Mind-Slime

Mind-Slime
No. Enc.: 1 (1d4)
Alignment: Chaotic
Movement: 10' (3')
Armor Class: 8
Hit Dice: 2
Attacks: 1
Damage: 1d8+Brain Drain*
Save: F2
Morale: 9

Voraciously inquisitive, yet repugnantly acquisitive, the Mind-Slime slithers and wriggles about in dark, dank, damp places searching for unwary victims to assault from ambush.

Most people mistake a Mind-Slime for a mucky stretch of floor, a malodorous bit of wall-scum, or just a patch of the ever-present slime that tends to drip and dribble across most of the less well maintained (but often highly visited) sections of the underworld.

A Mind-Slime attacks by spewing itself at its target much as if it had sneezed itself right at them. On contact the phlegmatic glob-thing will slide into position and attempt to suffocate/drown its victim by forcing itself down their throat. The digestive acids of a Mind-Slime are weak, and rarely play a role in its attacks, unless it is particularly enraged by something a potential victim has said, in which case the inner vitriol of the Mind-Slime boils to the surface in a far more caustic surge that does 3d8 damage to everyone within 10', after which it will slither off into the darkness to rest and recover for 1d4 days.

Brain Drain
If a Mind-Slime is successful in its mucousy assault upon a likely victim, it will attempt to siphon off some of their memories (including memorized spells), which the thing(s) will assimilate and use as their own for the next 1d4 hours, after such time the stolen memories will be fully digested, excreted as a tarry black sludge and are no longer usable by anyone. (Note: this sludge may cause 1d4 damage on contact for up to an hour after being deposited on hand rails, banisters, etc.)

A Mind-Slime can attempt a Brain-Drain every other attack once it has already latched onto a victim. Treat the Brain-Drain as a Feeblemind spell, but deduct one spell (selected randomly) from any spell-caster being attacked by a Mind-Slime. The creature then gets to cast that spell on its next attack, if it so chooses, especially if the spell is something like Fireball instead of Read Magic...

There are rumors of bigger, nastier, far more evilly-erudite Oozulent Geniuses that squirm about in the deeper dark regions far below the dim chambers and corridors of the known underworld...