along through the consuming process it becomes clear to you that the other orc left by now, probably tried to help her but when she finally perished to your corrosion, he must have given up. You still got one body at least, but the other got away.

>Body consumed!

Another chance to improve, as you dwell among the skeleton and clothes trapped beneath the fallen barrel. How might you increase your potential?

>>2371574
We have control, consistency, sensory, and noisemaking

Let's go for subsistence

>>2371619
Good idea.

>>2371619
Well you have improved each of those, but they can be improved further. You're at the first "level" of improvement for each.

>>2371651
To that end though, if you're still keen on Subsistence, then the options available to you are;

>Appetite; the time it takes you digest things, cut in half by each "level"
>Bolster; if you should choose to specify beforehand, you can gain a temporary surge in your composition in terms of amount of "you" and vigor
>Digestion; how you actually break down your food, in this case that you would be able to engulf and imprison a target and dissolve it within yourself, rather than dissolving by outer contact and absorbing nutrition that way

>>2371755
>>Appetite
Speed at eating.

>>2371755
>Bolster*

That is to say, specify before you consume something. Like you would say, this next meal is going to be used to bolster me. Then, by each level you'll increase temporarily by a multiplicative of what you normally would. So if you eat a body and gain X value of mass, energy, etc... then first level bolster will double that, then quadruple it, and so on. Temporary though.

>>2371777
>>2371784
Well that seems to be the choice then, as you finish digesting what little remains of the orc. In concentrating as well, with haste on the mind, you actually make shorter work of it! What would have taken an hour for an average body, now would take half an hour.

Ah, but that seems to be it for people to feed on now, with the remaining orc gone. You've been down here a few hours now, so you imagine things must be concluded or close to it by now, in either side's favor.

>How do you proceed?

>>2371837
Investigate what the orcs had on their person.

>>2371844
Make a roll! You're not but a humble slime, such orcish things may well be beyond your comprehension.

Rolled 33 (1d100)

>>2371844

Rolled 64 (1d100)

>>2371855
Finally settled in properly at home and just in time to roll

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>>2371865
>33

Alas, you've still got slime on the mind, delayed in your retention of past memories and whomever you were. As such, you aren't able to turn up much of use in your search of the skeletons and clothes. Nothing better than little trinkets and shiny things.

>>2371902
>64

A-ha! But a second check over what you do find, and you realize that one of the rings is magical, as is a necklace! It can't be too much, or you wouldn't expect it to be if these are just some orc raiders, but it's not like you had an magic items before...

Rolled 79 (1d100)

>>2371855
For some reason I thought this would be a joke quest. Doesn't seem like that, seems interesting enough.

>>2371919
It's as jokey as you want (need?) it to be! Though for now things have been progressing seriously enough.

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>>2371917
>>2371928
Well moving right along, you store the items of interest within yourself, and slorp and shlop your way out of the cellar and back to the open hall. It's night now you can tell, but no lack of activity; after the attack seems to have been repelled, now there's folks rushing about on their business or patrolling for any remaining orcs probably. There must have been quite a mess to clean up for sure, that only makes sense, so as long as you don't get in someone's way and they step on you, it should be fine for you to sneak around. Unless of course, you're seeking attention?

>How do you proceed?

>>2372038
Look for the room we came to in.
We need to look for traces of our past.

>>2372061
You can navigate your way back to the room you came from sure, and since it's in the lower level you can get there without much trouble of being noticed. Carefully you keep to corners and the shadows as to not be noticed, passing over the stony and dirt floors, and the staircase down. On your way, you end up passing by where you consumed the first body that you're aware of. It isn't there anymore, the skeleton, but there's two people examining around the place.

Waiting for the right time, you slide past the doorway and keep going till you approach the room you remember beginning in. However, another sight as you approach, some fellow in the uniform of the academy searching about the room you were in. Rather roughly and quickly too, upturning this and knocking over that, desperate in his search.

>How do you proceed?

>>2372095
Wait till he leaves.
See if he finds anything, and if he does, follow, if not search room.

>>2372157
You quickly sneak under the opposite door, the one you first hid under, to watch and wait till this stranger leaves. Grumbling to himself about something, eventually he gives up his search for now it seems, though he slams the door shut and performs some kind of magic spell upon the door. How strange, though he doesn't take anything with him.

Storming off, now is your chance to return "home" and examine the room better yourself. Anyting in particular you seek though? You did already search this room yourself somewhat, though you could always try again (with a roll, as usual).

Rolled 84 (1d100)

>>2372179
Do it.
Search for identifying stuff.

Rolled 53 (1d100)

>>2372179

Pretty much what >>2372190 said.

>>2372213
>>2372190
>84

Again you search the room for anything you can find which may help. Now that you have a better sense of yourself and this place, you're not just searching blind at least. However it's still a dark room, and it's still ransacked and messy.

In any case, it's not like you're on a timer here, and over the better part of an hour or two of searching wherever you can, finally you do discover something different that you'd passed over before; a uniform set of clothes to the academy. No name, and no indicator of any status, however they are... familiar, particularly to your touch. Memories of that person wearing them as they would any day during the routine, and more sets of clothes like it in their room, in the dresser... your clothes. No pet or familiar indeed, but a student here, like many others.

Until the accident that is. Still no idea of name, or appearance, but a step closer to rediscovering your identity. Not what you'd hoped, but it's a start and it's better than nothing.

>How do you proceed?

Well there's not much else I think we can gain by staying around here, maybe we should spread out our search of this magical institution wider. If nothing else maybe we can find where they threw the orc bodies.

>>2372345
Possible searches for sure, but what do you want to set yourself on first? Or perhaps you'd like to just wander and see what you find?

Searching for bodies does sound appealing though, but by now it's doubtful what will be left. That is assuming, you want to stay here to begin with.

>>2372407
To be fair I'm not really sure what we can find that would help us out in our current state, as far as I would think there's not much a slime has need for except food. I guess we could just look around randomly for now.

( got work in the morning so I'm out, be back tomorrow, love the quest keep it up!)

>>2372407
Lets find more magical bodies (dead or not). We want to become new Magical Slime Girl.

>>2372407
We need more info on who we were and more biomass. I think searching for our old dormitory and wherever they're disposing the bodies.

>>2372484
>>2372449
>>2372447
More bodies is never a bad thing, the hunger is always there, and the more of you there is the worse it gets.

