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If only you could see what's going on at least, but it's all dark apart from something like a light at the entry of a cave that keeps opening and closing. In time with the gnashing you notice, adding all the more to your disorientation.

At least it doesn't seem like you're in any danger, just immense confusion and discomfort. You'd like very much to be free of this awful place, whatever and wherever it is, but how...

>What do you do?

>>4199070
>self destruct

>>4199070
>Gum-Gum Bazooka the cave entrance

>>4199069

Dip backwards. You long for the safety and security of the dark.

This quest simultaneously intrigues me and makes my skin crawl (cause I hate gum).

>>4199088
+1
do it

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>>4199098
>>4199091
>>4199088
>>4199084
Your... mind? Is fraught with ideas, torn every which way as for what to do. And it certainly doesn't help with the situation and status you find yourself in.

Argh... cut it out!

At the very least it would be nice to be able to think clearly, and the surest way for that is to not keep getting crushed up and down over and over inside this cave. So while you do strongly consider self-destructing or retreating back away from the light... in the end you just slightly have a preference, or desperation to escape.

Hiii-yah!

"¡Ay, Dios mío!"

Despite the confusing and difficult circumstances, you try to concentrate and muster enough strength, enough will to surge forward and force your way out of the cave! Well it probably isn't that much force, but you at least manage to reach the light, the opening of the cave... only to be rewarded with a fall!

You hear some exclamation from whence you escaped, but your attention is much more drawn to the rushing wind and the ground quickly coming to meet you. Is this it? Is this the end? Oh what a sorry fate! Your life ended in your pri-

*splat*

Oh, maybe not dead... certainly not a pleasant experience though as you hit the dusty pavement with a tiny wet squelch. Disoriented, your sight has to adjust to the light now and your strange new surroundings. The only thing you can immediately tell; it's daytime, you're on some rough sidewalk, and... you're tiny?

>What do you do?

>>4199119
>self destruct

>>4199119
Assess your surroundings for anything useful

>>4199162

+1

keep alert for aberrant feet.

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>>4199148
>>4199162
>>4199166
How can this be? You're small and pink and squishy! This isn't your normal body, it can't be!

A bad dream!

Yes that's it, this must be some strange nightmare, you'll wake up any minute now... maybe if you self-destructed it would help...

-whoah woah! Watch it!

Distressingly you can't seem to awaken, and just as you try to destroy yourself, some giant feet almost take care of that for you. You try to speak or scream but can't, so the best you can manage is to roll yourself out of the way and avoid being trampled. Nightmare or not, you don't want to end up on the bottom of a shoe!

If you can't just wait here then, perhaps you'll need to take things into your own... hands? You don't have those, just like you don't have eyes, or ears but fortunately you still seem to have your senses at least. You can still "see" and "hear" things, or are aware of your surroundings as they are. The dusty sidewalk, the cracked road beside it, some sort of street lined with various stores.

Is that... Spanish?

Words, signs in a language that isn't English, and people to speak it all going about their daily business. Perhaps you really are just piece of gum on the pavement to them, because no one seems to notice you as anything out of the ordinary nor responds to you. Surely they would if you were your normal self, but like this...

Until you either wake up then or get to the bottom of this, you'll have to manage on your own for the time being. For starters, anything that could be useful to you...

>Make a roll, a 1d100 to observe your surroundings for anything worth noting.

Rolled 30 (1d100)

>>4199191

Rolled 81 (1d100)

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>>4199196
>>4199200
>81

Withdrawing off the sidewalk into an alleyway then, at least to avoid getting stepped on, you watch and listen for all you can... anything that may help you in this strange condition.

Well I... guess I ain't in Baltimore no more...

The more you gather your bearings, the more apparent it becomes that you're in an altogether different place, to go along with your altogether different body. You couldn't say for sure but your first guess would be Mexico or someplace similar, that's really the only familiarity with Spanish you're aware of, hailing from the eastern USA yourself. Certainly the idle conversations of passerby's and the sound of music blaring out of some store on the street, give weight to your guessing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPiAlGGw-tU

How you got here though and why, remains as much a mystery to you as your squishy pink form. At least though with your sense about you better, you can now navigate your way around as best you can while gummy as you are, compared to being stunned and disoriented. Just so long as you don't get stepped on!

Maybe a hospital... or try to get home first?

The longer things go on for, the less is your hope that this is some nightmare. Trying not to panic though, your first instinct is to seek help for... whatever condition this is that you're in. But would you want to here, in what you assume is another country? And, could you even get help like this?

Better yet, what help could anyone give you... if only you could grow in size or something, or otherwise find some way of getting people to notice you and respond... but even that, might be troublesome. You can't imagine you'd act well if in your normal life before, some chewing gum creature tried to interact with you.

>What do you do?

>>4199245
Search for more gum
G R O W

This is a weird fetish.

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>>4199384
The moment there's anything fetishy about it, you let me know!

>>4199290
It seems your options are limited for as long as you remain the size you are. Maybe it would be possible to accomplish things when you're about the size of a walnut, but it's not how you're familiar with existing let alone feeling comfortable as.

You used to have a human body, so if you can at least try to approach something like that then you'll feel better you figure. At least be able to act more normally and figure out a plan.

...dulcería?

From your spot at the edge of an alleyway, you look around, scanning each store for whatever value they could have to you. With everything in Spanish though it's hard to tell, till your "sight" settles on... a candy store? Well, you'd be that could have more value to you than say, a clothing store or a mechanic.

Strangely though, said candy store is... rather close to where you woke up and landed on the street. Only just a couple stores down, and while you could just write it off as good fortune, it seems a little coincidental for your tastes. Whatever has happened to you, might have happened anywhere. What are the odds of it being right near just a place like this?

More... gum, I guess? Eugh, just thinking about gives me the shivers!

Squishing your way down the sidewalk then and trying your best to keep to the sides of buildings to avoid being stepped on, eventually you can reach the front of the candy store. Looking up at the place, particularly the windows, you can see some of what's inside. Hope beyond hope, that... obtaining more gum, could perhaps improve your standing?

Only question is, how to get at it? For one thing there's got to be multiple points of entry you think, but for another, you don't expect you could just squish your way inside and freely get at all the gum you wanted. Maybe you could wait till closing time, but the distressing situation you're in, waiting might be difficult or even dangerous...

...and even if you did get to it all, how much more gum would you try and obtain?

>What do you do?

>>4199420
first try and extrude gum into limbs so we can actually get anywhere

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>>4200045
You're so hung up on trying to fix your condition, that you haven't put much thought or effort towards what you may actually be capable of... to do so would mean focusing on your strange and distressing status, but at the same time could help you out.

Of course the biggest limiter is your size, you're no more than just a single wad of gum. However after mustering your focus and courage and trying not to succumb to despair over your condition, you're able to attempt some movements. Particularly the effort to "create" limbs, which you manage to accomplish by firmly sticking part of yourself to a surface and then pulling away with the rest of your "body". After trying hard enough, you manage to stretch out a couple portions of yourself that could equate to limbs, extending from your central mass.

Yikes... well it ain't arms, but it's better than nothing... if only I could manage a full body.

With a little effort, a little practice, you seem to sort of get the hang of controlling these makeshift limbs of yours. Probably in the future if you needed to, you would be able to extend them from yourself without all the effort it took before to try and learn how to create them. However with as little gum as you're made of, it seems you're limited to about two limbs, at your size. Maybe it could be possible to create a tiny humanoid "body" out of the little amount of gum that you are, but currently you don't have the finesse to attempt that.

With more gum though it should be a much easier task. And now able to grow a pair of limbs if need be, perhaps it'll be easier to steal more gum for yourself?

>What do you do?

>>4200685
sneak into the store and hide under something in such a way too not get cleaned away like a ledge or corner under some heavy furniture then wait for the night so you can consume more gum possibly use your time to practice your shape changing

>>4200697
Very well then, with your newly found mobility you can attempt to sneak into the store and find a place to hide until after closing time. Whereupon you can try to see if your situation can be altered with more gum.

>Make a 1d100 for the effort, and if you care to specify, how much gum you seek to obtain. If you are able to that is, whether you want to seek out any and all that you can find in the store, or if you want to keep it small and perhaps unnoticed. Maybe something between?

Rolled 18 (1d100)

>>4200737

>>4200737
i rolled crap but i want to simply hide until night fall and then consume and control as much gum as we can

Rolled 41 (1d100)

>>4200737
>>4200765
also im agreeing with them

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>>4200759
>>4200780
>41

Unfortunately it's not so easy as just walking your way inside! You did have a little chance to practice and get more accustomed to your gummy form, but you can't just suddenly become an expert nor totally comfortable in your "body".

Yeowch! Actually... that didn't hurt too much...

Certainly you can move better now than when you first hit the pavement, but trying to squish your way inside the store via the main entrance, you end up getting stepped on! Squashed beneath a shoe, whoever it is manages to track you inside with them. Fortunately it doesn't really hurt like you might have expected, a painful death of being stepped on. Instead though, it's more just uncomfortable and disorienting, but you are still very much alive and able to make a sticky escape once they stand still for a moment.

After that, it's just a matter of finding a spot to hide, and then to wait till closing time...

---

Given your size it's not so difficult to find an out of the way spot, so really the challenge becomes trying to observe and learn what more you can from your hidden safety.

...Abril? Is that like April? So I missed a month then, since I was... normal? At least the year is still the same...

From your hiding place you eventually notice a calendar on the wall, and think you can guess at the month. April 7th, 1952. If that's true then you've been... asleep? Out of commission in any case, for almost a month now. Just another distressing detail of your condition, but you'll just have to cope with it for now and make sense of things later. With night setting in outside and the candy store closed down, it seems you have... relative freedom in the place. Not like anyone will be spying for a gummy being, but even closed the display window lights are still on, should anyone happen past outside...

