Unidentified gelatinous apprentice

"He ever got a name?" "I never bothered with one, I don't think Caiaphus ever did either. He doesn't speak our language, but since mind reading is a wonderful technique..."

- Rahn and Akzer discuss the gelatinous apprentice

An unidentified gelatinous apprentice, sometimes referred to as just "the blob", was an Apprentice of Caiaphus.

History
This gelatinous being served as an Apprentice of Caiaphus for some time. During the Battle of the Virtual Reality, the gelatinous apprentice infiltrated Darkmount with Akzer in order to rescue Klak, but the virtual reality collapsed in on itself before they could. Klak wandered the ship until he found the gelatinous apprentice, Akzer, and Muta, who had also escaped. Together, the four of them decided to take the opportunity to sabotage Darkmount from within. They killed several Rahkshi on their journey through the ship, but were forced to stop when Caiaphus summoned them to his side.

Caiaphus tested Klak by telling him that one of their group was a traitor, and asked him to determine which of them was the traitor and which were allies. The traitor was revealed as Akzer when he had one of his comrades kill the gelatinous apprentice.

Some time later, the gelatinous apprentice was resurrected when the operators of the UG pushed it into the Original Universe and used a resurrection matrix to draw in the lost souls of many of the OU's deceased characters and resurrect them in new, identical bodies. The gelatinous apprentice was one of many Apprentices of Caiaphus who found themselves resurrected, but he was not mentioned by name at first. A booming voice told the resurrected apprentices that they had been trapped in a "tournament of the dead" of sorts, and that their only chance to escape from the UG was by making pacts with other characters and completing challenges. The voice also told them that their powers and strength had been taken from them and trapped in badges attached to their chests.

The Apprentices worked together to complete their first challenge: defeating a giant crab. Unfortunately, once they had completed the challenge, they realized that, if they could fight each other for life force and strength, one of them could eventually collect enough to escape from the UG. Akzer attacked Tidal Wave, which created a brawl between the apprentices. Akzer, Rahn, Tulio, and Tidal Wave managed to escape the brawl and form an alliance to take more badges, but they were chased down and attacked by the gelatinous being, who shapeshifted into a form resembling Poseidon. Akzer laughed upon seeing the gelatinous being again, and telepathically altered his mental state, turning him into an ally (at least temporarily). However, the group were then attacked by Raziel, who had detected the UG's opening and had been lured there by its large amount of souls. He immediately feasted on the soul of Tidal Wave, which prompted the gelatinous apprentice to fight back by tackling Raziel with Rahn while Akzer and Tulio punched him. Raziel was overwhelmed and fled.

The UG simulation ended when DU Monarch returned and discovered that the pirates he hired to safeguard it had turned it into some kind of game. He trapped all of its remaining occupants in stasis pods to be added to his army, the gelatinous being included.

Abilities & Powers

 * Shapeshifting - This being's gelatinous form meant that it could shapeshift to resemble the shape of almost any being; however, it could not change the color or appearance of the substance that its body was composed of.