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Here's an ooey gooey slime video about ooze and such. Instead of being colorful and fun, they just melt your skin off your bones. Neat, huh?
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Fun fact about the Oblex: the idea behind it came from a child (had cancer) who was contacted by the Make a Wish Founadation, and was able to meet some of the design team at WoTC.
I've read about that! A real genius, glad he was able to inspire a lot of us.
Thats so cool
It's kinda freaky that the mind of a child came up with a monster that absorbs and consumes people so then it can use it's victims body's as a puppet. Super cool monster though
thats a really good monster for any child to come up with
@@IDontKnow-lo2tu Not if that kid is dieing from cancer.
An ooze can put a stop to a quest stupid fast.
I was running a one-shot and only finished it halfway due to a gray ooze appearing
Yeah, most oozes are lowkey wake-up call bosses.
I learned this the hard way when I decided to throw a black pudding at the party.
Ended up killing the bard by complete accident when I rolled a Natural 20 on its attack roll.
I once had a gray ooze attack my party in a hallway my party was taking, the artificer was surprised create bonfire didn’t roast it
@@fishyfishyfishy500akabs8 _double checks damage resistances of a gray ooze_
Ah yeah, I remember when I ran another module for my friends this one time and the firbolg cleric foolishly examined what was actually a grey ooze, provoking it into attacking.
I missed, thankfully, and the party was ultimately able to take down the three oozes without too much trouble and no casualties.
my DM once threw 6 black puddings at our group of level 5 adventurers "because I love the name Black Pudding" we had to literally stomp them to death to prevent them from splitting, luckily I have cursed gauntlets on that were indestructible so I could punch without worry of my armor getting dissolved.
The "Basically ______" has to be my favorite D&D relayed series
Tied with Jocat's “Crap Guide To D&D” for me.
This and the crap guide to DND are gold
That's a cards against humanity card right there-
All are beautiful
Rhexx's "What they don't tell you about _____" is the better version in my opinion
I was expecting an 8 minute video on TMNT lore, now I am supremely knowledgeable about sentient sludge.
General Sweet semi sentient
NIKOLODEON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is the worst best comment on this vid
@@ryanrobinson4704 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Secrets of the Ooze
Logan: rhyming "ooze"
Logan: "I should see a therapist."
Me: "On Tues."
masseuse
Shoes, booze, lose, twos, snooze, screws, slews, news, and dues.
I should set an alarm so i dont forget, but id probably snooze
@@freddykingofturtles
And lewds hehe
Hey doods
3:10 Your mistake was telling me about the 70 pennies. May the best man win, _Logan._
*En garde!*
there is an enemy named the
"Ooze Master"
i want that wizard subclass
Ah yes, the ooze master, also known as the "Masterbator"
I think it would be better just to have like a set of level 3 spells with different costs associated with them in order to create each of the different oozes. The cost could grow proportionally with the CR of the ooze you make. You could then have these spells fall into all 3 of: Transmutation, Conjuration and Necromancy in order that learning those spells is half-price for whichever school you choose.
I made a Druid subclass if ya want it, its free and you can become ooze.
@@SolomonPleasent i want it
@@obnoxiouslisper1548 on my channel, should be a link in the video
The Oblex and the Gelatinous Cube are my two favourite monsters in D&D. In my campaign the party's main bartender/tavernkeeper was actually an Oblex who had set up shop chomping on peoples memories as they stayed at the tavern, always making everyone think they got blackout drunk while staying there.
When I ran Curse of Strahd, I replaced the first NPC the players would meet with an oblex. Sure enough they got too curious and ended up discovering it, and actually managed to kill it
@Sightless_Seeker The players actually have to pay attention to realize that and in my experience no player me included would even bat an eye.
I once ran a shot campaign with the players playing as baby ooblexes. It was a lot of fun watching my players discover ways of hunting sentient creatures to eat. One of the players made it out of the underdark and built a sacrificial cult to feed himself. It was great fun and I would do it again.
Something you could add to the various oozes is a self cleaning instinct. Those that actually move could push themselves through cracks as a way of cleaning themselves of undigested material. This could leave random piles of bones and treasure lying about next to walls. Players might force or trick the ooze somehow into going through a crack to make it shed its treasure.
