OK, NOW YOU AT DIRT, BELOW SURFACE!
Voraci tore another layer of rock away. Whatever was above the layer, the dirt, fell onto her face. Along with that, she felt a slight melting sensation. She shook the dirt off of her face, but something was off.
A thin film of something covered her face. She projected a barrier out, projected from her carapace, and pressed it against her face. She moved the barrier horizontally and scraped off the substance. The burning stopped quickly after that.
Voraci moved her barrier to her mouth and, of course, ate the substance.
YOU EAT BACTERIASsss! THEY AGAINST YOUUU! VERY SssMALL USED ACID!
AsssPECT? YOU GET THREEEE!
Voraci was ecstatic. Three aspects? Just for scraping some surprisingly tasty gunk off of her carapace? It also explained the burning sensation, acid. She didn’t know how she knew what that was but she also didn’t care. ‘I want the acid!’ voraci decided.
ACID BLASTY IS BEST CAN I DO! IS GOOD!
3 ACID!!!
Voraci felt a small bubble appear below the middle section of her red carapace. A small cut appeared on the carapace itself, creating a square section separated from the rest of it. The back of the carapace suddenly shot muscles down onto her flesh. A large array of muscles appeared behund the pocket. A method to squeeze the acid out.acid out forcefully.
Voraci flapped the carapace flap a few times. She held it open for a moment and squeezed the acid quickly out. The goo impacted the stone. It wasn't fast, but it was melting.
Voraci felt again as acid covered her face. She used the barrier again and scraped off another batch of bacteria. She shoveled the bacteria into her mouth again and noted that they were super annoying.
WHAT WANT?
Voraci felt another pang, this was getting annoying. Voraci thought for a second, these bacteria were attacking by covering her in acid, and they also weren’t dying to the acid. ‘Acid resistance!’ Voraci blurted out, scraping off the new layer.
ACID RESssIssSTANcE!
Voraci could still feel as a new layer of bacteria, coming from another chunk of dirt, covered her face. But it didn’t hurt as bad! Voraci scraped the bacteria off and funneled them into her mouth, selecting more acid resistance.
Voraci pulled away another layer of dirt, but suddenly had to jump back because of the extreme quantities of light. Voraci looked back at the hole which she made, her eyes quickly adjusting. Voraci pulled away more dirt surrounding the hole until it was big enough to crawl through.
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Voraci’s eyes adjusted entirely. Voraci looked around at the strange, green, things around her.
GRASs IS THE SHORT GREEN, TREESss TALL BrOWN GREEN ON TOP! BUSH ROUND GREEN BUBBLE OF GREEN!
OH!!!! I NOT GIVE YOU DIRT ASPECTSsss! YOU HAVE 9!
Voraci looked down at the dirt. Before she could think about the dirt though, she noticed the grass, actively poking at her. Voraci moved away from that grass but noticed the other patches of grass were also poking at her. She didn’t notice them at first, but the grass was hurting her slightly.
Voraci ripped up a patch of grass and quickly ate it to keep it from poking her. It was delicious! Voraci had only been eating rocks, bones, dirt, and bacteria for now, and she had thought that those were delicious, but they were so much less delicious than this!
NOW YOU HASss 9 DIRT AND 2 GRAsss
Voraci looked at the dirt. It was… sticky when wet, which it was slightly right now, it was… what else did it have that she cared about? Her being spongy would probably counteract her toughness, right? The color? Voraci simply couldn’t think of what she wanted from it.
HEHEHE I WAS READING THOUGHTSss AGaIN AGAIN!!
{Increased toughness} (21 owned) and {Shock absorption} (1 owned) combine into {Physical Resistance} (22)
YOU ALSO GET BROWN COLOR AND THING CALLED “Voluntary adhesiveness”
Voraci felt all of her toughness enhancements vanished. But she did know that it was replaced. It was probably better, the tough seemed to slow her down very slightly, mainly when she was being damaged. ‘Huh, physical resistance doesn’t have a node for it? Weight control didn’t get a node either, what’s up with that?’ Voraci thought, but no answer came from the words.
Voraci looked at her carapace which had suddenly become brown. Not entirely though, more of a dark maroon. She could also control her color, but only could become red or brown, nothing else.
Voraci looked at the grass next. It was sharp, it was green. That sounded good, Voraci had only really used her mouth and sub mouth for blunt impacts, no cutting. That was mainly because, even though she did have serrated teeth in her sub mouth, her mandibles weren’t sharp enough. The green also allowed her to expand her color pallet. Voraci chose to be sharp and green… she also ate the bacteria on her face to get more acid resistance
Input accepted, gained {sharpened}. Increased {Acid resistance}. Aspect {color change} now encompasses the color: ‘Green’
Current conditions
Aspects
{Weight control} (28)
{Physical resistance} (22)
{Acid resistance} (2)
{Increased speed} (2)
{Voluntary adhesiveness} (7)
{Color change} (2)
{sharpened} (1)
Additional body parts
{Acid launcher} (3)
{Bioluminescent containers} (1)
Nodes
{out-body imbuement (weight)}
{Project barrier}
‘Huh,’ Voraci thought, ‘where’s the fun one?’, as she began her process of eating all the grass in the clearing.