Goodness gracious, great balls of acid...

ACID BALL (#28/29, #59/365) [OOTP IV]

SKILL: 9

STAMINA: 6

ATTACKS: 1

WEAPON: Acid Spray (see below)

ARMOUR: Light

DAMAGE MODIFIER: None

HABITAT: Dungeons, Ruins, Caves, Wilderness, Deserts

NUMBER ENCOUNTERED: 2-12

TYPE: Monster

REACTION: Neutral

INTELLIGENCE: None

Life on Titan was created by the gods using the Magical Clay of Throff (see Encyclopedia Arcana: Volume 1, pp. 148-149), and some of the weirder life-forms of Titan appear to be strange leftovers from this process. For example, how else do we explain the profusion of bizarre spherical or globular entities such as Eye Stingers, Diadrones, and Walking Mouths, that resemble nothing else upon Titan? To this list we can add plenty of others, such as the Sith Orb (presented elsewhere in this volume) and the ACID BALL! This peculiar creature resembles a large grey ovoid stone, up to a metre in diameter, and are often found in groups, in dungeons and underground cave-systems. An adventurer who explored and survived the Tomb of Ut-Napishtim, buried somewhere in the vicinity of the Rivers of the Dead on the Eastern Rim of the Inland Sea, claimed the crypts there were infested with Acid Balls.

Most of the time an Acid Ball will be largely sessile and apparently dormant, producing a weak acid externally to digest moss, lichen and minerals from its environment to consume. If disturbed however, the creature will react with alarm, the spongy grey mass of its body opening numerous pores with which to shriek loudly (alerting any nearby wandering monsters) and spit gobs of acid at whatever troubles it. If an Acid Ball wins an Attack Round, its victim must deduct 2 STAMINA points due to acid damage, and spend the next Attack Round wiping the acid off, or suffer 2 STAMINA damage per Attack Round. If harvested correctly, an Acid Ball provides enough acid to make a Vial of Weak Acid (see Encyclopedia Arcana: Volume 1, p. 119).