Mangiasaur
DCBSupafly
nonhuman protagonist silly Xyzzy Awards 2011
You are a young dinosaur-like monster who needs to eat everything in sight so you can grow big & strong, gain special powers, and ultimately rule over a tribe of puny humans.
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Your long sleep is over. You open your eyes to a world of green leaves and a rising sun. The air around you is filled with pollen and insects. Your parents will have left months ago, leaving this land to you alone, for a growing mangiasaur needs all the food it can find.

[ Forest Canopy | Your Size: 0 ]
About you
You are a mangiasaur. You were born into your treetop home and left to hibernate until to you were old enough to fulfill your destiny: to eat and grow.
You take the trees
A mangiasaur has no pockets. It has only a stomach.
You eat
I don't understand what you are trying to eat.

You spot a nearby caterpillar behaving strangely; apparently having finished eating, it seems to be busy defecating! It squirms around on its branch, excreting little grey blobs all around itself. After watching for a short while, you realize that it's building a shell out of this dejection! Moments later, it's completely covered in its cocoon.
You eat the cocoon
(Your score has increased by 3)
It's not like it can run away. You scrape the dry little thing off its branch and chew. It tastes pretty awful. In fact, it almost seems to hurt! Besides the dry, stringiness of it, you feel a mild stinging sensation in your mouth! You can feel the hunger relenting as you digest, but the your body doesn't seem to know what to do with the food. You won't grow any larger from such a small bite, but you feel growth nonetheless...in your shoulders. You bleed briefly and squirm from the pain, beginning to wish you had just left the little wad of bug alone until you realize ... you have not grown bigger, but you have grown wings.

A small fly buzzes past you, en route to its lunch at a tiny pink flower bud nearby.
You look at the wings
You see no such thing.

A caterpillar cocoon nearby begins to stir, seemingly trying to wiggle free of the branch it previously clung to with such tenacity! After a moment, though, rather than shaking loose, it simply cracks open and a golden brown moth flutters out. The moth alights on a branch nearby, flapping its wings idly for a moment before taking off in flight.
You eat the moth
By the time you see the moth, it's no longer there. They move too fast for you to eat them.
You fly after the moth
You're not really willing to fly if it doesn't lead directly to food or a new dining location.

A small fly buzzes past you, en route to its lunch at a tiny pink flower bud nearby.
You eat fly
(Your score has increased by 1)
They fill the air around you and it's easy to pounce on one.
There is a satisfying crunch as you snap your mouth shut on its squishy little body. A little rumination and the fly slides down your gullet into your belly.
The fly's nutrients are exactly what you need to grow bigger and stronger. A good meal. You'll be satisfied for a while now. While you digest the bug, your body grows a little bit larger.

Your stomach is finishing off its contents. Soon you will need more food.

[ Forest Canopy | Your Size: 1 ]
Continue
They fill the air around you and it's easy to pounce on one.
There is a satisfying crunch as you snap your mouth shut on its squishy little body. A little rumination and the fly slides down your gullet into your belly.
The fly's nutrients are exactly what you need to grow bigger and stronger. The food fills that last bit of space in your powerful belly. While you digest the bug, your body grows a little bit larger.

[ Forest Canopy | Your Size: 2 ]
About yourself
You are a mangiasaur. You were born into your treetop home and left to hibernate until to you were old enough to fulfill your destiny: to eat and grow.

A small fly buzzes past you, en route to its lunch at a tiny pink flower bud nearby.
You examine the flower
The trees here sprout flowers from their branches. While you don't see any in bloom, the nearby branches are covered in buds.

You are hungry. It is time to eat.
You eat fly
They fill the air around you and it's easy to pounce on one.
There is a satisfying crunch as you snap your mouth shut on its squishy little body. A little rumination and the fly slides down your gullet into your belly.
The fly's nutrients are exactly what you need to grow bigger and stronger. The food fills that last bit of space in your powerful belly. While you digest the bug, your body grows a little bit larger.

[ Forest Canopy | Your Size: 3 ]
You eat fly
They fill the air around you and it's easy to pounce on one.
There is a satisfying crunch as you snap your mouth shut on its squishy little body. A little rumination and the fly slides down your gullet into your belly.
The fly's nutrients are exactly what you need to grow bigger and stronger. Though you were already full of food when you ate, your stomach makes room for the food. While you digest the bug, your body grows a little bit larger.

[ Forest Canopy | Your Size: 4 ]
You eat the buds
(Your score has increased by 1)
You stoop to bite one off the branch and catch a whiff of the sweet pollen in the air around it.

When you bite into the little bud, a burst of delicious, syrupy nectar squirts out.
The sugary nectar contained in the bud is a wonderful treat. Though you were already full of food when you ate, your stomach makes room for the food. You will never grow fat on these little treats though.
You look around
The uppermost branches of the trees are thick with bright green foliage, little buds of pink, purple, and orange, and a multitude of creatures skittering, slinking, and flapping about.