My necromancer used them to create skeletons. So when someone dies instead of making the a zombie, he just let it eat the corps and shit it out for my necromancer to animate the bones. Cheap and easy!
"Mongolian throat singing"
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My cousin Jack talked a lot about you right before he passed. I'm grateful that there are still good people like you in the world that take the care to do what you did. I appreciate you man even though I may not know you personally
"see this ugly, depressed man?"
*turns off phone screen*
Yeah
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Same
I took that as a personal attack tbh.
I once built an area I called 'The Living Pools'. Each room was a big pit, one just had a normal stone floor (gray ooze), one was filled with water (slithering tracker) and one was completely empty (gelatinous cube). Just a goddamn fantastic triple mindfuck if anyone wants to borrow that
I once did something similar. I had a dungeon where one room was 10 cubic feet, had a slight blue-green tinge to it's lighting, & had a bunch of platinum pieces suspended in midair. In actuality, the room was inhabited by a Gelatinous Cube & the coins where a swarm of baby Mimics.
DM: "[beloved NPC's name] falls to the ground dead. you see moisture & mucus coming out of him & forming into an Ooze with a hateful face, while his spirit exits him as a Specter. Roll for Wisdom/Sanity."
Players: * roll *
DM: "you see in terrified awe his mummified body rise."
Everyones favorite game: How many undead can you make from one person!
@@finderfinder4290 that must be a test in the Necromancy faculty!
@@jgr7487 If you get it wrong you're the demonstration on test handback day
@@finderfinder4290 If its shadow becomes a shadow, the skull becomes a flameskull, the other bones become a skeleton, the extremities become crawling claws, the rest of the corpse becomes a zombie, and the soul becomes a specter or something, 9.
@@Jpteryx thanks, i know what the next encounter for my players is gonna be
in my mind, people who live in D&D worlds eat cooked Black Puddings the same way Brits eat black puddings.
They'd probably taste about the same
Are you saying Brits eat black pudding raw, or are you making fun of how black pudding is made of blood, eyes, intestines and any thing else that's left over?
We’re doing an aquatic campaign, and my character (tiefling monk) is the cook. An ooze (forget what kind) was put on our ship in an attempt at sabotage. After we killed it (which got hilarious when it ate a hole in the ship, and started crawling around the outside, hilarious in the weird ways we found to fight it) I had my character make pudding as part of supper.
Here a Stornoway Black Pudding and slice sausage roll with a big glass of Irn Bru is the best fucking breakfast after a night of drinking and no one can even argue that. It’s a justified, tried and tested fact.
not just the brits
The oblex has got to be the most unique concept for an ooze in a long time. We need more creative ideas for oozes.
Edit: I remember seeing ideas on reddit for an ooze that ate undead specifically that villages would keep near cursed graveyards or crypts if they could get their hands on a glop. Maybe WotC should hire some thoughtful homebrewers.
Fun fact: The oblex was created by a kid in a make-a-wish program. That kid has some evil ideas.
We desperately need more ooze in the lore. Ooze is my favorite enemy type, but we get nothing but the ooblex and the 4 core gelatin boys.
I intend to create an ooze critter based on the creeper from minecraft. The basic idea is that the explody creeper form is the mature "breeding" form. It seeks out prey and then explodes nearby to kill the prey to provide a ready food source for its babies while also spreading its spores around the area.
You could always have carefully bred mini-Carrion Crawlers do that job, if that suits your fancy!
@@2MeterLP The kid manifested his cancer into DND monster he could defeat.
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Ah yes, oozes. One of the monsters that best represent D&D, next to the Beholder. I consider it one of their flagship concepts, and a key sign that you are playing D&D.
Either you are overly obsessed and chaotic creature, or you turn into an all consuming slime that dredges its way forward...
Your description makes it sound like Ooze are polar opposites to beholders. Beholders are smart, insane, powerful and ozzes are just piles of slime with no brain (unless they are a Oblex) and rarely have a CR above 4
That makes both even cooler
Don't forget about Owlbear, Nobody else has Owlbear
@@camblycreeper7999 Probably because some of these monsters can be copywritten. Owlbears, Illithids (at least the name), beholders, etc, are copywritten creatures. Well, idk about the owlbears, actually, but it wouldn't surprise me. Other games can have knock-offs, but they all either look different or have some irritatingly dumb name (I'm not sure the exact restrictions). I don't think D&D has copywritten the idea of sludge.
