Here is a new quest for me once again... yes, it's Worm once again...
This time... it's technically an Altpower but it's also not... that's a spoiler for what I am planning on this quest...
This can be called as a crossover. It's from my original setting though so you can also say that it wasn't really a crossover and more like a self-insert or something equivalent...
Premise is, Taylor died in the locker. Then something weird and dangerous is going to happen on the city.
My only hint for that is YOU are the one using this dangerous something. It's up to you whether you want to go wild or play it safe...
I won't say anything else because it will be too much of a spoiler.
Anyway, let's start the quest!
... Who?
... What?
I don't know....
Darkness. The only thing I can see.
Where am I? What am I doing here?
Who am I?
Those are the questions that came to me. Thoughts that kept coming to my mind.
I think I am a human. Maybe a girl or something. I think I attend school. Did I have friends, or maybe family?
I can't really recall. My mind is all fuzzy. The only thing that is coming are questions of who am I and where am I? What am I doing?
I can't even understand what I am doing. It's dark but I don't feel like I am floating. There is no falling sensation. I also can't feel something solid though.
Nothing. There is nothing in here, yet I am aware I am here.
... What is this?
I can see a silhouette. It felt like the nothingness on surroundings are slowly turning into a comprehensible landscape.
It was... buildings? Roads?
The colors are slowly returning. The outline of buildings are becoming more defined. The ground that I found myself stepping on becoming more solid.
After the buildings and the road are done, slowly, humanoid silhouettes are slowly appearing. Those silhouettes are slowly becoming clearer, having a defined appearance.
And then... what is this?
Something. Like an option. It's only in my mind, not even something I can see with my eyes. It's just there and waiting to be chosen.
It felt like, if I didn't choose something, this space that are slowly becoming coherent won't be complete.
Like I am an important piece, with the setting waiting for my appearance.
I wonder what are these options?
They are vague. I can't get a clear picture of them. Not even a detail. They are just an instinctual option within me.
What should I pick?
[]The Slime
[]The Rabbit
[]The Spider
[]The Ant
[]The Bee
[]The Skeleton
[]The Zombie
[]The Mummy
[]The Wolf
[]The Bat
[]The Worm
[]The Flower
[]The Tree
The queen of Mythical Slimes are known for their capability to multiply at an insane rate just by eating anything, even dirt or scraps.
They can turn a single dirt into thousands of slimes, and if they hold onto it, can even create a stronger variant of a slime.
They are impossible to be killed, unless weapons that defies the laws of physics, multidimensional strikes, conceptual, soul-related, or time-related attacks were used. Attacks must also contain a fire element or an anti-healing effect to truly kill a Mythical Slime.
Also, every single cell of their body must be extinguished. Or else, they will just come back as new.
One Mythical Queen Slime can easily create a slime colony, or worse, a slime empire. If it happens, abandon the continent and hope for the best.
It is possible for a Mythical Queen Slime to subsume the whole planet. In case of this event, the use of planet busting attack, or even a star busting attack is permissible. This is to make sure that not a single trace remains of them.
Don't waste taking on this creature if you are unsure of defeating it. It can adapt to it and make resistances for it so they can become more impossible to kill.
The Materials that can be gained from a Mythical Queen Slime is superior than the other Mythical Slime variants. Armors made from it's body can regenerate even if your just a smear of blood on the wall. They are also one of the ingredients for potent elixirs capable of reviving the dead. Their viscous parts can also be used to fix every machinery or objects, so most engineers loves them. It can also be used as a fuel for anything, whether if it's a planetary vehicle or spatial vehicles.
Remember, they are one of the End Units. Be careful when trying to subjugate one. The Controller will become aware of your actions if you are not fast enough.
Be aware of your surroundings, hunters, and may our world live longer!
~ Excerpt from Gerald Janus Byzanthium (The List of Discovered End Units)
(Abilities)
Every slimes are capable of digesting everything. Mythical Slimes are more so with their esoteric body. They can digest steel in just a single moment and use it as their nutrients. Even gaseous particles or untouchable things like air can be eaten by them and digested to become their nutrients. Energy sources like solar or electricity is much more preferable for them, due to the huge amount of nutrients that they can get there.
The nutrients they stored within them can be used to create slimes. Depending on the amount of nutrients used, the slimes can either be strong or weak. As a Mythical Queen Slime, it can create thousands of weak slimes or tens of stronger variants. Using more nutrients can create more stronger variants of slimes like Legendary Slimes or Mythical Slimes.
Slimes are capable of adapting to every environment so they can survive. The Mythical Queen Slime is a million times more efficient when it comes to this. Their body can create resistances for every threat that manage to harm them and a long time exposure to it might turn them immune to it.
To easily consume preys, every variants of slimes, starting from the Legendary Slimes, can turn their body into any forms of acids, both existing and non-existent. Acids that can be created varied from acids known to science up to the acids that are esoteric in nature.