Fortunately, unlike typical slime you're blessed (or cursed) with a mind, so you have the ability to prioritize and seek reasonable actions before base instincts. And to your mind, finding out more about yourself seems the most logical course of action, starting with one of your most common of the few memories you have, your bedroom. You know what it's like, you spent enough time there, if you were dropped in there right now and blindfolded (or the slime equivalent) you could navigate around it blindfolded. The only problem, is getting there in the first place.

Tracking your way around the academy (from your vague memory it's not impossibly huge, just about a small castle equivalently) could work, seeking out a student and following them to any bedrooms. Or you could try and draw on your vague memories and recall your way there. Either one, if you specify, will take a roll.

>>2372516
>try to find where they keep the dead bodies
Need more magic amd upgrades and the ability to speak

>>2372553
Well you can try, but you doubt anyone belonging to the academy who died, if their body has been collected, would not be just tossed in a pile nor left unattended. The attacking orcs may be easier to find dead, but you wouldn't know where to look for that. Maybe they tossed them outside the walls? Maybe they fed them to some exotic beasts? It'll be a tough thing to find, though again not impossible.

If you're set on it, specify a rough idea of where you might want to try and look, and make a roll.

>>2372564
Look for the research lab, they should have specimens collected for study

>>2372566
Whoah now, that's three different choices to contend with! Your room, bodies after the attack, and now specimens?

Well, like the others you suppose you could find it but you'll need to search around, and roll to do so.

Rolled 90 (1d100)

>>2372600
And good night.

Rolled 78 (1d100)

>>2372600
4th choice: gtfo. Lets roam free in the wider world.

>>2372600
Nom biomass. Magical kind if possible. People, critters, creatures, monsters... Doesnt really matter where (or who) it is but staying in castle is preferable due to the fact everything is in chaos because of attack. Our exploits will be less noticable (until it is too late, mwahaha).

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>>2372695
>>2372771
>>2372778
>90

Well first thing first, you've got your sight (?) set on some easy pickings of the more exotic variety. Your memories of this place are vague, but being a magic academy there should be some place for the study of animals, right?

It does occur to you, that you could just exit the grounds entirely, you know of a way out via the laundry room. The freedom is appealing, though before making such an escape, you'd at first want to get all you can out of this place. So exiting the room you began in, you try to keep as stealthy as you can and shlorp your way along corridors and hallways. You come back up to the open hall and the ground floor of this place, and from there start carefully searching around. While it is night time now so easier to travel unnoticed, you still don't move particularly fast so it's not like you have all the time in the world to search this place for everything, before sunrise. Also, a couple of times here and there you try entering a room and are either blocked magically, or trigger some magic alarm which you flee from.

Eventually though after a few hours searching, you find an older and much more heavily built wing of the building, much thicker stone walls and reinforced doors. This looks like the place where they do experiments and research of that nature, with as many strange looking pieces of equipment and cluttered tables, as explosion marks and damage to the walls, floor and ceiling. No windows either, you're able to glop your way in through a little barred view port in one of the doors. Once inside though, hoping to avoid any magical security, you slide carefully about. Also don't want to knock anything over and cause an accident.

For your purposes, there's a few dead specimens here and there on a table or rack. Some of them exotic creatures though nothing terribly big or could be called a person, save for what looks like a manticore tail and some sort of undead being respectively. The rest could fit atop a normal-sized table, and most able to be stored in a box that could be carried by one person. Perhaps more interestingly you notice one quarter of the room to the side, with some shelves holding jars of different small creatures, and some small enclosures for experiment animals; mice obviously, but also a bunch of insects and small magical or exotic creatures.

You think to just barge in and start eating everything, less for the negligible benefit you'll get and more to sate your hunger. However you notice one thing in particular which catches your eye; a weighted jar both top and bottom, housing a blue slime. It's separated from the rest by a fair distance and is surrounded by books and various writings.

>How do you proceed?

>>2374111
Burble at it in an attempt to communicate and see what happens.

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>>2374138
You approach the jar with interest, doing your best to avoid the cluttered papers and observing instruments around it. Through various attempts you try to communicate with the thing, however it is either not sentient or you don't know how to communicate with it. It could be responding and you wouldn't know, or can't hear because the jar. Maybe because you had once been a person so operate on that level of communication, rather than from one slime to another. Like trying to speak a language you don't know.

In any case, it at least seems to detect you and moves up against the glass from whichever direction you approach it, but otherwise not much else.

>>2374189
Make a ball, then cube, then ball again, see if Blue reacts in any intelligent way. If not, ignore it and nom everyhing in the room. Then we may return back to Blue, set it free, and either communicate, mate, or nom it too.

>>2374225
Unfortunately no, your highly complex method of communication by changing your shape a little doesn't amount to much and the thing just remains as it always was.

So you turn your attention to the consumables so to speak. The little critters here and there will help with the hunger, but are you interested in going after the manticore tail for example? It will take a significant time to digest, and will greatly increase your size, whether that's a good thing or not.

>>2374259
Define "greatly"

But who am I kidding, of course we are going to eat it.

>>2374273
After all you've eaten so far today, you're about the rough dimensions of a large dog if you drew all together. After eating that, you'd be about the size of a fridge, and wouldn't be able to move around at all stealthily anymore though maybe that doesn't concern you?

>>2374376
This is probably bad idea, but I was voice of reason for too long when playing demoness.

EAT. EVERYTHING.

...and lets hope we are going to inherit some nice powers besides becoming bigger. No matter what, after we are done eating everything magical/edible here, lets go back to Blue and set it free.

I say we hold off on eating anything in here and look for some magic user corpses to eat.

>>2374472
>>2374450
Conflicting choices! Want to roll off to decide, or try to compromise?

>>2374555
lets leave the tail then, but we should eat something on the principle

>>2374555
Maybe we could taste the undead thing, and see if it agrees with us.

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>>2374564
A fair compromise, the tail is just so huge that you've not eaten anything of that caliber yet so it would greatly impact your mass. Instead you can just eat everything else to take care of your hunger.

>>2374573
The undead thing isn't a zombie, it appears just to be a bunch of body parts stitched together and then animated. It's no different from eating a normal dead body to you, other than because it's been dead for longer, more time to decay, you'll probably end up a bubbly slime for awhile. The undead himself seems quite ornery, but he's restrained so can't resist you.

So you take to consuming everything else you can (unlike the feeder animals earlier, some of the things in here actually resist you or could give you a run for your money), which at least sates the hunger.

