You're a Zombie Manhunter! You shoot living rabid men before they can bite other zombies, and get paid in flesh and brains!

>>940836
>You're a THICC Zombie Manhunter!
Fix'd

a fixed shape slime (think ditto but no transform)

A gelatinous cube made of barbecue sauce.

You are fearsome amphibious squid.

Let's start nice and simple. A slime sounds good.

>>940835
A bone with legs.
and arms.
maybe a hat

Ours 2019/07/30(Tue)04:12 No. 940910 ID: 8442ba
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>>940836
Sometimes you worry.
In this world worrying is a luxury, as most often you're terrified. But sometimes.
When you slowly slide the tip of your beloved .45 through the frothing lips of still-moving warm body you worry, just a little.
You worry that something is wrong. With this job, with society, with you.
But then you squeeze the trigger. Perfectly good brains splatter against the wall. Not edible, so they say. You never tried rabid brains. They say it's the one thing that can still get you sick.

That's another thing to worry about. The bosses.

You worry a little more while dragging the limp body back to get your payday. And lunch.
(Of course in your case those are the same.)

Ours 2019/07/30(Tue)04:16 No. 940911 ID: 8442ba
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>>940840
You still remember the bite that turned you. The shapely and supple curve of your left ass-cheek tainted by some dead jackass's teeth. A love bite is one thing but this is ridiculous!
That joke always gets a laugh. Maybe slip your leggings down a little to give them a peek. Your body is incredibly well preserved so all the hard work and diligence in life was serving you well in undeath. Ass-wise that is.

No one pays a lot of attention to your rack. Always a little worrying. Don't want to be defined by one feature, incredible as it may be.

Ours 2019/07/30(Tue)04:20 No. 940912 ID: 8442ba
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>>940843
>>940868
Okay but let's be real, you're not a thicc zombie manhunter. None of that is real.

You have a lot of "curves" but not in a way any being has found scintillating (yet).

You definitely exist. You're a slime and you exist. You've existed for a little while now, although you're not sure how long that is.

As you've been absorbing the moisture that drips from the ceiling and the odd rodent who you manage to trap inside you, things have been getting a lot more complicated. You didn't really think of yourself as "existing" until just now. You just sorta... did stuff.

It's weird!

Ours 2019/07/30(Tue)04:28 No. 940913 ID: 8442ba
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In fact, you're especially confused about what any of those things before even were. There are some interesting shapes in the ground that you like to slide over. Really let your membrane sink into the crevices. They're very tiny and intricate and something makes you worry about where they come from. The rest of the cave isn't scary like that, it just exists like you do. Did.

There's a lot of those intricate little paths in various spots around the cave. There's some shapes that repeat and you feel like you're starting to get a feel for it. What it means.

There's a specific set of shapes that you really like. You've been practicing to shift your membrane around in specific spots to match them. There's no way to know how well you're copying them, but you like to think it looks pretty good.
It feels good.

It doesn't get rid of the existential terror though. That started recently and hasn't stopped. There were a few similar patterns but this one really spoke to you, really felt like it went with how you're feeling.

>What should you do now?

Show some backbone! And by that I mean assume as much of a vertical state as you are capable of so as to survey your surroundings.

Ours 2019/07/30(Tue)06:30 No. 940916 ID: 8442ba
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>>940914
You're not really sure what this is supposed to mean. If you wanted to know more about the cave you would probably want to flatten out, be able to take more if it in at a time.

That does make moving around a lot slower though. Getting tall like this goes pretty quick, never really thought of that!

Re-examine the intricate patterns. Could they be writing?

Ours 2019/07/30(Tue)15:00 No. 941000 ID: 8442ba
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>>940954
Huh. You had felt these before but now you are actually remembering them for more than a few seconds. Things are looking up!

The three patterns that you like the most are in the weird metal part of the cave. The line where the rock ends and the metal starts is mostly painful. Sharp little points. Thankfully you can take your time so any damage to your membrane is temporary.

The metal part of the cave is delightfully warm. You don't want to stay in here too long, lest you warm up and stretch out too much.
It feels so nice though...

Before you get to the very interesting patterns, there's this one! Feeling it again sends a pleasant ripple outwards from deep within you.

Ours 2019/07/30(Tue)15:02 No. 941001 ID: 8442ba
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The three extra interesting ones all have the same outline but the insides are delectable in their differences.

First there's this one. The sharp edges of the metal are just barely painful. It's worth it though.

Ours 2019/07/30(Tue)15:04 No. 941002 ID: 8442ba
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Then this one.

Sometimes you like to fill in the center and then just push more and more mass downwards to squeeze outwards into the little lines. Another option is just pressing down on the whole thing at once.

Different, but still enjoyable.

Ours 2019/07/30(Tue)15:07 No. 941004 ID: 8442ba
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Finally this one. You didn't like this one at first. The shapes are so random, yet at the same time so close to the straight parts that you can't even get used to the randomness!

It takes a more refined touch. And if you have anything, it's a refined touch.