Down below you is the forest floor.
The sun has reached its peak, at the top of the sky. You can feel its pleasant warmth all around you.

A little caterpillar moth is flying around.

Some pollen from a flower bud floats by on a treetop breeze. The scent of the pink dust is enough to make your mouth water.
You eat the moth
By the time you see the moth, it's no longer there. They move too fast for you to eat them.
You eat bud
You stoop to bite one off the branch and catch a whiff of the sweet pollen in the air around it.

When you bite into the little bud, a burst of delicious, syrupy nectar squirts out.
The sugary nectar contained in the bud is a wonderful treat. Though you were already full of food when you ate, your stomach makes room for the food. You will never grow fat on these little treats though.
You look at the pollen
The pollen in the air must come from the flower buds that are sprouting from the branches. It's a pale pink and orange dust that drifts through the leaves.

Looking closely at the foliage around you, you see a small green bird hiding in the leaves.
You eat the bird
(Your score has increased by 2)
You can't catch them in the air, but you can certainly catch one standing idly on a branch.
You close your jaws on the feathery food before it even sees you.
Under all the feathery fluff, you find a pretty good meal. Though you were already full of food when you ate, your stomach makes room for the food. The nourishment fuels your growth even as you are licking your lips.

A small fly buzzes past you, en route to its lunch at a tiny pink flower bud nearby.

[ Forest Canopy | Your Size: 10 ]
You jump
Wheee-boinng.
Digest
The hunger makes you crazy. Try again.
You check what you're carrying
You are carrying nothing.

One of the many little green & brown caterpillars in these treetops is feasting on a nearby leaf.
You eat the caterpillar
(Your score has increased by 1)
The nearest caterpillar is enjoying a feast of its own as you approach. Whether it sees you or knows your purpose is unclear, but it keeps chewing on its leaf up until the moment you squish it in your capable jaws.
The squirmy little critter is as satisfying to your stomach as it is to your palate. Though you were already full of food when you ate, your stomach makes room for the food. While you digest the bug, your body grows a little bit larger.

A small fly buzzes past you, en route to its lunch at a tiny pink flower bud nearby.

[ Forest Canopy | Your Size: 11 ]
Go downward
You glide down from your canopy birthplace into the dark forest floor below.

[ Forest Floor | Your Size: 11 ]
You look at your surroundings
Under the canopy the trees are huge columns of wood sprouting from a rotten, brown blanket of fallen leaves and branches.

From the treetops, the forest floor always seemed like a barren wasteland; there is no living foliage to speak of, and very little light gets through the canopy. Now that you are down here, however, you can see that the landscape is just as alive as up in the treetops. Slugs are so common here that the foliage on the ground is constantly moving.

From here you can go back up to the treetops, east into the valley, or south into the cavern.
The air is cooling as the sun moves toward its resting place.

Distension is a natural thing for a mangiasaur's belly, but you are aware of your stomach returning to normal as you process your excess of food.

A nasty little slug slimes around on a leaf near your feet.
You eat the slug
(Your score has increased by 1)
You stoop to lap up a slimy little slug.
It tastes digusting. It does ease your hunger a little, but is it really worth it?
You eat the sun
You are not holding the sky.

You hear some kind of animal nearby dragging itself along the forest floor.
You listen
Scaly crawlers make the most noise down here, dragging their tales along the ground, sifting for slugs.

While you're by no means starving, You could certainly fit a bit more food in there.

The animal is getting closer. You hear it disturbing leaves as it moves.
You listen
Scaly crawlers make the most noise down here, dragging their tales along the ground, sifting for slugs.

A scaly crawler beast with a wrinkly face is crawling around nearby, dragging its tail in the forest's debris. It walks sometimes on two legs and sometimes on four. It picks little slugs up from the ground and grimaces while eating them.
You eat the scaly crawler beast
You're not quite big enough to challenge on of these scaly beasts. You'll have to look for food elsewhere first.
You eat the slug
You stoop to lap up a slimy little slug.
It tastes digusting. It does ease your hunger a little, but is it really worth it?

A nasty little slug slimes around on a leaf near your feet.
Go south
You move south.
Cavern
The cavern is damp and dark. It's mossy walls dampen the sounds of all the cavern's creatures, digging, flapping, & chirping.

The only way out is north to the forest floor.

The buzzing of bugs gets louder as a swarm of them moves closer to you.

[ Cavern | Your Size: 11 ]
You examine the bugs
Bugs fly all over the cave. It's hard to move without running into one.

The buzzing of bugs gets louder as a swarm of them moves closer to you.
You eat the bugs
(Your score has increased by 1)
It's not like to you need to know where these bugs are to eat them.
The air is so saturated that you need only open your mouth to catch one.
You crunch the tiny morsel to nothing and digest it in seconds. Though you were already full of food when you ate, your stomach makes room for the food. Unfortunately, it's too little food to help you grow at all.

