Sand Ooze (Basic Lore)

Sand Ooze (CR 20)
Neutral - Large - Ooze
Sand oozes are horrible things that seem to have a malevolence far beyond other oozes, as they are mostly formed of sharp, gritty, wet sand. In the proper terrain, a sand ooze is nearly impossible to spot before it grabs you, as they will lie in wait, looking like a pile of sand, and then bite you. Hitting a massive pile of soft, wet sand with a sword isn't much use, either. Once activated, or while moving around, sand oozes 'inflate' into their battle form, looking like gigantic, slimy, decapitated heads with numerous eye holes and truly massive mouths filled with horrid 'teeth' running with ichor. Their appearance is so terrifying many ciphers and sages have speculated they are intelligent, and doing it on purpose, or were designed by some malign intelligence in the far past to be deliberately scary. Sand oozes love to 'swallow' enemies and grind them up, or will spit massive piles of damp sand all over the battlefield, or both. They can glide through the earth to ignore their own extrusions during a battle, which are generally horrible in the extreme.