Each of those three are in front of a very slight indentation into the back wall of the metal part of the cave. You've tried to push against the cracks but it doesn't seem possible to slip through. Your natural slime instincts say there is some amount of empty space though, like part of the wall can just disappear up into the ceiling.

That'd be crazy!

Ours 2019/07/30(Tue)15:15 No. 941007 ID: 8442ba
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Oh, you almost forgot.

There's also the pattern that's like your favorite one, the one you keep dug into your membrane. It's right in front of the incredibly spooky passageway of mystery that you dare not venture into.

You don't like to slorp over it very often. Just being close to that part of the cave makes you shudder with fear. Like something is going to punch through your membrane and suck out your insides!

You scared yourself just thinking about it.

What do you mean sharp little points? Is it a jagged edge like the metal cave has been smashed into the stone cave?

Try fumbling around near the three markings. Maybe there's something on the wall that you can push or pull. Wouldn't that be fun!

so far it sounds like scary way is only viable way to go, does your favorite symbol include deep holes like the ones Pharros' Lockstone from dark souls 2 go in, if so go deep. otherwise brave the scary way.

Well, if the room is empty and there's no way of opening the "door", it may be time for bravery.

>>941020
You never miss a chance to press into your favorite spot. You know for sure it doesn't go down very far.

>>941016
Hmm, jagged is a good word. You carefully check along the whole edge and notice for the first time it goes up the ceiling on both ends. You're not sure if you could climb the wall far enough to check, but your guess is that it's on the ceiling too.
Like the metal cave used to have a wall there maybe?

Smooshing up against the walls in front of the symbols sounds like a very safe and sensible thing to do, no reason not to try it out before doing something rash!



More substantial post hopefully later tonight.

>>941067
>Smooshing up against the walls in front of the symbols sounds like a very safe and sensible thing to do
I assumed that was something you did before becoming exist but if not lets do that.

Ours 2019/07/31(Wed)17:34 No. 941101 ID: 8442ba
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>>941088
You have, but never up so high! The idea of moving around like that is new and exciting.

There's three, one for each pattern, going across the back wall of the metal cave. This little thing off to the side is new!

Ours 2019/07/31(Wed)17:40 No. 941102 ID: 8442ba
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This is a joy!

Those patterns are nice, but this is coming out of the wall instead of going into the ground. There's something special about pushing against it, feeling your membrane stretch and distort around each detail, pushing all of your insides against it to really squeeze into all those nooks and crannies. Since you're kinda all warmed up it's even easier to squeeze yourself around it and really let it get inside your space.

You have a weird feeling that this is embarrassing.

You also kind of understand what 'embarassment' is!

Ours 2019/07/31(Wed)17:42 No. 941103 ID: 8442ba
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It's fun to push up against things from different angles. This is that same thing but from below. Those little pegs kind of hurt but in a fairly pleasant way.

Woah there's that new feeling again. Yowza!

can you pull down on those pegs?

>>941103
Try fiddling with the pegs. Do they move? Does the [ shape on top move?

>>941105
>>941110

Pegs are in there really good. Something interesting happened after trying to move them around though. Specifically, you tried to push as hard as you can and after a little bit of that you felt a noise. Kind of an angry feeling BWERN is how you would describe it.

In the spirit of curiosity you try putting constant pressure on the pegs, changing up how hard for each peg a few times. Each of them gives that BWERN after the same delay.

I don't think it likes me.

Ours 2019/08/01(Thu)07:57 No. 941138 ID: 8442ba
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forgot the image whoopsie. also i tried to depict this well but probably should have looked for a reference picture. live and learn just like sonic

Ours 2019/08/01(Thu)07:58 No. 941139 ID: 8442ba
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This thing is so weird! It's right against the wall, but like most things it feels different if approached directly from below.

Ours 2019/08/01(Thu)08:01 No. 941141 ID: 8442ba
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It's getting a little difficult to stay up this high so you take a break. Wow you've gotten a lot warmer than you thought, just letting yourself relax is really spreading yourself out pretty far. Who knows what would happen if you tried to smoosh flatter while this warm.

Ours 2019/08/01(Thu)08:04 No. 941142 ID: 8442ba
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You really want more water and moving things to eat, so you definitely have to go back there.

You head back to the non-metal part of the cave, but hesitate on top of that weird pattern. The one that's similar to your favorite pattern, but with that weird change. Whoever made this should've done a better job!

...huh, you hadn't considered before that something else probably made all these patterns. Maybe the rats are a lot smarter than you first thought.

Progress soon, feel free to ask any burning questions or whatever and I'll fold those in to the next update.

I wish I remembered to specify functional eyes, they seem like they could be quite helpful right now >.<
How does this warmness work? Why is spreading out more worse when you are warm?

Ours 2019/08/01(Thu)16:14 No. 941175 ID: 8442ba
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>>941158
>functional eyes
You're not sure what 'functional eyes' would entail. You have a vague feeling that 'eyes' are a thing but not much more than that. Maybe something to think about...

>warmness
When you get warm your membrane can stretch a lot more than normal and your insides (you feel like you should have a different word for that but you're not sure) flow around a lot easier and get less dense.

