Room for Jell-O

I ran my D&D game on Saturday, and a fun time was had by all. It was a short "dungeon crawl" through part of a cavern system beneath a small town. The party was following up because in the previous adventure, they'd ferreted out an infestation of doppelgangers in the aforementioned town, and the doppelgangers had emerged from those caverns. In the crawl, the party bumped into one of the classic D&D monsters : a gelatinous cube.

What you may not know is that a gelatinous cube is so transparent that a Spot skill check is required to see it, even under the best of conditions. So the party's point man (Andrew, aka eemick2) happened to walk face-first into the cube, and was instantly paralyzed. The rest of the party fought a tense battle to finish off the cube before its acid dissolved their friend.

That's not what the entry is about, that's just background. Later, they came to a chasm, and affixed a rope spanning the chasm, so they might cross to check the ledge on the other side. Point-Man was crossing the rope, and just a tiny bit nervous. I started cracking jokes - the scenario I put forth was that the "World's Fastest Gelatinous Cube" devoured his companions while he was on the rope, leaving him all alone. This was accompanied by my hand motion over the map, as if sweeping their miniatures away, with a Voom! noise. And then, of course, an impression of his character's plaintive cry : "Guys? Guys?"

And then my brain clinched it, by dubbing this theoretical monster "Instant Pudding". Andrew counter-suggested "Instant Jell-O", but as amusing as that is, I can't have a monster's in-game name include a modern brand name.

So watch out for the Instant Pudding, coming soon, to a dungeon near you, and fast!