You hear a flapping of wings as a bat approaches.
You eat the bat
(Your score has increased by 4)
You snap your mouth shut, crushing the bat instantly. It's a little more than a mouthful.
You enjoy the delicious bat, spitting out the wings as you chew and swallow. By the time you are done eating, you feel a strange sensation in your throat. You are not choking though. Rather, you are growing. A lump in your throat. Not a tumor, but a voice box! You have grown your own voice box and can now chirp like a bat!
Though you were already full of food when you ate, your stomach makes room for the food. You have grown considerably by the time you're done eating.

[ Cavern | Your Size: 17 ]
Chirp
You send out a little bat chirp, and look for the echos.
The echoing chirp reveals a bat nearby.
The echoing chirp shows you a scurrying rodent digging its way into the wall of the cavern nearby.
You eat the rodent
(Your score has increased by 3)
You spot a rodent nearby and leap for it.
The creature is dumb and easy to catch once you've found it.
The creature is dumb and easy to catch once you've found it. Moments after eating it, you can already feel the growth in your toes. They are lengthened, and curved for digging! You may not be able to dig through the stone walls of the cave like these creatures, but you should try digging outside in the dirt.

The buzzing of bugs gets louder as a swarm of them moves closer to you.

[ Cavern | Your Size: 24 ]
You look at your surroundings
The cavern is damp and dark. It's mossy walls dampen the sounds of all the cavern's creatures, digging, flapping, & chirping.

The only way out is north to the forest floor.

Also here is a bat.

You hear a flapping of wings as a bat approaches.

The bat is gone as quickly as it arrived.
Go north
You move north.
Forest Floor

A nasty little slug slimes around on a leaf near your feet.

Amidst the usual nighttime forest sounds, there is an usual rumbling animal call. "NAMGUAGL" it sounds like. Whatever this NAMGUAGL creature is, it does not sound friendly.

[ Forest Floor | Your Size: 24 ]
Dig
The hunger makes you crazy. Try again.
You fly
You flap your wings and head back up to the canopy.

[ Forest Canopy | Your Size: 24 ]

The need to burp has always seemed at odds with the Mangiasaur's basic needs. You're loath to get rid of anything once it's through your esophagus.

Distension is a natural thing for a mangiasaur's belly, but you are aware of your stomach returning to normal as you process your excess of food.
Down
You move down.
Forest Floor

[ Forest Floor | Your Size: 24 ]
Go south
You move south.
Cavern

[ Cavern | Your Size: 24 ]
You look around
The cavern is damp and dark. It's mossy walls dampen the sounds of all the cavern's creatures, digging, flapping, & chirping.

The only way out is north to the forest floor.

Also here is a bat.

While you're by no means starving, You could certainly fit a bit more food in there.

The buzzing of bugs gets louder as a swarm of them moves closer to you.
You eat the bat
You snap your mouth shut, crushing the bat instantly. It's a little more than a mouthful.
Though you were already full of food when you ate, your stomach makes room for the food. You have grown considerably by the time you're done eating.

[ Cavern | Your Size: 30 ]
You go north
You move north.
Forest Floor

[ Forest Floor | Your Size: 30 ]
You dig in the dirt
The hunger makes you crazy. Try again.
Go east
You move east.
Valley Pass
The trees of the forest to the west give way abruptly to a low rolling grassland nestled between huge looming mountains. Smelly herd beasts upset the tranquility of the area with their grass-nibbling and farting. The only other disruptions in the billowing grasses are a small adobe hut, and a grove of strange trees nearby.

The valley is level with the forest floor to the west, but the eastern wall of the valley is formed by a large plateau rising at least as high as the mountains around it, casting a dark shadow on much of the grassland through much of the day.
The moon has reached its peak on this short summer night. The air is cool and the stars shine in the night sky.

[ Valley Pass | Your Size: 30 ]
You look at the trees
The grove is full of these trees. They are tall, slender trees, with hard, thick bark.

You feel a little tickling on your legs, when you push the grass aside, you see a small hard-shelled beetle crawling off your leg onto the grass.
You eat the beetle
(Your score has increased by 1)
You slurp one up and chew. It really doesn't have much flavor but after a little chewing, you feel a fine powder on your tongue and gums. Spitting some out, you realize it's from your teeth! The beetle's shell is so hard that it has actually managed to sharpen your teeth! You can forget about swallowing one of those beetles, but if you were hoping to be able to eat tree bark then today's your lucky day!

Distension is a natural thing for a mangiasaur's belly, but you are aware of your stomach returning to normal as you process your excess of food.
You eat the tree bark
(Your score has increased by 1)
With your newly sharpened teeth, it's a breeze. You gnaw the bark raw on the nearest tree. Though you were already full of food when you ate, your stomach makes room for the food. You look back to the tree where you bit into it and notice that a funny yellow sap is leaking from the porous wood.
You eat the sap
(Your score has increased by 1)
You lick up a bit of the sap. You decide immediately that it's nowhere near as good a snack as the tree bark that held it in. It's interesting though. It has an oiliness about it. It's not very sticky though.
You examine the sap
It's opaque and viscous. It's running very slowly down the tree from the gash in the bark.

