Waterworked II

[ToreaderTornado]

>Try taking a few swings at the orb with the axe. If it doesn't look like anything happens to it, head back to the person you saved. If there was anything left in there, at least.

[wolftamer9]

Well. That... yes. Wow.

Excuse me, but I too have to go get a spare brain. I have no idea how any of you posted these commands with your old ones.

[Bohandas]

>Any Character: Obligatory tranced-out chanting about Cthulhu and/or Zalgo

>CC: Witty one-liner

[ascendantServitor]

So, baseless speculation here, but it seems the goo is an actively malevolent force, and not just a corruptive element that was being disposed of?
It was at least being used to create a body for the orb, but it seems like the goo itself can become active given the right conditions.

[Jacquerel]

I think we figured out the goo was fairly malevolent when it turned that guy into a zombie

[wolftamer9]

I think we figured out the goo was fairly malevolent when it turned that guy into a zombie

Yeah, I'd guess that the fish is a completed version of that zombie, and originally the sister. Which is, to be honest, incredibly creepy.

[The One Guy]

I wouldn't call it nessesarily "malevolent;" we don't really know how inteligent it is, and it likely doesn't know the harm it's causing (just like how I wouldn't call bugs that eat woodwork malevolent).

Yeah, I'd guess that the fish is a completed version of that zombie, and originally the sister. Which is, to be honest, incredibly creepy.

I doubt that. If that's the case, then why would it get out of the suit only to later embed the suit within itself, and why isn't the suit broken like Surge's was?

[Jacquerel]

Bugs that eat woodwork can be quite safely classed as malevolent when you're in a wood plant that supplies vital, life-giving trees to a whole city

[Bohandas]

Bugs that eat woodwork can be quite safely classed as malevolent when you're in a wood plant that supplies vital, life-giving trees to a whole city

I think that the distinction for malevolence is the presence of malice. A mammoth, for example, that unthinkingly tramples upon a worm does not do so out of malevolence (to paraphrase Lovecraft)

[Brickman]

It's not malevolent (maybe), but it is organic, and probably alive. How's that?

Also:
> If you can't destroy the sphere, can you put it in your inventory?

[gloomyMoron]

It's not malevolent (maybe), but it is organic, and probably alive. How's that?

Inorganic. The goo is probably inorganic. Probably alive though.

[littlebeasti]

Bugs that eat woodwork can be quite safely classed as malevolent when you're in a wood plant that supplies vital, life-giving trees to a whole city

The word you're looking for is "malignant".

Also, OH EM GEE AWESOME MUSIC

[gyteHaberdasher]

That flash video was definitely worth the wait! Amazing work as always.

CC: Haul the orb to the surface and see what's inside of it.

Slick: Sense a disturbance in the goo.

[Brickman]

Well they said it was biological, and I misremembered/extrapolated that as "organic". Whatever. Point is, stuff's alive.

You know, what I'd really be curious about is what happens to water that's "destroyed" some of the goo. It's been taken as fact by most of the characters that if a little goo touches a lot of water it gets rid of the goo and if a little water touches the goo it turns into more goo, but I don't think we're dealing with magical alchemy here. With the "goo replaces water" thing water's probably just the limiting factor in its self-replication, but the reverse? I'd wanna look at that water very, very carefully under a microscope before I drank it. Best case scenario is that it denatures the goo cells by osmosis and just leaves lots of dead goo matter which probably won't kill you. Worst case... It's still got live goo cells in it, but they ran out of some other material they need to replicate and thus couldn't fill all available space, or even come close enough to be visible. It probably wouldn't have high enough density/concentration to reproduce or form a monster, but when that water dries up...

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[Canetoonist]

Holy cow, that was awesome!

Also, I'm getting serious Legend of Zelda vibes from that battle...

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>Connie: Try to find a Heart Container and the Portal back.

[Zerovirus]

Well they said it was biological, and I misremembered/extrapolated that as "organic". Whatever. Point is, stuff's alive.