Here goes then... hope this works.

The big moment then, after some tens of minutes exploring about the shop till you can find some display shelves of chewing gum. The initial difficulty of getting the wrappers off, but as you had hoped, upon making contact with more gum it seems you are able to incorporate it into yourself. Sort of like regaining sensations, feeling to more of your body.

Within an hour, just from the main area of the store you can amass many, many pounds worth of gum. And in the back storage area you can find even more. If you so desired, you probably could get about as much mass as your body used to have, otherwise you could go even further beyond and attain a huge mass. Though, either way, a slight problem you encounter is the consistency; when you first "emerged" you were all wet and squishy so easy to move. This new gum from the store though is all rather tough and unchewed, so difficult to move or control.

Possible, but difficult.

>What do you do?

>>4200905
okay use your own body to chew up more mass squish it up to get some some parts you can use as joints while leaving the rest as hard gum so you can still move possibly make a internal cavity for water so you can moisten up gum

>>4200921
basically learn how to chew yourself and commit to a body plan so we dont need to constantly shift our body and so we dont need to make all of us soft because we probably cant, so make the parts that move soft and the rest can be hard.
and we probably should learn how to moisten our self to make our self even more flexible but thats for later

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>>4200921
>>4200951
we will be the gum that could

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>>4200984
Wow that's genuinely nightmarish!

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>>4200951
As a fairly large, shambling mass of chewing gum then, from the relative privacy of the shop storage you can try to figure yourself out. At present you're pretty much entirely just a bunch of hard gum pieces gathered together and difficult to move. It's not so bad though because it's more like your solid "normal" body than a formless squishy wad, you're able to feel more like you have a proper body even if it's just an imitation of humanoid form made out of a cluster of gum pieces.

Maybe you could squish some of it up, but the problem is you obviously don't have teeth or a proper mouth. No real way to... easily just "chew" yourself up and make yourself all softer, consistently. With the help of an employee bathroom though (the sink), and enough time and practice, you can sort of manage something by filling a bucket with water and slamming portions of yourself down into it. A terrible mess it makes, for sure, but slowly and surely you manage to churn up more and more gum of yourself to where you can make a choice;

>All solid = a more definite and stable and stronger/tougher form, but difficult to move and control
>Mixed = a solid form while still maintaining some flexibility in the joints, but awkward to maintain a mixed consistency
>All soft = very easy to move and control and able to shape shift in all sorts of ways, but not as stable or strong

It could be possible that you figure out other consistencies for yourself, but for now and for your first try at a "body", this is what you think you can manage. Basically how much of yourself you try to soak and squash versus just remaining as tough solid gum... or something between! Whatever the case, it seems any of these could be possible to you, so it's not like you're forced into any one choice, just whichever you prefer. And obviously you could change between states, though this would take time to adjust your form.

No matter what though, for as horrible a turn as your life has taken, at least now you can have yourself a more "normal" body again. Sure, made out of chewing gum, but not just some confused and distressed little wad on the floor... now more like a person, at least a little more like a person. Though, you still need to figure out what to do after settling on your form for the time being...

>What do you do?

>>4201049
>Mixed = a solid form while still maintaining some flexibility in the joints, but awkward to maintain a mixed consistency
practice makes perfect
>idea make a hollow inside your body so you can store water and use it as you want
>churn by folding over and over itself to get that air and moisture in possibly make like a rudimentary jaw two hard angled chunks to mash the gum with the water.

lets get greater control over our form we could try and consume other candy to see what power we have or if its only gum.
we could try and find clothes?

>>4200780
so now that we have a body we can move around how will we fit in with humans? should we sculpt like a hard gum face like a sculpture and mix the gum color until we get like a skin shade? or should we go full homeless guy when dealing with the looks? and wrap as much clothes as we can?

so qm are you decided on if there are other supers?

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>>4201097
>>4201090
>>4201085
Supers? Super heroes, or villains? Yes, you know of them. Those rare few people given to exceptional abilities or skills or resources, who act as quite a force for change in the world.

Wait... others...

Others... you, as one of them? That couldn't be, you're just normal old... uh... your name was... Lucy! Yeah that's right, just normal Lucy, twenty year old waitress at Joe's Diner on the corner of Bethel and Lombard street, Baltimore. You're not exceptional like those super individuals... at least you weren't. There's a lot more on your mind at the moment, but as you come to think of it, you suppose if you're not normal anymore... then you might be special. How many other living chewing gums are there?

Though, just your luck, that if you were to end up as a super individual it would be as some freak of nature...

Trying not to think about it and risk crying yourself into a fit, you instead try to focus on the matter at hand, your consistency. Between the water bucket method and trying some inner-chewing movements, you're able to create sort of a consistency mix for yourself. Wet and sticky joints, between solid and tough body segments. You're almost like an art manikin, if it were made of gum.

What about other candy? That'd be something, wouldn't it?

You suppose if you have to be made of sweets for the time being, you would prefer something to chewing gum. Like chocolate perhaps! Sadly, try as you might, you can't seem to incorporate other candy into your body. Maybe it's not that you can't, but currently you don't seem able to. Something about the consistency of the gum versus other sweets.

Well in any case, before long you've got yourself a rudimentary human body... just pink and made of gum. But it's about as close to the size and dimensions of your normal human body as you can get, enough that you feel comfortable being yourself and moving about. Or, as comfortable as you can be while made of gum. You even spend some time "looking" at your reflection to try and give yourself a face. Probably something that would be easy if you were all squishy, but with a hardened face and head, you have to sculpt it some.

There! That's... better.

Honestly it's pretty bad, and you feel quite a bit of despair, trying your best not to break down crying. But hey, if you can wait tables in a Baltimore diner, this is nothing compared to that! Trying to look on the bright side of things, you imagine yourself venturing outside with your new humanoid look.

Ah, but clothes! Or even, something to cover you entirely... where, and what might you look for?

>What do you do?

>>4201214
Hmm look around the back if they have anything like a uniform left over possibly find some bandages and such to wrap our "head" and "hands" to hide there colour
and to sculpt our face and body there should be some of those metal or plastic serving scoops for candy that we can use to hack away with but first lets consume all the gum we can to ad to our body.
And while trying to remember everything we can about supers

>>4201245
Are there any other stores on the street? Beacuse we could do with a nice trench coat and some shoes possibly some gloves and a big hat.

well this is a new fetish

>>4201245
just gonna go with this

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>>4201333
>>4201256
>>4201245
That's a clever idea, you can use tools about as well as anyone else could, so it's not terribly difficult to just pick up some serving tongs and better sculpt yourself. You could go even further, grab a serving knife and go to town, but you've got other things to take care of. Namely, clothes. Partly so as not to draw attention or scare people, but mostly for your own modesty. What sort of woman would parade her body around, regardless if it was made of chewing gum!

Unfortunately though, search as you might you can't find any spare clothes left here in the shop. Instead, you may have to turn your sights elsewhere, like other stores in the area. By no means are you going to burst out the front door and run down the street for all to see, but if one of the adjacent buildings has something for you to wear, you could try to find a way inside... not like you're stuck having to rely on normal entrances like a normal person anymore!

>Make a roll for the effort, to see if you can find a nearby clothing store or something to suffice, and that you're able to get inside.

Rolled 5 (1d100)

>>4201551

Rolled 30 (1d100)

>>4201551

Rolled 91 (1d100)

>>4201551
Rollin rollin rollin

>>4202175
the gum balls be rolling

>>4201551

Rolled 32 (1d100)

>>4202358

>>4202361
>>4202175
>>4201898
>>4201789
>91

Well fortunately enough, one of the adjoining stores appears to sell clothes! You feel a little bad about stealing, but given the circumstances you don't have a lot of options. In any case you should be able to sneak over there and get inside by some means or other, it's just a question of what sort of clothes you want to take, how you want to dress.

You could try to completely conceal yourself 100%, but while that may prevent people from noticing your gummy nature it would also make you stand out for being overdressed. Or, you could just dress conservatively so that you don't stand out, but have some risk of any exposed parts of your body being noticed. Or however else you care to dress.

At least you're made of something vaguely close to a human appearance. Imagine if you were comprised of green or blue gum, or rock candy or something...

>>4202755
Cover every centimeter and piko with cloth wear gloves wear socks and possibly a wig from one of the show dolls wrap everyinch of your horrific body

>>4202755
Cover yourself head to toe, wig sunglasses and all. People can excuse someone being overdressed. People are less okay with gummy people walking amongst them. Hell, grab a balaclava just in case too!

>>4202921
this ssounds perfect

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>>4202826
>>4202921
>>4203257
As much for your sake, your own emotional wellbeing, as well as for others you intend to cover yourself completely. Though maybe not like an entirely concealing trench coat and bulky layers, so that you don't stand out in a crowd, but enough to fully cover every inch of yourself! As much as you can really.

Other super folks? I don't think there's too many...

While searching about the clothing store for things to wear, and attempting to dress yourself with them, you try to think about the super situation. As far as you know there aren't a whole lot of them in the world, but the major cities tend to gather a few, you suppose because the major cities also gather problems. Ever since the second world war, they've been sort of like celebrities almost, and though not all of them accept the spotlight people still tend to regard them that way.

When you were a little girl, Lady Liberty was your favorite and she's probably one of the most well-known super Americans. Hailing from New York, like Torchbearer or the Specter. You know of these people however, because you're from the East Coast. Super individuals from the other side of the country, let alone foreign countries, aren't too familiar to you. Certainly they exist but often only extend as far as local exposure, not since the wars have there been big-name national heroes or villains.

Though even then, could you consider yourself among their ranks?

