[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Dragonstrike]

Nathan and Tandal cautiously approach the strange tree. It shudders as their footsteps approach. Tandal holds out a hand to stop their advance.

From here, you can see eight rubbery, whiplike roots, writhing slightly, gripping the gravel and soil of the swamp. The eponymous hog peanut vines cover the earth over the roots. Tiny drops of pink goo are scattered on the floor beneath the broad leaves, and visible at each crack or crevice in the tree's wood. On one branch grows a particularly large spherical concentration of the sap, already a foot in diameter and slowly swelling. The branch bends toward the ground beneath the weight of this burden.

At a mild gasp from Tandal, each and every one of the heavy leaves swivel to point at your hiding place.

Oh dear...as if the weird vines coming from the Skull Ruins weren't enough to deal with already...

If Swiftfire knew Inferno already, Nathan might have just had her use it on the tree and been done with the matter.  This hardly looked natural...but she doesn't yet, so it looks like he's not going to be taking THAT approach...

That large concentration of sap on that singular branch looks weird...hmmm...for the most part, Nathan's trying to ignore the fact that this plant is a bit more mobile than most...

"What do you make of that bulge, Tandal?  I think it's weird that only that one branch seems to have that accumulation."