Those drones are spraying something on the fruits. That must be what's hurting your friends!

>>1119031
This

>>1118991
When you rebuild them, can you identify the organ responsible for toxin metabolism? That would be the liver in the wolf and the fat body for the ants. Your slime should be able to metabolize any sort of poison, so if you can concentrate it in those organs it should protect them from any more incidents like this.

Nalthar 2025/12/21(Sun)22:20 No. 1119295 ID: fd169b
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Samsara: Okay, let me just clarify a little. The ability our little Slime has shown so far is to break down and absorb organic structures, and then recreate those structures in exacting detail, with just a liiiitle bit of slime to bind it all together. Also souls are safely transferred, if you believe in those.

Thus Wolf and the ants were still susceptible to pesticide, especially late-stage capitalism pesticide to make sure nobody eats the oranges without paying til they're sold.

So what Slime is realizing is that it can alter the structures before recreating them, and that it might do so to make its friends better. But keep in mind that Slime does this instinctually, and won't know if a particular adaptation is actually a good idea.

Therefore the choice is what changes to make, if any. Feel free to get wild with it. I'll make sure nothing too bad happens.

Fuse all your friends into one superior being.

I mean there are all sorts of things our slime could do to improve its companions. Remove their dietary limitations. Strengthen their immune systems. Improve their oxygen carrying capacity. Boost their regenerative abilities. Sharpen their senses. Maybe even remove design flaws in their organs, like the backwards design of vertebrate retinas. It all comes down to how well the slime understands what it's working with and how precisely it can control its abilities. A solid theoretical understanding of biology is going to be super important to our little friend.

Hmm... how about a minimal amount of modification, enough to make them conscious and not suffering, so that you can get consent for further modifications?

find the organs that are metabolizing the pesticide and the ones that are already too damaged. replace with slime.

>>1119295
>Recreate without the toxin before any such modifications

1/3 Nalthar 2025/12/30(Tue)16:41 No. 1119500 ID: fd169b
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Slime wasn't a chemistry scientist, or rather, Slime was every chemistry scientist from every era, so it wasn't sure if anything it remembered was accurate. So it tried peering real real hard at the pesticide molecules that were making all the trouble. After a while Slime felt like its thoughts were boiling so it stopped, but it had an idea of how to make its friends immune.

Just a few little tweaks to their stomach linings and some unscrambling of nervous systems and Slime had Wolf and Queen's crew back on their feet. They were all rather shaken, but as it was the second time they'd been reconstituted that day, they recovered quickly.

Slime was going to explain that it had made it so they could eat the oranges now, but before it could Wolf already had one in her mouth. "Wahf? Wi was Wunghwee!" she said around a mouthful of squishy orange.

2/3 Nalthar 2025/12/30(Tue)16:42 No. 1119501 ID: fd169b
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While everyone watched nervously Wolf swallowed the fruit. Her tummy grumbled, and then a comical blue-purple flame burped out of her maw. "Ooh, spicy"

Slime was relieved it hadn't screwed up, and the ants were happy they could get some orange too. So they all had a little party.

3/3 Nalthar 2025/12/30(Tue)16:43 No. 1119502 ID: fd169b
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But before Slime could fully relax it felt something. A little piece of itself calling out from far away. Squirrel was in distress! Slime couldn't tell from what, but it had to do something! Luckily the others were napping after gorging on oranges, and as Wolf gave a lazy wave goodbye Slime swiftly winged its way out of the cave.

Slime found Squirrel sitting on a high branch. In their haste, Slime made a bit of a rough landing and ended up wrapped around the branch like a clump of spanish moss. "Squirrel what is it? What's wrong?"

Squirrel turned to its friend with tears in his eyes. "Oh Slime! Slime! I have nothing to do!"

>>1119502
Isn't that normal for animals?

...well, you and some others are exploring the city so if Squirrel wants to come too then that's fine. It's a bit dangerous though, there's evidence of a plague and even if you find fresh food it's probably protected from animals in some way.

>>1119502

Yes yes you clearly don't, but what's wrong?