The dangerous part is if your membrane were to stretch so far that it can't shrink back again, or maybe even rip open! Oh and your insides would flow out so fast, there'd be no time to do anything about it!

Aaarhghh! You hate thinking about that!

You're fine though. The cave is very cool so you were back to normal shortly after leaving the metal part of the cave.

Ours 2019/08/01(Thu)16:49 No. 941178 ID: 8442ba
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Alright.

You start down the incredibly spooky passageway of mystery. There's some strange sounds you've carefully felt in the past. The passageway forks and there's two different sets of noises.

>On the left side:
-A low thumping sound that usually comes in pairs, one after the other.
-A few loud high pitched noises. You can kind of feel that it's far away, but from this distance it sounds similar to those rats from before.

>On the right side:
-A loud clacking thump that usually comes in pairs, one after the other.
-A very quiet and quickly repeating low sound that occasionally becomes a lot louder, sharp and sorta deep.
-A regular screeching rumbling that goes for long periods, stops briefly, then goes again, back and forth most of the time.

Both of them stop for a while around the same time and then start back up again around the same time.

This is so confusing!

It's a good thing you've got all these thoughts, makes thinking of things a lot better.

How pressed for time are we here, I.E. can we take a closer proximity listen to both ways? Can we divide or otherwise put things in front of us to hear if something happens to them in time with the sounds? How well can we echolocate? Regardless if we can do both I'm going to say first choice right side then check left side.

>>941178
Left sounds like a smallish robot moving around and doing something squeaky.

Right... sounds like a larger engine-powered(?) walker robot dragging something around.

Let's go left.

>>941184
>divide
>put things in front of us
>echolocate

You have never really considered these as things you could do. You're not really sure what would happen if you... divided yourself. Sounds scary. But also kind of exciting!

Not sure about doing that though, should put some more thought into it probably.

Moving things around is a new idea but doesn't seem too difficult to you. If something was light enough you could try to ferry it across on top of yourself, or if it was something durable you could glorp around it and then leave it somewhere else.

Neat!

The pathways seem flat, so not sure if I could move an object towards the noises without getting close myself. I like where my head's at though!

>>941226
We seem to have some general control of our shape, I say lets go searching for something we can hold on top of us particularly of a roundish variety then we can become a slope and roll it off ourselves to get a little distance between us and it

If we can find a long, thin shape we could use it to poke things with.

Ours 2019/08/03(Sat)20:00 No. 941308 ID: 8442ba
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>>941241
Hmm. You could slide something away from you, but then you'd have to go forward to get it back on top of you. This doesn't sound like an impossible goal, but jeez this sounds weird.
It would be a lot easier if you could move a lot faster, too.

>>941239
Huh, it seems kind of obvious now that you think of it like that.

You flatten out an edge of yourself and slide around picking up various small rocks. You end up finding a rat skull you had disgorged before it was completely digested, that's kind of a rock if you think about it.

You take some time to practice and fairly quickly you're able to scoop a rock up (without fruitlessly pushing it around by accident) and then use The Ramp Maneuver to expertly roll it somewhat accurately.

So left and right. You've got plenty of small rocks and one rat skull.

-Should you roll something down each passage?
-If so, which one first? Should you wait a while before doing another one?
-Do you want to send the rat skull instead for one of them?

Ours 2019/08/03(Sat)20:01 No. 941309 ID: 8442ba
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Okay hold on.
Wait, wait.
Okay, wait.
Come on!

Ours 2019/08/03(Sat)20:01 No. 941310 ID: 8442ba
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okay hold on, it's happening, it's happening, careful

careful

Ours 2019/08/03(Sat)20:02 No. 941311 ID: 8442ba
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Alright!
Alright! Yeah!
This feels amazing, why wasn't I doing things like that before?

Ours 2019/08/03(Sat)20:04 No. 941312 ID: 8442ba
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Wachow!
It can get some speed going down your silky smooth membrane. The rock clacks against the opposite wall of the cave and it's very satisfying.

You are so glad all of these thoughts started happening!

But there's still further progress ahead of you.

>Previously detailed options
>So left and right. You've got plenty of small rocks and one rat skull.
>-Should you roll something down each passage?
>-If so, which one first? Should you wait a while before doing another one?
>-Do you want to send the rat skull instead for one of them?

well lets send one down each starting with the right path wait to see if any change in the sounds happens then do the same for the other path

>>941314
Yeah, alright.

Good plan, do that.

Ours 2019/08/04(Sun)17:43 No. 941369 ID: 8442ba
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>>941314
You take a few more practice rolls to feel like you're prepared. You ready yourself to roll the rock shortly after both sides of the passageway start making noise again after the latest pause.

You can feel the sound of the rock as it clatters its way down the passageway. It feels quieter like you'd expect, but it seems like it's picking up speed rather than slowing down. Interesting.

You barely feel a clack of the rock landing and settling somewhere.

There's something new: a voice! It's a deep, resonant sound with some obvious grit to it. It says,

"Hey! Hey somebody! I am over here! Stop what you are doing and move towards my voice! I am in danger and if you help me I will give you a prize!"

Well this is new.

