After several wrong turns and one extremely close call when he forgot to check his map and nearly oozed into the middle of a fight between a party of four Delvers and a horde of six goblins, Asari had finally reached his next target. Only a short, dark corridor separated him from the lone Delver he’d been stalking through the Dungeon for the past three hours. Now, he paused in a quiet chamber to catch his breath, or at least collect his thoughts, since the slime monster he was possessing didn’t actually have lungs. Or any of the features Asari was used to having.

He hated to sound ungrateful—the slime had saved him from fading into oblivion—but he was so ready to get a new body. He had considered trying to possess one of the goblins he’d come across, but it had looked like the Delvers had the upper hand, despite being outnumbered, and he didn’t want to claim a body just to have it chopped into bits with him inside. He wasn’t sure if monsters felt pain; the slime he was in certainly didn’t, nor did it feel pleasure, which was the real reason he wanted to trade it in on a better model. He was an Incubus—pleasure was his bread and butter, and there was nothing worse than sitting at a banquet and not being able to taste the feast.

Asari checked his map one last time. The dot he’d been hunting was just out of view, in one of the dark, unexplored areas. It pulsed with a strong, burning orange light. He hoped that was a good sign. He had no idea what the colors meant, except that his dot had two colors, probably because he was two beings in one body. The slime pulsed green, while he throbbed with a visceral red. Opposite, yet harmonious.

Suddenly, the orange dot on Asari’s map began to move, heading straight for him. Asari closed his Menu and drew back into the corner of the chamber, pressing his gelatinous body against the stone walls, spreading out, trying to disappear. He held his metaphysical breath as the target scurried into the chamber.

It was a monster. Asari did a quick scan of the creature, revealing it to be a level 2 male kobold with a surprising amount of Defense. The reptilian monster ran quickly on his hind legs, his long tail …