Oozes, ehh?
The Blambinken Museum of All That Was uses black puddings as a sort of a "living motion sensor". Essentially, when night falls, black puddings, locked in carefully crafted containers that let them attack but not escape are placed tactically around the most critical museum pieces. The museum's officials make this a known fact, as they've grown tired of cleaning the dissolved remains of would-be thieves from the floors. Nevertheless, a newly formed thieves guild has managed to snag a few pieces, and a group of orphans joining it needs to do the same as part of the initiation process.
During the dwarven festivity of Shableirgah, a black pudding is intentionally created from scraps of food discarded during the feast. Namely, a deep pit is dug in the middle of the encampment, and younguns are tasked with going around, picking up any leftover foodstuff (and there tends to be a lot) and pouring it all into the pit. As the festivity draws to a close, older dwarves ritually go over to the pit, shake their beards over it, releasing any food that got entangled in them. Finally, a bog priest arrives, pours fresh mountain goat blood into the pit as well, and then chants to animate the contents of it. The resulting ooze varies in shape, form and smell over the years, but particularly nasty ones are a point of pride for years to come. That is, of course, if the Chieftan-nominated champions manage to defeat it...
The last line of Gargathas the black dragon's sewer for defenses is a long corridor littered with black puddings. While anyone who got that far is certain to survive an encounter with the oozes, it is Gargathas's hope that at least a few swords and spears will be destroyed along the way.
The Blambinken Museum of All That Was uses black puddings as a sort of a "living motion sensor". Essentially, when night falls, black puddings, locked in carefully crafted containers that let them attack but not escape are placed tactically around the most critical museum pieces. The museum's officials make this a known fact, as they've grown tired of cleaning the dissolved remains of would-be thieves from the floors. Nevertheless, a newly formed thieves guild has managed to snag a few pieces, and a group of orphans joining it needs to do the same as part of the initiation process.
During the dwarven festivity of Shableirgah, a black pudding is intentionally created from scraps of food discarded during the feast. Namely, a deep pit is dug in the middle of the encampment, and younguns are tasked with going around, picking up any leftover foodstuff (and there tends to be a lot) and pouring it all into the pit. As the festivity draws to a close, older dwarves ritually go over to the pit, shake their beards over it, releasing any food that got entangled in them. Finally, a bog priest arrives, pours fresh mountain goat blood into the pit as well, and then chants to animate the contents of it. The resulting ooze varies in shape, form and smell over the years, but particularly nasty ones are a point of pride for years to come. That is, of course, if the Chieftan-nominated champions manage to defeat it...
The last line of Gargathas the black dragon's sewer for defenses is a long corridor littered with black puddings. While anyone who got that far is certain to survive an encounter with the oozes, it is Gargathas's hope that at least a few swords and spears will be destroyed along the way.
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