Proto-Slime

Proto-slime can range in consistency from milk to molasses but always retains an inky-black color. It's outer layer of matter is opaque black, somwhat wet and rubbery, and smooth to the touch. As it nears the end of it's life span, a proto-slime will turn a chalky gray color that fades to progressively lighter shades of gray until it dies. Upon death it collapses into a pile of stinking gray matter, yet nerve core and tendrils remain active for a few hours before succumbing to the elements and the lack of stimuli. It reproduces asexually, creating two offspring each with half the M.D.C.^tm of the parent organism. It reproduces when food is abundant. Abberations in proto-slime are uncommon but not unheard of. Normally these abberations are differences in color or attribute levels, though there have been stories of planet-engulfing slimes, space-slimes, and proto-slime that attained a humanoid form. Maybe they're true, maybe not. It was unlikely that the Gene- Splicers^tm created this life form, but they would definitely have fun tampering with it's genetic structure.

Natural R.C.C. Powers:

1. Degrade Matter: Most forms of vegetation can be broken down under an hour - as a slime crawls over grasses and other small plants they are usually uprooted and absorbed, leaving only bare ground. More complex biological matter requires one hour per 100 pounds of weight to digest. Supernatural life forms can be absorbed, but take double the time. The slime must absorb one- tenth it's weight a week to stay healthy but will feed every chance it can. Starvation reduces it's bonuses by half and M.D.C.^tm by 20% per week until it reaches less than 100 M.D.C.^tm, at which point it becomes dormant until food is again avaliable. It can engulf anything the size of a horse within two minutes, humans in one minute, and smaller animals within two melees. It prefers animals to plants.
2. Destroy Hard Substances: The proto-slime can break apart most metals, stones, and alloys within a half-hour of work. It seems to posess some sort of natural acidity that damages these structures, doing 1d6 M.D. or 6d6 S.D.C.^tm damage per minute. Plastics and magic metals cannot be dissolved - the slime sometimes absorbs them and 'forgets' about them so they remain inside until retrieved somehow. Players in environmental armor can survive inside a slime without suffering damage if they are pulled out before they run out of oxygen. If inside a slime for a fair amount of time the player must save vs. insanity or suffer some mental abberations. Usually, a survivor will have a fear of darkness (like being in the slime) or slime-like creatures. From inside the slime it wouldn't be difficult to destroy the nerve core, though the character is limited to two attacks inside the slime.
3. Other Minor Abilities: Proto-slime cannot ooze under doors or through cracks, so instead it uses it's mass to break down the doors and expand cracks if it can. It can squeeze itself through anything over six inches in width - the neural core is pretty elastic. The most intelligent slimes might be able to figure out how to open doors and windows silently, maybe even use a laser pistol or some other weapon (treat as wild - no proficiency). Since it doesn't have a brain in the normal sense of the word psionic abilities that attack the mind are ineffective, though ones that affect the nervous system will work. Neural Strike and Bio-manipulation are two examples. Magic illusions are useless (no eyes), as is magic mind control. Repel animals will work, as will spells that control supernatural beings. Against those kinds of spells it is -3 to save. It prefers darkness to light, so Thunderclap will scare it easily and Globe of Daylight can keep it at bay. Unless it is very hungry. This creature is not supernatural in nature, but is the evolutionary equivalent to one.