Melancholic Ooze Swarm

Dozens of tiny globs of slime move on their own, acting as one being, alternately clinging to each other and separating in a riot of oozing momentum.

Melancholic Ooze Swarm (CR 1)

Tiny Ooze (Swarm)
Alignment: Neutral
Initiative: -5
Senses: Blindsight 60 feet; Perception -5

Speed: 10 feet
Space: 10 feet

Defense

Armor Class: 7, touch 7, flat-footed 7 (-5 Dex, +2 size)
Hit Points: 17 (2d8+8)
Saving Throws: Fort +4, Ref -5, Will -5
Immunity: ooze traits, swarm traits
Energy Resistance: electricity 5
Weaknesses: vulnerability to acid

Offense

Melee: swarm (1 plus viscous)
Reach: 0 feet

Special Attacks: Distraction (DC 15), paralyzing slime, viscous (DC 15)

Statistics

Str	Dex	Con	Int	Wis	Cha
14 (+2)	1 (-5)	18 (+4)	-	1 (-5)	1 (-5)

Base Attack Bonus: +1
CMB -6
CMD 6 (can't be tripped)

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Special Abilities

Paralyzing Slime (Ex)

Melancholic oozes are composed of chemical depressants. Any living creature that begins its turn affected by the swarm's viscous ability must make a DC 15 Fortitude save or be paralyzed for 1 round. This is a mindaffecting effect. Creatures immune to poison are immune to this effect.

Viscous (Ex)

As described in the sanguine ooze swarm's special abilities, except that the Reflex save DC is 15 and the patches are destroyed if the victim takes any amount of acid damage.

Ecology

Environment: Any Underground
Organization: solitary, pair, or glob (3-4)
Treasure: none


Formed from accumulations of runoff from arcane laboratories and regions of magical calamity, alchemical oozes are fist-sized blobs of volatile chemicals. Although composed of unpredictable compounds and toxins, these mobile oozes pose little threat individually, but in polluted quagmires and tainted sewers can collect in numbers great enough to threaten creatures many times their size. Swarms of the slimes linger in such contaminated areas and seek new accretions of vital solutions, like those found within the bodies of higher life forms, to fuel their erratic life cycles.

Found in numerous varieties with a host of differing abilities, these weird, clinging oozes have been differentiated by likening them to the humors said to compose the bodies of living beings. Appearing at first to be a collection of tiny blobs of viscous, translucent fluid, alchemical oozes become far more terrifying once their hungry nature becomes apparent. Each swarm is composed of several hundred palm-sized balls of ooze that all scuttle along as a single unit.