Jhoutaioan Slime Mold

This structure acts as the mold's brain and is stored deep within the gel, where it is protected by acidic folds. It is radially symmetrical, with photosensitive rings, and pulsing nutrient channels. It governs the rest of the organs and stores environmental memory.

Simple light-detecting rhopalium embedded across the skin, allowing the mold to detect changes in brightness, movement, or shadows. These eye-spots flash when hit with light, and are stored within the body during movement, but may periscope out while still.

A mucus-soaked membrane around the pseudopod laced with cilia and nerve clusters, reading heat, breath, and chemical traces like script.

The bulk of the slime's mass. A semi-permeable membrane layered with bands of muscle fiber and filled with pressurized gel. Contracts and relaxes in hydraulic pulsations to run, leap, climb, and contort around obstacles.

Produces and stores the corrosive enzymes used to dissolve prey or carve through limestone. Distributed along inner surfaces of pseudopod folds.

Encysted shards of bone, rock, glass, or metal which may be pressurized to burst through the outer membrane.

Hosts the colonies of coral fungus which modulate the mold’s behavior and grant it specific traits. It is visible as veiny root networks or blooming caps growing inside or on the mold.

Polyps grow directly from the core and may produce any other organ. The process leaves the slime vulnerable, and so is usually done only by dedicated cores in the Pool.