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Moonlight Mushroom Meadow

Environments Designed by Jaybird Games
Tier
2
Type
Exploration
Difficulty
14
Impulses
Attract and assimilate Disorient Consume

Environment overview

A field sprinkled with tree-sized bioluminescent mushrooms that react to interlopers.

Potential adversaries

Chaos Skull Juvenile Flickerfly Cult Initiate

Features

Passives

passive
  • Speaking Spores

    Creatures inside the Meadow can speak telepathically to one another. Fungrils have advantage on social checks while inside the Meadow.

    Questions
    • What calls out to the minds of the PCs as they arrive?
    • How were they trapped here?
    • Fungril PC, how do the creatures of the meadow respond differently to you?
  • Talk of the Stalk

    PCs who approach one of the mushrooms can make an Instinct Roll to try to commune with the Meadow.
    - On a success: They learn three of the below details. On a success with Fear, they learn two.
    - On a failure: They can mark a Stress to learn one and gain advantage on the next action roll to investigate this environment.
    - Details: This was the home of a fallen fungril colony. Each tree is a dead fungril reborn. They seek to grow and rebuild their colony.

    Questions
    • Who destroyed the fungril colony?
    • How was the colony reborn in this way?

Actions

action
  • Proxies of the Colony

    Creatures assimilated to the colony step out to meet their guests. These figures try to persuade the PCs to stay in the Meadow, pulling memories from the minds of the PCs to aid in their arguments.

    Questions
    • What do the proxies look like?
    • What memories do they call upon?
    • For one of you, the proxies say something especially convincing. What is it?
  • JOIN US!
    Fear 3

    Spend 3 Fear to cause the mushrooms to pulse rapidly, charging up a wave of assimilating spores. Activate a Progress Countdown (5) as the mushrooms try to restrain the PCs and prepare them for assimilation. To complete the countdown and escape the meadow, the PCs must persuade the colony or face their darkest memories and waves of assimilated creatures as they make their exit.

    Questions
    • What dark moments from your past do the mushrooms flood your mind with?
    • What NPC you all know has been assimilated by the mushrooms? How do you try to free them?
    • What is the last thing the PCs hear as they feel the voices of the Meadow leave their minds?

Reactions

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About this environment

A quick environment I threw together for Azu’s community homebrew challenge!

Moonlight Mushroom Meadow

Tier 2 Exploration

A field sprinkled with tree-sized bioluminescent mushrooms that react to interlopers.

Impulses: Attract and assimilate, Disorient, Consume

Difficulty: 14

Potential Adversaries: Chaos Skull, Juvenile Flickerfly, Cult Initiate

Features

Speaking Spores - Passive: Creatures inside the Meadow can speak telepathically to one another. Fungrils have advantage on social checks while inside the Meadow.
  • What calls out to the minds of the PCs as they arrive?
  • How were they trapped here?
  • Fungril PC, how do the creatures of the meadow respond differently to you?
Talk of the Stalk - Passive: PCs who approach one of the mushrooms can make an Instinct Roll to try to commune with the Meadow. - On a success: They learn three of the below details. On a success with Fear, they learn two. - On a failure: They can mark a Stress to learn one and gain advantage on the next action roll to investigate this environment. - Details: This was the home of a fallen fungril colony. Each tree is a dead fungril reborn. They seek to grow and rebuild their colony.
  • Who destroyed the fungril colony?
  • How was the colony reborn in this way?
Proxies of the Colony - Action: Creatures assimilated to the colony step out to meet their guests. These figures try to persuade the PCs to stay in the Meadow, pulling memories from the minds of the PCs to aid in their arguments.
  • What do the proxies look like?
  • What memories do they call upon?
  • For one of you, the proxies say something especially convincing. What is it?
JOIN US! - Action: Spend 3 Fear to cause the mushrooms to pulse rapidly, charging up a wave of assimilating spores. Activate a Progress Countdown (5) as the mushrooms try to restrain the PCs and prepare them for assimilation. To complete the countdown and escape the meadow, the PCs must persuade the colony or face their darkest memories and waves of assimilated creatures as they make their exit.
  • What dark moments from your past do the mushrooms flood your mind with?
  • What NPC you all know has been assimilated by the mushrooms? How do you try to free them?
  • What is the last thing the PCs hear as they feel the voices of the Meadow leave their minds?

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