>>2374634
Oh dear. So final say, eat the undead and the tail? It seems to be a slight majority in favor, just double checking. If need be I can flip a coin.

Also are you sharing any with the blue slime?

>>2374669
we eat the tail the undead and the blue slime

>>2374669
Let's release it and see what happens.

>>2374681
support but if its mindless or try to attack us we eat it but we still eat the tail and the slime

>>2374678
>>2374681
>>2374706
Very well, you overturn the slime jar and roll it off the table so it smashes on the floor. Initially a splatter, it reforms and starts shlorping around until it encounters you. Once it notices, it beelines towards you and gloops up against you. It seems the corrosiveness of the two of you is at odds, and you feel some weird sensations from it but eventually it seems to give up and just wander around again.

In that case you decide to consume the remainders in the room, the undead and the tail, starting with the former. It takes about half an hour to go through it like any average sized body, and again, you gain a better sense of yourself and can improve upon your abilities.

>Body consumed!

By now, something you're noticing, that you're only improving when eating people. For everything you've eaten today, the vast majority of it has been animals and such, but for all of them you only ever understood your nature better when consuming people or the bodies of people. If you like, aside of choosing a new improvement, you can also roll to try and ruminate on the nature of your consumption.

Rolled 1 (1d100)

>>2374875
we need more control over our shapechanging ability. we want to morph back into "human" at some point

>>2374920
now? i roll 1 now, when i have no rerolls? typical...

Rolled 83 (1d100)

>>2374875
can we harden a support structure inside us like a skeleton

>>2374920
That would be improving your Self-Image, eventually upgrading enough, you could take on any shape you wish, you suppose.

>>2374945
That seems possible, but not from what you can imagine at the moment. You'll need to eat more magic people or bodies, in order to conceptualize such an improvement.

>>2374920
>>2374945
>1

No, you have totally no clue about how any of this works! All you know is that eating people causes you to learn more about yourself, and eating anything else doesn't.

>>2374966
meh, so it is better shapenchange get
also if we get the human shape fast, we can skip/postpone communication part for a little bit. We dont need to make noise or talk when using pantomime or just plain writing.

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>>2374997
That's right, you gain a better understanding of your Self-Image. While thinking about the whole process, you come to recall more about yourself... the you before the accident. You already know you weren't a pet or familiar but an actual member of this academy, a person in fact. The more you think, with the increased lucidity of having eaten the undead, the clearer things get. Not just a person, a human, adult and female? That would make sense by the uniform which must have been yours. Not that it matters now, you're just a slime, but you can recall more and better about "being" yourself before the accident. The more you think about it, the more you find yourself able to maintain a shape consistent with those memories and those feelings of self.

>What an abominable nightmare you are!

It's not great, in fact it's pretty horrific and alarming, particularly since the closer you get to your former self (at least as close as you can get, as a slime), the more you recall your personality too and how nightmarish and disgusting all of this is. You'd cry if you could, maybe you can even, but with the remembrance of who you were, comes the distress about who you were compared to what you are. A blanket of despair sets upon you, only slightly mitigated by the positive side of things; at least you're alive, at least you seem to be able to recall more with time and perhaps eventually could fully realize who you truly were... are. For now, nothing you can really do about anything, other than just try and keep up hope and keep on persisting... and cope with the hunger.

Hmm, that's right, yes. Hungry! You could go for a tasty treat, and turn your attention to the manticore tail. You also notice the blue slime having found the tail, and similarly in the process of eating it. Though probably not as improved as you are, and only having just started, it hasn't made much progress.

>>2375121
eat the tail and possibly the blue slime if you can

>>2375197
Like a fat person at a buffet, you shove the blue slime aside more or less and pig out on the manticore tail. It takes you about two hours to go through it all, even with your improved digestion, but by the time you're done, you've got a lot more mass to you. About the relative accumulated mass as a fridge if you were to scrunch together.

As for the blue slime, it grew a little from eating but not much. Because the corrosiveness of the two of you is equal, neither one of you can eat the other. However you could just trap it inside you, either to keep track of it, or just hold it there so that it can't get any nutrition and eventually starves to "death" and just dwindles away to nothing.

>Either way, after that how do you proceed?

>>2375260
search this place for interesting things and eat the undead

>>2375324
You already ate the undead, that's how you improved upon your Self-Image.

As for looking for neat things, make a roll!

>>2375121
Eat the blue slime first, you don't want competition.

>>2375353
support or at least completely starve it or get stronger acid to eat it

>>2375260
Inside slime, inside slime. Keep the blue slime inside.

Manticores are pretty magical, any changes from all that mass? What's our current status on what upgrades we've got?

Rolled 41 (1d100)

Oh and I messed up the dice roll formatting. Looking around!

Rolled 13 (1d100)

>>2375260
Trap the blue slime inside of us, but keep it alive by feeding it the odd nibble of food to keep it from starving to death. Maybe we can raise it? Maybe it is like us. But at any rate, this way we can keep it from doing shit that we'll get blamed for.

Try reading some of those books and writings.

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>I have to duck out for a bit after this, so feel free to plan, discuss or ask questions for when I get back, to see/answer

>>2375372
The current improvements you have are;

>Interpersonal; Self-Image (3), Communication, Sensory, Consistency
>Subsistence; Appetite

The number beside represents the level, with Self-Image being the only one you've improved more than once. Let me know if I missed anything.

>>2375368
>>2375372
>>2375426
To change your degree of corrosion, you'll need an improvement for that however it's not something you can imagine, so you'd need to eat someone magical in order to "research" something like that.

It seems though the slight majority since you can't actually eat it and only starve it, is to instead trap it inside and just keep it alive. Just in case.

>>2375390
>>2375426
>41

After drawing the small blue slime into yourself and keeping it there, you proceed to search the room again more thoroughly. Unfortunately you don't turn up much of great value, however you do discover some flasks, bottles, and containers around the place with various substances and chemicals within. Consuming them is not advised, however you could bring them with you if you wanted them later. Like for example, if a bottle contained an explosive alchemical agent, you could bring it with you and then smash it on something you needed blown up. Though as with the magic trinkets, it can make travel more difficult. Like if you're trying to hide or squeeze under a door, you can't bring a solid object with you obviously.

But that's the room roughly searched, and mostly cleared. You probably don't want to linger for too much longer, in case someone comes around to check.

>How do you proceed?