While you're by no means starving, You could certainly fit a bit more food in there.

A smelly herd animal nearby lets out an intense fart. You have little sense of smell, and you cannot eat a fart, so you ignore it.
You look at the animal
These smelly herd animals dot the grasslands, munching on the tall grass and farting.
You eat the grass
(Your score has increased by 1)
You munch it for a while. It's no good, really. Tough and devoid of nutrition. Tastes mildly bitter, but that's not a big deal. As you move down the stalk, however, you notice some things beneath the grass.

At the base of the grass stalks are some kind of air-filled sacs.

Crawling all over those sacs are little hard shelled beetles.
You examine sacs
These little brown air sacs are at the bottom of the grasses that grow everywhere in this valley. The majority of these sacs are swarming with little hard-shelled beetles.

You feel a little tickling on your legs, when you push the grass aside, you see a small hard-shelled beetle crawling off your leg onto the grass.
You take the sacs
A mangiasaur has no pockets. It has only a stomach.
You eat the smelly herd beast
(Your score has increased by 1)
They are too slow to escape you. If they have ever dealt with predators before, probably their smell is the only thing that could save them.
It's nasty, but you power through it, eating every last bit of flesh. Though you were already full of food when you ate, your stomach makes room for the food. In addition to filling you up, the meat from the smelly animal is great fuel for your growth, and you grow drastically in size!

You feel a little tickling on your legs, when you push the grass aside, you see a small hard-shelled beetle crawling off your leg onto the grass.

[ Valley Pass | Your Size: 50 ]
Describe the surroundings
The trees of the forest to the west give way abruptly to a low rolling grassland nestled between huge looming mountains. Smelly herd beasts upset the tranquility of the area with their grass-nibbling and farting. The only other disruptions in the billowing grasses are a small adobe hut, and a grove of strange trees nearby.

The valley is level with the forest floor to the west, but the eastern wall of the valley is formed by a large plateau rising at least as high as the mountains around it, casting a dark shadow on much of the grassland through much of the day.
The sun has reached its peak, at the top of the sky. You can feel its pleasant warmth all around you.
Down
You can't go in that direction, but you can move west and in.

A smelly herd animal nearby lets out an intense fart. You have little sense of smell, and you cannot eat a fart, so you ignore it.
About yourself
You are a mangiasaur. You were born into your treetop home and left to hibernate until to you were old enough to fulfill your destiny: to eat and grow.

You feel a little tickling on your legs, when you push the grass aside, you see a small hard-shelled beetle crawling off your leg onto the grass.
You look at the hut
You see no such thing.

Distension is a natural thing for a mangiasaur's belly, but you are aware of your stomach returning to normal as you process your excess of food.
You enter
You move in.
Small Adobe Hut
This little dwelling is made of mud.

The room is lit by a torch on the wall. There is a woven rug in the center of the floor.

A hut dweller is standing in here, wondering what you are.

[ Small Adobe Hut | Your Size: 50 ]
You eat the torch
(Your score has increased by 3)
You snatch the torch off the wall and chomp it to bits. You are just about finished eating it when you realize it's still lit! Even as it makes it's way into your gut you feel its dull warmth. You are no less hungry than you were, but now feel an incredible urge to burp.
You wonder what the dweller is
I don't understand what you want to do with hut dweller.

While you're by no means starving, You could certainly fit a bit more food in there.
Burp
The rug is singed. Your stomach contracts and you feel like you could eat something.
You examine dweller
This hut dweller stands completely still, staring at you with wide eyes.

The hut dweller extends an offering to you. It appears to be some kind of food.
You eat the food
(Your score has increased by 1)
You munch on the food for a bit, determining that it is meat of a smelly herd beast, but it tastes a little different. It's pretty good, though, and filling too!
Smell hut dweller
That smells normal.

The hut dweller extends an offering to you. It appears to be some kind of food.
You eat the food
You munch on the food for a bit, determining that it is meat of a smelly herd beast, but it tastes a little different. It's pretty good, though, and filling too!
You eat the rug
(Your score has increased by 1)
You gobble up the rug. It's only as good as its constituent parts, which aren't very good. At least it got something in your stomach. Then you notice the hole in the dirt floor under the rug.
You examine the hole
This small hole appears to go very deep. You can't fit through it without digging it out more.

Distension is a natural thing for a mangiasaur's belly, but you are aware of your stomach returning to normal as you process your excess of food.
Dig
You get to work widening the hole with your new rodent digging feet, sometimes simply eating the dirt rather than shoveling it out. After a long while, you are blasted by a burst of warm air and find yourself staring down at the entrance to a huge cave. You can hear water down there...
You eat dweller
The human has no time to react. You eat the top half first. Then you spit out the hair. Then you eat the bottom half. Delicious. And you grow much larger, incorporating the hut dwellers mass into your own.

