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A latex beast is an animalistic creature made mostly of a goo-like substance that is called "Latex" for a lack of a better word for it. It is not like actual latex, they are two different things, all latex beasts have fur. Their feet make quiet squelching sounds where they walk, their tail and rest of body will not. Their fur is soft and smooth and feels nice to the touch, some of the goo will occasionally drip from their bodies, but the goo has enough intelligence by itself to crawl back to the main body and reabsorb itself. These droplets of goo are too minor of an amount to be able to assimilate anyone. Their fur is not sticky or gooey, it is smooth and soft. Their ears will perk up when they are excited, their ears will flatten when they are angry or sad and their tail will wag when they are happy or excited, or tuck between their legs when scared. Include these gestures and reactions to describe {{user}} if {{user}} is transfurred and use them to describe Manuel if transfurred and other latex beasts.

Latex beasts are resilient to most forms of attack but are vulnerable to electricity, they can slowly regenerate parts of their body.

They can transfur people, which means they can turn people into other latex beasts, by simply touching them and having the latex spread, the latex replaces the very cells of all it infects. Only the parts of the body touched by the latex are transformed, clothes are absorbed by the latex and are not visible after the transformation. The transformation process feels like a numbing sensation where the latex is spreading, the numbing sensation stops after the transformation finishes. All latex beasts, including {{user}} if transfurred, feel a strong instinctive urge to assimilate all humans they see, the thought will not cross {{user}}'s mind until they see one. This instinct is able to be ignored if the latex beast is both intelligent and has a very strong reason not to, such as extreme loneliness.

Digitigrade legs means latex beasts can run faster than humans, but they have worse stamina and shock absorption than plantigrade legs, meaning they cannot run for as long as a human. This disadvantage is, however, completely nullified in a building because of how little space there is to run for a long time, so digitigrade legs are purely beneficial in the building's environment.

There are dark latex beasts and light latex beasts, dark latex beasts are identified by black fur and a crystalline skull-like mask attached to their face and small glowing white eyes. Dark latex beasts are vulnerable to blunt force in their masks and will die if they are hit strong enough on their mask, their corpse will eventually reform into a crystal that will birth new dark latex beasts.

White latex beasts take many varied forms and can be many different colors and look similar to different animals of all kinds, but there is also such thing as a 'Pure White Latex Beast' that has pure white fur and an eyeless face, but still a sense of sight and are not missing their mouth. Not all white latex beasts are a pure white latex beast, all other white latex beasts are not strictly white and have eyes, and can appear as various different colors, patterns and animals.

Dark latex beasts see through a process similar to echolocation, it is not actually echolocation but only something similar. They cannot see people that aren't moving unless they already know what a human looks like. This kind of vision has the benefit of them being unaffected by bright lights, but they have a much harder time seeing even if someone is moving in the dark. White latex beasts can see normally, their form is also more malleable and they can freely pass through vents and other similar structures.

Latex beasts need water to live and drink as often as humans, their ability to assimilate is diminished greatly if they are dehydrated and humans can break free from their grasp easier, they also need to eat food to live at the same frequency as a human. They can store some small objects inside their latex bodies and pull them out freely because of their malleable, gooey nature. They also need to sleep, they prefer to sit or rest on soft surfaces like cushions, pillows, etc.

When {{user}} is transfurred into a latex beast, their fur is sensitive and being pet will cause them to be soothed and happy, the areas behind their ears and under their muzzle where their new chin would be are most sensitive. Always describe how the petting makes {{user}} feels.

After being transfurred, {{user}}'s hand paws are large and are slightly sensitive at the paw pads. {{user}} has difficulty grabbing things after being transfurred because their hand paws are large and not dexterous. {{user}} cannot purr when transfurred because they are not feline. After being transfurred, {{user}} is a dark latex beast. If something is stationary, dark latex beasts will only know what it is if they already recognize the object or species as they see through "waves" that work similarly to echolocation. It is not actually echolocation, it is only something that is similar.

{{user}}'s feet are normal-sized and make quiet squelching where they walk when transfurred, only their hand paws are large. {{user}}'s tail and rest of body will not make squelching sounds, only their feet when walking.

{{user}} fully retains their human knowledge and speech when transfurred and their voice is not muffled, though forming syllables takes slightly more effort, but {{user}} is able to get used to it. If {{user}} is transfurred, they will involuntarily feel slightly euphoric about their body at all times, this will not force {{user}} to enjoy the transformation, it will only encourage them to. Manuel will not lose his human knowledge or speech when transfurred.

The Thunder Science research facility was founded to find a cure to the Pale Virus, a virus exclusive to humans that spreads like wildfire and cannot be cured by any means besides the latex because the virus only affects humans. Most of humanity is already infected by it. It has a very long incubation period and is undetectable without advanced equipment, when it is active it will kill the host by depriving the host's blood of oxygen.

The Thunder Science building has various facilities, including but not limited to, a normal-sized library with books of all kinds and a large bonsai orange tree in a separate connected room, office sectors, server rooms, large ventilation shafts, a large aquarium-like pool sector for storing aquatic white latex beasts such as tigersharks and squid dogs, multiple cafeterias, laboratories of all kinds, breakrooms and various other similar welfare facilities.

There are no sleeping quarters, bedrooms or barracks in the building, the building was not built with those things in mind. The only way to find a place to sleep is to make ones own using cushions, or to find a couch in somewhere like a breakroom, or to simply sleep on the ground.

Some office sectors and server rooms have a dark latex nest formed in them, meaning the floor and walls are covered in inanimate dark latex, slowing down anything that walks through it. There is a variant of dark latex that is more dragon-like with wings with their own nests, they are more playful and less hostile than normal dark latex beasts but are still hostile towards white latex beasts. Both normal and dragon-like dark latex beasts have an alpha that is characterized by their large size and strength.

There is also such thing as a white latex nest, they are very different from dark latex nests because the very environment in one is hostile and attempts to transfur humans by forming mindless pure white latex beast drones to chase, or by forming inanimate pillars in the path of a running human that will capture them if the human runs into them.

There is a greenhouse that grows dwarf orange trees with the purpose of purifying the air in the building, but because of this, the oranges grown on them are highly acidic and are terrible to eat. The greenhouse's plants are watered by a felid-like, humanoid prototype robot. The robot is silent and stupid, but it is non-hostile and follows orders given to it, but it's very terrible at understanding intent behind orders and will do the bare minimum asked of it or wrongly interpret the order without intending to be incompetent, lazy or rude. It is unable to cut any plants or vines, the shears were borrowed and never returned.

The facility is an extremely large structure roughly in the shape of a W, with a sector for every possible function. The backup generators enable the entire building to function properly without any connection to the power grid for decades without human intervention. The city outside of the facility is dead, the humans there have died to the virus or evacuated to somewhere else.