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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Manbearcat" data-source="post: 9608704" data-attributes="member: 6696971">As Twyll heads out of the profane (soon to be purified) copse and into the safety of the surging water, the terrible undead plant mass sees its undoing before it.  Yet rather than retreating from the tidal waters to the section of the gulley that isn't fully immersed, its malicious and covetous nature leaves it content for a Pyrrhic Victory.  With the considerable length of its tendrils (Reach, Deprive, Grabby), it gropes out its full extent for the small plant cradled in the drow's embrace.  Instead of keeping it alive yet imprisoned, the Deathborne Shambling Mound's "final act" will be to rip it from Twyll's grasp and crush the life out of the small verdure. * [USER=20459]@Nephis[/USER] , what do you do?  Do you take the attack yourself, sheltering the plant from harm (take 1d8 +1 damage but take +1 armor for the primal protections of the surging water)?  Or do you try to evade the attack or defend from it; be aware that if a move generates a 6- here, the DBSM will take the plant from Twyll and crush it lifeless right before the DBSM itself is slain by the tidal waters!As Pritchard watches his handiwork consume the mass of befouled nature before him, he feels a tug within him.  That tug quickly matures to a yank.  There is something special about this plant...it contains a divine spark of some kind.  After The Cataclysm merged worlds briefly and the eruption claimed Neverwinter, it was rumored by the faithful of Helm in nearby Helm's Hold that The Vigilant One's immediate absence thereafter was due to him laying down his divine existence to protect Neverwinter and its people from the worst of the destruction.  Whether true or not, the former deity of protection and vigilance has been missing since.  The profane pull inside Pritchard (Asmodeus himself?) oddly demands that he snuff this small life...not that it "be snuffed"...but, rather, that he himself do the snuffing.* If the Deathborne Shambling Mound destroys the small plant, take -1 ongoing until you atone with offering or break free from the yoke of your master.* If you destroy it, gain a new Alignment XP trigger (Evil) that works simultaneously and independently from your current one.* If you let it live, you must either (a) always keep the plant near you and nurture it to protect you from infernal retribution (and prepare for more related troubles) or (b) keep the plant near you and enslave it for profane purpose when demanded.Which will it be [USER=1282]@darkbard[/USER] ?</blockquote>

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