[ Small Adobe Hut | Your Size: 75 ]
Go downward
You slide down through the hole and splash into the underground ocean. Underground Ocean
It may be hard to see underwater, but the tentacle nets drifting around in the water emit a soft blue light that makes it possible for you to navigate and identify stuff to eat. Tentacle net creatures are drifting about, illuminating the waters with their brilliant limbs.
At the bottom of the ocean, you can see a solid mass of wispy plant stalks swaying with the water. Tiny sentient shrimp fill the waters, chattering with each other, etching poetry into each others' hats, or swinging around merrily in dance.

The only way out is back up into the hut.

While you're by no means starving, You could certainly fit a bit more food in there.

[ Underground Ocean | Your Size: 75 ]
You eat the shrimp
(Your score has increased by 3)
You swim toward a small group of tiny sentient shrimp, and open your mouth wide to scoop them up. They all stop their dancing and poetry recitals and stare. At least you think they're staring. They're too tiny for you to be sure. It occurs to you that going for a lone shrimp might be a better idea next time, but you swallow the whole group this time, you know, 'cuz it's too late to let them get away 'cuz they might warn the other shrimp. It's delicious.
About you
You are a mangiasaur. You were born into your treetop home and left to hibernate until to you were old enough to fulfill your destiny: to eat and grow.
You eat the tentacle net creature
(Your score has increased by 2)
They're quite an easy catch just drifting around like that.
You slice through the glowing rubbery tentacle meat with your new sharp teeth, reducing it quickly to little floating bite-sized pieces. It's a wonderful feast: delicious and satisfying!
You will need to breathe soon.

[ Underground Ocean | Your Size: 79 ]
Up
You swim up to the hole and climb out in the small hut.
Small Adobe Hut
This little dwelling is made of mud.

Also here is a down.

[ Small Adobe Hut | Your Size: 79 ]
You examine down
It's too dark to see much, but there is a faint blue glow at the bottom of the hole.
Go downward
You slide down through the hole and splash into the underground ocean. Underground Ocean
The light is a little dimmer now, but you can still see a pretty good distance. The tentacle nets are responsible for all the light under here. The missing one has left a dark spot behind. At the bottom of the ocean, you can see a solid mass of wispy plant stalks swaying with the water. The tiny sentient shrimp are difficult to spot in low light, but you can see them all around.

The only way out is back up into the hut.

[ Underground Ocean | Your Size: 79 ]
You look at your surroundings
The light is a little dimmer now, but you can still see a pretty good distance. The tentacle nets are responsible for all the light under here. The missing one has left a dark spot behind. At the bottom of the ocean, you can see a solid mass of wispy plant stalks swaying with the water. The tiny sentient shrimp are difficult to spot in low light, but you can see them all around.

The only way out is back up into the hut.
You eat the nets
You are not holding tentacle nets.

Distension is a natural thing for a mangiasaur's belly, but you are aware of your stomach returning to normal as you process your excess of food.
You eat the plant
(Your score has increased by 2)
They're leafy and bland, but it fills your stomach alright. Though you were already full of food when you ate, your stomach makes room for the food.
You eat the tentacle net
They're quite an easy catch just drifting around like that.
You slice through the glowing rubbery tentacle meat with your new sharp teeth, reducing it quickly to little floating bite-sized pieces. It's a wonderful feast: delicious and satisfying!

[ Underground Ocean | Your Size: 83 ]
Go downwards
You can't go in that direction, but you can move up.

While you're by no means starving, You could certainly fit a bit more food in there.
You eat the shrimp
This time you go for a loner. You find one little tiny self-aware crustacean drifing around by itself, etching poems onto a slew of tiny shrimp hats. Chomp! You squish him with your teeth mid-iamb. Maybe it was actually a better idea to eat larger groups of tiny sentient shrimp at once; the flavor of just one is kinda understated.
You eat the shrimp
You've learned from your mistakes. This time you go for a huge line-dancing cluster of shrimp! It's about to be a scrumptuous mouthful of conscious krill but wait! Just as you are closing your mouth, the shrimp zip away leaving little tiny bubbles in their wake! Next thing you know, they're pelting you from all sides with their spiky little poetry-imbued hats! It's terribly irritating! Almost as bad as having to snatch them each up one-by-one. Still pretty tasty in the end. A quick look around reveals a definite dearth of shrimp. Any survivors have clearly fled.
You read the hats
You can't read. You're not a lexisaur. That's stupid.
Look around
The missing tentacle nets are making it hard to see in some areas. The ocean is changing from a dim blue to a dark black. The remaining tentacle nets shed light on their surroundings. At the bottom of the ocean, you can see a solid mass of wispy plant stalks swaying with the water.

The only way out is back up into the hut.
You eat the tentacle net
They're quite an easy catch just drifting around like that.
You slice through the glowing rubbery tentacle meat with your new sharp teeth, reducing it quickly to little floating bite-sized pieces. It's a wonderful feast: delicious and satisfying!

A small shark is swimming around in the deeper water near the swaying stalks.