Missed it again
Dammit
>>2375580
Kinda wanna stay and see what's up but it should be a better idea to bolt

increase consistency

>>2375817
Need to consume someone else for that.

>>2375815
Where to now then? There seemed to be conflicting choices between seeking out any information about yourself, or just fleeing this place altogether.

Also to make sure beforehand to avoid any confusion; now that you are quite sizeable, how are you moving about? Are you trying to maintain your vaguely humanoid form (at least the upper half) or are you going to keep to just an amorphous slime mass?

>>2375580
I'm still a little confused by Bolster. Normally eating stuff helps improve sense of self and mass but if you specify what to improve before eating, you get a bonus to that?

Our little slime's kind of fridge sized now, maybe we should think about seeing if we can work on climbing and making coherent noises. The first for being sneaky and the second for communicating.

Sneaking is going to be a bit hard. I think we can unbar the door we oozed in through so that'll let us carry some alchemical compounds with us.

I think read those notes on the slime, then see if we can sneak to the laundry room and reveal ourselves to someone near here. If they turn out hostile, we can flee back there and take the exit to the outside we know about.

>>2375966
Oh and I'm really bad at not checking for updates before posting. Humanoid upper half but keep most of the mass in the lower body to have a low profile.

>>2375966
Blob unless we meet any sentient beings

Also we gotta get more info!

>>2376018
No, eating people (something about that which you haven't yet figured out) improves your sense of self, otherwise eating just improves mass or at least prevents you from getting smaller and also improves your energy. Bolster would work that, if you're goint to eat something and would gain X amount of mass and energy, then saying you want the meal to be for Bolster purposes, for a period of time the benefits instead will be 2 X. It's useful if you need to swell massively in size and energy for a short period of time.

As for the room and your departure, yes you could probably unbolt and bar it to leave. In trying to read the notes and papers though, it comes off as jibberish to you. Which, is actually very frustrating, becasue from what you know of yourself, you definitely should be able to read and understand all of this, or anything for that matter, but you find yourself unable to now. Probably something else you need to improve upon.

>>2376029
>>2376116
Make a roll then, for trying to move through the place unnoticed.

Rolled 61 (1d100)

>>2376145
Why am I so bad at basic dice rolling

Rolled 50 (1d100)

>>2376145
Kk

Rolled 59 (1d100)

>>2376145
Galorping around silently and stealthily.

>>2376192
>>2376191
>>2376177
>61

While traveling through the various rooms and hallways of the academy, you try to do your best of avoiding attention and being noticed. You're a huge slimy mass though with a bunch of objects suspended within, so it's not that simple. While you avoid being directly seen, in your passing peoplel become aware of your presence. Either by your accidentally triggering some magic alarm, knocking things over, leaving doors open, or a thin film of residue where you pass over things like carpet. It's not as though the alert is raised for the building, but you're sure there's some folks suspicious enough to be out looking for the source.

In any case though you end up reaching the open hall with the various doors, and find yourself just outside the laundry room. If you seek someone, how do you want to present yourself?

>>2376245
Well, dress up in clothes and pretend to be human.
It'll look hilarious, and would confuse any would be attackers.

>>2376296
Eh fuk it, Why not?

>>2376296
Would you like to go back and get your uniform clothes? Or, what were, when you were human still.

>>2376343
Ehh
Sure.
But only if we can suspend the skeleton inside and pretend it's our skeleton. Like the slime is an extension of the skeleton.

>>2376362
The orc skeleton? You can try to suspend it inside yourself, but without a higher degree of control, it will be more like a collection of bones stuck within you rather than a suspended skeleton. And trying to get them to fit appropriately within the clothes will be impossible.

>>2376343
The laundry's right here, grab some spares!

>>2376382
>>2376362
Well in either case then, make a roll for approaching someone. Hopefully they're a peaceful sort.

Rolled 37 (1d100)

>>2376382
Spares are okay.

Rolled 39 (1d100)

>>2376436

Rolled 36 (1d100)

>>2376436
Roll.

Rolled 96 (1d100)

>>2376436
Diplomacy HO!

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>>2376582
>>2376486
>>2376449
>>2376642
>96

Oh dear. So you enter into the laundry room, and seek some clothes to wear. You'd probably feel more like yourself in your own clothes, but these will have to do, some other student's uniform robes. It's quite awkward to put them on, basically just glorping within via any openings and trying to fit the upper humanoid portion of your mass in a way as to sort of "wear" the clothes. What it amounts to though is a set of slimy mage robes haphazardly worn by a vaguely humanoid, vaguely feminine goo person, all atop a much larger mass of slime. At least within the robes though, you can hide the various items and blue slime you've brought with you.

You wish you had a mirror to gauge yourself by, but then again maybe it's for the best you didn't. You're sure you'd be quite depressed if you saw with your own "eyes" the condition you're in. Well, not much else to do now other than wait and hope for the best. Eventually you do hear commotion maybe half an hour after you get clothed, sounds of walking and grumbling coming up from below into the open hall. Wouldn't you know it, it's that fellow mage you saw ransacking the room you began in. No doubt he went back there, even this late. At first, out of the corner of his eye he kind of just nods and waves you off as another student. You make some noises though and move to try and get his attention.

His reaction at first could be hoped for the better, though it's understandable as he jumps back in panic and instinctively draws a wand as if to blast a threat. He's almost set to cast something to but the longer he looks, the more his panic subsides and is replaced with curiosity. Casting instead a light, eventually he tries speaking to you. He says something you don't understand, though that seems to be common for you in this state. It's definitely a question though, and you'd guess he's asking you something, maybe a name?

In any case, you've got his attention and he's not attacking nor screaming and fleeing.

>>2376670
Point at where your ears should be and shrug. Then tug on your uniform and point at yourself and him. You're both supposed to be students.

>>2376689
Supporting.

>>2376689
>>2376696
You do your best to demonstrate various important details. Including that you can't understand him, and that you two share things in common as students. He seems to get that, but he strangely seems familiar with you, like he knows you. Showing little hesitation or fear, he moves closer to get a better look at you, even going as far as prodding some of your slime and withdrawing with a laugh when it starts to burn him a little. Excitedly, he gestured for you to follow after him as he intends to lead the way back downstairs the way he came. It's just the hallway down there however and all the rooms, you doubt he's doing something like taking you to freedom letting you go. Though just the same, he hasn't given any reason to indicate that he means you harm.

At the very least, it's someone to actually interact with and on a positive note. He's not screaming, trying to flee or attack you, and is even treating you like a person.

