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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DoctorB" data-source="post: 352734" data-attributes="member: 903">The Heart OakUnwilling to abandon their quest, even upon the death of their leader, the Champions pressed on toward the corrupted Heart Oak.  They carried with them the bodies of Cobbe and Krag, the hill dwarf.  Lady Breda showed no such patience.  Seeing that her knight was dead, she huffed once and turned back toward the Wood elven encampment.Finally, the great tree came into view.  The trunk was a broad as a house though the canopy started only a little above other trees in the area.  Its broad branches extended at least forty feet beyond the edge of its bark.  The Heart Oak remained awe-inspiring in its majesty, but now that awe came tinged with disgust and fear.  Great swaths of white covered large parts of the tree with disease while once shapely limbs had become twisted and black.  Nothing lived near the oak.  Even the twisted animals of the forest seemed to avoid it.Pausing at the top of a small hill, the Champions considered whether the tree posed a direct threat to them and debated how they could hope to heal it.  Finally, they decided to move forward and see if they could communicate with the plant or at least find the Arms of the First Oak, the artifact the heroes needed to restore Master Horus.While most of the party concentrated on the tree as they approached, Liana happened to look back at the hill they had just descended.  Her eyes widened as the hill itself rose up behind them.  A great mouth opened in its center as tentacles of living plant sprung from its sides.  The corrupted forest affected even this terrible monster.  Once made of leaves, twigs and other healthy plants, the beast now seemed made up of blackened and diseased fragments of living things.  Liana quickly warned the others of the danger towering above them.“Run for the Tree!”  Joy shouted as the plant-monster attacked.</blockquote>

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