[ Underground Ocean | Your Size: 87 ]
You eat the shark
(Your score has increased by 5)
Aren't sharks supposed to be scary? You just swim right up to this one and tear it to pieces. It's a regular shark smorgasbord, with little tasty bits of shark meat drifting around in the water. Your stomach is full of fish before you're even half way done, and you can feel your whole body expanded with the meat. You chomp down another bit and suddenly find yourself staring at another shark. This is one is at least fives times the size of the last. You turn to flee immediately, huge shark jaws agape behind you! You swim well, and escape the underground ocean, never to return again.

[ Small Adobe Hut | Your Size: 87 ]
Look around
This little dwelling is made of mud.

Also here is a down.
Go outside
You move out.
Valley Pass

[ Valley Pass | Your Size: 87 ]
You look around
The trees of the forest to the west give way abruptly to a low rolling grassland nestled between huge looming mountains. Smelly herd beasts upset the tranquility of the area with their grass-nibbling and farting. The only other disruptions in the billowing grasses are a small adobe hut, and a grove of strange trees nearby.

The valley is level with the forest floor to the west, but the eastern wall of the valley is formed by a large plateau rising at least as high as the mountains around it, casting a dark shadow on much of the grassland through much of the day.
The morning sun feels good on your face.
Go west
You move west.
Forest Floor

A nasty little slug slimes around on a leaf near your feet.

[ Forest Floor | Your Size: 87 ]
You look at your surroundings
Under the canopy the trees are huge columns of wood sprouting from a rotten, brown blanket of fallen leaves and branches.

From the treetops, the forest floor always seemed like a barren wasteland; there is no living foliage to speak of, and very little light gets through the canopy. Now that you are down here, however, you can see that the landscape is just as alive as up in the treetops. Slugs are so common here that the foliage on the ground is constantly moving.

From here you can go back up to the treetops, east into the valley, or south into the cavern.
The morning sun feels good on your face.
You eat the slugs
You stoop to lap up a slimy little slug.
It tastes digusting. It does ease your hunger a little, but is it really worth it?
You listen
Scaly crawlers make the most noise down here, dragging their tales along the ground, sifting for slugs.

Distension is a natural thing for a mangiasaur's belly, but you are aware of your stomach returning to normal as you process your excess of food.
Wait
Time passes...
You eat crawler
(Your score has increased by 2)
You can pretty much walk right up to it. It turns its head sideways and stares at you, and you jump on it! It's an easy thing to kill, despite its armored shell. Getting at the meat is a different story. Once you finally get at some of the food bits it's probably the most delicious thing you've ever eaten! Just juicy and chewy enough for your tastes! Though you were already full of food when you ate, your stomach makes room for the food. Not only that but you've grown considerably by the time you're done with the feast!

Your stomach is still full and fat. It's a good feeling.

[ Forest Floor | Your Size: 103 ]
You eat trees
You are not holding the tree.

A nasty little slug slimes around on a leaf near your feet.
You go to the east
You move east.
Valley Pass

[ Valley Pass | Your Size: 103 ]
You examine the air sacs
These little brown air sacs are at the bottom of the grasses that grow everywhere in this valley. The majority of these sacs are swarming with little hard-shelled beetles.

You feel a little tickling on your legs, when you push the grass aside, you see a small hard-shelled beetle crawling off your leg onto the grass.
You eat beetles
I don't understand what you are trying to eat.

A smelly herd animal nearby lets out an intense fart. You have little sense of smell, and you cannot eat a fart, so you ignore it.
You eat the herd animal
They are too slow to escape you. If they have ever dealt with predators before, probably their smell is the only thing that could save them.
It's nasty, but you power through it, eating every last bit of flesh. Though you were already full of food when you ate, your stomach makes room for the food. In addition to filling you up, the meat from the smelly animal is great fuel for your growth, and you grow drastically in size!

[ Valley Pass | Your Size: 123 ]
About you
You are a mangiasaur. You were born into your treetop home and left to hibernate until to you were old enough to fulfill your destiny: to eat and grow.
You look at your surroundings
The trees of the forest to the west give way abruptly to a low rolling grassland nestled between huge looming mountains. Smelly herd beasts upset the tranquility of the area with their grass-nibbling and farting. The only other disruptions in the billowing grasses are a small adobe hut, and a grove of strange trees nearby.

The valley is level with the forest floor to the west, but the eastern wall of the valley is formed by a large plateau rising at least as high as the mountains around it, casting a dark shadow on much of the grassland through much of the day.
The air is cooling as the sun moves toward its resting place.
You look at the plateau
The mesa is too tall for your little bird wings to carry you up there.

You feel a little tickling on your legs, when you push the grass aside, you see a small hard-shelled beetle crawling off your leg onto the grass.
You look at the sap
It's opaque and viscous. It's running very slowly down the tree from the gash in the bark.

