Slimoids

French snack · Subject: Re: Slimoids Mon Jul 13, 2009 11:51 pm

/Fish/ wrote:

As for the 'native inlaid memory' idea, that's rather interesting. Perhaps each type has their own origin legends based on fragmented things commonly embedded in their memories, the pieces of which some slimoids put together in what they believe is like a puzzle, trying to put together the full picture. Perhaps other slimoid groups use similar, though slightly different versions, less or more information to put together their own. Thus each group would have a generally similar 'origin story', though differing depending on distributed knowledge. Make sense?

Makes sense to me. That would definitely give them a unique, and quite creative, characteristic.

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I was thinking about how slug-girls are likely to be able to encounter and eat slimoids, and I thought it probably made sense for slimoids to be immune to the sticky properties of slug-girl slime, following them around to snack on anything that might get trapped in it. The only drawback they would have is that instead of sticky, the slime would be somewhat slippery to them and if a slug-girl backtracked, she'd have a better chance of being able to catch up and slurp them up.

Interesting idea... But slug girls basically rely on the stickiness of their slime (whether laid on the ground or spat out in gobs) to catch prey. They're too slow to catch it any other way. Even if a slimoid slipped on slug girl slime (what a lovely alliteration! Very Happy

), I think it would still be likely to pick itself up and get away before the slug girl can catch it.

/Fish/ · Subject: Re: Slimoids Tue Jul 14, 2009 12:48 am

French snack wrote:

Interesting idea... But slug girls basically rely on the stickiness of their slime (whether laid on the ground or spat out in gobs) to catch prey. They're too slow to catch it any other way. Even if a slimoid slipped on slug girl slime (what a lovely alliteration! Very Happy

), I think it would still be likely to pick itself up and get away before the slug girl can catch it.

Unless you have a very wide slime trail and a small slimoid under the assumption that it would have difficulty traversing it, you're probably right. Only things I can think of that a slug-girl may be able to stop them from getting away is to spit slime and 'oil slick' them until she can catch up, or to slime up a wall and ambush them from above, or alternately to relying on trapping, is to pump slime into a hiding place to flush them out. There's probably a few more methods a slug-girl can use if she's crafty.

Or.. Maybe a slug-girl can become a SLIMEANCER. laugh alone