>How do you proceed?

>>2376762
Follow him, this might be a good chance to figure out what happened. Have we been down that hallway yet or remember anything, where does it lead?

Clasp your hands, try to look meek and nonthreatening.

>>2376777
Well it's the same hallway you've been up and down a few times, where the room you started out in is, and where you first saw this guy. You're not sure where it goes beyond that however since you never went all the way.

>>2376795
Signal to the guy that you come from that room.
Then point at skeleton then yourself.

>>2376811
Supporting

>>2376811
Supporting but try to also convey confusion, we have hand like bits right? Try making shrugging/frustration Gestures and or head scratching.

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>>2376811
It's hard to look nonthreatening when you're a goopy mass the relative size of a fridge, but you do your best and follow after the guy, slorping along behind his footsteps. As you may have expected, he leads you to the room you began in and wants to usher you inside, and shut the both of you in. Though with his magic light at least it's much easier to see.

Also with magic he starts brushing aside all the cluttered debris to make room for you, which you need, given how much smaller the room feels now to your increased size. You notice the skeleton strewn aside and try to gesture to it and yourself and get the point across. He notices you indicating it, but he casually kicks it aside in a scatter of bones like it's nothing. Instead he grabs the uniform which was yours and holds that up instead and shows it to you. That you do remember so you try and gesture in affirmation which he is pleased with. Well, it is an orc skeleton in the room and you recalled a human self, so maybe those aren't your remains.

After that, well it's not so easy since he tries to talk or find ways to communicate with you other than speech since you can't yet understand language, but the point he's trying to get across seems complex. Something akin to, gesturing you and outside the room being bad or wrong, and others like him reacting negatively? You don't want to be cooped up in here but apparently it's the safest place. He also indicates the act of eating, and implies that he'll take care of that?

You're starting to get the impression now that before you gained a sense of lucidity and "woke up" in this room, you may have been in here for awhile, and if he was so upset earlier at not finding what he was looking for in this room, that may have been you he was looking for.

>How do you proceed?

>>2376841
Well, hands in as far as the ends of slimy tendrils, but you can roughly gesture well enough.

>>2376847
Nod. Stay for now. You can use the time on your own to try and get a handle on your current condition.

Practice holding a shape, trying to form bits fast and do some experiments like what happens if you separate a piece of yourself, can you stop being corrosive to things you touch, or testing how physically strong are you and how many things can you form at once.

>>2376864
You can tell he greatly appreciates your cooperation, and tries to get across that things will be alright and will try to return. Before he does leave though, he seems to ask if you have a preference on what to eat and if you're able to let him know?

Rolled 39 (1d100)

>>2376847
>>2376864
This but also try meditating a bit and try to recall more of our old self.

Rolled 97 (1d100)

>>2376892
As for preferences look embarrassed and then indicate the orc skeleton and his magic wand.

>>2376892
Cluck like a chicken.

>>2376926
And grab an orc femur and make slurping smacking sounds. And give a thumbs up.

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>>2376932
>>2376926
>>2376906
>97

It's shameful to admit, and depressing that it's what you've come to, but you try your best to indicate that you want some tasty orc or magical treats. You don't take to the thought of consuming people, dead or living, but it seems to be the means of how to learn more about yourself.

Your new friend ponders for a moment, but with a realization and a smile, appears to have something in mind. So he magically whisks off the skeleton already there, leaving you in the room for awhile. Within an hour or so, and you feeling quite hungry as your mass diminishes slowly, he returns with a dead orc dressed all strangely and different from the other raiders you saw. It seems too complex a concept to get across but he does his best to try and indicate that this dead orc is somehow magical. Keenly he waits to watch what you do, but if you are to do such awful things you'd rather them in private? Disappointed, he accepts and takes his leave, but gestures that he's going to sleep and will return after.

You then are left alone with a much better crystal lamp he provided so you're not totally in the dark, and the body. You watch it with disgust and aversion, distressed and ashamed of what you have in mind and what your slimy body wants to do. You watch it long enough that the hunger though overpowers those misgivings. Yes indeed, tasty treats! You cry big slimy tears of regret, but can't help love the meal. Also a little set aside for the blue slime within you.

>Magic body consumed!

In digesting the body of someone magic, you gain a better understanding of yourself and your slimy nature as usual, but also a greater sense of your capabilities both at present and potential. As such, you get an improvement as usual, but you also can expand upon what capabilities of yours there are to choose from. Currently you have just Interpersonal and Subsistence, but with this you can choose;

>Interpersonal, tier 2
>Subsistence, tier 2
>Traits (unlock)

>>2376951
Interpersonal 2 is probably the smart choice but I gotta see them Traits!

Unlock Traits.

>>2376951
Communication.

>>2376963
That's the normal improvement you can get, but you also get a new range of improvements you can learn. You get both in this case because it was a magic body.

>>2376951
Id go with interpersonal for now but I really want to get substance on the next go

>>2376973
>>2376967
>>2376957
Need some agreement, else I'll have to flip a coin!

>>2376977
Looks like two for interpersonal to me? I'll change to interpersonal too just to be sure.

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>>2376988
>>2376973
Very well then, interpersonal it is. I assume you're going to make the actual improvement itself to communication, so you can speak and understand language, but just in case here's the new abilities available with the second tier of Interpersonal;

>Stability; the ability for you to be able to maintain a consistent shape under various stresses or activity
>Viscosity; the liquidity of your slime and ability (or resistance) to flow
>Animal Magnetism; the ability to interact with more than just people now
>Slime Friend; the ability to interact with other slime on their level, though a reminder that many or most slimes are mindless
>Clothing Adhesion; mostly for personal taste though you suppose it might help interacting with people, the ability to wear clothes properly without sliming them up and using them to maintain stability and shape for yourself, though if you don't care about wearing clothes there isn't much point to it

Also having leveled up once now in Interpersonal, you can also suggest a category to add to the list above and if it's appropriate I'll add it as an option.

But yeah, those are the new abilities available, alongside the previous ones. If I'm not mistaken though the preference is to improving communication?

>>2377013
Yea I’ll vote for comms

>>2377013
Yeah communication's probably most important for now. Once she can talk, she can arrange more food to get some physical consistency.

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>>2377029
>>2377032
Communication it is, as you finish absorbing the orc body and reject the skeleton, taking the time to ponder this new elucidation of truths into the nature of yourself. More memories, ones of having conversations with people, talking to friends and asking questions of teachers... singing, while washing clean.