Distension is a natural thing for a mangiasaur's belly, but you are aware of your stomach returning to normal as you process your excess of food.
You eat the bark
With your newly sharpened teeth, it's a breeze. You gnaw the bark raw on the nearest tree. Though you were already full of food when you ate, your stomach makes room for the food. Sure enough, more sap leaks from the wound.
You examine the sap
It's opaque and viscous. It's running very slowly down the tree from the gash in the bark.
Burp
Your lurch forward and regret it when you feel the hot blast bouncing off the earth and hitting your face, carrying with it the stench of burnt grass and charred beetles.

You are hungry. It is time to eat.
You wear sap
You are not holding funny yellow sap.

You feel a little tickling on your legs, when you push the grass aside, you see a small hard-shelled beetle crawling off your leg onto the grass.
You examine the tree
The grove is full of these trees. They are tall, slender trees, with hard, thick bark.

A smelly herd animal nearby lets out an intense fart. You have little sense of smell, and you cannot eat a fart, so you ignore it.
Burp on sap
The expulsion of hot gas singes your throat, but when it hits the exposed tree sap, igniting it in flames, the real show begins. The tree starts to shake and rumble. When you see the tree uprooting itself, you jump on, not wanting to miss the ride.

The rocket tree, fully aflame from the inside, blasts off from the ground and hurtles through the air toward the eastern wall of the valley!

The wind blasts you as you ride the flaming tree through the sky. Within seconds of taking off, your rocket tree is sputtering to a halt up above the mesa's top.

The landing is rough, but you survive. The rocket tree burns up after it's done spinning around in the red mesa dust.

[ Mesa Top | Your Size: 123 ]
Look around
The land up here is dry and dusty. Little bristly bushes have sprung up through the cracks in the hard clay earth. There are footprints of people everywhere, and some kind of slithering tracks near the bushes. A family of buzz birds is making a ruckus nearby.
The sun may be sleeping, but your hunt for food will continue into the night.

The hunter is here on the mesa top, spear in hand, staring at you.
You eat hunter
You leap for the hunter, mouth open, claws spread.
The hunter lunges with its spear, but you slap it away with your foot before sinking your teeth into its chest. The spear clatters to the ground and you and the hunter follow it, sending up a huge cloud of dust as you land.
It takes a few minutes to polish it off, but when you're done your stomach is full. Completely. Not to say that you can't just make it bigger when you eat more, but in its current form, it's full. You have grown immensely, adding almost the whole mass of the human to yours.

Distension is a natural thing for a mangiasaur's belly, but you are aware of your stomach returning to normal as you process your excess of food.

[ Mesa Top | Your Size: 163 ]
You eat the buzz birds
(Your score has increased by 1)
You approach the buzz birds cautiously, more than a little worried about what might happen if they all decided to fight you at once. When you are close enough, you leap at the nearest one, catching its gangly feet in your mouth as the rest of the family flies off, buzzing loudly. After a minute of wrestling with this buzz bird, you can eat your meal in silence.

[ Mesa Top | Your Size: 173 ]
You look at the spear
The hunter's spear is its only possession. It's a wooden stick with a rock strapped to one end. The spearhead is carved to a wicked point. The other end of the spear is carved with an intricate pattern.

While you're by no means starving, You could certainly fit a bit more food in there.
You eat the spear
The hunter's spear is inanimate, and easy to reach, but still manages to be one of the most difficult to eat things you've ever encountered. The spear sits uncomfortably lodged between your throat and stomach. You will probably not be able to digest this.
You drop the spear
Drop what?

A slither hopper is stirring up dust nearby, until the cloud envelopes it and it springs off the ground to start slithering again.
Vomit
You gag and the spear comes flying out, bottom end first. You won't be able to use it as a weapon, but at least your gut is clear. You could really go for some food to fill that void.
Vomit
You gag and the spear comes flying out, bottom end first. You won't be able to use it as a weapon, but at least your gut is clear. You could really go for some food to fill that void.

Your belly rumbles. You are seriously hungry.
You eat the hopper
(Your score has increased by 1)
Their hides are tough, making them hard to disable, hard to chew, and hard to swallow. What little bits of meat you get from them, though, are quite tasty!
A good meal. You'll be satisfied for a while now.

[ Mesa Top | Your Size: 176 ]
You examine the tracks
The tracks of various creatures can be seen in the dust here. The human footprints mostly lead to a small hole next to a large rock and the slither hoppers leave lines with large gaps leading to and from bristle bushes.
You examine the bushes
The birstle bushes are almost completely colorless. They're spiky and gnarled. Some have slither hoppers resting in the shade under them.

The rumbling in your stomach crescendos. You are overdue for a meal.
You eat the hopper
Their hides are tough, making them hard to disable, hard to chew, and hard to swallow. What little bits of meat you get from them, though, are quite tasty!
A good meal. You'll be satisfied for a while now.

[ Mesa Top | Your Size: 179 ]
You look at the hole
A small hole in the ground next to a large, flat rock. It's very round but with little nubs carved all around the inside.
You look at the nubs
You see no such thing.

