Coalescium - Plasmoid/Awakened Ooze Sanctuary

Location:

Coalescium:

Southern

Greycliff

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An underground sanctuary for coredcore- oozes and displaced plasmoids.

Schmoop is not aware of this place.

Types of Plasmoids/Awakened 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 black pudding, this is all flavour only no mechanical changes.

Example 2: a slithering-tracker is clear in its default design but a Glass-Core has a glowing core of some colour that would neutralize the translucency like light in a clear jelly blob.

Terminology:

• • -Core suffix signifies an ooze with a sentient core
  • -Slop suffix signifies a mindless ooze

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 core-less with -slop suffix like Pudding-Slop.

• • Bone-bag: derogatory term for a non-ooze/non-amorphous creature

• • Mimicoids: those core oozes who prefer to explore the world of the humanoids - they 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 taken to a fast flowing stream and sent downstream to maintain their status quo.
  • Some of the Coalescium residents are curious to the humanoid cultures and world and choose to go off and adventure out to study magic, nature or other classes, and they usually always consider the Coalescium home (they have a natural instinct to return back to their home matrix). Some have formed their own small druidic circle, others share magic knowledge, or music, religion, or sword fighting skills etc.
  • There are some that venture out to bring back resources like food or items to the matrix.
  • Some are connoisseurs of humanoid artifacts especially the Cube-Cores.
  • Largely use a ooze/plasmoid dialect of common which may include unique terminology or musical-like sounds or body language for extra emphasis or subtle meanings.

Architecture:

Underground colony 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.

As they are 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

History:

How long as it been here?

The founders were an awakened ochre jelly and a displaced plasmoid. The ochre jelly ended up at one of the open halls/stormward sanctuaries where they were welcomed and taken care of. Both ooze quickly learned of the xenophobia towards them and when they ran into each other they strived to create a sanctuary for their kind in a world hostile to them.

Need names for these founders (2-3).