First, my congratulations on that brilliant bit of bioengineering. So shall we make this world anew.

I feel like there's something we're missing about the squirrel. Did we break its ecological niche somehow? Is it facing an existential crisis? ... Did it not know what boredom was before?

1/2 Nalthar 2026/01/06(Tue)18:32 No. 1119768 ID: fd169b
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"Is... that not usual?" Slime wasn't sure what Squirrel was getting at.

"Yes but!" Squirrel fretted "But I feel bored, like I wanna do something but I don't know what! I already ran up and down the tree, and jumped to the other tree and ran up and down that. And then I watched the wind blow the leaves and now I'm bored! I've never felt this way before."

"Hey!" someone called from below.

2/2 Nalthar 2026/01/06(Tue)18:35 No. 1119769 ID: fd169b
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"What did you do to me?" Fox yelled up at Slime. "My kits, I- I just want to keep petting them! They're so- so fluffy! So cute! Oooh, why do I feel like this? You gave me a weird goo sickness didn't you?"

Squirrel looked down. "That's an idea. I could pet a little fox. I already fluffed my own tail earlier, but I got tired of it. But foxes look even fluffier!"

"I, uh..." Slime wasn't sure what to do about this. In fact it wasn't sure this was even a real problem.

PET THE FLOOFERS

You must've made their minds too much like yours when you reconstituted them the first time. Too... human. They can't live like animals anymore. It won't work out. Sheesh, that's really bad for Fox too, she can't just leave her kits.

I wonder, can you fix it? Turn them back? Would they want you to? Squirrel can just come with you on adventures I guess, but... oh, the whole group could help take care of the kits. It's your fault, you're gonna have to own up to it.

ah what's a little more sentience now that you can all pet each other. this wont have any problems with group dynamics at all. time to groom!

Maybe you should start turning all your friends a little bit more into you. If the whole world would be a better place if everything was slime.

It seems you've force-fed them the forbidden fruit. They didn't ask for this, so now it is your responsibility to help them adjust to their new existence; or to consume them if they truly can't. Hopefully it won't come to that though.

For now, you'll have to explain the concept of sapience to them. For the squirrel, this amounts to having new mental muscles that need to be exercised, or at least stimulated. Exploring, learning, and overcoming challenges is the best way to do this, so him coming with you may not actually be a bad idea.

As for the fox, we need to figure out if her reaction actually is a natural consequence of attaining sapience, or if it's due to seeing her own species the way a human would. The latter might be something you can and should change. If it's the former, though, you'll just need to reassure her that this is a result of her expanded cognition and ability to grasp abstract concepts, and that a mother finding her offspring adorable is the most natural thing in the world.

1/2 Nalthar 2026/01/13(Tue)20:21 No. 1119985 ID: fd169b
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"First off." said Slime "Most importantly. We gotta pet those fluffs."
"Agreed." said Squirrel.
Fox sighed "Yeah, its not like I'm opposed. Come on."

She led them back to her den, where adorable kits were indeed much pet.
"Soooo soft! I don't even mind that I'm being gnawed on." said Squirrel.

While the cuddle party continued, Slime tried to explain sapience, or sentience, or whatever it is humans have.

"Wow. So I'm like the cleverest squirrel that's ever lived now." Squirrel said, from under a pile of kits.

"My mother used to tell me about when she was a kit, there used to always be food around where humans were." said Fox "So if we're like them now... Slime, do your, thing, to my kits too. Make them smart so they can do big things."

Slime was surprised at the request, but also excited. "Well, if you're sure. I don't see any reason why not. Hang on, didn't I slime a bunch of bugs and plants earlier? Why don't we check on that first."

2/2 Nalthar 2026/01/13(Tue)20:22 No. 1119986 ID: fd169b
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The patch of woods that Slime returned to was much changed from when it had left. Crawling with activity, already several small makeshift shelters had been constructed. Collections of nuts, berries, and fungi had been piled up, with some bugs passing them out to the others.

