Skeletal Slime V2.0

I've encountered many a'different slimey creatures in my career, and though they've all tried to eat me in a hundreds a'ways, I can never say I've truly met any of them. But one came close. It hid its face from the light of my torch and pleaded for its mother, and when I lowered my flame, I got one look at the skull inside the ooze and ran from the cave.

-Oro Deepore, Spelunker

'Sapient Slime' might sound like an oxymoron, but first-hand reports insist that it's true. A translucent humanoid made of semisolid ooze mounted on a stalk of thick goo instead of two legs, with a visible skull inside its head and sometimes a dozen vertebrae and other bones floating inside it. It can think, speak, sympathize and empathize and experience a variety of emotions, as well as wear armor, wield weapons, and even master spellcraft.

Unwilling Symbiosis Under strange circumstances, when an ooze completely consumes a sapient humanoid, something happens in the digestion process. Though their body dissolves, their fleshless skull and something else, remains intact inside the ooze and transforms the creature into something more. Over the course of the next few years, the ooze undergoes something of a gestation period in which whatever consciousness or sapience that remains inside the skull permeates into the ooze and causes it to evolve. Physically at first, the ooze coagulating and solidifying and becoming more dense as it lifts the skull onto something resembling a neck, grows two arms and fingers, and finally stacks itself onto a long stalk of slime that supports its form. The body almost always matches it's skull and resembles the proportions of the being it absorbed. Almost nothing psychological remains from the host of this amalgamation except a sense of self awareness, a yearning for knowledge and sense of self preservation.