Globster

Globster

(Creature)

Common

Large

Aquatic

Ooze

Level

5

Source: Monster Core, pg(s). 171

Globsters also had the

N

trait in Bestiary 3 115.

Type

Ooze
(aquatic)

CR

5

Environment

Any oceans or coastlines

Alignment

LG	NG	CG
LN	N	CN
LE	NE	CE

Source: Bestiary 3, pg(s). 131

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Globsters are living oozes formed from the partial remains of large sea creatures.

Appearance

They are made of half-digested and decaying sea creatures, such as whales and squids, that become merged into a smelly heap of blubbery sludge with toothed maws. Coastal investigators might mistake them for a beached whale from a distance.

Abilities

Globsters have a horrid stench. The smell is so strong, it the first thing that they notice before one is seen. If killed, a globster quickly decays into goo within 24 hours, but its sickening stench persists at the site for up to 10 days.

Their tendrils can grab, constrict, and afflict those they touch with a nauseating poison.

Globsters are natural swimmers and water-breathers. While they can move on land, they are slower and can survive outside of water for 1 hour before suffocating.

Globsters are vulnerable to electricity.

Ecology

Despite their limited faculties, globsters are distinguished from most oozes by having a mind. They are just aware enough to know where to congregate in order to attract food, and often huddle on the seafloor to lure scavengers with their rotten appearance, which is the same tactic they use if washed ashore. They are also attracted to refuse dumps and floating garbage scows.

Globsters digest only parts of the living creatures they eat, and instead bloats itself with the undigested dross until, eventually instinctively or in response of an injury, it vomits the mass out as a new, fully grown, allied globster. Scholars have not identified any other method of globster reproduction.

Globsters can be encountered alone, in pairs, or in beachings of 3 to 8.

In society

Globsters are composed of so much blubber and oily tissue that they can be sources of lamp oil, grease, cooking fat, and other blubber-derived products—if those processing it can work through the stench.

Goblins barbecue or deep-fry the firmer parts of a globster's fat in impromptu beach barbecue of deep-fried slabs, before it quickly deteriorates.

Sages once believed that globsters were a kind of undead made of hungry rotten flesh.

References

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