@@weezact7 yeah think of every mmorpg that has slimes as an enemy
Ah yes, spicy jello.
May you rest in peace, Jack Gray.
I do not know who you were nor do I know how you passed away. Either ways you clearly had good taste in entertainment, and I bid you farewell.
0:42 Mongolian throat-singing, you say? The Hu or Tennger Cavalry? Yuve Yuve Yu is a JAM.
I have to admit, it was real genius to associate the oozes with a high-scale defensive mechanism in biological systems. That kinda allows for some plot ideas, such as the oozes being a defense mechanism of the Earth, and a lot of them appearing in certain areas as an indication that something is off, idk
Like the Lucario & the Mystery of Mew movie.
Had a Scavenger Ooze in my Starfinder game, and didn't realize that the AC was overtuned a bit for what it's resistances are...almost killed all 4 party members because of it, and it wasn't even the boss!
Having common resistances and high ac is typically kinda busted. My Aasimar hexblade has 21 AC, resistance to radiant and necrotic from race, poison from belt of dwarvenkind, and fire from his armor. And a cloak of displacement. Due to belt of dwarvenkind and an ASI in con, at level 10 he has 100 hp and 20 con.
You know that clean-up crew comment starting at 1:55 makes it sound like oozes could feasibly take on super big threats like dragons or demon infestations.
Now I’m wondering if oozes instinctively hassle those kinds of enemies when they take up residence beneath the surface, usually not winning unless they show up in big numbers, but acting as a constant nuisance to them.
I might have to come up with some kind of side quest about that now.
Imagine if a bunch of imps found their way into a place filled with gelatinous cubes.
Juiblex has the ability to see through and directly control every single ooze in the world. Normally oozes are mindless because Juiblex doesn't give a fuuuuck, but if, for whatever godforsaken reason, Juiblex wants to... then he can have every single ooze in a dungeon turn into hyper-smart Spec Ops that act as one. When that stuff happens, usually everything gets eaten.
@@sebbychou Then they all get stuffed in a bag of holding
The Oblex being able to create human clones actually gave me a fun idea. I think it'd be interesting in an adventuring party stumbled upon another adventuring party or maybe even a small town filled with seemingly normal people. As the day goes on though they notice little things that are off and at night are attacked by an Oblex that was the town, having killed everyone and just spit out a bunch of clones to draw in unwitting adventurers.
Gotta love the best monster: gelatinous cube❤️
Hell yes
Beholder>>>>gelatinous cube
Chr1stophεr no
@@dhawkeye4439 hell yeah
What about slimegirls?
I love it that the Oblex is kinda badass to the point where every DM/GM sees it and either goes “Mirror match? Yes please!” or “what if x NPC was secretly an ooze?” Thank you Nolan Whale, your Make-A-Wish is exactly what I love about designing encounters!
Logan, you are hereby formally invited to my funeral if and when I meet an untimely demise. your dietary preferences and invitation have been added to my will, upon the sole condition you come with a black umbrella.
was he a friend? a lover? a stranger? my mourning family shall never know
I could pick him up in a spotless black car with tinted windows if I get the leftovers
My favorite creature type. I know, it's weird, but I just have a soft spot for oozes.
That's a juicy pun
And a lot of DA artists..
Oozes have a soft spot for you too my friend.
it's the oblex's fault
@@seandunbar7364 Is the Olbex the soul of DA?
Bacteria: where are my friends
The immune system:gone reduced to atoms
I’m oozing with enthusiasm for this video
In the last session I ran for brand new players, the fighter decided to deal with a grey ooze by stomping on it. His reaction to now being half barefoot was hilarious
Nice job on the drow torture tool, and they would totally do that too. That sort of thing sounds like it is right down ghaunadaur’s alley.
"see this ugly-"
"Logan no. You are like a pizza. No matter if it slammed against the side of the box and doesn't look like the other slices, I'd still eat it."