"If only... ah! Is that... my voice?"

You hear yourself speak for the first time, as a slime, and can understand the words now too. It's a great comfort for sure, both at the ease this should bring in communication, but also because it sounds right to you. Maybe you'll never look like yourself again, not properly at least, but at least you sound like yourself again. Those memories now all the clearer, able to put a sound to all that talking. You can't help but laugh to yourself in joy which causes ripples in your form and makes you feel a bit better about things in general.

So then, looks like you've got the rest of the night to yourself in here, how do you want to spend it?

>>2377040
Develop methods of attack.
Like fling out a psuedopod to "slap" something.

>>2377040

do >>2377043 and then turn into a ball and go explore a litle bit more. We will be rollin, they will be hatin.

also OP you probably really want to start a gdoc with character sheet and stuff

>>2377040
Just figure out some of our limits like was suggested before. Changing shape, its limits and how we react to odd stuff like separation of a chunk.

Stay hidden in here.

And with that I sleep, night mates

>>2377040
Practice working our new body, try and remember our old mind, see if we can actually sleep.

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>>2377043
You have many hours to go and don't really feel tired or the need to sleep so practicing seems in order. First thing first, you try grasping at reach and figure that could also double as an attack. However, your attempts don't amount to much, it seems you don't have the kind of strength or elasticity to manage that and hold together. It's an idea for a potential future improvement though.

>>2377049
I thought the agreement was to not leave the room? Also you don't have the kind of stability to maintain a shape while moving.

I'll probably try to make something accessible with the relevant information though. Also if I set up a discord for this quest, would people like/use that?

>>2377053
You try to test out some other things you can do while waiting. The ability to change simple shapes, you've gotten good at with the improvement made above it. Your impression of a gelatinous cube for example is quite good. As for maintaining an identity, the best you can manage is the same, only vaguely humanoid and vaguely feminine. At best just a rough impression of the person you used to be, and really only from the waist up. Still, it's a step in the right direction.

The next thing is to try separating parts of yourself, which is actually much harder than you'd have thought, when you always just stick and keep together. Eventually though using a chair you're able to cut off a piece of yourself. The result though becomes a pink slime of that size, which you no longer have any connection to either physically or mentally, and on its own just behaves like a normal slime, like the blue one. It glorps around, probably looking for food, till it notices you and after moving straight for you, upon contact just rejoins your mass.

Lastly, you try to examine your corrosiveness, maybe change it even but to no avail.

All of these things are good ideas though, and likely you will be able to manage them if you continue to understand yourself better and improve.

>>2377113
A discord might be a little overkill. I'm over-committed on discord servers as it stands.

>>2377113
Oh man if we can't learn to control our corrosiveness we'll never be able to hug [\spoiler] anyone without maiming or killing them.

>>2377087
After all that "physical" exercise, you figure to settle down and try to train your mind next, if you can. Certainly things are becoming more clear the more you improve, like you're waking up after a coma or something with amnesia, but it's slowly fading as the memories, emotions, and realization comes trickling back. You wish you could just sit here long enough, thinking and remember and that you'd fully regain your mind, but in the end it just frustrates you because it doesn't seem possible. Maybe dealing with more familiar things might help, however.

Lastly you try to sleep, and do everything you can to make it happen. Eventually after clearing your mind, covering the crystal lamp so it's totally dark, and relaxing control over your form so that you just return to a resting puddle, you finally do manage to go to sleep. Sort of. You don't even really notice it when it happens, your mind sort of just trailed off, and then you suddenly woke back up, but some amount of time must have passed. You don't really feel any better or at least rested from it, and sadly it's not all just a bad nightmare, however you suppose it has some potential to just pass time when you're bored or have nothing to do. Need to wait? Just go to sleep, let the time pass till when you need it to be, and wake up again. In a way, almost like skipping ahead to the future! Unless of course you still have dreams...

>>2377125
It's just optional if anyone wants it, I wouldn't expect there to be like discussion and planning. That's what the quest/thread is for! This would be more like, just letting everyone know when playtime is, for how long, etc...

But again, totally optional.

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>>2377133
And I think that will be my last post of the night, or close enough. Thanks all for playing, will continue tomorrow as usual. Who knows what may happen to your slimy self next, or what you may plan in the meantime till next we resume.

>Not something like this though, for sure, certainly not!

>>2377128
That's clearly the secret unlock that Clothing Adhesion gives: the option to turn off corrosion on contact.

>>2377147
I think adhesion is simply what it says - adhesion. For being proper non-corrosive slime, we need to invest in ability to turn it on and off at will.

>>2377138
since other anons just want to muck around, I think we just wait until the boi shows up again. then we interrogate him about us. who are we, what happened to us, why is he hiding us in a closet like a pet, etc..
And if his answers displease us, we eat him. magic body is magic body afterall, and we are always hungry.

>evolution priorities - I think these are most relevant so far, we ca get the rest later or not at all, depending how nice the world will be towards us
- expert shapechange (so we can attain flawless human-like appearance, turn into ball and roll away fast, and all sort of other stuff)
- communication skills - writing, reading, speaking to animals and other slimes may come handy (separate parts of us become new slimes, so maybe we can clone ourselves like this, send our temporary double elsewhere and then rejoin with it some time later and absorb all the knowledge and other stuff?)
- magic? magic! duh.
- turning off at will our corrosive nature, because hugs
- clothes adhesion. we want to be a pretty girl
- some sort of attack/defense ability so we are not completely helpless (super corrosion to burn through anything, hardened slime blades/giant hammer, becoming super-fluidy so everything pass through us without harm, elemental resistence (we are probably flammable etc.), aforementioned magic, tentacles,...)

>>2375121
Of course we were a female student I don't even know why I was expecting something else

>>2374997
>>2375121
>It's not great, in fact it's pretty horrific and alarming
I told you not to try to "make sense of things".

>>2376847
WE
ARE
NOT
A
PET

Don't you realize? That guy is the reason we ended up as a slime. Also why the fuck would you anons willingly vote to get imprisoned?

>>2377113
I kinda fail to see the utility of discord for this quest

>>2377288
Yeah that guy turned us into a googirl for some fug. We should eat him.

>>2377288
>Don't you realize? That guy is the reason we ended up as a slime. Also why the fuck would you anons willingly vote to get imprisoned?