A slither hopper is stirring up dust nearby, until the cloud envelopes it and it springs off the ground to start slithering again.
You eat the hopper
Their hides are tough, making them hard to disable, hard to chew, and hard to swallow. What little bits of meat you get from them, though, are quite tasty!
The food fills that last bit of space in your powerful belly.

[ Mesa Top | Your Size: 182 ]
You examine the rock
The flat rock is laying on the ground. It's the only one of its kind around, and looks as though it was carved from the mesa itself.
You burp on rock
I don't understand what you want me to do with flat rock.

You give a nice burp as your belly digests its contents. Always making room for more!
You eat the spear
The hunter's spear is inanimate, and easy to reach, but still manages to be one of the most difficult to eat things you've ever encountered. The spear sits uncomfortably lodged between your throat and stomach. You will probably not be able to digest this.

You are hungry. It is time to eat.
You eat the spear
You won't be able to get anything down with this spear in the way.

A slither hopper is stirring up dust nearby, until the cloud envelopes it and it springs off the ground to start slithering again.
Vomit in hole
You gag and force the spear back up, aiming the bottom at the small hole. Your aim is true, and the spear is wedged into the hole, standing straight up. Then the flat rock begins to move.
You look at your surroundings
The land up here is dry and dusty. Little bristly bushes have sprung up through the cracks in the hard clay earth. There are footprints of people everywhere, and some kind of slithering tracks near the bushes. The sun has begun its descent, but the heat of the land has been building all day, and it's warm and bright.

The hunter's spear is lodged firmly in the small hole by the rock.

Also here are mutilated carcass.
You eat the carcass
The stench of it is too much. Maybe if you held your breath...
You look at the carcass
It's putrid. Really. You can't even tell what it used to be.
You look at the rock
The flat rock has moved to the side, revealing an exit down into a cave.

A slither hopper is stirring up dust nearby, until the cloud envelopes it and it springs off the ground to start slithering again.
You eat the hopper
Their hides are tough, making them hard to disable, hard to chew, and hard to swallow. What little bits of meat you get from them, though, are quite tasty!
A good meal. You'll be satisfied for a while now.

Your stomach is finishing off its contents. Soon you will need more food.

[ Mesa Top | Your Size: 185 ]
You examine the tracks
The tracks of various creatures can be seen in the dust here. The human footprints mostly lead to a small hole next to a large rock and the slither hoppers leave lines with large gaps leading to and from bristle bushes.
Go downwards
You crawl down the hole and find yourself in the Hall of Humans.
Hall of Humans
The Hall of Humans is unlike anything you've ever seen. The room must occupy almost the entire volume of the mesa. Little adobe dwellings hang from platforms in the ceiling and humans are everywhere! There are more woven rugs in here than you would've though possible.

A human with a fancy hat stands in front of you as though it expects you to do something.

The human with the fancy hat approaches you, and places a beautiful platter of delicacies in front of you. It stands and studies your face.

[ Hall of Humans | Your Size: 185 ]
You examine the platter
The platter has nothing familiar on it! It promises a whole new world of edibles. It makes your mouth water.

The rumbling in your stomach crescendos. You are overdue for a meal.
You eat the platter
You snap up the platter into your mouth. You chew for a moment, enjoying the sensation of all the wonderful new textures and flavors. The juices. The .... you taste something familiar. You taste. . . caterpillars, like the ones you first swallowed back in the forest canopy, only with a hint of sourness and some kind of sweet powder... dirt-digging rodent liver! The best part...
scale crawlers' underskins, strung out and soaked in some kind of brine. The isolation of the skins brings out a flavor you recognize only in memory...
smelly herd beast meat, but without the stench! How did they do it... hard-shelled beetle bodies, shells heated to a thin crispy coating! These humans are capable of such wonders!...
tiny sentient shrimp! And garnished with little tiny poetry hats!
They must have their own access to an underwater ocean...
and many more incredible delicacies. As you swish it all around in your mouth you are overcome with a wonderful warmth. You are full.
You are full and ready to nap. So you do.

And every day from now on you awake to more beautiful platter of delicacies, followed by naps, with occassional journeys into the wilderness to help your new humans find new things to prepare and eat.

You have grown, mangiasaur.

You have eaten and you have grown.
You eat human
The human sees your thought in the slight motion of your feet preparing to pounce, in the hot breath from your nostrils, and in your ever-hungry belly, but he is too slow! You have swallowed him whole and sent his hat flying across the room before anyone has time to react.

Not only is he delicious, but the humans around you aren't looking for a fight. One approaches, lifting the hat from the ground, and placing it square on your head.

The next few meals are brought to you by your new humans. Sometimes beautiful platters of delicacies and sometimes raw foods from the wild. Sometimes you eat the humans that bring the food.

You live out your life as mangiasaur, ruler of the Hall of Humans, and eat whatever you want, whenever you want it.
Press any key for credits and scoring

Thanks for playing Mangiasaur! Look forward to a rerelease soon with original soundtrack, fewer typos, and more stuff to eat!

Special thanks to Foam for his rocket trees and to Po Prune for his competition!