Would be a lot like real life with stuff like flower cultivation or dog breeding, slimes are basically a weird middle ground between animal and vegetable anyways.
Which is to say, it'd mostly be the hobby of the Uber wealthy, obsessing over the genetics/lineage of their little goo guy as they breed them for a variety of purposes, whether they just be ornamental or for something marginally more practical like sport hunting.
There would probably be an EXPLOSION of slime diversity, however, with them being far more bodily adaptable than any real organism. You could just as easily make a colossal, several story tall slime with the texture and durability of steel for warfare as you could a pearlescent slime big enough to fit in your palm for a noblewoman's personal pet.
I suppose the biggest question would be if slimes are smart or social enough to be properly domesticated to any extent, or if they'd just be weird little anomalies kept in menageries alongside other dangerous animals.
Most dog breeders i know (real ones not puppy mills) are lower middleclass, though there are some rich twats mixed in. Theres no more money in dog shows which is why i stopped showing/training as a source of income.
Oh no yeah, nowadays it's a lower middle class thing, I more meant from a historical perspective. Looking back pre-industrial revolution (and even for a little while after it), dog breeding and flower cultivation was almost exclusively the domain of the rich and those who served the rich directly.
That's because dogs have no real purpose today just like horses.
But they used to be service animals important for hunting and guarding and sometimes even transport.
That's because dogs have no real purpose today just like horses.
But they used to be service animals important for hunting and guarding and sometimes even transport.
Horses are only useful for ranches, pickup trucks are superior for moving around farmland and transporting stuff.
In terms of modern security dogs are a liability in
Well, I'm thinking that slimes have magical characteristics, but also represent a food source. It could be the rich breeding slimes, but they're a staple of these people's food resources as well.
In Eminence in Shadow, slimes have incredibly high mana conductivity and when properly treated, they become a smart material that's stronger and lighter than any metal. Of course, "properly treated" means mixing enough flesh and blood into the slime to make it essentially an extension of the wearer, and the effect lasts as long as the slime mix is actively powered by mana. Also, it takes a certain kind of autist to come up with this idea.
It seems weird, but some people enjoy discussions with other people. Those people are wrong and you need to make several more posts informing them of such.
Rather hygienic if slimes dissolve organic matter
If you bred slimes to be docile, or incapable of movement you'd have all sorts of cleaning
Put on some saftey gloves or attach the slime to a metal pole and you have an all purpose cleaning solution
Leave it inside wells, bathhouses, watering holes, sewers and fountains to keep water free from organic waste
Reduce it effectiveness, put it on make up brushes of various sizes and you could use it to remove makeup, body hair, acne, fingerprints, fingernails, warts, dry skin, infections on skin
Attach to the end of a pencil like metal rod with a very caustic slime and you can effectively draw cuts into wood, food or fabrics
That's just the start, if slime happens to be edible. Spoiled food? Slime. Clean an animal and have parts that you don't have a good use for? Slime. Inedible but organic matter? Slime.
It's a very symbiotic relationship if you can get the slime to cooperate.
Yeah slimes evolve depending on what you feed them so the mc feeds them laundry water and bathwater so they turn into cleaning slimes which he starts a laundromat chain with since they just ooze through the clothes and eat the grime, they physically cant hurt the clothes and the pricing is super cheap so he gets a ton of money. He also makes some that produce a clear slime that hardens like plastic which he uses to create cheap but super strong "glass". He has dozens of kinds.
The slimes would eventually become intelligent and powerful enough to become the dominant species, with the culture responsible for them effectively turning into a servant race for their slime overlords.
>Slimes actually became an ultra intelligent hivemind centuries ago >They could overthrow humanity whenever they want >Decided not to because they either enjoy living life on easy mode and being pampered by their owners, or just their human too much
Humans breed everything for intelligence. The only reason we've failed to make ourselves obsolete is because dogs and horses aren't magical enough to get smarter than they are.