...not bad, even if it's all sticky on the inside...

Eventually you can get yourself looking pretty nice you think, at least in terms of just your clothes and look. Blouse, dress, stockings, things you would typically wear but extra additions to better cover you up like a wig from one of the mannequins and a big enough hat, glasses and a scarf about most of your face and gloves of course. It might still seem a little strange to others, but only as far as being overdressed for the occasion, rather than completely bundled up in multiple layers and thick coats. The important thing is, unless someone got very close and took a good while to examine you closely, they probably wouldn't be able to notice anything too strange about you... apart from the odd way you move because of your gum body consistency.

But it's a small price to pay for being able to look at yourself in the mirror without feeling despair, and having confidence that you could at least go outside. Not too shabby, to have come from just a discarded piece of gum on the sidewalk, to now where you're much closer to your usual self. Still a long way to go, but you hope to at least function like a human being till then.

Now it's just a matter of, how to get home? Or at least, where you plan to go next. Maybe you can't get back to Baltimore so easily and maybe you don't even want to like this, but surely returning to the USA is of interest to you... unless you plan to live in Mexico here onward?

>What do you do?

>>4203384
Well do we feel bad we robbed a candy store? How much does gum even cost? And how the heck are we in mexico what was our last memory?

>>4203573
Was life even that good as a waitress? Did we even have any loved ones?

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>>4203584
You feel a little bad about what you've done so far, theft and whatnot, but you won't lose sleep over considering you didn't really have much choice otherwise, did you? Either resort to stealing, or remain as a wad of gum stamped into the sidewalk. As for the actual value of what stolen, well gum is only a nickle... you're not sure what that'd be in pesos. Really it's the clothes that are the notable theft, but again, are you going to just go around as a gum person in the open?

Now if I can just get back home... how did I even get here?

Having burgled your way into this building, it's not like you can stay forever but for a little while at least as you adjust to wearing clothes, you can try to think on your situation. Try to remember... last you can recall, it was just another day working at the diner, when some gangsters tore through the place. Probably after committing some notable crime because they thought it worthwhile to try and take a hostage, and you were just unlucky enough to be the girl they decided to grab.

After that, it's a bit difficult to recall because of how hectic it all was, but you remember being dragged along with them on the run from the police. A chase which led through the industrial part of town, a shootout in one of the factories, a whole mess of trouble... and something bad happened. Beyond that, it's mostly a blur to you, although you suppose you could try harder to remember.

>Make a roll if you'd want to recall in more detail, if you're able to.

As for life before? Well it could be worse but... not like you're especially desperate to get back to waitressing at Joe's. You have a decent enough relationship with your family, some nice friends, a guy you're sweet on, but you can't imagine returning to them like you are now. If you're stuck being made of gum, maybe it'd be better if people think you're missing or dead or whatever the circumstances of you ending up here. At least until you can find a cure or something, or at least are in a more stable position in your life before contacting them again.

Maybe I could... at least call, make up some story about uh... running away to Hollywood? Kinda corny but...

The more you think about it, the more complicated it becomes... yet at the same time, also more promising. You didn't want this or ask for this, what's happened to you, but maybe there's opportunity in it? If nothing else, it certainly seems like a new start, to make whatever you want for yourself if you can. Not the worst mentality to go by, in the meantime till you can figure out and fix your condition.

Just, what sort of new start could you make it, as you are? Hah, maybe Hollywood isn't even such a ridiculous option.

>What do you do?

Rolled 77 (1d100)

gonna try to remember more.

also probbably best to right now look for a safe place to hang for the rest of the night

>>4203949

+1

Rolled 89 (1d100)

>>4204168

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>>4204170
>>4203949
>89

You're not sure why it's so vague to you, it shouldn't be as hard to remember. Try as you might though, you concentrate and retrace the events in your mind. Just another day at work, the kidnapping and hostage situation, the attempted escape through the factory and the shootout, and...

...dead? No, can't be...

Gradually you can remember, it was a food processing plant, specifically candy where you were dragged through as it just so happened. With everything so hectic during the shooting, being pushed and dragged along so roughly, you suffered an... accident. Lost your footing while getting shoved along and fell off a catwalk, and into one of the machines below. Gum mixing.

Aww... how come I couldn't get bit by an atomic bug instead, or something?

Well whatever it was, the Union Mills corporation must have been adding something "special" into the mix. You should have died, maybe you did even, but whatever the case... the only thing you remember after, is "waking up" in that chomping cave you escaped from earlier this afternoon. You're not sure how it happened, but about a month after your accident with that machine, and here you've awoken as you are.

Different, abnormal, but still yourself in a way.

Those... thugs, those bastards, they did this to me! Maybe... if I could get home... no, not like this!

Remembering the full trail of events now more or less, you can't help feeling distressed. Upset, angry, a storm of feelings you try to wrestle with just as much as you wrestle with the truth. Super heroes or not, there's still conventional criminals around and Baltimore didn't have some hero to save you. Not like it's not entirely their fault though, those gangsters. Ooh you'd like to give them a piece of your mind!

And then there's the factory, the company on top of that. If anyone could cure you of this, it would be them. But what are your options even? Not like you can just take them to court, who's to say you wouldn't just be arrested and studied like some animal if you tried to return home like this?

Revenge, that's one way to call it, a pretty powerful motivator. But it seems you may be limited by your own situation, and capabilities. Either way, at least you know the distressing and depressing truth of things, how you came to be. Maybe not came to be here, that's still a mystery, but at least Lucy Reed has a sense of before and after now. Something to think about, as you seek out a place to spend the rest of the night... probably either safe lodging, or comfortable lodging, or if you have some other idea.

>What do you do?

>>4204313
Wait, does that mean there might be more pieces of us out there? Not a comforting thought, but whatever.
Let's look for any abandoned or empty buildings to take shelter in tonight.

>>4204313
I say if any of that gum has mixed in it THEN ITS OURS lets take all the gum we can and figure who we will take revenge on
>try and compact your gum hard parts as hard as possible

>>4204343
that sounds good

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Just a heads up that today's run schedule will be a bit hectic.

>>4204343
>>4204523
>>4204997
In remember the chain of events that seemed to lead you here, you were quite stricken with grief for your own state, that you hadn't much thought of any wider implications. But even just a consideration leads you to wonder if there could be any others like you... not supers, but gum people. Or rather, not even gum people, but other gum Lucy's. The possibility of such a thing is pretty confusing and distressing, but you want to imagine it wouldn't be true.

You are yourself after all, you feel like you'd be aware or something if there were other yous around. Or if it were even possible, though you bet you could get to the bottom of it if you needed to... maybe find out where you (the initial piece of gum you) had been sold from, and where it had been gotten from. Maybe even that candy store from earlier, again it seems like quite a big coincidence for you to have awoken so close to it.

Ah, but I don't know Spanish...

If only this were all back home, it'd be so much easier to manage. Well you can try to deal with that all later if you care enough, or if you'd just rather get out of here, leave this place behind and try to return to the USA.

All that can be dealt with tomorrow however, for now you need a place to spend the night. Someplace abandoned would be your preference, but it's not like this is some abandoned ghost town, all the buildings seem occupied and the businesses stable. Fortunately given that it is night time, you are able to move around and search the area without standing out so much. Even out on the streets, as you step out after mustering a lot of courage, there's the occasional passerby but thanks to your disguise people don't seem to pay you much mind.

With that little more freedom then, you can roam about for a little while till eventually you can find a basement of a building which... isn't abandoned, but doesn't seem like the ground floor business uses it that often. Uncomfortable as it may be, you're able to contort your body now in order to fit through a small ground-level window to the basement, and therein try to find a secluded place to wait till morning...

...and during which time you can attempt to experiment a little more with your altered body. Such as trying to compact yourself, your gum as much as you possibly can. With a lot of effort and strain, you actually manage to condense one of your arms to a very hard consistency, almost like hard rubber that barely yields.

---

It's the sounds of a potential traffic jam or accident up on the street outside, that awakens you. Jolting up after a fitful sleep plagued by strange dreams, you eventually settle down as reality creeps back in. Of your situation, and where you are. Seeing light trickle through the windows and dusty air down here, you can tell it's morning now.

>What do you do?

>>4205486
investigate the accident what has awoken us?

>>4205486
Think about what the "strange dreams" were, then investigate.

>>4205502
i cna support that

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>>4205505
>>4205502
>>4205499
Trying to recall strange dreams? Eugh, something about... a storm of endless pink rain flooding the land, and you trying to swim and stay afloat, not drown in it like everyone else.

Ok Lucy... you can do this...

You try to peek out one of the basement windows to see what's going on, but unfortunately can't see much of anything through the dusty windows. Taking a deep breath then... even though you don't seem to need to breathe, you try and climb your way out of the basement and back onto the street.

-yeowch! Argh, I just got these... clothes?

While trying to contort your way to fit out of the window, you snag yourself on a sharp part of the metal grate. More out of habit than pain you flinch, but more than anything are annoyed that you got a tear on your new clothes. Trying to check your gum body however, you notice some of the water you'd stored inside yourself, leaking out through where you got snagged almost like blood. Though unlike a human body, you can easily just will the puncture to close so no problems there, but when you look back to the metal grate and see... well, it had been a metal grate but you can see the sharp part where it snagged you is dripping with some of the sugary pink water...

...it's gum now? That can't be right...

Leaning down to get a better look, it appears that where the grate made contact with you, it has now transmuted from metal into... chewing gum. Easily enough you can just break (or stretch) off the portion of the grate that's turned to gum to examine for yourself, and do with it as you please just like any gum part of you. And looking at the grate you can see where the part transformed to gum, just separated off from the rest of the grate that remains metal.

