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Message: <blockquote data-quote="takyris" data-source="post: 2247264" data-attributes="member: 5171">The fields lie quiet. The fields wait for the farmer, for the farmer's thoughts, the farmer's dreams. The fields hear the dreams of animals, the heat of the farmer's heart, and it is enough. Sometimes couples sneak into the fields to escape their elders and embrace under the cover of the waving grains. Their passion drives the fields mad, and sometimes the couples do not return. The people say that the fields are haunted. They do not know how truly their words are spoken.MaizeThousands of years ago, a tribe of Indians was cut down and killed by another tribe. It was a dark and angry day, and other tribes whispered that the tribe that did the killing used foul magic. The names have disappeared, but the spirits of the dead tribe have not. They are no longer Indians, no longer even ghosts. By now, their rotted bodies have fertilized the cornfield that grows above, and they are one entity, one entity that can be driven mad by the hearts and minds of too many sentient beings too close.The fields are said to be unlucky -- every harvest, the farmer brings in help, and every harvest, at least one man dies in some freak accident. When the farmer tends the crops himself, though, with just a few hired men, the crops almost seem to harvest themselves. And the corn from the fields is so delicious that it has won contests all throughout the state.When the Carnival arrives, and everyone flocks to the grassy field near the cornfield, it is too much for the being that now calls itself Maize. It tries to drive the carnival away, first by scaring and then by killing.Powers: - Plant Control, with Snare (plants twining around people) and Create Attacks (plant-monsters clubbing people)- ESP, limited to the cornfield (can see anything going on in the field)- Mind Control, limited to people who have eaten the corn from the field since the last harvest (most of the town, but not the heroes)- Alternate Form:Semisolid, as a collection of stalks and leaves and that rakes in an attack when Maize forms a solid body, and Power-Stunt: Explosion, when Maize falls to pieces in a violent frenzy of magical energy and then waits inside the fields for his foes to leave</blockquote>

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