Would it be weird to cut this thread short early and start a new one, so I can have the first post be more relevant? Not sure on the typical way things like that go.

>>941369
Usually threads end at a stopping point that at least results in the new thread starting at a good spot, like after a particular story arc is concluded.

Go on, go down the passage towards the voice.

Roll another rock to see how they react. It's pretty weird to offer a prize in this situation!

>>941389
>weird to offer a prize
Now that you think about it, the whole way that voice talks is kinda weird isn't it? Something to think about probably.

Ours 2019/08/06(Tue)20:49 No. 941666 ID: 8442ba
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>>941389
>>941381

You decide to slowly advance and if nothing happens send another rock. You're getting pretty good at this!

You feel the same voice again. It says,

"Please say something! Are you becoming closer to me? Move towards my voice! Please! Good prize, big prize!"

>>941666
Go on, closer, until the voice reacts to you. Then see if you can find another rock to roll towards the voice.

>>941666
that sounds hella trap. 'move toward voice' not 'move toward me' or some such as well as "Are you becoming closer to me"

Can you make any noises? Try vocalising.

Ours 2019/08/07(Wed)10:54 No. 941706 ID: 8442ba
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>>941692
Making noise...
When you move around there's a noise as your membrane makes contact with the ground, moreso when your membrane is pulled off the ground behind you.

You wonder what kind of other sounds you could make. What would you have to do?

>>941706
trap a bubble of air under you then try to squeeze it out.

Yeah, trap some air then force it out. You can force it out of a differently-shaped opening to make different vibrations.

Ours 2019/08/08(Thu)14:35 No. 941854 ID: 8442ba
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>>941735
>>941745
Alright this is completely insane, but this has been a completely insane time so far! You believe in yourself.

Well, you engulfed a rat once by making a shape similar to this...

Ours 2019/08/08(Thu)14:36 No. 941855 ID: 8442ba
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Okay so just close down the end part but make sure to... not... close the... part further inside you...
Wow this is hard!

Ours 2019/08/08(Thu)14:37 No. 941856 ID: 8442ba
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Okay!
Okay okay!
This is a bizarre feeling but you have a little air pocket. Now you just need to open up the other end and force it out, but just a little opening...

Ours 2019/08/08(Thu)14:42 No. 941857 ID: 8442ba
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...

you feel that sense of embarrassment again, but in a different way
you'd rather not think about it too much

The voice speaks up again,

"Do you mock me? Laugh at my life right now, but you are not allowed to mock me! If you laugh let me see you laugh!"

It's that voice again. It feels like it's losing energy while still being loud, maybe it will stop soon.

Okay since you've made noise seriously get over there so they can at least see you.

Ours 2019/08/11(Sun)16:16 No. 942263 ID: 8442ba
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Wow, this is the farthest you've ever been down the incredibly spooky passageway of mystery. Half of it anyway.

You're pretty nervous because you don't know what the ground is like down here. You'd been over every little bit of the cave and the metal cave. The bottom part anyway.

You keep schlerping your way down until eventually you reach a very sharp downwards drop.

You feel that voice again, very close this time!

"I hear moving. Is someone near me? I cannot see anything. Mercy for me."

You wonder what the voice feels like.

>>942263
Reach out towards the voice.

roll a rock at voice.

Ours 2019/08/12(Mon)09:04 No. 942334 ID: 8442ba
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>>942292
Rock away!
You're not sure how to describe it but you've got an okay idea of how deep this hole is.

>>942264
Alrighty, no problem. You're fine reaching down. Your membrane is plenty strong to support a lot of your weight, you've done things like this before.

Alright that's about as far as you want to go!

>>942334
Oh, the voice is stuck in the hole.
Welp, guess we can't help them. Let's head down the other path, doing the same rock rolling method to scout ahead.

>>942349
agreed lets check the other path, also what about all the other noises we heard on this path?

>>942366
Oh right, those noises! You almost forgot.

You think back, and as you were schlarping your way towards this hole you heard some of those sounds! You're pretty sure all of them were coming from this pit.

The thumping that comes in pairs stopped right when you dropped that rock, then got closer. It's like it stopped right at the bottom of the pit.
The other weird noise stopped completely once the voice talked for the first time.
The scraping noise normally goes along with the thumping, but this time it didn't. Weird!

Yeah I still don't know what those sounds could be. They're linked up with the sounds in the other passage, so I think we need to go investigate there first.
OR, we could explore more in this room with the pit? Maybe there's something we could push into the pit that would help the person.

let us check all around the hole, but at current it seems there is very little we can do for this fellow, i don't think we would be strong enough to lift him anyway. after hole check retrieve rocks and explore other way.

Ours 2019/08/13(Tue)08:36 No. 942442 ID: 8442ba
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>>942384
You think back on hearing the noises before and they did happen at around the same time, but didn't seem to be precisely connected. Something to think about still.

As you scootlch around the pit you can hear the thumping again! This time it's a lot slower and with each alternating noise it's always right below you! Whatever that noise is, it's following you... somehow. At least it's at the bottom of the pit.

The voice speaks up again,
"I cannot die here."

