Love Ranchers

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Love Ranchers

Because I've secretly shipped Septiplier and because they're both doing a Let's Play of Slime Rancher, my authoress mind couldn't help but create this fic. I'm watching them both play Slime Rancher, and I'm basing each slime ranch off what I've seen so far (Mark has more exotic slimes, more corrals, and an expansion, yet a lack of upgrades on his corral so far, whereas Jack has repetitive slimes and repetitive combinations so far, yet he doesn't really have more exotic slimes yet. And they've both used slime keys, but Mark did the expansion to his ranch). I also changed some stuff in the story of the game because...well, I don't know. I had to.

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Slime.

What was it about that word that made someone cringe?

Well, let's consider the word slime itself.

Slime was a simple five letter word that meant a moist, soft, and slippery substance, typically regarded as repulsive. And something repulsive was gross. Slime wasn't something you thought of as 'cute' or 'adorable' or regarded it with anything nice. In fact, if you even called someone slime, you were calling them the lowest of the low.

Now you may be asking what all that has to do with slime.

Well, it all started about fifty years ago.

Scientists had discovered another planet that was heading towards the earth. At first, people panicked, thinking that the two planets would collide. But that wasn't the case. Instead, this new planet was pulled in by the gravity of the sun and established an orbit that was eerily similar to Earth's. Further discovery showed that the planet was almost exactly like Earth, with geographical differences. No one knew who inhabited the planet, but that was what explorers were hired for. Ten people were sent to the planet to examine what could reside there. They were given a year to do so.

Six months into the exploration found the first slime.

A man had been looking around new land when he heard it. A squeal. A foreign sounding squeal at that, one that didn't sound like any human, nor animal he had ever heard. So carefully, he had taken his gun, and went off towards the sound.

What he found was...odd, to say the least.

There was a pink blob...thing on the ground, twitching. The man was cautious as he approached, and once he was within distance, he hit it as hard as he could with the butt of his gun. The blob just jiggled and let out an adorable squeal. The man was confused, then he freaked out when the blob turned on its own and smiled at him.

He promptly fainted.

A few hours later found him waking up to the blob gnawing on his shoe in obvious hunger. The man only had a pogoberry (the native fruit that resembled a passion fruit) he was going to eat later, which he tossed to the blob. The little thing quickly devoured it, giggled and made an odd motion. And then out popped a crystalline item from its...backside. The man sent it back to the Earth for examination. It was found to be a very expensive and valuable substance.

Once that was found out, people flocked to the new planet to try and farm for this substance. However, it didn't work. For some reason, the slimes (which were correctly named after scientists examined them) didn't respond well to the greedy people who tried to force them to produce plorts (again, correctly named after study). In fact, many of those people ended up devoured by the Tarr, dangerous, grayish slimes that ate anything and everything. Tarrs formed when Largos ate plorts that weren't like the ones they naturally produced, and many people though that once they fed a plort to slime, they could create super slimes that would produce high-priced plorts that would make them rich. Instead, they created Tarr, which could only be incinerated. Sadly, those greedy people ended up being eaten by the Tarr, never to be seen again. It was a horrible death apparently, since one man who was almost devoured by a Tarr but instead lost his leg. It was a horrible, painful gnawing that burned and it was the worst feeling in the world.