Dude chill and think. We currently don't know much and if we do work with what we know all we have is that; he likely knows us from our past, maybe he's responsible for our situation and maybe he's simply a friend who was there when our own mistake blew up in our face.
Either way he's currently hiding and feeding us the former is likely a good thing and the later is definitely a good thing.
The most sensible course of action is to cooperate for now and try and gain info, whether by talking or remembering. Either we find out he's a friend and thus gain an ally who can move freely in the human world or he's not at which point cooperating and gaining his trust will help lower his guard and make noming him later all the easier.

>>2377723
This anon is speaking my mind

>>2377723
We don't know much but we do know our memories come back when we consume magical humanoid. In our current state, how do we recognize truth from deceit?

Right now it's either
>being a pet at the mercy of untrusthworthy individual
or
>roam free, consume more orc shammies (not our former classmates) and reform our memories on our own

Staying here is a dead end.

>>2377854
Or stay here and eventually eat everyone in the academy!

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>>2377138
Anyway, so an unknown amount of time later (probably the rest of the night) you hear a knock at the door and a familiar sounding voice. Enter the same fellow student as last night carrying a bag.

"Good morning! How are we doing today?"

"I've had better days."

It seems he had been talking kind of just as a casual gesture to fill the air, and didn't actually expect a response. When you do though, he's both surprised and amazed.

"Oh, you can talk now?! That's great! If we can- wait... are you smaller? I'll have to try and bring food more often."

Indeed, you're quite hungry and can notice that you've diminished in size. Not a whole lot since it's only been a night, and it took him a bit to even notice, but by comparison to him in size you can tell. Maybe you were approximately a big double door fridge, now more like a single door fridge.

Thankfully in the bag he's got several steaks, and is polite enough to ask if you want to take them of if he should just like, throw them onto you?

>You're free to converse with him now, and talk about or ask what you wish.

>>2377956
No railroading! Eat him.

>>2377956
Inquire about his knowledge of this room.
And possible previous inhabitant, the dead student that was here.

>>2377956
interrogate him about us. who are we, what happened to us, why is he hiding us in a closet like a pet, etc..
And if his answers displease us, we eat him. magic body is magic body afterall, and we are always hungry.

oh and throw the steakes, we have no actual means to eat them properly anyway (yet)

>>2377956
"Just toss them, I can't control whether I digest something touching me or not, yet."

Other than that start with some small talk. Hint at that we only vaguely remember our life until yesterday. If he'd been infatuated with us in the past he ought to be eager to give us the info we need.


>>2377984
unless there are orc students at the school, I'm pretty sure that was one of the raiders. We somehow turned into a slime and nommed him first.

>>2377993
There wasn't a skeleton in school uniform before?
Damn

>>2377956
Inquire him about what he was looking for so frantically back in that room.

>>2378010
nope, we just ate some random human corpse later, but skellington in starting room was definitely orcy


also on unrelated note, we probably need to evolve better digestion / energy efficiency asap. We are loosing way to much mass in very short time if we dont constantly feed ourselves.

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>>2377980
Some steaks aren't enough, and you do look at him hungrily, your slimy mouth watering so to speak...

>>2377986
>>2377993

"Just toss them, I can't control whether I digest something touching me or not, yet."

"Oh that's a shame, well hopefully you can learn to control that?"

There's no in between bites since you realize after taking a few, you don't actually need to use your mouth to eat. So while the steaks dissolve you get to talking with your fellow student.

"So I guess... who am I? What happened to me?"

"You're... oh, you don't remember? Well, you're Sadie and I'm Garret, nice to meet you I suppose? Do you remember anything?"

By the light of the crystal lamp in this small room together, you spend a good while going back and forth over things, mainly triyng to figure out a common ground on what you know and need to know. A great help and a good sign at least, that your mind and memories do seem to be returning, so there's less he needs to explain.

To answer your questions, yes you're a student here at the academy, second year. Unfortunately he didn't know you that well, you were only classmates and he lets on that he kept to himself or wasn't one of the popular types. After some sort of accident where you got slimed however, he gathered up the slime that was left of you (only that and your skeleton and clothes remained, apparently) and brought it down here. Others were just going to dispose of it and he thought it might be good to study, since the slime guilty of the attack had been taken and restricted in the lab, but he never imagined you might still be... alive, somehow.

Originally he'd gathered you up in a bucket and kept you in here in secret, otherwise they'd probably not allow it. He was going to keep you safe and feed you, study you, before when he thought you were just a slime. Now, well he's not sure how the academy officials would take to your current state so it's for safety for the time being. Also, he's sorry to admit, but he's not sure how your friends and loved ones, people who knew you would take it. He thinks that, is a decision you should make, it's not his place to go and grab familiar faces and show them to you if you perhaps didn't want to be seen like this.

>>2377984
>>2377993
The skeleton that was in the room before? No student, it was one of the orc raiders. He's not sure what happened since, once the attack occured he had to seek shelter, but he knows some orcs got down to this level of the building and were ransacking the place. Maybe that orc got in here and found you in the bucket, Garret laughs that maybe he was stupid enough to think to drink you?

The room itself isn't anything special, just an old storeroom he happened to find the keys to and uses from time to time, he figured it would be safe to keep you in until he could think of what to do with you. Now though it's convenient given your state.

>>2378019
You recall when hiding under the opposite room door that during the relative span of the attack, Garrent came down here frantically searching the room, and out of curiosity ask him about that.

"Back then? I was looking for you, I was worried someone had found my hidden bucket of slime. Well, also all the other things I keep in here but the slime was more special."

>>2378051
BLUE!!! You little shite! That thing is going to be soooo eaten.

...Ahem... (also, kek. bucket and stuff)

>wat do
Show Blue to Garret, if it is truly responsible for our state.
Then elaborate on accident. What exactly happened. We need details. Also if anybody else is responsible. I dotn like the sound of "they just wanted to dispose of our remains"
After that, well.. To evolve, we need magical corpses. And lot of them, so Garret better start thinking about something. Were there any more dead bodies from attack?
And speaking of atack, what happened? And how?
As for our relatives, friends, and other people we know - what exactly do THEY know about what happened to us? We probably want to get reacquainted at some point in the future, but before that we need to become more presentable. Our curretn state simply wont do.

Also ask if anything like this ever happened and what is Garrets guess how will people in charge of academy react to our sudden presence? We dont want to become lab rat...

>>2378091
I fully support this.

>>2378106
>>2378091
Ditto

>>2378076
my vote remains the same >>2377980

>>2378091
This works.