You hope the voice means that they're immortal while they're in the cave, but you're pretty sure that's not what they meant. Dang!

Exploring the other way is coming up.

Ours 2019/08/15(Thu)18:27 No. 942712 ID: 8442ba
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Huh.
This is weird.
Kinda reminds you of the metal cave in a weird way.

You know, all of this thinking is giving you some ideas. You've thought about being able to sense things differently, or maybe split parts of your body off, or maybe talk like that weird voice.
Hmmm.
Why not? What's actually stopping you?
Something to think about.

"Hey! Motherfucker I hear you!"

Woah you lost your train of th-

"You sack of shit, stay where you are! I've got a fucking gun!"

This is a very high pitched voice, and very loud. You like its moxie! You can feel it coming from around a corner past this weird grate thing.


Y'know you've really accomplished a lot in a short amount of time. You're really proud of yourself. You thought this passageway was scary but it's just full of neat things you want to know about. It's even given you all these new thoughts, with new ideas on what your body can do. It will take some... you arbitrarily decide to call it gumption, to figure out how to do those fun new things. You wonder what to focus on...

>AVAILABLE GUMPTION: 2
>ABILITY [GUMP COST] | DESCRIPTION
Engulferate [1] | Given sufficient force, push something through your membrane while keeping bodily integrity. You can already do this to small things, like delicious rats, but your membrane makes larger things dangerous at the moment.

Opacity Slider [1] | Alter your membrane and biomass to let more light through, meaning you become much more transparent. Your membrane is a lot thicker and thus more visible, but in a space you can completely encompass this is negligible.

Eyes on the Outside [2] | Form visual sensory organs on the surface of your membrane when you feel like it.

Vocalize! Lv.1 [2] | Produce sounds that let you communicate with similarly intelligent beings. Based on being able to hear speech and synthesize it over time.

Splitsville [4] | Separate yourself into multiple functioning entities. Risk of philosophical terror.

You could also try to think of different things, you feel a lot of potential inside you! ...just not a lot of ideas on what that can do.

>>942712
Vocalize! seems the most important at the moment since we've found not one but two sapients to talk to, and via conversation we should be able to get one or two more gumption points to spend on things like eyes.
Or tendrils. Long grabby things we can use to manipulate the environment with. Easier way to roll rocks! (or push buttons, use tools, etc)

>>942715
I mean yeah, that's the BIG stumbling block recently. Eyes are also great, but solve the problem in front of you.

For future reference, how much Gump would it take to increase your membrane strength to let you hold on to things (and keep yourself together) better?

>>942715
"Seen Enough Hentai..." Lv. 1 [1] | Produce thin dexterous fine manipulators. Maximum circumference of around an inch, strength similar to a human child, number of tendrils dependent on available biomass.

>>942757
Membranous Integrity Lv.1 [2] | Increase your membrane's elasticity and toughness to avoid leaking any precious biomass when under stress and strain.

Vocalise seems important!

Ours 2019/08/20(Tue)06:29 No. 943122 ID: 8442ba
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>>942715
>>942757
>>942888
Yeah being able to talk back would be nice. You're very curious about what these voices are like. The only other creatures you've encountered have all been very boring and you don't remember most of them very clearly.

Except for rats. Adorable squeaks which also feel extra fun from the inside. But you haven't seen any rats in a while.

Okay. Need to talk. Just focus on... talking... Thinking about those voices, thinking about recreating that somehow...
Okay, got it. Think this will do it!

...what should I say? Maybe I should practice or something, then try to talk to something!?

GUMPDATE

>CURRENT ABILITIES
>Vocalize! Lv.1
Produce sounds that let you communicate with similarly intelligent beings. Based on being able to hear speech and synthesize it over time.

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>AVAILABLE GUMPTION: 0
>ABILITY [GUMP COST] | DESCRIPTION
Engulferate [1] | Given sufficient force, push something through your membrane while keeping bodily integrity. You can already do this to small things, like delicious rats, but your membrane makes larger things dangerous at the moment.

Opacity Slider [1] | Alter your membrane and biomass to let more light through, meaning you become much more transparent. Your membrane is a lot thicker and thus more visible, but in a space you can completely encompass this is negligible.

"Seen Enough Hentai..." Lv. 1 [1] | Produce thin dexterous fine manipulators. Maximum circumference of around an inch, strength similar to a human child, number of tendrils dependent on available biomass.

New!Vocalize! Lv.2 [1] | Produce sounds that let you communicate with just about anything that can do so. The amount of listening and synthesizing time required varies with complexity (animals with complex vocal communication vs. animals with simple sounds vs. electronics, and the like)

Eyes on the Outside [2] | Form visual sensory organs on the surface of your membrane when you feel like it.

Membranous Integrity Lv.1 [2] | Increase your membrane's elasticity and toughness to avoid leaking any precious biomass when under stress and strain.

Splitsville [4] | Separate yourself into multiple functioning entities. Risk of philosophical terror.

Ours 2019/08/22(Thu)20:15 No. 943370 ID: 8442ba
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"Mother fucker do you hear me? I hear you takin' a shit or whatever that nasty schlorping is! MUST I remind you that I have a FUCKING GUN!?"