This is actually so sweet aww
I like how most of them have just 1 charisma. In 3.5 this was described as the exact minimum needed to be able to make the distinction between what is you, and not you.
“fetishey latex ooze”
Changed: the Tabletop RPG
I will forever see this as that one video that got uploaded while I was stuck in the car.
I had a grey ooze named Ellie I kept as a pet in one campaign. She liked to say in a bottle where it was cozy and jiggles happily when she got head pats.
For those who are interested in the closest real life equivalents to these creatures, check out the green algae genus _Valonia_ and the clade Xenophyophorea.
And on that note, monster idea: Ooze variant which uses the calcium in its victim's skeletons to form a hard calcium shell around its vulnerable goopy body.
I like the idea of Black or Copper dragons that spew out oozes as part of their breath attack. By themselves they pose no threat to a high lvl party but if getting hit with the attack and failing your dex save automatically puts you in a cube then it's going to take precious actions to get out that the dragon can use to attack you in.
I come back and watch this occasionally just to see Jack's name at the end. You're a wonderful creature and I cannot express just how giddy he would be to see that. He always pointed out his name in the list of patrons to me when we watched, regardless if it had been a video we'd already seen. Thanks for giving me a bright spot to remember my love by.
I want more Oozes, I love them. Heck, neither Sorcerers or Warlocks have an Ooze related subclass but they absolutely should.
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Two ideas to run with oozes.
#1.
An Adult Oblex travels by carrying itself with a Bag of Holding. The imitation body helps disguise itself by using strong perfumes.
#2.
Have an ice themed dungeon that requires pcs to shift large ice blocks to progress further in. Once the final prize is taken, all the ice melts, leaving a dungeon of oozes ands slimes to trek back through to the exit.
And then there is grey goo, which just kills everything.
props to anyone who knows what that is
I love how you can officially play as these, so fun
If anyone is having a problem finding a challenging mob for a Swashbuckler in Pathfinder, there are oozes that are immune to physical attacks. Swarms made of tiny or smaller creatures also have that.
"What if was big and kill man" is an under apreciated quote
In my starfinder campaign I had the players fight a homebrew ooze. Well the party went to get their ship and left one person to guard the crates on the lift as it was moving. Well he noticed a black ooze plastered against the back wall digesting a monster. It wasn't melting the monster, but more like mummifying the monster quickly in front of him. So he decides it's a good idea to touch it while it's eating. So it latches onto his arm. After a few bad rolls on his part and a few good rolls on my part, a few really good rolls on his parties part, and a few more stupid actions from everyone; he now has to wear a prosthetic for his left arm.
ochre jelly: *exists*
lizardfolk: i can milk you
I had three players comically fall into a gelatinous cube. the first one didn’t see it and fell in, the second fell in as well, and the third tried to pull the second one out and she got pulled in by him. The Wizard then had the great idea of using fire ball, and they got launched out of the cube.
The the gelatinous cube, I have grate fences they can slither through and all the stuff caught within them stays behind. That way, the floating items within don't give away their position to more keen adventurers. Also, it's a good way to foreshadow if the scoured clean walls were missed.
Imagine going underground and just stumbling across a town full of seemingly ordinary people. They seem nice enough, but for some reason the ground is covered in nasty smelling red gunk. You can't pick up your foot without pulling a little slime trail up off the ground. Eventually one of the townies convines you stock up on supplies to rest there.
Then you wake in horror, hogtied in the center of town as the "villagers" prepare to "introduce you to the mayor". Your gear is being taken back to the store where you resupplied, and the slime starts to engulf you. Your form will serve to entice more adventurers to fall into this same trap, and your memories will feed the grandfather oblex.
The blood vessel and white blood cell analogy legit gave me inspiration. Like, what if the earth itself was a living thing, sort of? And just like a living thing, it has natural defenses against foreign bodies, with these defenses being, well, oozes.
In my very first game of D&D their was a guy calling adventures to go in a dungeon to retrieve the body of his dead son who didn't actually exist, but it was actually a ruse to get adventurous dissolved in a gelatinous cube so he could take and all their shit.
2:30 I'm not sure carrying poo and placing it on a rat is any better, if not worse, than directing shitting on the carcass.
