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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The 1 and the Prime" data-source="post: 5236848" data-attributes="member: 91434">I think you need to understand more about the ecology of the Yellow Creeper.Why does the Creeper need the animal hosts in the first place: it doesn't derive energy sustenance from them? The creeper uses the animal hosts to create a nitrogen rich bed for its offspring. Additionally, the hosts serve the purpose of transporting the young to an ideal location, typically in a swamp in an area exposed to light. The creeper can take advantage of the nervous system of the host to make a very precise placement for it's offspring and some sub-species cause their hosts to go into a frenzy of "lawn mowing" shortly before death in which they rip up and destroy nearby plant life to make additional room for the young creeper.While this particular creeper may be aware of the PCs and the power they possess somehow (maybe it can instinctively sense the artifact), then it may lie low. However, typically the main function of the zombies during the initial phase of the infestation is the capture and arrest of new potential hosts for the plant parasite. It is not uncommon for a population of alligators to be decimated during the infrequent blossomings of the plant. If the blossom is near a humanoid settlement and begins infesting the humanoids, there is a possibility that a chain reaction of increasingly large numbers of the humanoids getting captured and in turn capturing additional hosts for the plant parasites. While this is a rare event, a typical blossoming of the flower may produce hundreds of infested hosts, although usually these are non-sentient life forms.Little is known of these plants. Even if the PCs knew of the plant, how would they find out what it looked like (besides looking it up in the Fiend Folio), let alone where it was, unless they were being dragged there semi-conscious by the enthralled zombies and getting infected? The townspeople would likely be totally ignorant and may possibly blame necromancy or even the (powerful strange) PCs for the disappearances around town recently.</blockquote>

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