User blog comment:SethOmega/Bracchidios Discussion/@comment-68.115.195.114-20111213143934/@comment-4563270-20111213210249

it has a slime ailment.. similar to the way poison and sleep work.. each attack has a chance of producing slime.. after a certain amount of attacks an explosion occurs that is somewhere between the size of a small barrel bomb and a large barrel bomb explosion.