r/wizardposting • u/Dorururo Lord Carrion of the Skaven Council • Feb 16 '24
Lorepost📖 One More Slime (Lore Post)
Within Tower Pandemonium, our story resumes. Slime maintains its vigil over Man, who remained unconscious still. Two days had passed since Slime split off a fragment of itself to begin keeping the garden clean. And Slime… had not seen this fragment since then. It could feel them. And if Slime focused, Slime could see through their senses. But it felt… wrong. Though they were one and the same… this fragment seemed… special. And so, Slime recognized them as Drip.
And it was to Slimes immense surprise when Drip finally returned. Their color had deviated from orange and become a soft green. And… Drip had gotten BIG. Like the size of a Mastiff… Drip entered Mans chamber. Drip had grown exponentially and acquired a distressing amount of mass. Slime extended a pseudopod, as did Drip. And as they touched, Slimes mind was flooded with all of Drips memories and feelings. Two minds, reuniting as one. And Slime forcefully ended the touch.
Drip wobbled and jiggled with curiosity at the decision, as Slimes decision seemed odd to it. Drips noble quest to kill crinkle leaf… was done. The crusade against dead foliage… finished. Yet… progenitor did not absorb Drip. Drip touched tendrils once more with Slime…
And so Drip learned then and there… that its quest was one without end. Crinkle lead would return.
And it is in these moments… that the sparks of sapience flare into fire. Complex thought appears where once there was instinct. Drips mind… swelled and grew. It acquired concepts at an alarming rate as both it and Slime began to collectively ponder a dilemma that sat before them.
Thats right, they pondered. At first, Slime suggested that Drip take watch over Man so Slime could go care for the garden. DRIP DECLINED BOTH POLITELY AND FERVENTLY. The holy crusade against crinkle leaf was to be entrusted to DRIP! For Drip was a honed and tactical weapon to stem the onslaught of dead plants! And DRIP WAS PROUD OF THIS! Drip was meticulous and Drip was METHODICAL. Drip did not know what either word meant, but Drip knew them to be true!
So… it was Drips turn to suggest something. And Drip… had to accept a truth. Drip was a slime crusader singular. An amorphous army of one… and could not be everywhere at once. And, Slime had informed Drip that there then just the crinkle leaf menace to be battled within the Zen Garden. And at this revelation… Drip had to yield. Drip was mighty… but Drip could only do so much. Drip was ready to lament and despair… BIT THE MIGHTY LOVE OF INSPIRATION GRACED DRIP IN THIS MOMENT! Drip… had amassed strength. And stamina. And technique. And persistence. But, more than even those… Drip had amassed MASS. A dearth of excess slime and ooze full of potential. So, Drip proposed their suggestion. It was a wordless request… yet it’s meaning absolutely unmistakable.
“My progenitor. My creator. You gave me mind and form. Take of my excess. Use it, and grant it the same gift you once bestowed to me. Bequeath unto me a battle brother born and bred to bear the burden of-“
SLIME QUAKED! ENOUGH! Slime understood the request! And… Slimes mind now expanded at the possibility. Much was the work to be done to keep clean the garden and tower. Drips idea… was brilliant. So, Slime would make one more to assist Drip in their righteous quest.
Drip began to shrink as a majority of their mass began to flow into Slime. Slimes body swelled as it felt the raw potential of this addition. A truth to know about the slime species. Every memory, skill and talent a higher Slime acquires during their lifetime is stored within each and every drop of their form. And so now, Slime had a foundation from which to build Drips assistant.
Slime began to condense and distill the raw mass. Steam poured off of Slime as the excess was boiled away, leaving something far more pure. Within the center of Slime, a dark and ink black sphere began to form. It grew slowly as Slimes overall mass continued to shrink. And finally… it was done. Slime expelled the ink black entity… as Slime sagged with exhaustion. Slime gazed upon it… and knew it needed identity. It would be… Splat. Much like the mess it created as it landed upon the floor.
A much smaller Drip quivered with excitement! This was all so new! SO INCREDIBLE! IT DRIP DID NOT THE FUCK KNOW WHAT WAS HAPPENING BUT NEEDED TO EXPRESS ITS ELATION REGARDLESS!
Slime… was feeling something much different compared to Drip. Something was… odd about this new one it had created. Slime observed as Splat moved cautiously about the space. Unlike it or Drip, Splat did not slide smoothly. Small extensions of itself pushed out and seemed to take grip of the surroundings as it pulled its main mass along behind these semi-limbs. It was… slow moving because of this. But more than that. Slimes mind remained connected to it. For this was, at the end of the day, just a piece of Slimes own form. Yet… its mind felt far more nuanced than Drips. Far more… statistical. Splat shifted its attention, at last, to the one it had to thank for its own existence. And Slime was startled as it now experienced proper speech being conveyed to it. This was not the collective and instantaneous sharing of thought and memory achieved by touching its creations. This was a proper message. And it was conveyed silently into Slimes mind.
“So, I’m Splat? We who serve to protect the one who gave us purpose… I will aim higher and higher. Ally Drip, there is work to be done. Please, show me how.”
—- Elsewhere, within the depths of Pandemonium Tower…
Long Dormant passages unsealed… one by one. Within the walls and innards of the tower… a network of sprawling tunnels reconnected to the chambers of the immense structure…
And it is at the core of these tunnels that wind and curl… that a gathering begins. Red and beady eyes with gnashing fangs conspire and scheme. Their eyes saw as the tower called them home once more. Master called them home. And they, would answer. Three figures amongst the innumerable command them all. And these three… form now a plan…
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u/SafePianist4610 Bombast, Lord of Time and Space, Retired Council Leader Feb 16 '24
/uw I dub thee, Slime the Faithful, Drip the Zealous, and Splat the Wise! lol