Coalescium - Plasmoid/Awakened Ooze Sanctuary

This

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Coalescium:

be

the wrong location for this concept, this is unrelated to the current ooze problem

Somewhere in the sewers of Hanweir.forests.

An

Somewhere hidden away in the forests is a smallunderground sanctuary for oozes of the awakened nature. The colony takes in

cored oozes that show heightened sentience and displaced plasmoids.

Schmoop is unawarenot aware of this colony.place.

I propose two typesTypes of plasmoidsPlasmoids/Awakened (in flavour only no mechanical differences)Oozes:

Sentience in an ooze is shown by having a glowing core - equivalent of a brain.

Astral Plasmoids: the classic plasmoid from the stars/astral. There aren’t many of these around this world the ones that ended up here were from teleportation experiments with portal/gate/sigil circle mishaps or crash landed. Schmoop is an example.

Awakened (Core) Ooze: an ooze that originated from a standard ooze species, however developed a core whether naturally occurring or from magical experimentation like an ooze that was from a failed experiment. An ooze with the core has the traits and abilities of a plasmoid - a trade-off for developing the core they lose the abilities of their base species that focuses on consumption.

Example: a Pudding-Core is a black pudding in appearance with a glowing core, it might smell vaguely like a greyblack ooze but has sentience and none of the same abilities. It looks like a grey ooze for example but it has the same features as a plasmoid. These could also be failed magical experiments or wild magic that affected a standard ooze. I thinkpudding, this is similarall toflavour howonly no mechanical changes.

Example 2: a domesticatedslithering-tracker animalis showsclear certainin traitsits default design but a Glass-Core has a glowing core of some colour that differwould fromneutralize theirthe origintranslucency like light in a dogclear jelly blob.

Terminology:

-Core suffix signifies an ooze with floppya earssentient vscore -Slop suffix signifies a wolfmindless onlyooze here it

Names for each Core Ooze Type

Plasmoid -> Astral-Core Ochre Jelly -> Jelly-Core Black Pudding -> Pudding-Core Gelatinous Cube -> Cube-Core Gray Ooze -> Slate-Core Slithering Tracker -> Glass-Core Green Slime -> Moss-Core

They also have terminology for each ooze type that is fullcore-less sentience/awareness/intelligencewith vs-slop suffix like Pudding-Slop.

Bone-bag: derogatory term for a minimalnon-ooze/non-amorphous sentiencecreature focused on consumption and has traits to match like splitting or dangerous acidic protoplasm.

I

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addMimicoids: somethose detailscore aboutoozes what some of these awakened ooze look like/smell like but it doesn’t change them form mechanically being plasmoids just with monster flavouring.

Astral plasmoid (like Schmoop): these originated from out there but they only arrived in Eusia similar to how Schmoop did with wizards experimenting with gates, portals, sigils, and other magical experiments where the young plasmoid was used as the experiment test subject. There are not many of these.

They mostly keep to themselves only venturing out to find food or useful items. Somewho prefer to learnexplore the waysworld of the humanoids and- othersthey usually retain a humanoid shape.

Amorphs: those that reject forming a humanoid shape as much as possible preferring their natural state.

Culture:

Welcoming to fellow Core oozes Friendly towards Thorists (see history for why), they associate them with non-hostility. Also welcoming to friendly humanoids otherwise they keep well hidden try not to reveal their location for fear of being removed or worse. Rejection: sometimes the offspring (fission) of a core ooze or even a plasmoid can result in a coreless ooze, these usually try to consume the source right away as the urge to consume takes hold. These oozes are guardedtaken to a fast flowing stream and keepsent downstream to maintain their status quo. Some of the Coalescium residents are curious to the ooze ways. They might have a few humanoid sympathizerscultures overand theworld years.and Some have chosenchoose to venturego off onand theiradventure ownout path,to butstudy magic, nature or other classes, and they usually always consider the colonyCoalescium home.home Those that venture out may return and pass on what (they have learneda natural instinct to thereturn back to their home matrix). Some have formed their own small druidic circle, others inshare themagic colonyknowledge, whetheror they went to study magic,music, religion, or sword fighting skills etc. (IThere amare tryingsome that venture out to ensurebring thatback thereresources islike knowledgefood or items to the matrix. Some are connoisseurs of somehumanoid classesartifacts toespecially havethe that option to play)Cube-Cores. Some Largely use a ooze/plasmoid dialect of common which may showinclude inherentunique abilitiesterminology (or musical-like asounds sorcerer).or body language for extra emphasis or subtle meanings.

Architecture:

Coalescium Design/Architecture:

Underground villagecolony lit by bioluminescent/magical fungi cultivated by some of the oozes.

No stairs, flowing architecture any buildings or structures seem to merge into each other. There are pipes (imagine warp pipes) that connect floors to each other, ladders if a building is humanoid friendly. 

Water comes from underground streams/springs. For

food

As they usually scavenge the villages leftovers or forage for edible foods.

They enjoy collecting humanoid artifacts - probably from the awakened gelatinous cube oozes, the proprietor of the oddities museum is one of those.

 

The colony: beingsare amorphous beings they prefer to have smaller entrances to where they stay. I imagine like an ant colony they have a vast underground network, the cargo/humanoid entrances are well concealed but there is that option if someone friendly comes to visit. Now the rains of greycliff would be a problem, so they have a complex network of drains to filter out the rainwater from their underground home instead redirecting it to a swamp like an underground stream.stream

It

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History:

light

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How long as it been here?

The founders were an awakened ochre jelly and a networkdisplaced ofplasmoid. bioluminescentThe mushrooms.ochre

jelly

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Policy:up

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They are generally welcoming to the Thorists as severalone of the earlyopen foundershalls/stormward sanctuaries where they were welcomed and taken care of. Both ooze quickly learned of the Coalesciumxenophobia weretowards taken inthem and welcomed by the Open Halls/Stormward Sanctuaries when they foundran themselvesinto displacedeach orother removedthey fromstrived villages/towns.to Theycreate welcomea friendlysanctuary awakened ooze visitors as friends, this policy ensures none offor their limitedkind populationin area leftworld behind.hostile to them.

Need names for these founders (2-3).