Dozer

**Dozer** is an Essence Slime and the companion of Rain. Unlike a normal slime, Dozer is reasonably intelligent.

## Creation and naming

Dozer was a Crystal Slime that spawned in Rain's vicinity when he was trapped in the entrance of the Fells. Rain had already experimentally purified another slime as the future pet of Rina Ashworth, and purified this second slime in an experiment of monster-taming. While he managed to purify a large number of slimes after Dozer, Rain only could connect to Dozer after feeding the slime some mana/essence - using the same 'taming' methods on more slimes was not possible for Rain.

The laziness of the slime - he dozed a lot - as well as his unerring *bulldozing* movements when awake, let Rain dub his slime "Dozer". The pun is certainly lost on anyone in the World except for Rain. Dozer's work in tirelessly organizing the broken rocks of the cave-in made the name permanent.

Ava decided that Dozer was male, and Rain didn't argue her.

## Taming

Rain initially tamed Dozer by feeding him essence and a Tel to carry around. Afterwards, Dozer followed him around, but behaved erratically, and Rain had to 'train' him with mana/essence treats and shouting at him, focusing anger at the creature when it displeased him. Handing out mana to Dozer strengthened the early link between tamer and monster, and Rain realized that Dozer would follow orders better after having been fed. Rain noted that Dozer was a slow learner, but could in fact form memories and learn. Initially, Dozer jumped at other people and engulfed their legs in a 'friendly' manner.

More experiments left Rain with the conclusion that Dozer benefitted from Winter. It then turned out that the slime and the human were able to share vague feelings over the link - like discontent, excitement, contentment and mostly "happy confusion" when being talked to but not understanding anything. This linksight was a side-effect of Rain's broken soul, however; and clearer linksight was indicating a worsened condition.

During the Shift, Dozer got lost, but found back to Rain after two days, possibly based on link-sight. How the slime survived out in the ranked zone, remained a mystery. Rain figured out link-sight with the barrier obelisk of Fel Sadanis, and noticed three links back at the time, two towards his equipment and one to Dozer. Distance impeded the non-linksight and it could be lost, only the direction remaining known. In the newly founded Ascension, Dozer made himself useful as a cleaning agent, for example with dishes.

Like all Crystal Slimes, Dozer behaved aggressively towards all monsters or other adversaries, including those that were far stronger than himself. Rain had to rescue him once from a Dire Rat - a monster five time Dozer's level. When Rain and Hegar fought, Dozer tried to attack Hegar, and was effortlessly reduced to zero hitpoints by the sharp blade. This was seen by every observer as the physical death of the slime. Even Rain himself had felt the death as the obliteration of the slime's body as if it had been his own. Meanwhile, Dozer himself experienced his in his death his first sighting of a System screen that summarized his life. Dozer refused to die, knowing that enemies of Rain were present, and forced a bit of himself to slip via the Tamer-Link into Rain's soul - something that was only possible because of Rain's broken paling.

## Becoming a concept

In Rain's soul, Dozer began to purify the chaos essence, at first unnoticed by Rain, but unerringly performing an endless task which suited its purpose: He cleaned the ⟬FILTH-DISORDER⟭ of the essence in Rain's soul, compressed it and stored it in himself, not being able to keep it from fragmenting again into disorder.

Meanwhile, Rain was taking on "Dozer-instincts", especially a compulsive need to clean and order his surroundings. His companions realized that, and attempts were made to revive Dozer, but those failed.

After Dozer reached Rain's Soul-Bastion, he used that place to dump his collected, cleaned essence there and then go out into the chaotic soul, and clean more of it. This caused Rain to notice Dozer's presence, and he made a rescue attempt for Dozer, building him an airlock in the bastion. It turned out only then that Rain's bastion had been tiny in comparison to the enormous presence of Dozer in his soul. After combining the large essence amount into a more stable, solid bastion, Rain constructed a hatch for Dozer s that the slime could leave the bastion to clear out even more essence. Dozer's cleaning instinct to do all that work was so great that he regularly disobeyed Rain, and they had arguments that Rain mostly overcame with trickery. While Rain's Bastion had originally comprised of 10'000 essence units, Dozer pulled in 30'000 more units per day.

The slime didn't leave Rain's soul until Rain got particularly anxious about the Empire's presence in Fel Sadanis. He ejected himself into the real world by the way of Rain's sinuses, and was only grapefruit-sized in the real world.