Strange, you're not really sure what to make of it... something to think about as you straighten yourself up and fix your clothes after a night spent squatting in a dusty old basement, pat yourself off and try to look presentable as you leave the alleyway for the street. A pretty small crowd has gathered with a couple people yelling at each other and some car horns honking, just looks like a mundane rear-end collision. Someone didn't hit the brakes in time when the car ahead of them did.

A bit of a letdown for you to have woken up to, but it's not like you were hoping for some huge catastrophe. Either way, you're awake now, up and about and ready for a new day while observing the small accident among the onlookers... seemingly no one the wiser to you or your appearance.

>What do you do?

>>4205608
Well seem like we can take a walk possibly practice talking first we need to figure out breathing and exhaling a steady stream of air then we can start changing how the air comes out like a whoopy cushion

>>4205680
It seems you've got the hang of movement, as well as at least attempting to appear normal and blend in among people.

The next obvious thing then would be speech, which you figure has got to be similar to breathing, right? Well just by instinct you're going through the motions of breathing even if you don't need it, so how much harder can it be to try and speak? Or at least make some noise?

Although, even if you can talk, it's not like there's many folks around you could speak to. Having to search for anyone who might know English...

>Make a roll, to see if you're able to manage speech with your new "body".

Rolled 94 (1d100)

>>4205763

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>>4205798
>94

Well that was easier than you might have expected. Using your effort at breathing as a foundation to build on, you try and concentrate on forming a throat and such for yourself, an effort to make noise at least.

It takes a few minutes of trying and practice, but eventually you go from vocalizing sounds to attempting words. And best of all, your voice sounds somewhat human with practice. Maybe even eventually you could sound like your true self again.

"Hhh... hhheeelloo... mhyna... my name... is Lucy..."

You might not feel capable of a full and detailed conversation with someone right now, but it seems likely you could manage a short or simple exchange, like ordering food or asking for directions. And just your luck that you should manage to find someone around who you can actually communicate with.

"Inglés? Little, señora."

"Umm... what... town... is... this?"

You hope you don't come off as insulting, to the fellow you heard speak some English words at the scene of the accident. You try your best though to fully form and speak the words properly.

"Hermosillo... ay, see here?"

Probably seeming like a lost tourist, it'd be a help to know where you are. Fortunately, and with help of a map hanging just inside a nearby store, he is able to point out where you are. By the look of things, significantly far from Baltimore, but not too far from the border.

Probably being polite, the fellow asks the obvious question if you're lost or need any help, and maybe some help could be nice. But at the same time you'd like to not rely on strangers, nor spend any time closely interacting with people if you can avoid it. You do your best to conceal yourself with your disguise but it makes your behavior seem strange, and eventually someone is bound to notice something about you if you deal as closely with them.

Either way though, at least you have a sense now of where in the world you are and which way is home. Not to mention of course, the ability to speak again.

>What do you do?

>>4205875
Well, seems to me we're not too far from the border at least.
Also, with the whole gum transmutation, I'd wager that it'd be a good idea to experiment and try and replicate it. Theoretically it'd be a good way to snowball in power and actually become a superhero or supervillain if we wanted to.
thematic music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3LVGBB94eY

>>4205979
That's true, you're not close to home but you are at least not too far from your home country. If you could somehow get transport, you imagine you could probably be back in the USA in just a couple days or so.

As for experimenting though, that's your call to make, as for how you want to go about it. And of course, where you want to do it such as seeking out some personal space for it or elsewhere.

>>4206065
Yeah, dark secluded isolated area. Please!

>>4206081
You could rely on that same dilapidated basement. Otherwise you might need to go searching farther away for some suitable place. Maybe you could hope to find some abandoned building but this doesn't seem to be a particularly large town, certainly not industrial for any warehouse or factory sorts of buildings.

>>4206081
should we find a spot somewhere outside town and test the limit of our bubble gum turning power turning and converting bubble gum to form a pocket underground we can hide in and store extra mass a kind of nest

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Apologies for a little later start

>>4206503
>>4206081
If you were out in the middle of nowhere, or in some big city, you could probably find a place distant from people or abandoned. Ironically though, in a stable town like this it's more difficult. With care to not get noticed however, and enough searching around, you can find a cinema that is closed on Sundays. Therein you're free to experiment as you please... well, you might cause some damage but how destructive you choose to be is up to you, it's for a good cause after all so you're sure the owners would understand.

Just a question of what you want to do in order to experiment and learn more about yourself?

As well, you suppose you try to venture out of town, off into the outskirts a ways where there's really no one around, and possibly construct a lair for yourself. Certainly that would be a much greater degree of freedom and isolation, however on the other hand it would mean a rougher living than in civilization.

>What do you do? How you'd like to experiment and such.

>>4207618
what needs do we even have? water? we could just pick a random spot under a rock or a sheet of metal and dig into under the ground and slowly turn it into gum so we kind of sink into the ground with it

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>>4208779
Well it's been about a day now, and you haven't felt hungry or thirsty... strange, you hadn't really noticed it before and only now that you think about it. You certainly hope that you still can eat and drink, but for now it doesn't feel like you need to. If anything perhaps just water you imagine, if you want to maintain a gooier or malleable consistency.

Of course that's just things you might need in order to survive. You still would obviously prefer comfort however, that civilization offers compared to just living rough in the wild. It's not a need but you'd be pretty unhappy if it became your life.

For the purpose of experimenting though and better understanding yourself, you try to venture at least a little ways out of town. Of course to completely leave it would take many hours of travel but you can at least find a dusty storage lot that is relatively more isolated than the other places you've been. So with a trashcan lid you've brought with you, and a pipe you can find, you try and get a hang of what you can do...

"Here goes."

Nervously, with some hesitation over whether this will work, you lift up your shirt and puncture yourself by jamming the pipe into your belly area. Wincing from the discomfort, you give it a few moments before trying to withdraw the pipe and after some difficulty unsticking it, you see more of the same from before. The portion that stabbed inside you has turned to gum with residue running down it and taking the process further.

As well, pink syrup starts to seep out and comes to land on the ground. Again the strange transmuting process continues as the syrup splatters down and soon the ground itself changes pink and gummy. A simple effort after, for you to then reach down and grab the transformed gum to incorporate into yourself more.

"Blegh, it's dirty!"

Though the process seems complete, it's inevitable that the gum would be covered in dust and dirt and such, at the limit point between transformed gum and the normal rest of the ground. Unpleasant for you, it feels gross to have sand and dirt like that on your body, and you'd very much want to find a way to get rid of it.

But besides that, there's now a small crater in the ground where you picked up the transmuted gum. And as more of the syrup inside leaks out and splatters to the ground, more and more gum forms. Indeed if you wanted, you probably could just continue to pour more syrup down into the ground, transform it into gum and pick it up to create a downwards tunnel into the earth.

Though, you hope you can come up with an easier way of exposing things to your gooey core, easier than having to puncture outer gum layer each time...

>What do you do?

>>4209223
Intriguing. I wonder if we could condense our gum into some sort of pseudo-muscle and potentially improve our strength... What am I saying? why not try that right now!

>>4209299
If only you had an understanding of anatomy, or candy! Though you can imagine something like an organ or muscle system, actually creating something like it is... not so easily done, when at best you can only try to imagine what you're attempting and will your body to do so. On top of that, the lack of familiarity with your strange new form.

However, it can't hurt to try! With concentration and patience then, as well as plenty of new gum to spare, you try to condense your gum into a form more capable of strength. As you are, you can support your weight and that's about it. Eventually though by condensing and compacting your gum enough, you're able to make a dense but strong form. It takes a lot of effort on your part and you feel... not exhausted really since you don't need to breathe nor seem to get tired, but less able to exert yourself for a time.

In any case however, you do indeed end up with a decently strong form, capable of much more than simply holding your own body up. Though, like with having a rigid body when you toughen your gum up, it does make normal movement difficult and awkward by appearance. You wonder if on the other hand, by making your form more gooey, if there was a comparative way of also increasing your strength?

Something to consider, but already your experiments have yielded some valuable results, if only to help you better understand yourself! You could continue

>What do you do?

>>4209398

Rolling for groundbreaking gum discovery.

Maybe we can stretch ourselves out at will or something.

Rolled 41 (1d100)

>>4209498

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>>4209498
>>4209499
>41

Groundbreaking gum discovery? Well it seems you're only limited by your imagination but... maybe if you... tried constricting your body more...

"Bleurgh! Oops..."

Having already formed something of an esophagus in order to speak, in the process of contorting your body and squeezing yourself in strange ways, you end up... well, puking essentially, or it would be if you were still human. Instead though, you spew out some of your gooey syrup core over a short distance, coating much of the ground and creating more gum up to a fair few feet away.

That's certainly easier than having to jab holes in yourself, though you have to wonder how much and how far you could get it if you really tried or altered your body to be better for it

"What about... reaching out extra far?"

As for stretching, well that seems like it would be easy enough if you made your form more gooey and viscous, like actually chewed gum. When you're all rigid and solid, it's already difficult to move like normal let alone something you couldn't normally do like stretching. But if you were to alter your form, you're not sure what other characteristics you might take on...

You also might want more water, since your current tough form doesn't really need water but the opposite might. That's if you're still eager to experiment though, you could try to move on elsewhere for a more comprehensive chance at knowing what you're capable of. Or you could just remain here till you're more sure of yourself before moving on.

>What do you do?

>>4209540
Make sure to absorb up any gum we transmute, Put it somewhere it would be convenient.
Also, potential solution to the awkward movement problem with the muscles: Try and make joints made out of softer gum!

>>4209560
Well there's only so much gum you can incorporate into yourself while still appearing humanoid! Eventually your size and/or shape would be too much to pass as a person. Though if you had a storage place that would be fine, but are you planning on remaining here long enough for that to be worth it?

