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<I>Since the Creature is busy trying to develop brain cells, I thought I might take a break and answer this one.<P>Structurally, a haiku is composed of three nonrhyming lines, the first and third with five syllables, the second with seven. Most of you are following the structure.<P>But these aren't ...

[munch munch]<P>[munch munch]<P>[munch munch]<P><I>From jelly beans, a chocolate-peanut-butter malt and coffee to... greens.</I><P>:(<P><I>Well, the Creature won't starve. Hopefully, though, Mother will not be the sole provider of food.<P>Grown more active from the warmth, the Creature swells itself...

Slime loves the summer
Eat the delicate blossom
Ooze over warm grass<P>(O)

<I>The Creature has contracted into a gooey hump, quivering in anxiety.</I><P><B>(O)</B><P><I>It doesn't understand most of the emoticons (aquanaut? wearing glasses? bald?), and the ones it does understand scare it. Angry. Evil. Mute.</I><P>:(<P><I>The Creature desires a brain with which to understa...

<I>The Creature tries to digest the low-hanging leaves brushing its surface.</I><P><B>(</B>O<B>)</B><P><I>The vegetable matter is too strong and complex for the Creature to break down.</I><P>:(<P><I>It rejects the meal and attempts to incorporate the thread's oxygen into a more powerful metabolic sy...

<I>The Creature messily devours the jelly beans.</I><P>:)<P><I>It attempts to do the same to the book, but succeeds only in leaching a little color out of the cover. Unable to read or digest the book, the Creature ignores it.</I><P>:(<P><I>The Creature then attempts to devise new, Creature-centric e...

<I>The Creature, having dripped down from the bottom of its birth-thread to the top of the next, flows down into the box.</I><P>SPLUT. BLUT PLAP.<P><I>Well, perhaps "flow" is a little too graceful.</I><P>Blrblblrb....<P><I>The Creature, full from Simon's chocolate malt and rested after escaping the ...

Spbip.<P><I>The Creature absorbs most of the coffee and milk.</I><P>Squee!<P><I>The slimy blob extends a pseudopod in search of stray spatters, soaking them up along with the slime beneath them. And another limb. And another.</I><P>Queee!<P><I>It's incorporated most of the original puddle now. There...

<I>Certainly the Creature wants you to pour out coffee. Seeing as it has no muscles, it can't exactly drink from a cup, now can it?</I>

<I>The Creature's size and shape haven't been described, since they are hard to discern. What you're looking at is a conglomeration of the Creature itself, the slime from whence it came, the mucous it excretes, and some standing water. It's hard to tell where one ends and the next begins-- if the Cr...

<I>The Creature realizes that the thread it inhabits has suddenly caught fire! Granted, it's a tiny, iconic fire, but that's enough to spook a proto-forum-thing.</I><P>Grbblplapnrbl!<P><I>It inserts a pseudopod into a crevice and drips down through a layer of bits and silicon into a crawlspace. The ...

<I>Threatened by the irritating poking, the creature finally manages to produce a covering of mucus, affording minimal protection for its sensitive protoplasm.<P>A membrane would be much nicer...<P>...but that project will have to wait.<P>And yes, it's now clear that snot has a smell.</I><p>[This me...

<I>A patch of slime registers the vibrations and electricity. It moistens in response, trying unsuccessfully to excrete a protective mucous covering.</I>

<I>The place: a tepid puddle deep within the Vicious Lies message board....</I><P>Splbbp.<P><I>The time: present day.</I><P>Pbblepblpb.<P><I>The event: a bit of forum-sludge has begun transforming water, carbon dioxide, and cheap gags into carbohydrates.</I><P>Splup-splup-splup.<P><I>The reason: unk...