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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ydars" data-source="post: 4573284" data-attributes="member: 62992">Try this one out; The former Imperial Herbarium is situated close the city walls nearest the lake. This largish stretch of ornate and formal gardens has recently become completely over-run by an extremely invasive and fast growing species of poisonous ivy-like plant, brought by a plant collector on a recent trip to the northern mountains.  The entire gardens are now festooned with the stuff and it grows so fast (up to 1 m per day) that it has strangled several trees and anyone trying to cut it down has been either seriously affected by poisonous pollen or else burnt by the juice of the torn plant. Insects also seem extremely attracted to the bruised plant with the result that large colonies of bees have taken up residence in the herbarium. The really nasty thing about this ivy is the way it seems to attack buildings, using very fast growing rootlets, the plant bores into even the hardest stone or brick and has already grown up one side of the main herbarium building whilst also attacking the city wall itself. So far this plant is confined to the herbarium but it is only a matter of time before it escapes the walled garden and gets out into the city. (note; it already has by growing down into the sewers; a great plot hook for DMs to have sudden building collapses ot the wall undermined for a military type problem.</blockquote>