As for the movement, it's not too much a problem with the joints, so much as that the parts between are essentially solid and unyielding. As if everything besides your joints was made of solid wood or something. You can walk down the street but... well, it's awkward.

>>4209602
Maybe make the muscles a little less dense?
Also maybe we could acquire some sort of portable container for excess gum, Would be useful in a pinch if we get into a battle where normalcy has definitely been thrown out the window (super vs super is what i'm saying). Unless we want to say "fuck it" to secret identities since we effectively are a nobody right now.

>>4209638
Making things less dense would certainly help. Basically the more gooey you are the easier it will be to move, but as seen before it comes with its own drawbacks.

As for portable container, what did you have in mind? A bucket? A wheelbarrow? A car? It seems likely you could just stow a bunch of gum in a place to bring with you in case you should ever need it, but the source of transport is the question.

In any case with the sun on high, it's afternoon so worth considering if you plan to remain here or if you want to move on. If the former, then finding accommodations may be a good idea.

>>4209662
Okay! I'd say make the muscles firm, but not entirely solid. Enough to give way to some slight compression.
As for container, I'd say like some sort of tank we can wear on our back. But now that I'm thinking about it, even a Jerrycan could do.

>>4209685
A middle ground then, not solid or gooey but... bendy, at least.

Same with container, perhaps just a conventional backpack would do? Or hiding some storage container in a backpack. Probably about as easy as stealing your clothes was. Whatever sorts of preparations you'd like to make before moving on really, unless you plan to stay.

>>4209723
A backpack would do, but peeling gum off of fabric is never a good feeling, even if you are made of it.
Once that's out of the way, I'd feel that we should start heading north back into the USA, Since... y'know, English.
>realize this takes place 5 years into the cold war
inb4 we find out the ussr took over with like an absolute fuckton of superhumans

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>>4209743
Well you could do something like get a backpack and then have something non-sticky inside lining it, like a plastic case or bag or something. To get the bag itself at least, should prove easy enough in any case if you're careful. Again you're not proud of the theft, but you don't really have much choice.

Because of it though, you'll probably want to get out of here if you can. Already by the time you return to the street you awoke on, there's some men that you'd guess to be police at the candy store talking with an employee. Reported theft of your clearing out all the gum in the store?

Feeling like returning to the USA would be good right about now, you don't feel like there's much to keep you here anyway. Maybe the situation about where the candy store got the gum from, as to how you got here... but even if you did know, you don't expect it would change your course of actions much. You want to get home, or at least return to the USA and there's little can come in the way of that.

But the matter of, how you want to try to return home? And, where to? According to that map you saw, you're at a distance from either California, Arizona, or New Mexico, with Arizona being the closest... there's also Texas you suppose but that's farther away. By choosing any which one, you still need means of getting there. You'd hope not to have to hitchhike, but maybe that's your only option? Unless you get creative or resort to something else...

>What do you do?

Rolled 81 (1d100)

>>4209773
Seems we got a plan set out for us, then.
Rolling to nab some bags and set out.
I'm not sure if vehicular travel is an option, We only know English and we don't have any money to pay for a bus or anything. Plus being in close quarters with other people shows the risk of revealing our sticky, pink-colored nature.
We don't seem to need food or water, though if worse comes to worse somehow we could probably get cactus water or something, Lets just hope that our body isn't susceptible to stomach-aches...

>>4209850
well when we travel we could have extra gum and use it to transport our humanoid body

>>4209850

If we are cold assholes, then we could potentially just transmute our enemies into gum if they find out.

But since we're just a normal gum-woman, it'd probably be an accident.

>>4209850
>>4211005
>>4211082
i wonder if gum we make can keep characteristics from what they come from.
and when we out there in the desert lets go full cactus living while we travel to america s effective as possible while we experiment possibly try and line our self in cactus drinking there fluids when we need to and mostly under the night moving as fast as we can. also we could try to make a thin layer over our whole body that we make at flexible and dry as we can to not lose water

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>>4211005
>>4211082
>>4211140
>>4209850
>81

Well incidentally, while making your preparations to depart from town, by sheer chance you notice that there is a bus service that passes through town. Some Mexican coach company, if you could manage the money you could probably get yourself a ticket. From Monterrey to Tijuana or somewhere between, depending on which US state you want to try to enter by, you probably could find service as long as you're willing to wait a number of days... considering this is a small town so not a frequent stop.

It's not hitchhiking but perhaps preferable to trying to make the journey on foot? Certainly it would be faster and more comfortable, though naturally it would mean first having to obtain some money and then a possible risk of being noticed. But then again, who knows what risks you might encounter trekking overland on foot?

Just something to consider, before you make your departure...

>>4211318
going back to town and earning some money would be good and take the buss or we could try and move out in the desert and try and fill up with as much water as possible in a as water tight and rubbery gum so we can, so we move our joints with some speed and follow the road or something to america if we even walk in the right direction?

>>4211330
As long as you get a map, preferably a roadmap, in theory you should be able to follow the roads to where you want to get to, provided it's en route to a city or so otherwise you might encounter roads that aren't paved.

As you may expect though this will take quite some time, and probably be dangerous. But certainly not impossible, it'd be worth a roll or two for your success.

>>4211359
>>4211330
And should add, on the other hand, if you want to try to gather some money for travel you may want to specify how you seek this money. Whether it be by criminal means or honest, though naturally for the latter you might need to get creative since it's not like you can just pick up a job for awhile here.

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>>4211365
i am really hard trying to try figure out way we can earn money and the only think at the moment with how we dress being a scp prostitute but we could try and do some small work that menial? like we weird reverse of the stereotypical mexican in america thing

>>4211485
Undeniably cursed idea.
>"de ninguna manera marica"

>>4211485
We could try and get some job like sweeping infront of a store also if we can make gum we could repay the shop owner we robbed and possibly earn money in a legal but creepy way

>>4211530
>>4211525
>>4211485
So you actually want to try and get a job? lol

It... could be possible, but obviously it will significantly increase the time you will spend here, in order to make some money. As in, the process of trying to get work in the first place as an American unable to speak Spanish, and then after that working long enough to earn enough money for a ticket.

All the while, hoping during that extended time, you don't get noticed as being made of gum! But again, anything's possible!

>Make a roll, if you're committed to this job idea. If you have an idea of work you could manage, the more realistic it is for someone like you to be able to accomplish, the easier the difficult of the roll will be.

>>4200984
>>4211485
Also for these delightfully horrific artworks, you've earned a reroll chance. Should you fail a roll miserably, you get the chance to reroll one time.

>>4211365

If this is some cold-war era time, then we could just... I don't know... transmute doors into gum, walk right in and steal some $$...

Not too much that we become crappy criminals but enough to get us by until we get to some civilized place.

Bank/store securities suck and there are not a million cameras/smartphones to film your existence.

Rolled 50 (1d100)

>>4211832

Rolling to become a small-time bank robber. The rest we can think of from there.

>>4211832
>>4211842
Bank robbery is bound to bring attention even without wide-spread cameras.
I'd say petty theft and pickpocketing is more our league unless we want to become EEEEEVVVVIIIIIIILLLLLL

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>>4211842
>>4211863
>>4211832
>50

In a desperate position as you are, it seems crime may be the easiest way out. Again, you're not proud of it nor do you particularly want to resort to criminal acts, but you don't have a lot of choice if you want to be quick about things.

And so when deciding what you want to do... well bank robbery seems like the highest extent of what you could get up to around here. You imagine it wouldn't even be that hard if you were careful. Something like, wait till the place was closed and then just gum-tunnel your way inside. Perhaps even a bank vault couldn't stop you from turning it into gum.

Even though it may be possible though, you'd like to avoid getting a profile if you can. The thought of turning to villainy... maybe you're not totally opposed to it, don't you deserve a better life after all this hardship? But if you were to become a villain, at the very least you could become an American villain. So with that in mind, you just resort to simpler robbery.

And it's something you've done already anyway. Sneaking into stores and stealing things, you've already thieved candy and clothes, how much harder is it to steal from a register? So spying out a business or three, you wait until nightfall and once again make use of your new body's ability to change shape and contort. You could gum transmute your way inside but that would draw more attention, so you settle just for sneaky mundane points of entry.

So, after a long night spent, you manage to make off with a bundle of pesos in bills and coins. You're not sure of the exchange value, but you're just looking to get a bus ticket in pesos without any exchange need. You'll want to be quick about it though; after this string of robberies over the last few days, the police are bound to get more and more involved.

Just a question of, where do you want to head? Your hopeful point of entry back into the US, that is.

>California? Arizona? New Mexico? Texas? Or something else if you wish. Depending where you choose, will determine which bus destination you seek.

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>>4211863

True evil would be luring randoms into our gum nests and transmuting them into gum.

>>4211899

California. That's where the money's hot.

>>4211899
Arizona, then further north into Nevada.
No, we are NOT going to cali no matter what year it is.

>>4211920
>>4211969
>>4211914
Oh dear oh dear, seems there's disagreement!

Any option is viable, though for what it's worth, Lucy would prefer a city location (or at least not a desert climate) if only because it's what she's used to. The bigger the city and/or the more temperate, the better. At least, ideally speaking. Obviously a life change as significant as being turned into chewing gum, changes priorities. If there was a need to hide out in a desert somewhere, because of risk of discovery, well survival overrules all else.

>>4211997

Heckkit then let's go to Seattle!

>>4212036
Why go to Seattle when we can go to MOTHERFUCKIN' LAS VEGAS!

>>4212049

That actually makes more sense for now.

We can become a gum-flapper/entertainer if gambling doesn't work.

My rationale for Seattle was that the climate was similar to Baltimore (a little colder, I know). If it's past 1960, no Seattle plz.

