Monster: Flower Blights
The following comes directly from the offices of Pallimill Arcane & The United Dellwind Unit of Parks and Recreation
Urgent! New Mutations of Blights Discovered!
They may be in your Garden
Over the past several months numerous reports have been flooding in regarding a potentially deadly new threat to our fields and forests: blights. Blights are corrupted plant abominations that have gained a degree of sentience. We may now confidently report that these accounts are accurate.
Until recently, blights had been rumored to reside deep within dark dreary forests. But now, we have discovered that they may be closer than we realized, uncomfortably so. In the fields and grasslands vast swaths of flowers have begun to bloom. There is no explanation for the sudden influx, yet miles of sunflower fields and rose glades dot the landscape around Dellwind.
The fields are beautiful, and naturally drew the curiosity of scholars and civilians. That was until people began to not return from the fields, and the reports of movement increased. Through the work of brave individuals, we now have accounts of two new varieties of blights:
Sunflower Blight
These blights are unnervingly tall and slender. They range from 6 ft. to well over 15 ft. tall. Voids between the seeds on the sunflower blight’s head vague face-like patterns. Using their stalky bodies, they are capable of lashing forward and entangling people.
Be advised, this is not the most dangerous part of the sunflower blight. Instead one must do everything they can to avoid being struck by its leaves. The leaves are covered in needles that the sunflower blight uses to drink the very vitality of its prey. Anyone struck multiple times is at serious risk of long-term injury or death.
Thankfully, sunflower blights are slow moving and the average person should be able to outrun one. They are also extremely vulnerable to changes in temperature.
Rose Blight
The weaknesses of the sunflower blight cannot be found in the other mutation discovered, the rose blight. Rose blights are shockingly fast and deadly. Their tall athletic builds are composed of tightly-bound thorn branches adorned in sweet-smelling decayed roses.
Rose blights have full control over their bodies and they use this to their advantage, sneaking up on unsuspecting targets like assassins and using their own bodies as garrotes. Their thorns inject muscle relaxant toxins into their targets, slowly inducing numbing and paralysis. All the while, the rose blight's sweet aroma boggles and intoxicates the mind.
Rose blights quickly subdue targets, but they rarely kill. Instead, they drag helpless poisoned prey to their fellow blights. There, they are feasted upon and added to the swelling blight swarm.
It is advised to avoid rose blights at all costs, or to carry some means of fire creation on your person at all times while in the countryside.
