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Alternate titles were…
Po & Glabbagool
Curious Naturalist Meets Intelligent Ooze YES
Curiosity Didn’t Kill Everyone YES
Curiosity Doesn’t Kill Everyone
The Naturalist and the Uplifted
Enlightened Naturalist and Uplifted Ooze
Not Every Monster Needs a Weapon YES WINNER
Not Every Encounter Needs to Roll Initiative
Not Every Encounter Requires a Weapon
Not Every Encounter Needs a Weapon
Not Every Encounter Needs to Use a Weapon
Not Every Monster Is An Enemy
J-E-L-L-O
Jello, Cubed

Glabbagool is a monster which the party finds while traveling through the caves of the Underdark. However, when Glabbagool began telepathically talking to my PC instead of aggressively trying to eat the party, I figured this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, the goblin equivalent of Stanley & Livingstone in 1871 Africa. There will be plenty more monsters to fight off later. This IS the Underdark, after all. For right now, various members of the party are enjoyably interviewing the Prime Material Plane's only known intelligent gelatinous cube, and the uneducated, curious cube is enjoying every turn of it. (At first, it asked our party's goblin PC and orc NPC if they were baby and parent, since it would have no knowledge of reproductive mitosis or meiosis.)

Sure enough, in the next session this mysteriously INT 10 ooze helped us by serving as a cooperative stopper during a cave-in's flooding water and later during combat as a living music video for the Weather Girls' hit song, "It's Raining Men," while hungry darkmantles fell upon the party. I don't ever recall whether or not Glabbagool actually had the opportunity to attack any of them; a couple of the darkmantles floated straight down and were automatically absorbed into Glabbagool's digestion system.

Note: if you look closely, you'll spot that yes, I was looking through Tony DiTerlizzi's interior drawings from my 2e Planescape boxed sets from the 1990s.

Description
Alternate titles were…
Po & Glabbagool
Curious Naturalist Meets Intelligent Ooze YES
Curiosity Didn’t Kill Everyone YES
Curiosity Doesn’t Kill Everyone
The Naturalist and the Uplifted
Enlightened Naturalist and Uplifted Ooze
Not Every Monster Needs a Weapon YES WINNER
Not Every Encounter Needs to Roll Initiative
Not Every Encounter Requires a Weapon
Not Every Encounter Needs a Weapon
Not Every Encounter Needs to Use a Weapon
Not Every Monster Is An Enemy
J-E-L-L-O
Jello, Cubed

Glabbagool is a monster which the party finds while traveling through the caves of the Underdark. However, when Glabbagool began telepathically talking to my PC instead of aggressively trying to eat the party, I figured this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, the goblin equivalent of Stanley & Livingstone in 1871 Africa. There will be plenty more monsters to fight off later. This IS the Underdark, after all. For right now, various members of the party are enjoyably interviewing the Prime Material Plane's only known intelligent gelatinous cube, and the uneducated, curious cube is enjoying every turn of it. (At first, it asked our party's goblin PC and orc NPC if they were baby and parent, since it would have no knowledge of reproductive mitosis or meiosis.)

Sure enough, in the next session this mysteriously INT 10 ooze helped us by serving as a cooperative stopper during a cave-in's flooding water and later during combat as a living music video for the Weather Girls' hit song, "It's Raining Men," while hungry darkmantles fell upon the party. I don't ever recall whether or not Glabbagool actually had the opportunity to attack any of them; a couple of the darkmantles floated straight down and were automatically absorbed into Glabbagool's digestion system.

Note: if you look closely, you'll spot that yes, I was looking through Tony DiTerlizzi's interior drawings from my 2e Planescape boxed sets from the 1990s.