Engulfed!

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Choice adventure number: 337

Engulfed!

You slide down into the tube, but get going a little too fast, and end up plunging deep beneath the surface of the Slime into a moist, claustrophobic little pocket of air.

The Slime looks weird from down here -- you can see all kinds of objects, animal, vegetable, and mineral, that have been absorbed into the mass over countless eons. Lots of toys and sporting goods, for whatever reason.

At the base of the pocket of air there's what appears to be a massive gall bladder, filled with pulsing green bile and attached to the mass of slime with a bunch of little veiny ducts. Dangling at the top, there's what appears to be a... uvula. That's weird.

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Tickle the uvula

• First time, if fewer than ? uvulas have been tickled:

You tickle the uvula. The Slime around you begins to pulsate spastically. You squirm back up to the surface and out of the tube.

• Subsequent times, if fewer than ? uvulas have been tickled:

You reach for the uvula, but before you can tickle it, it recoils from you and disappears into the mass of Slime. Looks like the Slime still remembers you from last time.

• If ? or more uvulas have been tickled:

?

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Squeeze the gall bladder

• First time, if fewer than 5 bladders have been squeezed:

You grab the gall bladder and give it a mighty squeeze, sending bile streaming out through the ducts and into the mass of Slime. It begins to quiver with something that resembles rage, and you decide that this would be a pretty good time to make your exit. You squirm out of the Slime and back up into the basement.

• Subsequent times, if fewer than 5 bladders have been squeezed:

You reach for the gall bladder, but before you can get hold of it, it recoils from you and disappears into the mass of Slime. Looks like the Slime still remembers you from last time.

• If 5 or more bladders have been squeezed:

You reach for the gall bladder, but before you can squeeze it, it withdraws into the Slime and out of reach. Ah well.

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Squirm back out

You don't like the looks of this place one bit. You hastily squirm back out and head back up to the basement.

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Occurs at The Slime Tube.

Notes

• Each time the uvula is tickled, one of the following slime-covered items can be created. To get the slime-covered item, you must be wearing the corresponding rusty item. During a combat with a Slime Monster, there is a chance you will see a special combat message where one of your equipped rusty items is removed. The one removed is randomly determined if you are wearing more than one. Upon defeating the slime you will receive the slime-covered version of that item. All slime-covered items can be smithed with a caustic slime nodule to gain an improved item.

Rusty Item	Slime-covered Version	Improved Slime Item
rusty piece of rebar	slime-covered club	pernicious cudgel
rusty speargun	slime-covered speargun	?
rusty diving helmet	slime-covered helmet	corrosive cowl
rusty chain necklace	slime-covered necklace	baneful bandolier
rusty old lantern	slime-covered lantern	?
rusty grave robbing shovel	slime-covered shovel	villainous scythe
rusty compass	slime-covered compass	?
rusty metal greaves	slime-covered greaves	corroded breeches

• The person who tickled the uvula need not be the person who can get a slime-covered item. Anyone who is wearing an appropriate rusty item can end up getting a slime-covered version.
• Each time a gallbladder is successfully squeezed, the effective Monster Level of The Slime Tube is increased by 20.
• The message for sliming rusty items is

  The Slime draws back and shudders, as if it's about to sneeze. Then it blasts you with a massive loogie that sticks to your <base rusty item>, pulls it off of you, and absorbs it back into the mass.

• If you did not succeed in squeezing or tickling, an adventure is not used.