>>4212049
support

>>4212061
Has the climate has class the crime and the language

Just a heads up, we will be playing today but the timing may be hectic because of some errands.

>>4212218
>>4212061
>>4212049
Well it's not the best climate, either for your preference or for your condition, but you certainly could do worse!

With that in mind then, and assuming you're still in agreement, you'll be headed Nevada way and trying to catch a bus in that direction.

>>4213101
Onward, to greatness!

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>>4212218
>>4212061
>>4212049
Getting back to the USA, there's no question about that. As for where and how though... you suppose you'd most like to just be back home in Baltimore, your same old life. But as you are, that's unfortunately impossible. So instead... perhaps California? As stereotypically naive as it may be for a young woman, Hollywood seems so glamorous that you'd love to see it, and the place to be if you have to spend some time finding your feet again till you're cured of your condition.

As for how to get to Hollywood though, it seems like a bus to Tijuana is your best bet to enter California, but any such bus isn't expected by here for at least a week if you read the schedules at the little excuse for a bus station.

"Argh... I don't wanna wait that long..."

Disappointing, but not much you can do about it. Rather than spend any further time here if you can avoid it... and the police, it seems you'll have to adjust your plan in order to reenter the USA... by way of Arizona, if this map you stole is accurate. There's a bus headed that way tonight, you'll take a detour if it means leaving now, even if it means having to travel through much of Arizona and perhaps Nevada even to reach California...

---

Many hours of an unpleasant bus ride later on, and you eventually find yourself at Nogales by morning. A town bisected by the US-Mexico border, you're of course on the Mexico side but already notice signs of proximity to your home country. And just beyond the big fence it lies.

The question is, of how you want to get over. Not like you have any forms of ID, so you wouldn't expect to be able cross normally like anyone else. And the bus you rode on obviously only goes as far as the border, not crossing it.

Still, even presented with these obstacles, you're in a lot better state than you were before. This is a bigger town, approaching more your speed and already you hear some people speaking English here and there.

>What do you do?

>>4213505
just cross it over the night we have the perfect grip for climbing and we can layer some gum over the spikes so we dont harm our clothes or flesh and then take the gum with us

>>4214299
but i Think we stay here a while first we need to find ourself a Place to be

>>4213505
Look for any exploitable weaknesses in the fence.

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>>4214961
>>4214524
>>4214299
Given your experience so far at burglary of some buildings thanks to your abilities, crossing the border shouldn't be... too difficult. The only problem is that it's in plain sight pretty much always.

So spending most of the rest of the day sneakily patrolling along the border, you attempt to scope out wherever you can to make a crossing best. In the end, you can come across a particular spot that lines up with some denser buildings, an alleyway in particular. It might look suspicious, but come evening time when you notice not as many people out and about, you can upend a trash can and drag it to the wall.

Then, just pull the thing right up against it to cover your gum-shifting a space in the wall enough for you to crawl through. Taking the gum with you afterward of course, it now looks like someone just rolled a trash can up against the wall rather than specifically using one to cover a hole. And once on the USA side, you can also find something to cover up the hole.

It's not perfect really, but it should be at least by tomorrow before anyone notices. Plenty of time for you to get out of here and move on. Although, now you're finally back in your home country, did you want to take care of any business first of all? Or you could just move on, try to be out of here by tonight such as taking another bus... after obtaining some US dollars by unsavory means once again.

>What do you do?

Rob moar.

We need dough from nice border towns.

>>4216204
Resort to proper criminality you mean? If you want any serious amount of money, you'd need to engage in more serious crimes than just burglary.

Otherwise it will take you quite some time to gather a worthwhile supply of funds if you try to keep it simple as before and taking care to not get noticed so much.

>>4216204
>>4216220
i say we rob by partially melting the top of news paper stands or gumballmachines in stores we only need buss fonds

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>>4216638
>>4216204
Well that's simple enough, even if it is admittedly petty. Not to mention embarrassing when you try to buy a ticket using a pile of coins. But it's hardly hurting anyone much to rob these machines, compared to businesses or persons directly. And it's just a one time thing while you are here in this town, which you hope to soon depart.

A one way ticket to Los Angeles from here, and pretty soon you'll be on your way to your new life! At least while your strange condition persists, till you can return home. Just a couple stops, some places called Phoenix, Las Vegas, and other rinky-dink towns along the way....

---

The bus ride this time is a lot better, a proper American coach and people who can speak the same language. Though of course you still have to limit your contact with others as much as you can, else your disguise is seen through.

That's hardly a problem for you though, and easier still just to mind your business on the bus as it travels the dusty roads of the American Southwest, making stops here and there in quaint little desert settlements. One after the other, just stops along the road, nothing to write home about and certainly nothing like Baltimore or other cities on the East coast. Nor on the West coast for that matter, Los Angeles awaits you and nothing between here and there is going to-

"Wh-What? Wait a minute, what... what is this place?"

It had seemed all the same to you as the countryside and small towns passed you by, staring out the bus window in boredom without actually looking at anything. A lovely sunset over the desert but not much else. You'd figured much the same when the driver announced the approach to a next stop, why would you assume this next place would be any different from the five or so tumbleweed towns before it?

It takes pinching yourself then to confirm it's not a strange dream, when you first catch sight of bright lights in the distance in the middle of the night, in the middle of the desert. And doubly so when you end up halfway blinded by the rainbow glow of neon all around you, both sides of the streets.

"This isn't Los Angeles... where... what is this place?"

According to the bus driver, at your asking... Las Vegas? You've heard of it... you think. The name sounds familiar, but no more than other American cities you've maybe heard in conversation or read someplace once or twice, and know little to nothing about. Little concern to you, on the other end of the country.

Seeing this place now though, you wonder why you weren't familiar before... and perhaps if it should be your concern? More than Los Angeles in any case, this isn't Hollywood but it seems like something else altogether worthwhile. Some strange oasis of light out in the middle of the desert you'd never really heard of...

>What do you do?

>>4218250
Well, I guess this is our stop now.
We're headin' to Vegas!

>>4218269
You want to get off the bus, remain here?

Well it's not Los Angeles... but you suppose you could. If you do intend on remaining here though, what your list of priorities first?

>>4218303
Figure out how the heck a city in a desert with this much water and light can be kept alive in a desert of all places!(wander around being amazed by all this razzle dazzle) and also a place to hide, we could if we gum up the ground or use gum as glue for junk to make a basic shelter

>>4218303
Probably find somewhere to live, maybe.

>>4218489
>>4218385
It's true that if you plan on staying here at least for awhile, you'll want someplace to reside. Your first thoughts are to a lovely house to live, as you might have imagined back home. However this place doesn't exactly seem the house sort of place, at least not anywhere close to the bright lights and action. Even just a few minutes walking around and you can see that many of these flashy lit up buildings are... hotels? Or something like that, they have rooms available at least, it seems.

As well, because of your abilities, you don't suppose you have to actually reside in a traditional residence or room. You imagine you could construct your own sort of lair to suit you, away from prying eyes. Just a matter of whichever option you prefer.

Though of course, money is limited for you. Earning some, may be a prerequisite if you want something like a residence to call your own, be it a house or a condo or some such.

>>4218535
Lair in the outskirts? Lair in the outskirts.

>>4218575
Lair like a gum lair? You can make a roll then if you like, to find a suitable spot!

Though, it won't be comfortable, basically a hole in the ground. But it's better than nothing!

>>4218645

Rolled 54 (1d100)

>>4218725

A load of time here, and I still have no clue how to roll dice...

Rolled 90 (1d100)

>>4218645

Hey all apologies for the late heads up but have been busy all day. It's already pretty late to start now, so may just leave it for tomorrow to continue.

>>4220762
No problem see you later

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>>4218727
>>4219639
>90

Well it's already night out so not the best circumstances to wander off searching for a place to dwell. However, as lit up as this city is at night, you could certainly do worse! So for the rest of the night you make your way around, somewhat aimless if you have to admit but you manage to get a better sense for the city. Seems mostly oriented around a couple main streets, on which the casinos and resorts are built, and then beyond that not much else besides residential areas. Not too large a town really, but clearly very built up in the relatively small area it occupies.

For your purposes though, after many hours spent traversing the outskirts of town, you manage to locate a spot before dawn. And quite a good location if you do say so, an auto-scrapyard that's already out of the way, and you can find a stack of cars towards the back, underneath which you can create your gummy lair.

By sunrise, you've essentially tunneled underground far enough to create a decently big space for you, and of course not immediately beneath the car stack so that the whole thing doesn't cave in on top of you.

"Wonder how long until bugs start to show up..."

Of course there's bound to be limitations to your hideout, particularly since the whole place is coated in sugary chewing gum. But for now, and your first step into this city, it should do.

Either way, you can sleep for awhile, after being out all night. But by midday or so, you can be up and about, active again for the day... or night ahead.

>What do you do?

>>4222773
what is our current goal in life right now?

>>4222808
Well probably first and foremost you'd like to find a way to cure your condition. Being able to return home to a normal life, is your general desire...

...although, you do recognize that your situation enables you to do things you couldn't before. Sure you'd like to not be made of chewing gum, sure you'd like to return home, but supposing your condition enables you to have a new life? A better life, here?

Well, perhaps you could get used to being made of gum if it meant having a pleasant and comfy life, or even a successful one. You don't fancy yourself a hero or villain, but could imagine yourself as one if it meant better living. Something you'd have to see, sure you might be homesick for your old life, but a promising new life could appeal even more...

>>4222882
The prospect of a better life, certainly an alluring prospect. One worth seeking, definitely.
I think we should seek to improve our living condition right now, Squeezing ourself into a cave with nothing to do isn't the best of choices. But that can wait until after we take a rest, of course!