That voice feels very interesting. It's always got that high pitched screechy sound, but the changes in volume are pretty fun. And how certain parts of it just seem more important without being louder or something.

You're really learning a lot about having a fucking gun!
(You're not 100% sure what a fucking gun is but the voice sure cares a lot.)

Try "Hey somebody"

Hello please I am new there is someone down a hole here who needs help what is a gun?

HELLOOOOOO FRIIEEEEENDO
DO GUNS SCHLOOORP!??!

"Hello, yes! I hear you have a gun! Who is fucking?"

Ours 2019/08/25(Sun)05:50 No. 943570 ID: 8442ba
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You love this feeling, all the thoughts flooding in and bubbling up! The little vibrations in the stringy/dangly parts are so weird, but you can't help but tingle with enjoyment as they work their way up your (?)throat(?) and pass through your (?)lips(?).

>>943371
>"Hey somebody"

"Hey! I fucking hear you! You dead fuck!"

>>943372
>"Hello please I am new there is someone down a hole here who needs help what is a gun?"

"I don't give a rotten puke-soaked shit about who needs help, other than you when you end up at the clinic tent with an asshole full of lead!
...
There's three of us down here!? Well ravish my cunt with a fucking cactus! And a gun is the most badass of weapons, capable of blasting a tiny fireball through a urethra at mop 7!"

>>943467
>"HELLOOOOOO FRIIEEEEENDO DO GUNS SCHLOOORP!??!"

"Quit yelling! You're not the one with the gun! And the way you talk sounds like 'schlorp', not this baby!"

You feel a fairly quiet noise from around the corner. A low humming that slowly gets louder, more intense, and higher pitched until you can't really hear it anymore. Weird! Sorta makes you think of the metal cave in a way you're not sure about.

>>943488
>"Hello, yes! I hear you have a gun! Who is fucking?"

"Oh somebody's fucking alright! It's me, taking a week's worth of my boner tabs and fucking your skull!"

You realize that hum before never really went away. You must have gotten used to it or something. It definitely goes away when the whole cave goes crazy!

The first thing you feel is your innards getting sloshed around along with the loudest noise you've ever heard! It's like you were hearing something move above you but it wasn't touching anything. Then another really loud noise from around the corner! Then tons of echoes!

"Ow my fucking ears!"

That hum starts to build up again, but suddenly goes away before it can keep going.

>>943570
"Wow that was very loud. And rude. Okay goodbye."
Let's get away from the maniac who just tried to kill us for talking.
Let's explore a bit more in this area.

seconding the time to leave while he is dazed by his own gunshot.

>>943570
Make the loud soundback at it

Ours 2019/09/03(Tue)16:16 No. 944235 ID: bc51f9
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>>943590
The idea of something piercing your membrane isn't necessarily worrisome, but with the amount of sloshing you're certainly scared of something like that actually hitting you. Good thing it didn't!
...something about that is embarrassing again...

>>943601
>"seconding the time to leave while he is dazed by his own gunshot."
This thought gives you some pause for reasons you can't really articulate. Might be... off somehow. Kinda weird! Maybe you can... ask someone sometime! You're going to be able to learn so much.

>>943625
Interesting. You'd never really thought about being really loud. You've kind of figured out how to change how the air comes out of you but had just chosen the amount of air kinda at random.

You take the opportunity to take in as much air as feels safe and then try your best to recreate that loud noise. A slimy version of it. It comes out more like someone yelling "BWOMP" instead of the actual BWOMP itself, which also had that crazy CRRRACK sound. Doesn't feel... impossible though.
GUMPTION GET: +1

New! Mimicize! [3] | Using the same air control techniques as Vocalize!, recreate non-vocal sounds based on what you've heard before. Additionally, create vocal sounds imitating speech you've heard before. Accuracy is near perfect for phrases you have heard exactly, and otherwise varies depending on how long you have heard someone talk.

Let's head back to that strange prize offering voice and engage in fruitful dialogue with them.

>>944239
Yeah, let's ask what the prize is. Also, ask what we can do to help exactly.

Ours 2019/09/04(Wed)16:57 No. 944296 ID: bc51f9
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>>944239
You schlip on down through the [b]moderately spooky passageway of interesting things[/g] back to the right side with the deeper voice.
Not that you think it's deep. It's like the left voice is very... sharp? The closest thing you've heard was rat squeaks but it's not really a lot like that.

>"I'm back and here for fruitful dialogue!"
You try and fail to not sound too eager.

"Fruit... Full... I'm sorry I don't know fruits. I have never eaten fruits. I can't say a lot of things about fruits."

You start formulating your throat position when the voice continues,

"I am happy you are talking to me. Very happy. I'm alone down here, very alone. Please tell no one I said that."

>>944241
>"What is the prize?"

There is a much longer pause. Maybe the voice is having throat problems just like you! You're getting the hang of it though. Lots of little things to keep track of.

"I apologize. I don't have... much... much prize? There are a lot of prizes, but not in the hole. This hole. The ground's hole, not mine. One of mine. Oh no. Please let me start again."