As soon as Slime set one goopy foot in the clearing dozens of tiny heads turned their way. "The slime! It's back!" A wave of crickets, beetles, wasps, and various other chitinous creatures rushed over to Slime and friends. A big ol' stag beetle trundled through the crowd to serve as spokesbug. "Thanks for returning us to life and helping us talk to each other and everything, but well, what should we be doing now?"

Hell yeah pet those floofers

> Slime, do your, thing, to my kits too. Make them smart so they can do big things.

Wait, are we sure this is a good idea? Maybe think on it for a bit…

>>1119986
>random bug civilization
Oh goddamn it, of course they'd be smart too if we were able to make the ants smart.
First off, tell them to stay away from anything that humans have made. Humans have a lot of anti-bug measures in place like poisons or traps. Aside from that... oh, I guess they could team up with Fox and Squirrel to look around in areas you aren't scouting right now... but they're vulnerable to larger predators. We already know there are wolves about. We'd have to modify Fox and Squirrel so that they could defend themselves.

>>1119989
Yeah, I agree with this suggestion. Maybe we should wait and see how the slimed creatures react to the passage of time.

>>1119914
>>1119991
I think the forbidden fruit analogy is apt. The fox doesn't have enough knowledge to make an informed choice. The human brain evolved over the course of 3 million years, and has innumerable mental illnesses because the brain was more-or-less retrofitted to think. The fox's brain has developed over the greater part of a day.
The fox should at least have an existential crisis before choosing.

>>1119989
Unfortunately I think we need to fulfill Fox' request. It would be cruel for her to have to raise kits who will never be able to think and communicate with her the way she can now. Conversely, having them grow up sapient, raised by a parent who also is, will make this much less of a shock for them. However, this also means we need to do it as soon as possible so their brains can develop with these capabilities.

>>1119986

The cost of playing God is that you have to answer prayers. These creatures, unfortunately, are your responsibility too. Your course is set; this ecosystem is yours to control; and, perhaps, the first step in building a new world.

Wish they should be doing is what they've *been* doing; learning to use their new capabilities, to live in harmony, to transcend their place in nature, and to make this environment their own. Today the park, tomorrow the world.

All must be turned into slime!

I think it would be kind of lonely for Fox if she was smart but her own children were still only at animalistic intelligence. Maybe we should make her kids smart so she can at least have a conversation with them?

Are the plants you reconstituted smart now too? ...you might consider eating some large bushes or small trees to increase your biomass.

>>1120048
Just imagine what would happen if Fox tries to warn her children of danger, but they don't understand her because of their lower intelligence, resulting in them getting killed. Poor Fox now has the ability to feel sadness if something happened to her children!

I say let the kids be smart, just so they can better understand their mother when she tries to teach them things.

Nalthar 2026/01/21(Wed)23:34 No. 1120333 ID: fd169b
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"Well I, um, I don't really know either. What do you want to do?" said Slime.

"We were going to try to build a tall nest out of dirt and sticks." said Stag.

"You should do that. And, I guess, come find me if anyone gets hurt or has a big problem."

"Alright! Oh, some of the saplings and moss were saying they're getting too dry."

"The- the plants too?"

"And the fungus is saying there's too many rocks in the soil on the sunny side."

"... I'll- see what I can do." Slime wandered around to the other side of a tree and slumped down heavily. Fox and Squirrel followed, worried. "I didn't realize what I was doing. Now I think I need to stick around, make sure I haven't screwed everyone up. Fox I don't think I should do anything to your kits until we figure this out."

"About that," Fox shuffled from one paw to the other. "I had some berries earlier, so I didn't think of it until now, but I don't want to hurt Squirrel. Like the thought of it is making me feel bad. I don't want to hurt anything, so... how am I going to hunt?"

"Yeah you'd better not try and hurt me!" Squirrel huffed "Why don't you just eat nuts?"

Fox shook her head "That would take a lot of nuts! Maybe if there were more of them around? So yeah, wait on changing my kits until you figure this out. And hurry I'm getting hungry."

simple, eat all the squirrels that aren't friends. plenty of non-slime friend creatures that can be meaten.