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>>4222958
Yes, if you can attain a happy and comfortable life here, then you'd gladly put up with being made of gum, especially if it helped contribute to that new life!

For now though, you'll have to see what you can manage with what you've got.... after a long rest that is. Feels strange, and perhaps a little gross even to essentially go to sleep in a giant gum cocoon, but it'll have to do for now...

---

You have strange dreams of drowning in sand, and several hours later you awaken feeling much the same way.

"Whew, it's like an oven in here!"

Your gummy lair is dreadfully hot, so much so that the gum "walls" have started to droop and melt, and indeed you yourself have a hard time maintaining your consistency. If only for some fresh air, you clamor on out of your hideout, met by the blazing desert sun... but a pleasant breeze at least.

Slouched over and practically dragging yourself along, you manage to find some shade among the scrap cars, and thankfully can regain your consistency a little better. Although, you feel quite thirsty as expected! Well maybe not thirsty as you've no need to drink, but dried out and even a little painful to move. It seems if you want to avoid the heat here, you'd need to make your lair deeper underground, or otherwise obtain a more proper shelter.

But you're awake now, a little after midday you'd guess. You don't feel too great but it's nothing that wouldn't be too hard to remedy. Just a question of whether you want to leave here, perhaps for someplace in town to busy yourself in the meantime.

>What do you do?

>>4223040
Then deeper we shall go! Its not like we would have trouble getting out of it, since we're sticky.

>>4223040

Let's head to a casino. Seems interesting enough.

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>>4223289
You'd like to get a better impression of this strange desert town you've wound up in, though first of all it's hardly much trouble for you to remake your lair but this time tunneling even deeper. Eventually you get to a point where you feel confident that it's safer from the heat above, although at the same time it's also very dark so you can't see much of anything. But still, it's a safer location for you now.

After that endeavor though, you really are all dried out and wouldn't have any more liquid filling inside you. Feeling pretty awful for it then, you struggle to slump your way back to town, quite literally looking like you just rolled in out of the desert.

"Eeesh... sooome tooown..."

While doing your best to find something to drink as well as avoiding people, you manage to navigate your way back to the downtown area once more. In the daytime now there's not all the bright lights to distract you, giving the place at least a marginally more "normal" look as a town. At the same time though, the lights can't distract you from some unsavory sights you notice along the way... burlesque shows, strip clubs, and worse. You'd blush when walking by such places if you weren't already pink, and instead settle for covering your face with your hat out of embarrassment, especially when on occasion a doorman or such calls your attention trying to entice your interest to their various... establishments. Thankfully most of the places don't seem to see much business in the day.

Considering the main attraction in this town seems to be casinos and the like, you suppose it would be inevitable that unsavory other businesses would also gather here. Though to be fair, in effect you had to go looking for them because you're trying to keep off the main streets here, to avoid as much notice. Indeed, the main drag remains pretty as a picture, it's just the back streets that gather trash so to speak.

"Wooow... niiiice plaaace..."

Eventually though out of curiosity you can find your way towards one of the main casinos, to get a better look. Even in the daytime here it appears to be active, though just a cursory glance and you can see you might do well not to try and enter. From your dehydrated and drooping appearance, to the very dirty state of your own set of clothes, you would stand out like a sore thumb when everyone else inside looks nicely dressed. Or at least, their clothes aren't disheveled and covered in sand, dust, and soaked sticky with sugary syrup and chewing gum residue. Even just standing outside and observing from a distance, you're drawing looks.

Of course you only came here just to get an impression, but if you want to try going into places and interacting with people, you'll probably want to fix up your clothes or get new ones and as well to chug a gallon or three of water and figure out what consistency would suit you best in this climate.

>What do you do?

>>4223480
go to a bathroom if they have it to freshen up lets chug a good ammount of there free water and try and figure out how to use our own gum to unstick the residue

>>4223577

This.

Also if that doesn't work, we should just make new gum to comprise our bodies with and then "browse the stores."

>rolling for success

Rolled 57 (1d100)

>>4224621

Rolled 13 (1d100)

>>4224621
support

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>>4224624
>>4224635
>57

That's not half a bad idea. It's not like the casinos seem to have a dress code, for the most part, but you can't just waltz in looking like you are. However, just asking to make use of the bathrooms? Keeping within proper taste, they don't outright refuse a lady, though they do tell you to make it quick.

"Whew, that's better!"

The casino is quite nice inside as you get a look at it on your way through, this one called the Fremont. But your focus is on getting to a bathroom and having some privacy, so waiting for a bit till you're the only lady present inside you can guzzle down water from a sink and loose your clothes some to get a better look at yourself.

If nothing else, the drink is greatly appreciated and before long you feel a lot better, not struggling to maintain your form. At least in terms of body, you can come across as a normal person again... accounting for disguise as well of course. Your clothes though are a different matter.

"Might need a professional cleaner for this..."

By experimenting with your consistency, you find that by taking on a gooier form you can at least draw off the gum-stained portions of your clothes. And indeed, you have something of an easier time appearing and behaving as a normal person. No need to worry about stiffness or difficult movements when your whole body is stretchy and squishy without any solidity.

It takes some practice and getting used to, but eventually you manage to be able to maintain a steady body while at this consistency, to be able to move about without drawing attention to anything strange. Just so long as no one unexpectedly grabs ahold of you, it shouldn't be a problem. And of course, it's easier on you in the heat outside.

Still though, even if your body is stable once again, your clothes are still a mess. Not stained pink and sticky but still dusty, unkempt, and ripped here and there. You can only fix yourself up so much after all. You imagine though if you could get your clothes properly fixed, or simply new clothes, then you'd be able to wander about the casino without trouble.

>What do you do?

Let's rob ourselves a store (again).

Then gamble ourselves crazy...

we could probably find a way to cheat with our gum powers or something like on slot machines

>>4224904
Hmm to get rid of the dust. you could lift up the coat and beat it hard with a compact gum rod then form a roller to pick up any dust left then try our hand at making thin dry rubbery strands we can use to repair the clothes by weaving it togheter or infusing the clothes with our gum probably turning it pink but kind of pristine if we do this right. Wonder about how would we even get a job? And is there a point to trying to disguise ourself sure we are a freak of unatural orgin but no one will know who we are

>>4225038
I really do want to gamble

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>>4225038
>>4225052
>>4225057
Well you can try to clean your clothes up better at least. Make it so you don't look like you just wandered in out of the desert. Mending the rips and tears here and there though isn't really possible to you even with your gum powers, at least not in a way that could make a good appearance.

But, at least you can step into a casino without drawing too much attention. Still not really dressed up to par with other people here though but it's a start.

"Oh, excuse me! Just on my way out."

Having rehydrated and cleaned off your clothes much better, you can leave the ladies room as well as the casino shortly after... only to enter into another casino just across the street, one where people haven't seen you already. Trying your best not to stand out, you can find a reception area and take a seat, act like you're waiting for someone while you bide your time.

The question is though, how to get some money now? It seems once again, before you can really get down to anything properly, you need money. Unlike back in Mexico however, here you could actually try to get a job, for your skills and not having to worry about the language. Though you do still have the problem of needing to maintain a disguise while also lacking any ID, and it seems like if you aren't careful around here you could end up working in one of those unsavory places you saw before.

Of course you could always resort to crime... again. Just a little, nothing too bad, something to help you find your feet! Though you if you were to go down this path you'd need to figure out a plan and where you want to rob, not to mention your status of disguise here. The longer you remain as your gum self, the more you wonder how much you need to hide it. Especially if you were to engage in criminal acts, not like a disguise would make much difference for you either way.

>What do you do?

Rolled 13 (1d100)

>>4225118

Maybe check our pockets for some cash to buy chips.

If not, we rob.

>>4225205
>13

You search yourself, but unfortunately find nothing. Looks like you'll have to resort to robbing!

Rolled 89 (1d100)

>>4225247

ROBBERY IT IS!

>>4225294
Well where do you want to try robbing? And have you any plan? Or same as before, just try to find a place and steal when it's closed?

>>4225298

Heck, the roll's good enough.

Let's give one of the less-populated casinos a try!

>>4225413
Oh you mean open criminality, villainy even? Very well, you can probably find a casino to your liking to rob.

Just one question, how much do you care about making use of your gummy condition? Do you want to try to appear as a normal person still, or not care about using your gum powers for the robbery?

>>4225427

Appear as normal for as long as possible. We need a good trump card (our powers).

If someone manages to catch us, gum them to the floor. If we really get screwed, we can gum tunnel ourselves underground.

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>>4225471
>>4225294
>89

You never imagined you might resort to this, but the more time you spend around these casinos and see the money moving, the more you think it's the best idea. You're already sort of in disguise anyway now.

The trick will be, if you can pull it off without giving away your nature or powers. So you continue to sit and observe, particularly when you start to notice a pattern of some folks cashing out their winnings. Eventually you set your eyes on a mark and just wait for them to go through the same process, before you move to your feet and make for an approach...

"-oof!"

"H-Hey, my bag! Damn thief!"

You've never really done anything like this before, so you try your best and sort of think and react on the fly. The result being, you try to build up some momentum and forcefully bump into the guy quite hard. Being a man though and not made of chewing gum, the impact has more an effect on you than it has on him, but having caught him off guard you manage to get your arms around his case and tug away with all your might.

Wresting it free of his grip then, admittedly to your surprise, you're startled for a moment at the success before you quickly bolt out of the place. Thankfully you were already near the main entrance so by the time people realize anything is going on, you're already out the doors. Along the way, one of the doormen tries to grab you but when your body starts stretching away from him because of your gooeyness, he lets go in confused alarm.

"Get back here!"

