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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voidrazor" data-source="post: 3043663" data-attributes="member: 41605">OoboboobooDescription: Oobobooboo is a small bright pink ooze that typically takes a roughly humanoid form. A number of metallic objects can be seen floating within its mass, most notable is a gnome-sized suit of battered armor. Occasionally Oobobooboo withdraws most of its body within the suit, like a hermit crab, leaving only blob-like hands feet and face to betray itsnature.The ooze-man's scent is sharply acrid. And while it can produce a sound recognizable as spoken language, its 'voice' is reminiscent of a continuous burp. Its gestures are lithe, almost hypnotic, but alien.Personality: Having only recently having achieved sentience, everything is new to Oobobooboo. It takes childlike pleasure in any number of commonplace things, dashing about in innocent enthusiasm. In the short time since it arrived in the Kingdom of Knowledge it has gotten a reputation as a troublemaker. And while not malicious, those that try to reign in itsboisterous behavior find that it doesn't quite seem to grasp the concept of rules in general.Background: Beneath the smog-choked skies of Technochitlan, a sprawling urban realm on a prime material plane 'next door' to that of Endless Falls, Oobobooboo was formed in a horrifying experiment. Xenovus, 4th circle adept of the Guild of Shrieking Stars was seeking to fuse a humanoid test subject with a living spell. The result, however, was disappointing. The spell, in this case a Mestyl’s Acid Breath, appeared to simply dissolve the fire elf it was supposed to merge with. Afterward the ooze collapsed backing into a pool and quivered. Disgusted Xenovus pulled the lever to have the creature dumped through the disposal gate, a mystical designed to get rid of dangerous experiments extra-dimensionally. Building the gate had required a tremendous amount of the guild’s resources, but had already paid for itself in terms of equipment and personnel not destroyed by improper disposal of potential dangers.The quivering ooze landed in a grotto deep beneath the Kingdom of Knowledge, amidst the detritus of previous guild failures. One such, was a chaositech chainsword with a hilt that couldn’t be made to fit human hands. For years the ooze bathed in the mutative glow of the malevolent weapon mindlessly eating slime and fungus. In time the energies given off by the weapon awoke a latent sentience in the creature. As the awakened ooze slowly gathered its faculties, the gate once again opened and an amalgamation of mouths claws and scales fell through. Immediately the thing attacked. The ooze sought shelter amidst the pile of equipment, occasionally lashing out with pseudopods. But the maddened newcomer seemed immune to the ooze’s acidic flesh. Just before it was about to be dug out of the relative safety of the junk pile, it latch onto the chainsword that had ushered in its awakening, and in a stroke of luck, activated the relic at the same  time. A few slashes with the dangerous weapon drove the many-mouthed beast off. Not wanting a repeat of the episode, the ooze slithered off in search of a new home, dragging with it both the strange weapon and a makeshift ‘shell’, a suit of gnomish armor.A strange and wonderful world awaited the ooze on the surface. Beings of all description rushed to and fro, most making complex vibrations that it could feel all along the surface of  its body. Curious, it tried to imitate those it saw, following them while shaping itself into a crude copy of their forms. Many tried to avoid the inquisitive stranger, and more simply outpaced it. But a few stopped to make vibrations at it, which it tried to replicate by capturing air bubbles and pushing them back out to its surface. Apparently, early attempts sounded like “oobobooboo”. And the name stuck. Oobobooboo soon became a figure of some amusement throughout the city, saying “Boo” from outhouse pits just as people when squatting down or driving shopkeepers to distraction by sliming their wares and then repeating everything they said. Within several weeks Oobobooboo became something of a jester to Taala’s court. While some, including Taala found his antics comical, others were merely annoyed. In particular, Taala’s earth elemental wife Gurunda vibrated violently whenever the sentient ooze came near, a behavior which only encouraged it to seek her out for play. Yet, when the omnimental king announced that the island ship was to be given to mortals and everyone started vibrating like crazy, Oobobooboo chose to stay with those Taala had gifted with the unique vessel, for among them were some of the first to befriend the strange talking ooze.</blockquote>

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