## Quotes

* [Arrows! ⟬ORDER-NEED⟭!] ... [⟬ORDER⟭! Happy!]
* [Enemy!] ... [⟬KILL-NEED⟭! Protect Rain-King!]
* *I. Did. Not. Die! I am Dozer! Rain-King needs me! ... I refuse!*
* [Helping!] ... [No talk! ⟬**CLEAN-NEED**⟭!]
* [No sleep! ⟬CLEAN⟭ forever!]
* [Rain-King angry Tall-Brother?] ... [Human is confuse.]
* [No experiment! No play! ⟬FILTH⟭!] ... [>.<]
* *[Am Dozer! Am the party!]*

## Abilities

Dozer has always been a Level 1 slime. Early experiments by Rain to force a levelling by overfeeding him mana, didn't work out.

As such, he can re-form when just flung against other objects, as long as splattering doesn't reduce his hit points.

Dozer can produce sounds by forming bubbles and popping them, which is his main communication method with Ameliah. He understands several words in common early, like "come" and "stop".

Rain tried early to teach math to Dozer but only brought Dozer to the ability of counting to three months later.

The resurrected Dozer proved himself capable to produce Tel by himself, which he then hands over to Ameliah and Rain regularly. Dozer is only able to produce a dozen Tel per day, though. Rain's upgrade to [Engine of Change] confirmed Dozer as being an Essence Slime. After Rain became Silver-rank, Dozer began to alternately manifest in Rain's soul or in the real world close to Rain.

*whether or not Dozer is able to level up after becoming an essence slime, is unclear. Theoretically, he might have a level cap of 30, even.*
### Behavior and Likes / Dislikes

Dozer's most important impulse is to clean and order things, followed by reverence and adoration towards Rain and Ameliah, excitement to play with friendly humans, contentment of being lazy next to them, and the need to be fed mana. Dozer likes to snug himself into tight spaces, like boxes or human armor.

Those ⟬INSTINCTS⟭ are described by Dozer as: ⟬EAT-NEED⟭, ⟬SLEEP-NEED⟭, ⟬CLEAN-NEED⟭ and ⟬ORDER-NEED⟭.

Dozer doesn't like people who attack Rain (misunderstandings often happen) or his other friends. Dozer also dislikes the cold, especially snow. Also, salt.

### Friends

Dozer has become one of the mascots of Ascension. Besides mostly being around Rain, Ameliah and Tallheart, he is playing-buddy among others with Val, Staavo, Cloud and Nibs. Dozer has a habit to affectionately bumps those friends with pseudo-limbs.

Dozer has his own curious names for his companions:

* Rain: Rain-King
* Ameliah: Ameliah-Queen
* Tallheart: Tall-Brother
* Vanna: Vanna-Princess
* Cloud: Floofy-Cloud
* Nibs: Picky-Picky
* Humans: ⟬GREATER BONESACK SLIMES⟭
* Dogs: ⟬FURRY BONESACK SLIMES⟭
* Vatreece: Grannybrain

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Chapter 175
2. ↑ Chapter 87
3. ↑ Chapter 93
4. ↑ Chapter 92
5. ↑ Chapter 95
6. ↑ Chapter 98
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Chapter 94
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Chapter 99
9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Chapter 104
10. ↑ Chapter 124
11. ↑ Chapter 133
12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 Chapter 131
13. ↑ Chapter 155
14. ↑ Chapter 105
15. ↑ Chapter 113
16. ↑ Chapter 109
17. ↑ Chapter 136
18. ↑ Chapter 135
19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 Chapter 134
20. ↑ 20.0 20.1 Chapter 149
21. ↑ Chapters 139, 140, 142, 147
22. ↑ Chapter 150
23. ↑ Chapter 152
24. ↑ Chapter 154
25. ↑ Chapters 168 and 169
26. ↑ Chapter 159
27. ↑ 27.0 27.1 27.2 Chapter 173
28. ↑ Chapter 182: First use of an Emoji.
29. ↑ Chapter 239
30. ↑ Chapters 122, 169, 170
31. ↑ 31.0 31.1 Chapter 119
32. ↑ Chapter 123
33. ↑ Chapter 170
34. ↑ Chapter 179
35. ↑ Chapter 176
36. ↑ Chapter 114
37. ↑ Chapter 117
38. ↑ Chapter 178
39. ↑ Chapter 126, 129
40. ↑ Chapter 207

Dozer has had Point of View chapters in #119, #134, #149, #152, #169, and #234. (Full list of chapters includes PoV breakdowns)