Carnivorous plants are always nasty surprises (when they are
surprises, that is—in most campaigns, especially dungeon-centric ones, you
should run the moment your GM even mentions
a plant, because it’s always bad
news). Moonflowers have the added
bonus of being shockingly fast for a plant (the first time one outruns your
party’s halfling paladin should be pretty amusing) and being alien (or
primordial or other-dimensional) crops to boot. Of course, the worst part of all is that they might do more
than gobble up your friends—they might also turn your friends into spawn that
then gobble up you…
The dwarves of the
Sequoia Range are avid gardeners, using terraces and the mountains’ many
natural microclimates to breed plants from a variety of biomes. Of course, being dwarves they tend to
favor plants of a more combative nature than most gardeners. Tending mobile plant monsters like
moonflowers is a test of honor for the more accomplished experts and druids.
The young mage-marquis
of Davenport returned home from university to find his mother had vanished
mysteriously in the forest. After
much searching he found her…sort of.
Now he raises a moonflower that bears the shape and face of his mother,
and soon he will need to begin to feed it more than sunlight and water…
Greenearth and Vesper
are separated by miles of space, but the planets share one particular
valley due to a quirk in time and space.
In this vale strange tentacled monsters leap from tree to tree to avoid
the carnivorous plants that dominate the underbrush. Among the worst of these are the moonflowers, whose light
pulses light up the night, luring terrestrial animals and unwary travelers
toward their hungry maws.
—Pathfinder Bestiary 2
192
Woke up in a cold sweat in the middle of the night. Discovered I’d missed the Pathfinder
Online Kickstarter deadline. (I
wish I was kidding that that is what woke me up. But it was.
Confession is good for the soul.)
I’m super bummed because, though I’m not much of a computer gamer, I
really wanted the super-dungeon hardcover and was going to pledge at that
level. Totally in a funk about
this—got distracted with Christmas, work, and travel, missed it by a day. Really, really hoping they make it
available in some way to non-Kickstarters. Sigh…
At least frozenbanks absolved me for my lack of Dream Quest knowledge. Got a nice note from uwtartarus,
too. Had no idea you all dug
Lovecraft so much!
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