That's dumb and totally contrary to the truth, if anything we breed dumbess to all our creations. Wolfs are smarter than the average dog and have bigger brains, and lets not talk about sheep or the stuff we do to dogs like carlinos, pugs and chihuahuas...
One of my idea involve a context where the "gods" of the setting are dimension-jumping cyborg with strict moral code, help first, make immortals, then slumber for millennia so their responsibility on this world is lessened.
In that context the slimes were created with their superscience for various works you can imagine, they come with bio-engineered logic that make them mostly harmless to human. And if the local are smart they can unlock the other type of slimes from experimentation.
Idea NOT SAFE FOR WORK
It would be for a setting where women are magical powerhouse ...who can lose control of their magic ...unless tied up/submissive/sheer force of will.
So obviously...
>SLIME COMPENDIUM
Creature, Suit & Trap
Slime feed of magic/moisture/waste, they first surround then contract
Smart enough to not kill their target/host
>Behavior:
predatory: capture&restrain a prey, feed until prey is too weak
neutral: feed from contact, defend itself from threat or flee
symbiotic: force itself until host accept it, give the host unique perk
>Main strains:
"full-body" slime: spread over the full body (do not block respiration)
"harness" slime: contract into thin stronger bands
"static" slime: hate moving, contract if not static
>Sub strains:
Light: emit light when fed magic, useful for adventuring
Camo: Q.E.D
Stealth: can turn the host truly invisible, need lot of magic
Wall: usually trained as trap, may also be Camo
Tree: attack from tree, once trained they allow one to easily climb or even stretch as a rappel down
Water: propel its host in water, hate heat/ice
Rock: grab rock & metal to form an armor, overdo it until trained
Fire: use magic fire to defend its host, hate cold
Lightning: electric protection/attack, shock host if it attempt to remove them
Blade: form blades around body & limbs, known to restrict hands & make high-heels
Absorber: absorb magic, usually trained for prisoner restraint
Mind: very small, target creature heads, improve focus, usually cover the mouth
Sticky: can cling to any surface, tip: kill it with fire
Lust-slime: healing boost (make the host lusty), learn to satisfy its host, restrain out of control host
Chaste-slime: Actually the same as Lust-slime, but fed white colorant and trained to keep priestess from pleasuring themselves, improving healing magic
Recently, hateful groups have targeted Meltgoops, blaming them for recent slime-on-human attacks and demanding the government to ban this beautiful slime breed. As a proud Meltmommy, I can attest to the fact thay if your Meltgoop kills someone, it's your own fricking fault. They are a rowdy breed that require lot of activity and demand your constant attention. Yes, they do emit an acidic goop that instantly melts human flesh and bone, but c'mon. All animals are dangerous! It's about how you take care of them. My precious Mr. Bubbles has never harmed anyone and I let it sleep with my youngest son every night. Those hateful Anti-Meltgoops can go frick themselves!
Well, what are some cool things that might be done with elemental slimes in such a setting? And besides Water, what's a good element for "normal" slimes?
Just play slime rancher
Would be a lot like real life with stuff like flower cultivation or dog breeding, slimes are basically a weird middle ground between animal and vegetable anyways.
Which is to say, it'd mostly be the hobby of the Uber wealthy, obsessing over the genetics/lineage of their little goo guy as they breed them for a variety of purposes, whether they just be ornamental or for something marginally more practical like sport hunting.
There would probably be an EXPLOSION of slime diversity, however, with them being far more bodily adaptable than any real organism. You could just as easily make a colossal, several story tall slime with the texture and durability of steel for warfare as you could a pearlescent slime big enough to fit in your palm for a noblewoman's personal pet.
I suppose the biggest question would be if slimes are smart or social enough to be properly domesticated to any extent, or if they'd just be weird little anomalies kept in menageries alongside other dangerous animals.