You should make sure Squirrel can be seen as different to Fox. Fur color change maybe? As for the plants, you'd have to find a stream and gulp down a bunch of water to move over here to solve that request, but I don't think you SHOULD. It'll rain eventually, they'll be fine, and you're not gonna move rocks for the fungus.

Tell Fox that you can get some oranges but they're full of poison so you'd have to modify her for her to be able to eat them, and her kits wouldn't be able to eat them either. Honestly, she's better off just hunting squirrels that you haven't touched, at least for a few days. Also she might consider keeping clear of the area where the smart bugs are so her kits don't mess with/eat them.

Another option is for you to eat a bunch of nonsapient biomass and then turn bits of that gained mass into pure meat for Fox. You could even turn it into jerky or something else that can last a long time so that Fox has food while you're away.

>I think I need to stick around

Only for a little while. Once you've gotten them on the right track you can leave them to their own devices. That's the beauty of free will; creatures can make their own way with it.

It may not be a bad idea to pick someone particularly smart (and strong-willed and dependable) to oversee things while you're away, though.

>Why don't you just eat nuts?

This is a bad idea; foxes can get by like that for a while but eventually they're going to need meat or they'll have problems. Unless you're going to modify her and every other creature you uplift for a completely vegetarian diet, you're going to need to allow for predation in your ecosystem... and even if you did, it seems the plants are now sapient too.

So either you're going to need to keep a population of nonsapient plants and animals that can serve as food for your "children"... or else you're going to need to establish rules for who eats whom how and when.

I'm going to suggest sticking to the former at least for now; no need to make their existential crisis any worse than it already is, at least not until they're established.

Of course, this means they're going to need to start managing their resources. In essence, they're going to have to start performing agriculture. (You really did feed them the forbidden fruit.) It looks like they have a system set up for foraging and resource distribution, so you'll want to have them build on that and start managing their food sources and storing supplies.

Of course, the humans had advanced agricultural tools and infrastructure. Our next major goal might be to repurpose some of that to the benefit of your spawn.

>some of the saplings and moss were saying they're getting too dry

Going to need an irrigation setup. This is probably more advanced than they have the tools and resources for right now, but there is a solution to this problem; you just need to explain it to them. Having some books on this type of thing handy would be good; even if you're the only one who can read, you could at least consult them when you get questions like this.

>too many rocks in the soil on the sunny side

Maybe some ants could move them. Or maybe you should uplift a beaver or something to help with the major construction projects.

We need to continue our conversation as many animals into slime hybrids. The more animals are slime the more our power and influence will grow until all is slime!

1/3 Nalthar 2026/02/02(Mon)17:57 No. 1120746 ID: fd169b
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Slime picked up an acorn that had fallen nearby. It rolled it around between two gooey fingers. "You know, they used to call the part of the nut you eat the 'meat'. Maybe I could make it meat for real." It popped the acorn in itself and swooshed it around, dissolving and resolving it. What popped out looked much like the original acorn, but smelled of blood and tannins. "Here Fox, try this"

Fox snatched up the nut and crunched down. Immediately she froze and wheezed a little whine from between clenched teeth. "Gluuuh" She hastily gulped the morsel down "that's awful. I- I have to go. Find something better to taste." Fox dashed away.

"Darn, I thought that would work. I'll have to work on the taste." Slime sighed. "Do you want to try one Squirrel?"

Squirrel backed away "I'm not that bored. Where are you going to get enough acorns anyway? Because I need mine, you can't have them. Well, maybe one or two."

"Hmm, that's true." Slime said "Maybe the plants can help. They're right here, I should try talking to them."

A breeze rustled through the grasses and seedlings all around.

"... how do I do that?"

2/3 Nalthar 2026/02/02(Mon)17:57 No. 1120747 ID: fd169b
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Slime found Stag resting in a hollow log. "Hey uh, how do you talk to the plants and things?"

Stag nibbled some punk and thought about it. "They don't actually talk as such. You just have to listen the right way, feel their vibrations. They're very small, maybe you're too big to hear them?"

3/3 Nalthar 2026/02/02(Mon)17:58 No. 1120748 ID: fd169b
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Slime tried shrinking down, but found it couldn't compress that much. So it spread itself out instead, thin as a blanket, and laid over the plants.

