Slimes

Slimes are creatures defined by their gelatinous, amorphous bodies. They move mainly in packs, but can also be found alone under certain circumstances.

Slimes roam around areas where they sense food to be. They do not seem to have any obvious intelligence except for their ability to seek life to absorb.

Slimes move by rolling their bodies or if navigating obstacles, stretch themselves to pull themselves forward.

Slimes have no inherent weaknesses. Most magics have no effect on them, and physical attacks do not damage them in any way. If a slime is to be cut into pieces, any piece will gravitate to the largest piece and reform using a kind of gravitational pull. If a slime is cut in half, both equal pieces will attract another. If decimated into tiny pieces, the slime will reform slowly over time, longer the smaller the pieces are.

Slimes do not have any nucleus to speak of, as in a central hub of controlling substance. Although slimes can seemingly have facial expressions, the delineation of color is purely visual, defined by unknown stimuli. A slime's "consciousness" is purely non corporeal from an unknown origin. Once it grows big enough from absorbing food, it will split into two. The offspring will then act separately from the original. Slimes can form with other slimes to combine their sizes, but almost always separate after a time.

Slimes of all types consume food by absorbing it. It can take the energy from the sun and maintain itself, in an inefficient photosynthesis-like process. Living cells can also be eaten through surrounding and dissolving them in its gelatin. Living foreign objects are enveloped in the slime's body similarly to white blood cells. Once surrounded in slime, the being is dissolved from the outside inwards, quicker if the slime is bigger or if its material is made up of acidic material. Retrieving beings alive from a slime is considered impossible, as the gelatin sticks to digestive material extremely well and any harm to the slime usually is sustained by the victim as well. The slime also tends to fill any voids of air it has in it, which means suffocation is the cause of death the majority of the time.