Part of my mandate here at TDB is to make you fall a little in love with each and every Bestiary monster. But certain monsters can be hard to drum up
enthusiasm for—oozes in particular. Once
you start getting oozes made of gunpowder that splurt out flaming gobs of
themselves, you start to feel like you’ve hit the limit for what oozes can be.
Not so with the hag eye ooze, though—because the hag eye
ooze is a brilliant idea. I mean, of
course not all hags are going to trust their sisters or their minions with
their precious hag eye stones. What if
they lost it? What if they’re
slain? That’s a lot of trust to dole
out. Why not instead spend a little
extra time in the hag eye enchantment process cooking up a minion goopy minion
to bear the artifact? Especially one
that’s instinctively shy and stealthy in the bargain. That’s the best use for an enchanted cauldron
since boiling children and raising armies of the undead, right?
Remnants of a tribe
of sprites beg the Big Folk for help.
A slimy monstrosity has been tormenting them, oozing into their homes
and devouring them no matter how many times they relocate. Now reduced to half their number, the fey
seek salvation—and answers. The culprit
is a hag eye ooze under the control of a malicious green hag. She has been consolidating power throughout
her dismal wood; tormenting the sprites was just an enjoyable sideshow.
Adventurers make an
enemy of a hag in wintertime. The
next time they are camped out of doors, the hag sends her cold-immune ooze
through the snow to douse the adventurers’ campfire—with its flame-resistant
body, if necessary—so that they either freeze to death outright or are softened
up for the local bugbears.
Slirrup was an
ordinary hag eye ooze—until the day the alchemist it had been set to spy
upon spotted it instead. The slimy creature found itself forced into
a bottle and experimented upon for months.
Eventually, Slirrup’s creator tracked down the alchemist, slaying him.
Her wayward ooze, however, was forever changed by the experience, the
experiments having gifted it with physical power and a crude intelligence (per
the Advanced simple template). Slirrup
still follows its mistress’s commands, but is restless and resentful in the
manner of a neglected pet.
—Pathfinder Adventure
Path #72 86–87 & Pathfinder
Bestiary 5 140
PAP #72 also
features the coven ooze, which is what happens when a hag eye ooze eats its
dead mistresses. (Answer: It grows to Large
size, gains rudimentary intelligence, and generally becomes a flesh-absorbing
monstrosity. Good times!)
For the holiday season! Good loan!
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