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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rystil Arden" data-source="post: 2773045" data-attributes="member: 29014">*Heading left, the group continues forward, with Rillian and Anton in the lead.  The tunnel through the mountain begins to widen into a small cavern filled with various mushrooms, some of them quite large.  Nobody in the group recognises anything interesting about the mushrooms except Anton, who due to his training with flora of the wild and study of all of the plants and fungi that Halina brings forth from the earth, recognises two varieties of mushroom among the bunch that can be quite deleterious for the group, for different reasons.  The first type is the Shrieker, which releases a loud, high-pitched shriek whenever someone passes it, which would surely alert the dragon to the group's presence.  The other is the rarer Dream Fungus, which, in addition to being prised for its hallucinogenic properties when ingested, produces spores to cause those around them to fall into a deep slumber...Well, all except dragons of course, who are immune to sleep.  So the dragon, alerted to a new meal by the Shriekers, could come and pick up the sleeping victims at its leisure--quite a neat trick for a little dragon to find victims for its appetite.*(OOC: Go go Knowledge(Nature) 27!)</blockquote>