Identification: formless, essentially fluid globs of protoplasm
Variants: range from furry amoebas through translucent slime‐creatures to sentient clouds of vapour
Also Known As: Squoshoggs, Oozozoans, or Dribbles
Origin: illegally imported from the planet Blobulus (don't ask how they smuggle them)
LOOKS: | better than you would look after being forced through a grating | E |
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BRAINS: | it's far from clear where they'd keep them | 80 |
LETHALITY: | often wildly omnivorous, but sloppy eaters | 0.32 |
CULTURE: | handicapped by fuzzy ego boundaries | 08 |
HARDNESS: | ductile and malleable, but not all that soft in the SF sense | 3½ |
TOKENISM: | creatures that can fission or re‐merge half‐way through the census make it hard to establish quotas | 05 |
Religion: worship the Chaos Gods as irregularly as possible
Weakness: liquid nitrogen
Call: an adorable high‐pitched piping
Not To Be Confused With: the Polymorphoids, who are fundamentally similar but try not to look like it
See Also: the Nanoviroids, which are even harder to filter out