Mephit II [Earth/Ooze]

Stolid, stubborn and immune to insult, an earth mephit resembles a small, thin earth elemental with rocky hide, glinting eyes and rigid wings of dull metal that never flap and do nothing for its clumsy magical flight. It smells of fresh dirt.

It punches twice for 1d4 each, or 2d6 each after growing to 10 feet tall for one turn, which it can do once daily. Three times a day it spits an unerring stone at a foe within 15 feet for 1d6; each spit beyond the third drains 2 of its own hit points. Hourly it may try to summon 1-2 earth or magma mephits, both alike if two come. Half-buried or deeper in soil, it heals 1 hit point per round, but passwall or transmute rock to mud destroys it outright.

Though it needs no food or drink, it craves gems and jewelry and chases them through endless doomed money schemes. Its usual ploy is to sidle up to a stranger, heap hissing praise on his fine armor and commanding air, and then request 'a loan' of 100 gold pieces.

Shaped from ochre slime like its home plane, an ooze mephit is a jointless lump of a humanoid with clear green bubble wings that rarely burst and a dopey, lovesick face. Its stench fills 30 feet, and its touch stains cloth forever.

It avoids fights, clawing twice for 1d3 each when it must. Every other round, without limit, it exhales an unseen gas acting as stinking cloud cast at 3rd level, 10-foot radius around itself, which other mephits ignore. Hourly it may call one more ooze mephit. Edged and piercing weapons, fire and water cannot harm it, though transmute mud to rock slays it on the spot, and it heals 1 hit point per round in stagnant water.

Created to clear sewers and tend refuse heaps, ooze mephits soon run off to beg, saving coins to pay wizards to remake them as humans, elves, dwarves or even kobolds.