Aboleth Mite (Basic Lore)

Aboleth Mite (CR 10)
Pure Evil - Medium - Aberration
The Aboleth Mite is a horrid slimy thing of dark, mottled membranes full of sticky jelly, all slathered in stinking and richly acidic mucus. It is frankly impossible for any non-aberrant living thing to emit as much oozing slime as an aboleth does and not die of dehydration. Unluckily for the world, the Aboleth Mite, like all of its horrible tribe of fiends, is indeed an unnatural aberration, and so it survives just fine despite leaving behind gallon upon gallon of its disgusting muck. From even close range an Aboleth Mite looks like a large mound of glistening ooze, and indeed, it is possible to mistake one for an ooze until it is disturbed and it suddenly displays numerous bloody-red eye-things, extrudes oozing tentacles, and hurls itself at you with horrifying speed, sucking mouth-pores ready to slurp up your dissolving remains. Aboleth Mites are the smallest and weakest of its aberrant clade, and they thrive anywhere and everywhere. They lay eggs constantly, and are disgustingly fertile to boot. They can and will eat anything they can catch, and they are willing to try to catch just about anything they perceive. Aboleth Mites are the hardy explorers and shock troopers for the slimy aboleth, and in aboleth 'society' they are considered utterly disposable. As a result, Aboleth Mites can be found in rivers, lakes, ponds, swamps, sewers, ruins, catacombs, caves, forests, mires, and lots of other places besides. Due to their freakish aberrant physiology they actually don't need water to live, and their slime production, regrettably, is unaffected even if you find a clutch of them nesting in a dry desert gulch. It's possible to find entire nightmarish nesting sites composed of dark, dried slime, and such places are vile in the extreme. Aboleth Mites are not very smart, but if any stronger Aboleths encounter them, the greater Aboleth will eat the Mite and thus learn everything that it knows about the local area. In a very real sense, Mites are just the extended eyes and ears and tongues of the Aboleth collective.