>>2378091
Oh and if there are no more bodies present, we are still inside a school.
Schools are full of bullies and shitty teachers, who are hated by everybody.
Wink wink
Nudge nudge

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>>2378091
The coincidences seem too much, that you feel you need to know. Is the blue slime responsible for your current condition?

"You mean this?" as you force it out from within you and try to lift it up for Garret to see, "I found it in the lab, all sealed off."

"Wow, in the lab?! Does that mean you ate everything in there? Professor Higgins thought the orcs busted in and stole everything! I mean... I'm no slime expert, it just looks like any old slime to me but if you found it in the lab and there weren't any others... then it has to be the one, right? It was a blue slime that was involved in the accident, after all..."

Well that would explain why your corrosiveness is at odds with the blue slime, if it's the one that caused your condition to begin with. The accident though, that's right. You vaguely remember something like that and ask about it. It seems Garret wasn't present at the time, only heard about it and sought out the remains after, but according to him and the rumors you had been practicing spells in competition on a usual target dummy. When it was damaged enough though, a slime came bursting out and hit you, something like that. There was a panic but by the time the teachers got involved you were unfortunately already dead.

This all only happened like a couple days ago however, so there's still a lot of confusion about it and he's only going off what he heard. Apparently there was going to be a big investigation but now with the orc attack, he thinks what happened to you is probably going to be swept under the rug. A raid on the academy is more dire than a tragic accident of one student.

>>2378296
"I'm not partial to being seen as a curiosity at best, and subject for intense study at worst."
And this attack has created an excellent opportunity to dissapear and go on a journey of self-finding it seems."

Now as a last favour to ask. Could you point me where the recent dead are being held."

There is really no need whatsoever to tell him we only grow stronger from eating people. And only larger from any other food. If he can't figure that out on his own, the better.

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>>2378296
That's another thing, the attack. You don't remember everything about who you were and this place yet, but even so you think it strange for orcs to raid a magic academy.

"Oh right, that. Well everybody knows about that..." he thinks of how to best explain it, "So there's an orc tribe in the region, things are kind of uneasy between the academy and them... though things are uneasy between everyone and them. Anyway, so the chieftain's daughter turned out to have abilities in magic? It seemed like a nice gesture for the arch mage to offer to teach her here and all? Come to now, a couple of years later and suddenly the princess is all 'civilized' and doesn't want to go back to tribe or get married to some orc barbarian... you can see the chief didn't take that well."

Some sort of family squabble then... family. The more you think about it, the more you try and remember your own family... depressingly, you can't recall much of anything about them, only some vague shapes in blurry memories. According to Garret though, he doubts news would have been sent to your family whom he believes to live a good ways away (again, he never knew you well) but he expects the news will be sent after this mess with the orc raid is cleared up. For people close to you and living closer, like friends and your boyfriend here in the academy, as far as anyone knows you just died from the accident. Only he knows of your condition like this and even then he was only expecting a slime out of your remains, not for you to have become a slime.

Lastly, out of personal curiosity and concern, you ask if anything like this has happened. To you, for anyone else?

"Not that I know of, or have ever read. If you like I could try hitting the books in the library though, maybe something will turn up?"

That seems a more long term option, you want to know the immediate; how will the academy and officials react? Unfortunately, Garret thinks your regrets would come true, that you're treated like a lab rat basically. At least if the two of you keep thing secret and reveal to just the arch mage or some teachers. If you were to come public about your change, that might cause enough a fuss that your condition couldn't be covered up... but then he can't imagine how you would do such a "grand reveal" to everyone and not cause panic or get attacked and killed for being thought to be a monster.

>>2378350
Project Going on a Grand Adventure still stands:
>>2378344

Though us having a boyfriend is at least something we should hear about. Learn his name and what Garret knows at least.

>>2378366
>>2378350
Outside world will be nasty to us, without protection and with very basic set of abilities we are just another monster to the people, or - at best - freak of nature they can put into jar and poke with sticks.

I am not saying we should stay at academy forever, but lets exploit it fully while we are here. At very least we need information about our surroundings, what kind of world is out there, where can we get enough sustenance, etc. Remember, we need magical persons to evolve.

Orc attack is playing into our hands, so instruct Garret that his steaks wont do and we need more - that orc corpse he brought us earlier was really nice, so lets have more of them. There must be mortuary or something around where bodies are stored. And hint about getting rid of bullies etc. You never know, he may be weak nerd nd will agree with us.

As for other stuff, ask about our boyfriend. If he is reasonable and deep in love with us, je may be able to help us too (and maybe he is somebody important - it never hurts to have allies at high places). As for hitting the books, Garret should do so. And tell him about the need for magical people if we want to evolve. This is probably very important. Maybe we need only magic to grow, so some sort of power transfer will work the same.

>>2378350
Aquiring enough sustenance so we can replicate a human form is essential before attempting to communicate with more people.
Leaving for now seems the best option for now.

>>2378432
This is good.

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>>2378143
An entirely possible vote, but needs at least a slight majority! Or a killer roll.

>>2378344
All this talk of experiments and being studied makes your slime crawl. Already being cooped up in here is unpleasant enough, actually ending up on an operating table or in a jar like the blue slime is even worse.

"I'm not partial to being seen as a curiosity at best, and subject for intense study at worst. And this attack has created an excellent opportunity to disappear and go on a journey of self-finding it seems. Now as a last favor to ask. Could you point me where the recent dead are being held."

"Leaving?! But you only just got like this, where else are you going to be able to understand what's happened to you? And besides, it's not like you can just get in to where the dead are, it's on watch! If you want your skeleton I can try and get it for you maybe, but otherwise it isn't going to work... whatever you want to do."

Garret is a little upset, in part you can tell because you're like his pet project suddenly turned discovery of the century, and now you're trying to up and leave. It's not as though he's trying to imprison you though, but he's certainly trying to talk you out of leaving. Convince you it's for the best for your own sake, and all that.

>>2378366
But wait...

"Boyfriend?"

"What? Oh yeah, Carter. I think you two were in a relationship, you seemed sweet to each other and from what I heard he took your 'death' pretty badly."

Someone that cared about you. Well you have friends here too by the sound of things, but a relationship? It hurts, knowing that like your family, you can't remember it at the moment. The name sounds familiar but without seeing what he looked like, you can't really place him in any memories.

>>2378366
>>2378439
Seems a leaning preference towards leaving?