A-to-Z Challenge, Q: Quickslime (New Oe/BX/1E Monster)

Today, along with "X" and "Z" days will be interesting ones around the A-to-Z blogging challenge. I'm lucky. I stumbled across today's monster name ("Quickslime") a little by luck. I I started by researching monsters of legend and mythology. But instead of settling for qinyuan, qishemn, or qutrub, or making up some Cthulhu-inspired name full of q's and apostrophes, I chose door number 3... creating a new monster through the combination of two common words (e.g., blink dog, displacer beast, owlbear, et al.) Today's illustration is one that I originally created for Fight On! magazine #13 for the adventure "The Mysterious Laboratory of Xoth-Ragar" by Alexey Fotinakes (though for slimes in general, and not particularly the creature I've created below.)

Quickslime

DESCRIPTION Quickslimes are green slimes that have been magically endowed by a high-level magic user by means of a magical tome or by employing a wish, a polymorph object, a haste, and a strength spell. The latter demands the magic-user be of at least the 12th level. In either case, the fashioning of a quickslime requires at least 3 green slimes as "source material." Unlike standard green slimes, quickslimes have the power of movement and will follow simple commands (kill, stop, etc.) from the master that created it. Furthermore, the creator of a quickslime can have the quickslime lay dormant until a "trigger" circumstance occurs (e.g., drop on intruder). Quickslimes have all the standard resistances of green slimes (immune to all weapons and spells, except cure disease), but the magical resistance of a quickslime allows it to save as a 6th level magic-user. Additionally, a quickslime operates at a much quicker rate than a normal green slime, turning any affected creature into a green slime in 1-2 melee rounds, consuming 1 inch thickness of wood in 30 minutes, and eating through plate armor in 2 rounds.

Oe/1E STATS FREQUENCY: Very Rare NO. APPEARING: 1 ARMOR CLASS: 5 MOVE: 12" HIT DICE: 6 % IN LAIR: 20% TREASURE TYPE: Nil NO. OF ATTACKS: See below DAMAGE/ATTACK: See below SPECIAL ATTACKS: See below SPECIAL DEFENSES: See below MAGIC RESISTANCE: As above INTELLIGENCE: Semi- ALIGNMENT: Neutral SIZE: M-L PSIONIC ABILITY: Nil Attack/Defense Modes: Nil BX STATS ARMOR CLASS: 5 HIT DICE: 6 MOVE: 120' ATTACKS: See below DAMAGE: See below NO. APPEARING: 1 SAVE AS: Magic-user: 6 MORALE: 12 TREASURE TYPE: Nil ALIGNMENT: Neutral