Most dog breeders i know (real ones not puppy mills) are lower middleclass, though there are some rich twats mixed in. Theres no more money in dog shows which is why i stopped showing/training as a source of income.
Oh no yeah, nowadays it's a lower middle class thing, I more meant from a historical perspective. Looking back pre-industrial revolution (and even for a little while after it), dog breeding and flower cultivation was almost exclusively the domain of the rich and those who served the rich directly.
That's because dogs have no real purpose today just like horses.
But they used to be service animals important for hunting and guarding and sometimes even transport.
>I have never lived outside of Western suburbia.
We know.
>n-no! I'm le stronk rural man, lookit me!
Pathetic.
At least you gave him some attention.
I live rurally too and cats are objectively more useful.
Cats are an accessory, not service animals anyway.
What do you use them for though? Just hunting vermin?
nta and not a rancher but know some. yes, vermin can be a serious issue, barn cats are an easy and effective fix, plus u get cute little kitties
Horses are only useful for ranches, pickup trucks are superior for moving around farmland and transporting stuff.
In terms of modern security dogs are a liability in
as you're liable for any damages
Rancher here. ATVs can't climb steep deer trails the way horses can.
Well, I'm thinking that slimes have magical characteristics, but also represent a food source. It could be the rich breeding slimes, but they're a staple of these people's food resources as well.
It goes like
spoiled/inedible food => slime => slime steak/potion ingredients
In Eminence in Shadow, slimes have incredibly high mana conductivity and when properly treated, they become a smart material that's stronger and lighter than any metal. Of course, "properly treated" means mixing enough flesh and blood into the slime to make it essentially an extension of the wearer, and the effect lasts as long as the slime mix is actively powered by mana. Also, it takes a certain kind of autist to come up with this idea.
We had a thread about this many years ago with a lot of cool ideas for novel breeds of slime.
I'll see if I can find it in the archives.
please keep us updated
No luck so far, but I've been distracted.
Isn't the fun of worldbuilding solving these questions yourself?
It seems weird, but some people enjoy discussions with other people. Those people are wrong and you need to make several more posts informing them of such.
Rather hygienic if slimes dissolve organic matter
If you bred slimes to be docile, or incapable of movement you'd have all sorts of cleaning
Put on some saftey gloves or attach the slime to a metal pole and you have an all purpose cleaning solution
Leave it inside wells, bathhouses, watering holes, sewers and fountains to keep water free from organic waste
Reduce it effectiveness, put it on make up brushes of various sizes and you could use it to remove makeup, body hair, acne, fingerprints, fingernails, warts, dry skin, infections on skin
Attach to the end of a pencil like metal rod with a very caustic slime and you can effectively draw cuts into wood, food or fabrics
That's just the start, if slime happens to be edible. Spoiled food? Slime. Clean an animal and have parts that you don't have a good use for? Slime. Inedible but organic matter? Slime.
It's a very symbiotic relationship if you can get the slime to cooperate.
I'd prefer a culture based on slime waifury.
I am reminded of the slimegirl episode of Ishuzoku Reviewers.
imagine the sound
Sticky
They'd have the advantage of a stable food supply under some pretty extreme conditions, assuming that slimes can eat pretty much anything.
Check out the series "By the Grace of the Gods". Picrel is just the tip of the iceberg from what I hear.
Yeah slimes evolve depending on what you feed them so the mc feeds them laundry water and bathwater so they turn into cleaning slimes which he starts a laundromat chain with since they just ooze through the clothes and eat the grime, they physically cant hurt the clothes and the pricing is super cheap so he gets a ton of money. He also makes some that produce a clear slime that hardens like plastic which he uses to create cheap but super strong "glass". He has dozens of kinds.
Never played it, but imagine some lore exists
The slimes would eventually become intelligent and powerful enough to become the dominant species, with the culture responsible for them effectively turning into a servant race for their slime overlords.
Basically shoggoths.
