Mimic
Description and Characteristics
Mimics occupy a volume of approximately 15 cubic feet (0.42 cubic meters). They can assume any shape, provided that they retained the same volume. In order to most effectively lure adventurers, they most commonly take the shape of doors, chests, and other objects likely to be touched. Their skin texture and color can change to almost perfectly resemble wood, stone, metal, and other basic materials. The natural state of a mimic's skin is a rough speckled grey similar to granite.Mimics are capable of altering the pigmentation and texture of their skins by pumping a brown pigmented fluid from internal muscular organs through surface capillary vessels. While the pigment grants them the appearance of wood, the capillaries themselves grant an appearance of wood grain. This fluid can be more readily seen in wounded mimics.
Their skins is covered with light-sensitive sensors that detect heat out to a range of 90 feet (27 meters). These sensors are quickly overwhelmed when exposed to bright lights and could potentially even be rendered blind.
Behavior and Intelligence
Mimics have no concerns beyond surviving and acquiring food. Although some intelligent varieties of mimics are capable of basic communication, they had no culture, no moral code, and no interest in religion. More aggressive mimics can not be reasoned with in any capacity.Mimics hunt by standing perfectly still until a creature came into contact with them. They then attack their victims by using a powerful adhesive secretion to trap them, while also employing their strong pseudopods to attack and further restrain the creatures' movements. The adhesive, which was also a mimic's main means of locomotion, can be weakened by the application of alcohol over a few seconds, and is completely neutralized less than a minute after the mimic's death.
Although mimics are usually solitary hunters, they often share their vast territories with other species. A meal of one or two humanoids could sustain a mimic for several weeks. They reproduce by splitting, growing to adulthood within a few years.