The Mythical Queen Slime can see through every slimes that were birthed by it, and it can also control them whenever it wants. It can also share it's all-seeing senses to every slimes that originated from it, turning them into a terrifying force to behold.
All slimes can split their body into two, so long as they have enough nutrients to support two or more bodies. These bodies have the same consciousness and won't deviate from their core personality. Essentially, they can create more of them as backup for when one of their body dies.
Warmth. Something that is supposed to be good for those who live.
But for us, it is a symbol of death. The indication of something sinister.
Clean air? Warm sunlight? Fresh food?
Those are just traps. Illusions put for the unaware so they will be taken.
The world is our enemy. The very foundation of life, slowly consuming us.
Is it really possible, to win against a force of nature?
Nay, it is not!
We are just bugs trying to live our pitiful lives. Being hunted actively by the plants, the air, and the land itself. We can only bow and pray for our continued lives. To only hope for tomorrow to come again.
We are the Dregs. The insects who dared survive against reality.
We can't win, but we will survive!
For the Garden of Eden won't sleep, controlling everything in her grasp. We, too, shall continue moving. Survive the harsh environment, and the deceptive world.
To those who reads this, remember to always look out for the floating flowers and pollens. It will be over if they made skin contact.
If you are seeking knowledge to counter them, then we can only hope for someone outside this world to come, to help the insects rebelling against the tyrannical world.
There are no counters, unless someone have the power to destroy this world. Nothing can be done than to survive.
If you want to survive, then heed the following advises here.
Don't get in contact with a pollen or a flower, don't eat anything, don't drink the water, and avoid any plants in your vicinity. Even if you see a patch of moss, avoid it!
How can you survive with that, you wonder?
Simple, use dead plants. Dead plants can be safely eaten, and they can sustain you as much as possible.
If you want to acquire a dead plant, then you should be prepared, because that would mean you will be fighting against her thralls.
You just need to burn a plant, and they will turn into a dead plant. Fire is their main weakness, so you must always carry a torch, or anything that can cause fire.
A dead plant is surprisingly nutritious. But that's the only thing that we can eat. It taste gross, but that's better than nothing.
Other than that, avoid anything else.
If you take this words into heart, then you will survive. You will be a part of the Dregs, the insects who survives!
Always take note, you are not a human. We have no rights. We are insects. Trying to survive against the world.
Pride won't help us. Even strength won't save us. You only need to be smart and have a sharp instinct. That's all you need to survive!
Survival is the only goal of us, the Dregs. Don't be a hero. That would be suicidal.
Remember insect, we are not human. We are Insects! We are the Dregs!
~ A passage from a Dregs Member (Christian Voyce's Diary)
(Abilities)
The Garden of Eden is capable of creating flowers or pollens, which she can spread all over the world. Each of these can latch on any sentient being and is capable of subsuming their sentience, replacing them with the ego of those plants. Every being that are sentient, regardless if they are immaterial or inorganic, will have their mind replace of the part that latches into them. It can only be countered by protective shields, thick clothing, or by burning them.
Every parts of the Garden of Eden is connected to her and thus, she can see through them. Even those who are subsumed by her parts. This includes plants and any sentient being, which made her terrifying. She can also replace her main body into those she subsumed with her parts, which technically makes her immortal, unless someone manage to destroy every part of her, along with everyone that she subsumed.
The Garden of Eden is capable of improving plant growth exponentially. A tree that needs hundreds of years to grow only needed a second for her. She can extend this to every beings that she subsumed.
Along with her capability to accelerate growth, she can also evolve every plant and every being she subsumed into things that she desires
The Garden of Eden can also learn everything that the subsumed knows.
She is capable of sensing every living being within her vicinity, this extends to those she subsumed or the plants she connected with.
She is capable of absorbing the life forces of everyone in contact with her. This includes every subsumed being and the plants she is connected with.
Because slimes be either weak as all hell or useful. If it's a trait thing, then it would still be okay. But I also want to see Piggot faint... Biotinkered creation, GO😆
Something strange and dangerous is supposed to have happened after Taylor died. The players will be using it. Presumably, this vote is to decide what the nature of this dangerous thing is.
Hm, undead are always a classic and favourite. In the absence of liches and vampires, mummies will do.
I Roleplayed a Slime once in a Tabletop. I intentionally covered my eyes and did not talk. I only reacted to tactile stimuli and almost ate/subsumed two other players at the beginning of the run (that last one was an accident).
In the end of the day i ended up BECOMING the planet we played on.
Slimes are cool an' stuff^^
This is going to show up as "[X] Mummy because i want in" the vote tally Instead of being counted with the other "[X] Mummy" votes. You could resolve this by putting an moving "because i want" to the next row.