From the Stars Without Number Compatible – Alien Database
Absorption. Living flesh can engulf, and later absorb, a defenseless target of approximately the same size. By absorbing a target the living flesh gains 1 permanent 1 hit point, and after having gained 8 hit points it also gains one hit die and grows by 1 meter in size. Absorption also grants the living flesh a temporary
spark of intelligence equal to half the target’s intelligence for 1d12 hours. Living flesh can absorb one target per day, absorbing more than one does not grant any extra hit points or temporary intelligence.
Pseudopod. Living flesh makes four attacks in a single round with its pseudopods. Anytime the living flesh scores a successful hit roll, the pseudopod wraps around one of the target’s limbs. The pseudopod deals 1 hit point of damage every round, no hit roll required. The pseudopod can be severed with a successful hit roll against AC 18. Once a pseudopod wraps around a target, a new pseudopod sprouts from the living flesh, thus granting the creature four attacks per round at any moment.
COMBAT & TACTICS
Living flesh has no intelligence, but acts by pure instinct, except when it has absorbed a target. The base tactic resembles that of a stalker predator, which means hiding, waiting, and striking, preferring isolated targets over groups. Records state that some specimens, after having absorbed a certain amount of intelligent beings, start developing mouth-like organs that can emit sounds and mimic voices. Whether these records are the fruit of direct testimony or lab experimentation, is yet unknown.
DESCRIPTION
The living flesh is an amorphous mass of flesh and organic tissues, without any apparent limbs. It measures from 1 to 3 meters, depending on how much organic matter it has absorbed. The living flesh has many mouth-like holes located in its body that the creature employs to slowly swallow and absorb food. The creature has no apparent eyes, but it can sprout stalks from its body that work as perception organs.
HABITAT
Living flesh favors a moist environment, like marshes and swamps, where liquid fluids are abundant, while it avoids dry environments. This creature needs to feed on proteins of carbon or silicon-based creatures, from bacteria to animals, it makes no difference. They are amphibious and very versatile creatures when
dwelling in their favored environment.
BIOLOGY
Little is known about these weird creatures, it is even possible that they are not the natural product of evolution, but the result of an experiment made by an alien intelligence a long time ago. Specimens have also been found on abandoned outposts and even ghost spaceships. How do they reproduce, or if they even reproduce at all, is unknown. Records of scientists conducting experiments on these aliens exist, but
no one has ever had the chance of reading the documentation or has ever found one of these scientists to obtain more information.