Tylecodon reticulatus, Final Words on Rooting Caudiciforms (for those who might find this experience useful)

One day, you're an idiot and you spend too much on a dumbass plant. Two days later, it starts oozing.

When your plant does this, you don't panic, you don't think. You just go in there, dig it out and start hacking it to pieces. Don't even bother thinking it over. This is NOT one of those things that will resolve themselves.