"Give it up girlie!"

After that it's a chase for some ways down main street before you figure to take a side street to avoid as many people on the sidewalks. It's a close pursuit for sure, but eventually you manage to lose your pursuers by hiding behind a dumpster in an alleyway. Not the most pleasant experience, but as long as you remain careful... it seems like you can make it out of this with a small case full of money! Definitely enough to give you a lot of breathing room in town now.

Just hopefully people didn't get too good of a look at you. Sure you're wearing a disguise, but if the police get a sense of who to look for before you can get new clothes, then you may be in for some trouble!

>What do you do?

Rolled 90 (1d100)

>>4226879

Rolling to stealth into some clothing store.

>>4226926
>90

Well with that, you can definitely sneak into one, and still in the daytime no less!

With some caution you manage to walk into a clothing store as though you were just another customer, but without being noticed since the employees are currently busy with some tourist couple. As long as you play it normal then, you should be able to get some new clothes from here if you want and without drawing suspicion. Just a question of what you want, the clothes you'd like to dress in. It should be obvious, but there's a "western" trend here but that doesn't mean you can't find something more your style to wear. Or even not your style, for disguise purposes!

The important thing is, you've got more than enough money to afford it!

>>4226993
Not having to steal it is a big bonus

>>4226993
lets buy some nice clothes and work on making a human face or atleast convincing human skin would need to figure out a way to make it paler?

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>>4227460
>>4227402
Although you did just rob someone at a casino, if you can avoid crimes you will... at least for the time being. You've got a case full of money, it wouldn't kill you to actually buy some clothes for yourself.

"Sure thing you can try it on, changing rooms are back that way!"

Perusing through the place for awhile, you find some clothes you like or at least would suit your needs, and with some help from one of the employees can get a changing room to yourself. Finally some privacy, and the chance to get off these ratty clothes you've been wearing for over a week.

Also the chance to see yourself in a mirror.

"Wow... it really is all gum."

With changing your clothes in mind, you took off the ones you were wearing, but now you can fully see your body in the mirror without clothes. Again you feel pretty distressed over it, as much as you did when you first looked yourself over in the candy store, but now you get a sense of how other people see you. For some time you check out your reflection, mostly morbid curiosity and despair than anything else, seeing that indeed you are entirely made of pink bubble gum.

From this obsession though you're able to get a better sense of yourself with some positive results it seems. Most of all, that by observing yourself and concentrating, remembering, you are able to properly alter and shape your body to be as close as possible to your former human self. And without the need of physically trying to sculpt yourself like before when you manually shaped your face. Since your consistency is gooey and stretchy, just by concentrating and tensing your body it takes the most natural shape that feels "right" to you.

Still made of gum, but nearly indistinguishable from your former human self, only the hair and the color is a giveaway since you can't seem to be able to control your gum enough to be as fine as hair. Only a hair-shape at best, so maybe better to just stick to wigs.

"Hey yeah, what about the color?"

Maybe hair is your only limit, as you try to figure out how to change your color. Unfortunately it seems you're stuck pink... unless perhaps you found some different colored gum, but then you'd be purple or green or something! But pink though you are, again with concentration you seem to be able to change your hue. Not so much the gum itself changing color, but more like you increase or lower your moisture so that your exterior is either dark or light pink. And the light pink... it's not perfect, but it's a lot closer to how you were. If someone saw your whole body this color it would be obvious, but just small portions visible through your clothes like at your sleeves or around your face, it could probably fool them.

Well, with that in mind it's a question of how you want to dress now? And, how seriously or like "normal"? Your instinct is to try on underwear and then the clothes, but maybe you could just go with one big coat or something.

>What do you do?

>>4228583
Aight, While we have privacy and a mirror I guess it wouldn't hurt to try experimenting with mass-shifting n all, How fast we can do it and other stuff, Maybe some shameless self indulgence too.

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>>4228617
It's not like you're on a time limit here, as long as you're buying the clothes you can't imagine the owners getting upset at you.

With use of the mirror then you can attempt to alter your form more, particularly in regards to mass and proportions. Surprisingly you find it pretty intuitive, and after only some initial difficulty you think you've got a decent hang of it at least at a beginner's level. Through concentration and will you're able to alter your body as you please, and whatever you can't manage to change that way you can do so just by tensing or flexing your body there.

"Whoah! Uh... oops."

As horrific as it is to observe your body shifting and changing in such ways, it's also kind of exhilarating, like getting out of bed and stretching in the morning. Working out that stiffness and loosening up in ways that would have been impossible to you before. So much so that you end up stretching your legs too far and bashing into the ceiling.

Laughing nervously you try to return to your "normal" form then, making note of what you're capable of. Probably the biggest factor you think was your consistency and water content, and you can't imagine you'd be able to change your form so easily if you were of a more solid or dry consistency. Maybe you're not as tough or stable like this, but being able to completely alter your form at will like this is a pretty significant trade off.

"There, that looks nice! Ah but it's loose, if only... oh, that works..."

Returning your attention to getting dressed then, you try this and that on and manage to get a look you're happy with, but also can conceal your identity enough while also being appropriate for the desert climate here. Unfortunately the dress was sized wrong, and though your first instinct is to take it back for another... you try altering your body to fit instead. Sure enough, your body alters to fit and becomes all the curvier for it. Again, you'd blush if you weren't already pink.

In any case, you can purchase the clothes you picked out while hardly putting a dent in your funds at all, nor arousing suspicion over your appearance. After that it's just a quick trip around the back street to toss your old clothes in a dumpster. And with that, you've got a new appearance (both clothes and body) and a case full of cash, to do as you please. Compared to a couple hours ago, you are vastly more prepared to face this town and past the point of first steps.

>What do you do?

>>4228786
There is "medical" gum for teeth that we can use as teeth and mix with us to make us whiter and fun fact the whole reason why pink is the iconic colour is that it was the only colour he had when he invented it.
>now that we have money we can walk into a candy store and ask or browse the bubblegum section to find the possibly sentient gum thats just more of us.

How horrific would it be if all that gum was just like our starting wad

>>4228786
Well, No reason not to buy the clothes I suppose.
At least we learned that we can shift mass pretty quickly! That'll come in handy.

>>4228944
Support lets buy it

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>>4228876
>>4228944
>>4229057
That's true, there are different shades of gum however pink is likely the most abundant kind, not to mention you can transform other things into pink gum. Though there's no reason that should stop you from at least considering other things.

So you can purchase the clothes without trouble and leave the store feeling pretty great all things considered, a newly bought bag full of money and several other bags from the store filled with new clothes. A new set worn on your body, and as far as you can tell, passing by as just another normal person... as long as no one touches your "skin" or gets very close to look at you for some time.

What next? Well, last time you encountered gum was in Mexico. How about something here in the US?

"Got your eye on something ma'am? Just let me know."

Unfortunately in a town like this, finding specifically a candy store isn't so easy, in fact you doubt one may even exist. But you can find a grocer easily enough, either on the main streets or off, with a shelf in the store for confections usually in big glass jars. Chewing gum of course, is among the selection.

You can look it over though, wondering if any of it is also... like you. Sapient? Alive? Who knows, whatever you are. But you can't really think of any way to tell. Back in Mexico you had the store to yourself one night to do as you pleased, but here now you're trying to keep up appearances of a normal person so your actions are a little limited. Of course you could just buy it all anyway, not like you don't have an excess of funds.

>What do you do?

>>4230718

Buy a few different types of gum to experiment with.

>>4230993
support

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>>4230993
>>4231692
You can buy some different gum, it couldn't help to try out things with and it's cheap as hell of course. So some dollars later and you're walking out of the store with paper bags full of gum types.

Now just somewhere to... unfortunately your lair is on the outskirts of town and you don't have accommodations around here. You'd like to try staying at one of the resorts but right now it's not as pressing a matter. In the end though you can just request to use the women's restroom of another store, for some privacy there. As soon as you have the place to yourself, you hastily open the bags.

"Eeesh, imagine all green? Or all white?"

Trying out the different gum types, the first thing you notice is that it doesn't seem any of them are sentient like you were. Just normal gum to your senses. It's easy enough though to soften and incorporate the different gum types into your body. However, they end up just blending in and becoming a part of you like anything else, rather than changing you much. It seems likely that if you were to get enough gum of another type, then it could overpower your generic pink, and cause you to be that color from then on (as well as other properties possibly) as well as what your gooey core turns things into. However even white gum for example would be difficult, because then you'd just appear as stark white and strangely unlike any humans. Your default pink if lightened up a bit is pretty close to your former real skin color, but perhaps you could try blending the two colors some if you were able to get enough of such other types.

It's good to know however that you're not limited in your selection. It seems as far as you can tell that you can afford to rely on whatever gum you can find, even your own created, and are always able to fall back on whatever generic you can find in stores. Though of course you don't plan to have to rely on that, it's just some added extra safety in case you get caught out.

Besides that though you're not able to learn much else, not from just what you can buy out of a store jar. You'd like to see more what your own body is capable of but that you can't really do without a good amount of space and privacy. Alternatively you also wonder how more common day to day activities can go when you're like this... not to mention potential heroic or villainous acts! For what it's worth, it's only late afternoon so plenty of time left in the day and night after that when this place comes alive. Plenty of time to take care of any other business, including options available to you now with your stolen money.

>What do you do?

>>4233425
I guess we could find out more about the area? Maybe??

>>4233843
lets go gambling and see if we can hit it big time

thanks for running qm

>>4240005

Yep. Twas well-written and intriguing.

>>4240307

someone should archive this

>>4241066
I have no idea how

>>4241434

Will do upon return to pc

>>4241066
>>4241840

I've done it kings!!

>>4241935
Nice well done.
Too bad i never used the rerolls