Juiblex

A shuddering, glistening cone of jelly and slime striated with veins of black and green rears up from the pit. Baleful red eyes swim in the thing’s gelatinous body, and dripping pseudopods of tremulous ooze writhe with latent hunger in every direction at once.

Juiblex Lore

Characters with ranks in Religion or Arcana can learn more about Juiblex. When a character makes a successful skill check, the following lore is revealed, including the information from lower DCs. 

DC	Result
15	Juiblex is the lord of oozes and shapeless things. He has few cultists and no real goals or schemes other than destruction and ruin.
20	Juiblex can crush and absorb those he sweeps up in his acidic pseudopods.
25	Juiblex’s amorphous body is difficult to damage. Weapons that aren’t cold iron and good-aligned can barely harm him, and bludgeoning attacks are useless altogether. Worse, the powerful acids in his body tend to consume or ruin anything that touches him
30	Juiblex can spew green slime at foes and summon both oozes and demons to aid him in battle.

Strategy and Tactics 

Juiblex closes to melee reach as soon as possible, using teleport, fly, or plane shift if necessary to reach the closest target. He spreads his attacks among every victim in reach, attempting to constrict and then engulf them all. In the early rounds of combat, he augments his attacks with quickened hold monster spells. He generally uses his ability to create slime to attack creatures just out of reach or to create barriers to prevent other enemies from reaching him safely. If brought below 100 hit points, Juiblex summons oozes or tanar’ri to keep his enemies busy and then teleports away to recover. 

Servants, Enemies, and Goals

Of all the demon lords of the Abyss, Juiblex is perhaps the simplest (and therefore easiest to understand) in his goals. Put simply, Juiblex has no goals other than to simply exist, destroying and killing and corroding anything he can get his tendrils around. He hates everything and revels only in destruction. 

There is no organized cult of Juiblex, although a few demented souls do revere the Faceless Lord as a god. It’s doubtful that Juiblex knows of these few, and if he does, he certainly doesn’t encourage them or reward their loyalty. His primary minions are the countless slimes, oozes, and jellies that shudder in the depths of his realm. Of these, only one is intelligent enough to serve the Faceless Lord willingly—a unique demonic black pudding known as Darkness Given Hunger. 

Demon Lord Relationships

Juiblex shares the 222nd layer of the Abyss with Zuggtmoy, the Lady of Fungi. The two demons have a long history of conflict and war, with Juiblex’s constant attempts to surge upward into Zuggtmoy’s holdings a constant source of contention between the two. Other demons despise and loathe Juiblex, yet most see him as a faceless menace that poses a threat only to those foolish enough to stand in front of him, and they wisely choose to leave him alone. 

Clerics of Juiblex have access to the domains of Arcana, Death, and Ooze. His symbol is that of a pseudopod dripping slime.