How does cutting oozes kill them?

I guess its sort of like john carpenter's the thing. Individual bits of it aren't very smart and don't try to reform so they move away trying to survive on its own.

>>52429878
I guess they have a nervous system that you cut?

>not poking them with a straw and drinking them

>>52429941
Truly the ooze are a unique and mysterious species.

>>52429878
I'd guess it's like an amoeba: they've got a weird wiry skeleton and a (mostly permeable) membrane around them, both of which take poorly to being chopped apart. Once you break them up enough, the ooze falls apart and lays there as a puddle of acid until it either dries up or is collected by some alchemist or whatever.

>>52429878
I like to treat them as jellyfish on land instead of puddles of goop. solves a lot of the "why can X hurt a puddle of slime?" questions.

I actually have an explanation for this one! Generally, if you have a good DM, the slime will split into smaller slimes every time you slash it, with a cut off point to how small they can get without ceasing to function.

>>52429878
Can a monk punch slime?

>>52429878
The Ooze is made up of cells, many of which are destroyed every time you slash through them. The pieces around the wound probably seal back together but that doesn't save the ones that got pulped by your weapon.

>>52430157
Depends on how stronk the monk is, i suppose.

>>52430157
There is no slime.

>>52429878
It's a fucking Mystery OP.
Some should be able to engulf, some reproduce by fission, and some are actually aberrations, it's all over the fucking place.

We then have Spawn of Juiblex, which are corrupted water elementals, and much, much more.

>>52431100
I mean. Juiblex lives inside the Abyss so i assumed they arent abberations since those come from the far realm. I suppose it is a bit odd that "ooze" is a monster type in itself. theyre a self contained family of garbage/adventurer eating pseudopodic whatchamacallits.

>>52433157
Actually, some Aberrations are magical mistakes of the scientific horror kind, and some are creatures that exceed any form of lateral description other than that term, and there are a certain degree of aberrations with ooze-like qualities.

Most Oozes simply Are, for a better term to describe them.

>>52430021
>drinking sentient corrosive acid that wants to consume your flesh
Greatest suicide idea ever, impossible to pussy out of.

>>52429878
think of it as a giant cell.
you are rupturing it's membrane.
the cytoplasm all pours out.

>>52429878
because a nucleus is a thing that most ameboid creatures have.

>>52434240
And what if you are somehow immune to acid?

Or use Tums,

>>52434240
It could turn you into a slime girl, you never know.

>>52435368
What if you're a guy, tough?

>>52435403
Did I stutter? "Turn you into a slime girl" I never mentioned what you were before.