00:29 I don’t know why this single frame kills me but it is glorious
4:17 I’d say that a demon lord of the chaotic evil alignment counts as a fair amount of chaos.
I wanna make a jelly cube that waits in the darkness and poses as just a normal skeleton, until the “skeleton” does it’s “lunging attack” and then gobbles up a player
I really like the idea of an Ooblex. I cool scenario would be your party stumbling across a ramshackle town were everyone seems normal but just slightly.....off. After some exploring and investigation by the couple actual humans there it turns out the town is actually just one giant Ooblex and their myriad of clones.
The first session I played with my new character after the last one died, three of my party were simultaneously inside a gelatinous cube, and I was 2-2 on my death saves by the end of the fight... Damn Jell-O
This gave me the idea of a one shot where it’s a murder mystery but it’s actually all actually a sham by an oblex trying to consume the party and any NPC’s one by one
I use a gelatinous cubes in a seemless metal cube as a trash removal system in a game. It was just supposed to be a cute little detail for lore and a stealth puzzle later ... then one player slid down the garbage chute to avoid a guard.
I always thought Mimics were a type of ooze that could shapeshift
Silly child, that would actually make sense. And we all know DnD lore holds sense with the highest of distain.
My friend made a unique ooze monster, The Globster, a thin aquatic ooze that attaches itself to Dead Sea animals and pilots their bodies to a torn and malformed version of their previous self
so the party enter a room with obvious marks of burn and dried blood but they don't have a rogue and ignore the potential danger of traps.
can't blame them: paladin, war-cleric, druid and divine-soul-sorcerer.
TPK...
and now?
a undead party!!!
elf ghost-sorcerer, Death Knight-Paladin Oathbreaker, Mummy-druid, the cleric played a necromancer-wizard
roleplay adventurers while trying to hide the undead nature was really fun
"Ugly deppresed man" nah that's the home of a future jack skelington
I kinda want to play a character that uses a specially made sling that fires tiny Gelatinous Cubes... Imagine getting hit in the face with a little Gelatinous Cube which immediately sticks to you and spreads itself to cover as much area as possible, trying to engulf you.
I once got a undead slime cube as a pet and gave a ring of regeneration to it, so I could make my skeletons and wights "make a body" and be able to melt almost any enemy.(They had gone blades coming out of their for arms and knees)
Bone blades
Idea: have a village in some enchanted cave, with ribbons around everyone's ankles to keep them from getting lost, except it's not a village, it's just a huge oblex
That Raycon add could've been made anywhere in his house, maybe his sofa or kitchen chairs, but he decided to just put a chair and do it all while facing a wall at melee range.
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I actually made my own homebrew race that is basically just a human soul, trapped in a gem, trapped in an ooze, that can control the ooze and is now playable...
Hearing him smile when he mentions poop kills me.
I was watching a documentary about ancient whales on another tab when I realized I either forgot to pause this video, or youtube didn't register it.
*Basilosaurus swims past the camera* "see this ugly, depressed man"
One time I made a puzzle where my players had to move ice blocks around in order to make a stair case, but once it was conplete the final one was replaced with a gelatinous cube, so once they made it up one of them almost died from falling in, but on his perception check he did so bad, that he couldn’t see the “ice block” so he stopped because he thought he would fall, and managed to miss the trap from it. That was a funny moment
I was once DMing for a group, and it was a homebrew setting. The group had to make their way to a tower that was home to a dragon, and said dragon was flying around... and the party was just in time to spot it leaving a turd onto the forest below from the sky.
Then, once they get closer, they see a ton of grey oozes (because they were itching for a battle)... one of my characters rolled really good on an arcana check to see what their weaknesses and lore was, and I explained that grey oozes, in this world, was dragon shit.
Rats? Kobolds? Nah, get your party started with Draconic Feces.
Slithering Tracker is just the Semen Demon of Evil Within 2.
Just wait for the next unearthed arcana monster: Slime Beholder
A cool adventure idea centring around oblex is that far away from civilisation the PCs discover a colony of oblex lead by a few older ones. These oblex haven’t ever seen the world and use the memories of the far out nomads and barbarians to survive. Then they eat an NPC or a PC and learn that there are cities and large groups of people to eat resulting in a mass migration of oblex who try to consume all of civilisation.
