After attacking the corpse, I tried assimilating it to see how exactly the process worked. I ate it to see if that would do anything, I didn't feel any different.
"Well, good thing I have a lot of corpses to practice with."
I grabbed the ones that were drained of oil and got to work. I used my tendrils and claws to viciously attack them to see if anything would happen. Nothing.
"Dammit this isn't The Thing, it'll take more than just physical contact to do this."
I tried scrolling through different options again, this time very slowly to see if I could copy whatever I did last time.
"Come on, come on."
After an hour of going through different settings, I hit something that jolted me out of my chair.
"wH4T wa5 aT?"
My voice was starting to glitch and distort, my Solver activated on its own, my vision turned yellow.
"Hello there, little puppet," a voice said.
Well shit, I'm fucked.
"cYYYYYnN, g3T 0out 0f=F mY H3@dddD," I said.
"If you didn't want me here, head tilt, then why did you call me?" they said.
"n0T 1nT3nt10N@ll7," I said.
"Amused grin. Silly puppet, don't mess with things you don't know about," they said.
"01000100 01101111 01101110 00100111 01110100 00100000 01100011 01101111 01101110 01100100 01100101 01110011 01100011 01100101 01101110 01100100 00100000 01101101 01100101 00101100 00100000 01100100 01100001 01101101 01101101 01101001 01110100 00100001" I responded.
"Chuckle. Look at you, you're not even speaking English anymore. Don't worry, we'll fix you" Cyn said.
"Pleh ruoy gniviecer htiw elbatrofmoc ton mi," I told her.
"Sigh, just make this easy and don't resist," Cyn said.
My head hurt, I kept hearing Cyn's voice, then a wave of drowsiness hit me. Surely I could shut my eyes for a bit? I started to doze of but then my face collided with the floor.
"Visual annoyance, annoyed growl," Cyn said.
"Wha happen?" I asked.
"We are incapable of controlling you at the moment, but we can still communicate. What do you wish to talk about?" they said.
Well took a drastic turn. Fuck it, they should be able to tell me how to assimilate stuff into myself. Plus their mannerisms are amusing.
"W31l u Z3E, I w00d lik 2 Noww who 2 assimilate 00ters," I said.
"Happy smile. Joy. Cheering. I would be delighted to show you, but first let me try something," Cyn said, "Try talking now."
"Hello? Oh, alright. Thanks," I said.
"You're welcome, by the way. What's your name?" Cyn asked.
"Crawler," I answered.
"Ok, Crawler. To properly assimilate others, you must feel the Solver throughout your being. Every tendril and every single body part.It will not work properly until you do.," Cyn said.
"Oh that explains why that happened. Alright then, lemme see," I closed my eyes and took a deep breath.
Suddenly an overwhelming surge coursed through my body. I reached out for the corpse pile and just by making contact the remains were absorbed into my body. Yellow lit up the entire room, after it dimmed I saw the remains were gone.
"Congratulations!" Cyn said in a slightly louder tone of voice.
Guess she really was proud of me.