>Slimes actually became an ultra intelligent hivemind centuries ago
>They could overthrow humanity whenever they want
>Decided not to because they either enjoy living life on easy mode and being pampered by their owners, or just their human too much
So cats?
They can't become intelligent if you breed against that.
>inb4 "you breed them to be sneaky"
They would need to be smart in the first place for that.
Humans breed everything for intelligence. The only reason we've failed to make ourselves obsolete is because dogs and horses aren't magical enough to get smarter than they are.
Dunno we also breed them for very frivolous reasons that could be detrimental to their life
>Humans breed everything for intelligence.
Okay, so why do we do that? Also, sauce?
Cows are dumber than bison, chickens are dumber than wild fowl, i don’t buy irt
That's dumb and totally contrary to the truth, if anything we breed dumbess to all our creations. Wolfs are smarter than the average dog and have bigger brains, and lets not talk about sheep or the stuff we do to dogs like carlinos, pugs and chihuahuas...
That tweet is fake and I'm getting oh so tired of seeing people meme it lately.
One of my idea involve a context where the "gods" of the setting are dimension-jumping cyborg with strict moral code, help first, make immortals, then slumber for millennia so their responsibility on this world is lessened.
In that context the slimes were created with their superscience for various works you can imagine, they come with bio-engineered logic that make them mostly harmless to human. And if the local are smart they can unlock the other type of slimes from experimentation.
Idea NOT SAFE FOR WORK
It would be for a setting where women are magical powerhouse ...who can lose control of their magic ...unless tied up/submissive/sheer force of will.
So obviously...
>SLIME COMPENDIUM
Creature, Suit & Trap
Slime feed of magic/moisture/waste, they first surround then contract
Smart enough to not kill their target/host
>Behavior:
predatory: capture&restrain a prey, feed until prey is too weak
neutral: feed from contact, defend itself from threat or flee
symbiotic: force itself until host accept it, give the host unique perk
>Main strains:
"full-body" slime: spread over the full body (do not block respiration)
"harness" slime: contract into thin stronger bands
"static" slime: hate moving, contract if not static
>Sub strains:
Light: emit light when fed magic, useful for adventuring
Camo: Q.E.D
Stealth: can turn the host truly invisible, need lot of magic
Wall: usually trained as trap, may also be Camo
Tree: attack from tree, once trained they allow one to easily climb or even stretch as a rappel down
Water: propel its host in water, hate heat/ice
Rock: grab rock & metal to form an armor, overdo it until trained
Fire: use magic fire to defend its host, hate cold
Lightning: electric protection/attack, shock host if it attempt to remove them
Blade: form blades around body & limbs, known to restrict hands & make high-heels
Absorber: absorb magic, usually trained for prisoner restraint
Mind: very small, target creature heads, improve focus, usually cover the mouth
Sticky: can cling to any surface, tip: kill it with fire
Lust-slime: healing boost (make the host lusty), learn to satisfy its host, restrain out of control host
Chaste-slime: Actually the same as Lust-slime, but fed white colorant and trained to keep priestess from pleasuring themselves, improving healing magic
Sticky
Recently, hateful groups have targeted Meltgoops, blaming them for recent slime-on-human attacks and demanding the government to ban this beautiful slime breed. As a proud Meltmommy, I can attest to the fact thay if your Meltgoop kills someone, it's your own fricking fault. They are a rowdy breed that require lot of activity and demand your constant attention. Yes, they do emit an acidic goop that instantly melts human flesh and bone, but c'mon. All animals are dangerous! It's about how you take care of them. My precious Mr. Bubbles has never harmed anyone and I let it sleep with my youngest son every night. Those hateful Anti-Meltgoops can go frick themselves!
Well, what are some cool things that might be done with elemental slimes in such a setting? And besides Water, what's a good element for "normal" slimes?
No no NO NO!
We're are not doing this. You just want to bred and frick a slime girl and I'll not be a part of it.
Penis music
Wut