You know, what I'd really be curious about is what happens to water that's "destroyed" some of the goo. It's been taken as fact by most of the characters that if a little goo touches a lot of water it gets rid of the goo and if a little water touches the goo it turns into more goo, but I don't think we're dealing with magical alchemy here. With the "goo replaces water" thing water's probably just the limiting factor in its self-replication, but the reverse? I'd wanna look at that water very, very carefully under a microscope before I drank it. Best case scenario is that it denatures the goo cells by osmosis and just leaves lots of dead goo matter which probably won't kill you. Worst case... It's still got live goo cells in it, but they ran out of some other material they need to replicate and thus couldn't fill all available space, or even come close enough to be visible. It probably wouldn't have high enough density/concentration to reproduce or form a monster, but when that water dries up...

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The human body is pretty high in water, and probably has enough biological ingredients to make perpetuating the goo quite easy. I'm sure that this also applies for Slick's alien species, given that they basically look the exact same as humans. Makes a lot of sense for a human body to be an ideal base for the goo to grow off of, considering the zombie we found in Derelix. Maybe he drank a glass of goo-filled water or something, the poor bugger.

[The One Guy]

Well they said it was biological, and I misremembered/extrapolated that as "organic".

There's a difference?

Also, from that page you linked to:

When they absorb a significant amount of water, they sort-of-just explode from the inside-out, leaving nothing behind.

[Brickman]

I think there's a subtle difference--organic means it's carbon-based, biological means it's alive (or part of something that is/was alive). Most things on earth that are one are the other, of course.

[wolftamer9]

The human body is pretty high in water, and probably has enough biological ingredients to make perpetuating the goo quite easy. I'm sure that this also applies for Slick's alien species, given that they basically look the exact same as humans. Makes a lot of sense for a human body to be an ideal base for the goo to grow off of, considering the zombie we found in Derelix. Maybe he drank a glass of goo-filled water or something, the poor bugger.

That sounds about right, except Slick's species ARE humans.

[deathsbuddy]

Yeah, jeez. They're not aliens or anything, that'd be dumb.

[bystander]

I wouldn't call it nessesarily "malevolent;" we don't really know how inteligent it is, and it likely doesn't know the harm it's causing (just like how I wouldn't call bugs that eat woodwork malevolent).




I doubt that. If that's the case, then why would it get out of the suit only to later embed the suit within itself, and why isn't the suit broken like Surge's was?

Because it is metal, and Surge's Wasn't.

[LegendaryQ]

Ah, the lovely conversations of the Waterworks thread.

[Bohandas]

The human body is pretty high in water, and probably has enough biological ingredients to make perpetuating the goo quite easy. I'm sure that this also applies for Slick's alien species, given that they basically look the exact same as humans. Makes a lot of sense for a human body to be an ideal base for the goo to grow off of, considering the zombie we found in Derelix. Maybe he drank a glass of goo-filled water or something, the poor bugger.

That sounds about right, except Slick's species ARE humans.

I forget, did he ever say specifically that he was human, or just that he wasn't a space alien?

(Come to think of it, while we're on this sort of topic, did he ever specify a time of origin for himself? He could be from millions of years into the future (or, for that matter, (to take a cue from H.P.Lovecraft's The Shadow Out of Time), the past))

[That Didn't Stop]

>CC: Ponder if the remains of the giant demon-fish...Thing would fulfill the Asian chef's requirements.

Seconded. Also:

> Be totally calm about what just happened. You have work to do.

[MultiversalInk]

(Come to think of it, while we're on this sort of topic, did he ever specify a time of origin for himself? He could be from millions of years into the future (or, for that matter, (to take a cue from H.P.Lovecraft's The Shadow Out of Time), the past))

I've been thinking about this too. What if the pods are a sort of FTL travel machine? That would explain a few things, like why they had to go all the way into space, and the "warp" effect on the stars in the background in the first Flash in this thread.

If that's true, Slick's people might have caused their own disaster.

Although, there is one thing. What about he goo?