{"id":"kwggcm","deleted":false,"future_paste":false,"expired":false,"language":"text","created_at":"2025-12-05 12:53:00","expires_at":null,"content":"\/\/\/\/Nema. Needles and Threads. Might only use for a quest event, but bog encounter as a test scene.\r\nYou trudge through the undergrowth until you hear a muffled [b:crunch]. Looking around, you can't immediately identify the source, and continue moving--wary. The bog remains alive with insects and inconsequential fauna; that sound could have been anything. Your eyes brush past a piece of wood then snap back to it. Half-submerged in bog water is a series of thick bark plates that definitely aren't normal.\r\n\r\nThe mass flexes and shrinks down as it moves, the rear coming back toward the center of mass when it stops. It must be some kind of enormous, man-sized slug! Grotesque, but no reason to think [i:you're] in danger. But the soaked, dark hair of a woman rises out of the water just ahead of it! You naturally approach to see if something is going on worth intervening, and the gray-skinned woman turns to look at you with her tired eyes.\r\n\r\nShe isn't calling out for help, and you nearly think she's about to attack you as a scythe-like blade rises next to her. This weapon, however, bends and sways like cartilage, and then soon after her whole torso rises up, revealing she's an extension of that slug! You reel back, and she begins moving in to attack!\r\n\/\/\/\/Fight. Considered not specifying woman and having them ambiguous, but it's niche enough as-is\r\nYou are fighting a nema.\r\nBefore you is a slender, slimy, gray-skin woman with dark wet hair obscuring her face and smooth chest. Her arms hang limply at her sides, curving into long scythe-like blades, and where her hips would be, her body instead narrows into a ringed tube protruding from a segmented shell that slinks through the muck like a slug.\r\n\/\/\/STATS\r\nHigh armor, decent toughness, average strength, a little slow, average intelligence, unsure corruption and lust res.\r\nSecondary bodies inherit the HP% of the main body at the time of split.\r\n\/\/\/Attacks\r\n\/\/Slap. Melee, low chance to stun\r\nThe nema raises up her arms and swings the flats of her cartilaginous blades at your head!\r\n\/\/Impale. Melee, good damage, life-steal\r\nThe hump of the nema's carapace raises before she suddenly lurches forward--her scythe-arms pointed squared at your chest. [if (hit) {They land heavy, and a quick piston-like protrusion punctures you and drinks! {damage and enemy heal}}]\r\n\/\/Lick. Melee, lust damage\r\nThe nema warily comes in close, then swings her blades wide, [if (hit) {clasping behind you and holding you in an embrace. Her baggy eyes stare longingly into yours as her tongue extends lengthily over your [if (height < 66) {cheek|chest}]. You push off from her in a flurry, feeling rattled yet aroused|too hesitant to and telegraphed to land}].\r\n\/\/Unspool. Changes nema to spool and spawns a thread with the same percentage of HP as the nema had, and inherits debuffs.\r\nThe nema's spine gets longer, dragging strings of mucus as it goes, until soon dropping forward and splitting from its heavy carapace!\r\n\/\/\/Probably should call the \"shell\" a \"spool\" for theme.\r\nYou are fighting a spool.\r\nSlowly pulsating in the muck is a segmented shell the color of wood. It moves like a slug and has a fleshy orifice where its former body was.\r\n\/\/STATS\r\nRetain nema stats but reduced speed.\r\n\/\/Attacks. Takes no action if conditions aren't met.\r\n\/Threading. The spool cannot do this until enough turns after it released the previous thread. Immediately on Extreme, 1 turn or immediate if all threads dead on nightmare, 1 turn on hard, 2 turns on normal, 3 on easy\r\nThe fleshy orifice of the spool writhes as the segments flex, stretch, and bunch back up. Moments later, the cartilaginous blades of a new thread bursts forth! The slick and slender woman extends out and the nema is ready to fight!\r\n{reverts from spool back to nema}\r\n\/\/\/Threads\r\nYou are fighting a thread.\r\nSquirming through the muck is a thin, gray-skinned woman coated in slime. Her dark hair sticks to her wet body, obscuring her expression whenever she rises to face you. Her smooth chest narrows down the ribcage until rapidly shrinking at the gut into a cross between a spinal cord and a worm the rest of the way. Her arms flatten out into scythe-like blades made of cartilage.\r\n\/\/STATS\r\nNo armor, low toughness, much higher speed than the nema, same otherwise. Lower HP of course, but retains the percentage of max that the nema had when splitting.\r\n\/\/Attacks\r\n\/Slash. Melee, low damage, debuffs speed, no fatigue cost.\r\nThe thread stands on her tail like a cobra and swings her sticky blades at you!\r\n\/Feed. Melee, normal damage, life-stealing\r\nWriggling through the muck, the thread lunges up with her scythes pointed squarely on you! [if (hit) {The tips slam hard onto you and pump their feeding tubes in for a brief moment, drinking you!{damage count, healed amount displayed}}]\r\n\/Climb. Charging, lust damage, does this instead of approach. If used in melee, no cost.\r\nIn a burst of movement, the thread leaps out of the muddy water and collides with you! Her slimy, naked skin slides around as you try to push her off, and her flailing arms do their best to hold you as she nearly drags herself up for a kiss. However, the thread finally slips off, landing back into the muck.\r\n"}