Plant Dossier: Oman Apple Tree
“My companions and I quickly learned the downsides of Oman Apples after scoring a pretty sizeable stash back in the day… Man those were some bad nights of sleep.” — Voltar
Type: Fruiting Tree
Where to Find: Any temperate environment, thrives in subtropical forests. Comfortable range: -20° - 134° F
Distinguishing Features: Large vibrant fruit with a mottled orange appearance near the top.
Fruit of the God Speakers
With just one bite from a delightfully sweet and crisp Oman Apple, the consumer is sent off into a fanciful world of hallucinatory visions and sensations. These effects cause the user to enter an hours-long debilitated state where they are unable to perceive reality. The consumer will be blind and deafened to almost all outside stimuli while in their mind they undergo a series of vivid and personalized dreams.
Oman Apples have been occasionally used in shamanistic or medicinal rituals and rites, but this practice has largely fallen out of style. Most Oman Apples grown today are grown for recreational use and the fruit’s past has been nearly forgotten.
In truth, the sporadic use of Oman Apples is linked to a potentially deadly side effect of the fruit. When someone consumes the apple, their soul and spirit become open to extraplanar influences. To creatures of the Outer Planes, someone who eats an Oman Apple shines like a brilliant beacon. This leaves them malleable to the machinations of Outer Planar denizens. For some, this has invited the guidance and service of angels. For others, it has drawn the attention of demons and extraplanar monstrosities.
Repeated use of Oman Apples leads to a continual degradation of someone’s ability to resist extraplanar influence. Chronic Oman Apple eaters may experience dreams filled with devils, days-long strings of bad luck, and strange sudden afflictions. For most adventurers, this incites further harassment as they try to battle an untouchable enemy, delving deeper and deeper into despair the more they are plagued by evil entities.
It has been discovered that an even more potent affect can be gained from Oman Apples by brewing them into a juice. This juice has the potential to launch any who drink it into a hallucinatory trip lasting multiple days. During that time, they may be killed by soul-hungry extraplanars or guided into strengthening their ability to resist extraplanar influence. The former or the latter is largely influenced based on who is with the recipient of the juice, as strangely enough groups are able to have shared dreams while under the juice’s influence.
In recent years, the chronic use of Oman Apples has led some clerics and angel-linked individuals to open clinics and retreats where they guide those who have overindulged into protecting themselves. This task is a monumental one, and many adventurers have spent weeks within an Oman Apple hallucination battling their demons to rid themselves of evil influences.
Gameplay Effects
Oman Apples may be plucked from a tree and consumed without any check. Alternatively, 5 lbs of Oman Apples may be collected and turned into Oman Apple Juice after 2 days of work.
Oman Apple. Upon consuming this fruit, a creature must make a DC 14 Constitution saving throw. On a failed save the creature is stunned for 2d6 hours and becomes partially known to any creature within the Outer Planes. On a successful save the creature may freely move, but is blinded for 2d6 hours. In both cases the creature experiences vivid and highly personal visions for the duration.
Oman Apple Juice. Upon drinking this concoction a creature is immediately stunned. That creature, along with any other creature that has drank the Oman Apple Juice within 30 ft. of it are transported to a random plane through an effect resembling an Astral Projection spell. Alternatively, a cleric or warlock with an extraplanar patron can roll a DC 14 Religion check. On a success they are instead transported to the home plane of whatever deity or patron that creature is associated with.
