J: “That’s quite a large amount of growth… was that just from eating one of those creatures?” “Well, I don’t have to worry about that for now, I should just capitalize on it…” As Jack is thinking about this, he catches as his size goes up by .1 meters, he also catches a stat that he missed at first, Time Alive, reaches 1 hour “Huh, so that’s a thing, so I’m just… passively growing?” “Not by that much, but it’s… something.”

Jack takes a while, just, thinking. Honestly quite a bit longer than logical if you ask me. Drifting along the underside of the water, Jack is awakened from his thoughts by his tail brushing against a particular tendril that starts to, albeit futilely, try dragging him down. Bursting out of his stupor, he uses his tail to lash out at the tendril, severing it. “Wha?” “Oh right.” “I should probably do something…” “I guess Objectives is a good place to start.”

Tabbing through to Objectives, he realizes he completely forgot about the fact that getting his first mutation was an Objective, going to rewards he notices its reward is an evolution point “y’know what? I’m just gonna save that in case I find out I desperately need to evolve something; I don’t want to go through another thing like that for now.” Going back to Objectives he glances over them again, and decides on one “I think I’ll try getting ‘Reach 10 Meters’ completed.” “It seems simple enough, just gotta hunt some balloonys!”

???: “Underneath the waves, a predator lurks. It knows nothing of mercy, yet kills with an almost playful disposition, toying with its prey. It seemingly hunts for sport rather than food, but it feasts nonetheless. Each time it we spot it, it seems slightly bigger. We must kill it before it grows too large to handle.”

Jack, is having the time of his life. J: “Woohoo!” he had just successfully gotten a highscore in a new game he was playing, in which he would bounce one of the water-bound balloonys between his hands and his tail, the goal of which was to get as many bounces before the poor thing died. “All right, time for the messy part, but this should be the last one I need to complete that quest.” chomping down on the creature, he lets his tongues do the work as he watches his size stat slowly go up. “Yes!” “But aw man, I thought I got it just right, I must’ve miscalculated somewhere…”

Jack has reached 10.1 meters.

???: “Quick! We must act now! Stab to death while it’s distracted!” “Kill the beast!”