Crawling Death
The "crawling death" is a plant mutated by the green dimensions energy to a much larger energy than usual, because shards from a broodmothers scale are embedded into the seeds. These plants are used by followers of the green dimension as means of assasination devices, because these plants are extremely dangerous.
Basic Information
Anatomy
The crawling death is structured similarly to other climbing plants. A crawling death is structured in segments of about 10 centimeters of stalk, connected by slightly harder and bulbous segments. At these segments, a crawling death can split into a variety of ways:
- Usually, at each such connection point, another one or two of these structure stalks grows forward.
- A significant percentage of the segment connection points break off into two or three leaves. These leaves are a pointy oval. They are about 15 centimeters in length and at their widest, they are about 10 centimeters in length. These leaves are made from a very hardy plant matter, with the strands crossing in two directions. This makes it extremely hard for even sharp knifes to reliably cut these leaves, as regardless of the direction, the knife tends to get tangled in these fibres. The leaves appear capable of slight locomotion in order to optimize protection for the plant itself, or to tangle limbs near the creeping death.
- Every 3 to 5 segments, the creeping death develops bright blue flowers, about 10 centimeters in diameter. The leaves are made of five large blue petals. The flowers contain bright orange stems, which are twisted into strange, irregular spirals.
- It seems to be reactive, as a creeping death in an isolated containment will not develop the following specializations
- it is possible for the creeping death to develop seed pods. The seed pods are bulbous extensions, roughly cylindrical, about ten centimeters across and five centimeters in diameter. These extensions would be surrounded by seeds in other plants, which spread upon a burst of the pod. In the case of the creeping death, these seed pods are lines with sharp black and green spikes, which are serrated and formed in a way so they work themself into the wound of a victim when hit. The creeping death is able to burst these pods at will, which causes the spikes to fly outward with a staggering amount of force, which can embed these spikes into concrete walls if hit right.
- The creeping death is also able to develop a smaller pod, which bursts and releases a cloud of rapidly falling and descending gas. This gas makes whomever breathes it drowsy and sleepy.
Growth Rate & Stages
The crawling death grows extremely rapidly once it starts growing. Each of the structural segment can be created within 5 - 10 minutes, allowing the crawling death to cross a meter in about an hour. For reasons unknown, the crawling death tends to start growing primarily in the night, hence this growth rate allows the crawling death to spread out over a targets appartment or camp over a night easily.
This extremely fast growth rate however means, the crawling death will burn out and die within 12 - 18 hours after the growth has been triggered. This plant is very much not meant to sustain itself for a long time.
Additional Information
Perception and Sensory Capabilities
It is not entirely clear how the creeping death perceives it's surroundings, but the predominant theory is that the perception of the creeping death is related to it's flowers. If the creeping death is near warm blooded animals, the flowers tend to move to face this warm blooded animal, and the plant tends to expand towards the animal in order to hit it with either the gas pods, or the sharpnel pods.
Lifespan
12 - 18 hours at most.
Average Length
easily grows to several meters of length.
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