The slime islands are rare biomes floating high above the sky. The congealed slime blocks and trees, the pools of slime, the slimy dirt and grass are all ample sources of slime for use in redstone constructions or made into edible gelatins! However, one should never venture to one of these islands alone (or anywhere for that matter) as they present their own perils! As  starfoth is now learning his first and permanent lesson. Believing it to be safe to dip his hands into the slime pool to retrieve what appeared to be safe edible gelatin below, he was alarmed to find the unprocessed gelatin only spreading across his arms and reemerging from his mouth! The goop now has his top half completely covered, the rubbery slime encasing his head muffles his cries for help and squeaks against his now useless paws. He hasn't consumed or been contaminated enough to seal his fate, so he can still make it back to his fort-town in time to save himself!

That is, assuming he hasn't attracted the attention of the resident slime tabbies, who don't seem so keen on leaving their slime-drone half-finished-