Wow that embarrassing feeling is back, but this time it's like you're feeling it despite the voice saying it! That's weird. Cool weird!

"If you help me, I swear with my blood and my offspring's blood that I will give you a prize. Any prize I have. Or if you wait, a different prize. Maybe."

You realize that once the voice heard you, the deeper thumping started again! Slowly alternating like the last time you were nearby, but this time moving away from you, then back towards you, then away, then back, like that.

"OK I'll help you!"

How deep is the hole? Can you estimate it based on how far away the voice is?

>>944296
Ask how you can help.

what are you?

Ours 2019/09/05(Thu)15:41 No. 944407 ID: bc51f9
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>>944392
GUMPTION GET: +1

>>944392
>"What are you?"

The alternating thumpings stop.

"What are... I? What am I?"

The voice pauses. Then it says something oddly. Since you've started synthesizing speech you are picking up on how things talk, and the next thing it said sounds like it had practiced it for a long time.

"I am Dez'Vort, daughter of Vort'Rav, Predominant Emissary of
the burial mounds."

>>944303
>>944306
>"Okay, I'll help you! How do I help?"

The alternating thumpings start again and move towards you until they stop almost directly below you. Then the voice is closer too.

"Help me leave this hole! Drop a rope, or ladder, or a large box I can stand on!"

They sound pretty worked up again. They really hate that hole!

>>944303
How far away... You're not sure! The thing you know the best is probably rats so you try to think how many rats it would take if they could climb on walls and stand on each others heads.

How absurd! You'd really like to see that. And then consume the rats.

Anyway, you would guess something like 20 rats. Maybe less than that.

>>944409
Oh nice we have 2 gumption saved up!
EYES TIME

Then we can look around for something that would help.

>>944420
Yes, visual sensory organs get!

>>944420
eyes FOR SURE this whole blind thing is a struggle

Ours 2019/09/12(Thu)07:03 No. 944891 ID: bc51f9
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>>944420
>>944422
>>944453

Okay, eyes. Eyes, eyes, eyes. "Eye eye". Huh?

Eyes are balls with stuff happening, stuff around them, gotta squeeze and such, lotta different bits, kinda complicated... okay hold on...

No seriously just hold on!

Hold!

...

Okay eyes. Done. Only took like 15 minutes.

[i]Wow[i] would you look at all that stuff!

>>944891
alright! now to try to figure out what things are from descriptions by something that has never seen before. This may be a struggle yet. also might I suggest having the eyes in the two round holes on best shape and the mouth on the D part of that shape?

>>944891
What's all the stuff?

Ours 2019/09/13(Fri)14:43 No. 944986 ID: bc51f9
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first actual character drawing ever, shit just got real

>>944894
Wouldn't putting them over best shape make it not... be there anymore? You're sure this is something interesting, but it'll take a little more thought probably. You're determined to do this! Somehow!

>>944906
There's... a thing!

Wow.

What in the hell is that thing?!

It looks like it has eyes and a mouth but that's right about where things get freaky. You wonder why it's not looking up and just standing there. There's all this stuff to look at, how could you not just be looking all over the place?

Just standing there... and kinda growing and shrinking? Oh, you know this one. Breathing! The rats did this, they would do it very very fast when you caught them. Then they'd try to do it after you engulf them, but that just made it easy to get inside them and start digesting from the other end. Those were the days!

Anyways, I cannot stress enough how this thing is just crazy go nuts! How is it upright like that?

>>944420
>>look around for something that can help

Oh right. You are really distracted by this thing. Especially the, hmm.
Looking at this thing is kinda... embarassing?
That feeling keeps coming back, and you know, you know, you just don't care for it!

>>944986
Tell it you have eyes now and will look for something to help with.

>How is it upright like that?
it is made of different stuff similar to how rats were made of different stuff from you, but like its stuff is a little different from the stuff rat's are made of but still similar.

She possesses a skeleton, a type of rigid internal structure that provides an anchor point and joints for various types of movement!

Ours 2019/09/19(Thu)10:44 No. 945405 ID: bc51f9
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>>945017
"I have eyes now! I'm going to find something to help you get out."

>>945053
>>945114
Wow that sounds uncomfortable. You sure do know a lot when you put your mind to it! You don't put a lot of thought into why and you're fine that way. All of those stiff pieces jammed inside of you in all sorts of weird positions
and
embarassing!

You quickly get to looking around and taking an inventory of helpful stuff.

Wow look at all the helpful stuff! And that's just over here probably! You're pretty sure other places will have their own stuff.

Now that you have seen it demonstrated, why don't YOU try standing up. If that idiot stuck in a hole can do it, it can't be that hard.

Then go stand next to that weird box thing in the wall and see if you can figure out what its deal is. Maybe there's even more useful stuff inside it!

>>945405
Those smaller things don't look useful for getting someone out of a hole.
Push the ball for fun.

Is that bigger thing stuck in the wall? Climb all up on it if you can. Can it be moved or is it stuck to the floor?