My favourite memory of playing d&d is my first game, when my DM, who it was also their first time playing, had us fight a black pudding, without looking up what it was... so we were all picturing a piece of the "blood sausage" as Logan put it attempting to disintegrate the party.
If you have a murder hobo party you can send slithering trackers after them from all the random people they killed
if you didn't poop out those pennies, you digested them.
my constantly heat emitting tiefling would just walk through the gelatinous cubes and not notice they were there
So I read the light novels to Overlord, and one of the characters in that fits into this heading. She is whats known as a predatory slime. Much like the ooblex, she can shapeshift, but she has some interesting abilities as well. Inside of her is basically like a bag of holding... full of acid that she can precisely control. She looks like a normal human (very attractive) woman, but can not only absorb a full grown man entirely, leaving no sign he is inside her, but also carry tons of equipment from magic gear to scrolls that she can choose NOT to melt. She can also choose how fast or slow she wants to melt her prey, transform her body into simple tools like the t-1000, and take class levels as well. And the cherry on top? Pretty much immune to melee combat as any weapon you swipe through her will start dissolving and its about as effective as slashing a lake, and if you physically touch her, i hope you enjoy being consumed and dissolved.
I kinda want to see a monster like this statted out. The ability to add class levels means you could easily alter how it hunts as well as boost its level for varying encounter challenge ratings. Imagine if at high levels you find yourself being stalked through an underground lair by one of these with high rogue levels? I hope your party rogue has some seriously boosted spot checks. Or a spellcaster predatory slime casting hold person on you then approaching you with a sadistic smile. And since its fully human intelligent it can have all sorts of clever strategies instead of just oozing in your general direction or hoping you step into its pool.
Therapist : Rhyming ooze doesnt existing, it cant hurt you.
Logan : *rhymes of oozes*
I once had a cultists assassin come after my players with a sealed container with a black pudding to attack them with. They took the container and pushed him out the window of a moving train. I think they forgot they have it and I'm not planning on reminding them.
Fun Campaign Idea
Oozes are becoming too large and have started to swallow up whole towns. The characters must figure out how to get rid of these Tarrasque sized Oozes.
In reality the Oozes have been sent out by the earth to get rid of the problem that is causing the earth to warm up and the plants and animals to die
I am obsessed with this sort of thing right now and i dont know why!
"The planet is a big, unconscious living creature covered in...us, and also other things. But it's got caves and tunnels which are a lot like blood vessels, and inside those caves and tunnels are the cleanup crew..."
*PTSD flashbacks to Darkest Dungeon intensify*
Sounds exciting
fun trap, a 10x10 room, hatch in the ceiling, gelatinous cube in the room above, two levers, do not be Kronk
"do you see this ugly, depressed man?" ... 3 seconds in and I'm questioning my life lmao
Fact: in a dnd campaign I'm in, I played a Paladin. We just recently started and we are all lvl 2. I find a gray ooze chilling at the end of the hall, and it begins to consume my chain mail armor.
I then use my sword+ the spell Thunderrous Smite on this man.
A round or 2 later, it dies to magic missile.
1:17, that's a pretty good nod and use of the Dies Irae, especially how it ties to how you just mentioned Gregorian chants a few moments before. (It being a good use of it because Dies Irae means death and judgement day, judgement for the amoeba's cursed life.) Anyway, that was a funny little nerd nod to the obscurely known.
Dude, your Ooze-ruse did not lose;
Tots kept me 'til I got chews'd.
--Former Bard, now an Oblex
Videos like this are some of the Reasons i Love D&D
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I didn’t know about Oblex’s but they’re a really interesting creature. I like the idea of one being located beneath a location and sending a tentacle through any number of tunnels or pipes and reforming into a clone at the other end. So they’re able to be anywhere at a moment’s notice. Maybe that would make for a cool twist boss as part of a campaign, you think this mysterious person who keeps showing up at weird locations of this castle is a ghost or magic or something only to discover that no, they’re just a hongry slime.
You said they are akin to white blood cells. And now all I can imagine is an ooze in a good uniform shouting "die filthy germ" as it cuts down adventurers.