Gummy
Fiend This multicolored
creature looks something like a slug with eight long tentacles. Its eyestalks
swivel to observe its surroundings, and barbels and feelers twitch and probe
the air.
Gummy
fiends are bizarre adhesive monsters that consume everything in their path.
They are nearly mindless omnivores that lair in cool caves, and frequently
emerge to carve a trail of destruction, dissolving and digesting all organic
matter they come into contact with. Gummy fiends will battle to the death
against nearly all opponents, having little sense of self preservation. The
exception comes from enemies wielding fire—fire suppresses their regenerative
abilities and their sticky ooze, and they flee it when they can.
A gummy
fiend has no internal organs, being composed of a homogenous gelatinous mass.
The skin is slightly thicker on its exterior, but it can dissolve this easily
to engulf an opponent and then firm back up to resist blows. Due to this
bizarre physiology, most sages assume that gummy fiends are artificial
creatures, perhaps an attempt to infuse an ooze with intelligence or even a
bizarre construct given true life.
Gummy
fiends reproduce asexually, with one splitting into two after being
particularly well fed. These two fiends will ignore each other briefly as they
go their separate ways. The only interactions otherwise between gummy fiends is
if two of them attempt to subdue and consume the other. A gummy fiend grows to
ten feet tall, weighs 3000 pounds and has a slightly sweet odor.
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