39 Digging a hole 1 (1/2)
Seeing inside of me, left me quite baffled. At first glance, the organs were looking just the same, but the whole order was messed up. Everything seems to have been moved to a different place. To top it off every organ seems to have been covered in a slimy substance.Even though I had a gigantic wound there was no sign of blood spilling out. It was as if it had been regulated to make it easier for me. I made a small wound inside my body to see how the regeneration process is working.
The new wound was covered by the surrounding slimy substance and substantially closed. After waiting a bit I could see that new slime came out of an organ I have not seen before, it was right beside the heart. So this little fella is responsible for the conversion of data into a suitable source of energy.
Touching the slime felt weird,there was nothing tangible. although I should have felt some kind of sensation. All I did feel was some kind of warmth, an energy that was prickling up on contact with skin. After pulling my finger out, I noticed that there was still some slime remaining on my finger. As every good scientist, I just had to experiment with it.
I grabbed a little ant that was coming near me to replenish the energy I just spent and touched it lightly. The little ant began to stay still and did not show any kind of reaction or movement at first. Until it suddenly began to spasms and convulse. It got bigger and bigger until its size had nearly doubled. But under its new body, the ant was unable to move and was lying there helplessly.
What happens if I just cover a specific body part of them in this slime, will the effect just focus on the legs or will the effect spread all over the body? To test what would happen I grabbed the next poor passerby and started to smear its little legs. But after seeing the result I had to admit, that I did not do a proper job. While some of its legs mutated other did not. This abomination could not move as well and was currently laying next to the previous test object.
Looking at my finger I realized, that I was quite lucky or unlucky, that the slime was not working on me anymore. Having just one big finger would look a bit strange and in combat, it would be very inefficient. But overall I am rather glad, that I can decide the way I want to develop. Instead of ending up so like those 2 fellas right next to me. But for the sake of their brethren, a sacrifice had to be made.
An interesting question would be, whether this kind of change only effects ”living” beings or if the same kind of concept applies to every other thing made out of data. Covering the rock that was attached to me in slime. There was a distinctive increasing in weight, the more slime I put on it. That is a good way to further strengthen my body. The big disadvantage is the amount of data that needs to be converted before the slime is produced and the big amount of slime that is needed for a significant change like that. The more I know about this kind of ability, the more it scares me what happened during my training session. How much chaos did they cause, by getting me all that resources?
Some things are better left unanswered. But if that things affect ”living” and data things the same, they were to happen if that stuff came into to contact with players. Magic in combination with steroids, if they were no threat to my life I would totally mess around with it.Just the pure image of all those mages with a biceps as big as thigh of a grown man running at me was quite a scary thought.
If the rocks were getting heavier, what kind of change would my hair get? With more than enough possible samples being around me, I began several tests to see how the properties would change and what possible use they could have.
After I conducted several tests to vary the extent of each change I came to the following conclusions. The art of the effect is limited by 2 factors, one is the positioning of the slime and the previous properties it had. If you only rub in the root of the hair, then there is no difference between any of the hairs. The whole hair becomes hard. But if you put in on a soft spot of the hair, the whole thing will go totally soft, the polar opposite property gets replaced.
But if this world is just anything like my old world still has to be bound by certain rules. If there is light, there has to be a shadow. On every reaction follows an equal and opposite reaction. Without a fundamental change, a material should be unable to have to exact opposite traits at the same time. That is why it is so reassuring to see, that even mutually exclusive properties do not influence the other effects. For example, hair can either soft or hard. But the ability to absorb liquids stays the same.
It really gets interesting when you use 2 different spots, with totally opposite properties. I had assumed that each of the properties would try and balance each other out. But instead, the properties took over half of the hai. I repeated this process several times, decreasing or increasing the amount of slime on each end to notice different effects. The effect strengthened or lessened with the proportionality of the ratio. This was not limited to the durability of the object, it was the same for the ability to absorb liquids as well.
To test this hypothesis all I had to do, was let one hair absorb a bit of my saliva and put the slimy substance on both ends before the water could spread. The result was a strange equilibrium out of one hydrophilic and one hydrophobic part. The only idea I can currently come up with is, that the slime is working as some kind of small buffer zone keeping both halves separated, while itself functions as a middle piece keeping the whole thing connected.
A connection between two parts that are not able to coexist. This statement stays still true, because even though it still looks to be ”one” hair, now it is separated into two different sections.