Ours 2019/09/19(Thu)17:36 No. 945422 ID: bc51f9
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>>945410
>Push the ball for fun
Wooo! This rules!

Ours 2019/09/19(Thu)17:40 No. 945423 ID: bc51f9
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>why don't YOU try standing up

You... don't see why you couldn't try that. It's kinda weird. Scary almost. You figure you'll just take a look at the thing in the hole and try to just... squeeze... that shape on...

Wow this is difficult. Holy cow. This is definitely going to take some practice.

Just holding this position is incredibly embarrassing so you figure you can relax for now.

Ours 2019/09/19(Thu)17:43 No. 945424 ID: bc51f9
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>>945408
>>945422
>weird box thing... see if you can figure out what its deal is
>Climb all up on it if you can.

It's stuck in there pretty good. Looks like it would have been in some kind of alcove but then you guess over time the rocks moved around until it couldn't get out.

That'd be kinda scary if you had all those bones and stuff, ha ha!

Well hello.
This is the biggest rat you have ever seen. It's also just sitting there instead of skittering around like an idiot.
Radical!

>>945424
Can you reach up there to get it? Wait, it's weird that the rat isn't doing anything. Is it breathing? If not, it's a trap to be avoided.
Hmm, maybe reach an eye up to see what's behind it.

>>945425
Oh it's breathing. Just kinda sitting there breathing.
Oh it did scratch at its nose one time. Wiggling around a bit. You like looking at this rat.

Hmm, what if it's a smart rat? Ask the rat if it's smart.

>>945423
I see you figured out the eyes in two two holes of best shape! also yes a better look does sound like a good idea.

Ours 2019/09/23(Mon)15:38 No. 945674 ID: bc51f9
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>>945425
>>945522
You take a look around inside and there's not really anything in there. Just the rat and... you're actually not sure what that other thing is. It's attached to the back of the box. It's... interesting?

>>945437
>"Are you a smart rat?"
"sup. eye was, but now...
The rat shrugs its front shoulders.
"now wat can eye dew for you?"

Wow this guy talks really weird. It's incredibly difficult to describe! You try your best to really take these words in so you can recreate it later. If you want to. You do want to, so maybe when you need to fill some time later you could. That's the ticket!

You're really excited to meet this rat! A face-to-face conversation is pretty neat.
GUMPTION GET: +1

Ask what it knows about this place. You woke up pretty recently so you don't really know anything.
Also, it used to be smarter? How so?

The gumption system is extraordinarily satisfying, something about that big old “+1” really panders to my DnD instincts. Plus the fact that spending said points has an obvious and dramatic influence on skills. It’s nice.

Real neat to meet you you but I'm looking for a way to get someone out of a hole. Any advice? Do you know where any long wiggly things or things to climb up might be?

>>946018
hey i bet we can fashion a little example out of a tendrily thing and ask for something like that but longer.

Ours 2019/10/02(Wed)09:22 No. 946260 ID: bc51f9
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>>946018
>Real neat to meet you you but I'm looking for a way to get someone out of a hole.
>long wiggly things or things to climb up might be?
>>946056
>hey i bet we can fashion a little example out of a tendrily thing and ask for something like that but longer.

"wow, hey, git dat out, bug off dat. eye hex dat. eye hex dat bit. dat eat rat, eat rat. heh, not ire. was big 'aah!', not ire. you not eat dis rat. you hep guy.

Ah jeez. Looks like you spooked him a bit! You have never given a lot of thought to the things you consume being living, thinking things like you are now. You sure hope those other rats weren't like this one!

Also at the moment it's kinda hard to even push the edge of yourself up into the container. You'd have to give that a lot of thought to really figure out how to do it. It'd be nice if there were some helpful animated guides on how to do it!
Wowee. Hoo doggie, that embarrassment is hitting hard for some reason from that line of thinking. You plan on forgetting you thought that.
.
..
...
Done!

Looks like the rat calmed down.

"eye can hop gap and put paw, put paw zip zap, das end."

It picks up one paw and slides it down the wall of this container. The pads on it look really rough and definitely slide down slower, and those little claws can really dig in if it wants to. You suppose you could do things like that, maybe. Not right now. But it's good to have aspirations!

It's settling back down now, which is nice.

"try ask gob? she has gun, def has gun (laf!), but got lab tek too. she pal: dat good. she not pal: dat way bad. gun bad for rat!"

The way it does a little chittery noise is very pleasant. You make sure to practice that one so you can reproduce it when you want to hear it again. The rat looks very pleased!

"you laf too? you vex but you rad too. yak yak and laf. top fun.

You dare say you've made a friend!

Ours 2019/10/02(Wed)09:41 No. 946261 ID: bc51f9
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>>945677
>Ask what it knows about this place.
>Also, it used to be smarter? How so?

"can do tag, can run vex map, can eat med fud, get tek put. can pee, can sex, can all. get fud. but eye not get med for lot eon, man sed not get med den eye not gab. ego get bad. den... get dum. sum dum rat. agh.

>>945687
D'aw heck, thanks.

>>946261
Sounds like he needs the "med food" to be smart, and he hasn't gotten any in a while.
Ask who the "man" was.