Yellow Musk Creeper Q

[Rechan]

Anyone out there with a writeup of the Yellow Musk Creeper, I have a question:

Why does the YMC make zombies? What role does it serve the plant? Are they defensive? Does it spread its seed into the corpse and then sends them off?

I'm curious if the writeup says why it makes zombies, as I've forgotten.

 

[frankthedm]

Well, according to the pathfinder version;

The yellow musk creeper's method of procreation is singularly frightful—it slays the living, infests them with its seeds and pollen, then animates them as zombies. These zombies serve the plant as a guardian for several days, but when new zombies are created, older ones wander off into the surrounding wild, collapsing and breaking apart within 2d6 days to give seed to a new yellow musk creeper.

So guards & incubators as a default, with final development of buds in the zombies triggered by new growing buds in proximity.

 

[Rechan]

Cool, thanks.

 

[frankthedm]

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