Blob

## Appearance and Physical Traits

Blobs look like runny pink Jell-O which they can stretch out into pseudopods to act as limbs.

Their voices sound like they're coming from bottom of a bowl of pudding.

## Socio-Cultural Characteristics

Blobs are working-class monsters  working as trash collectors, fry cooks and the like.

They tend to be dim but good natured but also tend to comment on how they want to usher in a new age of the pink tide or how soon we will all be one single mass. Nevertheless they have politely agreed not to destroy all of civilization, a good thing given that their ability to absorb everything that touches them makes all conventional means of stopping or even moving them impossible.

However when Blobs get to a certain size they "start to see Armageddon as a finish line" and will eat and destroy as much as they can such as with the Springfield Shape in the Dome Rock Mountains, an incident Philadelphia where half the city was eaten, or the Pink Menace that grew to be the biggest on earth by eating half of the Soviet Union before being frozen by the Russian winter. Now as a matter of protocol stockpiles of potassium hydroxide are maintained as emergency measures to destroy Blobs who go out of control.

There maybe a mass of Blobs somewhere out in the depths of space between the stars hungry and waiting to consume.

## Skills, Abilities and Weaknesses

**Blob Physiology:**

* **Acid touch:** The touch of a blob will start to dissolve matter.
* **Absorption:** what ever a blob dissolves will be added to their overall mass.
* **Amorphous Physiology:** Blobs have a elastic malleable form wherein any portion can act as a mouth, eye, ear, nose, or limb.
* **Hive Mind:** Blobs are an amalgam of a hundred minds that maintain a psychic connection to all parts of their physiology allowing them to coordinate movement of parts of themselves that have been disconnected from the greater whole. Moreover this connection seems to extend to other blobs as well with no hard limit possibly extending into outer space.

**Enhanced Taste:** They can use the taste/scent of anything they have partially absorbed to track them.

**Conversion:** can turn humans into Blobs

**Bases:** weakness, contact with strong bases like powdered potassium or alkali will cause blobs to evaporate.

**Cold:** weakness, extreme cold will cause blobs to freeze into solid crystal.

## Notable Blobs

* Gelatin Keyes
* Pink Menace
* Springfield Shape

## References

1. ↑ Fifty Feet of Trouble (Kindle Location 1662)
2. ↑ Fifty Feet of Trouble (Kindle Locations 1671-1672)
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Fifty Feet of Trouble (Kindle Locations 1681-1683)
4. ↑ Fifty Feet of Trouble (Kindle Locations 1639-1640)
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Fifty Feet of Trouble (Kindle Locations 262-264)
6. ↑ Fifty Feet of Trouble (Kindle Locations 1084)
7. ↑ Fifty Feet of Trouble (Kindle Locations 1735-1737)
8. ↑ Fifty Feet of Trouble (Kindle Locations 1681-1683)
9. ↑ Fifty Feet of Trouble (Kindle Locations 4182-4183)
10. ↑ Fifty Feet of Trouble (Kindle Locations 4162-4164)
11. ↑ A Stitch in Crime (Kindle Locations 248-250)
12. ↑ Fifty Feet of Trouble (Kindle Locations 4088-4089)
13. ↑ A Stitch in Crime (Kindle Locations 2436-2440)
14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 Fifty Feet of Trouble (Kindle Locations 1785-1786)
15. ↑ Fifty Feet of Trouble (Kindle Locations 1671-1695
16. ↑ Fifty Feet of Trouble (Kindle Locations 1095-1096)
17. ↑ Fifty Feet of Trouble (Kindle Location 2148)
18. ↑ Fifty Feet of Trouble (Kindle Location 1734)
19. ↑ Fifty Feet of Trouble (Kindle Location 2148)
20. ↑ Fifty Feet of Trouble (Kindle Locations 4040-4041
21. ↑ Fifty Feet of Trouble (Kindle Locations 1697-1698
22. ↑ Fifty Feet of Trouble (Kindle Locations 4060-4061)
23. ↑ A Stitch in Crime (Kindle Location 3061)
24. ↑ A Stitch in Crime (Kindle Locations 248-250)