Amoeboid

An amoeboid is a monster classification type that appears in NetHack.

Description

Amoeboid monsters are mindless and unbreathing, and have no eyes, heads or limbs. The amoeboids consist of all monsters currently from the ​b blob and ​P pudding or ooze monster classes:

• b acid blob
• b quivering blob
• b gelatinous cube
• P gray ooze
• P brown pudding
• P black pudding
• P green slime

With the exception of the quivering blob, all amoeboids have acidic bodies, which give them acid resistance and stoning resistance and gives their corpses and tins the ability to cure stoning when eaten.

Encyclopedia entry

"Amoeboid" does not have an encyclopedia entry of its own, but all the monsters share the same entry:

These giant amoeboid creatures look like nothing more than puddles of slime, but they both live and move, feeding on metal or wood as well as the occasional dungeon explorer to supplement their diet.

But we were not on a station platform. We were on the track ahead as the nightmare, plastic column of fetid black iridescence oozed tightly onward through its fifteen-foot sinus, gathering unholy speed and driving before it a spiral, re-thickening cloud of the pallid abyss vapor. It was a terrible, indescribable thing vaster than any subway train -- a shapeless congeries of protoplasmic bubbles, faintly self-luminous, and with myriads of temporary eyes forming and unforming as pustules of greenish light all over the tunnel-filling front that bore down upon us, crushing the frantic penguins and slithering over the glistening floor that it and its kind had swept so evilly free of all litter.

[ At the Mountains of Madness, by H.P. Lovecraft ]