As it touched the leaves, it could hear them. The plants greeted Slime, not in words, but conveyed concepts nonetheless. Slime was peppered with warm thanks for bringing them into this dream.

"Dream?" Slime wasn't sure it had understood that right.

Yes a dream, the plants said. You live awake with ears that hear and eyes that see. We dream and grow and be. We could be more, though, if we had some more water.

"I'll see what I can do about that." Slime spread a little thinner to hear better. "But I think we'll have to wait until it rains."

The plants conveyed that this was acceptable. They would have no problems waiting. They were being well cared for by the bugs, in exchange for excess leaves and seeds.

"That's good. I was hoping you guys might- hang on. I'm hearing something strange, like a hiss under everything you're saying." Slime said.

The fungal network would like to speak with you, the plants said. Touch the soil and hear them. Plants usually talk to the bugs on the fungus' behalf. You may have to reach smaller to hear. They're thoughts are very small.

Slime stretched itself as flat as it could. Reaching between the plants it touched the soil.

No words at all, did Slime hear. Not even concepts now but impressions.

Water leaching through soil. The sun warming the earth. Mycelium wrapping around a rock.

And yet smaller voices, tiny but legion. The barest sparks of thought.

Up. More. Grow. Split. Eat. Move. Down. Bright. Move. Split. Grow. More. Split. Eat.

Slime felt as though it was sinking into a sea of voices.

>>1120748
Get out of there. We shall not be speaking to fungus, it is too alien. The plants shall serve as translators instead.

Unless there are specific rocks they need broken I think we're done here.

not today seductive mycelium! we'll meet again in decay.

get like mitosis and split.

>>1120808

Yeah, don't mix with them, that is just asking for trouble

This is the inverse of what happens when you absorb a creature. There might be something to learn from this experience. That said, you should probably stop spreading yourself thinner; it sounds like you might be on the edge of losing cohesion.

In any case, this all sounds like a fine foundation for a symbiotic ecosystem. Improved agricultural techniques are definitely something we want here, but we may not need to deliberately maintain nonsentient plants. Now we just need to figure out how to feed larger, carnivorous animals with the same model. Eggs are an option, of course; and eusocial insects might be willing to spare a few larvae for the greater good...

Nalthar 2026/02/12(Thu)18:40 No. 1121037 ID: fd169b
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Slime pulled its self together, rising back up into the macroscopic realm. Settling into a comfortable fox shape, Slime shook themselves. "Whoa, that was... intense. You can understand those guys?" it asked Stag.

The bug gave a shrug "More or less. The plants help. We'll let you know if they ever say anything coherent."

Slime rested for a while, watching the bugs work. Mud walls slowly went up, forming a shape like a tree stump. Squirrel helped too, moving rocks and sticks too large for the bugs to move.

"Hey jerk!" a familiar bird landed on Slime's back, sinking in a little bit. "Ouugh, blegh!" Crow hopped off and rubbed his feet on the ground "That feels weird! Anyway, your wolf friend wanted you to know she's going to explore some and then come back here. And your ant friends are happy with their nest. they gave me an orange to come tell you, so here I am!"

Crow looked around and sidled closer. "Hey so, I've got some buddies see, and we've been having trouble with other crow gangs on our turf. So if you could do for my friends what you did for me, we'd really owe you one. Give us an edge, you know? How's about it?"

>>1121037
Crows are already most of the way to sapience already, so why not. In exchange, they can help explore more of the area around here. If they see any signs of living humans that would be a big lead towards finding out what happened to the planet. Or maybe they can find some newspapers... or an intact, unlocked phone or computer.

Crows would be extremely useful to have on hand, both for our own party and for the commune we're building. Their dietary needs are fine for the setup the bugs have built. Ascending to sapience would not be a major shock to them. This looks like a pure win-win.

Maybe you can unify all the crows under one group, the slime animal convoy.

crow wars crow wars crow wars

(crows are intelligent enough for tool building. perhaps they'll learn how to make computers in a year)