<div class="floatleft">(http://2static.fjcdn.com/pictures/Slime_d8442d_5861165.jpg)</div>Name: Nijumiki Chie (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=269765.msg13302179#msg13302179)<br/>Time:  Day 1, mid-to-late morning<br/>Location:  Chie and Rayne's Room >> Uriah's Necklace<br/>Tagging:  Uriah, Closed<br/>Notes/Warning:  Human-like skin (110mr), Inside Uriah's Necklace<br/>Music:  Shores of Another World (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU5tQIDMAEw)<br/><hr/><br/>Chie was mystified.<br/><br/>Uriah many beautiful things, and so much history behind all of them.  She remembered their original mission was to find valuable stuff and sell it to get swimsuits and so forth.  But, everything here seemed like it was right where it supposed to be, in a sense.  Everything had a story, someone who cared for it.  Someone who protected it, and protected others from it.  The tambourine that was once used by vampires to hypnotize prey.  A fetish which apparently could hurl the soul out of a body?  It was a sacred treasure trove.<br/><br/>"There's a joke somewhere here about you being a literal ghost writer." she remarked, as Uriah went through the history and research projects of each item.  It was funny that they'd come here looking for expensive things to gather and sell to purchase swimsuits.  So far, Chie couldn't see anything as something to part with for something so paltry.  Even so, Chie could feel her own scientific bent warping her perspective.  Wherever there was a problem, there was opportunity, as her mentors liked to say.  The fact that this extinct plant that could cause metamorphosis actually existed here..<br/><br/>"I.. would love a chance to work on that plant."  Chie exclaimed, as soon as Uriah had gotten done discussing such things.  "I've read about them, and knew they were rare to the point of extinction, but I never expected to find one here!  Do you know how much my species could benefit from something like this!?"  She turned, her neck snapping at an abnormal angle.  Even with the polymer, Chie had to have some awareness of her body, or she'd look unnatural.  Just for the moment, she was getting excited.  "How far did that other researcher get in removing the addictive effects!  Oh, you said it was just the change, though.  I wonder if Slimes would be affected by that?"  She looked at the flower longingly, her curiosity spiking.  "Do you think.. I could have a few seeds?  Might even fix our swimsuit problem!"<br/><br/>Whatever Uriah's answer to that might be, Chie continued listening her to explanations on the other items.  The fetish was of particular interest, even though Uriah claimed it was fatal.  It was the blush she gave when describing it that really made Chie wonder.  As she described it, it seemed like she was more interested in companionship as a ghost than anything, and had fundamentally made a more ethically prone tool to kill people.  Still, it spoke even further volumes to the woman's loneliness, that she'd need to create something like this.  Chie's mind twisted a little, trying to decide how an object that could remove souls might be useful, but she could only ponder the opposite theory.  Putting souls into a body.<br/><br/>Uriah also had an immense collection of books on how to kill monsters.  Literally any and all of them, she said, although with some trepidation.  Chie winced a little, not really enjoying the prospect of someone documenting how to kill a Slime.  But she also wondered about Uriah, who obviously was living in a pocket dimension with literal instructions on how to destroy herself.  Was it Gil who'd given her this, as some twisted form of compassion.  Or was it some other moron who didn't realize the cruelty they'd manufactured, by letting someone live in a prison cell with the only most macabre of keys.  It saddened Chie to think of this reality, only further accenting what she was already thinking.<br/><br/>The ghost also showed her a doll from someone in the library.  An abandoned thing, lovingly kept and treasured.  It was sweet, really.  Uriah had a heart, and there was even poetry to the way she gathered up things that felt like her.  It made up Chie's mind a little, on what needed to transpire next.  Uriah was fascinating, but the stutters in her speech, the baleful sorrow of her existence, and that fact that she never much cared for Professor Gil, had formed the thought in her mind that she needed to get the ghost out of here.<br/><br/>Uriah was still moving about, showing her a rose dipping in black paint.  Chie stared at it a little, forming her lips into an uneasy scowl and looking back up at Uriah with a quizzical expression.  "I've heard of something like this, called Plunentis Umbrare, or Living Shade.  Vampires used to use it as makeup so they could walk around in the sunlight, before they realized it was basically parasitic to non-plant life.  It's good for the body, but sucks for cognition and motor function.  It's, ah, a derogatory term in my species."  She looked down at the paint again.  "Am I right, or is it something else?"<br/><br/>"Uriah.. How do I put this?  I want to get you a body.  This place is fascinating to me, honestly, but it seems like it's so dreary."  Chie grinned.  "My roomie laughed at me for bringing science stuff with me on vacation, but I've seen four other people, at least, with a scientific bent.  And I'd love to help you!  But only if it's something you want!"<br/><br/>Chie wiggled her arm a little and sighed.  "Funny that I just put on the polymer, I can't do it right now.  See.. a Lalphlen Slime like me, you probably already know, reproduces by building mass and splitting apart.  Two sentient slimes with the same memories and cognition, only they grow separately from there.  I lost a lot of mass when I came through the portal, sadly, but I could probably manage it, so long as I stuffed myself full of yummy things for a while.  So, my reason for saying that is, ah, you said the Fetish can eject a soul.  If you can possess a body without one, then you could give it to my double when I split off, and have a body for your own."  She made a self dismissive motion.  "Of course, you'd be a Slime, so there's that.  But it's one thought.  Another though.. there's some weird summoners and robot makers out there.."<br/><br/>Chie shook her head.  "Uriah, why don't you and me go peruse the Island together.  I'll pay for your swimsuit, and you can see what's around.  If you see something that catches your eye as a possibility, maybe we can science it up and get you out of here!  And if you ever need to come back in, you always have the Fetish that would allow you to while your body was sleeping or something, right?  I actually don't know how that works, you'll have to tell me.  But yeah!  How does that sound?"